Dear Weirdo by Abraham Smith: 
www.propellerbooks.com/store/dear-weirdo-by-abraham-smith
Music by Sonic Hudson (aka Matt Harle), courtesy of World of Hum.
www.mattharle.com
www.sonichudson.bandcamp.com 

Abraham Smith’s Dear Weirdo is a wayward romp that offers prismatic insight into the nature of love, loss, and home along the way. With a spellbinding immediacy, Smith rides a prophetic cadence through town, into the sky, and down the “gut’s lonely road.” The deeply familiar reappears—neither dust-covered nor bathed in golden light—but as a continuous explosion in this book-length poem, drawing the reader into a personal history refracted through a lyricism utterly Smith’s own.

Matt Harle’s music can also be found on audrasonic.bandcamp.com, sowndhauz.bandcamp.com, fearlesssuperpictures.bandcamp.com, all of which (except Sonic Hudson) are on Spotify.

Dear Weirdo

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Merry Psychic Tuesday!!!

On this episode of PTR,  we’ll be venturing into the deep, dark and spine-chilling realm of the Folk Horror genre with our special in-studio guest, film expert and professor Gareth Jones who will be our tour guide on a sonic soundtrack journey across the eras!

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

Pierre Henry - Histoire naturelle : Premières funérailles
SQÜRL - Queen Elizabeth
B. Sonnier - In Fever Dreams
Charanjit Singh - Raga Bairav 
Bell Telephone Systems - Climate Change trailer
Robert Turman - Satellite 
Brian Hyland - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini 
Miracle Legion - Sea Hag 
Joy Boy - TRICK
Death Ambient - Agony & Desire
Antonio Russell - Corale 
Mark Lanegan - You Only Live Twice 
Cleers - Disgraced in the Orchard II
David Toop & Lawrence English - Whistling In The Dark 
Ellarald - Riversong 

HOUR 2 : feature - Folk Horror Feast, curated by Gareth Jones (in-studio guest)

Liturgy - Daily Bread
Richard Dawson and Circle - Lily
Paul Giovanni - Maypole
Marc Williamson - The Blood on Satan’s Claws
Mark Korven - Witches Coven
Colin Stetson - Reborn
Simon Turner - A Hymn For Thatcher
Ambrosia Singers - Theme for Children of the Stones
Jean Bell - The Owl Service (opening credits)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - First of the Glaciers
Low - Remember
Wolves in the Throne Room - Initiation at Neudeg All
Martin Pavey & Ben Wheatley - Metallic Fields
Sigur Ros - Untitled #8 (Popplagio)

Groucho Marx - Hello, I Must Be Going
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

episode 240 : Folk Horror Feast curated by Gareth Jones (in-studio guest)

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Merry Psychic Tuesday!!!

On this episode of PTR, we have a special edition of Joel Nelson’s Experimental Mind Mincing! This will be the 1st EMM episode featuring a local experimental group and also the 1st in which we play an album in its entirety! The group in question is the Abdomen and the album is their brand new atmospheric and surreal opus, Inadmissable Evidence! Abdomen member Stephen McClurg will be in the studio to discuss the band and the album!

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

David Cain & Ronald Duncan - August
Sick Fucks - Going2Hell 
Animal Collective - Soul Capturer 
Seriously - Monument 
Aphex Twin - zin2 test5 
Wax Fur - Fixture 
Sinead O’Connor - All Apologies 
Sinead O’Connor - He Moved Through the Fair
Sinead O’Connor - John I Love You 
Sinead O’Connor - Gloomy Sunday 
Mark Mothersbaugh, George McGrath & Cindy Lauper - Pee Wee’s Playhouse Theme
There I Ruined It - Queen / The Champs - Another One Bites The Best 
Gelbart / Pee Wee Herman - My Favorite Vacation 
Talking Heads - The Overload 
Ghost Food + John Albea - Sturgeon Moon 

HOUR 2 : feature - Experimental Mind Mincing, created by Joel Nelson, hosted by Paul Cordes Wilm - episode 19 : Inadmissable Evidence by the Abdomen Listening Party

the Abdomen - Inadmissable Evidence  :

Rabbit Hours 
Deer Organ Mantra
Neosho
Humanizing the Room or Ornamental Frippery
A generous Display of Light, Air, and Hygiene
Or Maybe Yesterday
Night Orchard

Groucho Marx - Hello, I Must Be Going
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

episode 251 : Experimental Mind Mincing episode 19 : Inadmissable Evidence by the Abdomen

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Merry Psychic Tuesday!!!

