As Rolling with Scissors continues leaning into long-form listening and deep dives, not every episode is meant to be a destination. Some are meant to disrupt the map.

Episode 1337 is one of those moments.

This episode steps outside the usual deep-dive framework and instead presents a curated transmission from Agent K, whose work with the show has always existed slightly off the books and just outside the frame. If you’ve already read his bio on the site, you know enough. If you haven’t, it’s there — and that’s where the story belongs.

What matters here is the music.

This set moves freely across styles, eras, and expectations. Underground rock sits next to jazz. Experimental long-form pieces collide with songs that feel deceptively familiar until they suddenly aren’t. There’s humor, abrasion, beauty, and more than a few left turns — the kind of sequencing that makes sense only once you stop trying to predict where it’s going.

This isn’t a theme episode.

It isn’t an anniversary.

And it isn’t interested in being tidy.

The music appears without commentary by design. No intros. No explanations. Not because anything is missing, but because stopping the flow to explain it would defeat the point. These tracks are meant to be experienced, not framed.

Behind the scenes, everything is accounted for. The playlist is logged. The details are documented. The proper channels are notified. The structure is solid, even if the surface feels unstable.

Going forward, Agent K’s appearances will function as intentional interruptions — episodes that reset the ears between deep dives and remind us that discovery doesn’t always come with a syllabus. These sets won’t sound like algorithms. They won’t behave politely. And they won’t reveal themselves all at once.

Episode 1337 is the first of those transmissions.

No roadmap.

No narration.

Just music.

Hour 1

Artist – Song – Time – Album – Label – Year

Greasy Jebus – The Devil –  – Welcome to Cairo – Dark Day Records – 2002

Tony Bennett – Let the Good Times Roll –  – Playing With My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues – Sony Music – 2001

Cracker – Loser –  – Kerosene Hat – Virgin Records – 1993

Steve Vai – Lovers Are Crazy –  – Flex-Able – Food for Thought – 1984

Roky Erickson & The Aliens – Night of the Vampire –  – I Think of Demons – Edsel Recordings – 1980

Meat Puppets – Electromud –  – Meat Puppets – Rykodisc – 1999

Ween – Stroker Ace –  – White Pepper – Elektra – 2000

Violent Femmes – Ugly –  – Violent Femmes – Slash/Rhino – 1983

Powerwagon – God… Shit –  – Lower Life Forms – Pinecone Records – 1995

Neil Young – Old King –  – Harvest Moon – Reprise – 1992

Old 97’s – Wish the Worst –  – Hitchhike to Rhome – Big Iron – 1994

Soul Coughing – The Idiot Kings –  – Irresistible Bliss – Slash/Warner Bros. – 1996

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – (Do Not Feed) The Oyster –  – Pig Lib – Matador – 2003

The Flaming Lips – The Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World –  – Clouds Taste Metallic – Warner Bros. – 1995

Cake – Race Car Ya-Yas –  – Fashion Nugget – Capricorn Records – 1996

Hindu Love Gods – Raspberry Beret –  – Hindu Love Gods – Reprise – 1990

Hour 2

Artist – Song – Time – Album – Label – Year

John Coltrane – Om –  – The Major Works of John Coltrane Disc 1 – GRP Records – 1992

Pink Floyd – Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict –  – Ummagumma – Harvest – 1969

Frank Zappa – Billy the Mountain –  – You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore – Rykodisc – 1988

Hour 3

Artist – Song – Time – Album – Label – Year

Kingfinger – Soul Creature –  – Kingfinger – Kingfinger Music – 2002

Jimi Hendrix – Hear My Train A Comin’ (Electric) –  – Blues – Polydor – 1994

Bob Weir – Mexicali Blues –  – Ace – Ice Nine Publishing – 1988

The Beach Boys – Barbara Ann –  – Made in U.S.A. – Capitol – 1986

Widespread Panic – Driving Song –  – Space Wrangler – Capricorn Records – 1992

Led Zeppelin – Ramble On –  – Mothership – Atlantic Records – 2007

Peter Tosh – Get Up, Stand Up –  – Scrolls of the Prophet: The Best of Peter Tosh – Columbia Records – 1999

Jerry Garcia – Deal –  – Garcia – Warner Bros. – 1972

Jeff Beck – Supersticious –  – Truth – Epic – 1968 [fade out]

Rolling with Scissors airs live every Tuesday from 2–5 AM on 89.9 FM in Madison and streams at wortfm.org. Missed it? You can catch the episode for two weeks after broadcast at archive.wortfm.org or at rwsradio.com.

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