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| The Mixtape |
Issue #1
InternetFM · Acid Flashback Radio |
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| Tape of the week: an early ’80s mix. U2, Talking Heads, the Chameleons, Echo & the Bunnymen, Big Country, Let’s Active, Missing Persons, the English Beat, Berlin, Romeo Void, the Church and Icehouse. |
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Press play.
Hey now,
That’s a real tape up there, off my shelf. Side A opens with U2’s “Seconds” and Talking Heads’ “Naive Melody.” Side B starts with Echo & the Bunnymen and ends with the Church and Icehouse. Somebody spent an evening with two tape decks getting that order just right, and it still holds up.
Every week we’ll open with a different tape from the collection. Some lean classic rock, some lean new wave, some lean deep psych. That range is the whole point. Got an old mixtape of your own? Hit reply with a photo of the J-card and it might be next week’s tape.
And every Friday, you get a new mixtape from us. Five songs, picked by people. One nugget from the sixties, one emerging artist, one new psych record, one deep track, and one live cut. Plus what’s on Acid Flashback Radio this weekend and the newest stories from InternetFM.
Welcome to issue number one.
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This week’s mixtape
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A Side A |
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Psych nugget
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
The Electric Prunes · 1966
That swooping sound at the top is fuzz guitar played backwards. The single came out sixty years ago next month and later opened Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets compilation, the record that gave garage psych its name.
Hear it on our Psychedelic Time Warp “Dreams” show
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Emerging artist
Carmilla
Six Foot Blonde · from Hummingbird (2026)
Eric tipped me off to Hummingbird, the brand-new album from this indie-soul-rock sextet, out September 25. Julia Rusyniak, the six-foot blonde herself, fronts the band, and they made a video for this one too.
Our 2024 interview with the band
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New psych
Annihilator
DOOM GONG · from MEGAGONG
Seven players, two drummers sharing one kick drum, and a mellotron riff with a 1972 heavy metal snarl. Frontman John Anderson told us how it all fits together. Turn this one up.
Read our interview with DOOM GONG
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Deep track
Good Times Are So Hard to Find
Blue Cheer · BC #5 The Original Human Being, 1970
Most people know Blue Cheer for the loudest “Summertime Blues” ever cut. By their fifth album they had wandered somewhere stranger. DJ Kaigem opened Psychedelic Psaturday with this one.
See this weekend’s Psychedelic Psaturday lineup
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Live
Crime of the Century
Supertramp · Hammersmith Odeon, London, 1975
The closer from the newly restored concert film. John Helliwell told us the last sax note climbs to a top B that gave him trouble even in the studio. Listen for it.
Read our John Helliwell interview
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This week’s video
 ▶ Six Foot Blonde, “Carmilla” (official video)
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A This weekend on Acid Flashback Radio
October 16 to 18
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| Noon |
Acid Flashback Friday with DJ Uncle Steve
Birthday salutes to Nico, Fred Turner of BTO and Bob Weir, plus Surrealistic Pillow and the Great Society’s original “White Rabbit,” 60 years after Grace Slick’s first show with Jefferson Airplane.
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| Saturday |
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Psychedelic Psaturday with DJ Kaigem
Blue Cheer, CAN, The Godz, Wand, of Montreal and Caramel. Replay at 11 PM.
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The Flower Power Hour with Ken & MJ
Robert Plant, the Moody Blues, Steve Cropper and the Steve Miller Band.
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| Sunday |
| 3 PM |
Sunday Time Warp with Bart Shore
10cc, Tee Set, the Rolling Stones and Dr. John.
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| 4 PM |
Psychedelic Time Warp
Live Bowie, Hendrix, the Allman Brothers and the Doors, plus Cheech & Chong.
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All Hand Mixed Vinyl with Bill Fitzhugh
Acoustic Neil Young and Ry Cooder, Joni Mitchell and Joe Jackson.
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The Grateful Dead Hour with David Gans
The 50th anniversary Steal Your Face remaster and the Dead at the Palladium, April 30, 1977.
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The Zecom Hour with Bart Shore
Rare Hendrix, new Neil Young, Lennon and Amy Winehouse.
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All times Eastern. See the full lineup
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B New on InternetFM
Interview
A Conversation with John Helliwell of Supertramp
Eric and I got Supertramp’s sax man on the phone to talk about the restored 1975 Hammersmith concert film. He told us how he ended up as the band’s onstage talker, why Rick Davies was the finest musician he ever worked with, and about the night the band hit a train wreck at Montreux with Emerson, Lake & Palmer listening.
Read the interview
Interview
DOOM GONG Builds a Universe of Their Own
A Louisville seven-piece that calls its sound “Denim Psyche.” The band had its name before it owned a single gong. Frontman John Anderson tells us how the gongs, the two drummers and three albums of mythology all came together.
Read the interview
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B Song of the Day
In case you missed it: Zepparella’s drummer Clementine on honoring John Bonham and the Genesis story, start to finish.
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That’s the tape. Flip it over next Friday.
Rock on,
DJ Uncle Steve
Acid Flashback Radio, InternetFM
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