Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio with DJ B The T Jr.

THURS, 7-9AM and via apple podcasts beyond that, its SHAKE N VIBRATE on WPKN, your shot of rock n roll caffeine to get your morning on the move. The 8AM hour brings SPECIAL GUEST BUZZ GORDO (pictured o' course) of New Haven's legendary BIG BAD JOHNS, GONE NATIVE, and BRONSON ROCK who will be previewing his new solo album "Pen and Ink." We'll be chewing the fat and spinning trax, come join us! Album release show commences this Saturday 4/11, 7PM at Best Video with the equally incredible Jed Parish of GRAVEL PIT supporting. Hey hey, my my...

Rise with the greats 7-9AM at WPKN 89.5FM for another installment of Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio. Scene here is SNV patron saint Les Blank, documentarian extraordinaire whose films on garlic, gap-toothed women, creole cooking, new london polka (not kidding) are essential viewing! I say this because tangentially my 8AM guest will be Sean Fox from the Norwalk Film Festival hitting Friday March 20 through Sunday March 22. We'll talk films, workshops, the CT film scene and so much more. TUNE IT tot he WPKN app, local at 89.5FM, or dial later via podcast along with 45+ archival jaunts.

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER SHOW! Oh, where doth the time go? Maybe our high-banged, beloved rockers SLADE know? Figure it all out with Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio live again and in your ears THURS 2/12 @ 7-9AM EST and across all verses and perpetuities in the Apple podcast realm. Love on ya!

OH THE DELUSIONS OF YOUTH! Look what rock 'n' roll can do to a man. This man being Mark E. Smith. One of only a handful of Smiths I like if you catch my drift Morrissey! Hear a Fall classic with this crooner as well as plenty other rock 'n' roll goldies. Start your day right with the equivalent of an espresso to the face! I'M SO OVER 2026!

Fate. Practice. Art. Creation. Dogs. Big talk, no time for small. Juliana Hatfield joins me for the hour on the recent release of Lightning Might Strike.Catch it on Bandcamp via American Laundromat Records (Mystic, CT's own!)Photo by David Doobinin

The second hour of Thursday's Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio brings special guest Tracey Santa, who with DJ B The T Jr. will explore the world of Jerker Emanuelson and Sound Asleep Records.Living an obscuro rockers dream, Jerker has been releasing music on Sound Asleep Records since 1994. 69 releases in 31 years. Single artist LPs/CDs, a couple of singles, dozens of compilations. All financed by the meagre revenue stream from small batch releases and his 36 years running a hardware store in a small town in southern Sweden. Jerker spent a junior year abroad in Nashville in the mid-80s and caught the Americana bug, befriending some of the major underground figures in the garage-country-pop sphere. These folks still populate his catalogue and releases, but Sound Asleep have released songs on everyone from the Incredible Casuals to Doug Yule (Velvet Underground) to Roy Loney (Flamin' Groovies).Our guide Tracey Santa has been writing, recording, and playing over the past four decades in a number of guises: as a founding member of the Exploding Pintos and 84 Rooms in San Francisco, as a solo artist in Boston and New Orleans, as a mandolinist in the Cletus Butterfoam Experience, a bassist in Warren Zanes Lady Costume, and most recently on Colorado’s Front Range with the Wild Hares. Santa and the Wild Hares most recent recording Naugatuck Valley Boy is available on BandCampSanta has released over a dozen recordings in the U.S and abroad and been described as a country crooner, a garage rock minimalist, and an acolyte of Nick Lowe and the Flamin’ Groovies. Melody Maker once suggested that he sounded “like R.E.M. recorded in a telephone kiosk in the Nevada desert.”A native son, Santa began his musical misadventures in the Nutmeg State. He eagerly awaits royalties accruing from folksinger Al McKnight’s version of his song “What You Going to Do (If the Earth Breaks Down),” performed and broadcast on New Haven’s WTNH-TV when Santa was 15. These and other tales unfold in his memoir The Tompo of the Ringing, one of Pop Matters Best Books of 2022, and described by Greil Marcus in 2023 in a Real Life Top Ten Column: “as entertaining a music life book as I’ve ever read.”

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Go to the WPKN GOLD SOUNDS podcast for the Katy Pinke audio. Amazing.Orig HYPE:THURS 9/18, 7-10AM on @ join us for the wild ride of another SHAKE 'N' VIBRATE RADIO. First hour features the usual rock 'n' roll, junk, and funk you've come to expect from this ruffian.Second hour features (above) the premiere of the WPKN Gold Sounds broadcast/podcast featuring New York based multidisciplinary artist and musician Katy Pinke. Katy performs in the WPKN Community Room with collaborator Nico Osborne; recorded beautifully by Chris Ruggiero and assistant engineer Chris Miller. Dig the tunes and fascinating convo/interview led by the one and only DAN SOTO!Hour three it's my pal GARY LIPPMAN guest-spinning tunes, talkin' his new book, and his artistic/writing journey having graced the pages of The New York Times, The Paris Review, VICE, Fodors, Upstate Diary, Open City, Sex And Design, and 8 By 8.

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