RADIO HELSINKI #07

Radio Helsinki Listener! The sun is setting in not-nearly-as -blighted-as-Hollywood, Burbank, California. A few minutes from the Warner Brothers and Disney lots. I am listening to the tracks of our show one last time. I have already played this list twice through completely on stationary bikes and elliptical treadmills but I thought I would give it one last pass. Sounding great!

I don’t know if you noticed but our first two tracks have a link. It would be one Kid Congo Powers. He played guitar in the Cramps as well as Gun Club and features on both the Psychedelic Jungle and Mother Juno albums. Kid was not only in the two aforementioned bands but, as you might already know, was a Bad Seed with Nick Cave for years. I have been lucky enough to see Kid in all four bands.

I am sure you’re well aware of America’s present political situation. Is it as bad as it looks? No. Actually, it’s much worse. A lot of the really bad stuff, like what could happen to the environment, water supplies, etc., doesn’t get reported on enough. Media is too busy reporting on a president who sends 140 character messages to his bewildered base, thinking, perhaps that if he keeps them happy, the other 65% of the country will, I don’t know what, really but that’s where it’s at—a daily reminder that education is really important and all elections have consequences.

In this time of the low information electorate, a country held down by an angry minority, many of whom couldn’t find Finland on a map and wouldn’t care if you showed them. I pay attention, check the news daily, etc. but what I concentrate on the most is that life is short and one must prioritize. It would be too easy to cut down on the amount of music listened to and follow this tragic chapter in American history obsessively. I did that once, it was called the Bush administration. I read the books, went to countries on the “Axis of Evil”; Iran, Iraq and North Korea, and I found a lot of good people and really bad governments. I also found music. I want to couch that statement, lest you think I’m trying to convince you it was all great. The marching music I heard blasting through bad systems at dawn in Pyongyang was awful but trippy at the time of the morning. Iraq and Iran had some really interesting jams. Looking back, I gave George Walker Bush waaaaay too much time. I will never do that again. Talk about throwing your life out like garbage. It’s all on me, I guess I wasn’t used to being so grossly offended by an administration. Ironically, the current president kinda makes me miss good ol Bush. The point I’m making is, it’s easy to waste your time hanging out with awful people with incredibly bad ideas. Listening to music instead is not some escapist evasion of the brutal machinations of the “real world” as someone like my father would tell you. It is customizing your living environment. If I pay too much attention to comrade Trump and his gang of inept malcontents, I am living on their terms. Won’t do it.

I have no idea as to the standing level of turbulence in beautiful Finland. It is not for me to offer comment. Most of the time, I find it offensive when someone who doesn’t live in a country sounds off on what they think to be said nation’s shortcomings. (That is, of course, unless it’s someone talking about the America in 2017. I reckon the current is the lowest, ripest hanging piece of fruit on the global comedy tree. He serves himself up like a plate of sashimi.) I reckon that anywhere there are humans, there is discontent. This is why I advocate all free minded people try to have easy access to music at all times. I can dig silence now and then but I prefer existence with a soundtrack. When I read about the almost daily, truly cringe worthy embarrassments perpetrated by the comrade-in-chief, I feel as if I’m being partially owned by this slug. The level of being “okay in my own skin” I achieve while listening to music allows me to reclaim myself from whatever factors or forces have sought to drain the life out of me. Again, it’s that idea of transference that music allows. I don’t have music, I have “my music” and with that, things are for the most part, manageable. 

Sorry, back to the show. One of my favorite songs of all time is on this particular show. I direct your attention to track #16, Wrong Treatment by The Four Plugs. I bought it for the cover. I concluded, (and very correctly, I would like to add) that it wouldn’t be anything less than amazing. I have gone all over the internet looking for information on this record and the players behind it. At this point, all I can find is things about me and my pursuit. Several months ago, something interesting happened. I got an email from a man who is writing a book about music from a certain part of England. I honestly forget what part, I think it’s where he grew up. He had seen that I had been looking for information on the Four Plugs. The writer actually found the band, which is one guy, who I guess lived in the area that the book pertains to. He said the guy went into a studio and recorded the songs with a guitar, effects and his voice, hence the “four plugs.” The writer said the man was pretty annoyed that someone was asking him about the record. Apparently, he made the record and stepped away from music. I think the writer said Four Plugs man basically said, “It was a long time ago, sod the past!” and hung up. The writer was surprisingly proprietary about the information. He wouldn’t give me any contact information. I am thinking that once the writer gets his book out, he might loosen up a little. At great risk, I want to interview the Four Plugs guy, or maybe I don’t.

I put the song into the show so you could hear it. I told you the story because I think it makes an interesting point about how we sometimes completely adopt a song or a band, again, that idea of transference. You like the song, so you figure the person or persons making the music will be as you want them to be. It’s often hard to remember that’s not always how people are. And this is one of the many reasons, with great exception, I leave musicians alone and just dig their music. When I am approached by someone who recognizes me, I do my best to super cool because I know what’s at stake.

As I write this, the Nico track, Genghis Khan from her album The Drama of Exile just started. I don’t know if her music is the kind that “grows” on you. I think the best way into her work is as how I first heard her, which was through the first Velvet Underground album. For the most part, her solo work makes her contributions to the VU album seem like pretty pop music. She’s one of the most full on listening experiences there is. In the summer of 1984, I read a book by Victor Bockris called Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story. After I finished, I wanted to hear all the Nico albums. I had never heard a single note of her solo material. Byron Coley, the great writer and all around music maven secured me used copies. One of the first ones he gave me was The Drama of Exile. It has some of the only songs of hers I can put into a warm weather play list. In fact, I just located a pristine copy of her iconic album The Marble Index in mono. I have had it for a couple of months now but won’t let myself play it until this November at the earliest. It’s just not summer listening, in my opinion.

Almost everything comes with a certain amount of drudgery, even this show. By reading these notes, are done with that part. Now, it’s all about letting the music play. I hope you enjoy the show.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. The Cramps- Green Fuz / Psychedelic Jungle
02. The Gun Club - Bill Bailey / Mother Juno
03. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Far Gone And Out / 21 Singles
04. Molly Nilsson – City / The Travels
05. Mark Robinson - Tasty Black Licorice / 2003 Teenbeat Sampler
06. Aias – Bali / A La Piscina
07. The UK Subs – Kicks / The Singles
08. The Stooges - Real Cool Time / The Stooges
09. The MC5 – Poison / High Time
10. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) / Johnny B. Goode
11. Roky – Erickson - I Walked With A Zombie / Live 1979-1981
12. Jay Reatard - We Who Wait / Blood Visions
13. Scott Walker - We Came Through / Scott 3
14. Tel Aviv - We Got The Computers / The Shape of Fiction
15. Romania - We’re On The Radio / Remodel
16. The Four Plugs - Wrong Treatment / single
17. Kas Product - So Young But So Cold / Try Out
18. Raymond Scott - And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon / The Secret 7: “The Unexpected
19. Warm Soda - I Know The Cure / Symbolic Dream
20. White Fence - Arrow Man / For the Recently Found Innocent
21. Family Fodder - Savoir Faire / Monkey Banana Kitchen
22. Lee Perry – Kojak / Dub-Triptych
23. Squatweiler - Should I / Full Bladder
24. Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink - I’m A Spy / Bulb Singles #1
25. Nico - Genghis Khan / The Drama of Exile
26. The Aquarium - White House / Aquarium
27. The Black Eyes - Pack of Wolves / Black Eyes
28. Total Control - Safety Net / Typical System
29. Lowtide – Spring / single
30. The Birthday Party – Loose / Peel Sessions
31. Les Rallizes Dénudés - Ice Fire / France Demo Tape Winter 88 - Spring 89

RADIO BROADCAST #433 07-16–17

Fanatic! A great show lined up! Obviously, I can’t know where you’re listening to this show from but where I am, here in Los Angeles, summer’s furnace is on full . When it’s 80+ at night, you know the next day is going to be brutal. While I’m not interested in baking in the sun, I don’t mind hot rooms at night as long as there’s music. Our summer programming has been forged in these elevated temperatures and will hopefully provide a good soundtrack. We’re making a mix tape here! That’s what it’s all about.

Let’s see, the new Pontiak album is great, so I thought we would start the show with a track from it. The new Alan Vega album, IT is out and so we can finally start playing tracks. I am happy we can get this one going. Alan, as you know, is no longer with us but his music will always be around, and IT is a great piece of work.

I don’t want to forget this. Charles Moothart, who we listen to on the show all the time, has a show coming up at Zebulon on the 17th. I’ve seen Mr. Moothart play a couple of times, he’s not to be missed. The venue is located at: 2478 Fletcher Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90039. If you were listening last week, you remember that we finished the show with a track from his Dichotomy Desaturated album. Great record. https://intheredrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/cfm-dichotomy-desaturated

Next week’s show is all finished and ready to go.

I hope you dig the show and as always, thanks for listening, and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Pontak - Ignorance Makes Me High / Dialectic of Ignorance
02. David Bowie - Black Country Rock / The Man Who Sold The World
03. Eddie Cochran - C’mon Everybody / Best Of
04. Generation X - Shakin’ All Over / single
05. Yangon Sein Kyi Moe - The Tune Of The First Entertainment / Princess Nicotine
06. Fugazi – Provisional / 13 Songs
07. Wire – Champs / Pink Flag
08. The Sunnyboys - Happy Man / This Is Real
09. Black Sabbath - The Wizard / Black Sabbath
10. Point Juncture WA - Me or the Party / Me Or The Party
11. Unrest - Cath Carroll / Perfect Teeth
12. Joy Division – Digital / Substance
13. Romania - We’re On The Radio / Remodel
14. Soccer Team - Mental Anguish Is Your Friend / 3 Song 7” 
15. Trouble Funk - Say What / Singles

Hour 2
01. Alan Vega – Vision / IT
02. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Moon Is In The Gutter / B-Sides And Rarities
03. The Saints - (I’m) Stranded /  (I’m) Stranded
04. Jay Reatard - Can’t Do It Anymore / Watch Me Fall
05. Thee Oh Sees - Head of State / Dog Poison
06. Jimi Hendrix - Villanova Junction Blues / Burning Desire
07. The UK Subs - Perfect Girl / single
08. Cat’s Eyes – Standoff / Treasure House
09. Rain – Rivers / La Vache Qui Rit
10. Melt-Banana - Get the T (Escaping with the Id Card!) / Return of 13 Hedgehogs
11. Scott Walker - Funeral Tango / Scott 3
12. Public Enemy - PE #1 / Yo! Bum Rush the Show
13. The Ramones - Time Bomb / Subterranean Jungle
14. PJ Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta / To Bring You My Love
15. Terakaft - Aima Ymaima / Kel Tamasheq

RADIO HELSINKI #06

Radio Helsinki Listener! Due to schedule, I have to work on these shows well in advance. I went online and looked up what the weather would be like in Finland for July. Hey, I’m trying! Looks like you get a fair amount of rain this time of the year. Hopefully, this grouping of tunes will work for you. I am listening to all the tracks for this show. I have absolutely no idea how any of it will register with you but I’m liking it!

I’m presently in Los Angeles, back from Spokane, Washington for a couple of days now. I don’t know if you have ever been here. It’s a city, built in a desert, hydrated by stolen water. If you ever get the chance, watch the film Chinatown. Los Angeles is entering into one of the especially hellish spells of temperature spikes. Now and then, there is a huge fire that breaks out and the skies fill with smoke. You come out to your car and find it coated in ashes. I’m not one who uses air-conditioning. I don’t mind the heat, strangely, I like it. At some point, around 1400 hrs., the heat feels like it has what could be considered a velocity, like it’s trying to smash everything flat. When it’s like this, for the last several years, I use music from Mali as my soundtrack. I have been there twice for the Desert Music Festival and when it’s hot and dry, the music from Malian greats like Terakaft, Tinariwen, Koudede and Vieux Farka Touré is not only great, but somehow makes sense. Also, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Robert Johnson music sounds especially good when it’s hot.

Being on location in Spokane almost every day didn’t allow me to listen to nearly as much music as I wanted to, so I’m going to do my best to make up for lost time. I know that music should be enjoyed but as well, I want to maintain high numbers of records played. This is one of the reasons I keep a list. It’s easy to acquire records but getting them listened to can be challenging. I’m not in competition with anyone, not even myself, I just think that the more music I listen to the better. Also, I think it’s weak to get records and just put them on a shelf and speculate on that time when all will be as it should and you’ll have time to listen. It’s why so many box sets and multiple LP sets sit unheard for years! Some nights, I pull out the 5 LP box of whatever it is and decide that tonight is the night and get into it. Totally works.

