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For All of Your LIC Radio Needs…

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It feels a little inappropriate that I should be starting this site. After all, LIC Radio was Walker’s baby. He brought together a community both of listeners and broadcasters that has been a source of light-hearted diversion in good times, and a source of comfort and connection in dark times. Yeah, I know I might be making it sound too significant for a platform that used to host a segment called “Fart of the Week,” but sometimes you need to get your head into the gutter in order to gaze at the stars. In any event, a while back a friend hit me with a “hey, what’s that song” kind of query, and asked if there was some kind of way I could post the playlists from the shows. Hence this blog. It may lack bells and whistles, and not nearly enough pornography to justify any use of bandwidth, but if you listen to a show (at least one of the “You Know Who…” segments) and want to know what that song was or who that artist was, it’s here. And if you didn’t listen to the show, there’s a link t...
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You Know Who... 8 Something

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Jukka Tolonen So I am due to have hip replacement surgery in just over a week, and the reason that I didn’t do the show yesterday was that I had a doctor’s appointment to get medical clearance for the procedure. Evidently, my doctor saw something that he didn’t like too much on my EKG and sent me over to see my cardiologist (who I haven’t seen in far too long). Evidently I need to have something called a “nuclear stress test” on Thursday to make sure I am healthy enough for surgery. Consequently, I have decided to start “sober ‘tober” a little early. So if I seem unenthused and fried, it is because I decided to take some edibles and see if that would work for the broadcast. I don’t remember much except for confusing Max Schmeling with Max Baer.     Click here to check it out: LIC Radio 9/22/2026     Jukka Tolonen Band “Tiger” (Jukka Tolonen) Popstudio Live, Helsinki, FI, 9/22/75 Studio version released on Hysterica   (Love, 1975)   Evidently, today is Natio...
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You Know Who... Has a House Guest

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From Mad #4, 1953. Art by Wally Wood. Today was such a treat. I so enjoy the remote shows with Brett. It gives me some leeway to go outside of my normal process (and pawn off some of the work to somebody else). Today, however, I actually got to have him in my “studio” for the first time in almost a decade, which was cool. It was a wonderfully spontaneous show. See, Brett’s visit to LIC was a relatively last-minute thing, and he had little time to construct, revise, and finalize his playlist. As such, his theme was deliberately obvious (oftentimes, the game is for me to figure out how the songs are related to one another), but it was fun to play with, and also a bit of a continuation of a discussion we had on the last show we did together.   One might say the show was “super.” (ducks)   Click here to check it out: LICRadio 9/14/2026     Miles Davis “Right Off” (Miles Davis) Paul's Mall, Boston, MA, 9/14/72 Studio version released on A Tribute to Jack Johnson   (C...
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You Know Who... Quite Likes Squeeze

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Man of the hour, Glenn Tilbrook Photo by Fin Costello Did you know that today was National Trail Mix Day? No. Neither did I, and nor do I care much now. I’m not sure that it would have inspired any interesting song choices had I known sooner. I will concede that the first part of the show was pretty lean. I haven’t bought a lot of records lately. I will say that I was pleased to obtain Weird Al’s Polka Party . Even though it is considered one of his less inspired efforts, I’d rather listen to that than, say a… I don’t know, Ray Stevens record? And I had to talk them down in the price, if you can believe that. The thrift shop down the street was asking something ridiculous like forty bucks for it. I think I’d just come back from LIC Bar or something and had the drunken audacity to tell them that their pricing was completely screwed up and was willing to pay twenty for the Weird Al, a Greg Kihn record, and a random old LP of sound effects that I will probably never use. They agreed. I le...
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You Know Who… Goes to Bat

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Jorge Luis Borges, 1951 Photo by Grete Stern Oh man, today was fun. Today Brett and I discussed the genre of sunshine pop, esoteric percussion, and songs about 60s and 70s television. In the process, I believe that we put the lie to the notion that Batman is connected with excess of sodium. Listen to the show and you’ll know what I mean.   On a less goofy note, we opened the show with a haunting instrumental composed by the ever-inventive John Zorn, inspired by the work of the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, born on this day in 1999.     Click here to check it out: LIC Radio 8/24/2026     John Zorn “The Forking Path” (John Zorn) From A Garden of Forking Paths   (Tzadik, 2022)   Guitars: Bill Frisell, Gyan Riley, Julian Lage   The stores of Jorge Luis Borges (August 24 th , 1899 – June 14 th , 1986) explored concepts of dreams, labyrinths, chance, and construction of mythology. His story “The Garden of Forking Paths” explores the metaphys...
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You Know Who... Feels So Good (?)

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  Miss Maybell Photo by Aiden Grant I was at LIC Bar recently for a post-show libation, checking out the live music that they have gotten back to doing on Monday nights. I’ve seen a lot of great music there over the years. However, Monday nights are usually mostly singer/songwriters which usually cover the entire spectrum from shitty to pretty okay. As my wife had an early morning the next day, we were about to leave when Kerry, the bartender, told us: “You have to stick around for this next act. I think you’re really going to dig it.”   A couple took the stage wearing old-timey get-ups, the waif-like woman carrying a banjo while the gentleman sat himself behind an electric keyboard (one does have to make some concessions on smaller gigs) and proceeded to play an array of songs from the early part of the last century, most of which I had never heard.   As it turns out, this was by design, as Miss Maybell and Her Ragtime Romeos (only one Romeo tonight, but evidently she re...
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You Know Who... Misses His Voice

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The late, great Ronnie Spector Seriously, this is the third week in a row where my voice has been complete shit. I guess bronchitis will do that to you, but this has gone on way too long. I also ended up missing three days of work. Evidently, people don’t want their bartenders to be hocking up a lung while making their drinks. The upside to this, however, was that I had quite a bit of extra time to plan the show. Not to give away too much of my “process,” while the birthdays often inspire some good musical choices, they frequently are off the cuff, last-minute picks.   Today, I believe, they were the highlights of the show.   The late, great Ronnie Spector was the woman of the hour. The embryonic recording of “Be My Baby,” not yet adorned by backing vocals and orchestra, is quite enlightening. Hearing her vocal before it got wedged between the cracks of the “wall of sound” gives the listener a chance to really hear her voice and phrasing. Her live tracks, backed by the Asbury ...
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