Smashin' Transistors

The 50th episode of Smashin' Transistors! That makes us gold, right? What you'll hear: The Beaubeins – Times Passed Hash Redactor – Open Invites To The Caves Red Mass – Show Me The Money Lassie – Deposit Bottles The Shifters – John Doe's Collegue -words from your host- The That's Thats – More Wolfmanhattan Project – Now Now Now Crosscut Sores – Dead Hit The Staches – Fake Stomach Ache Public Interest – Passing Glances -words from your host- Science Man – Love Potent TAD – High On The Hog Hello Hooray – Cherries Light The Way Clinic- Flying Fish Jack Oblivian – Good Time Bad Girl -words from your host- Toeheads – Going Steady Isolation Party – Sleeves Andy Human & the Reptoids – You Like Your Job The Dandelion – Message From The Fire The Rationals – Leaving Here -words from your host-

"I got a truck that'll mess you up."   'Round here, those words aren't said much. The looks flashed from people in such trucks say it without even uttering a word. The Kid Rock CD they have blasting out the truck while giving such a stare is used as some sort of punctuation of the point.   What you'll hear: Paul McCartney-Eat At Home Spiritualized – Here It Comes (The Road) Let's Go Rubber Room – Chemical Imbalance Writhing Squares – Bloodborne Hate and Black Book Mass Functional Blackouts – Looking Good On The Way Down -words from your host- The Cowboys – Some Things Never Change Altered Images – Forgotten Gil Bronx Orchestra – Haunted House Richard Vain- Punks Inbred Mumzees – Initial Decay -words from your host- The Stools - Don't Need Nothing The Higher State – Ten Clear Petals Long Hots – Nickel and Dime Eleventh Dream Day – Teenage Pin Queen Public Interests – Flies In The Cemetary -words from your host- Abjects – The Storm Hash Redactor - B

The calendar is full of rumors. The Vernal Equinox corroborates. What you'll hear. Can - I'm So Green Cameo - Alligator Woman Obnox - Find My Way Celebrity Handshake - It Takes All Kinds of Bones Murderer - Tomorrow The World Is Yours -words from your host- Red Mass - Crooked DANA - Cupid Cold Feet - Buried in a Hole Primitiv Parts - Internet Ice Baths - Replacer -words from your host- The Writhing Squares - Steely Eyed Missile Man Martha and the Muffins - Paint by Number Heart Andy Human & The Reptoids - Autism 4 2 Straight Arrows - Headache The Cowboys - Wet Behind the Eyes -words from your host- Midnight Mines - Innocent Sorcerers Low Life - Rave Slave Wingtip Sloat - Gizzard Jett The Yolks - Get Back Let's Active - In Between -words from your host-

In this episode of Smashin' Transistors, you may experience some touched minds. You for sure will witness them being lost and racked.   What you'll hear:   Waylon Jennings - One of My Bad Habits Vanity - Glad To Not Nutrition - Leave Me Gino and the Goons - She Was Crushed Bauhaus - The Dive -words from your host- Phylums - Stung Chronophage - She Paid the Ultimate Price Blondie - Picture This Wingtip Sloat - Stars Bailed Out Cid Campeador - Ella No Sabe Que Existo -words from your host- Headroom - New Heaven Timmy Vulgar's Genetic Armageddon - Food Swamp Matchbox - Metaphysical composition The Thingz - Lost My Mind The Drags - Allergic Reaction -words from your host- Royal Trux - Year of the Dog The Yardbirds - Rack My Mind Dry Cleaning - Phone Scam David Nance Group - When I Saw You Last Night Jackie Shane - Comin' Down -words from your host-   You can also subscribe to the Smashin' Transistors show on  Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Radio Mutation and Spotify.   Get even more Smashin' Transistors action at Face

