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River City Limits on WRIR 3-2-24

Playlist and blog post on WRIR’s website

BANDCAMP page – nearly 100% of the music featured is purchased from the artists

NEW – released FEB. or JAN.
ASM (Anti-Christ Seige Machine) – Sisera
Inter Arma – New Heaven
DJ Harrison – L’Anthropofemme
Justin Golden – The Rain Done Fell on Me pt.1
doll baby – Treetops
Drook – Texas – Awful Stories
WKNDR – All In
Superchunk – Everybody Dies >break
ALSO
Balter Choir – Leaves Falling
Butcher Brown – Down With The King
Dorthia Cottrell – Price to Prey
Midlife Pilot – Idle Themes
Stone Woman – Near Dark
Belly of the Heart – Texas Beach
Cupid McCoy – Summer Sweethearts
Dead Billionaires – Straight Shooter
DuctTape Jesus – Press On
Higley – 5 Minutes
Hotspit – Cave Dweller
Keep – Dasani Daydream
Love Roses – 15 Minutes
My Darling Fury – The End of The World
Noah-O x Big No – Uncle Phil
Righter – Bad Art
RIKKI RAKKI – Breaking Skin
Sun V Set – Curious Wave
Ten Pound Snail – House Mouse
MightyJoshua – CleanHands
Mister Earthbound – Animal
Municipal Waste – Wave of Death
THUNDERCHIEF – No Compromise
Ryan Kent – Bring Me My Monster (w- Jimmy Bower)
The Milkstains – Intimidator (You’re Dale to me)

River City Limits on WRIR – 11/4

River City Limits 11-04-23

Playlist on WRIR’s website

Jay Smack/Studio B Bandcamp page – much of this music is available there

WRIR – 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio

 

 

 

 


NEW (released within the last month)

Balter Choir – Leaves Falling
Stray Fossa x kelz – Playing Strangers (feat. kelz)
Dust & Katja – Hold Tight
Shadow Age – Ours
Stone Woman – November Mourning
Battlemaster – Extradeath
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Angelica Garcia – El Que
Butcher Brown – I Can Say To You
Fuzzy Prophet – Mass Evolution
Landon Elliott – aftermath
Sincerely, Iris – It’s Coming Back to Get You Now
The Fan – Life In The Fray
The Mitras – Caroline
TEL – Acetone
Anthony Curtis – Saturnalia
Caro – alright, you win
Matthew E White – Genuine Hesitation
THE JOB – Here For You
The Get Off – Rug Burn
Earthling – Dark Path
Fight Cloud – Glass Symphony
SEASICK GLADIATOR – The Hanged Man

River City Limits on WRIR 9-2-23

WRIR’s website – playlist post

 

 

 

 

Fuzzy Prophet (Greg Garner and Steve Dingus) – Mass EvoluIon (and hidden track)
Released 9-1-23 NEW

Landon Elliott – Strangers
Live at Poe’s Pub
Released 9-1-23 NEW

Neatly Drawn Blinds (Nathan Burns) – Compass
The Things Before and After Me NEW

Dorthia Cottrell – Black Canyon
Death Folk Country

Dorthia Cottrell – Vessel
Self-Itled

Ohbliv – My Freaky Thing
Freaky
Released 9-1-23 NEW

Jeremy D Simmons – The Influence (Get Off You Phone)
The Song Machine Demos – NEW

Book of Wyrms – Blacklight Warpriest
Remythologizer
Released Aug 23 NEW

Spirit of the Beehive – Tapeworm
I’m So Lucky
Released 9-1-23 NEW

Butcher Brown – I Can Say To You
Solar Music
Due out Oct 6

Smalltown Superstar – September 2
Lanes 23 and 24
1999

Dirtball – Whiskey Go Away
The Well
1999

BEEX – What I Am

GWAR – Maggots
Scumdogs of the Universe

Chris Ratteree – Computers
Established 1971

Hotspit – Epitaph

Tennishu – Fun Music

I Am The Liquor – Confide In Me

Murdersome – Smoke and Mirrors

Thunderchief – Night Songs

The Mitras – 19999
Ripe

Toward Space – Pity Party

Weekend Plans – Slide

Ringfinger – Typewriter Tourist

Seasick Gladiator – The Hanged Man
The Hanged Man
DC

 

