Saturday, December 30, 2023

NOEL Blows Your Hair Back

NOEL in his milieu.

NOEL jumps the red-eye to JFK then hijacks a piano cartage truck back to Signal Hill. He's between legs of multiple tours and antsy to DJ. For the next two hours, you got a busy sound-man at KILLERWATT's controls, dominating NYC's airwaves like a boss jock should. Expect nothing less than a musical epiphany.

Click the player and get your hair blown back.

Reports of a Steinway floating in the Gowanus are greatly exaggerated. It's actually a Bosendorfer!

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#ThinLizzy #AtomicRooster #TheFeelies #Godz #DNA

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Friday, December 29, 2023

New Sounds From Old Skull

Retro SCOTTSO's Things From Indie.

Ring in the New Year with the old man's fresh-sound picks. Retro SCOTTSO's Things From Indie, exclusively, on the KILLERWATT.

Click and get hip.

Check out the complete Retro SCOTTSO program this edition of Things From Indie was excerpted from.

Indie bands should contact Retro SCOTTSO here.

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#HANNAN #BugBot #JynxAndDino #FaintFigures

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Friday, December 22, 2023

SCOTTSO Goes Alfresco

SCOTTSO relieves himself behind the KILLERWATT's transmitter facility, Signal Hill, Brooklyn.

During one of those long tracks, a legendary disc jockey might grab his smokes, maybe a beverage, and head out the back door. When nature calls, he goes alfresco. Keep an eye out for bitey swamp critters from the Gowanus Canal, sir!

Tonight, Retro SCOTTSO promises not a single Christmas song. Sweet relief! Plus an all new Things From Indie. Click and play.

Send requests in the comments below. Indie bands should contact Retro SCOTTSO here.

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#LarryWilliams #JethroTull #RobynHitchcock #HowlinWolf

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

SCOTTSO's Alive - Feel the Vibe

Retro SCOTTSO's Things From Indie.

Retro SCOTTSO presents Things From Indie -- independent artists in a set curated by the Professor himself. Click and get hip.

Check out the complete Retro SCOTTSO program this edition of Things From Indie was excerpted from.

Indie bands should contact Retro SCOTTSO here.

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#RoxanneFontana #PamerlaDavis #TheDirtbombs #ImaginaryThings

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Saturday, November 18, 2023

SCOTTSO Spins Hits From Now and Then

The three Rs: RCA, Retro SCOTTSO and records.

Retro SCOTTSO marks his third year crushing the Nielsen Audio Ratings while contractually obligated to the KILLERWATT ... New York's highest rated AM radio music station.

Plus an all new Things From Indie.

Click the player and listen. 

Send requests in the comments below. Indie bands should contact Retro SCOTTSO here.

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#ChrisBell  #DireStraits #HowlinWolf #TheSmithereens

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Saturday, November 4, 2023

Vin CYCLONE Prizes the Payola

Vin CYCLONE, KLW Program Director and overnight disc jockey.
Vin CYCLONE was jonesin' to bang out an airshift. All that Program Directing... pushing papers, phone calls, prizing the payola out of the local record labels...it's exhausting. And nothing relaxes Vin more than standing behind a radio console wearing his traditional mokko-fundoshi.

Tonight's POWER HOUR is brought to you by the sacrifice of another KLW jockey, who got bumped by the Program Director. Click the player to start your journey from the delightfully ridiculous ... to the sublime.

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#TheBudosBand #ZodiacMindwarpAndTheLoveReaction #BabyHuey #ArloParks #Parakeet

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Monday, October 30, 2023

Fright Night at the KILLERWATT

Mr. Bobby Roberto presents tales of mystery, fantasy, macabre and spooky weirdness, exclusively, on the KILLERWATT

L
ights out. Radio on. Goose bumps. Tune-in to Bobby ROBERTO Presents. Click the links below to listen:

Bobby ROBERTO Presents: Treats for Radio Geeks
(War of the Worlds)

#WarOfTheWorlds #PaulLevinson #AnneReburn #TheBeatles #WFUV #TunnelsUnderFordham 

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

NOEL's Next

NOEL leaves his mark on the airwaves yet again, exclusively, on the KILLERWATT.

SiriusXM tried sniping-up NOEL at the Controls' contract, but KILLERWATT chief-suit Harold Rashmusher anted-up the big bucks. So don't fret, you won't need a satellite radio subscription to hear New York's Best Rock. Your good old AM radio's still good around our way. Click the player and listen.

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#TheFeelies #BluesImage #TheWHO #TheFolkImplosion #TheRakesProgress

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Saturday, October 14, 2023

JoJo Turns You Out on the PUNK Corner

New KILLERWATT punk jockey JoJo -- on the corner.

