Wow Wow Wow Whig Out! Tune in at 8pm Eastern, 4 Pacific for tonight's Whig Out! Right after The Real Nitty Gritty! We've got our usual heaping helping of garage topped off with some Dutch Beat, a sprinkling of psych and a dash of beat!
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Wow Wow Wow Whig Out!
Wow Wow Wow Whig Out! Tune in at 8pm Eastern, 4 Pacific for tonight's Whig Out! Right after The Real Nitty Gritty! We've got our usual heaping helping of garage topped off with some Dutch Beat, a sprinkling of psych and a dash of beat!
Traveling Soul
Be the first person to name the distribution company started by John Abbey for the Curtom Record Company out of Atlanta, Ga. Winner will receive a copy of Traveling Soul The Life of Curtis Mayfield. Written by Todd Mayfield with Travis Atria. If you'd like to know who the people in the slideshow are, pick up a copy of the book. It's fantastic. Curtis Mayfield forever, Amen.
Mish Mash Real Nitty Gritty
Mish Mash record party with The Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7:00PM ET on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul ICHIBAN! Savage R&B, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, greasy rockabilly & sleazy instrotrash platters! then Whig Out! at 8:00
Playlist and pop up player here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Heavy Distortions! Brand New Reverberations, Gentle Cycle, Fogbound & more on the Fringe Factory!
Tonight's The Fringe Factory Radio Show with DJ Vikki Vaden features brand spankin' new music from The Reverberations, The Gentle Cycle, Fogbound & more! Plus lots of fuzzy & groovy garage & pysch nuggets. Catch it at 8pm ET or the archived version after right here on the playlist page: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/71203
Georgia Girls on Crayons To Perfume!
Today it's the remarkable Georgia Girls on Crayons to Perfume! featuring Gladys Knight and the Pips, Sandy Gaye, Nancy Broom, the Ravenettes and many may more. Liz Lands was Georgia's Motown Girl in the 60's - under appreciated, she had a long road to the stardom she never really attained - a unique voice most suitable for the gospel and praise music she grew up singing, Liz turned to secular music as a way to become independent. There is a great interview with Liz below, make sure you check it out. She is a great character and had a very interesting life, including a stint as a Freedom singer for Martin Luther King. Tune in to Crayons to Perfume! today at 7pm for Georgia Girls, and then stay tuned for the Fringe Factory at 8.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Happy Valentines Day!
The Electras - Ten Steps To Love
Wilson Picket - Everybody Needs Someone To Love
Love
Jean Shepard - Just Give Me Love
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Alright With Me!!! The Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7:00PM ET on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul ICHIBAN!
Alright With Me -- The Real Nitty Gritty -- tonight at 7:00PM ET on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul ICHIBAN! Savage R&B, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, greasy rockabilly & sleazy instrotrash platters! then Whig Out! at 8:00
Playlist and pop up player here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Hidden Volume Field Trip South!
Attention all rock n roll freaks!
Are You Gonna Be There?!?!
February 24 and 25th in Orlando, Florida at Will's Pub is the place to be!
Baltimore's Hidden Volume, the impeccable label saving the garage-rock'n'roll scene for people like you and me, is throwing a party that'll be outta site!
Friday February 24
The Little Richards (San Diego)
The Hatebombs (Orlando)
Subsonics (Atlanta)
The Woolly Bushmen (Orlando)
The Wildtones (Orlando)
Little Sheba & the Shamans (Tampa)
Saturday February 25
Southern Culture On the Skids (Chapel Hill)
The Woggles (Atlanta)
The Ar-Kaics (Richmond)
The Schizophonics (San Diego)
Midnight Larks (Atlanta)
The Stents (Baltimore)
The BellTowers (Orlando)
WFMU Ichiban DJs Vikki Vaden, Dave Ewing and Matt Clarke spin the wax!
Will's Pub
1042 N. Mills Avenue
Orlando, Florida
Buy your tickets now!
https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1399233
This Sunday on DJ Roulette, DJ Pat K returns with another edition of "Make With The Shake" from 11am to 12pm EST. Tune at wfmu.org (or via WFMU's swanky custom mobile app for iPhone or Android) for a Sunday morning dose of the finest 45rpm rock & soul hipshakers, guaranteed to scramble your eggs, burn your toast, and pop your percolator!