On this episode of PTR, we’ll be traveling back through the eras to the swingin’ sixties, when Horror Rock was at its height! Our feature is Trick Or Treat and it’s chock-full of groovy Garage Monster Hits!

As always,

*** ENJOY ***



HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

Os Brutus - Jacques o Monstro 
Half Serenity - Mother Zoroaster 
mood room - hell behind the moon 
Helm - Toxic Racecourse 
The Melody Mates - Enchantment
산울림 - 아니 벌써 
John Carpenter - Halloween (Main Theme) 
Jason LaRay Kenner - Call Security 
Ace Farren Ford - Scurvy 
Ida Cox - Coffin Blues
Red House Painters - Evil 
Alvin Lucier - Piper (excerpt) 
Jinraj Joshipura - Space Liner 2001 II (excerpt)
Bauhaus - Swing The Heartache 

HOUR 2 : feature - Trick Or Treat (60’s Garage Monster Rock!) 

read about Aquarium Drunkard etc

Daringers - The Morgus Creep (1964)
The Tomko’s - The Spook (1963)
The Gruesomes - Dementia 13 (1986)
The Cadillacs - The Boogie Man (1960)
The Shades - Strollin’ After Dark (1959)
Gene Summers - Taboo (1959)
Evans Carroll & The Tempos - The Monster (1964)
Johnny Fever - Zombie (1967)
The Weirdos - E.S.P. (1962)
The Spooks - The Spook Walks (1966)
James Duhon - Graveyard Creep (1978)
The Pastel Six - The Strange Ghost (1963)
The Nu Trends - Spooksville (1963)
Terry Teene - Curse of the Hearse (1966)
The Black Albinos - Ghost Party (1963)
Don Hinson & the Rigamorticians - That Little Old Graverobber Me (1962)
The Crystals - Vampire (1960)
Sharkey Todd & His Monsters - The Cool Ghoul (1959)
Merv Griffin - House of Horrors (1962)
Johnny Otis - The Midnite Creeper (Part 1) (1956)
Los Sleepers - Zombie (1961)
Griz Green - Jam At The Mortuary (1965)
The Blazers - Graveyard (1963)

Groucho Marx - Hello, I Must Be Going
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

episode 262 : Trick Or Treat (60’s Garage Monster Rock!)

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Merry Psychic Tuesday!!!

You better watch your necks, cuz this week’s feature is a blood-sucking affair called How To Become A Vampire Victim In One Easy Lesson! It’s chock-full of spine-tingling songs and stories all about those sharp fanged, cape-wearing charmers! 

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

Dead Can Dance - Windfall
Aya Metwalli & Calamita - El Khala3 Wel Dala3
Nowhere Squares - Voices From The Ground
IDLES - Dancer
George S. Irving - Old Woman All Skin And Bone
Charlie Spivak Orchestra ft. Irene Daye - Inner Sanctum
Michael Farneti - ESP Switch
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask 
Port City Music - Night Terrors 
Scholastic Records - The Haunted House 
Loyalty Freak Music - The Old Witch Place 
Pamela Pupkin - Halloween Workout
B. Sonnier - You Can’t See Me 
Scraepers Papers - George N Bud Wiser
Harley Poe  - The Hearse Song 
Kreng - Balkop (excerpt) 
Louise Hueber - The Earthquake Spell For Unwanted Lovers 
Mort Garson - Incubus (excerpt)
L0wer Hybrid - TRANZcontinental 

