I realize DJT's approval rating is historically low right now, but I'm sure it'll skyrocket once the ballroom is finished.

<exiting tragically hip mode>

"Merrily We Roll Along" on Netflix is startlingly wonderful and you should watch it.

<re-entering tragically hip mode>

Set D
Exxon Corp. - Up Came Oil (The Spirit of Achievement, 1976)
Judi Singh - So I'm Wrong Again
Hearn Gadbois - Gaht Mayh Moh8joh3 Woykihn
54 Ultra - I Won't Go
Caetano Veloso - Épico
Agnes Obel - Familiar
Nils Lofgren - The Sun Hasn't Set On This Boy Yet

...
The Ad Agency - Hospice Masquerade

Set C
The Divine Comedy - The Man Who Turned Into a Chair
Buckshot Princess - Animal Cannibal (Possibly in Michigan)
British Birds - The House That Stupidity Built
Elizabeth & the Catapult - Responsible Friend
Michel Kricorian - Transexuel Express
Martin Hannett & Steve Hopkins - Time Is Slipping...

Set B
Howard Da Silva & Politicians - The Bum Won
Half Man Half Biscuit - Record Store Day
Lost Girls - With the Other Hand
Cheap Perfume - It's Okay (To Punch Nazis)
Jason Crest - Waterloo Road
Bobby Timmons - This Here
Anna von Hausswolff - Stardust

Set A
Edsel - This Is the Edsel (Once in a Lifetime, 1957)
Midding - Nuisance
Dick Move - Scared Old Men
Smerz - But I do
Fox - My Old Man's Away
Foxygen - San Francisco
Brief Encounter - Don't Let Them Tell You

The Music Show #55 Freeform music show as heard on KAOS Olympia (kaosradio.org). Originally broadcast April 14, 2026. Listen live on Tuesdays at 6pm Pacific.

Episode 55 uploaded! Hit the play button. Playlist in comments.

Let's leave my twenties out of this

I'd like to reaffirm that I did NOT have a social relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and he had nothing to do with my coming to this country. I got into America the way everybody does: through a series of misunderstandings and displaced clipboards.

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Mazzy Dee, Coldcut, & The People’s Assembly - Government Criminal
Arthur Verocai - Sylvia

Set D
Carol Burnett - Saturday Morning Confusion
Luke Temple - It's All About Timing
The Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows
Ben & the Platano Group - Castill Battle
Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with the Belbury Poly - The Thinnest Place
...

Set C
The Divine Comedy - How Can You Leave Me On My Own
The Yagas - Anhedonia
The Ex - Great!
Barry Adamson - Cut To Black
Them Mushrooms - Sokoni
The Advisory Circle - Civil Defence Is Common Sense

Set B
Rudi Wairata & His Hawaiian Minstrels - Rock & Roll and Breezes
Career Woman - Hit & Run
The Convenience - Target Offer
Basil Kirchin - Silicon Chip
Elijah McLaughlin & Caleb Willitz - Insomnist
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Something's On Her Mind
Sarah Kernochan - Saugerties Summer 1974

Set A
Jake Gyllenhaal - Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love
Palace Winter - Telepathetic
Ora the Molecule - Is This Love?
Shelby Lynne - But I Ain't
The Baby Seals - Mild Misogynist
FACS - A Room
The Irresistible Gospel Chords - Yes, We're Troubled

The Music Show #54 Freeform music show as heard on KAOS Olympia (kaosradio.org). Originally broadcast April 7, 2026. Listen live on Tuesdays at 6pm Pacific.

The OTHER new episode uploaded tonight!

Set D
Helen Traubel & Pipe Dream Ensemble - The Bum's Opera
Dazey and the Scouts - James Deen You Let Us Down
Jowee Omicil - SOeuR FeLiX aka BeeHive
Tinned Meats - Grounded
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Charity
East Side Supply - The Bodega
Momoko Gill - River

Set C
The Divine Comedy - I Was Born Yesterday
Paul Gilbert - If You Soak Bread in the Sauce
Aimée Fatale - Apple Of My Eye
Nondi_ - Tree Festival
Redd Kross - I'll Take Your Word for It (Acoustic)
Amy Denio - Dublin
Voxtrot - The Times

...
Elvira del Rocío - crossing this bridge over a year (feat. amira)

Set B
Charles Nelson Reilly, Claudette Sutherland & Ensemble - Coffee Break
Phogg - Just Bought a TV Again
Squeeze - Why Don't You
Cyril Cyril & Meridian Brothers - Diablos de Chuao
Camera Obscura - We're Going to Make It in a Man's World
The Monopoly - House Of Lords...

Set A
Althea & The Memories - Worse Record Ever Made
The Tammy Shine - Speed Date
Solya - Born Wicked
Bill Pritchard - Smile
Mandy, Indiana - Magazine
Mammal Hands - Paper Boats
Don Julian & The Larks - What Chance Has a Man

The Music Show #53 Freeform music show as heard on KAOS Olympia (kaosradio.org). Originally broadcast April 7, 2026. Listen live on Tuesdays at 6pm Pacific.

One of TWO new episodes uploaded today! Click on the triangle thing.

ht: @stephenking.bsky.social

- Beautiful Corinthian columns

Subliminal Sleep Hypnosis A sample of a new subliminal insomnia healing recording I made for AquaReliq Technologies in Novato, CA. Be at peace.

No new April Fools joke this year from me, so enjoy this oldie.

Marc Almond - I’m Not Anyone

Set D
The Bollocks - All Rock Stars Should Be Drafted
Ulrika Spacek - Showroom Poetry
Azar Swan - You Can't Wash Away Murder
The Five Techniques - Resistance In The Dark (feat. Roisin El Cherif & Paul Weller)
Johnathan Blake - Always the Wrong Color
Bertha Tillman - I Wish...

...
Ninush - Tormentor
The Chordettes - They Say It's Wonderful

Set C
The Divine Comedy - The Conquering Heroes
Benji Hughes - Why Do These Parties Always End the Same Way?
Virginia Wing - The Second Shift
East River Pipe - What Does T.S. Eliot Know About You?
Celeste Tavera, Michael Roth & Roxane Carrasco - Do the Dance of Television...