Time to Be Useless

PLAYLIST: Nobro - Don't Die, Chubby and the Gang - All Along the Uxbridge Road, Kills Birds - Volcano, The OBGMs - All My Friends, Ratboys - Alien with a Sleep Mask On, Tina - I feel Fine, Nancy - 7 Ft. Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues, Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard, Traams - The Greyhound, The Lounge Society - Burn the Heather, Billy Nomates - Heels, Do Nothing - Uber Ales, TV Pries - tLeg Room

PLAYLIST: Joe Jackson - Got the Time, Escroto de Rata - Sucios, Mean Jeans - Basement Animal, Dinos Boys - Be Low, Sick Thoughts - Hellhole, Duke of Vandals - Baby, You're Money, Mourn - Men, THICK - 5 Years Behind, Soko - Ocean of Tears, Picasso Trigger - Anti'd, Shred Flintstone - I'm On the Parkway, Outacontroller - Too Soon, Makthaverskan - Antabus, Dilly Dally - Next Gold, Killer Kin - Bad, Bad, Mind, Golden Triangle - Cold Bones

PLAYLIST: Yung - Such a Man, Pozi - The Nightmare, Cayucas - Malibu '79 Long, Wicketkeeper - The Side, Heather Trost - Jump Into The Fire, Drunken Prayer - Crazy Alone (Quarantine), Couch Prints - Of Drawing, Pearl Charles - Only for Tonight, Knox Fortune - Sincerity, Yard Act - Dark Days, Maxband - Unsaid, Kelley Stoltz - Team Earth, The Electric Mess - Last Call, Wasuremono - Let's Talk

PLAYLIST: Naked Raygun - Treason, Zero Boys - Civilization is Dying, Naked Six - Lost art of Conversation, Mini Skirt - Dying Majority, Shame - AlphabetX - Free, Ganser - Self Service,TV Priest - Runner Up, Viagra Boys - Girls and Boys, Adulkt Life - Taking Hits, Heads. - Push you out to Sea, Enola Gay - Birth of a Nation, Here Lies Man - Collector of Vanities, Slift - Ummon, Dope Body - Curve

Speck is still getting high off of all of the great music released in 2020. This show features some great tracks that we didn't get to feature last year. PLAYLIST: Tobin Sprout - Antietam, Skyway Man - Sometimes Darkness, Okey Dokey - Big City Magic, Surfer Blood - In the Tempest's Eyes, Jeff Tweedy - Guess Again, Liam Kazar - On A Spanish Dune, Hamilton Leithauser- Isabella (with Lucy Dacus), Jealous of the Birds - Young Neanderthal, Night Shop - Hello Take Me Anywhere, Widowspeak - The Good Ones, Landromat - Bureau de Fatigue, Spun Out - Such are the Lonely, Silver Synthetic - Out of the Darkness

Friend and frequent guest on TTBU, Tom Gallo returns to play some tunes. Speck and Tom pick out their top ten tracks from 2020. PLAYLIST: Idles - Anxiety, Viagra Boys - Lick the Bag, Pubilc Practice - Compromised, U.S. Girls - 4 American Dollars, Daniel Romano - How Ill Thy World Is Ordered, Holy Wave - R&B, En Attendant Anna- Down the Hill, Habibi - Angel Eyes, Winter - Here I Am Existing, Smokescreens - Fork In the Road

PLAYLIST: Slow Pulp - Channel 2, Deap Lips - Hope Hell High, Gustaf - Design, Mamalarky - Big Trouble, The Cool Greenhouse - Alexa!, Home Counties - Will Bod, TV Freaks - Destined For Stardom, TV Priest - Decoration, FLTY BRGR GRL - No More, Mourn - Men, Advertisement - Pretty Money, Cherry Pickels - Let's Be Bad, Black Mekon - The Bottle, Bee Bee Sea - Mheer Sag

PLAYLIST: Leila Moss - Atoms Against Me, Sharon Von Etton and Josh Homme - What's So Funny 'Bout (Peace Love and Understanding), Cate Le Bon - Are You With Me Now, Ariel Pink - Dazed in Daydreams, Helena Deland - Comfort Edge, Johnny Marr - Hi Hello, Daniel Romano - A Rat Without A Tale, Loma - Octilio, Becca Mancari - Hunter, Samantha Crain - Past Time, Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever - Falling Thunder, Porridge Radio - 7 Seconds

