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What's This Called? 5 Years @ KPSU 8/21/2010

Sat. 8/21/2010 from Noon to 3 PM Pacific Time, I will be celebrating 5 years of What's This Called? at KPSU (15 for the program total)!

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Cholula & Sriracha on What's This Called?

This week on What's This Called? I'm excited to be joined by Sascha former hostess of the classic KPSU program of eclectic global and indigenous music Cholula & Sriracha http://www.myspace.com/hotsauceradio! She'll be recreating her amazing and sadly missed show on my show & Austin's from Noon to 2 PM and beyond, Streaming Live: http://www.kpsu.org/

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Aural Resuscitation Unit

Today @ Noon Pacific Time on What's This Called? - direct from Dubuque IA - Aural Resuscitation Unit live in the KPSU studio!

Fresh from playing the Olympia Experimental Music Fest and communing w/ nature in the Olympic Penninsula, ARU will melt the air and streamwaves w/ his electronic throb!

Listen HERE: http://www.kpsu.org/

or in Portland OR metro area 1450 AM for a full on Mono experience!

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Olympia Experimental Music Fest Featured on What's This Called? 6/5/2010

What's This Called? for Saturday June 5th will feature all artists that will be playing the following weekend at the 16th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival! New Red Sun, Daniel Menche, Eric Ostrowski, L.A. Lungs, Soup Purse, Sexbots, Derek M. Johnson, Aural Resuscitation Unit, and MORE! Streaming Live at Noon Pacific Time: http://www.kpsu.org/

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The Passengers Live on What's This Called? 11/7/2009

What's This Called? for Saturday, November 7th with your host Ricardo Wang from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time (that's 4-5 PM in Halifax, Nova Scotia!) on KPSU...

featuring the dulcet sounds of Portland's own The Passengers!

SWERVING STREAMING AUDIO RIGHT HERE!

Or in PDX, for the 20th Century fetish crowd:

1450 AM in the Portland OR/Vancouver WA metro area

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Night of the Living Tongue on What's This Called? 10/24/2009

The perfect audio experience for the Halloween season ensues on Saturday, October 24th as your host Ricardo Wang gives the keys to the KPSU sub-basement mausoleum over to the ultra-haunting and ever beguiling lost radio voice of special guest starlet Jennifer Robin...

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New Red Sun on What's This Called? 10/3/09 Special Time!

This week on What's This Called? for October 3rd, 2009 with your host Ricardo Wang at a SPECIAL TIME of 1-2 PM Pacific Time (that's 4-5 PM at Cape Kennedy!) on KPSU...

A special live performance direct from their Swan Song Tour, Seattle's drone-folk trio New Red Sun!.

INTERPLANETARY STREAMING AUDIO HERE!

Or in PDX, on classic "20th Century" radio:

1450 AM in the Portland OR/Vancouver WA metro area

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What's This Called?: 4 Years @ KPSU!

Although What's This Called? first aired on the radio at 2 AM on KAOS FM in Olympia in 1993, for the past 4 years I've been spinning the weirdestness at KPSU in the middle of the day.

Today we celebrate with some Text of Light, Sun Ra, Two Foot Flame, Edward Ka-Spel, Eet, Sonic Youth, Anakrid, Shogun Kunitoki, Laurie Anderson, Santiago Latorre, Melvins, L.A. Lungs, and More!

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Knot Pine Box on What's This Called? Today! 8/15

Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time

KnotPineBox live in the KPSU studio!

then tonight!

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Special 4th of July No Skinny Ties!

What's This Called? and Blasphuphmus Radio will be preempted this week by a very special revival of my 1980s Post-Punk Noise Rock program No Skinny Ties!