Every winter I swear it's the most schizophrenic one we've had weather wise ever. This year it truly seems to be true. And February is hardly half over and it seems longer than its ever been too. A permanent change of scenery is on our to-do list indeed Servings of sound help daily travels through a grey expanse though. What you'll hear on this episode: Bohemian Vendetta - Like Stoned Timmy Vulgar's Genetic Armageddon - Suction Cup Hands Pram - Bewitched Mope Grooves - Moving Dot Qlowski - Golden Boy -words from the host- Heavy Metal – Gasmask Factory Murderer - Juicy Fruit Dream Flying Saucer Attack - Make Me Dream Tim Presley's White Fence - Neighborhood Light Long Hots - Die Die Die -words from the host- Obnox - Off Ya Ass Al Doum & the Faryds - Satieva Cold Cream - First They Came Beyond The Implode - Midnight Adventures Parsnip - Winter -words from the host- Graveblocker - Get Hit Andy Human & The Reptoids - Echo Pedal Chronophage - Dance to Guitar Vanity - You Can't Have B

Did you make any resolutions for the new year? Mine is to try to never act like Veruca Salt. There's an attention loving blob in this country who acts that way enough for an entire planet already. What you'll hear:    Lotti Golden - Get Together (With Yourself)  Natural Man & the Flamin' Hot Band - Song About Your City  Gargoyle Sox - Pink Little Playhouse  Young Skulls - We're Gone  Public Enemy - You're Gonna Get Yours  -words from your host-  Bad Sports - Living With Secrets  The Mark Vodka Group - Shadow Of Your Former Self  Priors - At Your Leisure  Wire - Once Is Enough  Donkey Bugs - Three Times Fast  -words from your host-  Hecks - The Thaw  No Age - Soft Collar Fad  Schizos - I'm Not a Sicko There's a Plate in My Head  Royal Trux - White Stuff  Rats - Turtle Dove  -words from your host-   Jackson Politick - Psycho-mania   Ten High - Ursula   Cheater Slicks - Another Stab  Junkpile Jimmy - Priest of Set   Halo of Flies - Headburn  -words from your host- You can also subscribe to the Smashin' T

How do we end the year Smashin' Transistors fake radio show style? Episode 44 might be it but don't hold me to it until 11:59 pm on December 31st, ok? What you'll hear: A Certain Ratio - All Night Party Rex Wonderful & The Silk Sheets - Mimosas  A Moms - Modern Noise  Rhys Bloodjoy - Reflections Of A Girl  Neo Neos - It's Just That Easy  -words from your host- The Resource Network - Fix my Hair  Brandy - Horse Chorus  The Shifters - Straight Lines Metropak - Run Run Run  the Cult of Lip - Dream  -words from your host- U-Nix - Nerve  Obnox - Wake And Quake Indian Jewelry - Lost My Sight  School Damage - Meeting Halfway  Spiritualized - The Morning After  -words from your host- Ten High - Skin Crawlers  The Unholy Two - Zero Tolerance Dome - Say Again  Sadie - Skull Rock  Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator  -words from your host-

Many across the nation will be in a serious tryptophan coma on Thursday. Like every year, I hope to be out of mine come Sunday though for Grep Cup viewing.  What you'll hear on episode 43 Blacktop - Blazing Streets The Unholy Two - Moscow Doomsday Cloud Movietone - Mono Valley Roxy Music - Editions of You Mauvais Genre - Pour Toi -words from your host- Leon Gardner - Farm Song Jon Spencer - Hornet Suburban Homes - Magazine Remember Sports - Up From Below Gino and the Goons - Early Retirement -words from your host- Timmy's Organism - Wall Of Grey Celebrity Handshake - Television Lips O. Rex - Califawnia Girls Crescent - Lightbulbs In The Trees Missing Pages - Long Way Down -words from your host- U-Nix - Liberal Hardcore Johnny Notebook and the Blue Screens - Go Bust Urochromes - I'm Gonna Confront Ya Pinch Points - Jelly Brain The Prats - Disco Pope -words from your host-

