feel like a total idiot. There is no dignified way to explain that I simply forgot to post this last week. I’d love to tell you I was abducted by a rogue frequency or that the “Information Technology Gods” demanded a blood sacrifice I couldn’t provide, but the truth is I just drifted. The signal was rolling, the tape was hot, but the gatekeeper was out in the backyard staring at the “Baby Spring” sun until his retinas sizzled.

This installment features the beautifully fractured psyche of Agent K. If you haven’t been initiated, imagine a man trying to explain the color of sound while standing in the middle of a high-speed car chase through a desert of neon static. It’s weird, it’s wonderful, and it’s exactly the kind of frequency we need when the “normal” world starts feeling like a cheap plastic simulation.

The Hunter S. Strategy

I’m currently writing this while staring at a blinking cursor that looks suspiciously like a government tracking device. We are living in a time of high-velocity weirdness. We were somewhere around Viroqua when the drugs began to take hold—or maybe it was just the Miles Davis track hitting the 15-minute mark and peeling the paint off the studio walls.

The goal here is total immersion. We don’t just play the tracks; we crawl inside the speakers and wait for the “Robot Monkey” to start giving us life advice. If you find yourself wondering why you’re listening to Willie Nelson cover Elvis followed immediately by Phil & Friends playing a 17-minute “Dark Star,” just remember the golden rule of the road: buy the ticket, take the ride.

The frequency is back. I’ll be posting the next show right on top of this one to make up for my lapse in digital judgment. Stay tuned, stay weird, and for God’s sake, watch out for the bats.

HOUR ONE
Artist — Song — Album — Label — Year
Grateful Dead — Morning Dew — Europe '72 — Warner Bros. — 1972
Jerry Garcia / David Grisman / Tony Rice — Appetizer — The Pizza Tapes — Acoustic Disc — 2000
The Velvet Underground — Sad Song — Peel Slowly and See — Polydor — 1995
R.E.M. — Fall on Me — Lifes Rich Pageant — Capitol — 1986
Julian Cope — I Have Always Been Here Before — Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye — Sire — 1990
Zero — Little Wing — Nothin' Last Forever — PopMafia — 1998
Miles Davis — Right Off — A Tribute to Jack Johnson — Columbia Records — 1970

HOUR TWO
Artist — Song — Album — Label — Year
David Lowery — How Does Your Sister Roller Skate? — Fathers, Sons, and Brothers — Cooking Vinyl — 2025
Bob Schneider — The World Exploded Into Love — Lonelyland — Universal Records — 2001
Bright Eyes — Old Soul Song (For The New World Order) — I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning — Saddle Creek — 2005
Golden Smog — Frying Pan Eyes — Another Fine Day — Lost Highway — 2006
Violent Femmes — To The Kill — Violent Femmes — Slash — 1983
Ry Cooder — Fool for a Cigarette/Feelin' Good — Paradise and Lunch — Reprise — 1974
Son Volt — Highways & Cigarettes — The Search (Bonus Disc) — Legacy Recordings — 2007
Dire Straits — Southbound Again — Dire Straits — Universal Distribution — 1978
Hamell On Trial — 95 South — Tough Love — Righteous Babe — 2003
Pixies — Is She Weird — Bossanova — 4AD — 1990
Sugar — Clownmaster — Besides — Rykodisc — 1995
Mad Trucker Gone Mad — Robot Monkey — Mad Trucker Gone Mad — Orchard — 2000
Soundgarden — Face Pollution — Badmotorfinger — A&M Records — 1991
Metallica — Creeping Death — Ride the Lightning — CBS Records — 1984
Big Egg — Industrial Haze — Inner Circle Of The Elks Head — Inner Circle Music — 1994
Willie Nelson — Heartbreak Hotel — The Essential Willie Nelson — Columbia — 2003

HOUR THREE
Artist — Song — Album — Label — Year
Phil & Friends — Dark Star > It's Up To You — 99.04.17 Warfield Theater — Not On Label — 1999
Merl Saunders — Dark Star — Live — Back Porch — 2001
Cowboy Junkies — I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry — The Trinity Session — RCA — 1973
Mazzy Star — So Tonight That I Might See — So Tonight That I Might See — Capitol — 1993
Led Zeppelin — Since I've Been Loving You — Mothership — Atlantic — 2007

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.

While the audio disappears after two weeks, the episode notes and playlists don’t. Every deep dive, rant, and full album breakdown stays right here — so you can revisit the details any time.

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