Freak Scene Favorites of 2023

• Madison – Smoking Popes – Madison single 2023
• Future Is Dumb – Jeff Rosenstock – Hellmode 2023
• Frenzy – Iggy Pop – Every Loser 2023
• Fallout – Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World 2023
• The Slab – Slowdive – Everything Is Alive 2023
• St. Charles Square – Blur – The Ballad Of Darren 2023
• City Of Angels – Ladytron – Time’s Arrow 2023
• Magic Powers – Death Valley Girls – Islands In The Sky 2023
• By The River – The Crystal Teardrop – By The River single 2023
• Juliet Naked – Belle and Sebastian – Late Developers 2023
• I Can Do It For You – Teleman – Good Time/Hard Time 2023
• Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies – The New Pornographers – Continue As A Guest 2023
• Today (featuring Kim Deal) – Big Joanie – Today single 2023
• The Scandal – Shangri-Lass – Over & Over 2023
• Bus Of Love – Solid Freex – Solid Freex 2023
• Gone Astray – Rahill – Flowers At Your Feet 2023
• Stumbling Still – Nation Of Language – Strange Disciple 2023
• Not Tonight – Pip Blom – Bobbie 2023
• Fun In Hi Skool – Protomartyr – Formal Growth In The Desert 2023
• Sleazy – Adulkt Life – There Is No Desire 2023
• Tilldipper – Sleaford Mods – UK Grim 2023
• When Memories Snow – Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We 2023
• Ten Dead – Wilco – Cousin 2023
• Back To The Light – Teenage Fanclub – Nothing Lasts Forever 2023
• Kissing Embers – Cult of Lip – Marsha 2023
• Escape – Tanukichan – Gizmo 2023
• Wrong Side – Tourist Activities – Wrong Side/Oh For One single 2023
• Throw Of The Dice – Sweeping Promises – Good Living Is Coming For You 2023
• Are You Paying Attention – The Blips – The Blips Again 2023
• I Made A Work Of Art – Swansea Sound – Twentieth Century 2023
• Meds – Wristwatch – Wristwatch II 2023
• For Some Other Reason – Mac Krol – For Some Other Reason single 2023
• I Fucked It Up – Sparklehorse – Bird Machine 2023
• Band With No Head – The No Ones – My Best Evil Friend 2023
• The All Or Nothings – The Baseball Project – Grand Salami Time 2023
• Mile Marker 29 – The Bad Ends – The Power And The Glory 2023
• Soft Like A Flower – Cherry Glazerr – I Don’t Want You Anymore 2023
• Bath Country – Wednesday – Rat Saw God 2023
• my little tony – bar italia – The Twits 2023
• Romeo Surgeon – Guided By Voices – Welshpool Frillies 2023
• Days Move Slow – Bully – Lucky For You 2023
• 10. $20 – boygenius -the record 2023
• 9. Ranch vs. Ranch – Speedy Ortiz – Rabbit Rabbit 2023
• 8. Little Coy Space Boy – The Bug Club – Green Dream in F# 2023
• 7. Back In Your Tree – Quasi – Breaking The Balls Of History 2023
• 6. Love Is A Rich Man – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Council Skies 2023
• 5. Independence Day – Palehound – Eye On The Bat 2023
• 4. Cruel Gun – pardoner – Peace Loving People 2023
• 3. Glare – Deeper – Careful! 2023
• 2. Wolves In Phase – Flat Worms – Witness Marks 2023
• 1. Crossed That Line – Ratboys – The Window 2023

Favorites of 2022

Listen to Hour 1: Freak Scene Favorites of 2022

Listen to Hour 2: Freak Scene Favorites of 2022

Listen to Hour 3: Freak Scene Favorites of 2022

• Jackie Down The Line – Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia 2022
• Transmitter – Sea Power – Everything Was Forever 2022
• Lusitania – Weird Nightmare – Weird Nightmare 2022

