Very High Frequencies

Very High Frequencies Episode: 153 (Ozzy Osbourne)

Thanks! This week on Very High Frequencies Not Dead Yet Mike  presents John Michael Osbourne. Holy Prince of Darkness,  it's an alternate Ozzy show! This episode is no so called "Greatest Hits" yawnfest. Sometimes it's what isn't played that may make preconceived perceptions woefully inadequate. By skipping the cheesy drunken bloated era of the post Randy Rhodes tragedy altogether, as well as avoiding all attempts at commercial ballads, thank you very much. The result is a heavy mix that Sharron would not approve of. Hear rare one off movie tie tracks and lesser known but impressive guest vocal spots on songs by former partners in Black Sabbath.  There's also a surprising range of cover songs interspersed between solo tracks from the first Blizzard of Ozz in 1980  to last year's rockstar packed Patient Number Nine. It's wall to wall choice cuts from key solo albums so get ready to rock out hard. This VHF 153 is  for the true Ozzy fanatic. Remember, Ozzy loves you all!

Very High Frequencies Episode: 152 The Sex Show

This episode of Very High Frequencies examines the sexual revolution through alternative rock. We've already featured shows with drug songs and Rock and roll shout outs but it's all about the sex this time around. From the Velvet Underground to nine inch nails, what was once taboo and only alluded to in metaphor and double entendre slowly became overt and eventually even explicit. Sometimes the songs even became huge hits, although censored quite obviously by design. The menfolk may have been more comfortable letting the world know what kinky bastards they were but eventually the womenfolk let us all know how they felt too. If you're triggered negatively by strong and often fantastical sexual lyrics this might not be the show for you. The birds do it, the bees are randy as heck too! VHF-152 (The Sex Show) has a little bit of the huge amount of songs artists have recorded about human sexuality.

Very High Frequencies Episode: 151 (Stones or Beatles Part 2)

PART 2:
As Very High Frequencies celebrates our 150th episode we are going outside the box! A plot point from a gazillion TV shows & films inspires this week's show. Beatles or Stones? Let your ears decide. The Beatles get tunes from '65 -'70, For The Rolling Stones we pick it up in '64 and wind down in '74. Seems fair since Keef was pretty wasted the whole time. Some songs you have heard too much, others you may have never heard. This week on Very High Frequencies, ask yourself Punk, Beatles or Stones? Interestingly the question may be moot because according to the always reliable internet, Sir Paul & Ringo have recently been jamming with Mick, Keef and the boys!

Very High Frequencies Episode: 150 Beatles or Stones pt1

As Very High Frequencies celebrates our 150th episode we are going outside the box! A plot point from a gazillion TV shows & films inspires this week's show. Beatles or Stones? Let your ears decide. The Beatles get tunes from '65 -'70, For The Rolling Stones we pick it up in '64 and wind down in '74. Seems fair since Keef was pretty wasted the whole time. Some songs you have heard too much, others you may have never heard. This week on Very High Frequencies, ask yourself Punk, Beatles or Stones? Interestingly the question may be moot because according to the always reliable internet, Sir Paul & Ringo have recently been jamming with Mick, Keef and the boys!

Very High Frequencies Episode: 149 (Skinny Puppy reFORMed vs REmixED

VHF-149 (Skinny Puppy reFORMed vs REmixED) is an all out back & forth battle of classic SP remixes going against cuts off of the four albums released after the band reformed in 2001. Sadly this version of the band was minus keyboardist Dwayne Rudolph Goettel who had tragically OD'd after the band imploded in 1995. The reformed version of the band has just completed what has been billed as their final tour. This week it's extended dance remixes of your favorite tracks by Skinny Puppy up against the glitchy hyper pop of their somewhat underappreciated but amazing latter years on VHF-149 (Skinny Puppy reFORMed vs REmixED).

Very High Frequencies Episode 148:Pallbearer

Very High Frequencies 148 rocks hard with Little Rock, Arkansas four piece, Pallbearer. They have released four full length albums and a couple EP's. Sonically the music keeps evolving. These cool cats are not just cookie cutter Sabbath wannabes. Doom metal with three part harmonies? Yup. Prog and classic rock influences abound, while Grunge often propels the beat. Songs can shift from ambient synth washes to long dual guitar passages. It's time to find out why so many music journalists have put Pallbearer at their year end top Metal Album releases. This week we blast 13 lucky Pallbearer songs on VHF-148.

Very High Frequencies Episode 147: Aerosmith (That 70’s Show)

VHF-147 (Aerosmith - That '70's Show) attempts to show that the bad boys from Boston released some respectable hard rock in the seventies. We absolutely make no apologies for the sell out MTV era crap co-written by people like Desmond Childs. But from 1973  to 1979, the toxic twins & their solid rhythm section put out six hard rocking studio albums before drug abuse  and infighting led to the band fragmenting. Very High Frequencies has the shear audacity to reexamine a band that definitely sold out later on in their career. This week, we're back in the saddle again on VHF-147 Aerosmith - That '70's Show.  

Very High Frequencies 146: Cleveland Rocks

Very High Frequencies is hitting the road! We're gonna catch Ministry, Gary Numan and Front Line Assembly at the legendary Agora Theater. So to get hyped up it's a threefer, all the aforementioned bands get a couple of sets. From early analog tracks right up to the most recent essential releases, it's time to find out if in fact Cleveland doth Rock?!! Head down to the park kids, for just one mix. Electro industrial mind meld mayhem baby. Yeah, turn on, tune in and freak out, it's all happening on this week's VHF-146 (Cleveland Rocks!).

Very High Frequencies Episode: 145 -

Very High Frequencies is excited to share a little of the brand new Dorthia Cottrell album, Death Folk Country. We're also spinning a few tracks from her 2015 self titled solo album. Stripped down to an acoustic guitar, Dorthia's singing the blues here. Haunted melodies echo, dripping with melancholy. Tales of self destructive relationships and the never ending call to the otherside. Doomed and the damned go hand in hand, shuffling towards the graveyard. 
Dorthia's also the front woman of long running Richmond, Virginia Psychedelic Grunge Doom band, Windhand. They have four full length albums out and a few EP's. 
Very High Frequencies has chosen a couple tracks from each of their highly regarded full length albums to intersperse with Dorthia's solo tunes. 
Get out the whiskey this week, because we're singin' them blues on VHF-145 - (Dorthia Cottrell & Windhand).  

Very High Frequencies Episode: 144 - Yes

This week on Very High Frequencies we ask ourselves the question, Yes, or no? You decide. We don't want any Drama, so it's strictly Jon Anderson era Yes. From '71 The Yes Album up to '87 Big Generator, there's huge MTV hits, twenty minute prog rock workouts, bass solos, UFO shout outs and so much more. Far out cosmic wonder awaits you this week on VHF-144 (YES or no, you decide).