Coming Soon!

Attention Ichibaners!!  The next WFMU marathon is right around the corner.  YOU could win fabulous prizes, like this fantastic new book by Jimmy McDonough.  It's all about the history of Memphis and Hi Records and the one and only Al Green!!  A must for any fan of rock 'n' soul music.

Don't miss a beat!

Dance Floor Essential!

The Sanshers - Gonna Git That Man

Get your hat -- The Real Nitty Gritty tonight on ICHIBAN

Get your hat -- It's a new episode of The Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7:00 on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul ICHIBAN! Platters of savage R&B, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, greasy rockabilly & sleazy instrotrash served up for your pleasure! Then Whig Out! at 8:00. Streaming player, playlist and comments here:
https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG

Hidden Volume Records Field Trip South 2018!

Calling All Cars!!

Hidden Volume Records Field Trip South 2018 is just a few weeks away!

Untamed Youth, The Phantom Surfers, Woolly Bushmen, Baby Shakes, The Othermen, The Delusionaires, Groovy Movies, The Wildtones, The Blind Owls, Sash the Bash, The Improbables, The Hall Monitors, The Belltowers...phew!!

Featuring Ichiban DJs GirlGroup Girl, Richard Whig and Matt Clarke on the 45s!

Feb 16/17 Will's Pub

Orlando, FL

Info and tickets here

Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban Program Schedule

Keep those transistors hot with WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban stream !!!

• Tune in to Ichiban all week long for these great shows !
• Listen live on the stream with the following schedule !
• Click on a show below for a live playlist and chat during the broadcast, or to listen anytime to the archives of previous shows !

How to listen to Ichiban live 24/7 :

• http://wfmu.org/listen-live/ichiban
• http://wfmu.org/wfmu_rock.pls
• http://tunein.com/radio/WFMUs-Ichiban-Rock--Soul-s114109/
• The free WFMU app for your smartphone, from your phone's app store.

Monday

6-8 pm EST (00:00 CET*, 08:00 JST**) Come to the Sunshine with Andrew Sandoval - Each week, Andrew ushers you into his record room for a two-hour assortment of scintillating 1960’s sounds.

8-10 pm Big Planet Noise with Bob I. and Gina - Wild 60's wax blasts! Garage, Bikers, B3s, Fuzz & more!!!

Tuesday

7-8 pm What's Happening?!?! with Matt Clarke - 1960s Beat, Folk-Rock, Soul, Mod.

Wednesday

7-8 pm Crayons to Perfume with Glynis GirlGroupGirl - Girl group sounds 1960-69.

8-9 pm Fringe Factory with DJ Vikki V - A lysergic time trip into the international fuzzy,  psychedelic, garage & hard rockin' 60s underground.

Thursday

8-9 pm Make With The Shake with DJ Pat K - Straight from the frayed end of the Rust Belt, nothing but the finest rock & soul hipshakers and earthquakers of the 50s & 60s.

Sunday

7-8 pm The Real Nitty Gritty with Real Nitty Gritty Tania and Thomas Torment - A weekly record hop featuring savage R&B, greasy rockabilly, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, sleazy instro-trash.

8-9 pm The Whig Out with Glynis GirlGroupGirl and Richard W - 60's garage sounds from then until now.

And on Sunday, a replay of this week's shows plus 2 extras :

6 am (12:00 CET*, 20:00 JST**) The Real Nitty Gritty

7 am (13:00 CET) The Whig Out

8 am (14:00 CET) Crayons to Perfume

9 am (15:00 CET) Fringe Factory

10 am (16:00 CET) What's Happening?!?!

11 am (17:00 CET) DJ Roulette - A varied cast of DJs, including :
   The Big Beat Generation with Laurent - Unsung Heroes of 1960's rock'n'roll.
   Diesel Smoke and Dangerous Curves with Julea - Featuring mostly country western, rockabilly, & hillbilly hidden gems recorded in the 1950s & 1960s.
   Atomic Jukebox with Jon - Good music for driving fast.

12 Noon (18:00 CET) Make with the Shake

1-3 pm (19:00 CET) Come to the Sunshine

3 pm (21:00 CET) DA The DJ’s Ichibunny Robot – Ever evolving AI programmed and executed emulation of 60s Rock-N-Roll radio brought to you by WFMU's DA The DJ.

