
Burn It Down! with Nate K. | WFMU
WFMU
Music for the revolution in my head: choogling punks; power pop, both skinny-tied and long-haired; soul shouters and girl groups; bubblegum and acid rock; global fuzz; weirdos and outsiders, and the Weirdos and the Outsiders; Archie Shepp and J. Geils. Plus, live bands.
Location:
East Orange, NJ
Networks:
WFMU
Description:
Music for the revolution in my head: choogling punks; power pop, both skinny-tied and long-haired; soul shouters and girl groups; bubblegum and acid rock; global fuzz; weirdos and outsiders, and the Weirdos and the Outsiders; Archie Shepp and J. Geils. Plus, live bands.
Twitter:
@WFMU
Language:
English
Contact:
WFMU P.O. Box 2011 Jersey City, NJ 07303-2011 201-200-9368
Website:
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/NK
Episodes
Episode from Oct 10, 2025
10/10/2025
Dow Jones & the Industrials - "Can't Stand the Midwest" - Let's Go Steady 7" [0:00:00]
Set: Pittsburgh: City of Champions
Half Life - "Go Down Fighting" - Never Give In [0:04:40]
Human Investment - "Media Blackout" - Invest Your Efforts Into Humanity's Struggle Or Be A Human Investment [0:07:33]
Punching Contest - "Dumb Pig" - Cats in Our Backyard [https://plutosarchives.bandcamp.com/track/dumb-pig] [0:10:07]
The Northern Bushmen - "Raymond Fisher" - S/T [0:13:27]
The Five - "No Regrets" - The Five [0:17:04]
The Mud City Manglers - "One of These Days" [0:19:55]
Carsickness - "Police Dog" - 1979-1982 [0:21:17]
The Fingers - "Work It Out" [0:23:38]
Set: Ohio Part 1: Mistakes By the Lake
The Pagans - "Real World" - Everybody Hates You [0:30:46]
The Bizarros - "Mind's a Magnet" - Complete Collection 1976-1980 [0:33:24]
x_x - "Approaching the Minimal With Spray Guns" - X Sticky Fingers X [0:36:17]
Perverts Again - "Hunt and Gather" - All Over Again [0:38:01]
The Dark - "Resurrection" - Dressing The Corpse [0:40:47]
9 Shocks Terror - "Attack With a Gas Mask" - Zen and The Art of Beating Your Ass [0:45:20]
Knifedance - "Driven" - Wolf Hour [0:47:10]
Chargers Street Gang - "Every Light on Euclid" - Holy the Bop Apocalypse [0:51:24]
The New Bomb Turks - "Grounded Ex-Patriot" [0:55:19]
Set: Ohio Part 2: The First Wendy's and Other Historic Landmarks
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - "Baboon's Liver" - Negative Guest List 7'' [0:58:04]
Monster Truck Five - "Let It Happen" - Shave The Baby (Datapanik's Greatest Hits: Volume 1) (v/a) [1:01:14]
Gaunt - "Lies" - Sob Story [1:03:54]
Times New Viking - "Move to California" - Born Again Revisited [1:05:36]
Screaming Urge - "Homework" - BUY + Homework Expanded Debut LP [1:08:49]
Mike Rep and the Quotas - "Rocket Music On" - Quit Talkin' and Start Chalkin' [1:10:24]
The Gibson Bros. - "Cat Drug In" - Memphis Sol Today! [1:13:19]
Toxic Reasons - "War Hero" [1:16:14]
Necros - "Police Brutality" [1:18:00]
Set: Detroit + Michigan: Tomorrow seems so hopeless
The Fix - "Off to War" [1:29:18]
Clone Defects - "Tropically Hot" - Blood on Jupiter [1:31:20]
The Fix - "The Truth Right Now" - The Fix
Bored Youth - "Outcast" - November 1981 [1:35:40]
Blight - "Be Stupid" - Detroit: The Dream is Dead [Featuring a pre-Meatmen Tesco Vee] [1:37:58]
MegaHz - "I Remember DVD" - Harness the Power [1:40:22]
Pist' N' Broke - "Friday's Children" - Skinhead for Life [1:42:59]
Violent Apathy - "Here Today" [Kalamazoo, MI] [1:46:38]
Negative Approach - "Evacuate" - Total Recall [1:47:45]
The Necros - "Big Chief" - Tangled Up [1:50:27]
The Gories - "I Think I've Had It" - The Shaw Tapes: Live In Detroit 5/27/88 [1:55:53]
