PURE with Howard Thompson

“22 Clean-Up” (broadcast 1/20/23)

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders: Movements 2-5 (ft. London Symphony Orch.) 
Peter Ivers, David Lynch & Alan R Splet: In Heaven (The Lady In The Radiator) 
Morningface: Sharpening Knives In Heaven (ft. The League of Sonic Discovery)
David Bowie: The Bewlay Brothers (2021 Alternative Mix) 
Marianne Faithfull: The Calm Before The Storm 
Van Der Graaf Generator: Go 
Chris Canterbury: Felt the Same 
Emma Swift: Give Me Strength 
Robyn Hitchcock: Midnight Tram To Nowhere
The Pretty Things: Sickle Clowns 
Russell Hunter station ID #1
The Deviants: Deviation Street 
Mark Bingham: The Coffle Rolls 
Ashley McBryde, Brandy Clark, Caylee Hammack, Pillbox Patti: 
Bonfire At Tina's
GIVĒON: Time (from the film Amsterdam)
Ashley McBryde, Benjy Davis: Gospel Night At The Strip Club 
Addie Brik: Retromingent 
Jim Keller: 'til The Water Drinks My Bones 
Loudon Wainwright III: Saw Your Name In The Paper
Björk: Sorrowful Soil
Public Image Ltd: Hawaii 
SSVU: David Lynch Has a Painting Made of Flies Eyes
Dubmatix station ID
Dubmatix & The Hempolics: Crazy Days 
King Princess: Crowbar 
Devil Devil Love: Break-in' For You 
Adeem the Artist: Heritage of Arrogance
Devil Devil Love: In The Pocket Of Big Wendy
LCD Soundsystem: new body rhumba (from the film White Noise) 
Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton: Feelin' Good 
Bob Weir: Greatest Story Ever Told (feat. Tyler Childers) [Live]
the red propellers: behind the yellow line 
Spiritualized: Sad Days Lonely Nights 
HeadCat: Rock 'n' Roll Will Save You (live) 
Ian Hunter: Bed Of Roses

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