4-6 pm (23:00 CET) Big Planet Noise

* Central European Time (Paris)

** Japan Standard Time (Tokyo)

Dance Floor Essential!

Piano Red - Wildire

Sugar Hips

Sugar Hips! -- Tonight at 7:00 PM ET tune in for a new episode of The Real Nitty Gritty on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul ICHIBAN! Platters of savage R&B, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, greasy rockabilly & sleazy instrotrash served up for your pleasure!

Then Whig Out! at 8:00.

Streaming player, playlist and comments here:

https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG

Make with the Shake! Tonight at 8pm EDT

Tonight! Be prepared for anything as another edition of Make with the Shake with DJ Pat K arrives at 8pm EDT, only on Ichiban! Screaming soul, greasy R&B, fuzzed-out garage, and weirdo slop, all done up just the way you like it! Click here to catch the livestream, playlist, chat, & archive! 

A tribute to William "Buddy" Vaden

My Dad always wanted me to be on the radio and was so happy when I started the Fringe Factory Radio Show over 10 years ago. What he wasn't too happy about is that he would always call in and request songs that I didn't want to play cause they didn't quite fit my format. Mostly Doo-Wop and old country songs. So this show is going to be all my Dad's requests over the years.  And he actually has a history with some of the old Nashville country stars such as George Jones & Johnny Cash, so you'll hear a little about that too! 

Listen right here! http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/76958

  

Crayons to Perfume! Girl of the Week: Lynne Randell

It's been quite a lot time since I featured a single Girl of the Week - and this week it's Miss Mod Australia, the 1967 Monkees girl - Lynne Randell! Lynne opened for the Monkees on their 1967 American tour - she was a spunky blonde pop singer, favoring a fun, mod wardrobe and had a great voice and engaging stage style. She could sing a lovely melody but preferred a rousing rocker - you can see both sides of Lynne in the videos below. Also featured today are Australian and New Zealand female voices - Carole King of the Executives, Judy and Sue Donaldson - the Chicks, Allison Durban, Dinah Lee, Olivia Newton-John and so many more GIRLS! Crayons to Perfume! with djgirlgroupgirl, 7pm tonight, on Ichiban. Tune in here! http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/76953

Dance Floor Essential!

Stacy's 5th - My Lovin' Baby

Go Go Go Whig Out!

Whig Out! with Glynis and Richard to the wild and crazy sounds of teenagers howling, yowling and letting loose with hormonal rage in garages and basements all over the world along with those like minded musicians of today who keep creating that very same racket. Today's spotlight is on Toronto's Liverpool Set - check out their live performance below! Great beat and British influenced mid-60's rock'n'roll! Today on the Whig Out we have more Canadian sounds plus noise from Mexico and South America, Switzerland, Italy, Hong Kong. Dig it! 8pm Eastern 5 Pacific right after The Real Nitty Gritty!!

Make with the Shake, tonight at 8pm!

Get your coiffure in top shape to enjoy the hirsute harmonies of another episode of MAKE WITH THE SHAKE with DJ Pat K (pictured, above left), tonight at 8pm EDT only on Ichiban! Screaming soul, greasy garage, raw R&B, and other assorted weirdness, all styled up to maximum volume for your enjoyment! Click here to catch the livestream at 8, playlist, chat, and archives!

The Ladies of Reprise Records :r

OK, Reprise is probably not the first record label that anyone thinks of when you hear "rock and soul" but Reprise did have it's fair offerings of at least rock and a bit of roll - and a whole lot of ladies! Started by Frank Sinatra in 1960, Sinatra saw Reprise as the answer to his and his friends dilemma of feeling like being held creatively hostage by a record label - in his case Capitol Records. Frank wanted the artists on his label, many of them friends and family to own their own masters and have some creative control over their music, if they so chose. It's not a surprise that much of the label's talent were rat packers, Los Angels night club hold overs, Palm Springs seasonal dwellers and Las Vegas attractions. But Frank wanted to create a label that offered something for everyone, and records that play and play again - so he began assembling a broader array of talent, including his own fantastically gifted daughter Nancy Sinatra, who brought youth and style to a label that soon began adding more teenage talent. It kept afloat for 5 years, but the label began to become financially difficult due to pressures from Capitol Records, who had created discounted version of Sinatra's own records on their label forcing Sinatra to sell Reprise titles at a lower price point. In 1965 it became an arm of Warner Records, and slowly began adding more rock acts to it's roster. Today on Crayons to Perfume! we'll hear the ladies of Reprise - solo artists like on of my all-time favorites, Nancy Sinatra, one time Ikette Pat Powdrill, loungy ladies who lay on great renditions of unsuspecting tunes like Jill Jackson and Lola Falana, and girl groups such as the Blossoms, the Rev-Lons & The Paris Sisters - turning it over at the end of the show to Reprises later 60's female fronted rock and psych outfits like Sweetwater, Pentangle and the Mojo Men. Join djgirlgroupgirl as she presents the Ladies of Reprise, Wednesday at 7pm right here on Rock'n'Soul Ichiban


