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hi everyone.  how's it going?  i'm all right - pretty far away in a country called belgium.  it's about the same size as maryland and about the same shape as, hmm, i don't know, an oval?  a little big squiggly though round the edges, though. 

anyway, i'm far away, but the radio continues to cradle us in its familiar arms.  what's happening this week, you ask?  well, let me just say:

What a great day to Inside Track at 9 PM tonight!  This week tune in to catch a brand new compilation from Sub Rosa called Everything is Sh*t: Punk In Brussels 1977-79.  Despite the release name, the tracks within are all individually sparkling gems.  Although this compilation sets its sights on a relatively short time period and on a nascent genre of music, the sounds on here are remarkably varied, innovative and interesting.  Tune in for an in-depth dissection of a region whose punk music you maybe never thought about. 

Tune into the New Science Experience to hear WXYC's Tommy M live mixing some of his favorite tracks from the 2010's including Andy Stott, Evian Christ and more.  This Friday 10-Midnight!

This week on Hell or High Water, the sounds of Detroit's Girl Groups will be featured. Synthesizing rock n' roll inspired sounds with R&B sounds from Memphis, the mecca of Soul, Girl Groups flourished in the urban north during the 1950s and 1960s. Detroit, a popular hub for Southern migrants has long been an area fertile with blues. Girl Groups reinvented these blues sounds and added popular doowop and rock sounds to craft a distinctly Detroit product. Tune in to explore the genre bending beginnings that Girl Groups helped propel. 

At 2pm this Sunday, listen to to Broken Music to delve in to this week's offerings of WXYC's more challenging spot of weekly programming.  You're sure to hear something new and exciting to round out a week of musical exploration.

Get ~very spooky~ this Monday on the Outside Track with Polish freak performance art/music collective Kakofonikt.  This release is apparently inspired by the being of cactuses.  Extreme electronics in the form of rave-like bass-explosions and pure-processed noise. But also a saxophone and INSANE vocals.  Bleeps and bleeps, alarm noises. The sounds on this release are truly all over the place, sometimes sounding like an electro-acoustic soundtrack to Transformers 3, sometimes sounding like a psyched-out terror-trip.  Everything is absolutely sonically luscious and seemingly virtuosic.  The group name resembles cacophony, but these sounds come off as clearly planned and fitting.  Tune in and find out for yourself what a cactus sounds like!