Psychotic Distraction

02/21/2025

FEBRUARY 19 2025 PLAYLIST

KARKARA - The Chase - All is Dust (Self Released)

Monster Magnet - Face Down - Superjudge (A&M)

Satanic Panic - Radio Bop - Rat City Radio (Self Released)

The Von Zippers - Kill That Guy - Bad Generation (Estrus)

Preoccupations - Focus - Ill at Ease (Born Losers)

Vulture Feather - Into Space - It Will Be Like Now (Felte)

SLAP RASH - Misc Disc - Monumental Rest (Self Released)

Tones on Tail - Christian Says - Christian Says (Beggars Banquet)

AC/DC - High Voltage - High Voltage (Warner Bros.)

Dead Stilettos - Marina - Dead Stilettos (Sour Grapes)

The Cramps - Garbageman - Songs the Lord Taught Us (IRS)

Chico Hamilton - For Mods Only - The Dealer (Impulse)

The Altons - Waiting - Heartache in Room 14 (Daptone Records)

Eldee Young - Just for Kicks - Just for Kicks (Argo)

The Knight Shades - Why (Baby Why!) - Why (Rogue Records)

The Amboy Dukes - You Talk Sunshine, I Breathe Fire - You Talk Sunshine, I Breathe Fire (Mainstream)

Bob Seger - Long Song Comin' - Seven (Reprise)

AC/DC - Kicked in the Teeth - Powerage (Epic)

Pelican - Cascading Crescent - Flickering Resonance (Run for Cover)

Faith No More - Caffeine - Angel Dust (Slash)

Pegboy - Through My Fingers - Strong Reaction (Quarterstick)

The Moles - Had to Be You - Composition Book (Splendid Research)

Sun Astros - White Hot Vision - Infinite Pleasures (Self Released)

AC/DC - Touch Too Much - Highway to Hell (Atlantic)

The Goldstars - Just Change - Just Change (Mordorlorff)

Peter Murphy - Swoon - Silver Shade (Metropolis)

Hali Palombo - Datura - Kuddelmuddel (Chocolate Monk)

Babyland - The Door Northern - Who's Sorry Now? (Flipside)

Bonemen of Barumba - Chinese New Year - Icons (Fever)

Drop Nineteens - Mayfield - 1991 (Wharf Cat)

AC/DC - Squealer - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Atlantic)

Trouble - Psychotic Reaction - Trouble (Def American)

Rats on Rafts - Japanese Medicine - Deep Below (Fire)

Skull Practitioners - Exit Wounds - Negative Stars (In the Red)

J***y Paycheck - I've Got Someone to Kill - The Lovin' Machine (Little Darlin')

Waco Brothers - Bad Times are Coming 'Round Again - Resist! (Bloodshot)

Kestrels - It Would - Better World (Darla)

Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Golden Skull - Tales of the Golden Skull (Feeding Tube/Astral Spirits)

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02/19/2025

Today marks the 45th anniversary of Bon Scott's death. I'll be paying homage/playing some of my favorite early AC/DC tracks throughout today's show on CHIRP Radio 107.1FM 3:00pm - 6:00pm CT. Drop your faves in the comments!

02/14/2025

Psychotic Distraction is for lovers 🖤

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02/13/2025

FEBRUARY 12 2025 PLAYLIST

Front Line Assembly - Heatmap (featuring Cardinal Noire) - Mechviruses (Artoffact Records)

Cop Shoot Cop - We Shall Be Changed - Suck City (Big Cat)

NO MEN - California Rocket Fuel - Fear This (Self Released)

Moon Destroys - Echoes (The Empress) - She Walks By Moonlight (Limited Fanfare)

Killing Joke: - Darkness Before Dawn - Night Time (EG)

Basskase - Walking Luggage - Proper Human Interaction (Soundpoint)

Heavy Mother - Window in the Door - Heavy Mother II (Total Punk)

The Mortals - 1992 - Bulletproof (Estrus)

Deniz Tek - Blood from a Stone - Deniz Tek Collection Vol. 3: Outside (Wild Honey)

The Makers - Worlds Apart - Tear Your World Apart (Estrus)

The Lewis Express - Snick Snack - Doo Ha! (ATA)

Pigmeat Markham - Your Wires Have Been Tapped - Your Wires Have Been Tapped (Cosmopolitan)

FACS - Ordinary Voices - Wish Defense (Trouble In Mind)

Psychotic Reaction - Dissent - Dystopian Anthems for Lotus-Eaters (Savage Magic)

Choke Chains - Trinity Sue - Choke Chains (Slovenly Recordings)

The Bama Lamas - Sugar Snap - Going Up? (Self Released)

The Jezebels - Whitechapel Blues - Mover and a Groover (State)

