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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!

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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:

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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!

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Million Brazilians on What's This Called? 6/6/2009

This week on What's This Called? for Saturday, June 6th with your host Ricardo Wang from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time (that's 4-5 PM in Rio de Jeneiro!) on KPSU...

Direct from tour, a live and steaming engagement of Portland's own Million Brazilians!

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Santiago Lattore Live on What's This Called? and at Disjecta 5/30/09

This Week on What's This Called (Saturday, May 30th from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time) Santiago Latorre from Barcelona, Spain will be laying down the infectiously glitchy electronic jazz with special guest host Austin Rich running all of the radio station dials in my absence.

This radio set will be but a taste of what is to follow that same evening on beautiful Interstate Avenue in North Portland!

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Easter Island Project on What's This Called? 5/23 for Pledge Drive!

This week on What's This Called? for Saturday, May 23rd with your host Ricardo Wang from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time (that's 3-4 AM on Easter Island proper) on KPSU...

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Abusive Delay on What's This Called? 5/2/2009

A very special live appearance from Portland's Abusive Delay this week on What's This Called? Saturday, May 2nd with your host Ricardo Wang from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time (that's 11:30 PM for listeners in Kabul, Afghanistan!) on KPSU...

STEAMING STREAMING AUDIO HERE!

Or in PDX, for in full spectrum Analog:

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