Very High Frequencies

Very High Frequencies Episode: 123 Drug Songs

Not Dead Yet Mike spins an alternative music all star assortment of Drug Songs. Running the gamut from extacty to agony, tunes about waiting for the man, drug war hysteria, regret for addiction, rampant white line fever and more. Featuring nine inch nails, The Cure, The Sisters Of Mercy, Black Mountain, The Pink Mountaintops, Skinny Puppy, Tricky, Lard, This Mortal Coil, Alien Sex Fiend, Robert Calvert, David Bowie, Interpol, GGFH, The Cramps, Ramones, Excene Cervanka & Henry Rollins, The Legendary Pink Dots, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Velvet Underground, Ministry & side projects, Love, Paul Barker & Ogre, Type O Negative and Motorhead. 
Andrew Chinnici: Got it.

Very High Frequencies Episode: 122 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1990-97

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian rock band formed in 1983 by vocalist Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist-vocalist Blixa Bargeld. The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and presently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P. Casey (all from Australia), guitarist George Vjestica (United Kingdom), keyboardist/percussionist Toby Dammit (United States) and drummers Thomas Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States). Described as "one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative rock eras in the '80s and onward", they have released seventeen studio albums and completed numerous international tours.
The band was founded following the demise of Cave and Harvey's former group the Birthday Party, the members of which met at a boarding school in Melbourne. Throughout the 1980s, beginning with their debut LP From Her to Eternity (1984), the band drew largely on post-punk, blues and gothic rock, and brought in musicians such as Blixa Bargeld, Barry Adamson and Kid Congo Powers. The band later softened their sound and incorporated other influences on albums such as The Good Son (1990) and The Boatman's Call (1997).

Very High Frequencies Episode: 120 Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups. Since their formation in November 1969, Hawkwind have gone through many incarnations and have incorporated many different styles into their music, including hard rock, progressive rock and psychedelic rock. They are also regarded as an influential proto-punk band. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes.

Episode 119: Sabbath Covers Sabbath

Black Sabbath is ready to destroy minds.

Episode: 118 Peter Murphy

Peter (John Joseph) Murphy (born 11 July 1957) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. Thin with prominent cheekbones, a baritone voice, and a penchant for gloomy poetics, he is often called the "Godfather of Goth".
He is the vocalist for the post-punk goth rock band Bauhaus. After Bauhaus initially disbanded, Murphy formed Dali's Car with Japan's bassist Mick Karn and released one album, The Waking Hour (1984). He later went on to release a number of solo albums, including Should the World Fail to Fall Apart (1986) and Love Hysteria (1988). In 1990, he achieved mainstream success with his hit single "Cuts You Up", which topped the American Modern Rock Tracks for 7 weeks. His album Deep also reached No. 44 on the Billboard 200. In 1992, Murphy released Holy Smoke, which reached No. 108 on the Billboard 200 chart along with lead single "The Sweetest Drop", which peaked at No. 2 on the American Modern Rock Tracks chart. In 2002, Murphy released Dust with Turkish-Canadian composer and producer Mercan Dede, which utilizes traditional Turkish instrumentation and songwriting, abandoning Murphy's previous pop and rock incarnations, and juxtaposing elements from progressive rock, trance, classical music, and Middle Eastern music, coupled with Dede's trademark atmospheric electronics. In 2014, he released Lion, produced by Killing Joke's Youth, which reached No. 173 on the Billboard 200.

Episode: 117 Ziggy Stardust Vs Major Tom

David (Davey Jones) Bowie is Ready to get the intergalactic space party started. Set your phasers on stun, it's gonna be a total blam blam.

Episode 116: The The

Matt Johnson  is an English singer-songwriter best known as the vocalist and only constant member of his band The The. He is also a film soundtrack composer (Cineola), publisher (Fifty First State Press),[2] broadcaster (Radio Cineola), and conservationist/local activist.
In 1979, Johnson placed an advert in NME looking for like-minded fans of the Velvet Underground, the Residents and Throbbing Gristle to form a band with him. The The began as a duo, then a four-piece, then a singular entity with a rotating cast of musicians that has included Johnny Marr, Simon Fisher Turner and Sinéad O'Connor. "I like to think of The The as a fluid thing", Johnson said in a 1993 Melody Maker interview. "People can work with me, then stop for a bit, then work again."

Episode 115: The Black Angels

The Black Angels are an American psychedelic rock band from Austin, Texas.[1] Formed in May 2004, they took their name from the Velvet Underground's "The Black Angel's Death Song."[2] They have released six studio albums and one compilation album.

Episode 114: Ministry Vs Skinny Puppy

Not Dead Yet Mike Referees an epic battle of Industrial music giants Ministry vs Skinny Puppy.
 
Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1981 by producer, singer, and instrumentalist Al Jourgensen. Originally a synth-pop outfit, Ministry evolved into one of the pioneers of industrial metal in the late 1980s. The band's lineup has changed frequently, leaving Jourgensen as the sole original member.
 
Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial music[1] group formed in Vancouver in 1982. The group is among the founders of the industrial rock and electro-industrial genres. Initially envisioned as an experimental side-project by cEvin Key (Kevin Crompton) while he was in the new wave band Images in Vogue, Skinny Puppy evolved into a full-time project with the addition of vocalist Nivek Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie).

Episode: 113: Metal 101

Not Dead Yet Mike Intro course to Heavy Metal 101.