Conan Neutron’s Protonic Reversal

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Ep017: Bob Bucko Jr. Aug 16, 2014

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Bob Bucko Jr. is a prolific solo artist and a hilarious dude, listen in as heavy metal bellydancing, growing up on mix tapes being a tape trader vs. a tape TRAITOR, the city of Dubuque and lots more are discussed. All that plus some bonus Ryan Werner. Additionally Conan talks about the passing of his former best friend. 00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme) 00:04:39 Minutes – Get Off Your Ass 00:07:10 FoWlMouTh – (Baby I’m An) Old Motherfucker 00:10:40 Conan polishes the floor with his coffee, running late, Brenna is “over people”, humans are terrible. “You’re a big weirdo, but you’re sweet.” 00:16:04 United Nations – Meanwhile on Main Street 00:19:02 Motherfucker – Dot. Dot. Dot. 00:21:42 Instrumental bands, keep it succinct will ya?! Shannon Corr, What Hast Thou Wroth?! “Chooch Talkin'” 00:26:05 Minot – Allostatic Load 00:33:07 Bob Bucko Jr. (and Ryan Werner) Genius and Cat poop… scattershot releases. Touring with Ryan Werner. 29 days of cover songs, BBJ by reputation, low budget tours and heavy metal bellydancing, HELMET, Battles and guest vocalists for each songs… My Machines video description. Extended John Stanier discussion. Growing up on mix tapes and releasing things on cassette. Tape Trader or Tape TRAITOR?!?, Illuminati and gold bars, Dubuque, IOWA… what makes it such a unique area. Losing local cultural identity. Real time drop relates the hard sell on Des Moines. 01:10:32 Bob Bucko Jr. – LR72 01:14:43 Least Best Beast – Frail Common Animal 01:19:11 Tricky questions and dead friends, Silkworm documentary and Conan opens up about his former best friend Clay Wofford dying. Talking about perception from different times in your life. finding music that is “yours”, dealing with loss and what a “best friend” means. Being the person that has to break bad news to people 01:33:52 Big Black – Steelworker 01:38:02 Battles – My Machines 01:41:54 More talk about Battles, junk science, Real Time Drop realizes the title of the show is a Ghostbusters reference, Cool Try designs, back patches, and creepy social networkers 01:52:00 Shellac – the End of Radio (Closing Theme)

Ep016: Austin Pitts (Hurry Up Shotgun) Aug 09, 2014

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Austin from Hurry Up Shotgun comes on the show to talk music, socio economic class concerns and play a brand new HuS song acoustic. Point Break is quoted and discussed, as are spotted dicks. Speak into the microphone squidbrain… <blockquote> 00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme) 00:04:21 rutabega- Come Back Big Brother 00:07:43 Feeling Gravity’s Pull – Have I Mentioned… 00:12:45 Christopher Casuga and his wild weekend for sibling/brother (?) show Live From the Barrage, she ships and riddles of the ages, you can’t be on a radio show on an airplane. “I’m a surgeon! Let me play bejeweled” 00:19:20 Greys – Use Your Delusion 00:21:42 Dead Rider – Weird Summer 00:25:37 Dead Rider show recap, former PR guest Todd Rittman as an alternate universe James Brown/Snakefinger badassery. Sheer Accident, etc. DJ Real Time Drop speaks about Point Break, Net Neutrality 00:37:28 Songs for Snakes – F.E.A.R. 00:41:21 christian fitness – carthage must be destroyed 00:43:57 Gear thefts “Where do they go?”, how about a documentary on that?, talk about the mclusky gear theft spoken of in Episode 15, and the Hurry Up Shotgun/Songs For Snakes show that has now already passed. 00:53:46 Hurry Up Shotgun – acoustic song 00:57:25 Hurry Up Shotgun – What to Do When Your Unemployment Check Bounces 01:03:05 Hurry Up Shotgun – Swim 01:07:38 “So that’s why Abraham Lincoln is a zombie then?”, bubble baths, aux barricades, class themes in Hurry Up Shotgun and the working poor. Serious socio-economic talk and class issues…on NPR… er… Radio Valencia, Caturday, the idea of the commons, corporate personhood, the logtical fallacy of corporate largesse and celebrating the individual without supporting the needs of the individual. 01:29:30 fugazi – Give Corporations 01:31:56 Minutes – Get Off Your Ass 01:34:23 some thoughts on fugazi, classism in music, travel, more sobering economic concerns and class difference. 01:45:03 B Hamilton – Miss Carolina 01:48:29 What is and is not broken based upon if it is owned or not. 01:52:00 Shellac – End of Radio (Closing Theme) </blockquote>