River City Limits On WRIR – 8-5-23

FULL PLAYLIST POST ON WRIR’s WEBSITE

Toward Space – All Night Long NEW
Bucket – World Tuned Upside Down
Midlife Pilot – Telepathic
Mr Earthbound – Animal
Strawberry Moon – Grew This Way
Sammi Lanzetta – The Villain
Doll Baby – Perfect Posture
Deathbirds Surf Club – Summer
Rough Age – Every Minute, Every Mile
Toxic Moxie – Creation Limitation
Toxic Moxie – Bratcore (VCR cover)
Ant The Symbol (feat Black Liq) – Names
Armagideon Time – Foxed In The Head (edit)
Large Margin – Smothered and Covered
Angelica Garcia – Macorina
Heath Haynes – Whole Entire World
Erik Larson – Cry In The Wind
Caro – Alright, You Win From My Room
DUST – Je Ne Sais Quoi
Elabor – The Tree That Bleeds NEW
Mighty Joshua – Clean Hands
Moossa – Ballast
Helgamite – Aestrosion
Horsehead – Grains of Sand
Sports Bar – Cut The Cord
Lean Year – The Trouble With Being Warm
Book of Wyrms – Sodapop Glacier

WRIR’s Cause and Effect – Satanic Panic and the PMRC

I recently hosted “Cause and Effect” on WRIR.   The show highlights connections and influences between bands, artists and subjects.  The subject I chose to explore was something I remember from my childhood and probably went a long way toward cementing my love for heavy music.  I love all music, naturally, but the heavy stuff has always resonated with me, often literally.

The Satanic Panic is a term that’s been used throughout history whether it’s the Salem Witch Trials or the moral panic surrounding certain  works containing perceived evil influences in the 70s, 80s and 90’s of the 20th century.

The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was an organization formed in 1985 by a group of prominent American women, including Tipper Gore, the wife of future Vice President Al Gore. The PMRC’s primary concern was the explicit content found in some popular music, particularly in rock and heavy metal genres. They believed that such content was harmful to children and teenagers and needed to be regulated.

Click WRIR’s logo to see the show post with the playlist on WRIR’s website.  Listen to the show by clicking the link “Play show”.

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s a Spotify playlist with a few additional songs that didn’t make the show due to time.  The playlist could have been hundreds of songs long.

Full playlist with notes and background on some of the songs.  Click on the album name to read more on AllMusic.

  1. Slayer – Raining Blood (SP)

Album: Reign In Blood

 

  1. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (SP)

Album: Black Sabbath

In 1988, a Geraldo Rivera documentary called Devil Worship: Exposing Satan’s Underground aired which depicted metalheads as blood drinking, grave robbing, sacrilegious hooligans.  It then went on to discuss a series of murders involving young people linked with devil-worship.  The most notorious of them all was Thomas Sullivan, a 14-year old who stabbed his mother to death, and just so happened to be a fan of Black Sabbath (a common theme among the crimes of this ilk Rivera used for his agenda).  Ozzy Osbourne would also appear as a guest via satellite, and when asked about the connection between his music and a number of the crimes that had been mentioned, he was more or less cut off before he could give a substantial defense.

