Station Top 30 – Week of 2/27/2023

1. The WAEVE – S/T (Transgressive/PIAS)
2. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)
3. King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust (Sub Pop)
4. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)
5. Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward – Happy Hearts (Kill Rock Stars)
6. The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part Two (Memphis Industries)
7. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)
8. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador)
9. Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop)
10. The Royal Arctic Institute – From Coma to Catharsis (Already Dead)
11. The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey)
12. koleżanka – Alone with the Sound the Mind Makes (Bar/None)
13. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
14. Metronomy – Small World (Special Edition) (Because Music)
15. @ – Mind Palace Music (Carpark)
16. CIVIC – Taken By Force (ATO)
17. Megadose – Heating Up (s/r)
18. Nima Kazerouni – S/T (Shrimper)
19. Grace Scheele – Landings (Auteur Research)
20. Say She She – Prism (Colemine / Karma Chief)
21. Marisa Anderson – Still, Here (Thrill Jockey)
22. Julia Sabra – Snakeskin (Ruptured / Beacon Sound)
23. Tropical Fuck Storm – Submersive Behaviour (Joyful Noise Recordings)
24. Duval Timothy – Meeting With A Judas Tree (Carrying Colour)
25. Laure Briard – Ne pas trop rester bleue (Midnight Special)
26. Matt Evans – Soft Science (Moon Glyph)
27. Cal in Red – On the Dance Floor (B3SCI)
28. BIG | BRAVE – nature morte (Thrill Jockey)
29. Little Simz – NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)
30. Ladytron – Time’s Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)

Station Top 30 – Week of 2/20/2023

1. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador)
2. Thee Sacred Souls – S/T (Daptone)
3. Run the Jewels – RTJ CU4TRO (Jewel Runners)
4. Dave Okumu & The 7 Generations – You Survived So I Might Live (Transgressive/PIAS)
5. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – The Future Is Your Past (‘a’)
6. Little Simz – NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)
7. Loscil // Lawrence English – Colours of Air (Kranky)
8. Galcher Lustwerk – 100% GALCHER (Ghostly International)
9. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams (SKE80 LLC)
10. Ladytron – Time’s Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)
11. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (s/r)
12. Trina Basu and Arun Ramamuthy – Nakshatra (SPINSTER)
13. Cal in Red – On the Dance Floor (B3SCI)
14. Mdou Moctar – Niger EP Vol. 2 (Matador)
15. Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone)
16. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)
17. Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
18. Daniel Bachman – Almanac Behind (Three Lobed)
19. Acid Arab – Trois (Crammed Discs)
20. Parannoul – After the Magic (Topshelf)
21. Sea Moss – SEAMOSS2 (Ramp Local)
22. Facta – Emeline EP (Incienso)
23. Plaid – Feorm Falorx (Warp)
24. Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)
25. Villainous Temple – Fill Creation with Abuse (Transylvanian Recordings)
26. King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust (Sub Pop)
27. James Houlahan – Beyond the Borders (s/r)
28. The End of The World – A Timeless Classic (S& Box)
29. Sightless Pit – Lockstep Bloodwar (Thrill Jockey)
30. John Cale – MERCY (Double Six/Domino)

Station Top 30 – Week of 2/13/2023

1. Plaid – Feorm Falorx (Warp)
2. King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust (Sub Pop)
3. Didon – Tunisian Tale (Electrofone)
4. Little Simz – NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)
5. The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part Two (Memphis Industries)
6. Dave Okumu & The 7 Generations – You Survived So I Might Live (Transgressive/PIAS)
7. Ladytron – Time’s Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)
8. Negativland – Speech Free (Seeland)
9. Belle and Sebastian – Late Developers (Matador)
10. numün – Book of Beyond (Shimmy Disc)
11. Sea Moss – SEAMOSS2 (Ramp Local)
12. James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra – The Great White Sea Eagle (Domino)
13. Phil Ranelin & Wendell Harrison – JID16 (Jazz Is Dead)
14. La Tène – 29. Fran – Leaving (Fire Talk) (Bongo Joe)
15. Leland Whitty – Anyhow (Innovative Leisure)
16. Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
17. Sightless Pit – Lockstep Bloodwar (Thrill Jockey)
18. Nosaj Thing – Continua (LuckyMe)
19. James Brandon Lewis – Eye of I (Anti-)
20. Bobbie Lovesong – On the Wind (Woodsist)
21. Parannoul – After the Magic (Topshelf)
22. Christina Vantzou – No. 5 (Kranky)
23. Richard Dawson – The Ruby Cord (Domino)
24. Photay with Carlos Nino – More Offerings (International Anthem)
25. John Cale – MERCY (Double Six/Domino)
26. Best Fern – Earth Then Air (Backward Music/Youngbloods)
27. V/A – Rare Global Pop 1980s (Crammed Discs)
28. Pulse Emitter – Dusk (Hausu Mountain)
29. The Allergies – Reconcile EP (Jalapeño)
30. Fran – Leaving (Fire Talk)