Ep015: Todd Rittmann (Dead Rider, U.S. Maple) Jul 28, 2014

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We talk to Todd Rittmann about hats, inspiration and perspiration and Jim Belushi books. Academic deconstruction and more! <blockquote> 00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme) 00:04:26 Motherfucker – Dot Dot Dot 00:07:19 Minutes – Raise Our Fists Up 00:09:27 Returning pets, getting old, etc. 00:17:02 New China – Bad Teacher 00:19:00: Dead Rider – Blank S(c)reen 00:24:17 Dead Rider tour dates announce, why Conan doesn’t like Spotify or use it. Being friends with the idea of Conan. 00:31:02 US Maple – Letter To ZZ Top 00:34:06 Todd Rittmann of Dead Rider and U.S. Maple on the air, in a van… on the way to Houston Having Thymme Jones in the band, what is Dead Rider listening to on tour, The possibility of a U.S. Maple reunion, academic deconstructions or not, etc. Conan’s “Jim Belushi book story” 01:07:26 Dead Rider – The Walk Slow 01:10:13 Dead Rider – Of One Thousand 01:13:19 Sound Opinions sucks, there’s a new Morrisey album, Conan needs to be more inappropriate, some coffee talk with Real Time Drop 01:20:03 The Bismarck – Fake Tits, Real Assholes 01:22:30 The Austerity Program – Song 31 01:24:57 Commentary tracks on commercials “What song should Ryan Christopher Parks of B. Hamilton cover – finalist round” 01:52:01: by Shellac – The End of Radio (closing theme) </blockquote>

Ep014: Andrew "Falco" Falkous Returns (Future of the Left, mclusky, christian fitness) Jul 21, 2014

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The enigmatic and quick witted Andrew “Falco” Falkous returns to Protonic Reversal. DJ Real Time Drop returns and we introduce DJ Dano Distortion. Listen to the best radio show that speaks of shadow analysts, trash talks metallica, speaks of Carthage and cats, wards off wolves with acoustic guitars and gets to the bottom of exactly how rotten of a human being Piers Morgan is. <blockquote> 00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening theme) 00:04:14 the Paver – Trust 00:08:11 mclusky – She Will Only Bring You Happiness 00:11:48 Welcome back “DJ Real Time Drop”, the reverse Lemmy and the illusion of choice 00:14:45 christian fitness – teeth 00:18:04 Future of the Left – Singing of the Bone Saws 00:22:44 introducing Dano Distortion, “Conan you have a lot going on right now” 00:25:43 christian fitness – carthage must be destroyed 00:28:21 mclusky – alan is a cowboy killer 00:32:20 Andrew Falkous “Falco” of Future of the Left /mclusky/ christian fitness releasing records on a friday evening, the royal we, from Tremendous Fence to christian fitness… what is in a name? why all lowercase letters and the lowercase affectation? Intercapping and fonts. Metallica trash talk, Some Kind of Monster as Waiting for Godot, keyboards and Metallica fans “thundering warm paste load of shit.”. Fiction vs. Fact, bottle feeding kittens. On Carthage and the winner’s version of history… 00:51:01 christian fitness – christian fitness 00:53:47 Back with Andrew “Falco” Falkous. Carthage/Cardiff, Going beyond the “baby, baby, baby let me touch you in your bathing suit area” level of lyricism, Aggressive lectures and revenge fists, erudite subjects and literacy with music, pretentious allusions, mclusky’s revisionist history, the unnatural life of touring, warding off Danzig and wolves with acoustic guitars, the Danzig punch’s anniversary… how about Piers Morgan? You can’t pick your allies. Best US Cities for mclusky/FoTl, mclusky gear theft ($25K worth of equipment) the day G.W.Bush is re-elected. Hello to Jeff Moody, Doing what you do… harsh invectives and brutal truths with Falco. christian fitness live? Not touring because of lack of money, being in a proper band and what that means. Welsh trains, more about cats, Shadow Analysts… per actor? per movie? per shadow? 01:22:21 Future of the Left – Small Bones, Small Bodies 01:24:40 christian fitness – i’m scared of everything that isn’t me 01:26:27 awkward on the radio, real time drop ends up with three jobs, the job wizard (the metaphorical one, not the literal one) 01:30:38 Call from Joe “Coolhand” Mcclune of the band Roland Playing with Vulgar Trade and the Mass… The Mass: “The Sound of a jazz band falling down the stairs”. Roland no slouch or slouch hat, Chad Allen’s pedigree, promo for a show that has already happened, rock show food talk, the delicate art of making people happy 01:40:06 Roland – Is This Tyrese Gibson? 01:46:10 Children in adult situations (Stand by Me), explaining human feces on the sidewalk to children, getting your child PUMPED UP. (Survivor recap). Rock references, saying “God” a lot for a humanist, colloquialism, “Whatever happened to Survivor?” 01:51:32 Shellac – the End of Radio (Closing Theme) </blockquote>

