Noel Rigs the Popularity Contest

Noel at the Controls, (fourth from left) and friends, mugging in front of the antenna fire he caused while guest hosting at an undisclosed station. Photo: Chadwicke Burger.

KLW the KILLERWATT · NOEL at the Controls #6

The KILLERWATT can handle it. Other stations can't. Our radio jockeys are used to cranking-up, or overmodulating KLW's massive vacuum tube transmitter, built to last, maintained by fanatical masters of the dark art of transmitter engineering. Radio geeks put it this way: "KILLERWATT got headroom." That is, power to spare.

Not every station is so lucky. In 2015, Noel at the Controls was on-tour mixing live sound for an amazing bill of musical artists. During the sound check a local radio jockey who we won't name offered a guest-host shift late-night after the gig. Noel immediately accepted; his on-tour hiatus from the KILLERWATT left him jonesing for air time. 

Noel rang up KLW's Engineering Department on Signal Hill and asked transmitter hot rodder Chad Burger to fly out to the venue and see if he can "enlouden" the local radio station in time for Noel's guest program. The result is documented by the image above.

On tonight's program, Noel rigs his own popularity contest by playing songs that couldn't be more popular. Everybody with a radio wins. Click the link above to be part of it. Send requests to Noel in the comments below.

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DJ WASTED Cascades Like the Gowanus Canal

Dave WASTED mincing about in KILLERWATT Control Room C. You'll hear those Japanese imports and more on tonight's program.

KLW the KILLERWATT · Radio WASTED #8

Tonight's Radio WASTED flows like a river of rusty barbed wire. By design. After all, we're broadcasting from atop scenic Signal Hill, Brooklyn, overlooking the banks of the Gowanus Canal. You should expect to get yer ears in a twist.

Hear Hank Wood and the Hammerheads, Amyl and the Sniffers, Germs, Limp Wrist, Suicidal Supermarket Trolleys, UFC, Contortions, Dead Boys, Danzig AND Donzig, Ramones, The Kowalskis, Devo, Cock Sparrer, Patti Smith, plus a special drop-by by BEX!

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Radio Heroes Never Really Die

Scottsowoodland is all around you, like an electromagnetic picture show. Tune-in to the drive-in by clicking the player below.

KLW the KILLERWATT · Retro SCOTTSO #10

Tonight, Retro SCOTTSO plays Hollywood on your radio. Cine-sonic! Plus a new feature: "Things From Indie." The venerable schlock-jock/dead-jay curates a special showcase of new, unsigned bands. He surely has good taste. Awesome stuff!

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

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Your Ass Will Follow Noel at the Controls

Noel relaxing before the Controls. [KLW archive]

KLW the KILLERWATT · NOEL at the Controls #5

Noel's at the Controls, and that means you're in good hands. Trust us. Don your dashiki, step into the master-mixer's head space, free your mind and your ass will follow. 

KILLERWATT Chief Engineer Sid Walker is a big Noel at the Controls fan. That guarantees dangerous amounts of illegal transmitter power for the next two hours. Best wear rubber soled shoes, Brooklyn! 

Tonight, Noel scorches the atmosphere with an eclectic onslaught, including all the top 40 hits from The Stooges, MC5, Easy Action, Rocket From The Tombs, Funkadelic, and many more! 

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Hurricane WASTED Drops LP Sized Vinyl Hail

KILLERWATT Super Jockey Dave WASTED hawking PVC flapjacks safely inside KLW's Signal Hill, Brooklyn bomb shelter/production studio.

KLW the KILLERWATT · Radio WASTED #7

Tonight, a gale-force electromagnetic super-storm of punk. Radio WASTED drops vinyl cuts like baseball-sized hail flying through the ether. Put on yer headphones and hunker down. 

Hear The Bobby Lees, MC5, Amyl and the Sniffers, Svetlanas, Hennessey, Toadies, Idles, The Spits, Distraught, The Goons, Drunken Rampage, The Heroine Sheiks, Rancid, The Brought Low -- and many more!

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Desperately Seeking Cheese Sprayer

Harold Rashmusher Sr. (#4) inaugurating KLW sponsor Easy Cheese outside the Signal Hill, Brooklyn transmitter building in 1921. Other notables in attendance: #1: David Sarnoff, #2: Albert Einstein, #3: Nicola Tesla.

KLW the KILLERWATT · Desperately Seeking Cheese Sprayer

The KILLERWATT knows you're stocking up on sprayable junk food for the long holiday. Soon enough, your fancy-ass tear-stained pink leather-bound journal will describe it as a "lost holiday weekend like no other ... a horror ... with one exception, the music was impossibly grand!" So play KLW out that boombox you got off Ebay, replete with fleas and shipping damage. Loud.

Before we forget, Conflamed Media Global, parent company of the KILLERWATT, is hiring. But seriously, folks ... join the greatest station on the banks of the Gowanus Canal. Radio fanatics should send their curriculum vitae to KLW Program Director Vin CYCLONE.

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Alice Drummer Smith Chats-Up SCOTTSO

Neal Smith (holding statuette) inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with fellow members of Alice Cooper, including "sixth Alice," KILLERWATT shlock jock Retro Scottso.

KLW the KILLERWATT · Retro SCOTTSO #9

Tonight, Retro SCOTTSO chats with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummer, original member of Alice Cooper, and long time pal of the KILLERWATT, Neal SMITH. They'll shoot the breeze and play a bunch of mind-blowing tracks. Your rock and roll integrity's about to get elevated!

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