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MSR retiring under lockdown, find me on Please Pass the Hacksaw!

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Hello Listeners,

Try as I might, I have not succeeded in pre-recording my show so that I can continue to produce new content through the lockdown. That’s why my shows have all been reruns during this wacky time we’re all living through. I finally gave up on pre-recording after many abortive attempts, and will not be broadcasting live for the time being. I hope to get back in the studio live again soon for the Mothership Slight Return’s grand return!

But in the meantime, please find my weekly commentaries on the Please Pass the Hacksaw show with Dr. Hyena, where I’ll be passing along the kinds of ruminations you’ve grown accustomed to on the Mothership Slight Return’s news hour. You can hear me and the good doctor passing the hacksaws and cutting our collective chains between 10pm-12am on Tuesday nights, on your community radio station, AshevilleFM.

Be safe, be well, and know that you are loved. I’ll see you soon!

Your DJ P Funk

Please Pass the Hacksaw (chaincutting radio) Hosts The Mothership Slight Return’s DJ PFunk

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PPtH’s DJ dr hyena is psyched to announce the addition of a regular guest commentary segment by The Mothership Slight Return’s DJ PFunk, during this time of pandemic-adjusted show scheduling.  For a sample of what’s in store, listen to this week’s (5/12) PPtH archive for PFunk’s call-in Good News report on NC Mail-In Voting! (somewhere around minute 0:47)  Also locally harvested Mental Health Self-Care considerations from Dr. Nick! (0:34).

 


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Stay At Home Orders Threaten Domestic Violence Victims

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As those of us in Buncombe County and the state of North Carolina are forced to stay at home, the stress and anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic have created a perfect storm for domestic violence victims.

April Burgess-Johnson Executive Director of Helpmate and Geoff Sidoli, Executive Director of Mountain Child Advocacy Center spoke with News Team correspondent KP Whaley about the significant increase in requests for services we are seeing in WNC.

Listen to the full interview below

 


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Local Organizers Sewing Face Masks For Community

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Masks are now being recommended to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, but finding masks can be a challenge.  A local group of activists saw the need and responded immediately by forming the group Masks Of Love, a DIY sewing group creating homemade masks for the community.  AFM News correspondent KP Whaley talked to one of their organizers about their efforts.


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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Top Play Charts, March 8-14, 2020

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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, March 8-14, 2020

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JAZZ top ten

1. Firecracker Jazz Band – Return To The Twenties (EUPHONIAN)
2. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
3. Rent Romus’ Lords of Outland – 25 Years Under The Mountain (EDGETONE)
4. Enrico Fazio Critical Mass – Wabi Sabi (LEO)
5. Matthew Shipp – Invisible Light, Live Sao Paulo (HAT HUT)

6. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
7. Vijay Iyer / Craig Taborn – The Transitory Poems (ECM)
8. Pat Metheny – From This Place (NONESUCH)
9. Whit Dickey Tao Quartets – Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM FIDELITY)
10. Frode Gjerstad / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Matthew Shipp – Season of Sadness (ILUSO)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

1 METAL PREYERS _ Metal Preyers (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
2 CEU _ “Coreto” [Single] (Six Degrees)
3 ONIPA _ We No Be Machine (Strut)
4 OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
5 VULA VIEL _ What’s Not Enough About That? (Self-Released)

6 ANTIBALAS _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone)
7 BUSCABULLA _ Regresa [Advance Tracks] (Ribbon)
8 EKITI SOUND _ Abeg No Vex (The Remixes Vol 1) [EP] (Crammed)
9 HAILU MERGIA _ Yene Mircha (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
10 LIDO PIMIENTA _ Miss Colombia [Advance Tracks] (Anti-)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Mosses – T.V. Sun (ANYWAY)
2. Sun City Girls – Live at the Sky Church – September 3rd, 2004 (TWENTY ONE EIGHTY TWO RECORDING COMPANY)
3. SUSS – High Line (NORTHERN SPY)
4. Jessica Ekomane – Multivocal (IMPORTANT)
5. Negatviland – True False (SEELAND)

