What's Happening?!?! WFMU Marathon Week 1

Alright, it is time. The time it is. What time is that you say?

Time to raise dough, bread, scratch, cash, dinero, etc....

Tonite at 7PM, I will be joined by Mike Sin, of WFMU's Optical Sound and garage rock drumming legend!

Prizes to give away and a premium sized pledge will get you my 2017 premium.

What's Happening?!?! Sings For You

15 1960's tunes with the one man band of myself.

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Marathon Time!!! The REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7pm ET!

Tune in to The Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7PM for your weekly dose of Greasy Slop and while you're there, make sure to pledge to WFMU! At the top of our Playlist page: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG there's a widget that makes pledging easy peasy! Anyone who pledges $20 and above during the show tonight gets the chance to win one of the great prizes we are giving away - the first 3 volumes of EARLY NORTHWEST ROCKERS & INSTRUMENTALS on Norton Records! Approve Of The Groove? PLEDGE!!!

WFMU Marathon 2017!

The time it is today...

March 5th begins the WFMU marathon to keep us on the air! 

It's a mighty undertaking, but your WFMU Rock 'N Soul Ichiban DJs are ready!

Consider making a pledge to your favorite Ichiban program and get in the running for some fabulous prizes. 

Also our toppermost of the poppermost djs have created premiums that with a premium sized pledge, you automatically get one! 

The process is as quick as getting up to flip the 45 to the B side!

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March 5th-19th

Nothin' but T-R-O-U-B-L-E at the Fringe Factory!

Tonight at 8pm ET after Crayons To Perfume on WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban it's Nothin' but T-R-O-U-B-L-E with DJ Vikki Vaden at The Fringe Factory! Hear a brand spankin' new song from The Prefab Messiahs, Fogbound, plus The Music Machine, The Electric Prunes, The Schizophonics, The Woolly Bushmen & more! Rock Out with Your Psych-Out! Stream it on WFMU.org. Live playlist, archive & comments here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/71412

Fruity Frauleins on Crayons to Perfume!

More Kinky Cuties? No! Just some fresh, juicy and ripe girl group and female fronted r&b and soul goodness, with a little bit of pop and some jazz, all with loads of appeal! Hear it here, 7pm Wednesday on Ichiban!

Stoned!

Wild Teens gather no moss here at the Whig Out! Tune in and turn on, Sunday at 8pm right after Pat K's Make with the Shake (filling in for The Real Nitty Gritty). We'll make you twist and we'll make you shout! Right here! Tune in!

Make With The Shake fills in for The Real Nitty Gritty, tonight at 7PM EST!

Tonight DJ Pat K & Make With The Shake fills in for the Real Nitty Gritty while Tania & Thomas take a powder this week. Tune in at 7PM EST for a dose of swinging soul & stomping garage, then don't forget to Whig Out at 8!

Field Tripping South with FringeFactory guests The Midnight Larks!

The Midnight Larks plan to stop in tonight to help spin & play some of their own songs never aired before plus DJ Vikki V salutes the other bands of Hidden Volume's Field Trip South Weekender with music by The Woggles, Ar-Kaics, The SubSonics, Hate Bombs, The Little Richards, The Belltowers & more! Tune in tonight Feb 22nd at 8pm ET to WFMU.org's Ichiban Stream!
Join the chat and view the live playlist during the show at: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/71306 or listen to the archive there later!

Decca Darlings 5 on Crayons to Perfume!

The last of the Decca Darlings series airs today on Crayons to Perfume! with America Decca Girls on US Decca. Tune in at 7pm for a little bit of soul, some girl groups, a smidgen of country tinged pop and all the Decca Girl Goodness!

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

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.

Happy Valentines Day!

The Electras - Ten Steps To Love

Wilson Picket - Everybody Needs Someone To Love

Love

Jean Shepard - Just Give Me Love

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

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

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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!

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!

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.

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

PITTER PATTER -- hop & slop 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

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)!!

Anesthesia -- The Real Nitty Gritty!

Anesthesia -- 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

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!

Here's a great folk-rocker from Northern California's Knightriders

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.

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

In the Midnight Hour The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett

Courtesy of Maxwell Pickett/Wilson Pickett Jr. Legacy LLC

Tony Fletcher brings us the first-ever biography of the one and only Wicked Pickett!  Essential reading for any soul music fan.  Includes in depth information about recording at Stax, Fame and Sigma studios.

If you've never seen Wilson Pickett live in Germany from 1969, stop everything and turn on youtube.

Wicked. Chicken. Tonight at 7:00 on Ichiban

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!
Playlist and pop up player here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG

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!

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)

Whatcha Gonna Do

Whatcha Gonna Do -- Tune in and Do It with The Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7:00 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

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!