 

  1. Robert Johnson – Cross Road Blues

Album: King of the Delta Blues

According to legend, as a young man living on a plantation in rural Mississippi, Johnson had a tremendous desire to become a great blues musician. One of the legends often told says that Johnson was instructed to take his guitar to a crossroad near Dockery Plantation at midnight. (There are claims for other sites as the location of the crossroads.) There he was met by a large black man (the Devil) who took the guitar and tuned it. The Devil played a few songs and then returned the guitar to Johnson, giving him mastery of the instrument. This story of a deal with the Devil at the crossroads mirrors the legend of Faust. In exchange for his soul, Johnson was able to create the blues for which he became famous.

 

  1. ACDC – Let Me Put My Love Into You Babe (PMRC-Filthy15)

Album: Back In Black

 

  1. Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast (SP)

Album: The Number of the Beast

 

  1. Frank Zappa – Porn Wars (PMRC)

Album: Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention

Zappa took the audio recorded at the PMRC hearing and loaded bits into a sampling machine called a synclavier.  He then created a composition using the audio from the hearings and overlaid musical insturmentation and programmed music over it to create a soundscape. 

 

  1. Ozzy Osbourne – Mr Crowley (SP)

Album: Blizzard of Ozz

This song is about Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), a British practitioner of black magic. Known as “The Wickedest Man Alive,” Jimmy Page based some of the Led Zeppelin album covers on his work.  Bob Daisley, who was the bass player on the album, wrote some of the lyric for this song. Daisley explained: “I wanted to look at the darkness and question Aleister Crowley. ‘Aleister, what were you thinking?’ You know. All this darkness and negativity. So that was a snag that I put on it.”  This was common in Ozzy’s lyrics.  Often, while listeners thought he was praising a dark subject, he was questioning it. 

 

  1. Judas Priest – Eat Me Alive (PMRC-Filthy 15)

Album: Defenders of the Faith

 

  1. Prince – Darling Nikki (PMRC-15)

Album: Purple Rain

American social issues advocate Tipper Gore reportedly co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) in 1985 because she witnessed her daughter Karenna, who was 11 years old at the time, listening to “Darling Nikki”. As examples of what they meant, PMRC published a list of 15 popular “filthy” songs, with “Darling Nikki” first. The PMRC would later become known for leading to the use of the well-known Parental Advisory sticker on album covers.

 

  1. Queen – Another One Bites The Dust (allegations of backmasking)

Album: The Game

In the early 80s, “Another One Bites the Dust” was one of many popular rock songs that Christian evangelists alleged contained subliminal messages through a technique called backmasking. It was claimed that the chorus, when played in reverse, can be heard as “Decide to smoke marijuana”, “It’s fun to smoke marijuana”,or “Start to smoke marijuana”.A spokeswoman for Hollywood Records (Queen’s current US label) has denied that the song contains such a message. The song does, however, contain a backmasked piano, which can be heard clearly when it is played backward.

 

  1. Mercyful Fate – Into The Coven (SP, PMRC-Filthy 15)

Album: Melissa

Ironic that the only song on the PMRC’s “Filthy 15” witchhunt against supposedly suggestive music list that is actually about witches and is essentially an instruction manual for how to join a witches’ coven. “Howl like a wolf/And a witch will open the door,” King Diamond sings. “Undress until you’re naked/And put on a white coat/Take this white cross and go to the middle of the ring.” 

 

  1. Megadeth – The Conjuring (SP)

Album: Peace Sells…But Who‘s Buying

One of several Megadeth songs referencing the occult, witchcraft or black magic.  In an interview, Dave Mustaine said, “I used to do black magic when I was a kid, and I put a hex on a dude and his leg kind of got messed up. The other one was, I put a sex hex on this girl and the next night she was in my bed, so I think that it worked.”

 

  1. John Denver – Rocky Mountain High (PMRC) (targeted for promoting drugs)

Album: Rocky Mountain High, Greatest Hits

 

  1. WASP – The Heretic (SP, PMRC)

Album: The Headless Children

Their song “Animal (F*uck Like A Beast)” was one of the PMRC’s Filthy 15.

