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02/08/2024

A Deep dive into The Tear Garden. Legendary Pink Dots lyricist. vocalist and keyboard player Edward Ka-Spel and Skinny Puppy founder and multi-instrumentalist cEvin Key.

Very High Frequencies 209 is a two hour trip through long running experimental electronic project The Tear Garden. Since 1985 Legendary Pink Dots lyricist. vocalist and keyboard player Edward Ka-Spel and Skinny Puppy founder and multi-instrumentalist cEvin Key have been collaborating on producing th...

26/07/2024

VHF-208 (XTC) is packed with some of the English band’s hits and deep studio cuts, and B-sides from the dozen albums they released.

VHF-208 (XTC) is packed with some of the English band’s hits and deep studio cuts, and B-sides from the dozen albums they released. We also feature a few of their side projects like Mr. Partridge (dub remixes) and The Dukes Of Stratosphear (Psychedelic rock) . This VHF episode demonstrates how the...

20/07/2024

Very High Frequencies highlights London, England metal band Orange Goblin. After 27 years of waving the heavy music flag they are about to drop album number ten, Science, Not Fiction. It’s getting great reviews and based on the three songs released so far I can understand why.

Very High Frequencies highlights London, England metal band Orange Goblin. After 27 years of waving the heavy music flag they are about to drop album number ten, Science, Not Fiction. It’s getting great reviews and based on the three songs released so far I can understand why. VHF-207 (Orange Gobl...

12/07/2024

VHF-206 (Concrete Blonde) presents the alternative rock band born in the sweaty clubs on the Hollywood circuit of the early eighties.

VHF-206 (Concrete Blonde) presents the alternative rock band born in the sweaty clubs on the Hollywood circuit of the early eighties. Originally known as Dream 6, the three piece group caught the attention of IRS records. Lablemate REM vocalist Michael Stipe suggested changing the band’s name to C...

05/07/2024

Very High Frequencies is pumping up the bass this week with an alternative mix of Ministry tunes. (VHF-205 Ministry - Dubsonic Frequencies) is compiled of tracks throughout Uncle Al’s long career.

Very High Frequencies is pumping up the bass this week with an alternative mix of Ministry tunes. (VHF-205 Ministry - Dubsonic Frequencies) is compiled of tracks throughout Uncle Al’s long career. We’re focusing on rare tracks; some dating from the very early ‘80’s that record labels initial...

29/06/2024

Very High Frequencies invites you to join our Ladies Night on this week’s episode. Girls, girls, girls! That’s right, Not Dead Yet Mike has scoured the vault for a collection of everyone’s favorite songs with girls names in the title.

Very High Frequencies invites you to join our Ladies Night on this week’s episode. Girls, girls, girls! That’s right, Not Dead Yet Mike has scoured the vault for a collection of everyone’s favorite songs with girls names in the title. And a few tunes featuring women’s names in the title that...

22/06/2024

VHF-203 (Leonard Cohen) samples some of the music created by the late Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist. He passed away on November 7, 2016.. Leonard was 82 years old young.

VHF-203 (Leonard Cohen) samples some of the music created by the late Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist. He passed away on November 7, 2016.. Leonard was 82 years old young. Leonard Cohen was first and foremost a poet. In the late 1950’s and early ‘60’s he was a full time poet and...

08/06/2024

Very High Frequencies examines alternative music’s wide ranging songs with Angel in the title. It seems Angels are like snowflakes and no two are alike.

Very High Frequencies examines alternative music’s wide ranging songs with Angel in the title. It seems Angels are like snowflakes and no two are alike. Siouxsie’s had enough; it’s Exterminating Angel for the Creatures. Let me digress. Here’s the thing about angels. We have good angels, bad ...

01/06/2024

Styx Myx is dedicated to the local president of the Tommy Shaw Fan Club of 1977, the honorable D-Man himself. That guy never misses a Tommy Shaw show! Roadtrip, Woohoo!

Very High Frequencies is celebrating our 200th episode of the legendary weekly show on radio Alternative music.com! We are boldly going to highlight a rock band that has a cheeky cheesy checkered history. But it wasn’t always so. Like a lot of groups, this Chicago outfit tried a variety of styles ...

26/05/2024

VHF-199 (Abracadabra) is an entire episode of songs about wizards & witches and their like. This isn’t a Halloween show, it’s a collection of songs about magical people and the mind blowing reality that such beings enlighten upon the uninitiated. Bands and artists from five decades of rock music represent the arcane knowledge and mystical realms that the modern world is blind to its existence. Expect some heavy hitters on this episode of Very High Frequencies. Triptykon, Witchfinder General, Cough, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Type O Negative, Mercyful Fate, Blood Ceremony, Witch, Lucifer, Angel Witch and a hell of a lot more all have a tune about witches and wizards. This week it’s all about magic on Very High Frequencies 199 Abracadabra!