Suzi Quatro - Can the Can - Can the Can (RAK)

Kix - She Dropped Me the Bomb - Blow My Fuse (Atlantic)

Deep Purple - Burn - Burn (EMI)

Chris Greene Quartet - Just Squeeze Me - Conservance (Pravda)

Invisible Head Band - D.O.G - D.O.G (Howling Moon)

Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Mindstar - Tales of the Golden Skull (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube)

Thin Lizzy - Su***de - Fighting (Vertigo)

Terminal White - Substitution - Substitution (White)

Visage - Fade to Grey - Fade to Grey (Polydor)

The Slaps - I Am Mud - Mud Tracks (Self Released)

Peter and the Test Tube Babies - September Pt 2 - The Mating Sounds Of South American Frogs (Trapper)

The Faction - Skate & Destroy - Co**se in Disguise (IM)

Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - I Never Had It Better - Sock It to Me! (New Voice)

Emily Jane Powers - Counting Sheep - Earnest Jamming Partners (Self Released)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date with the Night - Fever to Tell (Polydor)

Bev Rage & the Drinks - Limp Wrist - Cockeyed (Self Released)

The Trash Brats - Start Over Again - Songs in the Key of F.U. (Whoaman)

Parlor Greens - Driptorch - Driptorch (Colemine)

Ugly Sounds - All My Secrets - Never Say I'm Doomed (Groovie Records)

New York Dolls - Lonely Planet Boy - New York Dolls (Mercury)

Charm School - Without a Doubt - Debt Forever (Surprise Mind)

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02/13/2025

Trugoy the Dove/Plug 2 (born David Jolicoeur) died two years ago today at the age of 54. The first two De La Soul albums (along with fellow Native Tongue collective trio Jungle Brothers' Done by the Forces of Nature) were in constant rotation for me during my final high school years. I only saw De La Soul live once: at Industry (Pontiac MI, RIP) with Souls of Mischief if memory serves. Groundbreaking and hugely influential.

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02/12/2025

Broadcasting live from the shores of Lake Illinois today on CHIRP Radio 107.1FM 3:00pm - 6:00pm CT.

02/11/2025

If you've listened to my show at all over the past 15 years, you've heard me say it repeatedly: the New York Dolls 1973 debut album is the greatest American rock and roll album ever released. David Johansen is in rough patch, show him some L-U-V and pick up a shirt (like I did).
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02/10/2025

Before forming the more funk-leaning/jam band-friendly Spearhead in 1994, Michael Franti was half of The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (formerly The Beatnigs). The band only released one album (1992's Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury), but it was/still remains far ahead of its time. Criminally overlooked and unfortunately all too prescient.

Full official video for the song "Television, The Drug Of The Nation" by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy. Directed by Mark Pellington.http://en.wikipedia...

02/08/2025

I had just turned sixteen when Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back was released. Yo! Bum Rush the Show from 1987 was a solid release, but PE's sophomore album was when the group fully arrived: it was just as pi**ed off as the punk & metal I was already fully immersed in but coming from a NYC black perspective. Still one of the hardest rap albums ever released (and I still have my original LP!).

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02/08/2025

I've been on a big James Baldwin kick as of late and just rewatched the 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro, uncomfortable and essential viewing (especially given our current political climate). My favorite passage from The Fire Next Time (1963):

“It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.”

Baldwin was fierce, fearless, and as relevant today as he was 60+ years ago.

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02/07/2025

Fishbone were the best live band on the planet in the late 80's/early 90's, full stop. I saw them numerous times at Saint Andrew's Hall in Detroit MI, it wasn't just a band playing: it was a full-on nonstop 90 minute party. The energy they put forth night after night was absolutely inhuman and it was impossible to not get caught up in it. I still have yet to see another band that could match the intensity of their early live shows.

June 12, 1987 @ Fenders in Long Beach Ca.The most energetic band I've ever seen.... oh and Jerros the original guitar player from No Doubt does a stage dive ...

02/06/2025

FEBRUARY 06 2025 PLAYLIST

Motörhead - Orgasmatron - Orgasmatron (GWR)

Racetraitor - The Universal Corrective Map of the World - 2042 (Good Fight)

Hey Satan - The Monster - Flamingoes (Cold Smoke)

Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave - Master of Reality (Warner Bros.)

Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Golden Skull - Tales of the Golden Skull (Cardinal Fuzz)

The Sound Reasons - The Five Questions - Today's Another Day (Rogue)

Spinal Tap - Gimme Some Money - Spinal Tap (Polydor)

Billy Bragg & Wilco - All You Fascists - Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)

Pylon - Volume - Gyrate (Roof)

Iggy & the Stooges - Death Trip - Motor City's Burnin' (Alive)

Death By Unga Bunga - I'm Really Old - Raw Muscular Power (Jansen)

The Laughing Chimes - A Promise to Keep - Whispers in The Speech Machine (Slumberland)

Bauhaus - Lagartija Nick - Lagartija (Beggar's Banquet)

Jeannie Piersol - Light Sinking Down - The Nest (High Moon)

The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard - The Seeds (GNP)

Los Sabios - Trip to the Moon - Trip to the Moon (Groovie Records)

The Flaming Sideburns - Walking Dynamite - Crazy Love (Chaputa)

Emanuele Cisi - Pharoah's Message - Rushin' (Right Tempo)

The Guy Hamper Trio - Dog Jaw Woman - Dog Jaw Woman (Spinout Nuggets)

The Cynics - Get My Way - Rock 'N' Roll (Get Hip)

Jeff Dahl & "DEMONS" - Lisa's World - On the Streets and In Our Hearts (Ghost Highway)

Emily Jane Powers - It's Fine - Earnest Jamming Partners (Self Released)

Lee Hazlewood - Long Black Train - Trouble is a Lonesome Town (Mercury)

New York Dolls - Plenty of Music - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This (Roadrunner)

Vanarin - A Fly on the Wall - Hazy Days (Dischi Sotterranei)

SML - Feed the Birds - Small Medium Large (International Anthem)

The Datsuns - Fink for the Man - The Datsuns (V2)

Split Dogs - Lafayette - Here to Destroy (Venn)

X the Band - Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not - Los Angeles (Slash)

Guns N' Roses - Nighttrain - Appetite for Destruction (Geffen)

MEAT WAVE - Dehydrated - Voicemail (Self Released)

1186 - Suicidate - Histeria (Drunken Sailor)

MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT - Burning Dirt - Confessions of a Knife (Wax Trax! Records)

Harsh Symmetry - Quiet Pill - On Screen Death (Self Released)

Heet Deth - High Tower - Bad Reading (Self Released)

Menades - La Hache - Cramee (Self Released)

The Black Halos - Start the Violence - The Violent Years (Sub Pop)

Delivery - Only a Fool - Force Majeure (Heavenly)

The Po' Boys - Cruisin' - Live in Chicago (Self Released)

Disappears - A New Career in a New Town - Low: Live in Chicago (Maple Death)

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02/06/2025

Sometime in the mid 90's (1995?) myself, Mike White of The Projection Booth Podcast fame and another long-time fan had the honor of seeing comedian/musician/actor/filmmaker/producer/etc Rudy Ray Moore perform stand-up before a screening of The Avenging Disco Godfather at The Magic Bag in Ferndale MI. We'd all been watching his movies/listening to his albums for years so this was a HUGE night for us. Moore self-financed his landmark 1975 film Dolemite, which is still considered one of the greatest blaxploitation films of all time. I still have the autographed t-shirt from 30 years ago buried somewhere in storage.

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02/05/2025

Everything louder than everyone else today on CHIRP Radio 107.1FM 3:00pm - 6:00pm CT.

02/04/2025

I just recently discovered that my mother (who is now in her 80's) saw Sammy Davis Jr. perform live in Windsor ON when she was a teenager. She still swears that he was the most amazing performer she's ever seen and even met him afterwards. Singer, actor, musician, comedian, dancer, Grammy/Emmy award winner...Sammy was arguably the most accomplished entertainer of all time (and the most talented member of the Rat Pack, hands down). No one else comes close.

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02/03/2025

I was gifted the self-titled/Maggot Brain LP's by Funkadelic by my best friend when I was 15 years old (both still reside in my collection). Up until that point I was largely only familiar with more radio-friendly funk/soul, hearing the opening track on the S/T album for the first time was another life-changing moment. Still the heaviest groove ever put to wax.

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02/02/2025

Chicago's own Cyclone Temple were one of the most criminally underrated thrash bands of the early 90's. Guitarist Gee Fulltone could hang with (and surpass) any of the big names at the time when it came to riffs that would f**k you up for days. 1991's I Hate Therefore I Am was in constant rotation my first couple years of college and I was lucky enough to see Cyclone Temple (twice!) at Blondie's (Detroit MI, RIP) in front of a small but enthusiastic crowd. Thank you for the music, Greg.

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02/01/2025

In observation of , I'll be posting throughout February honoring some of my favorite black artists, starting with the band that changed the course of my life (as they did with countless others) at the young/impressionable age of 13.

https://www.gofundme.com/drknowbadbrainsMUSIC VIDEO. 720p 'HD' From the album 'I Against I' (1986)LYRICS:In the quest for the test to fulfill an achievemente...