• It’s Your Boy – M. Ross Perkins – E Pluribus M Ross 2022
• Aftershook – Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace 2022
• Atwood – Graham Hunt – If You Know Would You Believe It 2022
• Meandering Scar – Combat Naps – Coalmine Bud 2022

• Time – Pom Poko – This Is Our House 2022
• Goggle By Rank – Guided By Voices – Tremblers And Goggles By Rank 2022
• Farewell, OK – Elvis Costello & The Imposters – The Boy Named If 2022

• Don’t Ask Me – Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever 2022
• Rewind – Whimsical – Melt 2022
• Breadcrumbs – Seablite – Breadcrumbs c/w Ink Bleeds 2022

• I Lied To The Doctor – The Figgs – Chemical Shake 2022
• Undigested Parts – Elf Power – Artificial Countrysides 2022
• I Say A Lot Of Things – The Boo Radleys – Keep On With The Falling 2022

• Helicopter Parents – Able Baker – Helicopter Parents/Tornado Alley Single 2022
• Working For The Knife – Mitski – Laurel Hell 2022
• Wall Of Sound – The Catenary Wires – Under The Bridge, a Skep Wax Records Compilation 2022

• Tenement Time – Johnny Marr – Fever Dreams Pts. 1-4 2022
• Unnecessary Drama – Belle and Sebastian – A Bit Of Previous 2022
• There’s A Moon On – Pixies – Doggerel 2022

• Oh! – The Linda Lindas – Growing Up 2022
• Self Portrait – Life – North East Coastal Town 2022
• Das bin ich nicht – L’appel Du Vide – Abwärtsspiralen 2022

• Gary Ashby – Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork 2022
• The Frequency Of Fear – The Casual Dots – Sanguine Truth 2022
• Get Away From Me – Heavy Looks – Apathy 2022

• The Sir Tommy Shovell – Robyn Hitchcock – Shufflemania! 2022
• This Time – Disq – Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet 2022
• Downtown Area Blues – Kiwi Jr – Chopper 2022

• The Incident – Yard Act – The Overload 2022
• The Hardest Cut – Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa 2022
• Tennis – Courting – Guitar Music 2022

• Wildlife – Scrunchies – Feral Coast 2022
• The Game – Sports Team – Gulp 2022
• American Weirdos – Hurry Up – Dismal Nitch 2022

• Don’t Wait For Me – Reptaliens – Multiverse 2022
• Scratch The Surface – Sloan – Steady 2022
• Manchester Rain – Buzzcocks – Sonics In The Soul 2022

• Up To My Elbows – The Stroppies – Levity 2022
• Any Day Now – Jeanines – Don’t Wait For A Sign 2022
• Jim’ll Fix It – Mick Trouble – It’s Mick Trouble’s Second LP 2022

• 10. Pressed – Alvvays – Blue Rev 2022
• 9. Refracting – Superchunk – Wild Loneliness 2022
• 8. Freak Out – The Paranoyds – Talk Talk Talk 2022

• 7. Two Dollar Beer – Dropper – Don’t Talk To Me 2022
• 6. A Passing Rain – The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field 2022
• 5. Option 8 – Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance 2022

• 4. Statuette On The Console – Bodega – Broken Equipment 2022
• 3. Empires Falling – The Black Angels – Wilderness of Mirrors 2022
• 2. Training Montage – The Mountain Goats – Bleed Out 2022
• 1. Angelica – Wet Leg – Wet Leg 2022

Kristin Hersh Interview February 2007

Kristin Hersh Interview – Freak Scene – February 2007

1. 50 Foot Wave 0:00-2:00
2. The Internet 2:00-3:40
3. Guitars/Songs 3:40-5:35
4. Learn To Sing Like A Star 5:35-8:25
5. Sugarbaby-Live Acoustic Performance 8:25-11:05
6. Spam and Dr. Seuss 11:05-12:15
7. Nerve Endings-Live Acoustic Performance 12:15-15:25
8. David Narcizo/Tanya Donnelly/Throwing Muses 15:25-18:30
9. “I could hear music again…the underground is so vivid” 18:30-23:09

