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By Jack Silbert on May 20, 2025
EPISODE #642: MOVING The Smithereens — “House We Used To Live In” [ALTERNATE THEME]Nick Lowe — “House for Sale”Springhouse — “Moving Van” Wimp Factor 14 — “Change of Address Kit” Basic Bitches — “We All Moved to the City, Now We Can’t Afford to Live” Butthole Surfers — “Moving to Florida”Charley Patton — “Going to […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Art Brut, Basic Bitches, Butthole Surfers, Charley Patton, Freedy Johnston, Grant Hart, John Hiatt, Martha, Nick Lowe, Spit-take, Springhouse, The Smithereens, The Smiths, Times New Viking, Wimp Factor 14
By Jack Silbert on April 22, 2025
EPISODE #638: POSTCARDS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Spiral Jetty — “Tourists Send Postcards”Spit-take — “Postcard” First Aid Kit — “Postcard” The Coctails — “Postcard” The Lucksmiths — “Postcard”Gary Olson — “Postcard From Lisbon” Ballboy — “Postcards From the Beach” Half Japanese — “Postcards From Far Away” Moustache of Insanity — “Postcards to Strangers”Wimp Factor […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Ballboy, First Aid Kit, Gary Olson, Half Japanese, Iron & Wine, Lemonheads, Monster Bobby, Moustache of Insanity, Salem 66, Spiral Jetty, Spit-take, The Coctails, The Lucksmiths, Wimp Factor 14
By Jack Silbert on February 7, 2023
EPISODE #524: 2/9/23 “HEROES OF INDIEPOP” PET SHOP SHOW PREVIEW Jack Silbert, promoter and emcee The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Mary Lou Lord — “His Indie World” Tullycraft — “Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend’s Too Stupid To Know About”Wimp Factor Fourteen — “Train Song”Vehicle Flips — ”Diplomacy, Home and Abroad” The Gazetteers — “Trapped Inside […]
Posted in internet radio playlists, shameless self-promotion | Tagged Joy Cleaner, Laura Veirs, Liquorice, Makeout Vertigo, Nothing Painted Blue, Pet Shop JC, Skateboard Kyle, The Ekphrastics, The Human Hearts, Tullycraft, Vehicle Flips, Wimp Factor 14, Wimp Factor Fourteen
By Jack Silbert on April 21, 2020
EPISODE #379: POSTAL SERVICEDonald Trump doesn’t want to bail out the U.S. Postal Service. We vehemently disagree. The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Flaming Lips — “Lightning Strikes the Postman”The American Analog Set — “The Postman”The Beatles — “Please Mister Postman”Buddy Holly — “Please Mailman Bring Me No More Blues”The Operators — “What the Mailman […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged American Analog Set, Beatles, Bob Mould, Buddy Holly, Flaming Lips, Franklin Bruno, Honey Radar, I'm From Barcelona, Jason Falkner, King's Daughters & Sons, Laura Cantrell, Long Neck, R. Stevie Moore, Spit-take, The Box Tops, The Marshmallows, The Operators, Wimp Factor 14
By Jack Silbert on April 17, 2019
EPISODE #326: WORLD LANDMARKS in honor of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, which caught fire on April 15, 2019 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Stade de France crowd, 2007 Rugby World Cup — “La Marseillaise”Morrissey — “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris”Eels — “In Our Cathedral”Rose Melberg — “Golden Gate Bridge”Public Service Broadcasting — “Everest”XTC […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Cathedral of Notre Dame, Charlie Poole, Chisel, Eels, Hilly Eye, Jacques Dutronc, Morrissey, New Pornographers, Paris, Public Service Broadcasting, Radiohead, Rose Melberg, Spinal Tap, Ted Leo, Wimp Factor 14, Wimp Factor Fourteen, XTC
By Jack Silbert on March 15, 2019
EPISODE #321: INFORMATION The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Dave Edmunds — “Information”Brother J.T. — “T.M.I.” [r.i.p. Ron Kuhn]Joan Jett & the Blackhearts — “TMI”Beck — “The Information”Shuggie Otis — “Inspiration Information”Ex Cops — “Jazz & Information”Wimp Factor 14 — “Infotainted”Wire — “Lowdown”The Jesus & Mary Chain — “Facing Up to the Facts”Delia Derbyshire — “Frontier […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Beck, Brother J.T., Dave Edmunds, Delia Derbyshire, Ex Cops, Fastbacks, Hypnolovewheel, Operation Ivy, Plastic Bubble, Steve Goodman, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Wimp Factor 14, Wimp Factor Fourteen, Wire, XL Kings
By Jack Silbert on March 25, 2014
EPISODE #121: MY 45s The Unlovables — “Jersey Boy” [ALTERNATE THEME] The Police — “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” Queen — “Flash” The Rolling Stones — “Start Me Up” The Cars — “Shake It Up” The Jacksons — “Enjoy Yourself” Lou Reed — “Vicious” The Who — “Athena” David Bowie — “Modern […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Electric Light Orchestra, Full of Fancy, Joan Jett, Karl Hendricks Trio, Lou Reed, Michael Jackson, Nick Lowe, popular music, Queen, R.E.M., Rolling Stones, the Cars, The Hooters, The Jackons, The Police, The Unlovables, The Who, unpopular music, Wimp Factor 14
By Jack Silbert on November 3, 2013
Maybe you’ve seen the name Frank B. on this site. Back in early 2008, Frank Boscoe invited me to become a contributor to Salt in Wound. Twenty years earlier, he was my music director at WRCT, the radio station of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Frank had a strong influence on my developing musical […]
Posted in personal history | Tagged #Poundsign#, Carnegie Mellon, Frank Boscoe, Jerry Fuchs, Leital Molad, meta, Pittsburgh, Rob Christiansen, Stephen Vesecky, The Gazetteers, unpopular music, Vehicle Flips, WFXIV, Wimp Factor 14, Wimp Factor Fourteen, WNYC, WRCT
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