Radio Base Camp

10/28/2025

PLAYLIST and AUDIO ARCHIVE LINK:

 My RADIO BASE CAMP show on Tuesday morning (7am to 9am on WPKN 89.5-FM) is full of NEW RELEASES. The show will lurch around from happy to mad I sup...

10/27/2025

My RADIO BASE CAMP show on Tuesday morning (7am to 9am on WPKN 89.5-FM) is full of NEW RELEASES. The show will lurch around from happy to mad I suppose. The sky’s not falling but many of us feel like something’s just not right. So be happy and vent and shake a fist when you need to.

Here is the set list of artists you’ll hear. You won’t know them all and that’s a GOOD thing. I don’t play bad songs. Al Green, Ezra Furman, Sudan Archives, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Gary Brtz Ntu Troop, Warmduscher + David Holmes, Jane Inc., Spiritual Cramp, Mozart Estate, Scientist + Mystix and Joseph Cotton, Soft Cell, 808 State, Getdown Services, A Guy Called Gerald, Aphex Twin, Ladytron, Lael Neale, Funkadelic, Jeff Tweed, Prolapse, Geese, bar italia, Gruff Rhys,

10/22/2025

I will be doing a fill-in Thursday morning October 23rd from 7am to 9am. WPKN Artists below: Beach Vacation, Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart, Jose Gonzalez, Almamegretta, Oisin Leech and Steve Gunn, Chatham Rise, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Porcupine Tree, The Head and the Heart/Hurray for the Riff Raff, Cracker,Neko Case, The Sonarphonic, Sudan Archives+ The Egyptian Lover, Dinosaur L, (Arthur Russell) , Brother Bill, A.C Jones and the Soulettes, The Todd Terry Project , Fantastic Lighning, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Gregory Isaacs, Ellen Mcllwaine, The Incredible String Band, Kronos Quartet, Bob Dylan + Friends, Emma Swift, Robyn Hitchcock, David Bowie, Mekons, Benet, Faye Webster, Adrianne Lenker, Soft Ronin + Frankie Cosmos, Nuyorican Soul + Jocelyn Brown, The Brand New Heavies, The Quantic Soul Orchestra, The Stone Roses, Jamie xx, Brian Eno + David Byrne

10/22/2025

Radio Base Camp Tuesday 10-21-25 is here:https://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/445337/radio-base-camp-with-steve-di-costanzo-10-21-25

10/15/2025

Tomorrow THURSDAY NIGHT I'm doing a "Jazz Radio Listening Party' on WPKN Radio. I will be rotating jazz tracks between three legends: John Coltrane, Miles Dave and Thelonious Monk. Your are invited to tune in. 11:30pm to 2:25am. Get your free APP 'WPKN Entertainment' and tune in as well.

10/15/2025

Here is the FULL PLAYLIST and a link to the AUDIO ARCHIVE FILE for thois week's Radio Base Camp Show, It's a high-energy affair. Good for working out! Get the WPKN 'Entertainment' APP and listen right here:

 HOST: Steve di Costanzo aka DJ DICO  Artist Song Release     ...

10/09/2025

Join me this Friday from 1pm to 4pm for special Radio Base Camp fill-in for Kevin Patrick’ . You can hear the program LIVE on community radio station WPKN 89-5 FM or stream it on our new APP ‘WPKN ENTERTAINMENT’. It’s free!
I have planned a show with new releases and vintage tracks- the entire show is decidedly FREE FORM- that means many genres and time periods, too.

Here are some of the artists you will hear: The Rolling Stones, Matt & Kim, Bufi, Dumbo Gets Mad. Black Uhuru, La Orme, Polo & Pan, Jessica Lauren, Ancestral Beats, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, George Harrison, The Reds, Pins and Purples, Praktika+Ko Saba, Brian Eno + David Byrne, Ofege, SAULT, Jackie Wilson, Aretha Franklin, Rotary Connection, Thornato, Charlie Feathers, Messer Chups, PowerSolo + The Courettes, The Problem With Kids Today, The Go Go Cult, Kevin Ayers + Syb Barrett, Sourmilk, The House of Love, RVG, Pregoblin, Bush Tetras, Steve Gunn + Truscinski Duo, Shabaka, Salif Keita, Baxter Dury, Major Lazer +Ms. Thing, Fe**sh + 6arelyhuman, Jumi Hendrix , David Bowie

10/07/2025

Here is the FULL PLAYLIST and link to the AUDIO:

 HOST: DJ DICO     Artist Song Release     ...

09/25/2025

FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY! I'll be doing a 'special; fundraising edition of RADIO BASE CAMP. I'm on from 4pm to 6:30pm.

We need to plug fiscal gaps due to funding sources that have had to pull back. I am urging all of my listeners to make any sort of a donation via 203-331-9756 or online at https://givebutter.com/c/wpknstronger. Every listener that has enjoyed 15 years of Radio Base Camp who has never made a donation....I AM LOVINGLY ASKING to be as generous as you can. I know many of you are in tough positions but there are also many of you who have been riding higher and higher on the stock market. NOW is when we need this help. From LA to Chicago to Florida to Wisconsin to Texas - please please HELP NOW!

09/22/2025

I'm happy to be back in the WPKN Studios after a month in Nepal. If you want to hear my special -fill-in from last Thursday it's in the archives with a show that was informed by my trip as well as the revolution that churned Nepal. This TUESDAY SHOW from 7am to 9am is going to be classic Radio Base Camp with multi genres, new releases and some vintage garage, punk, disco and electronica and psych.
Here are the artists you'll be hearing: Altin Gun, Go Kurasawa, Immersion (Wire), Garbage, Julian Cope, Kevin Coyne, The Hi-Fi's, The Besnard Lakes, Michel Legrand, Laufey,Folk Bitch Trio, The Magnettic Fields, BC Camplight, Les Big Byrd, Liverpool Echo, The Courettes, Doctor Ross, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Problems With Kids Today, Crocodiles, Guedra Guedra, Idris Muhammad + Walker&Royce, The Dare, Burning Spear, EERA, Bakar, Andrew Bird, New York, Lack of Afro,

08/12/2025

This week’s RADIO BASE CAMP (7am to 9am)lands in a pool of new releases. It’s just amazing HOW GREAT the music is these days. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. If you want to hear new tracks and fresh sounds WPKN is a pretty great station to tune to. We’ve been a free-form,multi genre since the early 1960’s and every GOOD DJ in the listening area probably clocked some time here at WPKN.

Here are some artists you will be hearing TUES: Fatback Band, (USA), Lord Echo (New Zealand), The Seeds (USA), Goose (USA), Scissor Sisters (USA), Soulwax (Belgium), Marianne Faithful (England), The Feelies (USA), Jon Batiste + Randy Newman USA), The Paper Kites (Melbourne), Charlie Crokett (USA), The Wood Brothers, (USA), Almamegetta (Italy), Sudan Archives (USA), Blind Yeo (England), Half Japanese (USA), The Reds, Pinks and Purples (USA), Young Jonn (Nigeria), Pariah (Texas), Psychedelic P**n Crumpets, (Perth Australia), Wet Leg (Isle of Wight), *supermodel (LA USA), The Dare (USA), Pylon (USA), Public Enemy (USA), Spiritual Cramp (USA), Thee Oh Sees (USA), outro from The Rolling Stones.