PUNK is back radiating from the crustine shores of the Gowanus Canal. JoJo's Punk Corner. Exclusively, on the KILLERWATT.

Click the player and listen. Send requests in the comments below.

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#TheBlueHearts  #The Interrupters #Blitzkid #ChokingVictim

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Saturday, October 7, 2023

Retro SCOTTSO Airs Indie Artists

Things From Indie. Exclusively, on the KILLERWATT.

Retro SCOTTSO's Things From Indie, exclusively, on the KILLERWATT. Hear independent artists in a set curated by the Professor himself.

Check out the complete Retro SCOTTSO program this edition of Things From Indie was excerpted from.

Indie bands should contact Retro SCOTTSO here.

Interested in joining KLW's cracked team of radio fanatics? Info here.

#TamarBerk #JonesCrusher #EliseTestone #RickHorvath

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Saturday, September 23, 2023

Rough Nights Make Great Radio

Retro SCOTTSO soothes his larynx with a cuppa something on KLW's broadcast veranda overlooking scenic Gowanus Canal.  He's had a rough night. But that won't affect The Professor's mighty croak.

The show must go on. A phrase Retro SCOTTSO takes to heart. After all, your favorite KILLERWATT DJ and resident Doctor of Musicology is DEAD. 

Click the player and listen.

Plus an all new Things From Indie.

Send requests in the comments below. Indie bands should contact Retro SCOTTSO here.

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#SpookyTooth  #TheAfghanWhigs #Soundgarden #GeorgeHarrison

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Saturday, September 16, 2023

Vin Rides a Bullet Train to Your Heart

Vin CYCLONE's shirt says, "Conveni" (コンビニ). It's a record slash convenience store.

KILLERWATT Program Director Vin CYCLONE returns, laying down scalding hot tracks framed by fits of uncharacteristic, cool mental clarity. Yea, Tokyo's loudest DJ is freaking entertaining. Click the player to start your journey from the delightfully ridiculous ... to the sublime.

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#PIGGS #KingPleasure #TheBrothersJohnson #Nebula #LouisPrima

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Saturday, September 2, 2023

Rock Extravagance Back in Brooklyn

Brian Lindgren, ready to kick off the sophomore edition of Logical Progression.

Logical Progression returns, ginning up New York's radio bombast to the max. Great songs. Even longer great songs. Figures. New KLW DJ Brian Lindgren knows how to pick 'em --- plus that keen insight into music we love to hear bluster about. Click the player and listen.

Send requests to Brian in the comments below.

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#MonsterMagnet #JadeLizard #BangTango #AshelynSummers #DreamTheater

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Saturday, August 12, 2023

NOEL Do Believe Rock's Alive

NOEL engineering musical epiphanies all along the global gig highway.

NOEL's at the Controls and the music couldn't sound better. Lock that dial onto the KILLERWATT, or click the player to hear it.

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#NeonLeon #Love #Hanson #LittleFeat

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

SCOTTSO Promotes Mavericks

Retro SCOTTSO's Things From Indie, exclusively, on the KILLERWATT. Hear independent artists in a set curated by the Professor himself.

Check out the complete Retro SCOTTSO program this edition of Things From Indie was excerpted from.

Indie bands should contact Retro SCOTTSO here.

Interested in joining KLW's cracked team of radio fanatics? Info here.

#JeniferConvertible #TimeOrDirt #PrincessPamela #TheReWdoNeZ 

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Saturday, August 5, 2023

SCOTTSO Gonna Tune You Up

Retro SCOTTSO selfies from the stage.

Trust the Professor. Retro SCOTTSO knows his way around a guitar anthem or two. Want earcandy? Click the player and listen.

Plus an all new Things From Indie.

Send requests in the comments below. Indie bands should contact Retro SCOTTSO here.

Interested in joining KLW's cracked team of radio fanatics? Info here.

#ZZTop #TRex #GrahamParker #SamanthaFishandJesseDayton

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Saturday, July 29, 2023

Witness the Dawn of Logical Progression

Brian debuts Logical Progression, exclusively, on the KILLERWATT.
Logical Progression is a brand new program hosted by Brian Lindgren. He's a fan of early FM radio, and when he pitched his concept to the suits at KILLERWATT, well, we thought we should give him an airshift before the poor kid resorts to podcasting. Imagine: You fired-up your old Scott FM tuner. Tweak the tuning for maximum meter deflection. Now lay down between your JBL L100 speakers, or affix a pair of  Koss Pro-4A headphones for analytical listening, and get with the progression. Click the player and listen.

Send requests to Brian in the comments below.