 

  1. Venom – Possessed (PMRC-Filthy 15)

Album: Possessed

Targeted for promoting the occult

Written by lead singer Conrad “Cronos” Lant and guitarist Jeff “Mantas” Dunn, this piece of British speed metal is about a man who is possessed by the Devil. Satanism is a common theme in Venom’s oeuvre, but it’s all in good fun. Cronos said in Kerrang!: “I don’t preach Satanism, occultism, witchcraft or anything. Rock & roll is basically entertainment and that’s as far as it goes.”

 

  1. Twisted Sister – Under The Blade (PMRC)

Album: Under The Blade

Ee Snider got the idea when guitarist Eddie Ojeda needed surgery, and was afraid of going “Under the Blade.”  Said Snider: “It was about the fear of operations. I think people imagine being helpless on a table, the bright light in their face, the blade coming down on them, and being totally afraid that they may wake up, who knows, dead, handicapped. There is a certain fear of hospitals. That is what, in my imagination, what I see the hospitals like.”

In 1985, the newly founded Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) accused Twisted Sister of promoting rape, bondage, and sadomasochism in this song. Dee Snider took a stand against their agenda at a Senate hearing, pointing out that the lyrics to this song have absolutely nothing to do with any of the offenses, and that the “Washington Wives” who comprised the group were projecting their fantasies into their interpretation.

 

  1. Lil Nas X – Montero E (Call Me By Your Name) (2021)

Album: MONTERO

Since Lil Nas X released the music video for Montero (Call Me By Your Name) it has turned him into one of the most controversial pop stars on the planet. The video, which features the rapper sliding down a pole to hell before giving the devil a lap dance, has garnered criticism from conservative politicians and commentators, who say the song encourages devil worshiping and scandalizes young fans.  In a note written to his younger self about the release, Lil Nas X (whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill) said he had created the video hoping to further normalize queerness. “I know we promised to never be ‘that’ type of gay person, I know we promised to die with the secret, but this will open doors for many other queer people to simply exist,” he said.

 

  1. The Beatles – Helter Skelter

Album: The White Album

Charles Manson told his followers that several White Album songs, particularly “Helter Skelter”, were part of the Beatles’ coded prophecy of an apocalyptic race war.  According to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi, who led the prosecution of Manson and four of his followers who acted on Manson’s instruction in the Tate-LaBianca murdersCharles Manson told his followers that several White Album songs, particularly “Helter Skelter”, were part of the Beatles’ coded prophecy of an apocalyptic war in which racist and non-racist whites would be manoeuvred into virtually exterminating each other over the treatment of blacks

 

Black metal (these dudes have actually professed to digging the devil):

 

  1. Mayhem – Deathcrush

Album: Deathcrush

A band that actually lived up to the evil reputation.  It’s Swedish black metal which is on a whole other level.

Took name from the Venom song “Mayhem with Mercy”

Influenced by Venom, Death, Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Celtic Frost

One of the members (Euronymous) used Dead’s suicide to foster Mayhem’s ‘evil’ image and claimed Dead had killed himself because black metal had become ‘trendy’ and commercialized

 

  1. Gorgoroth – Destroyer

Album: Album: Destroyer

Self-described Satanic band who have drawn controversy due to some of their concerts, which have featured impaled sheep heads and mock crucifixions. The band is named after the dead plateau of darkness in the land of Mordor from J. R. R. Tolkien‘s fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings

Front man (at the time of this album) Gaal featured in the films:

2005: Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey (documentary)

2007: True Norwegian Black Metal (documentary)

2012: Flukt (“Escape”) (drama) – as “Grim”

2022: Heavy Metal Saved My Life

 

  1. Bathory – A Fine Day To Die

Album: Blood Fire Death

Bathory was a Swedish black metal band formed in Vällingby in March 1983. Named after Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory, they are considered pioneers of black metal (alongside Venom and Mercyful Fate) and Viking metal.  Their first four albums have been described as “the blueprint for Scandinavian black metal. 