Returning to the show is local JC rock and roller, Tom Gallo. Tom is the host of the Radio Free Brooklyn show, Local Fidelity, creator and host of the uber-cool indie podcast, Look At My Records and curator of the Mckenzie Tapes, a bootlegging project that catalogs live punk and indie show recordings from the past 40 years. PLAYLIST: Nicole Atkins - Domino, Italian Ice, Ohmme - 3243, Special Interest - Street Pulse Beat, Public Practice - Cities, Sorry - Right Round The Clock, Triptides - Hole in your Mind, Jade Harpins - (Don't Break My) Devotion, Bartees Strange - Mustang, Sunwatchers - Love Paste, Dehd - Desire, David Nance - The Merchandise, Hypoluxo - Shock

PLAYLIST: Blur - Tender, Gorillaz - Vallety of the Pagans, Plants and Animals - House on Fire, Loma - Half Silences, Secret Machines - Everything Starts, Sam Robersts - Ascension, Souvenirs - Fear And Moving Forward, I Love Your Lifestyle - Shilly Shally, The Clockworks - The Future is Not What It Was, Man Man - Cloud Nein, Captain Beefheart - Her Eyes are a Million Blue Miles, Richard Hell - Time, The Mountain Goats - Rat Queen

PLAYLIST: The Cars - It's Been A Long Time, Todd Rundgren - I Saw the Light, Savoy Motel - Mouth to Ear Music, Jetstream Pony - If not now, When?, Graham Hunt - Every Person, The Resonars - Nobody Can Tell You What To Do, Pointed Sticks - What Do You Want Me To Do, Drive By Truckers - The New OK, Damaged Bug - Microminiture Love, The Stranglers - No More Heroes, The Pink Fairies - Resident Reptiles, Fuzz - Spit, The Rebel Set - All Over The Wold, Secret Stare - Streets of Fire, Yesterday's Children - Paranoia

PLAYLIST: Built To Spill - Life in Vain, Twin Peaks - What's The Matter, Sandro Perri - Wrong About the Rain, Katie Von Schleicher - Wheel, Woods - Be There Still, Slow Pulp - High, Bill Calahan - As I Wander, Sun Jun - Singing, Pet Shimmers - Super Natural Teeth, Wallows - Nobody Gets Me (Like You), Tiger Lili - Lightning, Lydia Loveless - Wringer, The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers, Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You

Special guest!! DJ Electronic Epilepsy (AKA Matt Goodmark) comes on the show to play some bad ass rock and roll. He may remind you of your drunk uncle but the man has exquisite taste. PLAYLIST: Los Explosivos - A Toda Velocidad, BBQT - Savage, M.O.T.O. - Dance Dance Dance Dance To The Radio, Joe Jackson - Got the Time, Gang of Four - To Hell with Poverty, Soft Cell - Memorabilia, Grapetooth - Violent, Les Rita Mitsouko - C'est Comme Ca, The Big Pink - Velvet, PVA - Divine Intervention, Loose Meat, Cibelle - Daisy Chain, Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction

PLAYLIST: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Trouble Every Day, The Move - Flowers In The Rain, Chairlift - Sidewalk Safari, Naked Giants - High School (Don't Like Them), Kelley Stoltz - Are You My Love?, Sweeping Promises - Hunger for a Way Out, Savoy Motel - Crossword Puzzel, Wire - Outdoor Minor, Cleaners From Venus - Only a Shadow, Argent - God Gave Rock and Roll To You, Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale, Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine, Secret Machines - Everything's Under

Local Jersey City rockers, Crazy & the Brains come on as guests and play tracks off their new release as well as hand pick some music to spin. PLAYLIST: Crazy and the Brains - Brown Rice, Crazy and the Brains - Live Fast Burn Cash, Crazy and the Brains - Out In The Weedz, Crazy and the Brains - I Don't Deliver Pizza Anymore, Crazy and the Brains - Good Boy, Teener - Dust Everlasting, Days N Daze - Flurry Rush, Soul Glo - Untitled 1, Rando La Flare - 4 Bottles of Henny, Catbite - Can't Give You Love, Crazy and the Brains - Over the Edge

