Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio with DJ B The T Jr.

A continuation of an intelligent look into the moronic side of rock 'n' roll. What else can you expect?!

With sympathies to all who celebrate...Shake N Vibrate returns as ever to its alternating Thursday morning hotbed. This curly haired fella starts us off and then its to a tranche of 45s, and latest assortment of erratic rock n roll and junk to shake your trunk. Get that morning jolt at WPKN 7-9AM tomorrow THURS 7/16 or via the Apple of your ear podcast...

Just B the T Jr. and a pile of revved up rock 'n' roll a la (pictured) Wet Leg, Slade, Mary Gauthier, Paul Westerberg, Mickey Dolenz, Otis Redding and never forget - the South Bay Surfers!

With thanks to all who donated over $21K in support of radical, freeform, community radio! You can always donate at wpkn.org/donateMy shift with Herman Olivera highlighting the summer/fall's great concert dates. DIIIIIG!

RATBONE APPROVED! Another pounding and resounding Shake N Vibe with selections by B The T Jr. - Cheap Trick, Redd Kross, Lys Guillorn, Everly Brothers, Aretha Franklin, oh my!

VERY SPECIAL GUESTS, KWEEN KONG, IN-STUDIO on another SHAKE 'N' VIBRATE RADIO on WPKN 89.5FM BRIDGEPORT, BABY! at the 7:45AM hour taking over the DJ decks and waxing rock 'n' roll domination. One of New Haven's best IMHO. Excited to have had them here. Otherwise its the usual high energy frisee salad with co-conspirators VVEBS, The Problem With Kids Today, the Raincoats, Devo, Irma Thomas and mo' !

THURS 5/7, 7-9AM we commence tomorrow reflecting on the sage words Swamp Dogg once bestowed on me and @dansoto when we told him he looked great. Swamp said, "Well, I think if I look like shit, I'll probably play like shit." This is to say I'll be LOOKING GREAT as I broadcast on @ rifling through, yes, new Swamp Dogg, Stones, Gary Stewart, the Ronettes (oh, Nedra!), C & The Shells, The Bub Club and more. Otherwise, head to thee podcat.Jackie Downing, Senior Director of Grantmaking and Nonprofit Support at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven pops in to talk all things Great Give, the 36-hour non-profit giving event swinging NOW through Thursday. Donate to WPKN and fine greater New Haven non-profits if you have the means!

THURS! 4/23, 7-9AM EST on WPKN, Shake 'n' Vibrate soldiers on in the redemptive rock 'n' roll spirit for its 51st WPKN show?! With levitating music by such hitmakers as Jedediah Parish, Suburban Lawns, and Grandpaboy. Singer/songwriter and all-around prolific artist, Kierstin Sieser, joins us at the 8AM hour to discuss her latest album Love's Poem out on Dead Language Records. Kierstin waxes about her process whilst also spinning formative and influential tracks. Brian Ember also gives a ring-a-ding to talk about the 2026 New Haven Music Video Festival!

THURS, 7-9AM and via apple podcasts beyond that, its SHAKE N VIBRATE on WPKN, your shot of rock n roll caffeine to get your morning on the move. The 8AM hour brings SPECIAL GUEST BUZZ GORDO (pictured o' course) of New Haven's legendary BIG BAD JOHNS, GONE NATIVE, and BRONSON ROCK who will be previewing his new solo album "Pen and Ink." We'll be chewing the fat and spinning trax, come join us! Album release show commences this Saturday 4/11, 7PM at Best Video with the equally incredible Jed Parish of GRAVEL PIT supporting. Hey hey, my my...

DJ B The T Jr. soldiers on through this cruel world finding refuge in the starlets and nuggets of rock 'n' roll. Featuring Shake 'n' Vibrate patron saints Slade, Bully, Stereolab, Jalen Ngonda, Julia Cumming (pictured above), Teenage Fanclub, Dirtbombs and more bands/artists you should be wrapped in!WPKN's own Christine Ohlman (Soul Hive), Beehive Queen, calls 'round 8AM to preview her The Queen meets The Kings show with Liberty Devitto's The Slim Kings hitting Fairfield Theatre Company, Sunday April 19th, 6PM doors, 7PM show.