Set: Indiana: The State You Drive Through to get to Chicago
Zero Boys - "Livin' in the '80s + Stoned to Death" [2:06:26]
The Gizmos - "That's Cool (I Respect You More)" - 1976/1977: The Studio Recordings [2:11:02]
The Dancing Cigarettes - "Burn In Heaven" - Dance Dogs Dance [2:13:08]
MX-80 Sound - "Crowd Control" - Crowd Control [2:16:12]
Dow Jones & the Industrials - "Set Yourself on Fire" - Can't Stand The Midwest 1979-1981 [2:18:41]
The Nevermores - "Killed By Death" - Lock Your Doors...The Nevermores [2:20:47]
Appache Dropout - "I-80" - Bubblegum Graveyard [2:22:58]
Set: Chicago: Birthplace of the Blues and Pigfuck
Big Black - "The Power of Independent Trucking" - Songs About Fucking [2:26:33]
Naked Raygun - "Metastasis" - Throb Throb [2:27:05]
Baseball Furies - "First Mistake" - Let It Be [2:29:46]
Lee Harvey Oswald Band - "Theme Fenderblast" - A Taste of Prison [2:32:09]
The Mentally Ill - "Padded Cell" - Gacy's Place (Starbeat Sessions) [2:35:04]
Set: After Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, What's left to Care about?
The Haskels - "Stay Up All Night" - Taking the City By Storm [Milwaukee, WI] [2:39:15]
Suicide Commandos - "Shock Appeal" - Make a Record [2:41:35]
Halo of Flies - "Tired & Cold" - Music For Insect Minds [2:43:31]
Killdozer -...
Duration:03:09:00
Episode from Oct 3, 2025
10/3/2025
Silkworm - "(I Hope U) Don't Survive" - Italian Platinum [0:00:00]
Michael Beach - "Poison Dart" - Big Black Plume [0:06:20]
Black Time - "Girls in the Garage" - Dance Party 7'' [0:10:31]
Tina!!! - "Easily Unkind" - Gonerfest 22 EP [0:12:18]
Love Collector - "First Night of Leather" - First Night 7" [0:14:28]
Robbie Thunder - "Lights Camera Action Rock 'n' Roll" - Houston, We Have Rock [0:17:17]
Lothario - "The Animal" [0:18:58]
Cheap Fix - "French Song" - Re-Animator Blues [0:21:55]
Fen Fen - "Motorcycle" - In Yer Sights [0:24:22]
Men With No I.Q.'s - "Lost Time" - Sexsational Teen [Mid-1980s Mississippi punk-metal originally released in cassette.] [0:27:35]
Set: Thanks for the Memories Trouble In Mind
Melenas - "Bang - Peanut Butter Wolf Remix" - Bang (Peanut Butter Wolf Remix) [0:39:02]
The Serfs - "Beat Me Down" - Half Eaten By Dogs [0:43:06]
Connections - "Isle Insane" - Foreign Affairs [Former guests of Burn It Down!] [0:46:27]
Chook Race - "Sometimes" - Around the House [Former guests of Burn It Down!] [0:50:37]
En Attendant Ana - "Down the Hill" - Juillet [Former guests of Burn It Down!] [0:52:42]
Rays - "Back Downtown" - Rays [0:57:34]
Bill Vermette - "Surface of Titania:" - Hidden Mechanism: Selections from the 2021 Explorers Series by Trouble In Mind Records [0:59:45]
Headroom - "How to Grow Evil Flowers" - Head in the Clouds [1:04:15]
Mac Blackout - "Dear Mom" - Love Profess [1:09:52]
The Royal Pendletons - "Knaughty Knight" - Digital single [1:21:49]
Thane Russal & Three - "Security" - Single [1:27:21]
The Preachers - "Just Don't Complain (Gritty Early Mix)" - Stay Out of My Mind [1:29:53]
She Trinity - "He Fought the Law" - Destroy That Boy! More Girls With Guitars [1:32:47]
Sir Lord Von Raven - "What's a Boy to Do?" - Please Throw Me Back In The Ocean [1:34:54]
Lee Hazlewood - "She Comes Running" - 13 [1:38:18]
Elvis Presley - "Suspicious Minds (Rehearsal)" - Sunset Boulevard [1:40:24]
Norm Dogs - "I Don't Want to See Your Face (Again)" - S/T [1:46:44]
Mod Lang - "TV Star" - Action Now! A Paperface Benefit Tape for the PCRF [1:51:38]
Bobby Conn - "Satisfied" - Bobby's Place [2:05:23]