Didn't have time to get this great tune 1967 in from the Spike Drivers out of Detroit, featuring vocalist Marycarol Brown - so check it out now, shala la la la la

Songs We Taught Great Gaylord

Squattin' with Great Gaylord - Billy Miller @Montreal

Rochell and the Candles - Squat With Me Baby
Little Luther - Du Dee Squat
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - Deputy Dog
Guitar Crusher - The Monkey
The Rolling Stones - Rice Krispies
Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo
Donald and the Delighters - Wang Dang Dula
The Contours - Whole Lotta Woman
The Falcons - Sent Up
Gino Washington - Gino Is A Coward
The Duvals - Cotton (Squattin')
Don and Dewey - A Little Love
The Righteous Brothers/Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels - Little Latin Lupe Lu
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - All Night
El Pauling and the Royalton - Solid Rock
Little Johnny and the Thundertones - Rock Till the End of time
The Stooges - TV Eye
The Contours/The Del Rays - Don't Let Her Be Your Baby
Syl Johnson - Falling in Love Again
Yvonne Fair - It Hurts to Be in Love
Swamp Dogg - Total Destruction to Your Mind

Do The Squat (Download)

The Great One roof side at Our Wicked Lady in Bushwick

Whig Out at 8 tonite!

The Whig Out's love for that perfectly delicious guitar mix of Curtis Mayfield and Jimi Hendrix is no secret! Tonite we're gonna play them again for you along with the latest release from the Ogres, Wildebeests, Bobkat'65, Schizophonics plus the Spanish garage soul of Los Canarios, Italian beat, and Toronto's all girl surfers the Surfrajettes! Check it out right here! http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/76786

Crazy, Crazy Feeling - tonight at 7:00 on ICHIBAN

Crazy, Crazy Feeling -- Tune in tonight at 7:00 PM ET for a new episode of The Real Nitty Gritty on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul ICHIBAN! Platters of savage R&B, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, greasy rockabilly & sleazy instrotrash served up for your pleasure!
Then Whig Out! at 8:00.
Streaming player, playlist and comments here:
https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG

Knuckle Dragger of the Week!

OINK! (listen/download)

Bar the Door!

Bar the Door! -- Join us this new year's eve at 7:00 PM ET tonight for a new episode of The Real Nitty Gritty on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul ICHIBAN! Platters of savage R&B, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, greasy rockabilly & sleazy instrotrash served up for your pleasure!
Then Whig Out! at 8:00.
Streaming player, playlist and comments here:
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/RG

Knuckle Dragger of the Week!

BATMAN'S_WIPEOUT!

Rollin' and Tumlin' tonight at 7:00 with The Real Nitty Gritty

Rollin' and Tumblin' -- tune in tonight at 7:00 PM ET for a new episode of The Real Nitty Gritty on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul ICHIBAN! Platters of savage R&B, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, greasy rockabilly & sleazy instrotrash served up for your pleasure!
Then Whig Out! at 8:00.
Streaming player, playlist and comments here:
https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG

JEEZUS FUCK, IT'S CHRISTMAS!!! A Lux Interior Christmas Tape Compilation

Super giant thanks to Kristian Hoffman for sharing this on his Facebook Page. It's a picture of a tape Lux made with some amazing Christmas Music. A song or two from the Black Christmas tape, but much more swell tunes to sink your teeth in to.  Even an atheist would love it...

Kristian said it was ok to share, so it here it is!

Jeezus fuck, indeed!