Local JC rock and roller, Tom Gallo, joins us for this episode to spin some tunes. Tom is the host of the Radio Free Brooklyn show, Local Fidelity, creator and host of the uber-cool indie podcast, Look At My Records and curator of the Mckenzie Tapes, a bootlegging project that catalogs live punk and indie show recordings from the past 40 years. PLAYLIST: Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice - Super Speedy Zippy Whipper, The Chats - Pub Feed, Gnarcissists - Fentanyl, Ganser - Emergency Equipment and Exits, Deeper - This Heat, The Peep Tempel - Neuroplasticity, Beans - Slow, Egyptian Blue - Nylon Wire, Bad//Dreems - Desert Television, Uranium Club - Opus, Crack Cloud - Ouster Stew, Fair Visions - Feels Right, Public Practice - Compromised

PLAYLIST: Japandroids - Arc of Bar, Native Sun - Juarez, Coriky - Hard to Explain, Clamm - Liar, Bob Mould - American Crisis, Idles - Grounds, Slaves - One More Day Won't Hurt (Bob Vylan remix), Special Interest - Street Pulse Beat, PJ Harvey - Down by the Water, Kid Bug - Lovesick, Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice - Super Speedy Zippy Whipper, Alien Nosejob - Weight of the World, Gum Country - Somewhere

PLAYLIST: Neil Young - Separate Ways, Help Yourself - Old Man, Evensong - Gypsy, Reverend Baron - Is it True, Zeus - Bonnieview, Philamore Lincoln - You're The One, Quilt - Hissing my Plea, Robert Wyatt - Out of Season, This is the Kit - This is what you did, US Girls - 4 American Dollars, Jim Ford - She Turns My Radio On, Chris Forsyth & Peoples Motel Band - Tomorrow Might As Well Be Today, The Lemonheads - Skulls, Link Wray - Fire and Brimstone

PLAYLIST: Cindy Lee Berryhill - Radio Astronomy, Forth Wanderers - Nevermine, Kid Silver - Dead City Sunbeams, Hnry Flwr - Waiting Room, The Spirit of the Beehive - Fell Asleep with a Vision, Woods - Where Do You Go When You Dream, Enjoy - I've Wasted So Much Time, Candy Claws - White Seal (Shell and Spine), Honus Honus - Heavy Jesus, Roger C. Reale & Rue Morgue - Make It Be Over, The Spongetones - On the Wings of a Nightengale, Lilys - Can't Make Your Life Better

PLAYLIST: J. Laser - Sunshine, Mac Miller - Good News, Dua Saleh - Umbrellar, Sleepy Sun - Marina, Sym Fera-- Little Things, Deerhoof - Future Teenager Cave Artists, High Waisted - Drive, Psychic Ills - I Don't Mind, The Black Ride - All That We See, Sugar Candy Mountain - Windows, Brian Jonestown Massacre - It Girl, Moses Gunn Collective - Shalala

PLAYLIST: Stuck - Invisible Wall, Shell of a Shell - Already There, Geese - Gregor, Duds - No Remark, Facs - Teenage Hive, The Hecks - Flash, Slift - It's Coming, The Pyschotic Monks - The Bad and the City Solution, Activity - Calls Your Name, Meatbodies - Fools Fold Their Hands (Grieveous Evils Under the Sun), Lithincs - Excuse Generator, Erik Nervous - Nothing is Happening, The Coathangers - F The NRA

JC Metal and hard rock legend, Bram Teitelman joins us as guest DJ. Bram, member of Black Wail and current Napalm Records employee, spins some tunes and gives us a state of the union on the Metal scene during COVID. PLAYLIST: Beastmilk - Death Reflects Us, Mutoid Man - Bridgeburner, Kvelertak - Bratebrann, Run the Jewels - Pulling the Pin, Elder - Halcyon, Twin Temple - The Devil (Didn't Make Me Do It), Kadavar - Evil Forces, Rainbows Are Free - Are You Dead