Freak Scene Favorite New Music from Kristin in 2022:

“Throwing Muses hover viscerally like thunderclouds…simultaneously impacting & impenetrable…Derived from gristly guitars, a thick low end, mild psychedelia and impressionistic lyrics, Throwing Muses’ toughness largely carries Sun Racket.” – riff magazine.com

Thanks for listening

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Freak Scene 5/6/22

Listen to Hour 1: Airdate 5-6-22

Listen to Hour 2: Airdate 5-6-22

• Positively Freaking – Frontier Ruckus – Enter the Kingdom 2017
• Hot Freaks – Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand 1994
• Cool Scene – The Dandy Warhols – Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia 2000
• Freak In The Streets – The Untouchables – Wild Child 1985

• Totally Freaked Out – Bettie Serveert – Lamprey 1995
• Final Scene – Delta 5 – Singles & Sessions 1979-81 1981
• Misfits and Freaks – The Courettes – Back In Mono 2021

• Panda and The Freak – The Baseball Project – Vol. 2 High and Inside 2011
• Cause A Scene – The Goodnight Loving – The Goodnight Loving 2008
• Control Freak – Priests – The Seduction Of Kansas 2019

• B-Boys Makin’ With The Freak Freak – Beastie Boys – Ill Communication 1994
• The Scene Between – The Go! Team – The Scene Between 2015
• Freak Freely – Hanni El Khatib – Savage Times 2017
• A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene – Okkervil River – The Stage Names 2007
• Freakshow – The Cure – 4:13 Dream 2008

• Freakshow – The Gothic Archies – The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series Of Unfortunate Events 2006
• Time Just Freaks Me Out – The Mommyheads – Swiss Army Knife 2022
• Freak Magnet – L7 – Hungry For Stink 1994

• Freakin’ & Peakin’ – Luna – Penthouse 1995
• One With The Freaks – The Notwist – Neon Golden 2002
• Freaks – Soul Asylum – While You Were Out 1986

• Freak Accident – Boy Girl Boy Girl – Sugar Skull Maker 2005
• Popscene – Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish 1992
• Land Of The Freak – King Khan & The Shrines – The Supreme Genius Of King Khan & The Shrines 2008

• Freak Out – The Muffs – Really Really Happy 2004
• This Scene – Bridge Club – The Scorched Capsule 2006
• New Scene – The Fleshtones – Hexbreaker! 1983
• Freak Magnet – Violent Femmes – Freak Magnet 2005

• Freaks to The Front – Amyl and the Sniffers – Comfort To Me 2021
• Freakin Out – Death – For the Whole World To See 2009
• Free & Freaky – The Stooges – The Weirdness 2007
• Freaks In Charge – Superchunk – Old Enough to Know Better: 15 Years Of Merge Records 2004
• What’s My Scene – Hoodoo Gurus – Blow Your Cool 1987
• Freak Scene – Dinosaur Jr – Bug 1988

• Psychobilly Freakout – Reverend Horton Heat – Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em 1991

Favorites of 2002

Listen to Hour 1: Airdate 4-29-22

Listen to Hour 2: Airdate 4-29-22

• Neon Golden – The Notwist – Neon Golden 2002
• Lost Cause – Beck – Sea Change – 2002
• Do You Realize?? – The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 2002

• America V. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do) – Steve Earle – Jerusalem 2002
• Personal Jesus – Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around 2002
• Who’s Your Daddy, Little Girl? – Jim & Jennie And The Pinetops – One More In The Cabin 2002

• Sorrow- Bad Religion – The Process Of Belief 2002
• Baudelaire – …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – Source Tags & Codes 2002
• Do You Understand? – The Apples In Stereo – Velocity Of Sound 2002
• Julie, Did I – The Returnables – Unrequited Hits 2002
• Two Girls – Cinerama – Torino 2002