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#10cc #LouReed #EddieJobson #DavidSylvianAndRobertFripp

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Saturday, July 22, 2023

The Truth Lies on This Isle

Signal Hill islet, as it appeared in 1952 when the walk-bridge was still maintained and foliage dotted the KILLERWATT's transmitter/studio site, a man-made island of landfill located in the widest part of the Gowanus Canal.
Mixtape MANIA, click the player above!

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Saturday, July 15, 2023

NOEL Sails East River for Radio

Noel on East 34th St., waiting on the Signal Hill, Brooklyn ferry.

You can't take the train to KLW's transmitter/studio site on Signal Hill, Brooklyn. We're situated on a man-made island in the widest part of the Gowanus Canal. The entire islet was purpose-built for radio broadcasting, records indicate, some-time between 1918 and 1920. Yes, there's an ancient, creaky little walking bridge connecting our little pile of landfill to greater Brooklyn. But Manhattan based NOEL at the Controls prefers a pleasant mini voyage on the ferry special from East 34th St.. A "special" because it stops at KILLERWATT's pier via special arrangement with the City. We'll explain in the next episode of The Blackout Tapes, KLW's chronicle of the Great Blackout of '77.

Tonight, NOEL at the CONTROLS broadcasts another Peabody Award winning program, because NOEL knows how to present great records. Enough said. Click the player above to hear it.

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#JMascisAndTheFog #RagingSlab #Faces #LeafHound

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

SCOTTSO's Wisdom Reveals Indie

His doors of perception are wide open. Enlighten yourself. Things From Indie.
Take a trip into the realm of independent artists.
"The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend."
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
Retro SCOTTSO's Things From Indie, exclusively, on the KILLERWATT.

Indie bands should contact Retro SCOTTSO here

Hear the complete Retro SCOTTSO program this edition of Things From Indie was excerpted from.

Interested in joining KLW's cracked team of radio fanatics? Info here.

#SacredBull #Xzanthia #OldCity #RickHorvath 

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Saturday, July 8, 2023

Hail SCOTTSO King of Skullduggery

Retro SCOTTSO supports the fine art of skullduggery. And the fine arts. Prints available!

Retro SCOTTSO makes no bones about it. He readily admits he's a famous radio jockey, celebrated drunk and old school record store owner in morte. 'Round midnight, he'll cop to being KILLERWATT's undisputed King of Skullduggery. He's bad in a good way. Tonight, KLW's very own Juju-DJ comes to you live and direct from Athens, Georgia. Expect magic. Click the player above.

Plus an all new Things From Indie.

Send requests in the comments below. Indie bands should contact Retro SCOTTSO here.

Interested in joining KLW's cracked team of radio fanatics? Info here.

#MatthewSweet #WidespreadPanic #VicChesnutt #TheBaseballProject #DriveByTruckers

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Saturday, July 1, 2023

Melissa Mixes Heady Concoction

KLW Engineer Ed "Fitz" Fitzgerald (L) and your lovely little host, Mel celebrating the Fourth at the KILLERWATT's transmitter site, Signal Hill, Brooklyn. KLW's AM antenna (R) adding electromagnetic fireworks to NYC's airwaves.

KILLERWATT Engineer Ed "Fitz" Fitzgerald has no compunctions about showing the world the source of his radio expertise. Every Fourth of July, Fitz is the life of our cookout at the foot of KLW's radio tower. Electromagnetic radiation, hot dogs, plus a singular potpourri of substances: effluvium from the Gowanus Canal mingles with psychedelic hallucinogens -- don't forget plain-old booze -- and the music.... A heady concoction! Listen to Mixtape MANIA, click the player above!

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#Volbeat #BadReligion #YeaYeaYeahs #CIV

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Saturday, June 24, 2023

NOEL Loves You You Big Bubala

NOEL at the Controls.

NOEL's back behind KLW's mics. But the administrative suits at CMG (Conflamed Media Global), parent company of the KILLERWATT, are stupefied. "What's all this oddly catchy music?" they puzzle, afraid to make programming decisions. Pretending to be hip. So you see, we're lucky to have cool CEO, Harold Rashmusher Jr., a real mensch. He loves radio, and to him we can only say, "We love you, bubala, thanks a lot for letting us...."

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#JesseMalin #Kraftwerk #ThinLizzy #TheVelvetUnderground

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Thursday, June 22, 2023

Sunday, June 18, 2023

Brown Shoes Don't Make It

Retro Vincent SCOTTSO gets into character for tonight's program.

RS plays FZ, tonight on the KILLERWATT. Click the player and you're back, down front at the Palladium and beyond.

Plus an all new Things From Indie.

Send requests in the comments below. Indie bands should contact Retro SCOTTSO here.

Interested in joining KLW's cracked team of radio fanatics? Info here.

#FrankZappa #GrandFunkRailroad #GTOs #AliceCooper

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