PLAYLIST: The Black Tones - Ghetto Spaceship, Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops, October Drift - Losing My Touch, Avalanche Party - Howl, Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train a Comin', X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!, Protomartyr - Processed by the Boys, Algiers - The Underside of Power, Viagra Boys - Sports, Death - Politicians In My Eyes

PLAYLIST: Idles - Mr. Motivator, Fishbone - Fight The Youth, Fugazi- Bulldog Front, Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off, Dead Kennedys - I Fought The Law, Red Aunts - Hate, Black Midi - 953, Control Top - Unapologetic, The Rapture - Killing, The Clash - White Riot, Bad Brains - Banned In DC, Crass - Bloody Revolutions, Hash Redactor - Panic, Against Me! - White People for Peace, Propagandhi - I Am A Rifle, Black Flag - My War, Wire - In the Art of Stopping

Post Memorial Day but still trying to keep that Southern Fried rockabilly vibe PLAYLIST: Giant Giant Sand - Forever and A Day, John Doe & the Sadies - Stop the World and Let Me Off, Khruangbin with Leon Bridges - Texas Sun, Friends of Dean Martinez - All The Pretty Horses, Bloodshot Bill - Crazy 'Bout The Girl, The Ding-Dongs - Don't Ring, Come On In, Hasil Adkins - No More Hot Dogs, Flat Duo Jets- Please, Please Baby, The Dyes - Liza Jane, Coffin Daggers - Psychonaut, Heavy Trash - Isolation, Vandoliers - Troublemaker, Motel Mirrors - Dead of Winter Blues, Jon Langford - Nashville Radio

Setlist: Hookworms - Ullswater, Moon Duo - Creepin', Shadow Show - Trapese Act, Moaning - Ego, Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever - French Press, Crack Crowd - Drab Measure, Deeper - This Heat, Bodega - How Did This Happen, Delta 5 - You, Geurilla Toss - Betty Dreams of Green Men, Big Bliss - Fortune

Ryan, AKA "Honus Honus", the songwriter and main man behind the legendary Man Man, joins the show as a guest DJ. Ryan debuts brand new songs off of Man Man's forthcoming album, "Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between" and picks other artists to showcase as well. PLAYLIST: Man Man- Cloud Nein, Saat Sure Sa Shuru Srikanata Akaraha, Clark and Himselves- So Sorry, Man Man- On the Mend, Man Man -Future Peg, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - Phenom, Snapped Ankles - Johnny Guitar calling Gosta Berlin, Man Man- Beached,

PLAYLIST: Thyla - Two Sense, Superchunk - Throwing Things (Acoustic), The Vaselines - Slushy, Bloodwitch - Hey Little Girl, WandM.E., PT Walkley - Oh My Darling, Hamilton Leighthauser - 1,000 Times, The Ninth Wave - This Broken Design, Honus Honus - Santa Monica, Spiral Stairs - No Comparison, Blake Mills - Hey Lover, Juan Wauters - Sanity or Not

PLAYLIST: The Beths Dying To Believe, Donora American Cars, Yuck Get Away, Bad Moves Cool Generator, Chisel It's Alright, You're Ok., The Minders Hooray For Tuesday, Cool American Great At Parties, Sloan Everything You've Done Wrong, Royal Headache Carolina, Young Guv -Every Flower I See, Tommy Keene - Nothing Can Change You, XTC - Generals and Majors, Smudge -Impractical Joke, The Exbats -Wet Cheeks, Tony Molina - I Don't Want To Know

PLAYLIST: Crazy and the Brains - Hell No, Wildlyfe - Sacre Bleu, Marked Men - Wait here, Wait for you, Radioactivity - Sickness, Vacation - Capitol Drive, The Heat Tape - Idle Man, The Wipers- Return of the Rat, The Didgits - Mr. DNA, The Weirdos - We Got The Neutron Bomb, The Urinals - Sex, The Adverts - No Time To Be 21, The Rezillos - Flying Saucer Attack, New Bomb Turks -Jukebox Lean, Audacity- Punk Confusion, Total Babes - Like They Always Do, Tenement - Simple Things (can seem so involved), Sonic Avenues -Automatic, Viagra Boys - Lick the Bag, Cloud Nothings -Time To Stay Useless