• Prisstina – Sleater-Kinney – One Beat 2002
• Metal Detector – The Figgs – Slow Charm 2002
• Ivanka – Imperial Teen – On 2002

• Look For Me (I’ll Be Around) – Neko Case – Blacklisted 2002
• Count Sheep – Enon – High Society 2002
• Blue Jeans – Ladytron – Light & Magic 2002

• Such Great Heights – The Postal Service – Give Up 2002
• Lost In Space – Aimee Mann – Lost In Space 2002
• The Creature – Elf Power – Creatures 2002

• Hey! – Faux Jean – Nature 2002
• You’re So Damn Hot – OK Go – OK Go 2002
• 10. Satisfy My Mind – The Greenhornes – Dual Mono 2002

• 9. Veronica Fever – The Raveonettes – Whip It On 2002
• 8. My Defiance – Comet Gain – Realistes 2002
• 7. Everywhere With Helicopter – Guided By Voices – Universal Truths And Cycles 2002
• 6. Bandages – Hot Hot Heat – Make Up The Breakdown 2002

• 5. The Execution Of All Things – Rilo Kiley – The Execution Of All Things 2002
• 4. Jonathan Fisk – Spoon – Kill The Moonlight 2002
• 3. You Held The World In Your Arms – Idlewild – The Remote Part 2002
• 2. PDA – Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights 2002

• 1. Heavy Metal Drummer – Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2002

• Steve Vai Boyfriend – The German Art Students – Kissing By The Superconductor 2002; Harmony Bar Fri 4/9

Freak Scene 4/22/22

Listen to Hour 1: Airdate 4-22-22

Listen to Hour 2: Airdate 4-22-22

• One More Dub – The Clash – Sandinista! 1980
• Films – Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle 1979
• A Word & A Wave – Nation Of Language – A Way Forward 2021

• The Cause – Laura Gibson – Empire Builder 2016
• The Last Cut de Sac – Black Lips – Satan’s Graffiti or God’s Art? 2017
• How Can I Help Ya – Bodega – Broken Equipment 2022

• You Make Me Nervous – The Returnables – So When Can I See You Again? 2005
• Acrid – The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers 2020
• Total Misfit – The Claudettes – Dance Scandal at the Gymnasium! 2018; North St. Carabaret Fri 4/22

• My Wife And My Dead Wife – Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – Catalog Sampler 1985
• Beatle Boots – Love Tractor – This Ain’t No Outer Space Ship 1987
• Land And The Life – The Lucy Show – Mania 1987
• Jetfighter – The Three O’Clock – Sixteen Tambourines 1983

• Russian Doll – Gully Boys – Favorite Son 2022; WUDstock, The Sett Sat 4/23
• White Smoke – Split Single – Metal Frames 2016
• Cogs – Minor Victories – Minor Victories 2016

• Must Try Harder – Mastersystem – Dance Music 2018
• Virgin – Crocodiles – Crimes of Passion 2013
• Charm Assault – Ride – Weather Diaries 2017

• Lights Go Out – New Model Army – The Ghost Of Cain 1986
• Let’s Break The Law – Anti-Nowhere League – Burning Ambitions: A History Of Punk Vol. 3 1982
• Ready, Steady, Go – Generation X – Perfect Hits 1975-1981 1978

• Remember – The Linda Lindas – Growing Up 2022
• Lose It – Supergrass – I Should Coco 1995
• Wildlife – Scrunchies – Feral Coast 2022

• Helicopter Parents – Able Baker – Helicopter Parents single 2022; High Noon Fri 4/22
• The Perfect Crime – The Stroppies – Levity 2022
• Too Late Now – Wet Leg – Wet Leg 2022

• Happy When It Rains – The Jesus And Mary Chain – Darklands 1987
• Sugarcube – Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One 1997
• Stoned And Starving – Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold 2012
• Time And Time Again – The Smithereens – Especially For You 1986

• Peeper McLurker – Knuckel Drager – You Do Better! 2008

Next week: Freak Scene Favorites of 2002.