HOUR 2 : feature -  How To Become A Vampire Victim In One Easy Lesson

Power Records - The Vampire’s Castle (excerpt)
The Birthday Party - Release The Bats
Milton DeLugg - The Creep
Boris Karloff - Dracula
The Vampire - Orvin Yoes
Al Zanino - In The Vampire’s Lair (excerpt 1)
Al Sherman - My Son, The Vampire
theatrical trailer - Horror of Dracula
Archie King - The Vampire
Richard Pryor - Windo Dealing With Dracula
Don Hinson And The Rigamorticians - Riboflavin Flavored, Non Carbonated, Poly-Unsaturated Blood
Al Zanino - In The Vampire’s Lair (excerpt 2)
The Ghouls - Dracula’s Theme
Hot Blood - Soul Dracula
Power Records - A Story of Dracula, The Wolf Man and Frankenstein (excerpt)
Haunted House Music Co - Midnight Music
HRB Music - Dracula Speaks (excerpt)
Milton Delugg - Mud Is Thicker Than Blud
Kid Stuff Repertory Company - Night Prowl
Billy DeMarco & Count Dracula - Drac’s Back
John Carraddine - Edgar Allen Poe's A Dream Within A Dream
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead

Groucho Marx - Hello, I Must Be Going
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

episode 263 : How To Become A Vampire Victim In One Easy Lesson

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Merry Psychic Tuesday!!!

This episode of PTR finds us indulging in a very special ALL LOCAL AL MUSIC year-end best-of extravaganza called Manic State! : The Best DIY Alabama Soundz of 2023! and there was a TON of stupendous music that pulsed out of our fair state this past year! 

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

Manic State! The Best DIY Alabama Soundz of 2023

Daikaiju - Magic Wanda
Skeptic? - Manic State 
Wax Fur - Bleach Dust
Noble - Will I?
Sugarplums - Lake Sounds 
Day Job - Post Collapse 
Chayse Porter - Lead Pipe Cinch
Lame! - Body Horror
b.a.b. - black as blood 
Half Serenity - Mother Zoaster 
TENGEN - Coasting Beams 
The Phasing Octopus - veggie tables
Laughingthrush - Prospect 
Domesticatrix - AA XXX 
sick fucks - Straight Girls 
Nowhere Squares - Worry Warts 
The Blips - Slow Lane 
Results of Adults - Orange Sunshine 
Nulging - Song 18
Early James - Straight Jacket For Two 
Boss Rush - In One Year, Out the Other 
mood room - hell behind the moon 
B. Sonnier - You Can’t See Me 
L0wer HYbrid - Tranzcontinental 
frownlines - note57 
Uppers Rant - Swatsh
Shaheed & DJ Supreme - Made In The Magic City (ft. Lauren Strain)
Jason LaRay Keener - Nurses Station 
Bad Hygiene - Minutes
KinZie - Just Like Me
Fauxdeep - Count To Ten (Demo) 
Virgin Spring - Fate Reflex 
No Culture - CVDY WVTR 
Blood Moon Riot - Make Me Queen 
TOWU - Good Evening And I Miss You 

Groucho Marx - Hello, I Must Be Going
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

episode 272 : Manic State! The Best DIY Alabama Soundz of 2023

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Merry Psychic Tuesday!!!

This episode of PTR finds us conducting another Sit+Listen session, in which we experience a legendary album in its entirety! This time around, we’ll be taking in the ground-breaking “space jazz” of Birmingham’s own Sun Ra, exploring one of his most iconic works, The Magic City!

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

David Cain & Ronald Duncan - March
Kim Gordon - Psychedelic Orgasm 
Ariel Pink - I Wanna Be A Girl 
Tok Yathraa - Dia Berkata Banzai 
The Residents - March de la Winni 
Ryan Colebeck - HarmonyofLife 
Marty Robbins - Big Iron
The Beach Boys - Anna Lee, The Healer 
Bjork - Ambergris March
Austin Coleman & Group - My Soul Is A Witness 
Matmos - Tonight there is something special about the moon (excerpt)
Reverse Engineer - Famous Deaths 
Danny Kamins & Ethan Camp - Doomsday Bunker Air BNB 
Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy - Drunk 
Shitbricks - Radio Free Theodore 
T. Fazylova - Khar Shabi 
Caroline Thompson - Lonely House  

HOUR 2 : feature - Sit+Listen session : The Magic City by Sun Ra

Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra: 

The Magic City 
The Shadow World
Abstract Eye
Abstract “I”

Herbert Brun - Anepigraphe
Henk Badings - Ragtime
Groucho Marx - Hello, I Must Be Going
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

episode 282 : Sit+Listen session - The Magic City by Sun Ra

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Merry Psychic Tuesday!!!

