Shitake Radio

When I started this little side project, I naively expected to dig up a few interesting and overlooked tracks, dust them off, and say, “Hey, […]

What makes this playlist so unsettling is that it does not begin in darkness. It begins with pleasure, polish, rhythm, glamour, romance, and escape…all the […]

Pull up to the table for your next serving of musical fruitcake. Yes, it may look suspicious at first. There are strange colors, unexpected textures, […]

Say hello to our latest batch of mostly new art-school transfers. You can almost see them sitting together at the same cafeteria table, snidely snickering […]

If Fossil Fuel is the old guard staring into the late-80s mirror and Distortion Field is hard rock mutating into something uglier and stranger, then […]

Distortion Field 85–89 is a very different creature from the first installment. This is less a clean playlist than a Frankenstein monster stitched together from […]

The first version of Fossil Fuel almost sounds like a dance party compared to this collection. Something has changed. The old guard is no longer […]

Mutant-FM 80–84 is the playlist for songs that refused to sit neatly inside the other four categories. They are not old-guard survivors like Fossil Fuel, […]

The “wrong” in Wrong Wave is not meant as an insult. These songs are not bad, broken, or objectionable. They are wrong in the way […]

Up to this point in the 1980–1984 playlists, female artists have been almost completely absent, which says plenty about the lanes rock history tends to […]