Freak Scene 4/15/21

Listen to Hour 1: Airdate 4-15-22

Listen to Hour 2: Airdate 4-15-22

• First Week/Last week…Carefree – Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 1977
• Born Of Frustration – James – Seven 1992
• Blue – The Rain Parade – Emergency Third Rail Power Trip 1983

• It’s Your Boy – M Ross Perkins – E Pluribus M Ross 2022
• Picture Book – The Kinks – The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society 1968
• (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone – The Monkees – The Best Of The Monkees 1967; Overture Sat 4/16-Micky Dolenz Monkees Songs & Stories

• Groundhog Day – The Corin Tucker Band – Kill My Blues 2012
• The One – The Sugar Stems – Only Come Out At Night 2014
• Anti-glory – Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance 2022

• Capacity – Big Thief – Capacity 2017
• Accidents Will Happen – Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Armed Forces 1985
• Watch Your Step – Steve Wynn – Dekād: Rare & Unreleased Recordings 1995-2005

• The Good Earth – The Feelies – The Good Earth 1986
• Under Water – Hypnolovewheel – Angel Food 1992
• Quicksand Castle – Dirty Ghosts – Let It Pretend 2015

• Angelica – Wet Leg – Wet Leg 2022
• The Kids Are Alright – The Who – My Generation 1965
• Strange or Be Forgotten – Temples – Volcano 2017

• NYC (disambiguation) – Bodega – Broken Equipment 2022
• Do It Again – Camera Obscura – Desire Lines 2013
• Rich And Strange – Cud – Asquarius 1992
• On The Way Home – Sleeping In The Aviary – You and Me, Ghost 2011

• I Feel Fine – Reptaliens – Multiverse 2022
• Someone New – September Girls – Cursing The Sea 2014
• Challenger – American Music Club – Mercury 1993

• Anunnaki’s Blues – Treatment – Weeping House 2021: Mickey’s Tavern Fri 4/15 w/ Dogsblood and Sex Scenes
• What’s Inside Your Heart – Ty Segall Band – Live In San Francisco 2015
• Everytime I Eat Vegetables It Makes Me Think Of You – The Ramones – Subterranean Jungle 1983
• Mars Needs Guitars! – Hoodoo Gurus – Mars Needs Guitars!
• Racist, Sexist Boy – The Linda Lindas – Growing Up 2022

• I Want To Tell You About What I Want – Robyn Hitchcock – Robyn Hitchcock 2017; Stoughton Opera House Tue 4/19
• Sally Was A Legend – Robyn Hitchcock – Jewels For Sophia 1999
• Birds In Perspex – Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – Perspex Island 1991
• Adventure Rocket Ship – Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 – Olé! Tarantula 2006

• If You Were A Priest – Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – Element of Light 1986

Freak Scene 4/8/22

Listen to Hour 1: Airdate 4-8-22

Listen to Hour 2: Airdate 4-8-22

• Transmission – Low – Transmission EP 1996; High Noon Sat 4/9
• Time – Tom Waits – Rain Dogs 1985
• End – The Cure – Wish 1992

• Third Uncle – Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy 1974
• Are You Ready? – Wire – Object 47 2008
• Old World New World – INXS – Shabooh Shoobah 1982

• Tenement Time – Johnny Marr – Fever Dreams Pts. 1-4 2022
• Dream at Tempo 119 – Silversun Pickups – Carnavas 2006
• I Can See Through You – The Horrors – Skying 2011

• Oh! – The Linda Lindas – Growing Up 2022;
• That Girl – Dumb Vision – Dumb Vision 2016
• Black Egg – Scrunchies – Feral Coast 2022