Charles Brown Superstar - "Beestung Remix" - Beestung EP [2:07:23]
Vorsicht Kinder - "Hide and Seek" - Alkopop [2:12:43]
Mercenárias - "Crime Incontido" - Bau 83-87 [2:14:44]
Phew, Erika Kobayashi, Moebius - "Radium Girls" - Radium Girls [2:16:54]
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos - "Lots of Hearts" - River Falling in Love [2:20:23]
The Aislers Set - "Holidays Gone Well" - Terrible Things Happen [2:25:52]
Françoise Hardy - "Et Même..." - Mon Amie la Rose [2:29:11]
Sandford Clark - "The Fool" [2:36:08]
Heron Oblivion - "At the Crossroads" - The Chapel [2:40:16]
Jacky Cougar & The Vampyres From Africa - "Altamont Blues" - Jacky Cougar & The Vampyres From Africa [2:46:31]
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler - "Secret City" - 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s [2:50:00] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156717
Duration:03:08:49
"She got all the angles..." from Sep 19, 2025
9/19/2025
Quintron and Miss Pussycat - "Ring the Alarm" - Sucre Du Sauvage [0:00:00]
Slaughter and the Dogs - "Cranked Up Really High" [0:07:04]
Citric Dummies - "I Am Your Napkin" - Split With Turnstyle [0:09:43]
Geros - "Guilty Face" [0:12:14]
Jack and the Rippers - "No Desire" - No Desire 7" [0:15:00]
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Carcass" - The Peel Sessions [0:20:23]
Pink Tiles - "Time for Love" - #1 Fan LP [0:23:43]
La La Brooks - "What's Mine Is Yours" - All or Nothing [0:26:50]
Set: Bread + Roses Festival Preview - September 26-28 NYC, NY
Chronophage - "Self Education" - Musical Attack: Communist + Anarchist Friendship [breadandroses.info] [0:36:33]
Guyscrapers - "Ba Ba Ba" - Why?scrapers [0:38:35]
Bullseye - "The Raven" - Feb' 25 Tour Tape [0:41:28]
Jolana Star - "Combat Zone (Left for Dead)" - May Day Promo Cassingle [0:44:07]
Squirrel Bait - "Hammering So Hard" - Squirrel Bait [David Grubbs appearing at the Bread and Roses Festival in NYC September 26-28] [0:47:45]
Artificial Go - "Late To The Party" - Musical Chairs [0:49:47]
Touch Girl Apple Blossom - "Silver Chain" - EP [0:52:24]
Jel - "Forever Go Round" - The Hermit [0:55:23]
The Spatulas - "The Long Way" - Beehive Mind [1:00:39]
Lightheaded - "Crash Landing of the Clod" - Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming! [1:01:12]
Set: Gonerfest 22 Preview
W.I.T.C.H. - "No Time" - Introduction [1:10:51]
Nape Neck - "Panacea" - The Shallowest End [Currently on tour in the states and playing tomorrow at Mama Tried in Brooklyn.] [1:15:13]
Twisted Teens - "Twisted Teens" - Twisted Teens [1:18:31]
Tee Vee Repairman - "Checkout Queue" - What's on TV? [1:21:22]
Optic Sink - "Don't Look Down" - Lucky Number [1:23:47]
Eraser - "Paint Peeling" - Hideout [1:28:26]
Silkworm - "The Brain" - Italian Platinum [1:32:01]
Pylon - "Volume" - Gyrate [1:33:55]
The Gotobeds - "Fante" - Masterclass [1:38:22]
Beef - "I've Got To Find Out" - Il Manzo - EP [1:40:37]
Lightning Bolt - "Over the River and Through the Woods" - Fantasy Empire [1:42:37]
Tarwa N-Tiniri - "Rokba" - AKAL [1:57:48]
The Kinks - "You're Looking Fine (Live)" [March 11, 1972] [2:01:14]
The Obliques - "Cigarettes" [2:07:31]
The Shifters - "Louie, Louie" - The Sky Was A Mouth Again [2:12:00]
Lo Yo Yo - "Extra Weapons" - The Lo Yo Yo [2:13:49]
Hardware - "Walking" - Untitled LP, 1979 [2:18:55]
Lizzie Mercier Descloux - "Abyssinia" - Zulu Rock [2:22:30]
Darius Denominator - "Spectral Youth" - Glass Door Bats Eye Undone [2:25:30]