It is this effort to keep moving forward with listening, to keep breaking through to new sounds that makes it difficult to allow for time to check out music I’m more familiar with. It is too easy for me to listen to the same ten records over and over but I don’t want to deprive myself of the opportunity to listen to music that is so close to me that it’s part of my genetic code. I think I’m pretty good at keeping the ratio of unheard to previously heard in check so I’m always moving forward. I know it’s a strange topic but I think it’s important to become more and more eclectic as you go, to the point to when someone asks you what kind of music you like, the answer is either really long, going from genre to tangent to too much information to where it’s almost impossible to say. That’s kinda where I am at this point. I just say that I like music a lot and that I’m nothing but a fan. I have heard a lot of people answer this question with, “All kinds of music.” How would you possibly know? That’s right up there with the person who tells you they “know a lot about music.” That’s like saying you know the exact weight of every rain drop that falls past your window during a storm. I would rather remain a humble student. This keeps me open minded and always ready for next turn on. A lot of old bastards like me will tell you that somehow, it was all better when they were young and bands these days don’t really have much to offer. I’m so glad I have not fallen into that trap. The truth is, there are so many great new bands and albums happening every year, it’s all you can do to keep up. It’s a great problem to have.

I have said this many times and I will say it to you: music is humankind’s greatest hit. Scientific and medical breakthroughs are fantastic, all the great inventions that people have been able to come up with to make things better (like records and playback systems) are all well and good but for me, it’s music that is “our” most incredible creation. It makes sense of life. “What is the meaning of life?” is one of the more daft questions ever asked. It has a simple answer: only what you make it. That’s it. Before you die, and you will, you have to find something to do with the time or the time will find something to do with you. Music is almost revenge on this existential blah of life. Music is humans throwing themselves into a moment with everything they have. They are, if they are any good, living for these moments without consideration of anything else but making it the most complete representation of the idea they were trying to put across. This is why an appreciation of Jazz music is so important. Say you put on a record, like A Love Supreme by the Coltrane Quartet or Raw Power by the Stooges, you’re getting the absolute to-the-wall efforts of these people. It’s hyper reality. This is one of the reasons we go to see bands play and listen to records over and over, because these moments are better, more real than regular moments at the workplace or in traffic. It’s also why so many people are let down when they meet someone in a band they admire and find them to be not nearly as amazing as they were when they were playing. You want them to be as incredible as the music but that’s the thing, the music is great, the people who play it just have the ability to get it out of themselves. This is why, whenever I can, I avoid meeting musicians. I’m happy to buy the record and go to the show and leave it there. Meeting them is cool, I guess but it’s nothing I go out of my way to do. I reckon if they’re any good, the music they make is destroying them and there’s nothing I can do to help besides cheering between songs and going to the record store when they have a new release. In a way, they are condemned. This is why I listen to music more than I hang out with people. I’m not someone who dislikes members of my species, quite the opposite, but with great exception, I would rather listen to a good record, alone in a room than be in a room with another person, even if there’s music playing.

It is, however a great thing when you can enjoy music with someone else. Some of my earliest fond memories are hanging out with Ian MacKaye, listening to music. Forty plus years later, we still do it and it’s still great. When I was younger, I used to hang out with people a lot more than I do now and listening to music was a big part of that. It was the music that brought us together. I wouldn’t have met most of these people if it wasn’t for Punk Rock. Now I listen alone but sometimes think of those people. When I listen to certain records, it’s like the songs open a door and the memories, at least versions of them, come back very clearly. The music is exactly the same, so the reference point is static but life changes you, so in a way, the song doesn’t always remain the same if you’re hearing it differently. In this way, even music from decades ago can be in the present. That’s one of the most interesting aspects of music. The music isn’t old, you are. The idea of something being eternal is a little much for me but there is something that’s almost surreal about the fact that this September, Jimi Hendrix will have been gone for forty seven years but when you put the record on, he’s right there in the room with you. That you can do that and listen to the past for hours at a time has never failed to trip me out.

You see, fantastic Radio Helsinki Radio listener, this is why I write these notes, so I don’t waste your time during the show saying all this. Imagine waiting for me to finally shut my mouth just so you can hear a song! No way!

It’s a great gathering of music we have set up for you here. Like I said last week, if you find yourself curious about anything you heard, the internet is bursting with information and free listens.

As far as someone you might not be familiar with but who is really worth checking out, I direct you to track #30. Ulaan Khol is one of the outlets of the very talented Steven R Smith. If you go to his site, you can check out his music. Just my opinion, there isn’t one record he’s done that’s not worth checking out and I believe I have heard them all. If I haven’t, it’s not for a lack of trying. Mr. Smith is an extraordinary musician. If you like what you hear on this show, you might enjoy going further.

Thank you for listening. I am grateful for the opportunity to put all of this together for you.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. Ramones - I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement (mono) / 40th Anniversary Edition
02. The Clash - Janie Jones / The Clash
03. Pseudo Existors – Pseudo Existence / Stamp Out Normality
04. Dillinger - Cokane In My Brain / Ultimate Collection
05. Electric Wizard . We Hate You / Dopethrone
06. Jaguar Love – Jaguar Warriors / Hologram Jams
07. The Germs - Lexicon Devil / Germs Complete
08. Ween – Shamemaker / La Cucaracha
09. David Lynch – Movin’ On / Crazy Clown Time
10. The Fall – Smile / Perverted by Language
11. The Panik - Modern Politics / Short Sharp Shock
12. The Stooges – Doojiman / Raw Power (Legacy Edition)
13. The Saints - This Perfect Day single version / (I’m) Stranded (box set edition)
14. The Scientists - Frantic Romantic / A Place Called Bad (compilation)
15. The Sunnyboys - Alone With You / Sunnyboys
16. Slug Guts - Old Black Sweats / Playin’ In Time With the Deadbeat
17. Cold Meat - Praying to the Gaps / Jimmy’s Lipstick
18. Jonny Telafone - The End / Jonny Telafone
19. POW! - Back On The Grid / Crack an Egg
20. The Birthday Party - The Dim Locator / Live 81-82
21. Shinki Chen - Freedom of A Mad Paper Lantern / Shinki Chen
22. Maniacs - You Don’t Break My Heart / Vortex Live
23. UK Subs - You Can’t Take It Any More / Brand New Age
24. Ex Hex - You Fell Apart / Rips
25. Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer / Young Loud and Snotty
26. Guerilla Toss - A Pig Who Feeds / 367 Equalizer
27. Hawkwind – Motorhead / Warrior On The Edge Of Time
28. Hisato Higuchi - Girl Sister / She
29. Clarinette - Time - Before And Time After / The Now Of Then
30. Ulaan Khol - In Tar / Ending / Returning
31. My Cat is an Alien - The Dance Of Oneirism / The Dance Of Oneirism

RADIO BROADCAST #432 07-09–17

Fanatic! I am listening to the tracks for our show right now. It’s my 2nd time through, now that it’s done. Even though I have spent hours listening the tracks, there is something that I really like about hearing it all together. It’s like when you spend hours making a mix tape and even though it took forever, you still want to sit through it all one more time. That’s what I’m doing.

We would like to thank VUM for letting us have access to a new track of theirs. Here is how to find all things VUM: https://vummusic.bandcamp.com. The new track is so cool.

Also, we are rolling out a track from Mikey Young’s new album. It’s great. I hope you dig the track. We’ll be getting most of, if not all of this one. If Your Move Vol. 1 is any indication of where he’s going with his music, I can’t wait to hear Vol. 2.

A few days ago, the force that is John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees and Damaged Bug was over at my office. I interviewed him for Esquire Magazine. Seems that the man has at least one fan over there. I believe it comes out in their August issue. Just my opinion, I think the interview went great. John is very sharp and extremely funny. He’s also quite all there and forthright. I turned over the audio to the editor over there, so I don’t know what parts he will pull for the piece. I will be writing up an intro and if that goes through, then it’s all done. Thee Oh Sees have a new album, Orc, coming out at the end of next month. It’s great. We’ll be getting right into it as soon as the label gives us the green light to turn tracks loose to you.

I hope you dig the show. Next week’s show is all done. Get ready for our first visit with Alan Vega’s last album, IT. Alan never pulled punches and this album is Vega v. Abyss. Alan won, of course.

Until next week, stay hydrated and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Guerilla Toss - Betty Dreams Of Green Men / GT ULTRA
02. La Hell Gang - Last Hit / Thru Me Again
03. POW! - Cyberattack #3 / Crack An Egg
04. Tim Presley - Underwater Rain / The Wink
05. The Minutemen – Warfare / The Punch Line
06. Soccer Team - Problems With Prolonged Youth / Real Lessons In Cynicism
07. Dick Diver - Percentage Points / Melbourne, Florida
08. Ausmuteants - Come Home With Me / Band Of The Future
09. Chain & the Gang - Why Not? / Best of Crime Rock
10. Don Cherry - Awake Nu / Complete Blue Note Recordings
11. Mi-Gu – Feelings / Pulling From Above
12. Dillinger - Eastman Skank / Bionic Dread
13. The Lurkers - Time Of Year / Fulham Fallout
14. Generation X – Kleenex / Generation X
15. Pure Hell - No Rules / Noise Addiction
16. Mikey Young – Socks / Your Move Vol. 1

Hour 2
01. VUM - Heaven Underground / new track! 
02. Dee Dee Ramone - Hop Around / Hop Around
03. The Rites of Spring - Persistent Vision / End On End
04. Melt-Banana - Dead Spex / 13 Hedgehogs (MxBx Singles 1994-1999)
05. The Scientists - This Is My Happy Hour / single
06. Frank Zappa – WPLJ / Burnt Weenie Sandwich
07. Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds - Let’s Go! / Haunted Head
08. The Razors – Razors In The Night / Dirty Thirty
09. HTRK – Ha / Marry Me Tonight
10. The Ruts - Savage Circle / The Crack
11. Ty Segall – Pan / Sentimental Goblin
12. Damaged Bug - Mood Slime / Bunker Funk
13. Crystal Fairy – Chiseler / Crystal Fairy
14. CFM - Dead Weight / Dichotomy Desaturated

RADIO HELSINKI #05

Radio Helsinki Listener! Your humble host, Henry Rollins here. I hope you have been listening to the last four shows and they have brought you to show #05 and these notes.

I keep a fairly busy schedule. I try to be as active as possible. I need to work in advance as much as possible. To be on the safe side of things, I make these notes several days in advance. It’s Friday, June 23rd. I am in Spokane, Washington, still. My hitch working on the television show that has had me here for the last two weeks wrapped a few hours ago and at 0445 hrs. tomorrow, I will be heading to the airport and back to Los Angeles.

One of my favorite aspects of listening to music is the idea of ritual. As I have explained in previous notes, I listen to music seasonally but there are some records I play all the time, no matter what time of the year it is. For instance, as I write this, I am listening to one of my favorite albums of all time, Machine Gun Etiquette by the Damned. I got it as soon as it came out in late 1979. We all had the two singles that came out before the album. The Love Song EP with Love Song / Noise, Noise, Noise / Suicide and the Smash It Up / Burglar single. These were big records in the small Washington DC music scene I was in. MGE didn’t disappoint. All these years later, it still sounds great. I do my best to listen to it every Friday evening, no matter where I am or what I’m doing. I think there is something really cool about coming back to a certain place or in this case, a certain record, again and again.

One of the things that has never failed to trip me out is the simple fact that the music on a record doesn’t change, meanwhile, you do. It is not a unique experience to listen to a song and suddenly be transported back to a different time but the power of that has always fascinated me. I’m not interested in living in the past but I think it’s an interesting way to check in with yourself by listening to a record you’re familiar with. There is a certain degree of transference that occurs when you hear an album enough times. The music, in a way, becomes yours.

I have said more than once that one of the best ways to evaluate someone is to check out their record collection. That might seem to you like a superficial way to judge their character but I think it can be a very accurate roadmap by which to understand someone. My record collection, when I look at it objectively, leaves me no other conclusion than I’m an obsessive/train spotter type who needs to get out more often. Fair enough.

I never thought that my record collection made me a better or more interesting person but I am 100% sure they have made my life better and more interesting. Great records are collections of brilliance somehow captured forever. I don’t think I will ever do anything better than a Charlie Parker solo, so I reckon it’s a good idea to have a lot of his music at the ready.

A Friday evening is one of the best chunks of time I have ever known. It requires a great soundtrack. Many years ago, when I was in school, I was unable to enjoy it. I hated every part of it. Friday when the last class was over, I was out of there as fast as I could. I had 48 hours away from the gulag. Immediately, I wanted to hear music. In those days, my favorite Friday post school listens were Led Zeppelin II and IV. As bad as my record player was, they still sounded great. Perhaps this gets to the point I wanted to make. Sometimes the music is more than music, more than a reference of time and place, it is a part of life that exists in all tenses. It is past, present and future. It is yours and whoever else who it touches. It is a filter or a lens through which to assess your existence. I’m not trying to be high minded, I think I’m onto something here. When I listen to the Scary Monsters album by David Bowie, it’s so burned into my mind, I will get through both sides and realize that I don’t remember much of what it sounded like. It would be like trying to describe the sound of your breath. I have played Raw Power by the Stooges so many times, I don’t know if I can tell you why it’s good. It would be like trying to explain to you what it’s like to be alive. Nothing in my life has come close to the greatness of music. I never liked making it or playing it live nearly as much as I like being a listener.