Ep013: Patrick Walsh (Risk/Reward, Live From the Barrage), Shehzaad Jiwani (Greys) Jul 15, 2014

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Conan speaks to Patrick Walsh of Risk/Reward and Live from the Barrage about self titled records, being from Queens, *NOT* Brooklyn, and developing naturally. Talk ensues about sounding natural on the radio and why they would do an internet radio show on Friday nights. Later in the show there is a call in from Shehzaad of Toronto band Greys who checks in on tour, and shockingly does not mention hockey or Tim Hortons, All this plus more suggestions for: “What song should Ryan Christopher Parks be forced to cover?” and SO. MUCH. MORE. <blockquote> 00:00:01 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Protonic Reversal Theme) 00:04:37 Nonagon – Hydronauts 00:07:41 Hurry Up Shotgun – Girl From CA 00:13:00 Conan mispronounces Varistor, Austerity Program frequently mistaken as “angry white dude clanking about… yelling” 00:15:26 Austerity Program – Song 37 00:21:19 DEVO – Blockhead 00:24:15 Controlled Burn Records bit, 1/4″ tape reels available for that Austerity Program, Mission Bingo dog walker. Conan is tired. 00:28:01 Risk/Reward – Keep Your Mouth Closed 00:31:18 Risk/Reward – Breakin’ Hearts 00:35:00 Interview with Patrick Walsh, two self titled records, huh?, record art, Varistor pronounciation correction, band mergers and being from Queens, Conan flails about with a dumb question, devloping naturally, recording with Steve Albini being “just a rock band” and the mild irritants of bands “from Brooklyn”. conan flails with timezones the organic joining of Patrick to the show Live From the Barrage, hanging back and not “going for it” as much. Chemistry in radio, What sounds terrible and turns out great. Being natural. Pens of Japanese tourists, doing a radio show on friday nights 01:03:16 Varistor – Bass 01:05:55 Risk/Reward – Killer 01:08:47 Neutron and Gritzy show roundup, “what song should Conan make Ryan Christopher Parks cover?” returns. Foghat, Suggestion: Foghat – Slowride 01:12:42 B. Hamilton – EVerything I Own is Broken 01:17:09 “what song should Conan make Ryan Christopher Parks cover?”, suggestion recap. The Scatman John hole. Foghat – Slow Ride 01:22:54 Elmo Huth call, song suggestion: Whitesnake – Here I Go Again 01:27:31 Greys – Use Your Delusion 01:30:34 Call from Shehzaad from Greys, the Toronto scene “practice Wife”, touring, playing with REPTOID (meeting at Survival Knife), sf show promo, other tour dates. 01:41:39 Practice Wife – Chain of Command 01:46:14 Roomrunner – May 01:48:48 DJ Real Time Drop returning on 07/17/2014, training Dan Kashkooli 01:52:00 Shellac – End of Radio (Closing Theme) </blockquote>

