Hell's Kitchen Radio #624: Reality Look What You're Allowing

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Nothing to see here. Apparently there is something to listen to, however. Listening to this show week to week has been shown to improve your musical intelligence and increase your ADHD!

I have to thank DJ Copper Stripper, or DJ Charlie Daniels Hologram...whatever Daniel is going by these days, for injecting the genre-bending goodness that he does so well, week after week. I come from the school of keep your listeners on their toes kind of radio. Daniel takes this to heart. He deserves a full throated thank you for that.

Monday night continues in this vein. We both have a lot to say on the turntables and on the mic. We were certainly in the zone on this show. It went off the rails a few times. Give it a spin.

New music from Death Valley Girls, False Flag, Angine de Poitrine, Poncho and the Wizards, and Ty Segall. Too much great music in two hours is good for your health.

Enjoy and please share.

jh

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Mondays 8-10PM Pacific
Radio Valencia in SF
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In Frisco: Pop-O-Pies (7" - 1982)

Tommy in 7 Minutes: Various (7" - 1994)
Whiskey and Wimmen: John Lee Hooker (I'm John Lee Hooker - 1960)

Know Your Product: The Saints (Eternally Yours - 1978)
Roll 'em Pete: Jimmy Witherspoon (...at the Renaissance - 1959)
I'm Not Pretty: The Lewd (American Wino - 1982)

I Am A Wave: Death Valley Girls (7" - 2026)
I Was Cruel: Magic Dirt (10" - 1996)

Roomful of Mirrors: The Pretenders (Get Close - 1986)

Let's Make It Clear: Dickie Thompson (7" - ????)

Dropout Boogie: Captain Beefheart (Safe As Milk - 1967)
Johnny Too Bad: The Offs (7" - 1978)

Lust For Life: Bad Livers (7" - 1991)

Poppity Pop: Slim Gaillard (Slim's Jam - 1945)

Chrome: Ty Segall (Chrome - 2026)

Yor Zarad: Angine de Poitrine (Volume 2 - 2026)

Double Adapter: City Ram Waddy (Project X - 1979)

I Like Boys: Missing Persons (EP - 

Sure Shot: Beastie Boys (Ill Communication - 1994)

City of The Future: False Flag (Art School - 2026)

Be Here Now: Pancho and the Wizards (Sun Splendor - 2026)

Persuasion Architecture: Cory Hanson (Western Cum - 2023)

Snakes Crawl: Shannon and the Clams (Year of the Spider - 2021)

Right Thing To Do: Matt Cameron (Gory Scorch Cretins - 2023)

Hell's Kitchen Radio #622: You're Embarrassing Yourself

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Rock out, you fools!

That was the plan tonight. Don't have a plan. Just gather what you think you need and fly. That's a good strategy, dontcha think? It works for me most of the time.

The most planning I do for my show is pulling music I've purchased recently and coupling that with artists from my library that have been running through my head, or I feel will pair nicely with what I've already got ready to go.

I also know that Daniel is going to bring in his share of treats that will get a spin. He even surprised me with a 7" box set of noise that I didn't know I needed. Thanks Daniel!

There was one scheduled interview for Monday night. I had Kevin Seal coming in to talk about the upcoming Seal Party show at the Rickshaw Stop on Friday, August 14th.

Then the Icelanders walked by.

Daniel and I were talking about something nonsensical, and I made some comment about "fools" just as three people were walking by the open door (the Radio Valencia studios are street level). They looked at me and I waved them in. That's how we came to have three young Icelanders in the studio, and I put them on mic. 

Impromptu interviews happen, so I was just happy to gice these kids their first taste of being on the radio, and while they're visiting the states!!!

Music from six decades all packed into two hours. How do we do it?!?!?!?

