Are we allowed to write about this?

We're not supposed to discuss anything negative about WXCI over the air, and this isn't exactly a negative thing, but I can't help but feel targeted lately, and nobody reads this anyway, so I may as well just throw something about this over here...

The DJ's of this show have recently been reprimanded by some members of WXCI's executive board for describing the 3rd category of music that gets played on our show as "terrible music." (See the "What's It?" section listed on the right side of this blog...)

Although experimental and noise take up over 90% of what we play on this show, "terrible" music still seems to fit our format, because when it gets bad enough, you really need to hear it to believe it.. The same can be said for much of the experimental and noise stuff that we play. In this respect, it fits our format, and we're not going to stop (occasionally) playing songs that are, for lack of a better word, "terrible."

The way that it was initially described to me made it seem as though we could use other words instead.. For example, VH1 has done specials where they've counted down their favorite "awesomely bad" songs, which is cuter and more advertising-friendly way of saying "the worst songs of alltime." But that's the thing.. WXCI is non-profit. We have no advertisers to please. We should be allowed to say whatever we want (as long as we're following FCC guidelines.. no calls to action, no prices, no f-bombs.. If we were playing a type of music that could only be described as "eat a fucking Big Mac for a dollar ninety-nine," that could be a giant problem..)

It's been suggested to me in the past that it's supposed to be a bad thing to play a song over the air, and then immediately afterward say "that really sucked," or "that was terrible," because it sounds unprofessional to say that over the air. However, doing exactly that has now become a part of Late Night Noise... We're not trying to piss anyone off.. But there's some music out there which is so outstandingly terrible, that it becomes compelling, thus generating merit that allows it to become eligible for airplay. In addition to this, whenever we play "terrible" or "awesomely bad" music, we're usually commenting over the song anyway, or talking over the song as it's playing..

A lot of the videos we post here are those types of videos.. 2 Skinnee J's was the first video ever posted here. Just terrible... More recently, we posted the Scott Weiland/Perry Ferrell/Bono/Fred Durst 9/11-tribute cover of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," which is the type of music that completely fits our third category. It's one of the worst things I've ever imagined could be created by people who actually get paid millions of dollars to make music.

We're just trying to put on a good radio show. And we think terrible music is funny. And so it shall stay.

the "coffin" video

A friend of mine taped this off public access many years ago.. Ever since, we've been trying to figure out what the name of the band is. I think it's one of funniest videos I've ever seen.

playlist 2-8-10

Swans "New Mind"
Boredoms "Super Good" (excerpt)
Beak> "Ham Green"
Contortions "I Can't Stand Myself"
Andrew W.K. "Slam John Against A Brick Wall"
This Heat "Radio Prague"
Ween "Touch My Tooter"
Black Pus "Bark Of The Tree"
Staff Carpenborg And The Electric Corona "The Every Days Way Down To The Suburbs"
Syphilitic Vaginas "Under Satan's Command"
Flipper "Love Canal"
Mars "Tunnel"
Black Flag "Southern Rise"
Black Dice "Ultra Vomit Craze"
Teenage Hitler "Mike Is A Triple Teamer"
Teenage Hitler "Hey Baby Baby Medley"
Coil "The Anal Staircase"
Sonic Youth "I Dreamed I Dream"
Sun Ra "The Magic City"
Can "Bel Air"
Black Flag "Your Last Affront"
Fauna "Rain"

Andrew W.K.

playlist 02-01-10

We're sorry that we missed the last 2 weeks of shows. We hope you will forgive us.

Boredoms "Bubblebop Shot"
Boredoms "52 Boredom (Club mix)"
Boredoms "Sun, Gun, Run"
Boredoms "Z & U & T & A"
Boredoms "TV Scorpion"
The Reatards "Come On Over"
The Reatards "Get Out Of My Head And Into My Bed"
Jay Reatard "Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle"
Lost Sounds "You Must Be A Witch" (early-00's Jay Reatard)
Teen Hearts "The Sign" (excerpt)
Kana "Kabi"
Kana "Hebi Ichago (Snake Strawberry)"
Volahn "Crepusculo Negro"
Morte Macbre "Quiet Drops"
Harapian Night Recordings "Anarcho-Ambic Makane Punke"
Harapian Night Recordings "The Slow Burning Indignation Of The Freshly Fist Fucked English Housewife"
Pink Reason "Thrush" *
Richard Youngs "Collapsing Stars"
Silver Bullets "Flight From Babylon"
Orchestra Nationale Du Congo "Ah! Congo"
[unknown artist] "I Heard There's No Sun" (Jay Reatard tribute song, it's pretty terrible)
Jay Reatard "Pull Down The Shades"

*(I just learned that a "thrush" is a yeast infection of the mouth. Knowledge is power.)

Jay Reatard stuff

So as I imagine, everyone knows that Jay Reatard died yesterday. That's lame. I think we decided that we are doing a tribute show next week. We'll see where that goes. Hopefully we will have excerpts from all over his discography. Make sure and tune in.



There's jay there, in the back, on the drums.





And then there's this too.

So that's pretty good for now. Tune in on Monday

also beck is streaming a neat cover, by Jay, of one of beck's songs. Kinda neat.