Sizzle. They say ya gotta sell it. Hard sell tactics are not a strong point for yours truly. I can guarantee that there's plenty of sizzling soundwise on this latest episode of Smashin' Transistors.  Bathe in the hiss! What you'll hear. Fly Ashtray - The Man Who Stayed In Bed All Day Mountain Movers - My Eyes Are Always Heavy Obnox - Enter The Hater J.C. Heavy - Do What You Like Beauticians - Mouse or Man David Nance Group - 110 Blues Monokultur - Äckel Rocket 808 - Digital Billboards Little Walter Trio - Bad Actin' Woman Water Trash - Fine Rex Wonderful & The Silk Sheets - Humidity The Pink Noise - House Of Cards The Randoms - ABCD Jon Spencer - Wilderness Brandy - Throw Out My Kitchen Mary Bell - Be a mom Lysol - Chemical Reaction Terrestrials - Teenage Waistband Latex Bride - Puppet Head Cows - Mine

Autumn makes hints of its arrival but never says exactly when. It may a subtle entrance. It can also crash down brazenly. What you'll hear in this October installment Necros - Peer Pressure Pious Faults - Field Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Petrified Forest Ruby Karinto - Chikotan P-Model - Art Mania -Words from the host Brandy - Life Jail Gen Pop - Din Stereolab - Revox George Brigman - I've Got to Know Terrestrials - Rings -Words from the host- School Damage - Isn't Easy The Uniques - You Ain't Tuff HONG! - Maruk Purling Hiss - Passenger Queen Violence Creeps - Ford Go Bikes -Words from the host Warmest Winter - We Should Go Out Tonight Hawkwind - Lost Johnny Siouxie and the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling Mope Grooves - Here Comes Another One Television Personalities - The Glittering Prizes

Staring out into the lake may cause hallucinations. A sure sign that's happening when you understand the voltaic incantations. What you'll hear: The Pop Group - Words Disobey Me Obnox - Captain Blackeye Roy Montgomery with Liz Harris- Landfall The Lavender Flu - Dream Cleaner The Deltrons - Tonya -Dale talks- Mudhoney - Paranoid Core The Fatback Band - Wicky Wacky Donkey Bugs - The Example Pious Faults - Longevity Giant Sand - Black Venetion Blinds -Dale talks- Spiritualized - On the Sunshine Primo - Ticking off a List Teenage Fanclub - Critical Mass Seance Sisters - Rabid Moon Boyracer- Denatured -Dale talks- Daytime Drugs - Beethoven Was A Bore Mope Grooves - Last Seen Flasher - Who’s Got Time? Brian Eno - Third Uncle Jerry Reed - Guitar Man -Dale talks-

With August humidity comes agitation. To cool it means oscillations. The whirring can be hypnotic. It can also be an irritant. What you'll hear: Crash Course In Science - Kitchen Motors Midnight Mines - Stations Pram - Ladder to the Moon Counter Intuits - Vietnamese Lighter Musical Linn Twins - Rockin' Out The Blues -words from your host- Cruelster - Why Did They Do That to Me Back Then Marc Riley With The Creepers - Teacher Travel Parsnip - Parsnip - It Couldn't Be True Jefferson Airplane - 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds The Love-Birds - Kiss and Tell -words from your host- Caveman & Bam Bam - Let's Start A Fire Cement Shoes - Fruity Funhouse Lysol - TEENAGE TRANCE Obnox - Broke Socialite Ragtime Frank - Shake 'Em -words from your host- Donkey Bugs - Men in High Heels Section 25 - It Don't Get Arndales - Half Thrash ADULT. - Irregular Pleasure Chrome - The Monitors -words from your host-