• Touch Me I’m Sick – Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff 1988
• Green Shirt – Boss Hog – Boss Hog 1995
• Land Of The Freak – King Khan & The Shrines – The Supreme Genius of King Khan & The Shrines 2008

• The Gash – The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin 1999; The Sylvee Sat 4/9
• The Only One I Know – The Charlatans – Some Friendly 1990
• I Predict A Riot – Kaiser Chiefs – Employment 2005

• Bessie Goes Blonde II – Cribshitter – Acapulco 2015; Come Back In Sat 4/9 w/ Andy Moore
• Dougie Giro – The Toy Dolls – Dig That Groove Baby 1983
• Get Over You – The Undertones – The Very Best Of The Undertones 1979

• My Echo – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms 2022
• These Important Years – Husker Du – Warehouse: Songs And Stories 1987
• Up To My Elbows – The Stroppies – Levity 2022

• Drown – Son Volt – Trace 1995
• You Won’t See Me – The Beatles – Rubber Soul 1965
• Blister In The Sun – Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes 1982

• Pillar On The Bridge Of You – Bodega – Broken Equipment 2022
• I Just Can’t Be Happy Today – The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette 1979
• Hidden In A Heartbeat – The Elvis Brothers – Movin’ Up 1983
• A Million Miles Away – The Plimsouls – Everywhere At Once 1983

• Defcon 5 – Man or Astroman? – Defcon 5…4…3…2…1 2013

Freak Scene 3/25/22

Listen to Hour 1: Airdate 3-25-22

Listen to Hour 2: Airdate 3-25-22

• Modern Love Stories – Beach House – Once Twice Melody 2022
• Konichiwa Internet – Disq – Collector 2020
• I Don’t Care – Dem Atlas – Live at WSUM Vol. 2 2015

• Anti-glory – Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance 2022
• Tidal River – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms 2022
• Statuette On The Console – Bodega – Broken Equipment 2022

• One Too Many Mornings – The Hitchhikers – Garagemental! The Cuca Records Story Vol. 2 1967
• My My – Reigning Sound – Shattered 2014
• Penelope Halfpenny – Elvis Costello & the Imposters – The Boy Named If 2022

• Coat Check Dream Song – Bright Eyes – Cassadaga 2007; The Sylvee Fri 3/25
• Stornoway – St Christopher – Under The Bridge 2022
• Roll December – White Lies – As I Try Not To Fall Apart 2022

• Enduro Corner – Pom Poko – This Is Our House 2022
• Date With Ikea – Pavement – Brighten The Corners 1997
• The Perfect Crime – The Stroppies – Levity 2022 May 6

• Russian Doll – Gully Boys – Favorite Son 2022
• Clock Strikes Ten – Cheap Trick – In Color 1997; Start at :12
• Refracting – Superchunk – Wild Loneliness 2022

• What Do You Mean? – Dear Mr. Watterson – Confusion Perfected 2021; w/ Or Does It Explode at Dark Horse Art Bar Sat 3/26
• The Final Word – The Feelies – Only Life 1988
• Huddled – Guided By Voices – Crystal Nuns Cathedral 2022

• Static King – Dead Horse One – When Love Runs Dry 2022
• Sacrifice (for Love) (Greg Sage) – Wednesday – Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’em Up 2022
• Take It – Reptaliens – Multiverse 2022

• Time Escaping – Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 2022
• Potholes In My Lawn – De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising 1989
• Wild – Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa 2022

• Breadcrumbs – Seablite – Breadcrumbs c/w Ink Bleeds 2022
• Allison – Pixies – Bossanova 1990
• The New Sensation – Idles – Crawler 2021
• Family Entertainment – The Undertones – The Very Best Of The Undertones 1979
• Morning After – Buzzcocks – Buzzcocks 2003
• Totally Evil Powers – Pardoner – Came Down Different 2021

• Psyko – Laika & The Cosmonauts – Instruments of Terror 1993