global like a virus. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Kamal Sabran & Jun Ong Titik IMAGINARIUM II BATIK: THE IMPRINT OF TIME 2026 Self Released Cause 4 Concern Strange Nature GOLDIE.CO.UK 2001 Moonshine Digital Waterhouse Dub GOLDIE.CO.UK 2001 Moonshine … Continue reading →
bringing the noise. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Cairiss The Guide Wilderness 2026 Cairiss Free Mr Big Fire and Water 1970 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Alice Cooper Halo of Flies Killer 1971 Rhino Papangu Fechamento de Corpo Celestial 2026 … Continue reading →
eyes get in yr smoke. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Rhys Chatham Drastic Classicism (edit) CBGB & OMFUG A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986 2026 Cherry Red Records Negativland Babac D’babc Points 1981 Seeland All Them Witches Saturn Song … Continue reading →
here comes the hot. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label All Them Witches Aethernet House Of Mirrors 2026 BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Black Sabbath Behind the Wall of Sleep (Live on John Peel Sessions) The Broadcast Collection 1970-1975 1970 … Continue reading →
please support the expunkimental music that What’s This Called? brings to Freeform Portland. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Black Sabbath War Pigs (Live at L’Olympia Bruno Conquatrix, Paris France, 1970) Black Sabbath the Broadcast Collection 1970 Cult Legends Negativland … Continue reading →
250 years and I want my money back. PLAYLIST (all “american” artists): Artist Song Release Released Label Sonic Youth Intro Bad Moon Rising 1985 Squeaky Squawk Sonic Youth Brave Men Run (In My Family) Bad Moon Rising 1985 Squeaky Squawk … Continue reading →
like totally heavy. SLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Free Oh I Wept Fire and Water 1970 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Bardo Pond Blue (feat. Guru Guru & Acid Mothers Temple) Acid Guru Pond (feat. Acid Mothers Temple & Guru … Continue reading →
a mere two hours after What’s This Called? host Ricardo Wang sits in as a substitute for Lazer Bacon’s Snaq Attack! PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Bob Marley & The Wailers War / No More Trouble (Live at The … Continue reading →
the solstice with the molstice. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Anne Briggs Summer’s In Sing a Song for You 1996 Fledg’ling Dead Moon Going South Strange Pray Tell 1992 Tombstone Records Guru Bobol linthre Music for Ancient Catacombs 2026 … Continue reading →
sounds of existential expansion. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Point Line Plane Deep C Point Line Plane 2026 SKiN GRAFT Records Matmos Reconstruction The Civil War 2003 Matador AMATERASU Durga Puja III 2020 Alone in the Hollow Garden Telepath … Continue reading →
A show for Freeform Portland to sub when there is a need. No idea when it will air! PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label David Maranha Circunscrita Anthology of Electroacoustic Music From Portugal 2026 Unexplained Sounds Group David Torn bones … Continue reading →
dads, grads, and global annihilation. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Skylar Spence Prom King Prom King 2015 Carpark Croz Boyce Eternal Dream Drone Croz Boyce 2026 Domino Recording Co Bauhaus Hollow Hills Mask 1981 Beggars Banquet Dreckig DIE NACHT … Continue reading →
post-beltane depression. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label New Risen Throne Entering the Stone Circle Music for Ancient Catacombs 2026 Eighth Tower Records Sound Secretion Sound Secretion in the City Classics Selection 2002 BSI Records Mouse On Mars Detected Beats … Continue reading →
the great weight of temperature increase. special show for Freeform Portland to use as needed. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Neurosis Untethered An Undying Love for a Burning World 2026 Neurot Recordings Brad Anderson Construction no 1 in c … Continue reading →
songs for late stage capitalism. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Minor Threat Cashing In Out of Step 1983 Dischord Don Haugen Voices of Time Last Light 2025 Self Released Time Rival Chaircrusher – MG (Time Rival Remix) SKETCHBOOK 26 … Continue reading →
let the green flow. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Ken Nordine Green Colors 1965 Snail Records Neo Geodesia Semifinal Fantasies Oknha Stamina 2026 CHINABOT The Re-Stoned Faces of Earth Plasma 2017 Qiasum Music Fuchsia Me and My Kite Fuchsia … Continue reading →
unprinted multiple exposures. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Kurt Gottschalk & Tamara Yadao rahrahree! – Schrodinger’s Assassin The Cat That Wouldn’t Die 2026 C.I.A. Records The Fall Rebellious Jukebox Live at the Witch Trials 1978 Cherry Red Records Ken … Continue reading →
a momentary respite. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Bill Orcutt And warm to the touch Music in Continuous Motion 2026 Palilalia Jad Fair and Kramer Our Cause To Worry The Sound Of Music 1989 Shimmy Disc Warren Baker Caper … Continue reading →
what’s this guitar shop radio called? PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Kim Gordon NOT TODAY PLAY ME 2026 Matador Free Kitten Falling Backwards Kitten Straight Up 1992 Pearl Necklace Godflesh Almost Heaven (Closer Mix) Songs of Love and Hate … Continue reading →
shock of escalation. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label uncle weed x winterkeep Remnants & Artefacts EP // thinking about nothing yet so much *life* 2026 Self Released Praise Space Electric Cybernetic Experiment X Dave Brock Presents… This Was Your … Continue reading →
Ricardo Wang guest hosts Downcast on Freeform Portland! #SadSongs PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Elliott Smith Needle in the Hay Elliott Smith 1995 P-VINE Bauhaus Burning from the Inside Burning from the Inside 1983 Beggars Banquet This Mortal Coil … Continue reading →
tariff free listening. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Insectarium The child’s laugh Electric Dead Speak. Music Inspired by the Electronic Voice Phenomenon 2026 Eighth Tower Records Malfunkshun The Malfunkshun Freedom 2007 Wammybox Records Kevin Ayers & The Whole Wide … Continue reading →
for lovers only PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Raub Roy Jan 31 (Jamuary’d) January Mixtape 2026 Self Released Adolph Deutsch and His Orchestra Lonely Room (From “The Apartment”) Jazz Noir 2014 NOT NOW MUSIC Jandek It’s Only You The … Continue reading →
an extra bonus extra show for freeform portland to air at an unknown time. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Nels Cline & Elliott Sharp Five Tastes of Sour Open The Door 24-bit Remastered 2026 Zoar Records Autechre Rew(1) Move … Continue reading →
don’t blow your cool. PLAYLIST: Artist Song Release Released Label Mark Hjorthoy Ghost of My Life The Future That Never Existed 2026 Unexplained Sounds Group Godflesh Almost Heaven (Helldub) Love and Hate In Dub 1997 Earache Records Ashtoreth & Grey … Continue reading →
