Idle Hands

This week, we celebrate the True Sport of Kings, aka professional wrestling! Bands include the Novas, the Cleavers, Johnny Legend, the Foreign Objects, Cocknoose, and Gordon Solie Motherfuckers. Wrestlers include Freddie Blassie, Mad Dog Vachon, Terry Funk, Michael Hayes, Captain Lou Albano, Jesse Ventura, and Slick!

Our first episode of the new year sees us taking our third and final trip to Japan. Bands like C.F.D.L., D-Clone, Dust Noise, Effigy, Framtid, Iconoclast, Melt-Banana, Muga, Paintbox, and Sink bring much crazy chaotic crusty punk hardcore noise!

This week’s episode collects some of the favorites from my SUNDAY STOMP DJ night at Eli’s Mile High Club. No metal bands include Bad Manners, Cocksparrer, Demented are Go, the Eyes, Frankie and the Flames, (Impatient) Youth, Madness, Operation Ivy, Screeching Weasel, the Sweet, and lots more!

No theme or anything here, just the usual random assortment of tunes. Bands include Aryan Disgrace, the Bags, Cro-Mags, Deformed Conscience, Gay Cowboys in Bondage, Lazy Cowgirls, Load, Puke Spit & Guts, Rancid Vat, Upright Citizens, and much more.

Back to Japan and their great punk bands, this time from the mid-to-late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Bands include Lip Cream, Chicken Bowels, the Swankys, Mad Conflux, Poison Arts, Deathside, Bastard, Gudon, Battle of Disarm, OAC, Tetsu Arrey, and more.

We’re back up to our usual tricks. Bands include the Cramps, F-Word, Pere Ubu, Suburban Lawns, Mushroom Attack, Polikarpa y sus Viciosas, Blood Spit Nights, Question, Health Hazard, Christian Death, and lots more.

We listen to some of the early Japanese HC/punk bands of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Featuring Star Club, Typhus, Friction, Gauze, Laughin’ Nose, the Sexual, Kikeiji, the Clay, GISM, Zouo, Poisonous Cross Gibbet, Rose Rose, Outo, and more!

This week’s episode sums up the best of my Fucked Up Fridays DJ night at Eli’s Mile High Club. If you never showed up, you missed out on bands like the Accused, Black Sabbath, Christ on Parade, the Dead Boys, Generation X, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Too Short, and more! Fucked Up Fridays, RIP!

Our second season premiere is dedicated to the best holiday of the entire year—Halloween! Featuring Annihilation Time, Bathory, the Cramps, Demented Are Go, Ghoul, the Industrials, King Diamond, the Meteors, Septic Death, and more!

Our two-hour-ish season finale starts off with a salute to some of the great R&B and soul artists of years past and finishes up with a personal salute to a life in the Bay Area. Features Any Three Initials, Booker T & the MG’s, James Brown, Cancer Alley, Dead and Gone, Wynonie Harris, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Permanent Ruin, Shitty Fucker, Talk is Poison, Utter Bastard, Zero Hour, and a whole shitload more.

With our season finale looming in the horizon, we bring you Alien Sex Fiend, Ambush, Freddie Blassie, David Allan Coe, Dogma Mundista, Funeral, Bonnie Hayes & the Wild Combo, Integrity, Ratos de Porao, TSOL, and plenty more.

Our tenth episode kicks off with “Welcome to the Terrordome,” and also features the Bad Brains, Eyehategod, Fleetwood Mac, Geza X & the Mommymen, the Mentors, Spitboy, the Stalin, Warzone, and lots more.

Get funky like a monkey with Blackrock, Brides of Funkenstein, the Ghetto Brothers, the Last Poets, Curtis Mayfield, Orgone, Parliament, San Francisco TKOs, Gil Scott-Heron, and a bunch more! Funky podcast!

Episode eight, a fresh eighth, and nothing else to do but get lit and listen to bands like the Child Molesters, Pure Hell, Rancid Vat, Swankers PMS, Shitlickers, David Peel, Gauze, Disassociate, Stormcrow, and plenty more. I even threw in a classic Emperor song because I wanted to hear it that much.

Lucky episode number 7 features Ice-T, Major Conflict, CCM, Cold as Life, Roky Erickson, the Plasmatics, Rupture, Sangraal, Crom, Fu Manchu, Like Flies on Flesh, and many more.

Episode six kicks off with one of my favorite Samhain songs and closes with a song from the Smokey & the Bandit soundtrack. In between, you’ll get to hear the Angry Samoans, Loli & the Chones, Simon Stokes, Flaming Lips, Gary Glitter, Annihilation Time, Boris, Nunslaughter, Buzzov-en, and much more.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Features Exodus, Beowulf, Bone Awl, Hellbastard, David Allan Coe, NoMeansNo, Poison Idea, Pretty Things, Toots & the Maytalls, and lots more.

I got stoned and forgot to do last week's podcast. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Bands include Alice Cooper, the Pagans, Kraut, 45 Grave, Wu-Tang Clan, Big Black, Word Salad, No Comment, Winter, and more.

The East Bay gets a lot of love this week with a bunch of current local bands, plus a handful of tunes that we like to hear the most at the bar I DJ at. Bands include Connoisseur, Replica, Kicker, Hammerlock, Madness, Government Warning, Stiff Little Fingers, The Tubes, and more!

This week on the second episode of Idle Hands, we’re taking a look at longer, slower songs played by some bands who are often known for playing at a much faster pace…and some who aren’t, but whatever. Bands include Ludicra, the Fix, Asbestos Death, Corrosion of Conformity, Saccharine Trust, Noothgrush, Moslem Birth, and Infest. Play slow or die!