The album Blood Fire Death, although mostly black metal, includes some of the first examples of Viking metal.  The band was named for a Hungarian Countess who was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the family of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia). 

 

All the bed music is from these horror movie soundtracks:

Creepshow

Halloween

A Nightmare On Elm Street

The Omen

Psycho

Friday The 13th

The Exorcist

And here’s the full list, the PMRC’s “Filthy 15” and their offenses.

River City Limits on WRIR – recent episodes

I haven’t posted RCL episodes in a while so here are a few from the last few months.  River City Limits features local artists and bands from Richmond, Virginia.  I usually host the first Saturday of the month and fill other open shifts.  I like to drop in music from nearby sometimes as well so you might hear music from around Virginia, DC, maybe North Carolina as it’s relevant such as when they have new music out or they’re coming to town.  Click the links to see the full playlists posted on WRIR’s website and support local music!  #rvamusic

5-6-23
New music from Tangent, Dogwood Tales, Ninth Realm, and The Pollocks (Charlottesville), more.

6-3-23
New music from Shy/Low, Scott Clark, Shane Cooley, Gnawing, more.

6-10-23
New music from Thunderchief, Bio Ritmo, Flashlight Tag, Gold Connections, Merciful Zero, Murdersome, Lance Bangs, Ten Pound Snail, Weekend Plans, more.

7-1-23
New music from Butcher Brown, Ostraca, Baroness (orig. from Lexington VA), Murdersome, Matt Colvin, No Moniker, Steve Ashby, more.

7-8-23
New music from Erik Larson, Keep, Moossa, The Mitras, Sincerely Iris, more.

Send Bandcamp links or music to jay@jaysmack.com

WRIR’s River City Limits – 4-1-23

This episode was originally broadcast on WRIR‘s local music show (one of them anyway) River CIty Limits, which runs every Saturday evening at 5 and hosted by a revolving line-up of DJs.  This episode of RCL features new music from Bucket, Cream Dream, Jonathan Vassar, DUST~, McKinley Dixon, Crucial Rip, Horsehead and Honest Debts and more local music that’s not as new.  It also features a single by Deau Eyes, the recent winner of the Newlin Prize for Richmond area music.

Much of the music played on River City Limits and the Studio B RVA podcast can be found on my Bandcamp page.  As much of the music as possible played on both shows is purchased.

Full playlist:

BUCKET – World Turned Upside Down – NEW

CREAM DREAM – No Answer – NEW

twain – King of Fools

JONATHAN VASSAR – A Thousand Miles a Minute – NEW

DUST – Gourmetsh – NEW

McKINLEY DIXON – Run, Run, Run (Kitchen Table Session) – NEW

CRUCIAL RIP – Violent Retribution – NEW

Erik Larson – Nomen Est Omen none

DEMONS – Inauguration Day

PYRAMID MASS – Wars

GNAWING – Gimme Tinnitus – NEW

SPOOKY COOL – I Lick The Sweat off Your Back

V.E. – I Started A Joke -Bee Gees cover

SAMMI LANZETTA – The Bordlerline

DEAU EYES – Make Some Time -won the Newlin Award

STRAWBERRY MOON – You, Me, and Mystery

PPIRANHA – Placate

PRABIR TRIO – Brahma and Vishnu and Shiva

CANARY OH CANARY – Dreamshark

HORSEHEAD – Grains of Sand – NEW

HORSEHEAD – Quitter – NEW

WKNDR – Color of Your Love

HONEST DEBTS – Not So Sure – NEW

MISTER EARTHBOUND – Animal

BEARSTORM – Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

ANTHONY CURTIS – Saturnalia

EARTHLINK – Dark Path

ATOM EVE ECLIPSE – Majestic

River City Limits on WRIR 3-4-23

Playlist post on WRIR website

Much of this music can be found on my Bandcamp collection

2023 0304 RCL Jay Smack Host

NEW

Ships In The Night – Sun One (Aurora mix)
(Aletha Levanthal – orig. from Cville)
New remix EP dedicated to a friend who passed away