Station Top 30 – Week of 2/6/2023

1. Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
2. Ladytron – Time’s Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)
3. John Cale – MERCY (Double Six/Domino) 
4. Oozing Wound – We Cater To Cowards (Thrill Jockey) 
5. Little Simz – NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)
6. RIBBON STAGE – Hit With the Most (Perennial / K Records)
7. Metronomy – Small World (Special Edition) (Because Music)
8. Bobbie Lovesong – On the Wind (Woodsist) 
9. Sea Moss – SEAMOSS2 (Ramp Local)
10. AVOLA – Psykor (SIGE) 
11. Sam Gendel – blueblue (Leaving)
12. Dreckig – Digital Exposure (Broken Clover) 
13. Darkthrone – Astral Fortress (Peaceville)*
14. NEGATIVLAND – SPEECH FREE (Seeland) 
15. Built To Spill – When The Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
16. Photay with Carlos Nino – An Offering (International Anthem)
17. Boris – Heavy Rocks (2022) (Relapse)
18. Henry Franklin, Adrian Younge – Henry Franklin JID014 (Jazz Is Dead)
19. Run the Jewels – RTJ CU4TRO (Jewel Runners) 
20. V/A – To Illustrate (Wisdom Teeth)
21. Abraxas – Monte Carlo (Suicide Squeeze)
22. Rozi Plain – Prize (Memphis Industries) 
23. Belle and Sebastian – Late Developers (Matador)
24. The Pelicans – London Crawling (Mint 400)
25. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Unfold (Fat Possum)
26. Keiji Haino & SUMAC – Into This Juvenile Apocalypse Our Golden Blood to Pour Let Us Never (Thrill Jockey)
27. V/A – After Dark 4 (Italians Do It Better) 
28. La Femme – Teatro Lúcido (Disque Pointu) 
29. numün – Book of Beyond (Shimmy Disc) 
30. Archers of Loaf – Reason in Decline (Merge)

Station Top 30 – Week of 1/30/2023

1. NEGATIVLAND – SPEECH FREE (Seeland)
2. Ladytron – Time’s Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)
3. John Cale – MERCY (Double Six/Domino)
4. Belle and Sebastian – Late Developers (Matador)
5. Photay with Carlos Nino – An Offering (International Anthem)
6. The Williams Brothers – Memories to Burn (Regional)
7. Liela Moss – Internal Working Model (Bella Union/PIAS)
8. Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
9. The Pelicans – London Crawling (Mint 400)
10. Darksoft – Beigeification (Look Up)
11. SONOLOGYST – Electrons (Unexplained Sounds Group)
12. Run the Jewels – RTJ CU4TRO (Jewel Runners)
13. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Unfold (Fat Possum)
14. Little Simz – NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)
15. Kepi and Friends – Full Moon Forever (Pirates Press)
16. Marlody – I’m Not Sure At All (Skep Wax)
17. V/A – To Illustrate (Wisdom Teeth)
18. Darkthrone – Astral Fortress (Peaceville) 
19. V/A – Shouts 2022 (Rhythm Section International)
20. Rozi Plain – Prize (Memphis Industries) 
21. Boris – Heavy Rocks (2022) (Relapse)
22. Duval Timothy – Meeting With A Judas Tree (Carrying Colour)
23. Metal Preyers – Shadow Swamps (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
24. Fievel Is Glauque – Flaming Swords (MATH Interactive) 
25. La Femme – Teatro Lúcido (Disque Pointu) 
26. Abraxas – Monte Carlo (Suicide Squeeze)
27. Sohrab – Voyria (Kalahari Oyster Cult)
28. Big Joanie – Back Home (Kill Rock Stars)
29. Pulse Emitter – Dusk (Hausu Mountain)
30. Downstairs J – Too EP (SUZI)