(note, this isn't a copy of the "actual" tape, just a compilation of MP3's sourced elsewhere and sequenced like the tape)

Update

Merry Shakesmas! Make with the Shake goes seasonal tonight at 8pm EDT

Santa's got the shakes tonight on Ichiban! DJ Pat K (pictured, above-right) returns with a special episode of Make with the Shake featuring all of his favorite seasonal screamers and holiday hipshakers! Prepare to get your yule log crammed full of cheer and tinsel in all sorts of places where it doesn't belong! Only on Ichiban, tonight at 8pm EDT - click here for the live stream, playlist, chat, and archive!

Knuckle Dragger of the Week!

 

 



PIZZA_SURE_IS_GOOD! (listen/download)

The Fringe Factory Live at Diamond St Studios Sessions: The Woolly Bushmen & The GTVs!

It's been a busy year  at The Fringe Factory HQ! One of many projects finally coming to fruition is The Fringe Factory Live at Diamond Street Studios Sessions! DJ Vikki Vaden hosts a semi-regular series of live recordings and interviews with both touring and local Atlanta bands influenced by 60s garage, psychedelia, soul, punk & FUZZZZ . All recorded at a cool little analog recording studio located right in the heart of Atlanta's Little 5 Points & run by the legendary Spencer Garn.

For this very first show, Vikki invites touring bands The Woolly Bushmen and The GTVs to Diamond Street to each play a few songs and have a record party pre-show. Then hilarity & chaos ensus as the bands and Vikki try to chat, argue with "Dr. Hollywood" the Woolly Bushmen's "manager" and drink perhaps too many beers before the evening rock-n-roll show.

You can also listen to it here!: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/76361

Cast of "Characters"
Hosted by Fringe Factory /WFMU Ichiban DJ Vikki Vaden

Co-Hosted by "Dr Hollywood"Aka Poppin Pietro, AKA Pietro DiGennaro aka "Peaches" 

The Woolly Bushmen:

Simon Palombi,VOX organ to guitar,
Jacob Miller:bass to guitar
Julian Palombi: Drums

& The GTVs
Sam Steinig: Vocals, Organ/Piano|
Ron Wandover: Drums
Vince Duane: Guitar

Engineered by: Spencer Garn at Diamond Street Studios
Photography by: Mario Panebianco Photography

First Up The Woolly Bushmen!

Here come the GTVs! 

Spencer tries to figure out What is happening?!

Vikki & The GTVs

Listen here!: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/76361

Crayons to Perfume - DJ's Choice

Back by popular demand, it's DJ's Choice - the theme-less Crayons to Perfume! where djgirlgroupgirl plays whatever she so desires! I've been finding and thrifting some great new records recently, but have also been digging out some of my LP's and playing tracks I don't normally play - live Martha & The Vandellas, France Gall, Tammy, Konez Zsusa, Karo, The Caravelles all with a smattering of favorite seasonal girls. So sit back and take a mid-week break with the girls, from 7-8 pm right before The Fringe Factory.

You Know What To Do -- The Real Nitty Gritty!

You Know What To Do -- Tonight at 7:00 it's a new episode of The Real Nitty Gritty on WFMU's Rock'n'Soul ICHIBAN. Streaming player, playlist and comments here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG

Knuckle Dragger of the Week!

YOU_GOT_MY_NOSE_WIDE_OPEN!

What brings this to true "Knuckle Dragger" status is that fact that this is a recording of Hanley Johnson singing OVER his original version of "Nose" that came out on JVB Records under the name Tye Tongue Hanley!  You can hear him really getting into it in the mid break...

Tonight at 8pm EDT :: Make with the Shake with DJ Pat K!

Tonight! Get your hair done all the way up for another episode of Make with the Shake with DJ Pat K! Wild rock & soul killers, thrillers, & floor-fillers, plus Little Richard telling a story about an angel dust-fueled hotel orgy! Something for everyone!   Click here for the live stream, playlist, chatboard, & archive!