It's high summer here in the land of Smashin' Transistors. Much to do. Sometimes too much.  Somehow though, episode 38 managed to get done in a somewhat timely fashion. Set your ears upon the following: Zounds - Can't Cheat Karma  Shark Toys - Confusion  Ma Holos - Celebrity Boots The Three O'Clock - I Go Wild  En Attendant Ana - (Not) So Hard  -words from your host- The Resource Network - Psychographics Psychlops Eyepatch - Melting Flowers  Cavern Of Anti-Matter - Feed Me Magnetic Rain  New Order - Procession Rose Mercie - Spring and Fall  -words from your host- The Liquids - Talking On The Phone The Mistreaters - How Much for the Women?  Howlin' Wolf - Who's Been Talkin' John Wesley Coleman - Breaking Up Crazy School Damage - Scump Damage 2  -words from your host- Outer Spacist - Push  Dumb Vision - The Fall  Water Trash - Guess  The Lavender Flu - Like A Summer Thursday  The Yankee Dollar - City Sidewalks  -words from your host-

The fish have been biting but adulting has kept me away from finding out for myself. Hell, I've only been to the beach twice this summer. In this episode 37 there are some Aussies contorting a mid 70's Adult Contemporary smash, the Buzzcocks,  a couple things that cop the Buzzcocks, punk-psych, space-punk, bong-gazers andoodles more.  What You'll Hear: Superhelicopter - Rock 'n 'roll Nightmare Daytime Drugs - Space Station Blues Compulsive Gamblers - Quit This Town Carol Jones - Don't Destroy Me The Lavender Flu - Leaking Past -Your host speaks- Slowcoaches - Found Down Circle Jerks - Operation Dead Meadow - Nobody Home Patois Counselors - Terrible Likeness Tang Soleil - Canadian Son (To Terry Jacks) -Your host speaks- Germ House - Crawl Into the Past Outer Spacist - Gyrfalcon Flight Rose Mercie - The End of Love The Shifters - My Little Town Country Teasers - Points of View -Your host speaks- Trash Knife - Locked Out Liquids - Not Fun Buzzcocks - Love Battery Lassie - Zegway C

The term “Space Force” popped up in the news again a bit this week. All I keep picturing is some lame comic book published by Harvey or Charlton Comics. Either that or one of those comic books some kid down the block gave you and the story ends up having a "Come visit our Sunday School and get saved" message. A better ending would be where the villain is a brand named squatter and he gets hurled towards the sun. Sure, the universe will smell really gross for a little while after he is burnt to nothing but ash. Then we can clean up and move forward again. What you'll hear: Electric Eels - Cyclotron Germ House - Bedroom Walls The Eyes - I'm Rowed Out. The Sueves - Drifting Raspberries - Tonight -words from your host- School Damage - Scump Damage 3 Josef K - The Angle Chronophage - 13th Ward Solex - Peppy Solex Jon Spencer - Do The Trash Can.mp3 -words from your host- Private Sector - Survival (Is Killing Me) Johnny Tyler - Devil's Slate Counter Intuits - Edge Construction Paper - Edge of the Side

Did pop music's king have has Kool-Aid dosed with psychedelic compounds for the purposes of animated film when he was a child? What happens when a son discusses proto-punk history with his dad? Are those questions answered? That is for all of us to surmise. Let your eardrums chew on the sounds of episode 35 of the Smashin' Transistors podcast and gather for yourself what they concluded? What you'll hear: Nikki Sudden - Channel Steamer     Iceage - Pain Killer     Patois Counselors - The Modern Station     Times New Viking - New Times, New Hope     T-Model Ford - Can't Be Touched     -words from your host-     Gen Pop - No Identify     Set-Top Box - Company Time     Wooden Shjips - Red Line     Vertigo - Smoked     Glass Traps - Super Protected     -words from your host-     Outer Spacist - Peripheral Visions     The Total Rejection - Party Seven     Füxa - Our Lips Are Sealed     Jackson 5 - I'll Bet You     The Mystery Girls - Quit Your Flying Around    -words from your host-     Red Mass - Ra