Station Top 30 – Week of 1/23/2023

1. Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
2. NEGATIVLAND – SPEECH FREE (Seeland)
3. Rozi Plain – Prize (Memphis Industries)
4. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)
5. V/A – To Illustrate (Wisdom Teeth)
6. Abraxas – Monte Carlo (Suicide Squeeze)
7. Run the Jewels – RTJ CU4TRO (Jewel Runners)
8. Fievel Is Glauque – Flaming Swords (MATH Interactive)
9. Duval Timothy – Meeting With A Judas Tree (Carrying Colour)
10. Metal Preyers – Shadow Swamps (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
11. La Femme – Teatro Lúcido (Disque Pointu)
12. Pulse Emitter – Dusk (Hausu Mountain)
13. Big Joanie – Back Home (Kill Rock Stars)
14. Photay with Carlos Nino – An Offering (International Anthem)
15. The Leaf Library – Library Music Volume One (Where It’s At Is Where You Are)
16. Little Simz – NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)
17. Ben LaMar Gay – Certain Reveries (International Anthem)
18. Naujawanan Baidar – Vol. 1 & 2 (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube/Ramble)
19. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)
20. Dezron Douglas – ATALAYA (International Anthem)
21. V/A – Black Metal Rainbows (PM Press)
22. Sam Gendel – blueblue (Leaving)
23. Pole – Tempus (Mute)
24. Richard Dawson – The Ruby Cord (Weird World)
25. Marlody – I’m Not Sure At All (Skep Wax)
26. Buck Curran – Immortal Light (Ramble/Obsolete)
27. Darkthrone – Astral Fortress (Peaceville)
28. Clara Engel – Undergrowth (s/r)
29. Los Bitchos – Los Chrismos EP (City Slang)
30. The Mommyheads – Genius Killer (s/r)

WFMH Shares 5 Asian Songs to celebrate Asian Lunar New Year 2023 : The Year Of the Water Rabbit

The Year of the Water Rabbit will be a gentle year for healing and promoting more peace putting the past tumultuous year of the Water Tiger behind us. Rabbit is known for diplomacy, luck, promoting and following good morals. The Rabbit year will focus of more productivity, empathy, kindness and serenity. 

Happy New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy from The Weekend Family Music Hour (WFMH). We wish you love, prosperity, peace and good health in the Year of The Water Rabbit 2023.

“Empty Your Mind, be formless, shapeless like water.” – Bruce Lee

Gong Gong Gong 工工工 – Siren

Gong Gong Gong 工工工 is a blend of circular power guitar blues incorporated with Cantonese and Mandarin singing courtesy of Tom Ng. The duo, Tom Ng (guitar) and Joshua Frank (bass), started playing together in Beijing in 2015.

Fans of Western Saharan guitarists and Bo Diddley may especially appreciate the full spectrum of guitar and bass that transpires musical borders and expands the diversity of blues type music to support rhythmic and hard tonal transnationalism. Check out Phantom Rhythm Remixed featuring Asian deejays elevating the Phantom Rhythm album into otherwordly cadence.

Dear Eloise – Brave New World

Dear Eloise is composed of Beijing musicians, Sun Xia (vocals) and Yang Haisong starting in 2008. Dear Eloise is a studio only project influenced by Yang’s more popular band, P.K.14. Yang is also known for his contributions to the Maybe Mars independent record label that is based in Beijing, China. Maybe Mars fosters experimental rock and indie bands from China, Australia and beyond (RADII)..  

Love & Peace – I Can’t Say

Love & Peace was a Korean band from the late 1970s who mastered the sounds of funk, soul, pop and electronic sounds. Love & Peace albums expand to psychedelic remasterings of classical compositions and western themes that bring a happy, triumphant twist to classical improvisations, extending to blues rock and folk tones layered with moog, emotional guitar and vocals peppered with funky drum breaks. Fans of Sanulrim will deeply appreciate Love & Peace (rockontherice.com). 

