Washington, DC based Dischord Records, now in its 23rd year promoting against-the-grain entertainment, is working on a compilation CD that will benefit Radio CPR (Community Power Radio)â??an activist, low-power FM station serving the Mt. Pleasant, Columbia Heights, Petworth, and Adams-Morgan neighborhoods of Washington, DC.
Begin Live Transmission, unlike a typical music compilation, plays like a radio show. It features a cross section of culturally-diverse musicians and bands from the neighborhoods served by Radio CPR, as well as broadcast excerpts, station IDs, and interviews representing the stationâ??s radical mission to reclaim the airwaves against a tide of forces including an unlikely alliance between the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and National Public Radio (NPR), both of which have worked over the past five or so years to kill low-power FM. NAB and NPR, in this regard, are playing directly into the hands of the monopolistic Clear Channel Communications and their allies, the US administrationâ??at great peril to freedom of expression on the airwaves. Check our link to Salon.com for more on Clear Channel.
Begin Live Transmission includes 22 musical tracks interspersed with radio excerpts. Dischord will release it next month. The tracks are
1. Mt. Pleasant Mic Test, Bancroft Elementary students Station ID
2. Vertebrates - Asteroids
3. Pasha - Nah (Who's the Underground?)
4. El Vez Station ID
5. Short Stack - Offer Still Stands
6. Pigeons - Can't Get to Heaven
7. Interview: Buildings in Ruins
8. RaRaFre+Am - Fifi
9. Head-Roc - Enuff
10. EBSK - Fingers
11. Interview: Mt. Pleasant Street Mariachis
12. Machetres - Do
13. Afi - Same Ol'
14. Chaos or Community station ID
15. Scaramouche - Walter Winchell
16. Et At It - Doubletree
17. Tenants Rights Radio Station ID
18. Crucial Defect - Pants Will Make You Smarter
19. Canyon - 10 Good Eyes
20. Interview: Community activist talks about Archbishop Oscar Romero
21. Measles Mumps Rubella - White Flight
22. Interview: One take on war and peace
23. 1905 - Throw
24. Turned Tables Station ID
25. Optimistic Tribe - So Excited
26. Tina Pamintuan - Texas
27. Sounds of Kaleidoscope - Sun Set
28. French Toast - Breakfast
29. CPR DJs at a protest
30. El Guapo - Beam is a Noun
31. Deep Lust - The Peeing Song
32. People's Music Hour Station ID
33. Trance and the Arcade - Glitch 'n Paste
34. Mt. Pleasant Street Mariachis - We've Got To Love Each Other
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