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The forecast for Portland OR is that when What’s This Called? airs Saturday from 2-4 PM PST on Freeform Portland the temperature will rise from 100 degrees Fahrenheit to 104 degrees. While this is not the hottest things are supposed … Continue reading →

What’s This Called? is honored to have been renewed for another season at the most creative radio station in the Multiverse Freeform Portland! It’s the 5th Anniversary of the station, and DJs were asked to create a 29 minute #PartyMusic … Continue reading →

On March 1, 2021, Lennon turned 13. As this is the first What’s This Called? since then, it is also his birthday show! He ran the entire two hours and picked all the songs! PLAYLIST: Lovesliescrushing “babysbreath” [bloweyelashwish] The Microphones “The Glow, Pt. … Continue reading →

The actual challenge for the Freeform Portland Pre-Winter Fundraiser was the theme: Future Fun. But we weren’t listening very well. So What’s This Called? presents: FUTURE/NOW! PLAYLIST: Hawkwind “Welcome to the Future – Complete Version” [Space Ritual] Edward Ka-Spel “The Border Of Beyond” [The … Continue reading →

Here is the What’s This Called? 30 Minute Challenge Mix as part of the Freeform Pre-Winter Fundraiser! The theme was “Together/Apart”. PLAYLIST: Echo & the Bunnymen “The Disease” [Heaven Up Here] Harry Partch “The Letter” [The Composer-Performer] Unwound “For Your Entertainment” [Repetition] Pere Ubu “Caligari’s Mirror” [Dub Housing] … Continue reading →

Special half hour Halloween What’s This Called? mix for Freeform Portland. PLAYLIST Vincent Price “To Raise the Dead” [Tales of Witches, Ghosts and Goblins] Joan Baez “Diamonds And Rust” [Diamonds & Rust] Sonic Youth “Ghost Bitch (live)” [Staches in Columbus, OH on 8/1/85] Vincent Price “The Broomstick … Continue reading →

We bring you a #New episode of What’s This Called? on Freeform Portland featuring 2 hours of #ExperimentalMusic #Drone #Noise and #StrangeMusic including a sampling of tracks from the new In Bed compilation by Seattle based experimental sound artist Patrick Neill Gundran AKA Uneasy Chairs. 2-4 PM Pacific Standard Time. Your host Ricardo … Continue reading →

The What’s This Called? contribution to Freeform Portland’s Friday challenge “It’s Not a Phase”. All favorite songs from your host Ricardo Wang’s teenage years of listening and djing. #Streaming or #Download: PLAYLIST:

Your host Ricardo Wang took the “Movie Night” challenge for Freeform Portland and turned in a 30 minute mix of What’s This Called? related film music. Hear the movies below! PLAYLIST: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds “From Her to Eternity … Continue reading →

#LEAPDAY2020 on What’s This Called? at Freeform Portland your host Ricardo Wang pays tribute to songwriter and guitarist of Rain Parade, Clay Allison, Opal, and Mazzy Star, David Roback who passed away this week. A highly #Psychedelic array of #ExperimentalMusic #PostPunk #Drone #Noise and #AvantRock featuring … Continue reading →

A special four hour melding of What’s This Called? with the Music of Folk program on Freeform Portland. HEAR THE FIRST HOUR HERE: HEAR THE SECOND HOUR HERE:  HEAR THE THIRD HOUR HERE:  HEAR THE FOURTH HOUR HERE:    PLAYLIST: … Continue reading →

A four hour special on Freeform Portland featuring all music from the What’s This Called? 100 great albums of 2019 list. A crow listened from outside the window. Hear the First Hour Here: Hear the Second Hour Here: Hear the … Continue reading →

There are two What’s This Called? programs left for 2019 on Freeform Portland, Saturday December 7th (fragments of which are listenable below), and Saturday December 21st which will be a special from Noon until 4 PM Pacific Standard Time. In honor for what … Continue reading →

What’s This Called? is proud to be moving into our second year at Freeform Portland, which we honestly believe to be the coolest station the program has ever lived at. It’s that time of year where we implore you that … Continue reading →

Yolo on a pilgrimage we’re at Freeform Portland an extra week. So between two What’s This Called? is this space that is also but not entirely the same. Go to your mirror and turn it upside down. Watch carefully. HEAR … Continue reading →

This week on What’s This Called?, your host Ricardo Wang was joined in the Freeform Portland studio by local PDX dj, musician and zine editor B.c. Miller! BC is the admin of the CIRCLE OF TYRANTS music discussion Facebook group … Continue reading →