Rise with the greats 7-9AM at WPKN 89.5FM for another installment of Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio. Scene here is SNV patron saint Les Blank, documentarian extraordinaire whose films on garlic, gap-toothed women, creole cooking, new london polka (not kidding) are essential viewing! I say this because tangentially my 8AM guest will be Sean Fox from the Norwalk Film Festival hitting Friday March 20 through Sunday March 22. We'll talk films, workshops, the CT film scene and so much more. TUNE IT tot he WPKN app, local at 89.5FM, or dial later via podcast along with 45+ archival jaunts.

THURSDAY! It's the hallowed SHAKE 'n' VIBRATE morning tradition taking a sojourn into the world and influence of my pal the recently passed Scott Foust - musician/theorist/thinker/drinker/instigator/commander/director visionary behind Idea Fire Company (IFCO), The Pickle Factory, Anti-Naturals, the fabulous Swill Radio distro and catalogs (The Quality Quality since 1983) and so much more. Will pair well with a mono-chrome suit, Dunhill cigarette smoke, Chanel No. 5, cheap red wine, St. Paulie Girl. Heck, just take the day off. A warming salute in this cold cold world.

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER SHOW! Oh, where doth the time go? Maybe our high-banged, beloved rockers SLADE know? Figure it all out with Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio live again and in your ears THURS 2/12 @ 7-9AM EST and across all verses and perpetuities in the Apple podcast realm. Love on ya!

SHAKE 'n' VIBRATE RADIO RETURNS! Asking the eternal question: if a radio show is not promoted, does anyone hear it? Tune into hot moving rock n roll essentials like Arthur Alexander pictured here; an obsession of both Elvis and the fab four...

OH THE DELUSIONS OF YOUTH! Look what rock 'n' roll can do to a man. This man being Mark E. Smith. One of only a handful of Smiths I like if you catch my drift Morrissey! Hear a Fall classic with this crooner as well as plenty other rock 'n' roll goldies. Start your day right with the equivalent of an espresso to the face! I'M SO OVER 2026!

All hail Juliana Hatfield! Fate. Practice. Art. Creation. Dogs. Big talk, no time for small. Juliana  joins me for the second hour discussing the recent release of her incredible new record, Lightning Might Strike. Catch it on Bandcamp via American Laundromat Records (Mystic, CT's own!) Photo by David Doobinin.First hour is my usual megamix greatness with Steve Cropper, Yoko Ono, Kid Ginseng, Sharp Pins, Fiona Apple etc.

Fate. Practice. Art. Creation. Dogs. Big talk, no time for small. Juliana Hatfield joins me for the hour on the recent release of Lightning Might Strike.Catch it on Bandcamp via American Laundromat Records (Mystic, CT's own!)Photo by David Doobinin

It's another egg in the face kinda morning at WPKN with a 7-9AM Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio THURS 12/4. TUNE IN locally at 89.5FM or stream from anywhere via wpkn.org or our fabulous free apps. A two-hour expedition with nothing, but me at the controls setting the daze rock 'n' roll, funk, soul, punk tone. For those keeping score, I'll be giving away pairs of tix to Saturdaze holiday Levees extravaganza at SHU Theatre in Fairfield, Saturday, 12/6, 1PM matinee baby! And, WPKN Presents: Del Water Gap at College Street Music Hall in New Haven, Monday, 1/26. Like they say - you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but surely you can't pick Paul McCartney's nose...