Iconoclast - "Noise of Assumption" - Cobalt Confidential [2:28:04]
Clearinghouse - "Technical Knockout" - Live at Hollow Earth [2:32:43]
Gekidan Buraiha - "On a Street Corner at Dusk" - Modern Bible [2:43:51]
Bill Orcutt - "World Without Me" - Bill Orcutt [2:47:05]
Paul Lowe - "Let's Work It Out" [2:50:19]
Jim Huxley - "Tessa on a Magazine" - Maybe I'm Dreaming [2:53:58] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156185
Duration:03:08:51
I'm into crime jazz now from Sep 12, 2025
9/12/2025
Cheater Slicks - "Golddigger" - Live at CBGB's [0:00:00]
Sea Hags - "Back to the Grind" - Dead & Gone [0:07:01]
Homefront - "Light Sleeper" - Watch It Die [0:09:53]
Pin-up Sisters - "Again, Again" - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: A Benefit for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund [0:13:11]
Slick - "Just a Hill" - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: A Benefit for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund [0:15:46]
Silent Noise - "I've Been Hurt (So Many Times Before)" [0:18:35]
No Peeling - "Pink Flamingos" - No Peeling [0:21:43]
The Bags - "Dancing Around Our Handbags (Demo)" - Promises, Promises-Borders & Mid-Wales Punk/Post-Punk 1979-83 [0:22:52]
TY - "Oh No" - WE R TY [0:25:46]
Harry Kakoulli - "I'm On a Rocket" - All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 [0:33:49]
Giorgio Moroder - "Today's a Tomorrow" [0:38:25]
Bobby Conn - "Juicy Goons" - Bobby's Place [0:40:54]
La Animas del Cuarto Obscuro - "Decadencia" - La Animas del Cuarto Obscuro [0:44:30]
Mod Lang - "Without You" - snap! crackle! pop! where the action is vol. 1 [0:46:37]
Soup Activists - "Cherry Mischief" - snap! crackle! pop! where the action is vol. 1 [0:48:47]
TKO Faith Healer - "Character Actor" - Spoke [0:51:30]
Prisonshake - "You're Obviously the One" - Dirty Moons [0:55:00]
Gentleman Jesse and His Men - "I'd Hate to See You Stay" - I Wonder if You Would Even Notice [0:59:10]
Erectus Monotone - "My First Harmony" - Close Up [1:02:14]
Garden of Love - "Another Wall" - Love Is Coming [1:13:53]
Durutti Column - "Danny" - Valuable Passages [1:17:14]
Silver Synthetic - "Yr Gonna Be Happy" - Rosalie [1:21:37]
Oscillations - "I See It Come" - I Can See It Coming [1:25:07]
Los Zheros - "Cuarto Oscuro" - Psychedelic Cumbia Party [1:29:53]
Grupo Amigos - "En El Campo" - Paloma Mensajera [1:35:23]
Bee Gees - "Like Nobody Else" - Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967 [1:37:50]
Group 1850 - "Steel Sings" - Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth [1:40:29]
Tony Mackenzie - "The Good Things" - Fry Up [1:43:24]
The Bug Club - "Young Reader" - Very Human Features [1:45:49]
Les Rallizes Denudes - "The Night, Assassin's Night / 夜、暗殺者の夜" - Live '77 [1:53:50]
Fadensonnen - "Nitroglycerine" [2:05:07]
Debris - "Flight Taken" - Static Disposal [2:10:33]
Weegee - "Spellbound" - Primitve Thrill [2:15:45]
Flowers For Agatha - "The Freedom Curse" - Killed By Deathrock Vol. 2 [2:20:28]
Divine Horsemen - "Blind Leading the Blind" - Snake Handler [2:26:10]
Motherfuckers JMB & Co. - "Strange Planet" - Music Excitement Action Beauty [2:34:06]
Syd Dale - "Walk In A Nightmare" - Spider-Jazz: KPM Cues Used In The Amazing Animated Series That We Are Not Allowed To Mention By Name For Legal Reasons [2:42:11]
Murder, Inc. - "Bad Day in Brooklyn / Murder, Inc." - Murder, Inc. [2:45:04]
Tav Falco - "Garden of the Medicis" - Desire on Ice [2:51:10] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155993
Duration:03:09:25