Just so you know, when I put together the shows for our twelve broadcasts, even though I knew the shows were going to air on Wednesday, I had Friday on my mind when I made them. Life is short and often quite mundane. Look at the country I live in. Great place with extraordinarily bad leadership. There isn’t much I can do about that besides vote and do my best not to get caught in the crossfire. In this environment, music is an essential asset.

And this, Radio Helsinki listener, is why I like putting together radio broadcasts. It is an opportunity to create a two hour occurrence, using found sounds, communicating with people I might never meet and being able to make things better for that duration of time.

Hopefully this is what has been achieved with this gathering of songs. It is a mixture of old and new. Over the twelve weeks we are together, I tried to keep the mix slightly geared towards music that might be in rearview. I figured you are up to date on what’s happening now and it might be useful to hear some music you could end up liking that would compel you to dig down and do some searching. There are plenty of new tunes mixed in but I thought that as a concept, this would be an interesting way to go.

I’m willing to bet that you are plenty internet efficient and if you like anything you hear on the show, you can always go online and learn more. In a way, that’s what a big part of these twelve broadcasts are, a set up for further exploration, discovery, epiphany and enjoyment. I hope this is the case. Until next week, thank you for listening and reading this.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program
RADIO HELSINKI #05

01. Negative Trend - How Ya Feelin’ / Negative Trend EP
02. The Beastie Boys - Egg Man / Paul’s Boutique
03. Wire - Lowdown / Pink Flag
04. Devo - Social Fools / B Stiff EP
05. Chain & The Gang - The Logic of Night / Best Of Crime Rock
06. Public Image Ltd. - Public Image / single
07. Deadboy & The Elephantmen - How Long The Night Was / We Are Night Sky
08. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (mono) / White Light/White Heat
09. Joy Division – Disorder / Unknown Pleasures
10. Buzzcocks - Airwaves Dream / Singles Going Steady
11. Kikagaku Moyo - In a Coil / Stone Garden
12. Funkadelic - Super Stupid / Maggot Brain
13. The UK Subs - I.O.D. / Another Kind of Blues
14. Thug - Dave’s Back From Outer Space / Everything Is Beautiful In Its Own Way
15. Eater - Outside View / single
16. Flin Flon – Darlings / Dixie
17. Rain - That Time Of Year / La Vache Qui Rit
18. Dee Dee King - Mashed Potato Time / Standing in the Spotlight
19. Fats Waller - Eep, Ipe, Wanna Piece Of Pie / Last Years (1940-1943)
20. Olivia Neutron-John - Death-Tango / download from site
21. Bark Bark Bark – Haunts / Haunts
22. Jack Name - Do the Shadow / Light Show
23. Trin Tran - Dark Radar / Dark Radar
24. True Widow – Theurgist / Avvolgere
25. Desmond Dekker - 007 (Shanty Town) / The Original Hits
26. Angie - Breathing In Blue / Free Agent
27. CFM - Lethal Look / Dichotomy Desaturated
28. Teledetente 666 - A Chaque Ville sa Folle / Karen
29. Pumice - Tonight The Kids Sleep In The Car / Worldwide Skull
30. Suiix – Planet / download
31. The Ruts - It Was Cold / The Crack

RADIO BROADCAST #431 07-02–17

Fanatic! Have you been clocking the heat?! Good grief, it makes music sound so good. I just got back from Amoeba with some records, so I am ready for the weekend. Have you ever at the last minute when you’re at the counter at Trader Joe’s, thrown a Toblerone into your basket? I did that today at Amoeba. I found a used copy of Like A Virgin on CD for six bucks. I haven’t heard this record for like thirty years. Listening now. The drums are like getting pulled over by ten cop cars!

So glad we are able to roll out a track from the new Mikey Young album. I think it’s his best work yet.

July is going to be great for music. Next week, new VUM in hour 2, the week after, we unleash new Alan Vega from his last album, IT. I have been sitting on these tracks for damn near two years. Can’t wait for you to hear this album. 

You know what I always say in these notes— that we have another great show. Well, it’s true! I always listen down to all the tracks in one go to make sure there’s nothing dragging and this one passed the test. It’s perfect weather for the Russell Street Bombing album. We haven’t listened to that one for awhile.

I started work on next week’s show yesterday. I will resume later today and see where the heat takes me. We hope you dig the show and that you listen to it at least twice.

Stay hydrated and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Isaac Hayes - Theme From ‘Shaft’ / Complete Stax Singles Vol. 2
02. Jimi Hendrix - Freedom / Cry of Love
03. Thin Lizzy - Do Anything You Want To / Black Rose
04. Discharge - Protest And Survive / Protest And Survive
05. Partyline - Girls Like Me / Girls With Glasses
06. Mikey Young - Walking for Pleasure / Your Move Vol. 1
07. Russell Street Bombings - Give Us Away / Russell Street Bombings
08. Bat Rider - Homie Gnomie (Clean) / Why We Can’t Be Together
09. Dick Diver - New Start Again / New Start Again
10. Squatweiler - Should I / Full Bladder
11. Levitations – Mallorca / Typical Girls Vol. 2
12. Pel Mel - No Word From China / Tales From the Australian Underground
13. Jaguar Love - Don’t Die Alone / Hologram Jams
14. Mikey Dread - Bond Street Corner / single
15. Thee Oh Sees - Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster / Floating Coffin

Hour 2
01. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Waves Over Shadows / Balance
02. Mdou Moctar - Iblis Amghar / Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai
03. David Bowie - I Can’t Explain / Pin Ups
04. Doctor Mix and the Remix - I Can’t Control Myself / Wall of Sound
05. The Minutemen - Fake Contest / What Makes a Man Start Fires?
06. Holland – Tranquilizer / Drums
07. UK Subs - Bomb Factory / Brand New Age
08. Cedell Davis – Propaganda / When Lightnin’ Struck the Pine
09. Tom Waits - The Return Of Jackie And Judy / Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
10. Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - Drop Dead Baby / Reverse Shark Attack
11. Dinosaur Jr. – Budge / Bug
12. Julee Cruise - The Swan / Floating Into the Night
13. HTRK – Sweetheart / 12” 
14. Teledetente 666 - Monsieur Marcaille Is Watching You / Karen  
15. TV-Resistori – Intiaanidisko / Summer and Smiles of Finland
16. Pontiak - This is Living / Living

RADIO HELSINKI #04

Radio Helsinki Listener! Before anything else, thank you for checking out the shows I have put together for Radio Helsinki.

I make radio shows twelve months a year for KCRW FM in California, so I am used to coming up with lists of tracks for all times of the year. Putting together radio shows is one of the best tasks I have ever taken on. It never gets boring, never feels like a “job” or drudgery laden obligation. That being said, without a doubt, warm weather is my favorite time of the year to make a radio show. Elevated temperature, while sometimes makes sleep difficult, I think, inspires the imagination and allows sound to bloom in the mind. While I have no information to support this idea, while it is only an opinion, I think that air in the warmer months of the year transports music better. To be succinct, I think music sounds better in warm weather.

Radio Helsinki Lister, what you have here with this particular show, is my current favorite of our shows so far. As I usually do, I am writing these notes to you as I listen to the show, and I must say, I am really enjoying it. I am willing to bet that I felt the same way about last week’s show when I was listening to it, and will feel about next week’s show. It’s not the worst contradiction to be caught in.

Our show starts with a track by the Bad Brains. At this point, I don’t think this band needs any introduction. Not only did the they have a major impact on me and others in the small Punk scene in Washington DC, where I come from, but in time, would permanently impact the world of Independent music.

The first time I saw the Bad Brains play was on June 24, 1979 at a venue called the Bayou when they opened for the Damned. If you have ever had the experience of a show truly changing the way you thought about things, you know hard to forget that can be. 1979 was a year, perhaps the year where I realized I that music, one way or another, was going to be the major element in my life that would influence anything else I would do going forward. Even if I just ended working in the same office building for the rest of my life, it was going to be a life understood through the filter of music. WARNING. GETTING TOO FAR AFIELD ALERT: Not to get too far afield, but 1979 was the year I graduated from school and was fully turned loose into the wilds of the adult world with all its risk and consequence. The only thing that had prepared me was hundreds of hours spent working minimum wage jobs that taught me well how tough things were going to be for me. Music was a primary asset in pushing back against the hard knocks I knew were coming my way. Incidentally, I was right about the knocks and right about music being the right thing to have at the ready. Anyway, this show was the first time I ever saw the Bad Brains. I knew of their existence but didn’t know what to expect when they hit stage. Absolutely nothing in my life musically prepared me for their set. I remember that they being the opening band, played in front of a crowd a fraction of the size that would greet the Damned a little over an hour later. The dance floor was basically, empty. Those who were there, for the most part, hung back. Myself, Ian MacKaye, and a few others went right up to the front and checked them out. Song after song, they seemed to reinvent music and redefine what it could be. Later, when I staggered out of the venue, two songs from their set were lodged in my mind. I didn’t know their titles at the time, but they were Why’d You Have To Go and Pay To Cum. It was the latter that was the source of our conversation as we made our way back to our cars. We simply couldn’t comprehend what had happened in the approximately two minutes that it took for the band to perform it. We didn’t understand what the singer was saying but more importantly, how he was saying it. Later that year, the band released a two song 7” with Pay To Cum and Stay Close To Me. It is this version with which we start the show. It is ninety three seconds of unbelievability.

I thought it would be perfect to go into Transmission by Joy Division right after the Bad Brains, thinking that I had to put in a song that was so good on every possible level, that it could stand up to the track that came before. There is no better band than Joy Division. There are bands absolutely as good and bands you might like better, of course but when you really consider what’s has been brought to bear over the decades of released music, Joy Division is on the same level of brilliance of any band or artist you can think of. I absolutely understand that you might disagree and that’s perfectly fine with me but we both know who’s right. This BBC version of Transmission is interesting, without the production touches of Martin Hannett or the frenzied delivery that Joy Division was unable to avoid in live performances. If you have never checked out live recordings of Joy Division, you have not heard a fraction of what this band could do. The studio albums are great. Live, from what I have been able to hear, never having actually witnessed one of their shows, the band was one of the most intense groups to have ever been on any stage anywhere. I am no expert but have heard every live Joy Division recording, authorized or otherwise, that I have been able to locate and none of them are anything less than mind-blowing.

Not to drag you through a song-by-song analysis, (which would be fun to do but I don’t seek to capitalize on your time too much) but our third track, I Am Seeing UFOs, features one of the more obscure Joey Ramone vocal performances. Joey rarely shows up on other band’s records. This was Dee Dee, an ex-bandmate but it’s a rare occurrence nonetheless. Like many of Dee Dee’s songs and Joey’s vocals, it’s a great one. The album that holds this track, Zonked, also has a song called Bad Horoscope that features a great performance by an absolute genius, one Lux Interior, another person who didn’t often stray from his own camp.

The Birthday Party, a band with no bad songs, had obvious respect for the Stooges. At different times, covered Loose and Fun House with some frequency, but from my collection of live tapes, included a live version of Little Doll from the Stooges’ first album far less times. I have been able to find one time the band performed this song and wow is it a great version. I thought we should check it out.

I don’t know if you noticed, but there are a lot of bands from Australia in this batch of tunes. No specific reason besides that it would seem that every third person in Australia happens to be in a band and is really good. The last time I was there, in September of last year, I found so many records, Road Manager Ward had to get an extra suitcase to get them back to Los Angeles. Not old records, although I found a few, but new music by bands that are happening right now. Ever since I started making trips to Australia in 1989, I have been continually knocked out by the sheet tonnage of great music that consistently comes out of there. If you at all like any of the Australian tunes you’re hearing on this show, please explore further. I promise you a break from so much Australian songs next week but will warn you that we will be once again dipping into the canon of Dee Dee Ramone.

As I write this to you, I am on location, working on a television show. It’s a night off, which is useful, considering the last two days were fight scenes that took hours to complete. I have been in a lot of them while working on shows over the years and have learned a few things so I don’t get too dented up but nonetheless, getting knocked around is part of it and I am feeling it today. I am using music as pain relief. Works every time.

