A very relevant song for the coming week here in NC. Plus, criminally unavailable on most streaming services. I have a copy on their NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL QUITE GOOD b-sides and singles collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uhn...

One of my fellow Aquarium Drunkard writers is in a tough spot. Holding her in the light, and anything is helpful.

I had an hour drive back into town to go to Quaker meeting this morning, so I put on Alice Coltrane's JOURNEY IN SATCHIDANANDA for the drive to put me in the right mindset. Worked perfectly.

The last time CJ Stroud went to New England it was to be in charge of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Smashing Bumpkins

"From hell's heart I stab at thee!" 🎵 here in 🎵 Duck Berg

One of the great things about college radio is stuff that isn't streaming. So listening to my show live is often not precisely replicated in the playlists after. I do my best, but all the more reason to tune in when you can.

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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Guys, we did it. We invented the Commodore 64

Happy 56th birthday to WQFS! First on the air this day in 1970!

I knew I was avoiding jinxing myself for a reason. Go Panthers!

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

It used to be much more common for bands and artists to cover other recent famous or less famous songs. There are tons of examples of this from the 50s/60s/70s especially, but even as recently as The Offspring's SMASH album (1994), they were covering the Didjits' "Killboy Powerhead" from 1990.

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What if we kissed in our Planet Fitness hats?

What's a band that you had a revelatory moment with when you learned they had been around a lot longer than you thought? Thinking about this while listening to the J. Geils Band's live album FULL HOUSE from 1972.

While Indie/Rock Mayhem proper won't be back until Thursday, January 8th at 8 PM, I am filling in this Thursday, January 1st from 2 - 4 PM EST on WQFS. Come have some fun with me on the first day of 2026! www.wqfs.org

Go round the outside.

Won me a championship! Been playing in this league longest of all and finally got the big one. Woo-hoo!

My wife and I have named this the week of sandwiches thanks to her getting me @barrysoh.bsky.social's cookbook for Christmas, and me picking up the Turkey and the Wolf cookbook which I was also exposed to through Barry. Starting tonight with a game attempt at The Bologna from TatW.

This reminded me of a time I worked with a guy over the phone for a few months before he casually mentioned he'd been in a band. Oh, who, I asked. Masters of the Hemisphere. That's not going to connect for a lot of people, but if you know them, you'll appreciate my minor geek out at that moment.

Watched IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS since it's leaving Criterion shortly. Not the best Carpenter movie, but it's got the kind of ideas floating around in it that I'll be thinking about for years probably, and that's a good film.

I managed to, I think for the first time this season, win in all 4 of my fantasy football leagues in the same week. Most of those were in consolation games, but one put me in the championship this week in the league I've been playing in the longest - since 2009. Have never won, so here's hoping!

Hello there, Christmas cactus!

Thanks for another great year of radio, folks. 26 and a half years is a wild span of time to think about, but in a lot of ways it's just as fun as it's always been. See you again on January 8th, 2026!

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You know it's the holiday season when you and your spouse send each other into tears by merely discussing the existence of "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote.

When my wife and I first bought our house here in Greensboro, if you walked 5 minutes and crossed the train tracks into another neighborhood, you were in the same congressional district as her parents who are an hour+ drive away from us.

This saddens me so much, y'all. K&W Cafeteria closing permanently after being in business since 1937 | wfmynews2.com share.google/pWhaVhTvdqgY...

Panthers!

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Fellow tall friend speaks my mind.

Drive-by Truckers - "Where the Devil Don't Stay" Travis - "Writing to Reach You" Rickie Lee Jones - "We Belong Together" Lucinda Williams - "Right in Time" The Replacements - "Talent Show"

Yes! Daddy gets the Switch tonight, kids.

I want to talk about the Scouts for a minute because I spent a large number of years in my youth in either Cub or, what was then, the Boy Scouts.

20% off everything available on Bandcamp starting now and lasting thru Monday. Use code “thankful” at checkout. I’m going to West Virginia today. Orders will ship when I return over the weekend. Thanks so much. Hope you have a nice holiday. ✌🏼🐓✌🏼 warhenrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Some J's Indie/Rock Mayhem on WQFS show updates - only two more shows between now and the end of the year! Thursday, November 27th - 8 PM EDT - Final new music/regular show of the year Thursday, December 18th - 6 PM - 10 PM EDT - 4 Hours of the Best of 2025 - albums and singles

I wrote some words about a tremendous album that really just keeps getting better, even 30 years on.

If you can't be embarrassed with Trump, where can you be?

One more night to get it half right.

Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

First set: Ratboys, Slothrust, Drive-by Truckers, and the Velvet Crush tunein.com/radio/WQFS-9...

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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

Seeing GWAR, Helmet, and Dwarves on a school night. This is the best of ideas; this is the worst of ideas.

Health insurance doubling, house insurance going up ~33%.

Been revisiting and rethinking about E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" a lot recently. I was blown away when I first read it, mostly because it's not what I expected from a Forster short story. But also by how wildly prescient it feels today.