Rockcontinuum

This week's exploration of the Rockcontinuum offers new music from Richard Thompson, Dave Newhouse, Jane Weaver, Daniel Romano & Of Montreal, bolstered with 'chunes by the likes of Alan Price, Talking Heads, Ultra Vivid Scene, Spirit, Slapp Happy, Razz, the Move, Hal Blaine, Blur, Traffic, Devandra Banhart, Soft Machine, the Monkees, High Llamas, the Smile and much more, for your listening pleasure in our present state. Originally broadcast on WOWD 94.3fm, (takomaradio.org) on 3/11/24.

This week's Rockcontinuum welcomes Gruff Rhys to town (3/9) and offers new music from Claire Rousay, Brian Eno, Elephant Stone & High Llamas intermingled with tunes by Robert Wyatt, Cowboys International, Kinks, Beta Band, Mick Jagger, Cornelius, Charlotte Gainbourg, Rutles, George Harrison, Circulatory System and much more.  For your listening pleasure in our present state. Originally broadcast 2/26/24 on WOWD 94.3FM, takomaradio.org

Monday's Rockcontinuum will tie your lace, and features new music from Mary Halvorson, The Smile, Crowded House & Gruff Rhys, liberally laced with Spirit, Love, Enz, Dukes and much more, with mini-birthday tributes to Ray Manzarek and Steve Hackett. Originally broadcast on WOWD 94.3fm, on February 12th. For your listening pleasure in our present state.

This week’s Rockcontinuum offers a bonanza of new music, including tracks from The Smile, Traum, Jane Weaver, Asteroid No. 4, Gruff Rhys, High Llamas, Colin Newman, Fat White Family, Dandy Warhols and others, seasoned with stalwarts like Ultravox, Crowded House, Jack Bruce, Country Joe & the Fish, Lovetones, Beck, Randy Newman. With songs to ward off snow, some Wordsworthian wisdom in song and a mini post birthday tribute to Robert Wyatt. For your pleasure in our present state. Originally broadcast 1/29/24 on WOWD fm.

Thia week's Rockcontinuum celebrates the birthday of idiosynchratic musical genius, Don Van Vleit (Captain Beefheart), and offers music by Robert Fripp, the Smile, Tom Waits, Andre 3000, XTC, Black Arts Lab, Nilsson, Cleaners from Venus, Kinks, White Stripes, Stones, and others, along with mini-themes about astral travel, parasocial celebrity relationships, and eschatology, For your listening pleasure in our present state. Originally broadcast 1/15/24 on WOWD 94.3fm, takomaradio.org.

The New Years Day Episode of the Rockcontinuum plays songs reflecting on the past and  envisioning the future. Featuring songs by Aksak Moboul, the Kinks, Pearls Before Swine, XTC, Mike Reed, Traffic, Genesis, Ultravox, the Five Americans, Neil Finn, Blur, the Move, Splitsville and a trove of others, including songs about heaven, morse code and a mini-tribute to Country Joe McDonald on his birthday. For your listening pleasure in our present state, with your host, John Paige. Originally broadcast on WOWD 94.3FM, takomaradio.org 

The last Rockcontinuum Program for the year features all 2023 Music, plus the Rockcontinuum Top Ten of the year. Tunes by Fontaines DC, Peter Gabriel, Jane Weaver, Fred Frith, Sufjan Stevens, Clientele, Necks, Blur, H. Hawkline, Grip Weeds, Brian Eno, The Smile, Anthony Pirog, Thomas Walsh and so much more. For your listening pleasure in our present state. Originally broadcast on WOWD 94.3fm

Comfort food edition of the Rockcontinuum features selections from Daevid Allen, Spinal Tap, Kinks, Deerhunter, Stones, Devo, Spirit, Ceramic Dog, Roxy Music, Procol Harum, the Orb, Love, Robyn Hitchcock, S&G and much more, also with three flavors of world. Edited for your listening pleasure in our present state. 

 

Pre-T Day Episode serves up a couple of Thanksgiving-ish songs, new music from Jane Weaver, the Smile, Thomas Walsh, Matmos, Sufjan, Gruff Rhys & Das Koolies with generous sides of John Cale, George Harrison, Aliens, the Nice, Bee Gees, Cate Le Bon, Cream, Melody's Echo Chamber, Zappa, Deerhunter, Jefferson Airplane, Roxy Music and Fairport, among others, with a recipe for happiness, thrown in for good measure. For your listening pleasure in our present state.

Today's Rockcontinuum bill of fare offers new music from Suss, Sparkle Division, Beatles, Thomas Walsh, Das Koolies, Sufjan, Peter Gabriel & others, intermingling with Robyn Hitchcock, Dave Clark Five, Procol Harum, Beaches,King Crimson, Simon & Garfunkel, The Move, the Clientele, Quarter After, Roxy Music and the like, with a short 'finger snappin' set. For your pleasure in our present state. Originally broadcast on  WOWD 94.3FM, takomaradio.org.