Retro SCOTTSO marks his third year crushing the Nielsen Audio Ratings while contractually obligated to the KILLERWATT ... New York's highest rated AM radio music station. Plus an all new Things From Indie. Click the player and listen. 

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#ChrisBell  #DireStraits #HowlinWolf #TheSmithereens

Retro SCOTTSO #31

SCOTTSO Goes Alfresco!

During one of those long tracks, a legendary disc jockey might grab his smokes, maybe a beverage, and head out the back door. When nature calls, he goes alfresco. Keep an eye out for bitey swamp critters from the Gowanus Canal, sir!

Tonight, Retro SCOTTSO promises not a single Christmas song. Sweet relief! Plus an all new Things From Indie. Click and play.

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#LarryWilliams #JethroTull #RobynHitchcock #HowlinWolf

Retro SCOTTSO #32

Ring in the New Year with the old man's fresh-sound picks. Retro SCOTTSO's Things From Indie, exclusively, on the KILLERWATT.

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#HANNAN #BugBot #JynxAndDino #FaintFigures

Things From Indie (RS #32)

NOEL jumps the red-eye to JFK then hijacks a piano cartage truck back to Signal Hill. He's between legs of multiple tours and antsy to DJ. For the next two hours, you got a busy sound-man at KILLERWATT's controls, dominating NYC's airwaves like a boss jock should. Expect nothing less than a musical epiphany.

Click the player and get your hair blown back.

Reports of a Steinway floating in the Gowanus are greatly exaggerated. It's actually a Bosendorfer!

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#ThinLizzy #AtomicRooster #TheFeelies #Godz #DNA

NOEL at the Controls #27

SCOTTSO Kisses the Wrong Microphone

SCOTTSO caught a touch of COVID from kissing the wrong microphone. But you can't keep an old jock down. To wit, he's pictured roaming KLW's snowy antenna range in long johns and a passé mask. How KILLERWATT Engineer Ed "Fitz" Fitzgerald kept a grip on SCOTTSO's cocktail, his own, plus KLW's Rolleiflex camera ... in frigid conditions ... well, let's just say our old school Engineering department knows how to juggle big transmitters and half-in-the-bag talent. The Professor was safely returned to SCOTTSO Memorial Studio A and is ready to spin. Sure, he sounds EXTRA croaky, but that never stopped him before. Plus an all new Things From Indie. Click and play.

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https://www.killerwatt.co/2024/01/scottso-kisses-wrong-microphone.html

#SocialDistortion #Alabama3 #BobMould #AliceCooper

Retro SCOTTSO #33

Retro SCOTTSO's Things From Indie, a set of independent artists curated by the Professor himself, exclusively, on the KILLERWATT.

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#BeastoBlanco #LisaMarieBarnes #PamelaDavis #MonoDeluX

Things From Indie (RS #33)

KLW Program Director and overnight disc jockey Vin CYCLONE: Your sonic sommelier, only, on the KILLERWATT.

Vin CYCLONE returns to the platinum KILLERWATT microphone armed with his funky corkscrew and disco decanter. Ready to refine your musical palate? Perhaps you're only in it for the party? 

Fair enough. Let the tasting begin. We'll go from delightfully ridiculous grape ... to sublime boutique vintages, cultivated in the most surprising maritime microclimate ...  along the viscous shores of the Gowanus Canal. Cin cin! 

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#YardAct #IanDuryAndTheBlockheads #Wonder45 #GrupoLosYoyi #AesopRock

The POWER HOUR #12

Don't Be Alarmed: SCOTTSO's Still Dead!

Pictured: Retro SCOTTSO grabs a selfie around Gowanus way.

Retro SCOTTSO's back in the house that Rashmusher built. That means tasty cuts galore ... after all, deli-delivery is tradition here at KLW. 

Hear the Professor direct from Signal Hill, Brooklyn -- plus an all new Things From Indie -- exclusively, on the KILLERWATT. Click to play.

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#TheCars #WayneKramer #RoxyMusic #TheTravelingWilburys

Retro SCOTTSO #34

Aircheck tapes of KLW have surfaced made by a listener from Battle Creek Michigan on July 13, 1977, "The Blackout of 1977." The radio hobbyist's recording documents the KILLERWATT cobbling together an emergency studio at the generator powered transmitter site on Signal Hill, Brooklyn. The station's Manhattan studio (pictured above) was looted then set afire. To this day, both studio and transmitter sites have remained on the tiny islet in the widest section of the Gowanus Canal: "Signal Hill." Hear the first three installments of "The BLACKOUT TAPES" in succession, including commentary from KLW notables. *Please note, the quality of the audio reflects the off-air nature of the recording, that is a consumer tape recorder's microphone placed in front of a 1960s vintage tube-type Zenith kitchen radio. Also note the recordist was 685 miles away from Signal Hill, Brooklyn, hearing the KILLERWATT's 50,000 watt AM signal via night-time "skip," or "skywave."
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The Staff and Others (in order of appearance) 

Vin CYCLONE: KLW Program Director (then DJ)
Retro SCOTTSO: Legendary DJ
Bobby ROBERTO: Voice of the KILLERWATT (then DJ, too)
NOEL at the Controls: (Rocking then and now)
Sid Walker: KILLERWATT Chief Engineer
Chad Burger: Transmitter Engineer
Harold Rashmusher Jr.: Conflamed Media Global CEO 
Harold's "Prostrate": (Rocking then and now)
Dave WASTED: KILLERWATT Resident Punk
The Pimp
Cop #1
Cop #2
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The Blackout Tapes Episodes 1-3

NOEL asked Sid to crank up the KILLERWATT's transmitter just a smidge more. Our Chief Engineer obliged, saying: "Sure. But play me something from Quicksilver Messenger Service." Then, KLW's Peabody Award winning disc jockey opened his mic and all at once, the atmosphere around Signal Hill went alight, a flash of color permeating matter and space, revealing an aurora over the Gowanus Canal. And out came Brooklyn's dancing freaks. NOEL turned to Sid and smiled. Click to listen.
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#ChilliWilliAndTheRedHotPeppers #Suicide #Pixies #FordTheatre #JakeWardwell

NOEL at the Controls #29

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The POWER HOUR #12

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