RADIO BROADCAST #913 10-02-26   Fanatic! I hope you had a great week. We had a few days of autumn weather, but then like some cruel joke, the temperatures went back up into the low 90s.&nbs...

RADIO BROADCAST #912 09-25-26   Fanatic! I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to October. Where I’m located, the heat seems to be gone for the year.    This is our last Sept...

RADIO BROADCAST #911 09-18-26   Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and that the temperatures were cooler than they've been where I am. Not trying to complain, but I’m done with 90° plus weathe...

RADIO BROADCAST #910 09-11–26 Fanatic. I hope you had a great week. Over the last several weeks I’ve been giving listening time priority to 7” records. Now I’ve got a small stack of LPs I need...

RADIO BROADCAST #909 09-04-26   Fanatic! Here we are in a new season. I don’t know what the calendar is saying but as far as I’m concerned, it’s autumn. It hit 95° where I am today.   ...

RADIO BROADCAST #908 08-28–26 Fanatic. I hope you had a positively grand week and made time to play a lot of music. Here’s some of what I got up to in the last few days. 08-20-26 The We...

RADIO BROADCAST #907 08-21–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and managed to get some listening in. I am doing my best to keep chewing through all the 7”records that have accumulated on m...

RADIO BROADCAST #906 08-14-26 Fanatic! I hope you had a spectacular week filled with music and healthy levels of hydration. Extremely hot where I am. I’ve been doing a thing I’ve come to look ...

RADIO BROADCAST #905 08-07-26 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and the weather was not too hot for you. I just returned from the gym where in this weather, I keep sweating for about half a...

RADIO BROADCAST #904 07-31–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a tremendous week and that the weather was not too oppressive. I’ve been keeping up on trying to get some 7”s listened to. Some of these, ...

RADIO BROADCAST #903 07-24–26 Fanatic. I hope you had a great week. Jennifer Finch of the band L7 passed away a few days ago. She was smart, funny and fearless. Her passing is a huge loss. The...

RADIO BROADCAST #902 07-17–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and had some time to get some listening in. This is a partial list of what I got up to over the last several days. 07-10-...

RADIO BROADCAST #901 07-10–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week. I’ve been trying to catch up on 7” listening. I have a cool set up at my desk that allows me to move to my right and put on ...

RADIO BROADCAST #900 07-03–26 Fanatic! If you’re listening to the show within the borders of the USA, you’re in place for a major holiday weekend. If you’re east of the Mississippi River, you ...

RADIO BROADCAST #899 06-26–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and were able to get some music played. I listened to the new J Zunz album Obsidiana a few nights ago. I found it to be very ...

RADIO BROADCAST #898 06-19–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week. I’m pretty jammed with work and press obligations right now. I just noticed that the sun is setting and I’ve got to put some...

RADIO BROADCAST #897 06-12–26 Fanatic! Depending where you are in the world, you might be experiencing warm to hot weather. For example, Australia is in winter. At the time of this writing, be...

RADIO BROADCAST #896 06-05–26 Fanatic! You will hopefully be overjoyed to know it’s June and the frogs are back. A brief glance below will show you that we start this amazing month with the th...

RADIO BROADCAST #895 05-29–26   Fanatic, you might remember over the last several weeks, I’ve been telling you about a record Larry Hardy, Ian and I had been working on. Not the excellent U.K...

RADIO BROADCAST #894 05-22–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and got some music listened to. For the last few days, I’ve been not sleeping and moving around the country via airplane. There’...

RADIO BROADCAST #893 05-15–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a fantastic and music-filled week. I’ve been in an almost perpetual state of desknosis. I just looked up to see that the sun was setting. ...

RADIO BROADCAST #891 05-08–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a tremendous week of tolerable temperatures and life-affirming listening. Here is some of what I checked out. Spitting Image - Full Su...

RADIO BROADCAST #891 05-01–26   Fanatic! I hope you had a tremendous week. Last night, I listened to the new SUNN 0))) album that just came out on Sub Pop. It sounds incredible. If you like the ...

RADIO BROADCAST #890 04-24–26 Fanatic! What a week. Early Sunday morning, I drove down to Miami to work with my old pal, Susie J. If that name is at all familiar, it’s because her photographs ...

RADIO BROADCAST #889 04-17–26 0947 hrs. Fanatic! The power has been out in my neighborhood for about 14 hours. One day, probably not soon enough for my liking, my town will master this whole e...