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jh

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In Frisco: Pop-O-Pies (7" - 1983)
Midnight Special: Harry Belafonte (The Midnight Special - 1962)
Whitey On The Moon: Gil Scott-Heron (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - 1974)
Dancing In The Sun: Sun Ra (The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra - 1965)

Dye n Red: Lazy Cowgirls (Third Time's A Charm - 1987)
Country Death Song: Violent Femmes (Hallowed Ground - 1984)
No More Pushing: Daniel Johnston (Hi, How Are You? - 1983)

Spirits: Albert Ayler (Spirits - 1964)
Leave Us Alone: Mary Monday (In The City: SF Punk 1977 - 2021)
Trouble At The Cup: Black Randy and the Metro Squad (7" - 1977)

Gut The Quantifier: The Fall (This Nations Saving Grace - 1985)
Eventually: Ornette Coleman (The Shape of Jazz to Come - 1959)
My Boyfriend's Back: The BeeJays (7" - 1980)

Way Down We Go: Kaleo (A/B - 2016)
They Came In: Butthole Surfers (After the Astronaut - 2026)

Redacted: Seal Party (Circles Headed To The Sky - 2024)
Dark Days: Jolie Holland (Wine Dark Seas - 2014)
Blind Promise: White Heaven (Tokyo Flashback - 1991)
Self Hypnosis in Three Days: WAND (Golem - 2006)

Yor Zarad: Angine De Poitrine (Vol. 2 - 2026)
Desperation: The Avengers (S/T - 1978)

Hell's Kitchen Radio #619: Waymo Is A Snitch

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Mondays mean more music for your earholes. Ever since I co-produced the celebration of 50 years of Punk in San Francisco back in February, at the Mabuhay Gardens and On Broadway, I've had club booker Daniel Haver join me each week, playing music he's found during the week. And let me tell you, Daniel, all of 23 years old, has the knowledge and taste of a person with ten times the experience. 

I spent nine glorious years at KFJC, considered one of the most eclectic and diverse collections anywhere. This is where I received the best music education. Daniel would have fit right in with that crew. He may even have educated a few of the more curmudgeonly ones, who are not quick to being inspired by those younger than them. IFYKYK

Since it was only Daniel and myself tonight (until sound man Christopher and lighting guru Ignacio showed up), it was all, or mostly, about the music. And then it was too much roommate radio. 

But I digress.

New music from Angine de Potrine, The Rinds, and False Flag. We celebrated the anniversary releases of Fun House and Double Nickels on the Dime. You get Daniel's weekly "what the hell is this and where did he find it?" selections. And let me tell you this one is a doozy! 

I personally think the final set of the night was the best set of all! See the playlist below for all the details.

I'm out this coming Monday, so I'll cue up something special for you all. 

In the meantime, Let's Blow San Francisco, and Waymo is a snitch!

Enjoy and please share.

jh

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Radio Valencia in SF
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In Frisco: Pop-O-Pies (7" - 1983)
For the Love of Ivy: The Gun Club (Fire of Love - 1981)

Ababa Hotel: Angine de Poitrine (Volume 1 - 2026)
Our Group: Neil Hamburger (Sick Spelled Backwards - 2025)
Goin' Blind: Kiss (Hotter Than Hell - 1974)

TV Eye: The Stooges (Fun House - 1970)
A Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing: Minutemen (Double Nickels on the Dime - 1984)
Roll and Tumble: John Lee Hooker (The Chariot Sessions - 1969)
The World's a Mess and it's in My Kiss: X (Los Angeles - 1980)

We Own the Night: The Rinds (Everything Dimed - 2026)
Monster: False Flag (Art School - 2026)
Shortnin' Bread: Readymen (Desperate Rock and Roll Vol. 2 - 1987)
Marie Marie: The Blasters (S/T - 1981)

My Man: Shannon and the Clams (Gone By The Down - 2015)
Satori Part 2: Flower Travelin' Band (Satori - 1971)
Sticky Hulks: Thee Oh Sees (Mutilator Defeated At Last - 2015)

The Gift: Velvet Underground (White Light/White Heat - 1968)
The Powdermilk Biscuit Theme: Middlebury College Dissipated Eight (Very Special - 1984)
Leite: Daminhao Experienca (Adeusadolfhitler1945fim - 197?)
Rock and Roll McDonalds: Wesley Willis (Greatest Hits - 1995)
Armageddon: Bathory (s/t - 1984)
Pinecones: Ogden Edsl

Stagger Lee: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Murder Ballads - 1995)

Hell's Kitchen Radio #617: Is This Thing On?