This weekend is Memorial Day Weekend. In Michigan, it marks the unofficial start of summer. "A Bob Seger free weekend" is probably against the law to declare in this state on such a weekend (or any weekend for that fact.)   I bet right now there are weird uncles, creepy dads and dirty grandfathers making some ultimate 3 day weekend Bob Seger mix to celebrate with while they scorch hot dogs and then serve them on a paper plate with the American flag printed on them. I will hopefully avoid such situations this weekend. Oh. and don't waste your time or mine commenting stuff like "but the System ruled, dude." Yeah, I know they did. I grew up here and have heard Bob everyday of my life so I am well aware of that. Just for one day though, it would be nice to not hear any Silver Bullet Band anywhere, y'know? In other words, you will not hear anything from the Seeg' in this episode of Smashin' Transistors. It could be worse. Y'know, like an ALL Kid Rock weekend. What you will hear: Jerry Cole & His Spacem

No glass line tanks here but in episode "33" we do tender premium noise for your enjoyment as a tribute to your good taste. What you'll hear:   Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Don't Cry No Tears Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones - Bloody Nights at the Hotel Bar The Total Rejection - Vampire Cats (Itches) Flaming Lips - Kim's Watermelon Gun Speeding Motorcycle - Like Forever -words from your host- Perverts Again - Get You Out Of College Cavern Of Anti-Matter - Make Out Fade Out Paint Thinner - Glistening Dots Flying Saucer Attack - A Silent Tide Yves Bernard - Dérapage Ethylique -words from your host- The Sueves - Never Been to the Beach The White Wires - In My Bed Honey Cone - Stick-Up Gino and the Goons - Glory Days Gone The Roamin' Togas - Bar The Door -words from your host- Iceage - Take It All The Psychedelic Furs - Flowers ISS - Soft Youth Stiff Love - Up In Your Room Red Cross - Annette's Got The Hits -words from your host-

It's a few weeks shy of May. The weather has been insisting it is still late February. This episode sets a raging blaze of sonic heat. What You'll Hear Brides - Pushed Around Silver Abuse - Idi Amin’s Tortoise Carlton Melton - Electrified Sky Gary Wrong Group - Heroin Beach Serpents Attack The B-52's - 52 Girls (1978 7'' Version) -words from the host- LASSIE - Modern Vacation En Attendant Ana - Time Index -  Fire Eyes Warm Bodies - Love O' Clock Cruz Somers - Sit & Stare -words from the host- Hank Wood & The Hammerheads - How'm I Supposed To Wake Up In The Morning The Fabuletts  - Can't Stay Away Choke Chains - Galactic Overlord The Resource Network - Albatross Pram - Bewitched -words from the host- Clone Defects - Not as Good as Gold The Total Rejection - Licking Furniture (You'll Find Me On The Left Side) The Monsieurs - High School Star Drags - Not So Good Luck Charm Dow Jones and the Industrials - Can't Stand The Midwest -words from the host-  smashintransistors.com

Let Smashin' Transistors ruin Easter Dinner with the family for you. We've got sleaze, lust, blasphemy and a whole lot of other sins in static and noise. Some of it even goes POP! Mary Jane Hooper - I've Got What You Need Krozer - Pink Stuff Thomas A Edison Electric Band - Name Of The Game Obnox - I Climbed A Mountain Cybotron - Cosmic Cars -words from your host- Caveman and Bam Bam -Starting A Dance Craze Isley Brothers - Keep On Doin' American Breakfast - Ice Cream Neo Neos - Give Me a Chance Dan Melchior - Another Oil Spill -words from your host- Hank Wood & The Hammerheads - It's Lonely In This World All Alone Lassie - Tiger In My Tank En Attendant Ana - In The End Supercrush - I've Been Around Bailter Space - Splat -words from your host- Rik & the Pigs - Rat's Behind Heavy Lids - T.V. States Control Test - Abuso Heavy Metal - Today Is The Day Before Tomorrow CH3 - Catholic Boy -words from your host-