What’s This Called? (13 April 2019) I’ve had a long relationship with Ricardo Wang and his program, “What’s This Called?” and it always feels good to be involved with his show. But this is the very first time that I’ve “performed” on his show like this. I mean, we did one collaboration which you can … Continue reading What’s This Called? (13 April 2019)

Two entire separate two hour shows make up this week’s streaming and/or downloading offerings! First there’s the bi-weekly edition of What’s This Called? at Freeform Portland, and it’s an episode chock full of 90% brand new experimental musics! Then later … Continue reading →

Tock of Castles in the Air was ill and so What’s This Called? covered. Hear the First Hour Here:  Hear the Second Hour Here: PLAYLIST: Ute Lemper – Nick Cave’s “Little Water Song” [Punishing Kiss] Sonic Youth “Antenna” [The Eternal] The Beach Boys “Hang On To … Continue reading →

What’s This Called? happened Saturday 2/16 in it’s usual time at Freeform Portland from 2-4 PM Pacific Standard Time. However, we are also substituted for Unclaimed Baggage on Sunday 2/17 4-6 PM PST. 4 hours of strange, noisy, droney, plunderphonic, psychedelic, post-punk, outsider music! … Continue reading →

What’s This Called? is joined by legendary Portland dj Leo Daedalus for a special 4 hour show (including two hours substituting for Turtles Have Short Legs). It is the Freeform Portland Donor Drive and a great time to show support … Continue reading →

What’s This Called? substituted for the Freeform Portland regular program On Stage Tonight on Friday November 23rd from 6-8 PM PST. As the regular show features live performances, we followed suit and provided two hours of live experimental recordings, including … Continue reading →

Forrest Friends: “Creating A Soundscape” This is a performance &  interview with Forrest Friends, recorded in the The Lava Lamp Lounge on 31 August 2018, and a performance recorded on What’s This Called? on 23 March 2013. This program is sponsored by J Jean Portraits, & Peggy’s Vegan Hot Sauce. For more information about our sponsors, follow […]

After 13 years deep underground we were baptized by the bright sunlight of an unseasonably warm October afternoon for our first What’s This Called? outing at our new time and station, FreeForm Portland! The show sounds a little bit like … Continue reading →

After 13 years in the sub-basement of Smith Student Union at PSU, What’s This Called? is leaving KPSU for FreeForm Portland 90.3 FM!  The program will air alternating Saturdays from 2-4 PM and our first episode will be Saturday, October 13th. Here is … Continue reading →

The Delerious Insomnica Free Form Radio Show (#21)  I will by honest: Arvo Zylo and I have never met.  And, furthermore, I was unfamiliar with his work – or the releases on his label, No Part Of It – until I heard it on Ricardo Wang’s What’s This Called?  But a good thing is hard to resist, … Continue reading The Delerious Insomnica Free Form Radio Show (#21)

NewsBlas 1 October 2014: Halloween Spook-tacular 2014! (Prelude) We offer our yearly Halloween Spook-tacular programming, and this is the perfect time to subscribe to our Halloween Podcast Feed, which now contains more spooky radio than ever before!  Not only do you get every Blasphuphmus Radio podcast complete and unedited, we’ve also included every Halloween broadcast by What’s This Called? and Closet Radio, … Continue reading NewsBlas 1 October 2014: Halloween Spook-tacular 2014! (Prelude)

The Cask of Amontillado w/ Miss Rikki! (Featuring a special Halloween Spook-tacular airing of a How’s It Named? rendition of Basil Rathbone’s reading of the Edgar Allen Poe classic!  Originally broadcast on KPSU on 22 October 2011, and re-aired in 2015.) Playlist & Footnotes: How’s It Named? dates back to my appearance on What’s This Called? in 2008, … Continue reading The Cask of Amontillado!

What’s This Called? w/ Doug Theriault, LIVE! https://ia601508.us.archive.org/29/items/WTC1January2011/WTC1January2011.mp3

The “How’s It Named?” Halloween Spook-Tacular! (Featuring scary selections from the collections of Austin Rich & Ricardo Wang. Originally broadcast on Halloween in 2009 on KPSU.) Pulling out all the stops for the last installment of our Spook-Tacular series this month, I joined forces with Ricardo Wang of What’s This Called? to bring you two … Continue reading The “How’s It Named?” Halloween Spook-Tacular!