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Recent Episodes
Get in the Van – Episode 1327
Tonight we dive into Get in the Van, Henry Rollins’ brutally honest account of life inside Black Flag—years of broken vans, hostile crowds, and raw, unforgettable punk history. We’ll also round out the show with Rollins’ spoken-word firepower, and yes, I know I didn’t talk during last week’s Zappa tribute. Letting Frank wish WORT a happy 50th felt right. Big changes are coming to Rolling with Scissors… but tonight, the van is already rolling.
Frank Zappa Special – Episode 1326
This week on Rolling with Scissors, we celebrate 50 years of WORT by letting Frank Zappa off the leash for a full three hours. It’s been too long. We spotlight key corners of his studio and live output between 1969 and 1979, where jazz fusion brains melt purposefully into rock skeletons, satire lives next to razor-tight musicianship, and the guitar is both the punchline and the proof. Frank Zappa was a composer who happened to lead bands that could actually execute his blueprints, and a guitarist who never treated rock as a border or a limit. Tonight, we let the albums speak — loud, sequential, and gloriously incomplete. Each era chosen for impact. Each track allowed to sprawl. The final piece will be faded out, drifting into the classical block that follows. Happy birthday, WORT. Welcome back, Frank.
Latest Blog Posts
The White Stuff Returns
After nearly eight years away from winter, I looked out my window today and saw white stuff falling from the sky. It took me a second to remember it’s called snow. At first it looked peaceful, almost magical — until I remembered what it really means: salt, slush, and the lurking terror of getting my wheelchair stuck in a snow drift just trying to grab coffee at QuikTrip. Welcome back to Wisconsin, where the sky hates you but the coffee’s still worth the risk.
Love in the Air (and Through the Ceiling)
After eight years of living in houses, I forgot how thin apartment walls can be. At 3:45 in the morning, I woke to the unmistakable sounds of enthusiasm from the neighbors upstairs — complete with creaking bed, rhythmic thumping, and plenty of moaning. By the time the “series finale” ended around 5 a.m., I was equal parts exhausted, amused, and reminded that apartment living comes with… perks.
Losing My Metal Card (and Finding My Groove Again)
I’ll probably lose my metal card for saying this, but Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl is damn good. Blame Amber for getting the hooks stuck in my head. Between discovering pop that actually hits and replacing my dead 25-year-old Alesis monitors with KRK Rokit 5s, I’ve been reminded that music doesn’t care about genres—it just needs to make you feel something.
Foot to Ass: Puscifer’s Normal Isn’t Shoves the World Awake
After years of silence from big-name artists, Puscifer finally steps up with Normal Isn’t—a record that refuses to play nice. The lead single “Self Evident” doesn’t whisper; it hits like a hammer, tearing through the noise with raw honesty and purpose. This is the sound of art waking the world up.
Hollar Into The Void
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Interviews
Matt Jacoby Eleven Music Career Center
On Friday I had a great conversation with Matt Jacoby about the music industry, Eleven Music career center. Electronic music and a few other things. Check out the links below for more information. The interview was edited for the over the air broadcast on WORT mostly...
Josh and Tim from Self-Titled Album
Signal Drift: Current Broadcast
Signal Drift is an original fiction series unfolding one chapter at a time—right here on the blog. Set in a near-future collapse where communication is survival, the story follows a former radio engineer navigating broken networks, old alliances, and strange new signals. Each post is a chapter, and the series is updated regularly. Want to dig deeper into the cast? Meet the characters right here.
Signal Drift: Chapter 11
When brute force meets backwoods genius, miracles happen. In Chapter 11 of Signal Drift, the crew unleashes the Beetle Bomb, braces the tower with scrap steel, and watches Bill weld like a madman fueled by bourbon and solar power. The signal’s coming back online — whether the world’s ready or not.
Signal Drift: Chapter 10
Bill’s back. The Beetle Bomb is real. The transmitter site might just have power. Chapter 10 of Signal Drift kicks off a new phase in the story with hidden stashes, solar surprises, and 2,000 bottle rockets lighting up the sky. Oh—and there’s a whole room full of hand-crank radios waiting for a reason to be used.
Signal Drift: Chapter 9
Cronauer took a step closer, then another. He laughed, then choked, then laughed harder—tears forming before he could stop them.
“You kept it,” he said, voice cracking. “Jesus Christ, I thought it got crushed.”
Bill grinned and gave the truck’s fender a smack. “Still runs. Still kicks. She’s been resting, but she’s hungry.”
Across the tailgate, in faded black spray paint, the name still read: THE BEETLE BOMB.
Signal Drift: Chapter 8
Cronauer has been walking for days, sleeping in abandoned sheds and listening to static on the radio — until a clipped, coded broadcast near Richland Center sparks something familiar. The Viroqua repeater is offline, and it sounds like Norm’s voice behind the warning. Now, with the rain returning and Viroqua on the horizon, he pushes forward — hoping he’s not too late.
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