Frankie Kao (Gao Ling Feng) – I Don’t Know How I Love You (to the melody of I Didn’t Know I Loved You Till I Saw You Rock n’ Roll).

Ko Yuan-Cheng (1950-2014) aka Frankie Kao and Kao Ling-feng was a Taiwanese singer, actor and television show host. He was given the moniker The Frog Prince by his friend and comedian, Ni Min-jan. Kao starred in 14 films and released 11 albums, plus participated in many live events, singing, dancing and showcasing his unique fashion and adaptability in music/entertainment styles. 

Kao lived his life to the fullest, marrying three times in his life and prospering with 6 children. He continued to perform until his demise at the age of 63 from leukemia (wiki).

Yolinda Yan – 無伴的舞 (Dance Without A Partner to the melody of I Think We’re Alone Now).

Yolinda Yan is a popular Canto-Pop singer, actor and former band member of the Japanese Onyanko Club idol group. Yan started in the entertainment world when she joined the Hong Kong television channel Asia Television Limited and within the same year of her stardom, she also became a research student for Onyanko Club in 1987. Yan returned to Hong Kong later to release her first album Hansam Jyuzi and her second album Jan Cosin Mou Bun Di Mou became her well known hit album (generasia.com). 

Writen by Karen Lee (DJ Motormouth Mom) Weekend Family Hour biweekly Saturday 0800-1000 PST.

Weekend Family Music Hour has been with Freeform Portland since the station was established. As a family we have grown with the station & feel so privileged to have an affordable family activity that brings us together with your family’s lives, letting us share our musical household tastes.

We love reciting Chinese horoscope predictions for Asian Lunar New Year, playing our Moog on Halloween, selecting songs based on politics or societal challenges and holidays! Check out our seasonal shows! Mostly indie, rock, electronic, international, folk, rock, synth, disco, soul, hip hop, experimental and jazz/tongue jazz.

Link to past shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/karen-lee3/ 

Station Top 30 – Week of 1/16/2023

1. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)
2. Little Simz – NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)
3. Run the Jewels – RTJ CU4TRO (Jewel Runners)
4. V/A – Tru Thoughts 2022 (Tru Thoughts)
5. Leland Whitty – Anyhow (Innovative Leisure)
6. V/A – To Illustrate (Wisdom Teeth)
7. Oren Ambarchi – Shebang (Drag City)
8. V/A – Shouts 2022 (Rhythm Section International)
9. The Great Old Ones – Mythos of Cthulhu (Eighth Tower)
10. Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
11. Duval Timothy – Meeting With A Judas Tree (Carrying Colour) 
12. Flevans – A Short Distance to Fall (Jalapeno)
13. The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey)
14. M. Geddes Gengras – Expressed, I Noticed Silence (Hausu Mountain)
15. Capricorni Pneumatici – Nibbas (Eighth Tower)
16. V/A – 8th Annual Report (Unexplained Sounds Group)
17. Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn – Pigments (Merge)
18. Cristobal Tapia De Veer – The White Lotus: Season 2 (Soundtrack from the HBO® Original Series) (WaterTower Music)
19. Patrick Cowley – Malebox (Dark Entries)
20. Peter Broderick – Piano Works Vol. 1 (Floating in Tucker’s Basement) (Erased Tapes)
21. Charlotte de Witte – Apollo EP (KNTXT)
22. Just Mustard – Heart Under (Partisan)
23. Sly5thAve & JSWISS – Somebody’s Gotta Do It (Tru Thoughts)
24. The House Crew – Ozomatli’s Return, Pt. 1 (Kniteforce)
25. Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes (BMG)
26. Rich Ruth – I Survived, It’s Over (Third Man)
27. Fantastic Man – Alltogethernow EP (Kalahari Oyster Cult)
28. Björk – Fossora (One Little Independent)
29. Plaid – Feorm Falorx (Warp)
30. Jennifer Loveless – Around The World (Butter Sessions)