VHF-199 (Abracadabra) is an entire episode of songs about wizards & witches and their like. This isn’t a Halloween show, it’s a collection of songs about magical people and the mind blowing reality that such beings enlighten upon the uninitiated. Bands and artists from five decades of rock m...

25/05/2024

Neds live at Lees Palace in Toronto. July 18, 1991.

18/05/2024

A deep dive into the vaults of Wax Trax Records.

VHF-198 (Wax Trax! Records VHF Highlights) is a salute to the Chicago independent record label. When TVT Records bought the rights to Wax Trax! they released a triple CD box set with a lot of songs from the many artists on the label, released between 1980 to 1993. Some bands made it to bigger labels...

04/05/2024

Cyberaktif vs Related Artists. After four decades in sleep mode Canadian electro industrial outfit Cyberaktif has released a new album. Endgame is packed with meticulously produced and programmed electronic songs with multilayered vocals. You’re going to like this. Here’s the skinny on the band. In 1990 / 91 cEvin Key, Duane Rudolph Gotell and Bill Leeb had a Skinny Puppy / Front Line Assembly side project called Cyberaktif. Two extended singles, Temper & Nothing Stays came out in 1990. They were followed up with full length album Tenebre Vision in 1991. Sadly the project was abandoned after Duane died from a he**in overdose in 1995.

VHF-196 Cyberaktif vs Related Artists. After four decades in sleep mode Canadian electro industrial outfit Cyberaktif has released a new album. Endgame is packed with meticulously produced and programmed electronic songs with multilayered vocals. You’re going to like this. Here’s the skinny on t...

26/04/2024

VHF-195 (Kraftwerk 45678) is a two hour voyage of frequencies and modulations generated by the ground breaking German electronic band Kraftwerk.

VHF-195 (Kraftwerk 45678) is a two hour voyage of frequencies and modulations generated by the ground breaking German electronic band Kraftwerk. Very High Frequencies samples and holds songs from the band’s fourth album up to their eighth. After three free form experimental albums that didn’t ge...

19/04/2024

Very High Frequencies is demonstrating the musical and lyrical evolution of one of Alternative Music’s heaviest hitters, very long running L.A. four piece, Tool.

VHF-194 (TOOL) Very High Frequencies is demonstrating the musical and lyrical evolution of one of Alternative Music’s heaviest hitters, very long running L.A. four piece, Tool. From their first E.P., released in 1992, the band have consistently raged against the machine. First single Hush called o...

15/04/2024

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Very High Frequencies 193 (Robert Fripp) explores a small amount of the guitar craft Mr Robert Fripp has created in his long musical journey. We are highlighting some of the work Robert has released outside of his hugely popular musical collaborations with the various permutations of King Crimson. V...

06/04/2024

VHF-192 (Scorpions 74-78) explores the early era of legendary German rockers Scorpions. Before they achieved huge success with power ballads like Rock Me Like A Hurricane and sing along chants such as Winds Of Change the band actually rocked hard.

VHF-192 (Scorpions 74-78) explores the early era of legendary German rockers Scorpions. Before they achieved huge success with power ballads like Rock Me Like A Hurricane and sing along chants such as Winds Of Change the band actually rocked hard. Backstory in 1972 they released a morose psychedelic...

29/03/2024

VHF-191 (Altsentials 101) is one essential track from some iconic Alternative Music artists. Hugely successful bands like The Cure, Killing Joke, Siouxsie and The Banshees, and Echo & The Bunnymen get the one and done treatment. Lesser known but influential artists get a chance to represent as well. American Death Rockers Christian Death, The Cramps and T.S.O.L. bring a goth punk sensibility that gels well with English outfits Joy Division, Bauhaus and The Sisters Of Mercy. First wave artists and bands are given a single track as well. David Bowie & Roxy Music have songs from the early seventies. Su***de, Ramones, Iggy Pop, S*x Pistols and Hawkwind all gave songs from 1977. Alice Cooper goes high wire new wave in 1980. Peter Gabriel, King Crimson and Kate Bush illuminate with pop prog masterpieces. Nine Inch Nails fire up their pretty hate machine and Type O Negative are always ready for Halloween. Skinny Puppy gnaws on a bone while Gary Numan & Tubeway Army hang down in the park. Ministry share a sermon about thieves and The Lords Of The New Church remind you to open your eyes. And Henry Rollins wants you to know that Black Flag is throwing a TV party tonight! VHF-191 (Altsentials 101)

VHF-191 (Altsentials 101) is one essential track from some iconic Alternative Music artists. Hugely successful bands like The Cure, Killing Joke, Siouxsie and The Banshees, and Echo & The Bunnymen get the one and done treatment. Lesser known but influential artists get a chance to represent as w...