UPDATE: Jay doing a Nirvana cover. I guess it was supposed to be on some tribute comp that's coming out. It's on his blog. You can download it.

Kana

thanks for everything cosmic hearse

This is just...well it's just incredible.



Jacked from the Village Voice Worst Songs of the Decade which I generally find no issue with, other than I think that some of them are a little bit unknown to be considered for the category. Also Who's Got The Crack has appeared in a lot of my playlists for WXCI. It also sucks.

Playlist January 10th 2010

So this evening/morning, as we promised last week, Mike and I played the worst songs of 2009. This list is mostly sourced from Mike's blog - Taste My Kids, along with one added by me, Fireflies by Owl City. We basically played these off their youtube videos and commented on them and told stories about the memories they dredged up and stuff. I'm sure it was compelling. At the end we created art by playing them all simultaneously. This was certainly compelling.

Mike and I agreed that it was probably the worst thing to ever be broadcast on the radio. Soon there will be a recording available for download.

As always (no) thanks for (not) listening!

Oh yeah, here is the actual playlist of songs we actually like from the evening.

Peter Grudzien – Hear the Trumpet Call
Homostupids – I Am the Hawk
Slavescene – Hold Me Nude
Slavescene – Invocation of My Retarded Brother
Wreck Small On Expensive Stereos – Why Do I Look At You That Way
Barn Owl – Procession of Golden Bones
Oneohtrix Point Never – Learning to Control Myself
Oneohtrix Point Never – Parallel Minds
Oneohtrix Point Never – Laser to Laser

In here is where we did our epic worst of. Hope you heard it.

Pavor – A Schizoid Uglifier
Andrew W.K. - Never Going To Bed
Andrew W.K. - Slam John Against A Brick Wall.

1-4-10 playlist

January 4, 2010 Late Night Noise
“The Best Of 2009”

Cult Ritual “Horror Sale”
Sex Vid “Authority Of Scripture”
The Homo Stupids “The Intern”
The Homo Stupids “Therapist”
Divisions “Vomit Hounds”
Drunk Driver & Matton [untitled]
Lowt Ide “Would You Guys Mind Not Playing Anymore Songs?”
Lowt Ide “Your Turn 1”
Lowt Ide “Lowt Ide Got Laid Off By A.I.G.”
Lowt Ide “I Think The Band Needs Work”
Gary War “See Right Thru”
Vee Dee “Wall Of Fire”
Beak> “Ham Green”
Black Dice “Night Crème”

Orphan Fairy Tale “Crybaby Needs A Hanky”
Black Pus “Down Down Da Drain”
Young Widows “Long Live The New Weight”
Melt-Banana “Pain In Ash”
Wolf Eyes “Living Stone”
Halflings “Burning Ambition”
FNU Ronnies “Golum Smoke”

Agoraphobic Nosebleed “Hung From The Rising Sun”
HEALTH “Death+”
Sun Araw “Hustle And Bustle”
Orgasm Denial [untitled]
Volcano Choir “Mbira In The Morass”
Sleepwalker [track 2 off their demo]
Iron Age [track 3 off "sleeping eyes" .. we forgot the title]

Gnaw Their Tongues “My Orificies Await Ravaging”
Gnaw Their Tongues “Verbrennt und Verflucht”
Nunslaughter “Smell The Burning Churches”
Nunslaughter “I Destroy Kings”
Syphlitic Vaginas “Under Satan’s Command”
Sunn 0))) “Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia)”
Sunn 0))) “Alice”
Wolves In The Throne Room “Ahimanic Trance”
Wolves In The Throne Room “Crystal Ammunition”

Andrew WK live confession

Check out this link...

Andrew WK is a corporate invention?????


Then watch this youtube video, posted earlier today on his twitter!!

Andrew W.K. Q&A Coming soon

This story was copied from Punknews.Org.....

We've been watching this story develop over the last few weeks and are just as confused as you are. Exclaim is reporting on a video posted by the site RockFeedBack in which Andrew W.K. admits that he isn't the original performer. In the talk at London’s Madame JoJo’s club he states:

I’m not the guy you’ve seen from the I Get Wet album… I’m not that same person. I don’t just mean that in a philosophical or conceptual way. It’s not the same person at all...

Andrew WK was created, and this is a bit of a confession, by a large group of people, almost a conference of people, and we talked about how we could come up with something that would move people, that was done in the spirit of commerce, that was done in the spirit of entertainment… I am the next person who is playing Andrew WK.

This follows a set of defensive statements to the contrary on W.K.'s Twitter account over the last month. In response to the confusion, the Santos Party House in Manhattan, NY, which W.K. co-owns, has booked an event for February 23rd:

Due to an overwhelming amount of questions regarding his career, his past, and his future, Santos Party House co-owner, Andrew W.K., has decided to offer himself to the people of New York City, for an evening of totally open inquiry. This is a chance to ask Andrew anything, and he'll certainly do his best to answer everything. Have your questions in mind and come on down! This is a one-night-only event sure to get the PARTY going HARD!

Furthermore Andrew W.K. released a statement on his website yesterday that further addresses the controversy, although it does not directly contradict or confirm the statements made in London.