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Penny Valentines Day! Crayons to Perfume!
Crayons to Perfume! is celebrating Penny Valentine, the first lady of rock journalism by playing the ladies she loved. In the mid-60's, Penny got her start reviewing records and conducting interviews with the beat and pop scene in the UK, eventually focusing a lot on her favorite soul artists of the US, helping them gain strong careers in the UK. You can read some of her articles from the 60's and 70's on the Rock's Back Pages website Tune in at 7 pm this evening to hear Penny's girls and even a record Penny cut herself!
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Whig Out!
We're back again, today at 8pm, right after The Real Nitty Gritty (at 7pm) as always with wild garage, a touch of psych, a bit of jangle with Richard & The Young Lions, The Troggs, Electric Healing Sound, the Masonics, Painted Ship, and the Molochs plus many more! Check us out here at 8pm Eastern, 5 Pacific and then in the archive shortly afterwards.
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Whig Out! Maximum Fuzz & Freaky Beats!
Hello Liz! Are you a freak? Rogues, Devil worshipers, junk food addicts, jive turkeys, and of course Hangmen all today on the Whig Out! at 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific right after a whompin' good time with the Real Nitty Gritty!
The Real Nitty Gritty! tonight at 7:00
Playlist and pop up player here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
People! LET's FREAK OUT! at the Fringe Factory!
People...LET's FREAK OUT!! Time are changin' BUT there's a party in 1969 and you're invited! This week features more 60s underground garage, heavy headbangers & psychedelic sounds with J Vikki Vaden! Playlist & comments here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/70840
Tune in and TURN IT UP!
Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Crayons to Perfume!
Today at 7 on Crayons to Perfume! It's the 4th in the Decca Darlings series with an hour of Goldie & The Gingerbreads! The Gingerbreads were one of the very first all-girl bands signed to a major label in the 60's which took them from the US to the UK and back again with records not only for Decca, but Fontana, Immediate and Atco too. We'll hear pre-Gingerbreads and also solo records from the girls as well. Tune in right here, and check out the Gingerbreads in action (singing a song they came to hate)!!
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Anesthesia -- The Real Nitty Gritty!
Playlist and pop up player here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Put Yer Dukes Up! and Whig Out!
Southern California vs Northern California today on the Whig Out! Tune in at 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific right here right after The Real Nitty Gritty and dig the Harbinger Complex, Rubber Maze, The Hurricanes and many more plus freak-outs and some jangle!
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
International Decca Girls at 7pm on Crayons to Perfume!
Today, as part of a series of shows dedicated to the Darlings of Decca, it's International Girls with some girl group sounds, garage-y numbers & quirky weirdness featuring schlager swingers, ye ye yummies, and beat babes from all over the world. If you missed the first two segments, check out the Crayons to Perfume! archive and tune in here at 7pm for International Decca Darlings.
Sunday, January 15, 2017
The Real Nitty Gritty! tonight at 7:00
Gonna Catch Me A Rat -- The Real Nitty Gritty -- tonight at 7:00PM ET on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul ICHIBAN! Savage R&B, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, greasy rockabilly & sleazy instrotrash platters! then Whig Out! at 8:00
Playlist and pop up player here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
In the Midnight Hour The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett
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| Courtesy of Maxwell Pickett/Wilson Pickett Jr. Legacy LLC |
If you've never seen Wilson Pickett live in Germany from 1969, stop everything and turn on youtube.
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Wicked. Chicken. Tonight at 7:00 on Ichiban
Playlist and pop up player here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Sunday Morning Shake! DJ Pat K on DJ Roulette
Sunday morning on DJ Roulette, DJ Pat K returns with another episode of Make With The Shake! Seriously shakin' rock & soul guaranteed to spill your coffee and send your flapjacks flying! Tune in at 11AM EST on wfmu.org!
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Decca Darlings
Decca Darlings - the first in a series of shows featuring the girls of Decca Records and their subsidiary's, begins with the inaugural show this evening at 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific, on Crayons to Perfume! Featuring Decca Beat Girl 45s from the UK, and we'll hear Maryanne Faithful, Antoinette, Louise Cordet, Lady Lee, Dodie West and many more - and in the following weeks tune in to hear international Decca dames and girl groups. Thanks to recent compilations like The Girls Scene and Love Hit Me! we know more about the Decca girls today, than we ever did before. Tune in for Decca Darlings - UK beat girls here!