Buck Gooter – Time Flies (pre-release track)
Ghost Brain
Released in April
Harrisonburg

WKNDR – Middle Aged Agitator Single
Released Feb 24

GIF FROM GOD – Knife Goes In, Guts Come Out
Digital Red (released yesterday March 3)

KINDA NEW

Omen Stones – Skin Self
Released in Dec

Appalling – Father Inferior Sacrilege
Nov 2022

Pyramid Mass – Wars Monolith
Jan 20

B4NK M4CHIN3 – Days Like These
Leisure, Recreaton and Stability
-members of The Seymores, Dynamic Truths, Coral, Fudge, Dark Little Rooms

The Mitras – Caroline

Benjamin Shepherd – Thirty Hour Day
Charlie Glenn – piano

Hotspit – Meltng Point

Keep – Dasani Daydream

Book of Wyrms – Sodapop Glacier Nov 2022

Byzantne – Purity Nov 2022 Charleston WV

NOT NEW

Justn Golden – Ain’t Just Luck Hard Times and A Woman

Drook – Soap

David Brookings – If I Don’t Make It Back
Cali via Richmond – was here 3-2

DUMM DUMMS – Halogen

Colin Phils – Totokon
June 2022

Cut The Architect’s Hand – Contempt As A Weapon

Hail Hornet – Disperse The Curse

Stinking Lizaveta – Witches and Pigs (Philly)
Were here recently
Name is a Dostoyevsky reference

Jim Ivins – Me And My Bones

Large Margin – Smothered and Covered

Merciful Zero – Melonite Kingdom

NO BS! Brass – Undying

V.E. – I Stared A Joke

River City Limits on WRIR 2-4-23

Playlist post on WRIR’s website

2023 0204 RCL – Jay Smack Host

NEW

Horsehead – SSOMO
Feb 3
Reggie Pace – trumpet
Sundog Dancing In The Early Light Release date: June 2023

Benjamin Shepherd – Thirty Hour Day Single
Charlie Glenn – piano

Jonathan Vassar and Duncan Adams – Momentum single
Feb 3

Keep – Dasani Daydream Happy In Here
Feb 3

Pyramid Mass – Wars Monolith
Jan 20
(formerly Doubtfire)

Crucial Rip – Violent Retribution Violent Retribution
Release March 2023

Gif from god – A Kiss For Every Hornet Digital Red
Releases March 2023

McKinley Dixon – Tyler Forever
Single
“A celebration of the life of one of my close friends” Released Jan 17 2023

DUST~ – Sheesh
Time Vol 5
Single
SLIMZOS Recordings release Released Jay 5

Buck Gooter – Ghost Brain
Single
Harrisonburg
Ghost Brain full due out April 24, 2023

The Mitras – Caroline Single
Released Jan 13, 2023

Superchunk – Everything Hurts
Single
Chapel Hill
Recorded during the “Wild Lonliness” sessions – didn’t make the album Released Feb 3r

Toward Space – Pity Party Single
Released Jan 13

The Nude Party – Ride On
single
Full release of “Rides On” comes out March 10 Forme d at App State, Boone NC

NOT NEW

BEEX – What I Am
Chrome Daddy Disco – Long Lonley Highway
Don Babylon – There Will Be Blood 2
Doll Baby – The Great Divide
Doll Baby – Alive
DJ Harrison – DJH Jazz At Montrose
Grass Panther – Your Mission Vignette
Jaguardini – Punku Chiku Skin and Bones
Strawberry Moon – You, Me and Misery
The Southern Belles – Everywhere I
Tim Barry – High On 95
Weedeater – Can Enabler Goliathan
Dorthia Cottrell – Vessel
Demons – Inauguration Day Swallow EP

 

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