Station Top 30 – Week of 12/13/2022

1. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)
2. Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
3. Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)
4. sunking – SMUG (Anti-)
5. Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (Sub Pop)
6. Kokoroko – Could We Be More (Brownswood)
7. Marisa Anderson – Still, Here (Thrill Jockey)
8. Hermanos Gutiérrez – El Bueno Y El Malo (Easy Eye Sound)
9. Rubblebucket – Earth Worship (Grand Jury)
10. Preoccupations – Arrangements (s/r)
11. Thee Sacred Souls – S/T (Penrose/Daptone)
12. Abraxas – Monte Carlo (Suicide Squeeze)
13. Adrian Quesada – Jaguar Sound (ATO)
14. Guided by Voices – Tremblers and Goggles By Rank (GBV Inc)
15. Brian Jonestown Massacre – Fire Doesn’t Grow on Trees (A)
16. Say She She – Prism (Colemine / Karma Chief)
17. Plaid – Feorm Falorx (Warp)
18. Halo Maud – Pesnopoïka (Heavenly/PIAS)
19. Boris – Heavy Rocks (2022) (Relapse)
20. SRSQ – Ever Crashing (Dais)
21. BROCKHAMPTON – TM (RCA)
22. Loshh – akọle (Don’t Sleep/PIAS)
23. Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl)
24. Pulse Emitter – Dusk (Hausu Mountain)
25. Los Bitchos – Los Chrismos EP (City Slang)
26. Kennebec – Without Star or Compass (Night Time Stories)
27. NYATI MAYI & The Astral Synth Transmitters – Lulanga Tales (Bongo Joe)
28. Skyway Man & Andy Jenkins – Nothing No. 1 EP (Mama Bird)
29. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem)
30. Vieux Farka Touré et Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)

Portland Show Calendar: December 19 – 24

Hi! zen_hound is back with a very short Portland show guide. This is the week leading up to Christmas, so naturally things have slowed down a bit. But live music is still happening, so click around and listen to a few of these groups to determine if you anything here could liven up your holiday experience!


Monday 12/19

Ray Ottoboni, Izy Kactus, Human Making Sounds

Turn! Turn! Turn! (8 NE Killingsworth St)

for fans of: americana, folk, alt-country, indie rock, psychedelic rock


Tuesday 12/20

Moonstone Snakes, Death Medicine, Obelisk

No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd)

for fans of: melodic metal, death metal


Wednesday 12/21

Saoirse Dream, EXCITING!!EXCELLENT!!, Sammi Lanzetta, The Moon Caravan (acoustic set)

Kelly’s Olympian (426 SW Washington St)

for fans of: indie pop, bedroom pop, alt pop, hyperpop, chiptune, emo, alternative rock, indie rock


Glasghote, Worms, Truuz

The Lollipop Shoppe (736 SE Grand Ave)

for fans of: doom metal, sludge metal, hardcore punk, grindcore, thrash


Thursday 12/22

Sunset The Machine, Cobra Thief, Nyxora, LáGoon

Dante’s (350 W Burnside St)

for fans of: heavy metal, desert rock, space rock, stoner rock, psychedelic rock, garage rock, doom metal, goth rock


Woogie, Phone Voice

Kelly’s Olympian (426 SW Washington St)

for fans of: bedroom pop, indie pop, alt pop, lo-fi


Friday 12/23

The Last Responders, The Dumpies, Uvula

No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd)

for fans of: punk rock, street punk, Oi!, garage punk


Fox Medicine, Dog Lord, It&I

The Six Below Midnight (3341 SE Belmont St)

for fans of: bubblegum doom, grunge, noise rock, psychedelic rock, stoner rock, alternative folk, carnivalesque


Saturday 12/24

Supercrash, Polar Ghost Town, Salamonca

The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St)

for fans of: I honestly don’t know because I couldn’t find any of them on bandcamp. But the featured band photo has them wearing all denim, so, maybe hard rock or whatever, but The Fixin’ To is a solid place to see a show no matter what.

That’s it! See you again after the holiday. Keep Portland Feared!

  • dj zen_hound, Host of WHOA THIS IS HEAVY, airing on Freeform Portland community radio every Friday 2-4pm