Ep012: The Neutron and Gritzy Show: The Final Solution of Fun! Jul 12, 2014

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Neutron and Gritzy! 2/3 of You Can’t Stop The Signal head into the Radio Valencia studio in THE METAL ASYLUM’S SLOT and proceed to play a bunch of… not metal. It’s the FINAL SOLUTION OF FUN! 00:00:00 Minutes – Raise Our Fists Up (Neutron and Gritzy Show Theme) The Final Solution of Fun! 00:03:42 Deathfix – Better Than Bad 00:08:05 Bonnie & the Bang Bang – Car Crash 00:12:24 on aruging on the internet about Tom Waits instead of taking a shower…Slouch Hats 00:15:40 Dead Rider – Of One Thousand 00:18:35 B. Hamilton – Stupid As the Sun 00:23:27 (the annoying sound stops), Protonic Reversal Dead Rider… TV on the Radio Shreds, creating the impression that there are women around. Once and Future band 00:31:29 Call from Brenna Betts aka: DJ Real Time Drop. Catamarans, fickle metal fans and wet blankets, Midyett rub, 4th of July crime spree, Burger Boogaloo and some art show. “working every day ever for the last few weeks”, real time drops over DJ Real Time Drop 00:43:07 Once and Future Band – Brain 00:51:49 Love – Always See Your Face 00:55:06 Internal thought process on the inside of radio, “What song should Ryan Christopher Parks cover?” Tony! Tone! Toni! – If I had No Loot Scatman John – Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) Mike and the Mechanics – the Living Years 01:08:00 Melvins – Civilized Worm 01:13:44 Federation X – So Tired 01:18:07 Morris Day, throwing the question to the audience, rubbins’ and food pics, food pics with music gear. Genesis – I can’t Dance 01:25:47 Call from Carlin Reed, eating fried chicken in a pool and shooting off fireworks at the SAME TIME Accept – Up To the Limit Jawbox – Cornflake Girl Bee-bop-bop-A-O-L, more Dead Rider talk. 01:35:27 Sleater-Kinney – Get Up 01:39:07 Motherfucker – Dot Dot Dot 01:41:56 Helms Alee – Shhmna 01:45:29 the roar of Ben Verellen, Old yeller, Dot Dot Dot = radar love?!, Deliverance Billy squier – the Stroke Loverboy – Loving Every Minute of It Stroked out to the Stroke. William S. Squier Esq. Billy Squier – My Kind of Lover Backsellin’ and backfillin’ 01:54:50 Happy Fangs – That Activity 01:58:51 Billy Bragg – Accident Waiting To Happen

Ep011: Erica Strout (Motherfucker) / Ryan Werner Jul 07, 2014

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Back in the Radio Valencia studios! Erica Strout from Motherfucker, Ryan Werner of… many things, calls from Austin Pitts and Chris Casuga, music for days, all this and the kind of A+++ music you have come to expect from Protonic Reversal. <blockquote> 00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme) 00:04:43 Gang of Four – Natural’s Not In It 00:07:52 Federation X – Anna Mist 00:11:27 Protonic Reversal is back in the Radio Valencia studios. Mission bingo, Dead Rider walkup. 00:13:58 Dead Rider – Weaves 00:16:13 Minutes – Float and Breathe 00:19:01 The Cell Phones – Get You Alone 00:21:54 more Minutes, less Mollie Hatchet 00:25:18 Mike Noto Conan Neutron origin story/station ID 00:27:25 Call from Austin Pitts from Hurry Up Shotgun, fall in Wuv once again. 00:31:19 Call from Erica Stroutocaster from Athens band Motherfucker. Broken amps that become less less broken, bringing MF’er west, origin story of one of the most unfriendly names to radio ever, touring and Eureka, CA, having two members named Eric(k)a living in Athens 00:50:02 Motherfucker – Taw Kwon Do 00:57:14 Conan will bring Motherfucker to the West Coast, Oh yes! 00:58:21 Call from Chris Casuga of Feeling Gravity’s Pull, band life cycles and “hitting the wall”, Neutron gives some band advice, FGP drummer joins Kind of Like Spitting, last shows and band closure 01:10:45 Feeling Gravity’s Pull – Stress Test 01:14:45 Where is Dj Real time drop? promo for the Neutron and Gritzy one off show, Ryan Werner walkup. 01:17:28 The Bismarck – 0.079 01:22:20 The Gary – Fair Weatherer 01:25:06 Talk up 01:27:37 Tilts – Touchdowns 01:31:00 Phone call with Ryan Werner of Passenger Side Books, Young Indian, Legal Fingers and more, on the heartbreak of the indie book tour, Billy Bisig, schlubes, on drinking (and not drinking), writing, Basing things based on appearances. Presentation vs. content, What Would Ike do? Coaxial Flutter , “Handsome Dave Two Pillow story” 01:50:58 Young Indian – I Don’t Understand Why You Have Two and I Have Two Shellac – The End of Radio 01:56:00 Shellac – End of Radio (closing theme) </blockquote>

