Searching For A Thread
185 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThematic variations on deep listening from psych and avant-garde to post-punk and indie rock. Broadcasting on WRFI Community Radio for Ithaca 88.1/Watkins Glen 91.9 FM. wrfi.org
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Episodes
Episode 256: Far SE Psychedelia: Flying Nun Obscurities
April 22, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 167 MB2 hours of deep Far SE Psychedelia with obscure Flying Nun bands. The Rip, Chug, Doublehappys, Bilders, Mainly Spaniards, Victor Dimisich Band, Naked Spots Dance? All the hits! And a few of those other bands The Chills, Clean and Tall Dwarfs.
Episode 255: Seagate Rock
April 13, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 166 MBWading through the excessive gigs of vintage indie, noise-rock and experimental post-punk sounds from 2000-2010. Broadcasting from a safe, social distance.
Episode 254: Mountain Respect
April 07, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 161 MBPaying respects to Mountains as we spend a heavy amount of time on trails.
Episode 253: Disaster Area
March 30, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBA new age and reality for us all. It's what we're living in, for now. Songs about embracing what it means, but with some light to come.
Episode 252: Heart Songs
March 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBEase in with 2 hours of soul filling international, introspective and mind altering folk and rock songs.
Episode 251: Cosmic Escape
March 18, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 164 MBUnprecedented times and uncertainty all around us. Let's escape, to another place.
SFAT Special: Eight Year Thread Pt. 2
March 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBSilas is back hand-picking long indie rock songs
SFAT Special: International Women's Day
March 10, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBCelebrating March 8, International Women's Day with post-punk
Episode 250: Blinders On - Everything's Fine / Everything's Great
March 02, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBSongs about being willfully oblivious, hopelessly optimistic and blissfully unaware. Running through indie and punk, to 60's pop and ballads, some psych and a sprinkle of bluesy gospel
Episode 249: No Escape From The Infinite
February 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBA strange pathway of experimental and "rock" sounds navigating post-modern composers, DIY adventurers, psych excursions, ambient outsiders and German progressives.
Episode 248: Document Or Witness
February 17, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBPaying tribute to the passing of Andy Gill, guitarist of Gang Of Four, we dive into rhythmic punk, post-punk, funky experimentalist punks, no wave and the like.
SFAT Special: Eight Year Thread
February 12, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBDusty brings in his son Silas to play recent and old favorites.
SFAT Special: 45 Sweats Pt. 5
February 12, 2020 00:00 - 55 minutes - 76 MBAll 45s for a solid hour. Post-punk, new wave, psych, garage...
Episode 247: Wide Right
February 04, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBYes songs all about sports, competition, racing, winners, losers and everything in between. Punk, post-punk, indie rock, country and even Warren Zevon. Note: it wasn't identified but the opening theme after the "Om" was Neil Peart (RIP) performing his "Hockey Night" theme for Hockey Night In Canada.
Episode 246: Whispered Infinitum
January 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBMellowing out with freaky and cosmic folk sounds and related experimental projects from the 60's / 70's.
Episode 245: Searching For A Rhythm
January 20, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 165 MBGetting rhythmic with funky soul and soulful funk, space boogie and African groove.
Episode 244: The Squares Get Down
January 07, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBDusty takes on the paisley heavy years of 1967-1969 when streaks of hippy-dippy freaks and flower-power wannabees were in full bloom.
Episode 243: Dusty's Decade
December 30, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 162 MB10 years is a long time to summarize what's been happening with music and records, at least from my point of view. So instead, here's 30 mins to 4 important artists / scenes that was discovered and digested immensely over the last 10 years: Thee Oh Sees, Zambian psych-garage-rock ZAMROCK, Glenn Jones (folk guitarist) and the music of Peter Howell and John Ferdinando (Ithaca / Agincourt).
Episode 242: Tangled Up In Tinsel
December 17, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBChristmas! One-off oddities, strange country, funk, soul, rock and tons of holiday audio merriment.