I don’t know about you but listening to music never gets boring and rarely a day goes by where I don’t get something listened to. Few things in life work as well. I hope you dig these tunes. Next week’s show is all done and delivered. Please tune in if you can.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. Bad Brains - Pay To Cum / single
02. Joy Division – Transmission / BBC Recordings
03. Dee Dee Ramone - I Am Seeing UFOs
04. Egg Hunt - Me And You / Egg Hunt
05. Unrest - Cath Carroll / Perfect Teeth
06. Ty Segall - The Crawler / Manipulator
07. Birthday Party - Little Doll / November 06 1981 Eindhoven Holland
08. Russell Street Bombings - Give Us Away / Russell Street Bombings
09. X Ray Spex - I Can’t Do Anything / Germ Free Adolescents
10. Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening / Black Rhythm Happening
11. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention – WPLJ / Burnt Weeny Sandwich
12. The Julie Ruin - I Decide / Hit Reset
13. Teen Idles - Trans Am / Dischord 100
14. Antelope - Wandering Ghost / Reflector
15. Minced Meat - The World’s Got Everything In It / Leather Donut
16. The Mark of Cain - Walk Away / Ill at Ease
17. King Tubby & Soul Syndicate - King Tubby’s Key / Freedom Sounds In Dub
18. Straight Arrows – Breakdown / Rising
19. Dinosaur Jr.- Tiny / Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not
20. Buzzcocks - Whatever Happened To / Singles Going Steady
21. Ex-Cult - Hollywood Heatseeker / Negative Growth
22. Arndales - Holiday Inns / Dog Hobbies USA
23. Terry - Tippy Toppy / single
24. Ausmuteants - Freedom of Information / Order of Operation
25. Supersystem - White Light / White Light / A Million Microphones
26. Wand - M.E. / Golem
27. Scott Walker - Next / Scott 2
28. The Panik - Modern Politics / Short Sharp Shock
29. Butch Willis & the Rocks - The TV’s From Outer Space / Repeats
30. Kraftwerk – Dentaku / Computer World
31. Puce Mary - Everything Stays the Same / Success

RADIO BROADCAST #430 06-25–17

Fanatic! I have a day off from rolling and tumbling on set. With the power of the two ibuprofen tablets I took an hour ago to neutralize the effects of getting tossed around like a near sixty year old ragdoll and long visits to the gym, I am able issue these notes. I am listening to the tracks for our show and I must say, I do believe we’ve done it again.

I know, I know, it might only be a radio show to you, Fanatic but to me, it’s much more. It’s a chance to check in, from anywhere in the world, and hop onto the same page for a brief period of time and dig humankind’s bestest creation. The fact that you can be in Germany,  Australia the United States or damn near anywhere else and hear the show is as cool as it gets. This is why so much care goes into making the show.

It’s been surprisingly hot where I’ve been. I’ve been getting in listening opportunities when I can. The hours I am keeping are pretty demanding and after work, I’m not good for much.

Knowing I wasn’t in the shot today, I worked late last night on the press release for Alex Cameron’s next album. I really don’t write these things so when I got past a thousand words, I stopped and sent it to Secretly Canadian for advice, lest I be running too far afield. They wrote back and said they liked what they read but it had to be less words. I think I’m going to finish my crazy version for fun and send the label a severe edit. I don’t know if I’m at liberty to talk much about the album, which comes out later in the year. I will say that is incredible.

There are some GREAT records coming out this year. We will get first crack at them and I will do my best to get the tracks to you either before the album comes out or within a few days.

For now, dig this fantastic dip into the sea of tunes. As I am writing this, the Miles track is playing. Love it!

Listen up and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Eddie Kendricks - Keep on Truckin’ / 70’s Gold
02. Living Eyes - All in Good Time / Living Large
03. King Tubby & Prince Jammy - A Heavy Dub / Dub Gone 2 Crazy : In Fine Style 1975-1979
04. Jay Reatard - Searching For You / Singles 06-07
05. Metal Urbain – Futurama / Anarchy In Paris!
06. Fugazi - Latest Disgrace / Red Medicine
07. Die Cheerleader - Pigskin Parade / Son Of Filth
08. The Stooges - 1969 (alt vocal) / The Stooges
09. X Ray Spex – Identity / Germ Free Adolescents
10. The Intelligence - I Hear Depression / Fake Surfers
11. Beasts Of Bourbon - El Beasto / Black Milk
12. Miles Davis - Au Bar Du Petit Bac / Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud
13. Aias – Moto / A La Piscina
14. Ramones - It’s a Long Way Back to Germany (UK b-side) / Rocket to Russia (CD extra track) 
15. Ex-Cult - Mr. Investigator / Negative Growth
16. These Are Powers - Twin Remains / Taro Tarot

Hour 2
01. Cat’s Eyes - Girl in the Room / Treasure House
02. Cellular Chaos - Re-make/Re-model / Cellular Chaos
03. Boys Next Door - Somebody’s Watching / Door Door
04. Sort Sol - Off Morning / Dagger & Guitar
05. Anton Bruhin - Congo / Von Goldabfischer
06. POW! - Sugi Walks / Hi-Tech Boom
07. Midnite Snaxxx - No Time To Spend / Typical Girls Volume 2
08. The Calico Wall - Flight Reaction / Trash Box Vol. 3
09. Dax Riggs - Thing In A Jar / Velvet Songs For Golden Skulls
10. Misfits - TV Casualty / Static Age
11. Deerhoof - Mothball The Fleet / Breakup Song
12. Erase Errata - Tax Dollar / Nightlife
13. Soccer Team - Friends Who Know / Real Lessons in Cynicism
14. Mark Robinson - Tasty Black Licorice / 2003 Teenbeat Sampler
15. PJ Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta / To Bring You My Love
16. Joy Division - Failures / Substance 1977-1980

RADIO HELSINKI #03

Radio Helsinki Listener!  Here we are, back together again for show number three. You hung in for the first two, don’t let apathy sing its teeth into your enthusiasm. Including this show, we have another ten opportunities to rock out this summer here on Radio Helsinki. This is a marathon, not a sprint. One show a week, come on now, you can do it!

As I write this, I am on location, working on a television show. I have been out here for about two weeks and have one more to go. In this environment, my listening options are limited. As I often find myself living on tour busses and hotels, I have learned keep the quality of playback as high as possible. Some of my gear is as follows:

The Dash7 portable speaker system by Soundmatters. I never travel without this. You can plug it into your laptop, phone or other listening device. Sounds incredible and has a self-contained battery that holds a charge for hours. It features a USB connector for easy recharging. An incredibly smart piece of gear. You can go to the Soundmatters site to learn more.

To increase the playback quality, between the sound source and the speakers, be it the Dash7 or headphones, I use a Shure SHA900, which accomplishes digital to analog conversion excellently. The difference in quality is not subtle. Great piece of gear. I use this all the time, even when I am just listening in headphones.

While it’s not a turntable and tube amps, these components improve listening to a great degree. I am presently ensconced in a coffee place near the hotel. I am checking out a play list of tunes I listen to on the weekend, mostly tracks that I am very familiar with. I am using an iPod, going through the SHA900, and into a pair of SRH1540 headphones, again, by Shure. They are bulky but whenever I can afford the space in my pack, I bring them along. For long installations such as the one I’m on now, they are mandatory gear.

As always, this show is all about the music. We start our show with a track from Iggy Pop, the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of Rock and Roll. The title track from one of his most memorable albums, Lust for Life. I thought we should start with this particular tune because when I was making the show, knowing where it was going, I remembered a show in Seinäjoki, June 6, 1996 where I watched Iggy and his band play this song. Iggy invited the audience to come onstage and join him. Unsurprisingly, the security staff was less that pleased with the idea of people climbing over the barricade and onto the stage. They did their best to minimize the flow. Iggy reminded the security personnel whose show it was and beyond making sure no one was injured on their way to the stage, security let audience members pass. Soon, the stage was full of people, which was dressed for the band that would be headlining, right after Iggy’s set. You have probably heard of them, they are called the Cure. The stage, in preparation for the main event, had flowers in pots and vases, stored on the side, with which to adorn the stage. I bet it would have looked really swell. I say would have because almost as soon as Iggy saw them, he started smashing them. The Cure’s road crew weren’t happy about that but I saw a couple of them laughing. Neither were they all that stoked when they saw Iggy kick some of the footlights attached to the front of the stage, breaking them. The celebrants onstage with Iggy, took their cue from the man and started breaking some of the flower pots themselves. Soon, the stage was covered in crushed flowers, shattered pottery and soil. Iggy had passed the mic off to someone and had found a way to become partially covered with the potting soil, as well as start bleeding from somewhere on his chest. The overall effect was pretty amazing. Iggy killed it that night. He is one to never miss. I have seen him play four times this year. 

Later that evening, at the hotel, I met Hanoi Rocks singer Mike Monroe. I had been a fan of the band for many years and it was very cool to meet him. I figured we could afford to listen to one of my favorite Hanoi tracks as well.

Radio Helsinki Listener, I have to steady myself while checking out this evening’s playlist. It’s one amazing track after another. What I have attempted to do, over these twelve shows, is to not only drop in many of my longstanding favorites of course, but also, to mix in artists that are making music right now, touring right now, and releasing great records right now. Three of which I would like to bring your attention to.

The first is Le Butcherettes, fronted by Teri Gender Bender, also known as Teresa Suarez, is not to be missed. She not only has Le Butcherettes, who are great but as well, she is in a band that we listened to on our first show called Crystal Fairy with Buzzo and Dale of the Melvins and Omar of At the Drive-In, the Mars Volta, and yet another band called Bosnian Rainbows. There is not one record she has been a part of that I think should go unheard. I have only seen her with Le Butcherettes. Both times, they were awesome. I ran into her and Omar in Mexico City weeks ago, backstage at an Iggy show. Teresa said she will hopefully be working on a new Le Butcherettes record at some point this year.

The second is an Australian named Alex Cameron. The man is singular as he is talented. I am frustrated that I cannot play you any tracks from his upcoming album. It’s coming out after our time together is over on the Secretly Canadian label. I have been working on a press release for the album, so I was lucky to get a chance to hear it weeks ago. I have never heard anyone like Alex. Scott Walker meets a David Lynch film?! The track we rock on this show is from a record he released a couple of years ago called Jumping The Shark. It’s a concept album about a has-been, trying to make a come-back. It’s hilarious and serious at the same time. If you go online and look, you can check out the video for the song we are playing on our show. I think within a few seconds you’ll get it. I saw him live a few weeks ago. One of the coolest shows I have seen in ages. This man is not to be missed!

The third is one Ian Svenonious. Please, never miss anything released by this guy. He of The Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Cupid Car Club, David Candy, Weird War, The Scene Creamers, The Felt Letters, XZY, and for the last few years, Chain and the Gang. Another one of those artists who has been around for many years and thankfully, quite prolific. This year, without surprise, he will have at least two records out. The first of which, The Best Of Crime Rock, came out recently on the excellent In The Red Records label. It’s not for me to talk about what other stuff Mr. S has lined up for later this year as it’s parade but I have heard some of what is to be and I can’t wait to hear the rest. We rocked XYZ last week, The Felt Letters the week before and on this show, it’s a Chain track from the Minimum Rock n Roll album, released in 2014.

Otherwise, our selection hopefully hits enough corners of the record store to keep things interesting.

Information on all of the bands and artists we’re listening to on our show here is easily found online, so if you want to hear more and find out more, that’s entirely up to you. I hope you dig the tunes and hopefully listen at least two more times!

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life / Lust For Life
02. The Misfits - Static Age / Static Age
03. New York Dolls - Lonely Planet Boy / New York Dolls
04. Hanoi Rocks - Taxi Driver / Self Destruction Blues
05. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Kill Surf City / Barbed Wire Kisses
06. Q and Not U - Soft Pyramids / Different Damage
07. Le Butcherettes - Take A Step Back / A Raw Youth
08. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - It’s All Square / So Many Things
09. Alex Cameron – Mongrel / Jumping the Shark
10. Cat’s Eyes – Drag / Treasure House
11. Mi-Gu - The Drummer and the Dancer / Pulling From Above
12. Generation X – Kleenex / Generation X   2:07
13. Empire - Electric Guitar / Expensive Sound
14. Chain and the Gang - Mum’s the Word / Minimum Rock n Roll
15. Rowland S. Howard - Breakdown / Teenage Snuff Film
16. The Alan Vega Trio - The Werewolf / Cubist Blues
17. Kim Salmon - Already Turned Out Burned Out (Fast Burn) / My Script
18. Marnie Stern - Year of the Glad / The Chronicles of Marnia
19. Wire - Map Ref. 41ºn 93ºw / 154
20. Killing Joke – Change / Killing Joke
21. Dillinger – Ragnampiza / Bionic Dread
22. Astral Skulls – Landing / Contact-Light
23. Avarus - Mars On Paljastanut Salaisuutensa / Ruskeatimantti
24. Pharmakon – Autoimmune / Bestial Burden
25. Uton – Pilkahduksia / Ummet Ja Lammet
26. Jimi Hendrix - 3rd Stone From The Sun (mono) / Are You Experienced

RADIO BROADCAST #429 06-18–17

Fanatic! Another week, another great show all lined up for you. I am on location, doing some acting work. I put this show together right before I left. A lot of our sonic allies for their place on our stellar roster.