Ep010: Jeff Moody (Stripwax, FoWlMouTh) Jun 28, 2014

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<section class="post-body"> Remote broadcast from the heart of the midwest, Conan talks to national treasure Jeff Moody about rock ‘n roll themed 4 panel comic strips, music, starting a a band as an “old MF-er” the pain of losing a bandmate and all things awesome. This, PRF BBQ Chicago wrap up and lots more great music. 00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme) 00:05:30 Dead Rider – Weird Summer 00:09:42 Like LIke The The The Death – Night of a Hundred Hondos 00:12:02 Minutes – Raise Our Fists Up 00:14:14 Nonagon – Vikings 00:21:39 SEMINARS – Sweat Feels Like Blood 00:25:04 Hurry Up Shotgun – Garbage Destinations 00:32:20 We Ride On – Plastic Vampire Teeth 00:34:01 Death – Rock-N-Roll Victim 00:36:39 Motherfucker – Snot Rocket 00:39:27 Jeff Moody interview 01:31:57 FoWlMoUth – Wannadon’t 01:34:39 rutabega – Out Of The Woods And Into The Light 01:42:05 Happy Fangs – The Truth 01:44:46 The Bismarck – Breadwinner Shellac – The End of Radio (closing theme) </section> <div class="spacer"> </div> Comments Off on Ep010: Jeff Moody (Stripwax, FoWlMouTh)

Ep009: More rock, less talk. PRF BBQ Chicago playlist Jun 19, 2014

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00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Protonic Reversal Theme) 00:04:00 Dead Rider – Weird Summer 00:08:01 Tilts – Kobra Kommander 00:12:30 Roomrunner – Bait Car 00:16:22 The Cell Phones – Heavy Flow 00:21:25 fugazi -long division / Runaway return 00:27:33 Turbo Lightning – Faster Than Light 00:33:02 Rutabega – Turn On the Summer 00:47:01 Whales – Seafaring 00:52:24 Porch – Your hair 01:00:04 King Buzzo – Rough Democracy 01:02:34 Minutes – In Your Own Fuel 01:05:47 Future of the Left – Failed Olympic Bid 01:10:15 Risk/Reward – Killer 01:13:04 SEMINARS – Easy ‘Cause It Is 01:17:09 SCreaming Females – It All Means Nothing 01:22:45 Hum – If You Are to Bloom 01:27:47 DEVO – What We Do 01:31:01 Federation X – Reign On 01:36:41 Deathfix – Better Than Bad 01:40:56 Marnie Stern – Nothing is Easy 01:44:37 Minutemen – This Ain’t No Picnic 01:45:58 Hot Snakes – Braintrust 01:50:30 Shellac – End of Radio

Ep008: Robert Kassees (Repeat After Me/Red Light Fever) Jun 13, 2014

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Robert from Repeat After Me and Red Light Fever comes by, talks crayons and high grade vinyl and the abject immediacy of writing, arranging and recording songs with complete strangers. All this, free tattoos on Friday the 13th? and more! More T’s for extra hotttness…. 00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (opening theme) 00:04:10 Repeat After Me – The Volcano 00:08:35 Interview with Robert Kassees of Repeat After Me New record “Mapmaker”, Crayon themed album covers, post mortem vinyl releases 00:13:37 Repeat After Me – San Francisco 00:18:36 Robert Kassees interview part 2 Thoughts in leaving San Francisco, the recording process, Chicago (the band, not the city), weird Gwar Tangent, Cheap Trick, classic rock, etc. (Gwar – Carry On My Wayward Son as music bed) 00:35:42 Tilts – Titanium Falcon 00:39:21 Red Light Fever – You Wouldn’t Say Goodbye 00:42:51 Robert Kassees interview part 3: Red Light Fever! Writing, arranging and recording a song in a single day with a pick up band of people that don’t know each other. The Red Light Fever project and how it fits into modern times, and what RLF actually is. 01:00:47 Red Light Fever – Illinois 01:04:14 Turbo Lightning – Oh Oh Oblivion! 01:06:48 How great were Happy Fangs? How lame is waking up early. Big Wheels race, “only in San Francisco” 01:19:23 Primes – Tetragrammatron 01:21:54 Tilts – Thomas Jefferson II 01:24:43 Science and Cosmos (the show ending), tattoos and do you get free tattoos on Friday the 13th? 01:33:50 Happy Fangs – That Activity 01:36:40 mclusky – To Hell With Good Intentions 01:39:05 Why Conan was completely wrong about mclusky and it made him stop reviewing records. More about Happy Fangs (DEAL WITH IT! NBD), The RV benefit 01:45:10 fugazi – Five Corporations 01:47:35 Minutes – Raise Our Fists Up 01:49:46 Protonic Reversal close, PRF BBQ Chicago, Conan is going to Chicago (the place, not the band) 01:52:00 Shellac – The End Of Radio (closing theme)

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