22/03/2024

VHF-190 (Nine Inch Nails - Cleveland Rocks!) manages to sample a track from nearly every single Halo release in the band’s phenomenally successful career. If you weren’t there you might not realize that their debut single Down In It announced it’s get go to the dancefoor right away. Freaks and...

16/03/2024

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VHF-189 (Inter Arma) introduces a progressive metal band out of Richmond, Virginia. Active since 2006, the group has a new album out next month. We will be checking out the title track but before that annihilates your eardrums Not Dead Yet Mike is playing a selection of songs from earlier albums and EP’s, mainly material released in the last decade. Heavy rhythmic drumming is the foundation for songs that often weave in a tribal or militaristic pattern. Twin guitars trade melodic leads while the bass roams subsonic frequencies. The vocals are a mixture of clean and death metal. The group has released a covers album so we’re going to hear the group interpret Ministry, Neil Young, Nine Inch Nails and a few others. Occasionally tunes can last well over ten minutes. There’s even a 45 minute long song called The Cavern that has elements of classic prog rock interspersing with very heavy sections. Keyboard flourishes bring a Pink Floyd type of sound into the mix. Very High Frequencies aims to enlighten the listeners to a fascinating alternative metal outfit that is doing their own thing while nodding to the music that they loved to rock out to.

VHF-189 (Inter Arma) introduces a progressive metal band out of Richmond, Virginia. Active since 2006, the group has a new album out next month. We will be checking out the title track but before that annihilates your eardrums Not Dead Yet Mike is playing a selection of songs from earlier albums and...

11/03/2024

Very High Frequencies flashes back to The Electric Hellfire Club. (VHF-188 EHC) More psycho than psychedelic, the group of devil worshipping serial killer sampling no goodniks was a bit too much back in 1991. In a time before metal lite outfit Ghost made it big shouting at the devil and the dark lord Marilyn Manson was just a spooky kid Thomas Thorn aka Buck Ryder departed My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. With his new cohorts they made an evil doppelgänger band that ramped up the Devil mojo with horror movie samples. From 1991 to 2002 the band tried to be shocking and toured with like minded freaks. With their forked tongues firmly in cheek the Satan shtick morphed towards Norwegian Black Metal industrial by 2002, which was perhaps too much for the dance clubs. Very High Frequencies slices through the heart of the band’s catalog. Social commentary is weaved throughout the lyrics. Comedy gold lies within the odes to Evil. Heavy but melodic keyboards and guitars rock out in between serial killer prison confessions and B movie soundbites. Charles Manson and his Family feature quite a lot. EHC also did a Hell of a lot of cover songs. Mostly each cover song happens to be about Satan but Bela Lugosi gets a shoutout too. Come for the decadence - that may seem quaint by today’s standards - but do what thou wilt and enjoy the revolting black humor of the bad boys and girls, The Electric Hellfire Club.

Very High Frequencies flashes back to The Electric Hellfire Club. (VHF-188 EHC) More psycho than psychedelic, the group of devil worshipping serial killer sampling no goodniks was a bit too much back in 1991. In a time before metal lite outfit Ghost made it big shouting at the devil and the dark lor...

04/03/2024

Spin magazine March 1988. Robert Smith talks about The Cure’s 10 year anniversary and the success of the latest album “Kiss Me Kiss me Kiss Me.

03/03/2024

VHF-187 (Jane’s Addiction) takes the Very High Frequencies trip backwards through time to reverberate the golden daze of 1991, the year of alternative music’s Woodstock. That is the first incarnation of Lollapalooza, featuring as the final biggest band, L.A.’s Jane’s Addiction.

Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins and Eric Avery led a freakshow caravan across North America. Deadheads, metal dudes and Cure fans mixed together with every conceivable counter culture possibility. No wonder their breakout studio album from 1988 was titled Nothing’s Shocking. Been there, injected that. S*x, drugs and rock and roll, that’s all my body needs.

In 1990 MTV found some less lyrically offensive material on Jane’s follow up album, Ritual De Lo Habitual. Constant video rotation propelled the band to success and the opportunity for a lavish lifestyle. Sadly that lifestyle was nearly a death style for some of the band members. Friction between the users and the clean caused the group to dissolve.