Episode 241: Groovy Covers
December 09, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 165 MBThe hits of Lennon / McCartney, Jagger / Richards, Davies / Davies, Dylan as well as Hendrix and Cohen covered throughout the 1960s and later on.
Episode 240: Living For A Living + Blue Thumb Records
December 04, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 157 MBAnother large batch of 10" records dropping on the wheels of steel plus a tribute and sampling of the artists and records of the Blue Thumb label.
Episode 239: No End In Sight - Deep Space Songs
November 26, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBSongs about entering the atmosphere beyond planet earth, and further still! Psychedelia, slowcore, indie, krautrock and other cosmic-themed rock.
Vintage Playback: Episode 1- Minimal Synth w/ Gerard Ryan of Le Cliche
November 19, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBRebroadcast and edit of the very first SFAT with an interview with Gerard Ryan of Le Cliche. Originally broadcast 6/15/14.
Episode 238: Outsider Punks
November 19, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 165 MBMining the punk revolution but going a little deeper into those weirdos who took punk as an ethos and made music that was on the outer fringes of it all.
Marathon Special: Dusty Family Radio - All In The Family
November 05, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBDusty brings in Angela and their 2 kids to spin tracks by bands made up of FAMILY. Family Bands! You can still pledge to WRFI Community Radio at wrfi.org/donate. All $10 or above donations get my 2019 mixtape dedicated to psych and private rock in Canada called Wild Moose Tracks. Specify in notes!
Episode 237: Sounds Like Bucks / Chimes Of Bayonets
November 05, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBPost-punk trio Chimes Of Bayonets LIVE in studio Plus, Dusty plays sounds about money, giving, donating and what funds can do for COMMUNITY RADIO. You can still pledge to WRFI Community Radio at wrfi.org/donate. All $10 or above donations get my 2019 mixtape dedicated to psych and private rock in Canada called Wild Moose Tracks. Specify in notes! https://www.facebook.com/chimesof/
Episode 236: Running Through The Graveyard
October 31, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBA new 2 hour Halloween special of obscurities and freaky garage, new wave, psych and other groovy cuts. Also, fundraising for our 2019 Marathon. All $10 or above donations get my 2019 cassette mixtape dedicated to Canadian psych and private rock: Wild Moose Tracks. Donate at wrfi.org/donate
Marathon Special: Searching For A Mutation - In Canada
October 31, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBTeaming up with JT of the radio show Dance The Mutation (mixcloud.com/dancethemutation) for a show dedicated to the relatively unknown music of Canada! Also, WRFI is fundraising for our 2019 marathon. Go to wrfi.org/donate if you'd like to contribute. All $10 or above donations get my 2019 mixtape dedicated to psych and private rock in Canada called Wild Moose Tracks. Specify in notes!
Episode 235: Cleaning Up The Fall
October 27, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBA catch-all episode of mini-sets comprised of indie, New Zealand experimental, punk, garage, strange reissues, new-band alerts and some words about Daniel Johnston
Episode 234: Simmer Down In Africa
October 15, 2019 04:20 - 1 hour - 161 MBMid-tempo afro-funk shakers, sublime folk and trance-like African soul & groove.
Episode 233a: Louisville In The 1980's
October 08, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBPlaying tracks as far back as the early 80's up through the early 90's documenting Louisville, Kentucky's punk and indie scene.
Episode 233b: Texas In The 1960's
October 08, 2019 00:00 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBPsych and garage from the Lone Star state and the International Artists label.
Episode 232: Dunderheads, Rockers and Spazzes
October 01, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 159 MBAn exploration of late 60s / early 70s hard rock, pre-punk chaos and lean rock songs. Beefed up riffs, starbound wannabees and basement dwelling outcasts.
Episode 231: Fading Sunsets
September 24, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBEnd of summer soul, spirituals, fuzz, hard rock and international folk & rock songs alongside other oddities. And who is Charlie Tweddle plus "I Own This Record. What Is It?"
Episode 230: Ulterior Motives
September 17, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBLetting things ring out with fragmented rock music, instrumental dynamics and yes, "post-rock."