This time of year usually finds us indulging in Christmas In July festivities ... but not this year! Instead, we’ll be scaring the sand out of your bikini with a creepy crawly Summer feature entitled Party At Terror Beach, which is chock-full of sea monsters, B-movie ghoulies, horror surf hits and more! Why not?!

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - East of East 
Bizhiki - Trying To Live 
Laika and the Cosmonauts - Endless Summer 
Bob Newhart - An Infinite Amount of Monkeys
Serenity Dagger - Out of This World 
Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too 
Helmut Zacharias - Light My Life 
Trees On The Moon - What Did the Cartographer Say?
Wet Ink Ensemble - Lines on Black : Voice & Electronics (excerpt)
ASP Doze - le soufflet at le balai 
Coil - Bee Stings 
Michel Magne -  Pointes De Feu Amorties Au Dolosal (
Stüp! & Elizabeth Limbaugh - Long Gone 

HOUR 2 : feature - Party At Terror Beach!!!

Sex With Lurch - Monster Surf Party
Volcano Kings - Surfing on Blood and Brains
The Cramps - Surfin’ Dead
The Munsters - Eerie Beach
The Deadly Ones - It’s Monster Surfing Time
The Flames - Arabian Caravan
Duane Eddy - Stalkin’
Volcano Kings - The Purple and  Pink Polka Dot Carnival of Doom
Volcano Kings - The Creeper
Don Hinson And The Rigamorticians - Monster Swim
The Satan’s - Surf Rat / Martha Wentworth  - Devil Octopus
Davie Allan & The Phantom Surfers - Extras…
The Cramps - The Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon
The Deadly Ones - Surfing’ Dock Side
Dead Elvis - The Creature Stole Surfboard
Thee Headcoats - Beach Bums Must Die 

Groucho Marx - Hello, I Must Be Going
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

episode 302 : Party At Terror Beach!!!

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Merry Psychic Tuesday!!!

As Summer slowly starts to fade, we’ll be reflecting the mood on this PTR episode by focusing on the bittersweet heat of The Sorcerers, who combine Ethio Jazz sultriness with exotic soundtrack sensibilities!

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

The Very Best ft. Ruby Suns - Birthday 
fauxdeep -  Gloss Over  
Fontaines D.C. - In The Modern World 
Roland Kovac - Bottle Ghost 
Buster’s All Stars - Rock Steady
the phasing octopus - back seat concepts
Marvin Gaye - Anger 
Haruomi Hosono - Birthday Party 
Half Serenity - Otherwise Elsewhere (And If Not, Oh Well) 
bridges between - Why?
Michael Kiwanuka - Floating Parade 
Avian Brains - Hollywood Punks
Turner Williams Jr. - Accents of the Landscape Supply 

HOUR 2 : feature - focal point : The Sorcerers

The Sorcerers :

Night of the Sorcerer
The Horror 
Suur Tõll
The Viking of 5th Avenue
Shamanic Brew 
Opening Titles
Summoning the Monkey God
Oromo Moon
The People of the Forest
The Road Forward 
Bebaynetu
He Who Kills with One Leap
Yasuke in Roppongi

Lou Reed - Goodnight Ladies

episode 307 : focal point - The Sorcerers

Gareth and Craig welcomes back the guys from TVs of Terror to talk about 1992's THE VAGRANT with Bill Paxton.

Sleep in Cinema 03.22.25 THE VAGRANT w/TVs of Terror

Continuing collaboration with improviser/guitarist Scott Bazar. I designed the track around the improvised pieces he sent me. 

He used guitar, an electric Christmas tree star topper, touch and sound reactive LED puppets, GE LED light stock, an LED Halloween skull, Ebow with a metal plate, a portable Christmas projector with signal, feedback, and manual manipulations.

We Danced and It Had Eyes Flat Like Gold Coins

Likely a cemetery for S. McClurg solo recordings.

We Danced and It Had Eyes Flat Like Gold Coins

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