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Celebrating our Latino and Chicano heroes at WPKN with guitarist Bobby Balderrama from Question Mark and the Mysterians decanting the amazing story of a bunch of Mexican-American teenagers who hatched in a Michigan garage - literally - and who zoomed to the top of the charts in 1966, with a record cut in a rec room with one microphone - the fabulous 96 Tears!

Kicksville! The new Kicksville show will air on Wed. Sept. 16 at 9AM Eastern at www.wpkn.org 89.5FM Bridgeport CT and around the globe at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wpkn/id6741170209?l=es-MX This action packed show includes the worldwide debut of the new record from our 5.6.7.8's gal who takes it to the limit with the Cheetah Beat! Hear all four sides (yes, two 45!) that are sure to curl your hair (and toes!). The best record I've heard since my babysitting days! Absolutely KILLER. Congrats and thanks to Time Bomb Records and Kenji Kodama, and Brett Barton and his Cheetah Beat bashers and Ronnie Yoshiko Fujiyama and the whole gang! There's more! We salute No-Fi recording artists The No-Counts , Germany best beat group, as they deliver the goods with their fabulous tunes - three guys rack up perfection! They appear on Birgit Fassbinder's Berlin Beat Invasion #8 this weekend, so if you are in Europa, be there! Bob Cantillo's sensational Mojo-Bone label gets its props with plays of their latest 60s obscurosities plus we blab with the Birdman himself! Checking in also is Fancy filmmaker Amy Verdon who has been building the RL Boyce Memorial Big Blues Mane Extravanganza, bringing the raw Mississippi blues to New York City next month- she lets us know what's up with that, and THAT is WILD. The usual unusual rare stuff from the Kicksville home kollection is packed in every other available nook in this super show. Hey our local NYC hero Brian Hurd is on tap to celebrate! Thanks everyone!

Kicksville! Sept. 2 show blasts forth with two elusive garage legends with the stories behind their iconic and super rare 45's! Kicksville hostess Miriam gabs with David "Flash" Fleischman, the brawn behind Flash and the Memphis Casuals on Block and Nick D'Angelo, the garage god behind Mr. Zeppelin Man in Chime. Dig these exclusive chats with Kicksville heros, only  on WPKN, plus more rare faves of Darien bossman, the late great Jeff "Monoman" Conolly,  as we barrel deep into the archives here at Kicksville! 9AM til noon Eastern time.

Kicksville kids! The new episode of Kicksville will air Wednesday Aug 5 on WPKN 89.5 FM Bridgeport, with special guest Peter Zaremba of the Fleshtones, including a world debut of their brand new single, in advance of their 50th anniversary show at the Bowery Ballroom on Friday- getcha tix quick! We were all heart busted by the passing of Jeff Conolly, AKA Monoman, top purveyor of 70's pound sound abundance via Boston's great DMZ and Lyres and also of his lesser-lauded 60s heros - his good taste and impossible talent infected us all. The Fleshtones and DMZ began around the same time and the two groups crisscrossed turfs between Boston and New York throughout the years. Peter and I prerecorded this show on July 31, as his schedule is hectic in preparing for the Bowery Ballroom spectacular. Little did we know at the time that we would lose Jeff within hours of wrapping the program. Jeff will be forever missed. Apart of the over the top chat with PZ, we are spinning a select stash of Fleshtones savory Top 20 tunes, focusing on the early years, and we are closing out Kicksville with the Toppermost of the Poppermost from Monoman - we are working on a visit with his fellow band members, focused on Monoman memories and musical faves. Thanks, everyone! See you Wednesday at Kicksville- on site worldwide at 9 AM Eastern at https://wpkn.org/listen-live/ and on the instant-access global app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wpkn/id6741170209

Kicksville Goes Kinksville! Your Radio Station Lady, Miriam, chats with authors Andrew Sandoval and Doug Hinman about their amazing book, All Day And All Of The Night The Day By Day Story Pt. 1 1940-1971. Out now on Beatland Books! Plus a fandom chat with WPKN DJ, Kevin Patrick!