6. OOIOO – Nijimusi (THRILL JOCKEY)
7. Peter Zummo – Deep Drive (TIN ANGEL)
8. Emptyset – Blossoms (THRILL JOCKEY)
9. JOYFULTALK – A Separation of Being (CONSTELLATION)
10. Amulets – Between Distant and Remote (BEACON SOUND)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, March 8-14, 2020; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) Mosses _ T.V. Sun (Anyway)
2.) 16) King Krule _ Man Alive! (True Panther Sounds / Matador)
3.) Sunn Trio _ Electric Esoterica (Twenty One Eighty Two Recording Company)
4.) Stephen Malkmus _ Traditional Techniques (Matador)
5.) Sun City Girls _ Live at the Sky Church – September 3rd, 2004 (Twenty One Eighty Two Recording Company)

6.) 5) Soccer Mommy _ color theory (Loma Vista)
7.) 6) Baseball Gregg _ Calendar (s/r)

8.) 10) Firecracker Jazz Band _ Return to the Twenties (Euphonian) … Asheville band … album release show to be rescheduled

9.) 21) Cindy Lee _ What’s Tonight To Eternity (W.25th/Superior Viaduct)

10.) U.S. Girls _ Heavy Light (4AD) … U.S. Girls scheduled to visit May 3 @ The Grey Eagle w/Bonjay

11.) Metal Preyers _ Metal Preyers (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
12.) Slander Tongue _ Slander Tongue (Slovenly Recordings)
13.) 4) Arbor Labor Union _ New Petal Instants (Arrowhawk)
14.) 13) Guided By Voices _ Surrender Your Poppy Field (GBV Inc)
15.) 14) Best Coast _ Always Tomorrow (Concord)

16.) Caribou _ Suddenly (Merge)
17.) 9) 7) 11) Frances Quinlan _ Likewise (Saddle Creek)
18.) 30) 29) Destroyer _ Have We Met (Merge)
19.) Jessica Ekomane _ Multivocal (Important)
20.) Vundabar _ Either Light (Gawk)

21.) 25) Wednesday _ I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Orindal) … Asheville band … album release show to be rescheduled

22.) 15) Greg Dulli _ Random Desire (BMG)
23.) 19) Grimes _ Miss Anthropocene (4AD)
24.) Squirrel Flower _ I Was Born Swimming (Full Time Hobby)

25.) X) 15) 26) Torres _ Silver Tongue (Merge) … Torres scheduled to play May 24 @ The Mothlight

26.) Shane Parish _ Death Bell Knellin’ (Weird Cry) … Asheville artist … album release show to be rescheduled

27.) 28) 13) 15) Shopping _ All Or Nothing (Fat Cat)
28.) SUSS _ High Line (NORTHERN SPY)
29.) XX) 7) 3) 21) 2) 1) 13) 22) X) 10) Negativland _ True False (Seeland)
30.) Parker Longbough _ Green and Gold / Drink the Hemlock (Wilderhood)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Top Play Charts, February 23-March 7, 2020

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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Hip Hop, HEAVY, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, February 23-March 7, 2020

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JAZZ top ten

1. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
2. Firecracker Jazz Band – Return To The Twenties (EUPHONIAN)
3. Erroll Garner – That’s My Kick (MACK AVENUE)
4. Pat Metheny – From This Place (NONESUCH)
5. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)

6. Dave Rempis/Jim Baker/Joshua Abrams/Avreeayl Ra – Apsis (AEROPHONIC)
7. Frode Gjerstad/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Matthew Shipp – Season of Sadness (ILUSO)
8. Enrico Fazio Critical Mass – Wabi Sabi (LEO)
9. Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn – The Transitory Poems (ECM)
10. Whit Dickey Tao Quartets – Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM FIDELITY)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

1 MAMMAN SANI _ Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 (Sahel Sounds)
2 CALIBRO 35 _ Momentum (Record Kicks)
3 THE HELIOCENTRICS _ Infinity Of Now (Madlib Invazion)
4 ANTIBALAS _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone)
5 SOTOMAYOR _ Ori­genes (Wonderwheel)

6 INTENTA: EXPERIMENTAL AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC FROM SWITZERLAND 1981-93 (Bongo Joe)
7 LEVE LEVE: SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SOUNDS 70s – 80s (Bongo Joe)
8 UZELLI ELEKTRO SAZ 1976-1984 (Uzelli)
9 EMICEDA LIBRE AND IBEYI _ AmarElo (Sterns)
10 ISLANDMAN _ Kaybola (MusicFor Dreams)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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ten top Hip Hop

1 HELIOCENTRICS, THE Infinity Of Now Madlib Invazion
2 LITTLE DRAGON “Hold On” [Single] Ninja Tune
3 VILLAELVIN Headroof Hakuna Kulala
4 PRINCESS NOKIA Everything is Beautiful Self-Released
5 GIL SCOTT-HERON AND MAKAYA MCCRAVEN We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven XL/Beggars Group

