On LOST TREASURES this Saturday, March 14th, DJ Mackie will be focusing heavily on recordings by garage and early psychedelic rock bands, circa 1964-1968.   Lost gems from Iggy Pop and the Iguanas, John’s Children (featuring a young Marc Bolan), Ace of Cups, Jerry Cole’s psychedelic guitars, and much more.   Tune in locally at 94.3 FM or on the world wide web at www.takomaradio.org

This Saturday, Lost Treasures celebrates the every-four-year-magic of Leap Day, February 29th, with a curated show focusing on rare and obscure tracks from the formative leap years of 1964, 1968, 1972, and DJ Mackie will pull deep cuts from these special years, with tracks by The Surfaris, a young Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, and other magical groups.    Tune in locally at 94.3 FM or streaming at takomaradio.org

 
      In celebration of Black History Month, DJ Mackie will be digging deep and playing lost gems by African-American musicians from the dirty south.  The playlist for this special LOST TREASURES episode will include obscure tracks from Abner Jay, Eddie Bo, Sister Morgan, and Boozoo Chavis (among others). For the purposes of this show, the “south” is anything south of Washington, DC and east of the Mississippi River.   Tune in Saturday, February 15th at 9am:  locally at 94.3 FM or streaming worldwide at takomaradio.org

Join DJ Mackie this Saturday Jan 18 as he blasts off to explore women of outer space: female musical icons not of this world.  Digging up lost treasures of Lucia Pamela, Annette Peacock,  Betty Davis, the Space Lady, Laurie Anderson, among others.  9am on 94.3 FM or streaming at takomaradio.org

      In the late 1970s, a group of like-minded avant-garde musicians at University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa channeled the spirit of Dadaist Alfred Jarry into a full-blown big-band ensemble to support the visionary Fred Lane (née Tim Reed).  With a unique “stripmine crooning” leading his bands, the Rev. Fred Lane released two legendary LPs for Kramer’s Shimmy Disc label out of NYC in 1983 (FROM THE ONE THAT CUT YOU) and 1986 (CAR RADIO JEROME).  
   ICEPICK TO THE MOON is his third LP released in 2019 on Feeding Tube Records.  ICEPICK is also the name of Skizz Cyzyk’s 2018 documentary on Fred Lane and his musical adventures and this screening at Rhizome will be the film’s DC premiere.
     Equally zany and hailing from the low country of South Carolina, Charlie McAlister’s catalog has been described as “as charmed pop music, wry without being goofy, ineffably simple, personal and universal at the same time” (Oxford America).  Before his untimely death in February of 2018, McAlister managed to release dozens of LPs, cassettes, zines, and low-fi art on both national and international labels as well as other outlets.  His paintings and his films are also treasures that cover a variety of southern motifs from shrimp boat captains to lecherous debutantes to corrupt park rangers.  A sampling of his short films will be screened in DC for the first time at this Rhizome event.
   The evening will open with a short musical tribute to The Rev. Fred Lane by Team Sardine, followed by a screening of ICE PICK TO THE MOON (90 minutes).  The second set will feature a screening of a handful of Charlie McAlister films (16 minutes) followed by a musical sendoff by Team Sardine.

$10 suggested donation.   Show begins at 8pm.