"Rockers" (fill-in for Rockers Arena)

"Rockers" (fill-in for Rockers Arena, broadcast in May 2021)

Sly & Robbie: Taxi Connection
Zap Pow: This Is Reggae Music
Eek A-Mouse: Wa-Do-Dem 
Pluto Shervington: Dat 
Toots & The Maytals: Louie Louie 
George Faith: In The Midnight Hour / Ya Ya
Yellowman: Body Move
Glen Washington: Rockers (No Crackers)
Culture: Love Shine Brighter
Errol Dunkley: Please Stop Your Lying
Barrington Levy: Love the Life You Live
The Heptones: Hypocrite
Gregory Isaacs: Mr Cop
Worl-A-Girl: No Gunshot
Worl-A-Girl: No Gunshot PSA 
Sister Nancy: Bam Bam 
Maxine & Jahnet: One Light, Four Wheels 
The Slits: Cry Baby
Hollie Cook WPKN ID 
Hollie Cook: Ari Up
Lady Ann: Informer (Murderer)
Revelation: With You Boy 
J.C. Lodge: Someone Loves You Honey
Sade: By Your Side (reggae mix) 
Aswad: Finger Gun Style
Tappa Zukie: M P L A
Bob Marley & The Wailers: Exodus
Bunny Wailer: Dream Land
Fred Locks: Black Star Liner 
Burning Spear: Slavery Days
Dr. Alimantado: Born For A Purpose / Reason For Living 
Junior Murvin: Cool Out Son
Ijahman Levi: Africa 
Ijahman Levi: Afrodub
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals: Dub Three
The Upsetters: Corn Fish Dub
Augustus Pablo: King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown
African Head Charge: Take Heed & Smoke up Your Collyweed (ft King Cry Cry)
U-Roy: Chalice In The Palace
Jah Lion: Columbia Colly 
Mungo's Hi Fi: I Need Weed (feat Soom T)
Reggae Roast: Sensi Skank Reloaded (feat. Ruben Da Silva) 
Sugar Minott: Riddim
Sugar Minott: Rub-A-Dub Sound

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Airing twice a month on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport!

howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present

howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous people

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, the Star Spangles, the Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe and th’ Faith Healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President