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This week on What's This Called? with your host Ricardo Wang for Saturday, June 28th from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time (that's 3-4 PM in Portland, Maine!) on KPSU is joined by two "Portland artists", one from Portland OR, and one from the other Portland in Maine, p

This week on What's This Called? with special guest host DJ Ferris for Saturday, May 24th 2008 from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time (that's 8-9 PM for listeners in Glasgow, Scotland!) on KPSU, a one time live reuniting of Olympia, Washington's experimental folk punk ensemble That Stupid Love Experience!

O.k., I mean it this time!

After a one month absence to deal with the complicated process of bringing a new life onto the Earth, as well as learning to sustain it, NOW is the time for the return of What's This Called? with your host Ricardo Wang on KPSU!

Saturday, March 15th, 2008 from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time:

If you haven't heard the start of my most recent show (What's This Called? for 2/2/2008) then I highly recommend downloading it to catch my live creation of "Running with the Mash-up" featuring the vocal intonations of Diamond David Lee Roth set to an experimental violin piece by Ennio Morricone. This was one of those rare moments of remixing that really gelled. I don't do this type of stuff too often, but I'm sure glad I felt so inspired Saturday morning!

This week on What's This Called? with your host Ricardo Wang we present a special live in studio performance by L.A./Portland/rest-of-the-world experimental conglomerate Your Drugs My Money!

Say goodbye to 2007 this week on What's This Called? as your host Ricardo Wang winds back the calendar with a special two hour recap of some of the most interesting, eclectic audio spaces and noises of the past 365 or so.

This week's edition of What's This Called? features some special Christmas Presents I'm going to be sharing with the listeners.

This week on What's This Called?

with your host Ricardo Wang, Saturday, December 15th from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time (that's 3-4 PM in Havana, Cuba!) we have a very special guest live in the KPSU studio...

The haunting aural electronic poetics of Seattle, Washington's

Paintings for Animals

This Saturday, October 27th

from Noon to 1 PM from Pacific Time on What's This Called? I have a very special guest, avant/post-punk violinist Eric Ostrowski.

Mysterious echoer of horns El Solo Caras Azules performs live on What's This Called? on Saturday 9/29/2007 from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time.