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• Astralbating podcast #29 available (green beer edition)

  by astralbating April 29, 2012
  Since I'll be taking the next two weeks away from the podcast while I am away in Ireland, this week's episode has an Irish theme. Irish as in Stiff Little Fingers, Protex, so pre-Pogues stuff from the Nips and the Radiators from Space, Rudi, Ruefrex, and more. And in case you're wondering, Thee Mich...

• Astralbating podcast #28 available #RSD2012

  by astralbating April 21, 2012
  This week's episode falls on Record Store Day. Against my better judgement, I'm insisting that you head out to your favorite record store and $pend some money. Don't worry, the podcast will still be here when you get back. When you do give it a listen, you'll hear Cortex, Dicks, Big Boys, Uncle Tupe...

• Astralbating podcast #27 available

  by astralbating April 15, 2012
  Decided to play it straight this week -- lots of noisy, short, punk rock tracks. A simple formula that always seems to do the trick. Black Market Baby, Genital Hospital, The Boys, Sonic Avenues, Le Face, Normals, Abwärts and more! You can find it here. Didn't announce the previous episode on Garage ...

• Astralbating podcast #25 available

  by astralbating March 31, 2012
  Been packing and moving boxes all week and as a result this week's podcast is so heavy it is measured in cubic tonnes. Okay, that is probably a hyperbole. Anyhow, we have Hot Snakes. Kepone. Tar. Effigies. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. Naked Raygun. Dead C. And many more. Check it here.

• Astralbating podcast #24 available

  by astralbating March 24, 2012
  Astralbating train keeps rolling. This time it rolls through the swampland (Scientists), over love (Light Bulb Alley), picks up a robot in the hospital (Bolshie), detours through Germany (Mittagspause/Hans-a-Plast), comes back in town (Cosmic Psychos), experiences some wanderlust (Youth Youth Youth)...

• Astralbating podcast #23

  by astralbating March 17, 2012
  We only get AM radio in astral space and because of the slight reality distortion, the radio tends to play a lot of skinhead pop bands. This week is a selection of poppy Oi! tracks featuring Prole, Cock Sparrer, Camera Silens/Reich Orgasm (France), Cockney Cocks (Japan), Vanilla Muffins, the Violato...

• Astralbating podcast #22 available

  by astralbating March 10, 2012
  Did a thing awhile back on America guitars, now it is time for the Brits. This week we have Venus Beads, Leatherface, Senseless Things, House of Love, Wedding Present, Spacemen 3 and more! Check it out here.

• Astralbating podcast #21 available

  by astralbating March 3, 2012
  For a little change of pace, this week's podcast has clicking tocks, synths, and trippy guitars. There's Robyn Hitchcock, Mekons, Stockholm Monsters, Elektricni Orgazam (Serbiva), Minimal Compact (Israel) and more. You can get it here.

• Astralbating podcast #20 (Covers Edition) available

  by astralbating February 25, 2012
  Astralbating is now 20 and to commemorate this grand achievement, this episode is all covers. The last covers edition was a big mess of musical incest and this edition is no different, including covers of a few tracks played in previous editions. We have Les Thugs living on the seaside with Jello Bi...

• Astralbating podcast #19 available

  by astralbating February 18, 2012
  In a little bit of a poppy/dorky mood post-Snake Exterminator day. This week's episode has the Carpettes, Neighborhoods, Pointed Sticks, Scientists, Angry Samoans, Sloppy Seconds, Stinky Toys, Demics, and much more!  Check it out here.
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• Astralbating podcast #18 available

  by astralbating February 11, 2012
  This week's episode features the Spermbirds, Les Rats, Les Thugs, Ludwig Von 88, Ebba Grön, Blue Peter, and more! The theme is anthems. Anthems about lying, living on the beach, love, beer & punk, revolution, etc. Check it here.
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• Astralbating podcast #17 available

  by astralbating February 4, 2012
  Going a little bit mellow this week (mellow for me anyhow). This week's episode features Colin Newman, Lolitas, Celibate Rifles, Film Noir, Young Marble Giants, Der Moderne Man and more. Lastly, we have Peter Laughner pondering the eternal question: Ain't it fun? You can grab it here.

• Astralbating podcast #15 (SOPA/PIPA Edition) available

  by astralbating January 21, 2012
  Episode 15 is a celebration of the SOPA blackout. I didn't black out the site this week but instead brewed up this edition in my cauldron with an especially dark and sticky formula. We have the Murder City Devils, Savage Republic, The Fall, French Cold Wavers Trisomie 21 and Guerre Froide, Scars, TS...

• Astralbating podcast #14 available

  by astralbating January 14, 2012
  Saturday the 14th and no Richard Benjamin in sight (phew!). This is week is Love, The Boots, a little tabernakking from Quebec's Les Loups Blancs, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, some French electro-punk from Kas Product and the Metal Boys, and then some crazy Germans (Chips, Beton Combo, EA80). Enjoy!

• Astralbating podcast #13 available

  by astralbating January 7, 2012
  13 is not my lucky number, but it will be lucky for you this week. This episode includes Kiwi noisemakers the Gordons, Montreal ruffians the Gruesomes, an undead Jennifer "Miro" Anderson fronting the Nuns, the Travolta Kids clapping along in Swedish, PVC2, The Flaming Stars, and more! Check it out h...

• Astralbating podcast #12 available

  by astralbating December 31, 2011
  New Year's Eve. This episode wallows in a funk of desperation and nostalgia for a bygone era (but doesn't every episode??). Didn't spend any time in the garage but nonetheless we have The Skids, For Against, Siglo XX, Stiff Little Fingers, Toy Love, Dinosaur Jr and a little heard track from from fir...

• Astralbating podcast #11 (Aceh edition) available

  by astralbating December 17, 2011
  This week's episode is a special tribute to the Indonesian punk rockers detained in Aceh. With the help of Aborted Society Records, myself and many others are sending mixtapes to help lighten the hearts of the punks who were detained (and everybody everywhere who has ever had gotten a bum deal for l...

• Astralbating podcast #10 (covers edition) available

  by astralbating December 10, 2011
  Episode #10 of the Astralbating podcast is a special covers edition. As we all know, covers are how rock stars make love, and this edition is particularly incestuous. We have Elf Power schlupping the Tall Dwarfs, Mark E. Smith snogging The Saints, some Mexicans getting it on with Beki Bondage, The K...
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• Astralbating podcast #9 available

  by astralbating December 3, 2011
  Aggro, aggro, aggro, always with the aggro this guy. Astralbating podcast #9 featuring Negative Approach, Camera Silens, Chang Gang, The Monks, Social Distortion and more! Get it here.

• Astralbating podcast #8 available

  by astralbating November 26, 2011
  This week is about telepathy, featuring tracks from the Buzzcocks, Nation of Ulysses, Gories, Wipers, Q65 and more.   Check it out here.  

• Astralbating podcast #7 available

  by astralbating November 19, 2011
  Celebrate Pubember with Astralbating podcast episode #7, featuring Lucrate Milk, Naked Raygun, CH3, The Enigmas, Hubble Bubble, and more!  

• Astralbating podcast #6 available

  by astralbating November 12, 2011
  Episode #6 now online, featuring Dream Syndicate, Jeremy Gluck, Compulsive Gamblers, Chrome Chranks, Tokyo Electron, and more!   Get it here: Astralbating #6