6 MC YALLAH X DEBMASTER Kubali Hakuna Kulala
7 RAEKWON The Appetition [EP] Ice H20
8 ROYCE DA 5’9″ The Allegory Heaven Studios/Entertainment One
9 LIL WAYNE Funeral Republic
10 LOREN ODEN “Is There A Way?” [Single] Linear Labs

(compiled by Hip Hop director Donovan Quixote)

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HEAVY top 10

1 LIGHTNING BOLT Sonic Citadel Thrill Jockey
2 HORSE LORDS The Common Task Northern Spy
3 LUSTMORD First Reformed (OST) Vaultworks
4 SIGHTLESS PIT Grave Of A Dog Thrill Jockey
5 CHELSEA WOLFE Birth Of Violence Sargent House

6 ASEETHE Throes Thrill Jockey

7 EARTH COLLIDER Twilight of Man 1626849 DK
8 VARIOUS ARTISTS Really Bad Music for Really Bad People: The Cramps as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G Three One G
9 VLADISLAV DELAY Rakka Cosmo Rhythmatic
10 BAD RELIGION Age Of Unreason Epitaph

(compiled by HEAVY music director Dr. No)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. OOIOO – Nijimusi (THRILL JOCKEY)
2. SUSS – High Line (NORTHERN SPY)
3. Land of Kush – Sand Enigma (CONSTELLATION) f
4. Sun City Girls – Live at the Sky Church-September 3rd, 2004 (2182 RECORDINGS)
5. Brett Naucke – Electroinic Hypnosis Program (MAKE NOISE)

6. Amulets – Between Distant and Remote (BEACON SOUND)
7. Kink Gong/Li Daiguo – Dali China (AKUPHONE)
8. Sarah Pagé – Dose Curves (BACKWARD MUSIC)
9. Yann Tiersen – Portrait (MUTE)
10. Oval – SCIS (THRILL JOCKEY)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of February 23-March 7, 2020; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) 2) Mamman Sani _ Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 (Sahel Sounds)
2.) 18) 1) 1) 2) 4) OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
3.) Calibro 35 _ Momentum (Record Kicks)
4.) Arbor Labor Union _ New Petal Instants (Arrowhawk)
5.) Soccer Mommy _ color theory (Loma Vista)

6.) Baseball Gregg _ Calendar (s/r)
7.) SUSS _ High Line (Northern Spy)
8.) 8) The Heliocentrics _ Infinity of Now (Madlib Invazion)
9.) 7) 11) Frances Quinlan _ Likewise (Saddle Creek)

10.) Firecracker Jazz Band _ Return to the Twenties (Euphonian) … plays album release show Saturday, March 14 @ The Mothlight w/Asheville City Horns, The Screamin’ J’s

11.) Dan Deacon _ Mystic Familiar (Domino)
12.) Xx6) 5) 15) 3) Angel Bat Dawid _ The Oracle (International Anthem)
13.) Guided By Voices _ Surrender Your Poppy Field (GBV Inc)
14.) Best Coast _ Always Tomorrow (Concord)
15.) Greg Dulli _ Random Desire (BMG)

16.) King Krule _ Man Alive! (True Panther Sounds)
17.) X) 18) 7) 19) 1) Land of Kush _ Sand Enigma (Constellation)
18.) Audrey Ochoa _ Frankenhorn (Chronograph Records / Fontana North)
19.) Grimes _ Miss Anthropocene (4AD)
20.) BEX _ Don’t Mess With Bexas EP (s/r)

21.) Cindy Lee _ What’s Tonight To Eternity (W.25th/Superior Viaduct)
22.) Horse Lords _ The Common Task (Northern Spy)
23.) Soil & “Pimp” Sessions _ Man Steals the Stars (Red River / Victor)
24.) 11) The Thompsons _ I’ll Get Over It (BCW)
25.) Wednesday _ I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Orindal)

26.) 3) 4) 6) 8) Antibalas _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone) … plays March 27 @ The Grey Eagle

27.) Sun City Girls _ Live at the Sky Church (Twenty One Eighty)
28.) 13) 15) Shopping _ All Or Nothing (Fat Cat)
29.) 6) Arbouretum _ Let It All In (Thrill Jockey)
30.) 29) Destroyer _ Have We Met (Merge)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM WSFM-LP
864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

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