I have a lot of rehearsal to do before my early rise tomorrow, so I will have to keep this short. We hope you dig the show and we’ll be back with you next week with more jams.

Keep the music playing and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Generation X - Your Generation / K.M.D-Sweet Revenge Xtra
02. The Ruts - Babylon’s Burning / The Punk Singles Collection
03. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Lurch / Haunted Head
04. Lost Sounds - Future Touch / Future Touch
05. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Subway / The Power Of Negative Thinking
06. POW! - Color The System / Crack An Egg
07. Lone Ranger - Fist To Fist Days Done / single
08. The UK Subs - C.I.D. / The Singles 1978 – 1892
09. Le Butcherettes – Tonight / Sin Sin Sin
10. XYZ - Where Do You Come From? / XYZ
11. Serge Gainsbourg - La Bas C’est Naturel / Couleur Café 
12. Black Eyes - On the Sacred Side / Black Eyes
13. The Fall - Couldn’t Get Ahead / This Nation’s Saving Grace
14. Skoodle-Dum-Doo & Sheffield - Gas Ration Blues / Rare Country Blues Vol. 02
15. HTRK - Kiss Before The Fall / Marry Me Tonight
16. David Bowie - Because You’re Young / Monsters To Ashes
17. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets / Here Come the Warm Jets

Hour 2
01. Alternative TV - Action Time Vision / The Image Has Cracked
02. Wire - I Am The Fly / Chairs Missing
03. Alan Vega – Fireball / Alan Vega
04. The Ooga Boogas - Neon Sunset / The Booga Box
05. Parliament - Red Hot Mama / single
06. Lucifer - It’s Lucifer! / Lucifer
07. The Sonics - Shot Down / Psycho-Sonic
08. Dizu Plaatjes - Outalo Ntsintsi / Ibuyambo
09. The Stooges - Down On The Street (single version) / Fun House re-issue
10. Flin Flon - Medicine Hat / Teenbeat 20
11. La Sera - Never Come Around / La Sera  
12. Dog Chocolate - Be a Bloody River / Snack Fans
13. The Dictaphone - Exit Timelines / Tp Hss
14. Hierophants – Stress / Parallax Error
15. Don Cherry - The Thing / Where’s Brooklyn? 
16. Cigarette - Well Round / Gush
17. Point Juncture WA – Candyland / Me Or The Party

RADIO HELSINKI #02

Radio Helsinki Listener! Here we are, back together again. It’s not like I can ask you what you thought of last week’s show, but I hope you liked it enough to come back again this week.

At this point, it was months ago that I was asked to make these shows for you. Twelve shows is a lot of work that takes a lot of time. There was no pay offered and none asked for. So, why did I sign on to put together these shows on top of the one I make for KCRW FM in California? Because to me, it’s always worth taking the opportunity to spread music to other people. I think music is humankind’s greatest achievement. The more you listen, the better things are.

When I was young, I understood early on that I wasn’t fitting in with other kids at school. I couldn’t keep up in class and wasn’t good at sports. I wasn’t picked on all that much, nor was I excluded, I just wasn’t a part of things. For a few years, it bugged me. I wanted, or thought I wanted to be part of a group of people, to have a lot of friends. It’s a natural instinct and not a bad one. I could tell that it wasn’t going to happen and that I was one of those “strange kids” that you can find in any mass of kids. Somewhere around sixteen years of age, I had found one or two people at school to hang out with and that was okay but mostly, I worked at jobs and hung out on my own. In a way, I had a semi-adult lifestyle. After school, I would go to a store to work, where I was given responsibility. I handled money, had the keys to the place, etc. I liked it and I liked making my own money and not ever asking my parents for an allowance.

It was with this money that I bought records. It seemed to me the best possible thing to do with my earnings besides saving. You could play a record over and over and in a lot of ways, they were better than friends.

Luckily, when I was young, I became best friends with a guy name Ian MacKaye. This is the same one you might know from Minor Threat and Fugazi. We both lived in the same neighborhood and liked music. We would hang out in each other’s rooms listening to music and whenever we could, go to record stores.

In the late 1970’s we heard bands like the Clash, the Damned, and the Ramones. Having previously checked out shows by Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and Van Halen, needless to say, this music was hitting us in a completely different way. The shows were so different than arena shows. We go right up to the font and really feel it. This is when we became totally music obsessed. Ian started playing in a band that eventually called themselves the Teen Idles and he co-founded Dischord Records, which released the Teen Idles Minor Disturbance EP in 1980.

Besides going to as many shows as we could, we would listen to hours of music. Listening to vinyl was one thing but the mix tape became one of the single most important pieces of music media we had. Vinyl had to be listened to in a room. We were in cars, at skate ramps or places where there was no turntable, so we all became tape makers. We would spend hours working on them. I still have almost all of my mix tapes from almost forty years ago, as does Ian, and they still sound great. It’s amazing what a stable medium they are. It was while making tapes that I got the idea you could communicate via what songs you put on the tape and in what order. I became fascinated by how order and variety could affect the listening experience. Also, the ability to really personalize the overall, was irresistible to me.

The ultimate version of all this was radio. To be hanging out with an unseen listener, who was out there somewhere, I figured that had to be one of the coolest jobs ever. I am sure a lot of my references are arcane or at least old but there was a film, very much worth checking out, called released in 1973 called American Graffiti. I watch it every several years and in my opinion at least, it holds up quite well. The legendary disc jockey Wolfman Jack had a cameo that knocked me out. You can watch some of his scene here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99z-H_NEccU. I thought this was the job of jobs. All alone in the middle of the night, connecting the dots way out there in the darkness. In the film, he seemed almost like a phantom. That’s what I wanted to do.

Being in a band sometimes affords you a lot of opportunities. In the 1980’s, I was asked to take over radio shows on college stations and at one point, started training at a station called KCRW, where I got instruction from Deirdre O’Donoghue. She was incredible. We became very good friends and stayed that way until she passed away in 2001. In 2004, I was offered a weekly show at a station called Indie 103.1 FM. This place was too good to last. Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols had a show, Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction, Rob Zombie, we all had a great time. The station closed down in 2009. About a week later, I got a call from some station called KCRW, asking if I wanted to bring my show there. That’s where I’ve been ever since.

I really like making radio shows. So, this is why I said yes when I was asked. Hell of a long explanation, right? Well, now you know.

The best possible part of all this is, if you look below, we have some fantastic music to listen to. I am able to brag about this part freely because I had nothing to do with any of the greatness of this music, I just put it in front of you. I’m just merely the arranger, in the smallest of small print.

It probably wouldn’t surprise you that almost all of these bands and songs have stories. The records themselves are often rare and I acquired them from points all over. You should see Road Manager Ward and I on tour. We hit records stores all over the world. We are dragging vinyl back from every damn where. All the music we will be listening to in our almost three months together is a product of an obsession with music and the full knowledge that there is great stuff to be found anywhere from any year. All you have to do is be open minded and you are greeted by the universe of music. It is a very, I mean very good place.

Should you become curious about any of the tunes, the internet, your local records store and sites like Discogs, are your friends.

I keep scrolling down and looking at the list of songs. Damn, this is a great one! Until next week, thank you for listening.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi
Our Program

01. Stooges - Down On The Street / Fun House
02. The Cramps - Five Years Ahead Of My Time / How To Make A Monster
03. Ivan - Real Wild Child / The Golden Age Of American Rock ‘N’ Roll - Vol. 6
04. The Weirdos - Life Of Crime / Weird World Vol. 1
05. The Tuff Monks - After the Fireworks / single
06. Suicide - Ghost Rider / Suicide
07. The Saints - (I’m) Stranded / (I’m) Stranded
08. Black Tambourine - By Tomorrow / Complete Recordings
09. The Gun Club - Nobody’s City / Mother Juno (re-issue CD)
10. The Calico Wall - I’m A Living Sickness / Trash Box Vol. 3
11. Jah Lion - Soldier & Police War / Columbia Colly
12. The Ruts - In A Rut / Singles Collection
13. Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks / Born Too Loose
14. Pere Ubu - Final Solution / Terminal Towers
15. David Bowie - Up The Hill Backwards / Scary Monsters
16. Dinosaur Jr. - Little Fury Things / You’re Living All Over Me
17. Sort Sol – Abyss / Dagger & Guitar
18. The Horrors - Do You Remember / Primary Colours
19. Rites of Spring - Drink Deep / End On End
20. Tim Presley - Underwater Rain / The Wink
21. Damaged Bug - Rubber Lips / single
22. Ooga Boogas - Studio Of My Mind / Booga Box
23. XYZ - Drum Machine / XYZ
24. Panbers – Haai / Those Shocking, Shaking Days
25. Georgie James - Cake Parade / Need Your Needs
26. Lower Plenty - Strange Beast / Hard Rubbish
27. Summer Flake - You Can Have It All / You Can Have It All
28. Sleep - The Clarity / 12”

RADIO BROADCAST #428 06-11–17

Fanatic! This is going to be a great show. I have played it through a few times and it’s sounding fantastic.

My new book, Before The Chop III just came out. Information is on the site.

I have been listening to the three LP Iggy at the Royal Albert Hall set for the last two days. I was at the show and the album brings it right back. If you got to see the tour and want a great document of it or missed the tour and want to hear what you missed, it’s pricey but worthwhile.

There will be some great records out this month. I am looking forward to vinyl of Mikey Young’s Your Move Vol. 1 album.

I hope you dig all these tunes. Next week’s show is in the works and it’s looking to be another one not to miss.

Thanks for checking out these notes and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01.Chain & The Gang Certain Kinds of Trash / Best of Crime Rock
02. EL Guapo - I Don’t Care / Fake French
03. The Melvins - Set Me Straight / Houdini
04. White Fence - Arrow Man / For the Recently Found Innocent
05. Buzzcocks - Raison Detre / A Different Kind of Tension
06. Alternative TV - Jane’s Not At Home / Punk Life
07. Swell Maps - Steven Does / A Trip To Marineville (from 7” that came w/original LP) 
08. The Bags – Survive / Dangerhouse Volume One
09. King Tubby - Bad Boy Riddim Dub / Loving Memory
10. Empire – Today / Expensive Sound
11. Twerps - Fern Murderers / Range Anxiety
12. Air Miami - Afternoon Train / Me. Me. Me.  
13. Molly Nilsson - Wounds Itch When They Heal / These Things Take Time
14. Summer Flake – Racecar / Where Do I Go EP
15. Alan Vega - Kung Foo Cowboy / Alan Vega
16. David Bowie - Move On / Lodger
17. HTRK - Bendin’ / Work (Work, Work)

Hour 2
01. Motörhead – Electricity / Bad Magic
02. The Birthday Party - The Dim Locator / Live 81-82
03. The Cramps - Five Years Ahead Of My Time / How to Make A Monster
04. Flowers - Meekshi Manoo / Raks Raks Raks
05. Straight Arrows - Haunted Out / It’s Happening
06. The Ruts - Demolition Dancing / Grin and Bear It
07. Ty Segall - Drug Mugger / Mr. Face EP
08. Young Marble Giants - The Man Amplifier / Colossal Youth
09. The Saints - This Time / Prehistoric Sounds
10. Steven R Smith - Across The Flats / Owl
11. Wire - Used To / Chairs Missing
12. The Skodas - Everybody Thinks Everybody Else Is Dead Bad / Avon Calling
13. Hierophants - Hail Stones / Parallax Error
14. Muuttuvat Kasvot – Kaukaisuus / Muuttuvat Kasvot
15. Robert Pete Williams - Graveyard Blues / Legacy of the Blues
16. Bad Brains – I / Greatest Riffs
17. Iggy & The Stooges - Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell / Raw Power

RADIO HELSINKI #01

Radio Helsinki Listener! My name is Henry Rollins and I was given the great opportunity to put together some shows for Radio Helsinki.

Months ago, the station contacted me and asked if I would be interested in putting together twelve shows to run weekly over the summer. I said yes and got to work on the first show immediately.

If all goes according to plan, we will be together for twelve shows! The dates are as follows:

01. June 07 2017
02. June 14 2017
03. June 21 2017
04. June 28 2017
05. July 05 2017
06. July 12 2017
07. July 19 2017
08. July 26 2017
09. August 02 2017
10. August 09 2017
11. August 16 2017
12. August 23 2017

With this many shows, there were a lot of different ways to go. I listen to a lot of music from Finland. You should hear me on my radio show on KCRW 89.9 FM in California as I try to pronounce Kemialliset Ystävät or Tomutonttu. Actually, it’s probably better that you didn’t. At least I have the records. I figured I would stay away from Finnish music as you would probably be familiar with it and it would be too frustrating to fail at pronouncing Finnish words to a Finnish audience. Believe it or not, bands from Finland make up a large part of my listening. I would like to hear more of their work and learn more about them.

