Your selectrix Erika Elizabeth brings you an episode of MRR Radio recorded from her satellite outpost in Portland, featuring some of the many post-punk obscurities & DIY weirdos covered in her Futures & Pasts column for MRR!

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Intro song:
TARZAN 5 – Boys Game

Destroy/Create
GET SMART! – Just For the Moment
TOUGH CUSTOMER – Clean & Clear
OUT ON BLUE SIX – Party Mood
SUBURBAN WIVES CLUB – Guru Eye
OCCULT CHEMISTRY – Fire

Shut Up/Relax
MARAUDEUR – Institutions
CATASTROPHE BIZARRE – Furniture
PLAYTHINGS – Sit Down (Stand Up)
CONDITIONER – (We’re Living in a) Fashion Void
VISITORS – Electric Heat

Make A Break With You
MODEL CITIZENS – Animal Instincts
PHANTOM FORTH – I Don’t Know You
SEND NO FLOWERS – Playing for Time
THE SHIFTERS – Creggan Shops
THE PHOTOGRAPHS – Second Best

Lost/Found
CHANDRA – Get It Out of Your System
POLIO CLUB – Poison the Well

Outro Song:
THE VITAS – Roses

Layla and Robert transform the MRR compound into a shadowy portal into a shambolic new reality in which the AFTER BIRTH 45 is the only light.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:25 — 80.3MB)

Intro song:
TERRY – Chitter Chatter

Layla plays some recently reviewed 45s
EXECUTIVES – Drill Press
ON ON ON – Is Not Kidding
NEEDLE EXCHANGE – Psycho
RAZZ – No Time
SHIFTERS – Craggon shops

Robert plays some Oklahoman obscurities from the MRR archive
ILLEGITIMATE SONS OF JACKIE O – Perversion Circus
FACE FIRST – You Don’t I Won’t
FENSICS – Tornado Warning
DEATH PUPPY – Dress for Success
RANDYS – Aggravated

Layla selects the most gone, the most bankable
THE KLITZ – Bankable Girl
BONEHEAD – Gone Girl
FAILED FLOWERS – Building
SUSAN – Down the Drain
FOXFACE – Tar

Some recent reissues for your brain cells to reconfigure
DER ZUSTAND – Neu ist Zeit
JUNGLE NAUSEA – Sympathy
SILVER ABUSE – Idi Amin’s Tortoise
MIKE REP AND THE QUOTAS – Black Hole 78

It’s a cold mysterious existence
NOTS – Cold Line
FUTURO – Mysterioso
COLD MEAT – Example

Outro song:
LOBOTOMIA – FFA

Matt and guest DJ Sarah whip up an hour of all German (and one Austrian) punk tunes. Prost!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:10 — 81.3MB)

Intro song:
UPRIGHT CITIZENS – Fuck the Army

Erhebe Deine Hand Gegen Deutsches Vaterland!
VORKRIEGSJUGEND – Vaterland
BUTTOCKS – Kill the Pigs
R.A.F. GIER – Sheer Heart Attack
HONKAS – Das Lied Für Fritz
HARNRØHRER – Manchmal Habe Ich’s Satt

Zippy ist ein Hippie
ÖSTRO 430 – S-Bahn
SCHUND – Terror
BÄRCHEN UND DIE MILCHBUBIS – Egal
NAMENLOS – MFS
HANS-A-PLAST – Kurz und Dreckig

Die Stimmung Wird Dunkel
BOXHAMSTERS – In Dieser Zeit
DROWNING ROSES – Aus Forschung und Technik
EA80 – Dr. Murkes
FLIEHENDE STÜRME – Ich Habe Geschrien
NEUROTIC ARSEHOLES – SWAPOland

Wie Steht es Denn Mit Dir, Schmeckt Dir Nur Warmes Bier
ROTZKOTZ – Kein Problem
TOLLWUT – Sommer 81
ARTLESS – Mein Bruder is’ en Popper
ISOLERBAND – Keine Gnade
A+P – Dachau

Outro song:
JUNGE FRONT – Bullenschwein

Rob and Frog play some favorite fall jams including an all Ian MacKaye set. Earphones on and volume up! All on MRR Radio!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:52 — 82.3MB)

Intro song:
RITES OF SPRING – Spring

Rob – All Ian MacKaye all the time
THE TEEN IDLES – The Teen Idles
MINOR THREAT – Filler
SKEWBALD/GRAND UNION – Sorry/Change’ for the Same
EMBRACE – Give Me Back
EGGHUNT – We All Fall Down
FUGAZI – Burning
PAILHEAD – I Will Refuse

Frog – Hula Hoops to the Classics
NO FISH ON FRIDAY – Retired
VIVID SEKT – Common Disinterest
BUTTHOLE SURFERS – Barb-B-Q Pope
WIRE – I Am the Fly

Frog – Smashes the State With Just Six Songs
DUTRONC – Les Cactus
THE SQUARES – Delmona, the Temptress of Love
THE JUDYS – Ghost in a’ Bikini
MUMMIES – Hairy Mary
BIG BLACK – The Ugly American
TRIBE 8 – Wrong Bathroom

Outro song:
THE STERILLES – On the Rag