The second hour of Thursday's Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio brings special guest Tracey Santa, who with DJ B The T Jr. will explore the world of Jerker Emanuelson and Sound Asleep Records.Living an obscuro rockers dream, Jerker has been releasing music on Sound Asleep Records since 1994. 69 releases in 31 years. Single artist LPs/CDs, a couple of singles, dozens of compilations. All financed by the meagre revenue stream from small batch releases and his 36 years running a hardware store in a small town in southern Sweden. Jerker spent a junior year abroad in Nashville in the mid-80s and caught the Americana bug, befriending some of the major underground figures in the garage-country-pop sphere. These folks still populate his catalogue and releases, but Sound Asleep have released songs on everyone from the Incredible Casuals to Doug Yule (Velvet Underground) to Roy Loney (Flamin' Groovies).Our guide Tracey Santa has been writing, recording, and playing over the past four decades in a number of guises: as a founding member of the Exploding Pintos and 84 Rooms in San Francisco, as a solo artist in Boston and New Orleans, as a mandolinist in the Cletus Butterfoam Experience, a bassist in Warren Zanes Lady Costume, and most recently on Colorado’s Front Range with the Wild Hares. Santa and the Wild Hares most recent recording Naugatuck Valley Boy is available on BandCampSanta has released over a dozen recordings in the U.S and abroad and been described as a country crooner, a garage rock minimalist, and an acolyte of Nick Lowe and the Flamin’ Groovies. Melody Maker once suggested that he sounded “like R.E.M. recorded in a telephone kiosk in the Nevada desert.”A native son, Santa began his musical misadventures in the Nutmeg State. He eagerly awaits royalties accruing from folksinger Al McKnight’s version of his song “What You Going to Do (If the Earth Breaks Down),” performed and broadcast on New Haven’s WTNH-TV when Santa was 15. These and other tales unfold in his memoir The Tompo of the Ringing, one of Pop Matters Best Books of 2022, and described by Greil Marcus in 2023 in a Real Life Top Ten Column: “as entertaining a music life book as I’ve ever read.”

In this WPKN fundraising madness (wpkn.org/donate if you are so inclined), DJ B The T Jr. calls on the pros.Bill Tobelman, founder of https://goodhumorsmile.com/ - this website presents a theory about the Beach Boys' SMiLE album that is based upon comments Brian Wilson made in 1966 regarding the spiritual nature of the project. If you want to know where Brian Wilson's head was at in 1966-67, and why he thought SMiLE was too experimental, you may have come to the right place.This website was started in 1998 and has gone through a few changes over the years.And hip hop pioneer TONY TONE of the Cold Crush Brothers and Gee's Records presenting an all-vinyl smoke show of a SLY & THE FAMILY STONE/ SLY STONE tribute.

THURS 10/9, 7-10am its a final @shake_n_vibrate for a few weeks, but with fave dance floor raver (back when this was a live event @cafenine) JENN D of @ponybirdmusic @wearebison and more! We talk Jenn’s new album while she selects the 8AM hour. Beyond that, expect the usual rock n roll nonsense you've come to know and love on @wpkn89.5Visit Ponybird on Bandcamp

Go to the WPKN GOLD SOUNDS podcast for the Katy Pinke audio. Amazing.Orig HYPE:THURS 9/18, 7-10AM on @ join us for the wild ride of another SHAKE 'N' VIBRATE RADIO. First hour features the usual rock 'n' roll, junk, and funk you've come to expect from this ruffian.Second hour features (above) the premiere of the WPKN Gold Sounds broadcast/podcast featuring New York based multidisciplinary artist and musician Katy Pinke. Katy performs in the WPKN Community Room with collaborator Nico Osborne; recorded beautifully by Chris Ruggiero and assistant engineer Chris Miller. Dig the tunes and fascinating convo/interview led by the one and only DAN SOTO!Hour three it's my pal GARY LIPPMAN guest-spinning tunes, talkin' his new book, and his artistic/writing journey having graced the pages of The New York Times, The Paris Review, VICE, Fodors, Upstate Diary, Open City, Sex And Design, and 8 By 8.

Sweet Pete spins, rocks, and jives!

Can't you hear that rooster crowin?

A music and memory tribute to my friend, the late David Johansen. A bon vivant, most-elegant-guy-in-the-restaurant kinda guy.

New Haven's hottest underground techno collective takes to the WPKN airwaves ahead of their BUDDY CITY EP vinyl release.

A post-Valentine's Day all-vinyl love fest featuring the selections of hip-hop legend TONY TONE of the COLD CRUSH BROTHERS.

The post-disco dazzlers HEAVEN of popular Cafe Nine DJ nights visit the studios and take us on a whirlwind dance tour.

Tony Tone enlightens the Soul Chaser audience again with hip hop's formative vinyl tunes. Incredible!

Spinning all the would-be NYE hits early morn as we barrel into 2025. Yike!

Oh boy, this episode features a legendary rear-end oriented call-in. Get in that yuletide spirit!

Teaching us the basics of hip hop party records that legend TONY TONE would hear from COOL HERC at the block parties back in the day. Mind-blowin!

Spinning pure Northern Soul for this power hour of radio!

CT hardcore and punk legend JOHN THE BOMB joins in on the all-vinyl power hour of SOUL CHASER.