I also decided that perhaps it was best to stay away from too much Drone, Noise, Musique Concrète and other Avant forms of music. These genres make up a large part of my listening as well. It’s one thing to listen to some of these records in your room but on the radio, in context with other music, I don’t know if it works as well. I am in no way trying to imply that you don’t have the ability to appreciate all kinds of music. I am sure there is nothing you can’t handle, it’s just that just because a piece of music is good, it doesn’t mean it’s right for a certain kind of radio show.

Since there is time for about ninety some minutes of music per show, my goal was to make a really good C-90 mix tape. For the most part, I wanted to keep the sonic landscape changing frequently try to match the music to the temperature and light cycle you will be experiencing in the weeks to come. From what I was able to gather, your high temperatures will be in the low 20’s Celsius and since the show goes on at 1900 hrs., then it will be daylight. Believe it or not, I actually put together these shows with that in mind.

I know that might sound strange and it probably is but I associate certain bands/albums/songs with different times of the year. To me, there is cold weather listening, warm, hot, etc. There are records I will not play in the day time. Maybe a song or two but not the entire album. Here are some examples of what I mean. Will we listen to David Bowie? Of course! Just not anything from Station To Station, Low, or Heroes. To me, those are not warm weather Bowie albums. Will we listen to music by The Damned? We better! Just not anything from the Black Album. If we were together in October, we might listen to the entire album. These associations are exactly that. It’s in my head, basically. I think it comes from all the years I have been on the road and dragging tapes all over the place with me for months at a time.

Hopefully, you will dig the show enough to check it out all the way through and maybe even listen to it again.

I have had a radio show in America for well over a decade. I sometimes do guest “residencies” if you will, on stations all over the world, kind of like what I’m doing with Radio Helsinki. I occasionally substitute for The Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of Rock and Roll, that would be Iggy Pop, on his BBC Radio 6 show. Getting music out to people is one of the best things I have ever been able to do. One of my main aims is to of course, make a really good show but more than that, to perhaps make you curious to where you go search out more information on some of these bands and actually get the records, thus helping to keep the band moving forward. In my opinion, great bands and music is ours to lose when we don’t show our support.

You might think I’m a maniac, (which is most likely the case) but I try to buy one to three records a day and try to listen to five minimum. I actually keep lists of what I listen to and in what order. You want to see one? No problem! Here’s from April of this year.

01. Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry LP
01. Damaged Bug - Bunker Funk – (Glow In The Dark 200 pressed)  LP
01. The Stooges – The Stooges (2LP re-issue)  LP
01. David Bowie - Golden Years / Can You Hear Me (Australia / New Zealand)  7”
01. Razar – Stamp Out Disco (yellow label 1st pressing)  7”

02. Chain & the Gang – The Best of Crime Rock (test pressing)  LP
02. The Make Up - Destination: Love; Live! At Cold Rice (1st pressing)  LP
02. Makers of the Dead Travel Fast - Zoom Man LP
02. Air Miami – Fuck You Tiger EP (test pressing)  7”
02. Rat Columns - Stay (lathe 60 made)  7”
02. Crystal Fairy – Necklace of Divorce (red w/ black splatter)  7”
02. David Bowie – Heroes (stereo/mono)  7”
02. The Reatards – Get Out of Our Way 7”
02. Avarus - Luonnon Ilmiöitä  7”

03. Crisis - Kollectiv (gray vinyl)  LP
03. Rat Columns - Fooling Around EP 12”
03. Rat Columns – Leaf LP
03. The Stooges – Metallic K.O. (Skydog 2nd pressing)  LP
03. Ulaan Passerine – Light in Dust 10”
03. Yes I’m Leaving (black vinyl)  LP

04. Rat Columns – Sceptre Hole LP
04. Outer Space - Phantom Center 12”
04. Makers of the Dead Travel Fast - Tael of a Saeghors / The Dumb Waiter 7”
04. Scattered Order - Screaming Tree 7”
04. Step Panther – Strange But Nice LP

05. Weird War - If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Bite ‘Em LP
05. Iggy Pop – TV Eye 1977 Live (UK)  LP
05. Ty Segall - Ty Segall High in Paradiso LP
05. The Ruts - Shine On Me (Paris Theater) (green 99 pressed)  LP
05. Joy Division – How Many Echos Are There . . .  LP
05. Richard Teitlebaum w/ Anthony Braxton - Time Zones LP
05. Guam River – New Maps of Hell LP

06. Joy Division - Morituri Tu Salutant – Victory (black vinyl)  LP
06. The Stooges - A Thousand Lights LP
06. Dinosaur Jr – Chocomel Daze LP
06. The Fall - In: Palace of Swords Reversed (test pressing)  LP
06. Suzuki Junzo - Shark-Infested Custard LP
06. Pow! – Hi-Tech Boom (colored vinyl)  LP
06. Les Rallizes Denudes - France Demo Tapes LP
06. Demons – Frozen Fog LP

07. Gun Club – Miami (test pressing)  LP
07. Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r. (first press)  LP
07. Birthday Party – Mutiny EP (Powderworks pressing)  12”
07. Damaged Bug - Bunker Funk - (Pastille Pointillist - 500 pressed)  LP

08. The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette (France)  LP
08. Direct Current - Live Qbico Unite XIII LP
08. Cellular Chaos - Diamond Teeth Clenched (purple vinyl)  LP
08. Electric Wizard – Electric Wizard (green vinyl 1000 pressed)  LP
08. Cold Meat – Jimmy’s Lipstick (pink vinyl)  7”
08. Bent - Skeleton Man 7”

09. Chicos de Nazca - Fire Ride (transparent orange vinyl)  LP
09. Can’t – Can’t LP
09. No - Once We Were Scum Now We Are God LP
09. Grouper / Roy Montgomery split LP
09. Grouper – Hold / Sick 7”

10. Kikagaku Moyo – House in the Tall Grass (white splatter 100 pressed)  LP
10. J Mascis & the Fog - Free So Free - (test pressing)  LP
10. Gun Club - Pastoral Hide and Seek – (Play It Again Sam / Solid test pressing)  LP
10. Suicide – Suicide (Holland)  LP
10. Pumice – Quo LP
10. The Ruts - Shine On Me (Paris Theater) (red 96 pressed)  LP

11. These Immortal Souls - Marry Me 12” – SST (test pressing)
11. Public Image – Memories / Another 12”
11. Birth Refusal / Cassis Cornuta single sided LP
11. Black Pus – Pus Mortem (fluorescent yellow 200 pressed)  LP

12. Charles Moothart – CFM (purple red vinyl) LP
12. The Cramps – CBGB’s (TMOC version)  LP
12. Birthday Party – Complete Peel Sessions LP
12. The Fall – Totale’s Turns LP

13. Feedtime – Gas LP
13. Vert:x/Dead Sea Apes/Blown Out/Earthling Society – Magnetic North (orange vinyl)  LP
13. Pure Hell – The 1975 Acetate (gold vinyl)  7”
13. Dinosaur Jr.  - Bug (test pressing)  LP
13. Stooges – Soundtrack for Gimme Danger LP
13. The Make Up – Untouchable Sound LP
13. Joy Division - Walk Away . . . In Silence (black cover/white labels)  LP
13. Amazing Births - Younger Moon LP
13. Wolf Eyes – Undertow LP

14. The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette (Greece)  LP
14. The Damned – Damned Damned Damned (New Zealand first pressing)  LP
14. The Damned – Music for Pleasure (New Zealand white label promo)  LP
14. The Darling Downs – From One to Another LP
14. Föllakzoid – III (clear yellow vinyl)  LP

15. Slug Guts - Stranglin’ You Too 7”
15. Rangoons – CBT Asylum 7”
15. Orb – Birth (toxic pool edition)  LP
15. David Bowie – Boys Keep Swinging / Fantastic Voyage (France)  7”
15. Alan Vega – Juke Box Babe / Lonely (France)  7”

16. The Ran Dells – Martian Hop (red label A label promo London Rec. UK)  7”
16. Ty Segall - split w/ Loch Lomond – Gotta Get Up / Me & My Arrow 7”
16. Sonic’s Rendezvous Band – City Slang / Electrophonic Tonic 7”
16. Brian James – Walkin’ Round Naked / Born To Kill 7”
16. Sweet Knives - Burnt Sienna Blues / I Don’t Wanna See (color vinyl)  7”
16. Sweet Knives - Sound on Sound / Strange Animals (color vinyl)  7”
16. Lurkers - I Don’t Need to Tell Her / Pills - (label misprint w/ Tubeway Army label)  7”
16. The Rezillos - Good Sculptures / Flying Saucer Attack (Belgium test press)  7”
16. Iggy Pop - Fire Engine / Warrior Tribe (orange vinyl)  7”
16. Ty Segall / Thee Oh Sees - The Drag / Maria Stacks (20116 re-issue)  7”
16. Henri Salvador - EP w/ Martian Hop 7”
16. Melt-Banana / Napalm Death – single on Ipecac 7”

17. Generation X – Ready Steady / No No No (black outline on lettering version)  7”
17. Thee Oh Sees – In the Shadow of the Giant +  7”
17. Meatbodies/ The Blind Shake – Wet Bridge Records (2 copies)
17. Lower Plenty – Strange Beast 7”
17. Ex-Cult - Mister Fantasy / Through the Blinds (black vinyl)  7”
17. White Fence / Jack Name – LAMC #12 (black vinyl) 7”
17. Mikal Cronin / Wand – LAMC #11 (milky clear w/ blue and green splatter vinyl)  7”
17. Alex Cameron – Jumping the Shark cassette

18. VUM - Laura Palmer / Are You Animal? (test press)  7”
18. Unrest – Bavarian Mods (clear vinyl)  7”
18. Trouble Funk - E-Flat Boogie – Moneytown Records (one-sided white label promo)
18. Arcade Funk – Search and Destroy 7”
18. Trouble Funk – Spin Time / Share Your Love (blue label)  7”
18. Ty Segall - split w/ Chad & Meatbodies LAMC #07 (bronze & beer haze vinyl)  7”
18. Sic Kidz - Rhythm Gurl 7”
18. Sir Alick and the Phraser - In Search Of The Perfect Baby / Nursery Chymes 7”
18. TV Smith - Dangerous Playground / The Rock ‘N’ Roll (electric vers.)  7”
18. The Tea Set - Keep On Running / Flaccid Pot 7”
18. Terror Visions - Blood In America 7”
18. Tex and the Horseheads – Big House / Cloudia 7”
18. Tex and the Horseheads – 1982 (?) demo CDR
18. Tokyo Electron - Will Put a Charge in You (black vinyl)  7”
18. Tokyo Electron - She Keeps Me Shut (green cover)  7”
18. The Fall – Victoria / Tuff Life Boogie
18. The Ruts – Jah War / I Ain’t Sofisticated (Australia)  7”
18. The Ruts – Staring at the Rude Boys / Love in Vain (Australia)  7”
18. The Ruts – Something That I Said / Give Youth A Chance (Australia)  7”
18. The UK Subs – Stranglehold (red vinyl pushout one label blue not green)  7”
18. The UK Subs – Keep on Running / Perfect Girl (blue vinyl) (signed by band members) 7”
18. The Unfuckable - Complicated Meditation Class 7”
18. The UV Race - Acid Trip / Speed Freak 7”
18. The Julie Ruin – Brightside / In the Picture 7”
18. Japandroids - Younger Us / Sex and Dying in High Society (clear vinyl)  7”
18. Iggy Pop – Loco Mosquito / Take Care Of Me (Australia)  7”
18. Hot Pursuit – Basketball / Hawaii 7”
18. Jimi Hendrix - Burning of the Midnight Lamp / STP-LSD (pushout)  7”
18. GHQ - Requiem For Bhopal 7”
18. GHQ - Split w/ Ex Cocaine 7”
18. Family Underground - Commiseration / Blood Temperature Pool 7”

19. Ty Segall – Sentimental Goblin (blue & yellow vinyl)  7”
19. UK Subs – She’s Not There (test pressing)  7”
19. Chain & the Gang – Best of Crime Rock cassette
19. Scene Creamers – AK 47 / Luv Wuz 7”
19. Bent - Mattress Springs 7”
19. Gun Club – In My Room LP

20. The Fall – Sir William Wray 7”
20. Labels Unlimited - The Second Record Collection (UK)  LP
20. Shine On Me (Paris Theater) (black 180 pressed)  LP
20. Iggy Pop – TV Eye 77 (Germany)  LP
20. Joy Division – Live at the Apollo Manchester October 1979 (black vinyl)  LP
20. Mako Sica – Invocation LP
20. Buzzcocks – Access All Areas LP

21. AM 728 Painting + cd “A CDR
21. Iggy Pop – Lust For Life (UK)  LP
21. Iggy Pop – The Idiot (UK)  LP
21. The Damned – Damned Damned Damned (France 1st pressing)  LP