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I was feeling in the grove...er, groove tonight. In the groove. Yeah, that's it. Hmmmmmmm

A Monday without a guest is a rare thing these days, so I took the opportunity to go deeper into my library, which included a few CDs. I know, I know. this is not my normal thing, but there were a few songs that have been going through my mind that I only own on CD. You have to understand, the 90s and 00s it was hard to find your favorite artists releasing anything new on vinyl. CD was King there for a wee bit.

I remember working at Tower Records in San Mateo (88-91), and they were making the transition away from vinyl. The staff was in an uproar about this, as we all knew CDs were a fad, like the 8-track tape. Since production costs for CDs were so low, it was attractive to the company to go in this direction. And for too many years it played this way. Unless an artist was with a vinyl-friendly label, or self-releasing, they had to go with CDs. 

I collected a lot of CDs during these years. Thousands. For a number of years I had quite an impressive CD shelving setup that I built myself. Floor to ceiling, twelve feet across, 12 shelves. Thousands of CDs, all organized by genre. And then I moved to a smaller home and away went the shelves, as I had to place them all into binders. And the binders sit in my closet. Since then I don't spend much time playing them. But there they sit. And there's some good stuff in those binders! 

So tonight I had a few songs in my head that were laying low in my closet. Eight of the songs I played tonight are on CD. Not that you're keeping count. I may need to pull more from there, or at least not hde the binders away in my closet.

New music from Earth Tongue (produced by Ty Segall), Angine de Poitrine, Surprise Privilege, and OSees tonight. There's a remaster/reissue from Aretha Franklin in there, an NWA edit you didn't know you needed too. 

Daniel Haver from the FabMab was in...and is quickly becoming my foil in the best sense. He brought some truly "great" 7"s that'll leave you as stumped as we were trying to figure out just exactly how old Sheila Raye is...or was. 24? 57? Who knows? 

If this isn't a show that's chock full of punk, funk and junk, then I'll throw my CD collection away.

Take a look at the playlist below and click the link that's somewhere in here to listen back to the show.

I'm going to have legendary photographer Jim Jocoy, known for his profiles on SF punk in the 70s and 80s on my show soon. I can't wait to talk to him about his years serving and showcasing this incredible history. 

Enjoy and please share.

jh

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In Frisco: Pop O Pies (7"- 1983)
Jesus Was Way Cool: King Missile (CD Single - 1991)
Don't Cry Baby: Aretha Franklin (Forever Young - 2026)

Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again: Bob Dylan (Blonde on Blonde - 1966)
Every Grain of Sand: Giant Sand (Swerve - 1990)

Funka Billy Groove: Sheila Raye and the Great Highway Funka Billy Band (7" - 1977?)
Dust My Broom: Hound Dog Taylor (Beware of the Dog - 1976)
Anything Goes: Michael John and Kimberly (7" - 1983)

Dungeon Vision: Earth Tongue (Dungeon Vision - 2026)
Emmaline: Urge Overkill (Supersonic Storybook - 1991)
N.E.S.T.A.: Antibalas (Liberation Afrobeat, Vol. 1 - 2000)
Monkey Man: Rolling Stones (Let It Bleed - 1969)

Sherpa: Angine de Poitrine (Volume 1 - 2026)
Fuck the Police (Fuck Edit): NWA
T for Texas: Toshio Hirano 

Lady in Red: Surprise Privilege (Hard Listen - 2026)
Sunset on the Alamo: Jenny Don't and the Spurs (Call of the Road - 2017)
Buenos Tardes Amigo: Ween (Chocolate and Cheese - 1994)
The First Vietnamese War: The Black Angels (Passover - 2006)

Almost in the Hole: Seompi (7" - 1970)
N.I.B.: Brownout (Brown Sabbath Vol 1 - 2014)
Joro: OSees (Cara Maluco - 2026)
The Way We Were: Wild Man Fischer and Mark Mothersbaugh)