Here's Dana Gillespie from her 1969 LP on Decca Box of Suprises, and her version of the Hollies Pay You Back With Interest (previously released on a Pye 45 in 1967)
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Whatcha Gonna Do
Playlist and pop up player here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Whig Out! gets Organized!
Today on the Whig Out at 8pm (right after the Real Nitty Gritty!) we get Organized - featuring your organ laden faves like the Spencer Davis Group, Untamed Youth, The Seeds, Creeps, ? & The Mysterians, Ken & The 4th Dimension and so many more.
Our old friends The Omega Men kick the show off, check them out here - in grainy footage from the late 90's - but get a load of this super Hammond laden version of She Comes in Colors!
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Bo Knows Instro
Here's a comp I made years ago of Bo instrumentals. Yeah, I know its not him on all of these tracks, but who cares? Meant to post this yesterday, but much like Halloween, everyday should be Bo Diddley Day!
Bo_Knows_Instro!
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Jazzy Jessies
Jazzy Jessies are taking over Ichiban's airwaves and classing up your Wednesday evening! Tonight on Crayons to Perfume! the ladies mix a little soul and a little pop in with their jazz numbers, and you can find it right here for your listening pleasure at 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific! featured are Les Milady's, Cherry Wainer, Nina Simone, Earnestine Anderson and many more!
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Whig Out's Comp-licated Christmas
Had your fill of Neat-Loaf? (we here at Whig Out! HQ prefer an alternative to traditional holiday fare), stuffed of stuffing? Done with Christmas? Then have we got a show for you! It's the Whig Out's first annual Comp-licated Christmas where we play music only found on the ever expanding format of the compilation LP. New compilations and those put together back in the day are featured, so tune and and hum along, humbug! Tune in here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/70281 or just go to WFMU.org and choose the Rock'n'Soul Ichiban stream. Join us by clicking the playlist and comments link - and find out more about the albums we're featuring. 8pm Eastern, 5 Pacific right after The Real Nitty Gritty at 7pm!
Hully Gully If You Wanna
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Christmas Girls!
Rockin’, Hoppin,Twistin, Jivin’ & Shuckin’ Christmas girls guaranteed to warm even the coldest of cockles! Turn 'em on here, today at 7pm Eastern or 4 Pacific
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Cut it Out! on the Whig Out!
Tonight at 8 right after Pat K's Make with the Shake it's The Whig Out! featuring old and new garage and 60's influenced bands like LA's Mystic Braves, Swiss Jackets, Bob Seger & The Last Herd, fellow San Diegan's The Brain Police & The Schizophonics and a handful of Northwest pounders. Check it out right here!
"Make WIth The Shake" fills in for The Real Nitty Gritty
Tonight at 7pm EST Make With The Shake fills in for The Real Nitty Gritty! Get your Sunday night shakes on with a special slightly-belated 84th birthday mini-tribute to His Majesty the King of Rock & Roll Little Richard, plus some seasonal rock & soul to start off the one-week-till-xmas countdown. Check it out here! Only on Ichiban!
Saturday, December 17, 2016
A Very Andy Christmas
Tune in to DJ Roulette on Sunday, December 25th for "A Very Andy Christmas" here on the Ichiban webstream. BYOB.
Coming to you in living stereo, A Very Andy Christmas is a two hour Christmas morning radio party. It's every old TV special you watched with your grandparents ran through the filter of Andy's record collection, with everyone from Miles Davis to Slade showing up. There will be "special guests," weird commericals, and a whole lot of music. BE THERE!!!
RSVP
Black Christmas (re-upload)
Here is a cd compiled by Lux Interior and Ivy Rorschach of The Cramps. Artwork care of Lux himself. This was originally put together for some magazine, but I can't recall which.
This was uploaded awhile back, via media fire and didn't work anymore, so here it is again.
Have a Black_Christmas
Friday, December 16, 2016
"Make With The Shake" 2016 Holiday Mix!
Shove some extra spice into your nog with this holiday rock & soul mix courtesy of DJ Pat K! Ice cold seasonal stompers direct from the North Pole, guaranteed to shake your tinsel sideways, mixed live from 45s! Download here!