RADIO BROADCAST #888 04-10–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and got some records listened to. I very much enjoyed hearing the new Continuals album on vinyl and have the new album by Sunn 0))) lined up for the weekend.  Over the last few weeks, I’ve been recommending a lot

RADIO BROADCAST #887 04-03–26 Fanatic. I hope you had a tremendous week and are gearing up for an even better weekend. I’ve been slightly off my game over the last few days as far as getting t...

RADIO BROADCAST #886 03-27-26 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week. I’ve been getting some good listening in. Here are a few titles. I just heard. Stephen R Smith – Olive The Stooges – Me...

RADIO BROADCAST #885 03-20–26 Fanatic. I would like to note the passing of Tim Harrison, a man I knew for decades. He drove the bus on many tours I did all over North America. I got the word h...

RADIO BROADCAST #884 03-13-26 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week. I just finished driving a van full of things for 30 hours and 44 minutes, with a break of 10 minutes of sleep at a truckstop...

RADIO BROADCAST #883 03-06–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a tremendous week. It looks from all the budding trees in my neighborhood, that spring is underway. I don’t mind having the cold weather b...

RADIO BROADCAST #882 02-27–26 Fanatic! I hope your week was stellar. I got some great listening in when I wasn’t proofreading. These three stand out. Boris - Live Noise Alive (red, bl...

RADIO BROADCAST #881 02-20–26   Fanatic! Happy Friday. I hope you’ve been able to listen to great music since last week. I’ve been doing marathon proofreading and editing sessions that go from w...

RADIO BROADCAST #880 02-13–26 Fanatic! I hope you had a tremendous week and had a chance to listen to some good records. Here are a few to look forward to. Ekko Astral has a new album call...

RADIO BROADCAST #879 02-06–26 Fanatic! Happy February. I hope the weather isn’t giving you too much hassle. Depending on where you are, you might be baking, listening to your teeth chattering ...

RADIO BROADCAST #878 01-30–26   Fanatic! I’m going to apologize in advance for the brevity of these notes. I am well into day number five of no electricity. Snow, fallen trees, downed powerlines...

RADIO BROADCAST #877 01-23–26 Fanatic! It looks like parts of the USA might be in for some rough weather over the weekend. Depending on where you live, you might find yourself in the supermark...

RADIO BROADCAST #876 01-16–26 Fanatic! Finally, it can be told. Several weeks ago, our good pal and sonic ally, not to mention one of my heroes for decades, the one and only Gaye Advert wrote ...

RADIO BROADCAST #875 01-09–26 Fanatic! Here we are, together again for the second time this year with what you will hopefully find to be a fantastic gathering of tunes. I am momentarily si...

RADIO BROADCAST #874 01-02–26 Fanatic! Here we are, right at the beginning of the new year. There are lots of good records coming out over the next several months and when the time is right, w...

RADIO BROADCAST #873 12-26–25 Fanatic! I think the holiday season means different things to different people. I didn’t see any humans today and the weather was unseasonably warm, so it was mor...

RADIO BROADCAST #872 12-19–25 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and if you’re one to celebrate the holidays, I hope you have your travel plans in order. Many tours I’ve been on would end ri...

RADIO BROADCAST #871 12-12–25   Fanatic! I hope you had a great week. I had a chance to listen to the live Boris album Pink Days a couple of nights ago. So far, there was a very limited pre...

RADIO BROADCAST #870 12-05–25 Fanatic! There was a bit of snow in my neighborhood today. I just got a bag of raw shelled peanuts, and left some out on the back porch for the squirrels early th...

RADIO BROADCAST #869 11-28–25 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and weren’t subjected to unwanted holiday intrusions.  The first memorable Thanksgiving I can remember was in the ye...

RADIO BROADCAST #868 11-21–25 Fanatic! I hope the week was not too bruising and that you had the occasion to check out some great music. I’ve been getting some good listening in. It’s around t...

RADIO BROADCAST #867 11-14–25 Fanatic! I hope November’s been treating you well. I’ve been supplying the two crazy squirrels in my backyard raw almonds for most of this year. Up until a few we...

RADIO BROADCAST #866 11-07–25 Fanatic! Here we are together again for our second Friday. I hope you dug last week’s show and are okay with our new time slot. Before anything else, I think ...

RADIO BROADCAST #865 10–31–25 Fanatic! Check out our new time slot. This has been in the works for quite a while. As you might know, there’s been some changes at KCRW. This is a brief article ...