Psychotronic Movie of the Week: The Manster (1959)

The Manster (aka The Split) 

1959, Shaw-Breakston Enterprises

D/P George P. Breakston D: Kenneth B. Krane S: Walter J. Sheldon 

Starring: Peter Dyneley, Jayne Hylton, Satoshi Nakamura, Terri Zimmern

Michael J. Weldon's review in Psychotronic Video #4: 

Originally released in America by Loppert on an incredible double bill with THE HORROR CHAMBER OF DR. FAUSTUS in 1962, this is the ultimate split personality movie. A man in a skinny gorilla suit kills some women in a bath. Blood splatters on the wall. Up in the mountains in a remote cave full of giant mushrooms and plants, we discover he's a mutant. Dr. Suzuki (Satoshi Nakumura) says, "You were my brother. You were an experiment that didn't work out. I'm sorry!," and shoots him. An ugly bug-eyed mutant screeching in a cage is his wife. Meanwhile Larry Stanford, an American journalist, shows up, is drugged and jabbed in the shoulder with a hypo. Star Peter Dyneley, who acts a lot like Lon Chaney, Jr., later provided the voice of Jeff Tracy for British THUNDERBIRDS movies. Back in Tokyo he gets drunk on sake and goes behind closed doors with with four gieshas. He misses his flight home. Suzuki sends his beautiful, obedient assistant Tera (Terri Zimmern) to further corrupt him in a mineral bath. Unshaven and hung over, the reporter ignores his worried, pleading wife, who arrives from New York. A priest is killed at a temple by a werewolf type hand . Two women are murdered on the street. At his room, Stanford sees an eyeball on his shoulder!!! - (a high point of screen surrealism). Soon a scary small extra head grows there. Both of his heads become uglier with big teeth and bugged out eyes. He kills a psychiatrist. The big climax takes place near a volcano. Behind a tree the Manster painfully splits into Stanford and a skinny ape man. They fight and both fall into a volcano! 

Make with the Shake! Tonight at 8PM EDT

Tonight at 8pm EDT, tune in, freak out, and shake off the Thanksgiving leftovers with DJ Pat K and another episode of Make with the Shake! Tune in for an hour of rock, soul, r&b, garage, and whatever else falls onto the turntable on the only station that plays the hits that keep you in fits! Click here for the live stream, playlist, archives, and chat!

Knuckle Dragger of the Week! (in Memoriam)

THE_COO! (listen/download)

Ants in my pants

Ants in My Pants -- tune in for a new episode of The Real Nitty Gritty​ tonight at 7:00 ET on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul ICHIBAN! Platters of savage R&B, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, greasy rockabilly & sleazy instrotrash served up for your pleasure!
Then Whig Out! at 8:00.
Streaming player, playlist and comments here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG

Happy Shakesgiving! Make with the Shake tonight at 8pm EDT!

Happy Shakesgiving! Ditch the football game, switch on Ichiban, and shake off the tryptophan with a hot helping of wild rock & soul with DJ Pat K and another edition of Make with the Shake! Tune in at 8pm EDT tonight for a feast of 45s! Click here for the livestream, playlist, chat, & archive! 

HAVE A PSYCHOTRONIC THANKSGIVING WITH BLOOD FREAK (1972)!

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!

My first Thanskgiving Day movie tradition was KING KONG and MIGHTY JOE YOUNG on WOR. Later, I adopted Brad F. Ginter's BLOOD FREAK.

Ginter's filmography as a director includes just five titles, and it's three that he's primarily remembered for today - the awful biker flick DEVIL RIDER (1970), the bizarre Veronica Lake maggot Hitler epic FLESH FEAST (1970), and today's feature, BLOOD FREAK (1972).

Steve Hawkes, whose previous acting resume was highlighted by two low-budget, shot in Florida Tarzan movies, co-wrote the screenplay with Ginter and stars as Herschell, a Nam vet who gets invited to a party by a beautiful young lady and well, one thing leads to another and before we know it, Herschell is addicted to the pot! For some reason, this ends up with him eating some chemically altered turkey and when he wakes up he's become a monster with a giant turkey head who needs to feast on the blood of drug addicts to satisfy his cravings. In the end, the only thing that can save him is turning to God - the film was described by Shock Cinema's Steven Puchalski as "the world's first Christian, anti-drug splatter movie!" And if that plot wasn't enough of a trainwreck, wait until you get a load of Ginter himself as the narrator, sitting at a desk in front of faux wooden paneling, talking about "the human body as a mixing bowl," spewing Reefer Madness-style anti-drug rhetoric while smoking a cigarette. His coughing fits are stuff of legend.

BLOOD FREAK was released on VHS in the 80s by Video Treasures, which promised "A Dracula on Drugs!" Something Weird Video released the ultimate special edition DVD in the early 2000's which is now out of print but can be found on Amazon and eBay. I highly recommend seeking it out, but in the meantime, here's the entire movie as posted on YouTube, DIG!