Avant-Garbage

We have been welcomed back into the arms of Radio Free Lexington. All of those weeks of making strange claims about episode numbers were useful after all, because THIS is episode one. And I’m very excited to be back at the game. Featuring: Takehisa Kosugi, The Caretaker, Phillip Glass, Ken Vandermark, and more.

I know theres the running joke about being dishonest about the episode number, but i really cant find the recording for episode 8, and it seems that maybe this is episode 8? We’ll keep searching for the answers. Todays episode features a new release from 12k records: an album by M. Grig, Mike Shiftlet, les … Continue reading "Avant-Garbage #D09"

As we continue up the backlog, we listen to: Modern Jazz Quartet, John Coltrane, Valve Studio orchestra, AM Radio, T.S. Eliot, Frank O’Hara, Porest, Art of Noise. Its a very Jazzy and Poetic kind of collage today. This Episode Aired on Holy Thursday, and since DePaul is a Catholic institution, I thought it only fitting … Continue reading "Avant-Garbage #D07"

thus begins the endless cycle of trying to fill the AG backlog. We assure you this is episode six, and on this episode you may find: PJUSK, Taylor Deupree, People Like Us, Steve Roden, Django Reinhardt

the mystery lost episode, recorded as the last show in winter quarter, it simply never made it to upload. and now here we are. up to date.

Yhe improv/Alvin Lucier episode. with the return of the studio turntable, we take an alternate method in radio, and improvise without a schedule. The first half hour combines many tracks, featuring Ryoji Ikeda, more Steve Roden, ghost quartet. The SECOND half hour is bedded with Alvin Lucier’s “I am sitting in a room” featuring many … Continue reading "Avant Garbage #D04"

This is the episode where the turntable was broken so we had some elaborate, and altogether undocumented, playlist choices. we for sure played a Steve Reich piece, and a new release from the record label 12k. we enjoyed playing Kronos Quartet and Charles Ives at the same time.

A very chatty episode, featuring a strange anthology of cassette tapes with poetry within, a LP of Jack Benny recounting ‘the golden age of radio’, number station recordings, Hainbach’s ambient piano works, some wonderfully meditative Steve Roden, PJUSK, Tomasz Stanko, and some other strange recordings from the 12k record label. The show is now on … Continue reading "Avant-Garbage #D02"

The true, scheduled debut of the wonderful noise collage we all don’t know. Featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto, Laurie Spiegel, stereophonic steam engine recordings, Ian Nibbelink’s poetry, Christopher Bissonette, and the mysterious Syntonic Research, with a seemingly impossible 30 minute quadraphonic LP. I apologize if my voice may be to quiet for some of the last bits … Continue reading "Avant-Garbage #D01"

After over a year of its run in beta, Avant garbage unveils one last test episode before beginning its weekly runs. this is also a test to see if the podcast itself works.