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Crayons to Perfume! goes Downtown!! 7pm
The girls are going Downtown where all the lights are bright, tonight on Crayons to Perfume! It'll make you feel alright ... now! 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific. Take this gentle hand to guide you along...
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Somebody Help Me! Whigsville 29 BC at 8
WHAAAAAAAAAA! Your weekly dose of wylde and raving 60's garage madness is here tonight at 8, on Rock'n'Soul Ichiban!
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Girl Group Royalty on Crayons to Perfume! 7pm
The Royalettes are our girls of the week, as the girls hold court on Crayons to Perfume! Wednesday at 7pm Eastern or 4 Pacific. Tune in right here to pay homage!
Sunday, December 4, 2016
do the Crank! Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7:00
Playlist and pop up player here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Doin' Me In ... Whig Out! 8pm
Happy 50th Birthday to Gonn! They did us in at their anniversary show in San Diego - doing their 1966 set plus a few of their more recent songs - and they sure Did Us In, with a mind blowing show. Tonight we have Gonn and a host of other garage groups from 1966 - plus a smattering of modern like minded groups on the Whig Out! airring right after the Real Nitty Gritty. So turn on and tune to Ichiban starting at 7pm this evening - the Whig Out! is there at 8!
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Goin' To A Go Go! Crayons to Perfume! 7pm
Time for your weekly mojo workout with the GIRLS! 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific on Crayons to Perfume! Tune in right here
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Mind Over Matter -- The Real Nitty Gritty
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Sunday on DJ Roulette: DJ Pat K returns with Make With the Shake
Brew up some coffee, skip church, and put on your dancing slippers, because DJ Pat K is back with another edition of Make With The Shake on DJ Roulette Sunday morning at 11am EST! Tune in for some classic rock 'n soul groovers guaranteed to start your Sunday with some shakin'!
Friday, November 25, 2016
Debbie Does WFMU
Tune in tonight at 7 PM for my salute to Billy Miller.
Playlist
Ichiban Radio will be celebrating the life of Billy Miller on Jan 1, 2017. Join us at 11 AM for DJ Roulette followed by DJ sets from Miriam + WFMU DJs. If you would like to send me a DJ set, your birthday wishes or a request please send me an mp3 by DEC 25. Debbie@wfmu.org.
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
The Fringe Factory 9th Annual Thanksgiving EVE Special!!
It's the 9th Annual Thanksgiving Evening Special!
All 60s Garage, Psych & Soul songs about eating and drinking for your Holiday Shenanigans!
Listen right here!
Sunday, November 20, 2016
The Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7:00
Playlist and pop up player here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Friday, November 18, 2016
Tonight: DJ Pat K fills in for Debbie D with an all-Norton Hour
The Billy Miller/Norton tributes keep coming as DJ Pat K fills in for Debbie D tonight from 7-8pm with an all-Norton episode of Make With The Shake! Tune in as Pat K pays tribute to the life & work of Billy Miller by spinning his favorite singles from the label where the loud sound always abounds (and always will)! Classics from Andre Williams, Esquerita, Nolan Strong, Hasil Adkins and more guaranteed to leave you quakin' in your boots. Check it out right here to listen and check the live playlist and comments!
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
The Fringe Factory Tributes Billy Miller & Norton Records tonight at 8pm ET/5PM PT
Tonight it's an all Billy Miller/Norton Records Tribute as right after Crayons to Perfume, The Fringe Factory Radio show continues with an hour of some of DJ Vikki V's favorite Norton tracks to pay honor to Billy Miller and thank him for all the great music he brought to us!
Stay tuned at 8pm ET/5PM PT and be sure to view the live playlist and comments at: wfmu.org/playlists/FY
The Ladies of Norton Records on Crayons to Perfume!
Photo: Jackie Roman
This evening, with heavy heart I bring you an hour of the Ladies of Norton Records. It's my own way of commemorating Billy Miller, who along with Miriam, has brought us so much great music -- and so much of it that you hear around the clock on Rock'n'Soul Ichiban. Hear dear Miriam herself, La La Brooks, Althea & The Memories, Ruby Johnson and so many more - lotsa platter, little chatter so make sure you check out the live accu-playlist to see what's playing. It's all here at http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/69563... Tonight let's raise a glass to Billy, and to Miriam, as she forges along with Norton Records.
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