22. Les Rallizes Denudes – France Demo Tapes (colored vinyl)  LP
22. Iggy Pop – Lust For Life (UK)  LP
22. Jungle Nausea – Untitled 12”
22. Half High – Calling Nina cassette
22. Lost Animal – Demo cassette
22. UK Subs – Brand New Age (UK clear vinyl)  LP
22. Zaïmph - Between The Infinite And The Finite LP

23. Buzzcocks – Promises / Lipstick (solid center)  7”
23. Iggy Pop – China Girl / Baby (UK)  7”
23. → ↑ →  - Nice Noise (first pressing)  7”
23. David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes / Move On (black label )  7”
23. Air Miami – Fuck You Tiger EP (test pressing)  7”

24. Wire Pink Flag (Portugal)  LP
24. Joy Division - Factory By The Moonlight - Three Nights At The Moonlight Club (red vinyl)  2LP
24. My Cat Is An Alien + Jean-Marc Montera – Union of the Supreme Light LP
24. FM St. Jude – Almost Lost LP
24. Avoid!avoid – Particle and Wave LP
24. Unrest – Lisa Carol Freemont CD

25. Iggy Pop - Sister Midnight - Live At The Agora (red and blue vinyl)  2LP
25. Joy Division - Martin Hannett’s Personal Mixes (blue vinyl)  2LP
25. David Bowie – No Plan 12”
25. The Darling Downs - In the Days When the World Was Wide LP
25. Dinosaur Jr. – No Freak Scene LP
25. Boris w/ Merzbow – Sun Baked Snow Cave (blue)  2LP

26. Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers – LAMF (the Track LP restored)  LP
26. Sort Sol – Under en Sort Sol CD
26. Deadboy and the Elephantmen – We Are Night Sky LP
26. Jimi Hendrix – Miami Pop Festival 2LP
26. Devo – Live in Seattle 1981 2LP

27. NOTHING PLAYED! SAD!

28. The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette (Ace Records pressing)  LP
28. UK Subs – Another Kind of Blues (blue vinyl)  LP
28. The Damned – Damned Damned Damned (Australia EMI 2nd pressing)  LP
28. HTRK - / Sweetheart 12”
28. Conrad Schnitzler – Live Action LP

29. The Damned – Music For Pleasure (Japan white label promo)  LP

29. Kawabata Makoto - I Wished You Were Here Once Again LP
29. Knead - This Melting Happiness - I Want You To Realize That It Is Another Trap LP
29. Family Underground / Quintana Roo – Vengeance Valley / Horses Neck (300 pressed)  7”
29. Knife Fight – Hobbies 7”
29. The Ooga Boogas – The Octopus Is Back (chalkboard with lots of cavemen cover)  7”
29. The Ooga Boogas - Sentimental Stranger 7”
29. X Ray Spex – Oh Bondage Up Yours (UK)  7”
29. Rowland S Howard – Autoluminescent / The Ocean (withdrawn version pitched down)  7”
29. Total Control – Total Control (2nd or 3rd pressing)  7”
29. Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers – LAMF (the demos)  LP

30. G.I. Joe – Cobra LP
30. Jutok Kaneko w/ Kikukawa Takahisa - Wedged Night LP
30. Æthenor - Betimes Black Cloudmasses LP
30. Ninetynine - 180°  LP

I don’t think you can ever have enough music. How many is too many records? I would like to find out!

As I write this to you, it is May 14, 0226 hrs. I am in a small room in Cuzco, Peru, way up in the Andes. I like to get things done in advance whenever I can.

For our first show together, I thought it would be best if we started out strong with Mr. David Bowie and his cover of the Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat. I hope you dig the Penetrators track that follows. My best friend Ian MacKaye turned me onto this band a few years ago. Wait until you hear the backing vocals. Tom Waits covering the Ramones is about as good as it gets. I thought leading with those three, we couldn’t lose.

So, here’s the plan: I will write up show notes kinda like these for every single one of these shows. I will post them on my site, HenryRollins.com and they will also be posted on RadioHelsinki.fi, so you can get at them two different ways. I will try to have them at Radio Helsinki days before the broadcast so they can post them whenever they see fit, and I will post them on my site a day before the show goes to air.

I have made notes for my radio shows like this for years. You can always go to my site and see what I’m playing each week on my KCRW FM show.

Below are all the songs we’re going to listen to. I hope you like this show! More to come.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. David Bowie - White Light/White Heat / Bowie At The Beeb
02. The Penetrators – Teenage Lifestyle / Basement Anthology
03. Tom Waits - The Return Of Jackie And Judy / Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
04. El Guapo – Underground / Fake French
05. Dax Riggs - Living Is Suicide / We Sing of Only Blood or Love
06. Thee Oh Sees - Ticklish Warrior / A Weird Exits
07. Crystal Fairy - Necklace of Divorce / Crystal Fairy
08. Kemialliset Ystävät - Apinatkin Laulaa / Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa
09. Iggy Pop - Some Weird Sin / Lust for Life
10. Terrible Truths - Lift Weights / Terrible Truths
11. Drinks – Cheerio / Hermits On Holiday
12. Roky Erickson - Click Your Fingers Applauding The Play / Gremlins Have Pictures
13. Prince Jammy & Scientist - The Crushing Of The Stormtroopers / Strike Back!
14. Seekae - Oxen Calm / The Worry
15. The Felt Letters - 600,000 Bands / single
16. Zomes - Se Genom Tiden / Near Unison
17. The Fall - Two Librans / The Unutterable
18. Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds - La Araña / La Araña Es La Vida
19. Soccer Team - Solid Ring Fighters / “Volunteered” Civility & Professionalism
20. Robert Petway - Boogie Woogie Woman / Mississippi Blues Vol. 3
21. Vum - The Jungle / Night Sun
22. The KVB - In Deep / …Of Desire
23. Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Medicine to Cure Medicine Sickness / single
24. Guerilla Toss - Color Picture / Eraser Stargazer
25. Exhaustion - Your Memory Don’t Want You / Future Eaters
26. Mosquito Ego – Local Zero / Glomb
27. Nun – Cronenberg / Nun
28. Sonic’s Rendezvous Band – City Slang / single

RADIO BROADCAST #427 06-04–17

Fanatic! Another great show lined up for you. As I’m writing this, I am listening to the Boris/Merzbow collab. album Rock Dream. Such a great record. They do a lot of work together. Rarely are these sets less than three LPs, so you have to commit! Worth it every time.

What we have assembled here is what you will hopefully find to be two worthwhile hours of listening. I have listened to the final order twice now and it’s still working for me.

I had a chance to listen to Mikey Young’s new album. It was untitled when it was sent to me. I just went to the Midheaven site and there it was, ready for a June 16 release. It’s called Your Move Vol. 1 and it is fantastic. Since there’s a release date, I can put a track into one of our upcoming shows. Midheaven.com is your friend. https://www.midheaven.com/item/your-move-vol-1-by-young-mikey

There are some great albums coming out in the next few months and we will do our best to stay with it and keep you kept up.

Next week’s show is already in mid construction. I am working our June shows a couple of hours a night.

Thanks for listening and until next week, get your listening going and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. The Scientists - Solid Gold Hell / This Heart Doesn’t Run On Blood, This Heart Doesn’t Run On Love
02. Nervous Norvous – Transfusion / single   
03. UK Subs – Confrontation / Diminished Responsibility   
04. The Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Yo-Yo Man / Eddy Current Suppression Ring
05. Nèfas Endaygèban - Alèmayèhu Eshèté  / Éthiopiques 9   
06. Air Miami - Dolphin Expressway / Me. Me. Me.  
07. Pontiak - Lions Of Least / Echo Ono   
08. Phantom Forth - Saw You Hide / The EEPP LP
09. Black Tambourine - Can’t Explain (Lost Inner Ear Mix) / Black Tambourine Cassette
10. The Panik - Modern Politics / It Won’t Sell EP
11. TV Colours - The Kids Are All Grown Up / Purple Skies, Toxic River
12. Terror Visions - Master Wait / World of Shit
13. Devo - Strange Pursuit / Duty Now for the Future
14. The Maniacs - I Ain’t Gonna Be History / Vortex Live
15. Buzzcocks - Friends of Mine / Time’s Up
16. Wire - Dot Dash / Pink Flag
17. Dinosaur Jr. - Almost Fare / I Bet on Sky

Hour 2
01. Roky Erickson - I Think of Demons / The Evil One
02. Mark E. Smith & Ed Blaney – Transfusion / Transfusion
03. Frederick Michael St. Jude - I Simply Love You / Almost Lost
04. Ex Hex - Radio On / Rips
05. Fugazi - Me And Thumbelina / Instrument
06. Alan Vega – Speedway / Alan Vega
07. The Misfits - Teenagers From Mars / single
08. David Bowie - Moonage Daydream / Ziggy Stardust
09. The Stooges - Scene Of The Crime / Anthology Box
10. Dr. Alimantado - I Shall Fear No Evil / Best Dressed Chicken in Town
11. Spaceships - Washed Out / Spaceships
12. Rocket From the Tombs - Life Stinks / The Day the Earth Met The
13. John Cale - Fear (Is A Man’s Best Friend) / Fragments of a Rainy Season
15. Curtis Mayfield - (Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below We’re All Going To Go / Curtis Live!

RADIO BROADCAST #426 05-28–17

Fanatic! Great to be back with you.

I hope you are getting enough listening in. I am keeping my numbers up with at least five albums played a day. When in doubt, put a record on always seems to work for me.

Below, you will see that we have that new Guerilla Toss track starting off our show, in case you want to know more, here’s that GT info one more time: https://guerillatoss.bandcamp.com

Due to travel, I missed two shows I would have gone to. Those two groups start our second hour. Omar Souleyman and Kid Congo, if at all possible, never miss the chance to see them play. http://kidcongopowers.blogspot.com

Check out Mr. Souleyman’s schedule. The man gets around! http://www.songkick.com/artists/2070907-omar-souleyman

Last night, I rocked the Reliquary For A Dreamed Of World by 11Paranoias and a white vinyl pressing of the Boris/Merzbow Sun Baked Snow Cave albums. 
https://11paranoias.bandcamp.com/music

And Ty Segall’s Sentimental Goblin 7” goes into its third pressing with yet another color variant!: https://store.suicidesqueeze.net/collections/frontpage/products/ty-segall-sentimental-goblin-ep-7

Oh yeah, didn’t want to forget, our Thee Oh Sees track is from the album Drop, which just got a new color variant, “Versace Vomit” in case you’re interested. Looks cool, sounds great: https://www.castlefacerecords.com/products/thee-oh-sees-drop

It should not surprise you that we are already at work putting together next week’s show.

Until next week, listen up and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Guerilla Toss - The String Game / GT Ultra
02. The Controllers - Top Secret / Controllers
03. The Minutemen - Cut / Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat
04. Sort Sol - Life Took You For A Freq. / Stor Langsom Stjerne
05. Robert Johnson - Stop Breakin’ Down Blues / Complete Recordings
06. Death - You’re A Prisoner / …For the World To See
07. The Saints - Orstralia / Eternally Yours
08. Floor - Return To Zero / It’s Not the Same
09. Nervous Patterns - Black Whole / Nervous Patterns
10. Metal Urbain - Anarchie Au Palace / Anarchy In Paris
11. Thee Oh Sees - The Lens / Drop
12. Thor - Now Comes the Storm / Only the Strong
13. Generation X - One Hundred Punks / Generation X
14. Banzaii - Chinese Kung-Fu / single
15. Le Butcherettes - All You See In Me Is Death / Sin
16. The Lurkers - Ain’t Got A Clue / Fulhamn Fallout
17. Blouse - A Feeling Like This / Imperium

Hour 2
01. Omar Souleyman - Don’t Wear Black - Green Suits You Better / Highway To Hassake
02. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - I Don’t Like / Haunted Head
03. Living Eyes - Square One / new
04. 11Paranoias - Milk Of Amnesia / Reliquary For A Dreamed Of World
05. Mark Robinson - Awake / The BJ Rubin Show: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
06. Mick Harvey - Anthracite / Pink Elephants
07. Frederick Michael St. Jude - Cecilia / Almost Lost
08. The Fall - The Mixer / Shift-Work
09. Slug Guts - Wild Country / Howlin’ Gang
10. Buzzcocks - Operator’s Manual / Love Bites
11. Motörhead - Tear Ya Down / Overkill
12. Suicide - Spaceship / The First Rehearsal Tapes
13. Joy Division - Wilderness / Unknown Pleasures
14. UK Subs - Same Thing / Brand New Age
15. The Ruts - Staring At The Rude Boys / Grin & Bear It
16. The Velvet Underground - I Heard Her Call My Name (mono) / White Light / White Heat

RADIO BROADCAST #425 05-21–17

Fanatic! I have been living in hotels for the last two weeks. This show was built over several nights in small rooms in different parts of Peru. In a few hours, I will start making my way back to Los Angeles. Three flights and twenty four hours later, I will hopefully stagger through LAX and into traffic.