That is until members could get control of their habits.

By the time the band released their third studio album, 2003’s Strays, the buzz was forgotten by many and it seemed the group’s momentum had dissipated. VHF gives the record a second chance and determines it packs a punch. Strays is produced by Dave Navarro’s childhood hero, the legendary Bob Ezrin, the man that produced Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd and a zillion others at their career apexes.

Fourth studio album The Great Escape Artist came out in 2011. It managed to retain the high energy buzz of the original releases while utilizing modern recording technology. Not Dead Yet Mike gives the album a fair shake and plays a few personal favorites.

A few early live songs from the 1987 self titled album demonstrate the band’s unique approach to music. Cover songs reveal the band’s influences. The sounds created by Lou Reed, the Stones, and the Grateful Dead can all be heard in some of the group’s own songs.

Expect some of the hits but stay for the whole party because you may just be wholly impressed. Check it out this week on Very High Frequencies Jane’s Addiction show.

y conceivable counter culture possibility. No wonder their breakout studio album from 1988 was titled Nothing’s Shocking. Been there, injected that. S*x, drugs and rock and roll, that’s all my body needs. In 1990 MTV found some less lyrically offensive material on Jane’s follow up album, Ritua...

26/02/2024

August 1978.
Press release and retail solicitation sheet for the US release of Klaatu’s third album “Sir Army Suit”.

24/02/2024

Episode 186: Valentine’s Day Show - We Heart You! Celebrates Cupid’s big day with sometimes mushy love songs by a bunch of alternative artists. We’ve got tunes about being your boyfriend, being your girlfriend, wanting your best friend’s girl and fear not, we have more than one song about digging your girlfriend’s girlfriend.

A set of songs mentioning hearts examines the holiday in a slightly different angle. Finally we will hear some heartfelt laments that call out the Muse herself, Love, in their titles.

Just some of this week’s contributors include The Sisters Of Mercy, Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Queen, Ramones, Kate Bush, The Cure, The The, Peter Gabriel, PJ Harvey, King Crimson, Blondie, Depeche Mode, The Cramps, The Cars, Type O Negative, Peter Murphy, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Echo & The Bunnymen, Crocodiles, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Todd Rundgren, and a few more surprises. It seems just about everyone has an opinion to express concerning their views on Love and Romance.

Join Not Dead Yet Mike for a fun & festive party! We’re having a Very High Frequencies Valentine’s Day show this week, and you’re cordially invited because we heart you!

Episode 186 (Valentine’s Day Show - We Heart You!) celebrates Cupid’s big day with sometimes mushy love songs by a bunch of alternative artists. We’ve got tunes about being your boyfriend, being your girlfriend, wanting your best friend’s girl and fear not, we have more than one song about d...

20/02/2024

Feature story in International Musician magazine in June 1991 to promote the release of "Baby".

19/02/2024

From April 1983, an original promo poster (23" x 22") for the Violent Femmes self-titled debut album on Slash Records.

18/02/2024

January 1985 Zigzag magazine cover star Nick Cave.

16/02/2024

A two hour trip through Josh Hommes’ long-running band, Queens Of The Stone Age. Each album in their catalog gets a couple/few tracks highlighted, along with a few b-sides from EP’s and singles. There will be unexpected cover songs performed too. When choosing material to cover clearly the band members said Never Say Never. Tune in to hear the range and variety the group exhibits. Not a band to repeat themselves, each album has it’s own unique personality. Last year’s highly acclaimed album, In Times New Roman, is featured prominently. In typical Very High Frequency fashion don’t expect an onslaught string of their biggest hits solely from their two best selling albums, Rated R and Songs For The Deaf. Of course you’ll hear some of your favorites from those albums, but they’ll be packed in between somewhat under-appreciated deep cuts and perhaps even a track from an obscure Josh Homme side project with former members of famous rock bands. Not to reveal too much information but let’s say Nirvana and Led Zeppelin. Come for the Hits & stay for the highly enjoyable entertainment, this week on Very High Frequencies, Queens Of The Stone Age Show. Crank it up, dude!

VHF-185 (QOTSA) is a two hour trip through Josh Hommes’ long running band, Queens Of The Stone Age. Each album in their catalog gets a couple/few tracks highlighted, along with a few b-sides from EP’s and singles. There will be unexpected cover songs performed too. When choosing material to cove...

12/02/2024

April 1982 XTC flexi-disc from Trouser Press magazine. Blame The Weather + Tissue Tigers.