THE UNSUNG ZEROS OF ROCK N ROLL! KICKSVILLE cometh with an all-new barrage from the garage as we rampage through the stacks of musty dusties - join us Wednesday July 8 at 9AM Eastern time for a 3-hour tour, ( we alternate weeks with Crashing The Party) at WPKN 89.5 FM Bridgeport CT. We're going through the mid-sixties sounds that rarely made it to radio 60 years ago - our goal is give them the airtime now and forever! Rev up, peel out, and pull a wheelie! Catch us worldwide and beyond at the free WPKN ap and at blast-off time 9 AM Wednesdays at www.wpkn.org !

Kicksville kometh Wednesday June 24 at 9 AM - noon Eastern at WPKN 89.5 FM and www.WPKN.org with hostess Miriam at the controls! Download the WPKN free app for worldwide action! THis show celebrates the sounds of our hero, the late great Mad Mike Metrovich from Pittsburgh USA, who popularized the wildest and best rock n roll ever and you know it. We rattle through dozens today in this first installment of wild sounds. Set your clocks!

KICKSVILLE KOMETH! New Kicksville episode - tune in with hostess Miriam (the Radio Station Lady) as she spins the lost heros and zeros of rock n roll, one mo' time again! Crank it up - let's go!

New Kicksville Tues May 26 at WPKN 89.5fm Bridgeport at 10,000 watts on ya radio dial and around the globe at www.wpkn.org and on the freee app - get it! We continue trawling through the Kicksville kollection at HQ with the teenage no-count sounds of the sixties on original 45 RPM records in an attempt to play all the tuff stuff from the old days that we were purveying back when Kicks mag hatched and festered 1979-1989, evolving into Kramden, Atomic Passion, and Norton! What are you grousin' about? Whaddya got? This week dig in with snot nose stompers from the Torquays, Sounds Like Us, the Quid, the Stains, the Tracers and three hours worth of 45 RPM action that may put you in traction!

Kicksville at www.wpkn.org 89.5FM Bridgeport Ct - off the wax wall of sound here at the Kicksville Arkive- this show is all tuff garage originals as touted in Kicks mag world ! Join me with the giggle n’ gooish bewilderment!

Kicksville kometh! New bash arrives Tues Apr 28 at WPKN 89.5 FM Bridgeport CT at 9 AM Eastern! Join us for our chopped and channeled choices, dragged out of the vaults, kicking and screaming (the records not us) at the Kicksville wax museum. Mood shifters and mood lifters spun from original platters - this maulin' episode is heavy on rare American 45's, with a couple shareables from a couple years earlier or later. Beastly, beaty bangers just for YOU! Catch the show in the 10,000 watt vicinity of the WPKN tower via your radio machine, online at www.wpkn.org and on the WPKN app, available at your fave app store. Join the Kicksville generation!

KICKSVILLE! This week we go headlong into bedlam with wild brain-sprainers and also no-brainers from the Kicksville kingdom- we have a double set feature on New England rockabilly and R&B from the Raging Teens series on Norton - the brains (and brawn) behind the set was Jack Warner, who passed away this week. His energy in working with us on this series and in promoting the lesser known blasters from the area will never be forgotten. Plus dig the mad splash of raunchy rockers and torrid teens - you know, the stuff ya crave!

Kicksville Kalling All Kars! Kicksville burns rubber into WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport 9AM-noon Eastern time on Tuesday Mar 31 - join your radio station lady Miriam with this week's three hour tour with her Fab Fifty top sixties garage teen bangers, whiners, and bashers - no stone unhurled as we rev up with another load of unsung heroes and zeroes from the Kicksville vaults. Are you ready? Join the pack around the world at the WPKN app and also at the site at www.wpkn.org

Radio on! www.wpkn.org 9 AM-noon - get on the floor! Kicksville is on with NYC teener kings! Lou Reed's Pickwick junk plus Neil and Paul plus an hour of dragging gems from the kicksville well or wildish woe! Get your Clearasil ready for some of Lou Reed's teen moaners- as writer, backing musician at Pickwick - plus a couple LR teen snot vocals! More of all three next week on Crashing The Party with the big city teen goons delivering vocal group mosh!

Diggin’ for lost loot in the wax mines and spinnin’ forgotten flash at 45 RPM! What noise from yonder airwaves blast? Why, tis teenage tempestuousness direct from the torrid towers of WPKN... join me, your radio station gal Miriam at the Kicksville show - forever infested and infused by the spirit of our guiding light, Big Daddy Roth! Rat on!