Here are some worthwhile updates:

New Boris: https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/boris

New Guerilla Toss: https://guerillatoss.bandcamp.com

New My Cat Is An Alien: https://ellipticalnoise.bandcamp.com/album/mciaa-xavier-veilhan-studio-venezia-2017

The MCIAA is previously released material but in a limited 50 edition. This would be for the fan who has to have it all.

We will have a new GT track from the GT Ultra album next week.

As to this here show, it’s another warm weather collection! I have played it through a few times and think it’s ready to go. I have wanted to get the Lee Perry Kimble the Nimble track to you for a long time. I have a lot of Perry comps but none of them had the Kimble track, so I finally broke down and bought a download of it. It took all of a minute. The convenience felt slightly wrong but at least we have the track. We start our second hour with the great version by The Fall.

Hopefully, this will be two hours you will enjoy.

Thanks for listening and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Lee Perry - Kimble the Nimble / The Upsetter Selection
02. Frederick Michael St. Jude - Day Quite Like Today / Almost Lost
03. Ron Ford & Parlet - Bubble Gum Gangster / Clinton Family Jams
04. Chain & the Gang - ‘Nuff Said / Best of Crime Rock
05. The Moodists - Where The Trees Walk Downhill / Two Fisted Art
06. Family Fodder - Debbie Harry / More Great Hits! 
07. Flin Flon - Flatbush (Samantha) / Chicoutimi EP
08. Damaged Bug - Rick’s Jummy / Bunker Funk
09. CFM - Pinch the Dream / Dichotomy Desaturated
10. Generation X - Listen / self released single
11. Boris – Rainbow / Gensho
12. Grouper - A Cover Over / Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
13. Sort Sol - Marble Station / Under en Sort Sol
14. The Birthday Party – Blundertown / single  

Hour 2
01. The Fall – Kimble / Peel Sessions
02. Alan Vega - The Kiss / DuJang Prang
03. Rain – Rivers / La Vache Qui Rit
04. Q and Not U - District Night Prayer / Power Rock
05. The Clash - The Leader / Sandinista! 
06. The Prima Donnas - Skin of Another Man / Drugs, Sex and Discotheques
07. Jesse James - Red Hot Rockin’ Blues / Rockin’ Bones
08. Wire - Blessed State / 154
09. Angry Angles – Blockhead / Angry Angles
10. David Chesworth - I Told You So / 50 Synthesizer Greats   
11. Aias - Bali / A La Piscina
12. Dinosaur Jr. - Tiny Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not
13. David Bowie - Red Money / Lodger
04. Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - Patriarcat Vous Et Nous
15. Total Control - Sunday Baker] / Henge Beat

RADIO BROADCAST #424 05-14–17

Fanatic! Good to be back with you again. Before anything, thanks to Fanatic Denise for sending in pre-order information for the next Boris album. Looks like there are three different color variants and it’s out in July. Here is the information.

As promised, we have the Dead Cross track for you. You can hear the song online with all the language we were not able to include on our show. The full album hits in August on Ipecac.

Speaking of Boris, have you heard the 4LP Boris / Merzbow set called Gensho? Several nights ago, I decided it was time. It had been sitting on the shelf for months. Sometimes, those multi LP sets are hard to take on. It’s another great one. If you were curious about Gensho, we have a track at the end of the show so you can check it out.

I’ve listened to this show a few times and I’m still liking it. I hope you do as well. I will start working on the next show tomorrow. Right now, I’m in a hotel room out in the world, working on two books with as few distractions as possible. I have a good routine. The streets, the gym, the room and then a great sushi place in the hotel.

As always, thank you for listening and we hope you dig the show.

Listen to a lot of music, make lists, document everything and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @HenryRollins
Instagram: @HenryAndHeidi

Hour 1
01. Dead Cross - Grave Slave / Dead Cross
02. Ennio Morricone - Lonesome Billy / The Legendary Italian Westerns
03. Rhythm Heritage - SWAT Theme / 70’s comp. 
04. FM St. Jude - Everybody’s Gone Away / Almost Lost
05. Fugazi - Recap Modotti / End Hits
06. Minutemen - Martin’s Story / Double Nickels on the Dime
07. Generation X - This Heat / single
08. The Keystoners - Magic Kiss / My Doo Wop Collection Vol. 2
09. The Beastie Boys – Intergalactic / Hello Nasty
10. Sex Stains – Crumbs / Typical Girls Vol. 2
11. Butch Willis - The TV’s From Outer Space / Repeats
12. Holland - I Can See Bottom / I Blow Up
13. The Horrors - Three Decades / Primary Colours  
14. Metal Boys - Cafe Sale / Tokio Airport
15. Crystal Fairy - Posesión / Crystal Fairy
16. Crystal Castles – Birds / Crystal Castles  
15. Thee Oh Sees - Transparent World / Drop
16. Banyen Sriwongsa - Ramwong Saraphan / The Sound of Siam Vol. 2

Hour 2
01. Male Gaze - Wha Do Wha Do / Miss Taken
02. PJ Harvey - The Letter / Uh Huh Her
03. Sort Sol - Like A Trance Like… / new album
04. Buzzcocks - Are Everything / Singles Going Steady
05. Kikagaku Moyo – Trilobites / Stone Garden
06. Clarinette – 1960 / The Now of Then
07. El Guapo - Disappointment Spelled with “v” / Super/System
08. The Fall - Whizz Bang / Peel Sessions
09. Chain & the Gang - Free Will / Best of Crime Rock
10. Otis Day & the Nights - Shama Lama Ding Dong / Animal House Soundtrack
11. Julee Cruise - The Space for Love / The Voice of Love
12. Dad Jokes - JCVD / Watch Out for the Bullies
13. Dog Chocolate - Building Dens / Snack Fans
14. Boris - Heavy Rain / Gensho

RADIO BROADCAST #423 05-07–17

Fanatic! We have a great show for you here.

Hopefully, you will find this to be perfect warm weather listening. I have listened top to bottom twice and it’s working for me.

Next week, we will have a song by a new project Mike Patton has called Dead Cross. We have been cut loose on one song. It has some language issues, as far as FCC rules, so Engineer X had to remove parts of it. So, if Grave Slave sounds like part song / part sashimi, that’s why. He just sent it to me. I’m almost afraid to listen to it but I would rather play the hacked up version than not play it for you at all. I think we are in a post FCC world, with podcasts and other means of getting music. Terrestrial radio is somewhat limited but we carry on nonetheless.

I am just now getting to my RSD releases. I am finishing off the Stooges Heavy Liquid 2LP set. It’s mostly stuff you have heard before but there are a couple of things that I am not aware of turning up on other releases. So many of these tracks have been flogged so many times, I don’t see the point but I guess there’s always someone like me who will keep showing up.

I hope you got a chance to check out the RSD record that Larry Hardy of In the Red Records and I put out, the Pure Hell 1975 Acetate. Both tracks unreleased, only one copy of the source. Now, THAT’S a Record Store Day release, Fanatic. I think there are some left at Midheaven: https://www.midheaven.com/item/wild-one-courageous-cat-by-pure-hell.

So far, we have not been canned, so I am guessing that we will be back with you next week! Until then, fire up the stereo and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Levitations – Mallorca / Typical Girls
02. Lemmy & the WM3 Alliance Band - Thirsty & Miserable / Rise Above
03. Vibrant Thigh - Walking Away / Unzipping the Abstract
04. CFM - The Set Up / Dichotomy Desaturated
05. The Warmers - Totally Free / Wanted: More
06. Rites of Spring - Deeper Than Inside / End On End
07. Summer Flake - Number One / Time Rolls By
08. Antelope – Flower / Reflector
06. Chain & The Gang - What Is A Dollar? / Best of Crime Rock
07. The Scientists - You Only Live Twice / Absolute  
08. Mark Robinson - Full-Length Taffeta Gown / Tiger Banana
09. Birthday Party - Sonny’s Burning / Bad Seed EP
10. New York Dolls - Looking for a Kiss / New York Dolls
11. Palms - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again / Stepbrothers
12. Dog Chocolate - I Don’t Know / Snack Fans
13. Zig Zags - Voices of the Paranoid / Zig Zags

Hour 2
01. Frederick Michael St. Jude - Babe, Ya Let My Hand Go / Almost Lost
02. David Bowie - No Plan / No Plan EP
03. The Enzymes – Speedwash / (Live @ Madam’s Organ 06-12-79)  
04. Ty Segall - Connection Man / Manipulator
05. Damaged Bug - Liquid Desert / Bunker Funk
06. Lightnin’ Hopkins - Mojo Hand / Mojo Hand
07. Slim - It’s In the Mix / 12” 
08. Empire - Him or Me / Expensive Sound
09. The UK Subs - Party In Paris / Punk Singles Collection
10. The Ruts - Demolition Dancing / Grin and Bear It
11. The Vibrators - Whips & Furs / Pure Mania
12. The Lurkers - New Guitar In Town / single
13. The Fall - Garden / Perverted by Language

RADIO BROADCAST #422 04-30–17

Fanatic! Kind of strange not having a guest after two in a row. We are now somewhat back to “normal.’ 

A great show. After a few drafts, I finalized the order and listened down to both hours and I really liked it.

You will see that we have new David Bowie, from the No Plan EP. The songs are great and we will be playing all of them.

Next week, we will be starting in on some great music by FM St. Jude, otherwise known as our good pal and sonic ally, Fred. We have listened to him a lot over the years, ever since we heard Here Am I and of course Gang War. There is a limited release of some songs that almost got lost forever, appropriately titled Almost Lost. It’s great stuff and we will be rocking all those tracks in the weeks coming up. A crazy story behind the tracks that is included in packaging. Here’s your info: http://www.dragcity.com/products/almost-lost

Iggy Pop is awarded the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters medal:  
http://www.clashmusic.com/news/iggy-pop-receives-french-honour

I hope you had a good RSD. Larry at In the Red and I were relieved to see our Pure Hell release go out into the world. Hopefully, they all found good homes. I am so happy about the way the record turned out. We are trying to come up with something as cool for next year.

We hope you the show. Until next week, great listening and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Sonic’s Rendezvous Band - Electrophonic Tonic / Too Much Crank
02. Sickidz - No Reason To Complain / No Reason to Complain
03. Jungle Nausea – Sympathy / Untitled
04. Juanita Y Los Feos – Vallecas / Typical Girls Vol. 2
05. Pan Ron - Why Follow Me / Cambodian Rocks IV
06. Dinosaur Jr. - Out There / Where You Been
07. The Birthday Party - Kiss Me Black / Junkyard
08. UK Subs - You Don’t Belong / Diminished Responsibility
09. Terakaft – Talikoba / Aratan N Azawad
10. Buzzcocks - Real World / Love Bites
11. The Adverts - My Place / Cast of Thousands
12. Wire - French Film Blurred / Chairs Missing
13. Iggy Pop - Mass Production / The Idiot

Hour 2
01. David Bowie - Killing a Little Time (F bomb @ 1:00) / No Plan EP
02. The Gun Club - St. John’s Divine / Pastoral Hide and Seek
03. Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds - Goldin Browne / Gorilla Rose
04. David Lynch - Say It / The Big Dream
05. Julee Cruise - This is Our Night / The Voice of Love
06. Suicide - Power au Go-Go / American Supreme
07. Rob - Your Kiss Stole Me Away / Funky Rob Way
08. Serge Gainsbourg - Premiers Symptômes / L’ Homme A Tete De Chou
09. Deadboy and the Elephantmen - Stop, I’m Already Dead / We Are Night Sky
10. The Young Prisms - Midnight’s When / In Between
11. Le Butcherettes - The Actress That Ate Rousseau / Sin Sin Sin
12. Height / Dismay - Girl From Ipanema / Terrace Industry : M Squared Box 1980 – 1983
13. The Ruts - The Crack / Punk Singles Collection

RADIO BROADCAST #421 04-23–17

Fanatic! Remember last week when we had no songs listed because we wanted the facts to let themselves be known as they were happening? Have you ever seen a sentence that ran on that badly? What? Like so many others I’ve written? I’m sure you’re right. Anyway, Fanatic, this show is going to be a great one as our guest will be the one and only Ian MacKaye. 

We were on the phone a few weeks ago and he asked if we could do a show together while he was in Los Angeles. You might remember, we’ve done this before and it’s always a good time. Ian got to work putting together the music. He sent me the tracks several days ago and they’re all great. I asked him why he chose these particular ones. He told me they were from bands we saw at shows together. This should be great for excellent music and good stories. 

I hope you had a chance to catch last week’s show with Mr. Seymour Stein. What a great guy. I still can’t believe he was on the show!

If at all possible, try to catch Ian and I on this show coming up. He’s one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met and has an incredible memory, so it should be another great one. 

Here is the information for the record Larry Hardy and I have been waiting to release for months. RSD is upon us and here is what the two of us have ready for you: https://intheredrecords.com/blogs/news/pure-hell

Thanks in advance and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi