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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... Returns!

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Georg Wadenius Photo by David Warner Ellis Did ya miss me? Yes, it’s been over a month since I did a show. A lot has happened in the last month such as changing jobs, family issues, some sad events, stressful stuff, as well as some hope for positive change. I was well into preparing a couple of shows in the last weeks that were skuttled at the last minute, so that was definitely a pain. That being said, I wasn’t even sure if today was going to happen, so even today was thrown together at the last minute. In any event, one good thing to come out of the upheaval of the past month is that I can now say that I will be able to return to doing the show on Mondays with some degree of consistency.   Now that I’m back in the saddle, I can continue to wade through all the vinyl that I accrued when ReMix Market in LIC closed down (only to reopen around the corner) and they were selling records by volume instead of by piece. It certainly allowed me to grab things out of passing curiosity that ...
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You Know Who... Is a Sloppy Perfectionist

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  April fools! Surprised I did a show today?   Yeah, well my work schedule is always in flux (I hate my fucking job), and once again I had to throw together a show on the fly. Happily, there are plenty of songs about fools, foolishness, and being fooled. I take a bit of pride in the fact that only one of them was about be deceived in romance.   Some great shows from this day in history, even if most of them leaned a bit far into mainstream classic rock (I think most listeners won’t be too upset). The Swedish band, Europe, was a pleasant surprise for me. I forgot that they weren’t just one-hit wonders and the musicianship was much stronger than I remembered. “Rock the Night” is definitely a banger, insipid as the lyrics are.   Lastly, a birthday shout-out to the late great drummer, Jeff Porcaro. I’ve heard it said that as one of the most prolific session musicians of his era, he provided the drum sound of the 80s (barring the “gated drum” sound that Phil Collins creat...
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You Know Who... Has a Little SNACK

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Terje Rypdal I don’t think I need to get into detail, but today was just a banger. There was so much amazing musiccreated and performed on this day in history that I had to make some tough decisions as to what to leave out. If you can’t find something here that gets you off, I have to question your relationship to your senses.   Click here to check it out: LIC Radio 3/23/2026     Terje Rypdal “Julenissen Er Blå” “(Santa Claus is Blue)”   (Terje Rypdal) Veranstaltung Junge Musik, Bremen, DE, 3/23/75     The Sinceros “Take Me to Your Leader” Mark Kjeldsen From The Sound of Sunbathing   (Columbia, 1979)   Underrated power pop group. Keyboardist Don Snow would later join Squeeze and be featured on their album Sweets from a Stranger   (A&M, 1982)   Chaka Khan, 1975 Photo by Michael Putland Rufus and Chaka Khan “Ain’t Nobody” (David "Hawk" Wolinski) From Stompin' at the Savoy – Live   (Warner Bros., 1983)   Happy birthday to Cha...
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You Know Who... Survived the Ides

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Photo by Mohd Rasfan It was National Panda Day today. I didn’t know what to do with that information. I didn’t know until this week that the guy who wrote the theme to the Mary Tyler Moore Show was an old bandmate of Buddy Holly.   Pretty eclectic show today with some varied new record acquisitions. Tracks of the day ranged from Sinéad O'Connor to the Meat Puppets. The highlight was probably the all-star jam during Steve Winwood’s “Gimme Some Lovin’.”   Fred Neil was born ninety years ago today. We played a couple of tunes for him.   Lastly, I finally got to play that Soft Machine that got cut off three weeks ago. The last two weeks I just didn’t leave myself enough time at the end. Killer guitar work from Allan Holdsworth.   Click here to check it out: LIC Radio 3/16/2026     Adam Berenson “Unfinished Sympathy” (Mike Gibbs) From Tunnel of Love: The Gary Burton Quintet Project   (2025) Originally recorded by The Gary Burton Quintet with Eberhard W...
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You Know Who... Daydreams

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Harry Nilsson Photo by Tom Hanley One thing that you would not know about Brett and me (unless you listened to the episode I did with him on my old cloudcast years ago) is that we share a particular fondness for old television shows from   the 70s and their theme songs. That was why I was so excited when I went thrifting for records last week and found an album by Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, better known as Freddie “Boom Boom” Washington from Welcome Back, Kotter . I knew that I had to hip Brett to this. In kind, he pulled out Bob James’ classic theme to Taxi , “Angela,” which is so wonderfully wrought that it transcends sitcoms, eras, and even genres.   It had been over a week since the brilliant comic actor Catherine O’Hara passed away suddenly, but we still felt the urge to pay homage. Thanks to her hilarious and touching performance in the folk music parody A Mighty Wind , he found a lovely musical tribute. He also wanted to pay the same respects to the Italian singer, Tony Da...
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