WHAT GOES ON HERE?

THE USUAL DECAYING CITY IS A RADIO SHOW THAT AIRS ON WCSB IN CLEVELAND, OHIO.


IT APPEARS OUT OF THE FOG AND DARKNESS AT 4:00AM AND LASTS UNTIL 7:00AM ON SUNDAY MORNINGS.

IF YOU ARE IN CLEVELAND, YOU CAN LISTEN IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME. IF YOU MAKE THE SCENE IN ANOTHER CITY, YOU CAN LISTEN ON-LINE HERE.


THE SHOW'S CONTENT OCCUPIES THAT OTHERWORLDLY PLACE IN BETWEEN JACKIE GLEASON'S POT DEALER'S COMFY, MOHAIR COUCH AND THE GHOSTLY STATIC AND HISS ON THE SOUNDTRACKS OF POVERTY ROW HORROR FILMS FROM THE 1930's.

I HOPE YOU DIG IT.

Thursday, May 29, 2014

The "I Am Not Here, So Give Silent G Some" Show.

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Sunday, May 18, 2014

The "Old Dreams In Brand New Noggins" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 5/18/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

16 Bitch Pile-Up - The Earth Was Loose (Bury Me Deep)

Richard H. Kirk - WorldWar Three (Virtual State)

Gina X Performance - Nice Mover (Nice Mover)

Skull Defekts - Habit (The Temple)

Cruel Sea - Seaman's Lament (Over Easy)

PD - Kurzschluss II (Ralf Wehowsky - eaRLy W 4: Ajatollah Carter)

Sun Ra - Sound Spectra / Spec Sket (Other Planes Of There)

Freddie Redd Quartet with Jackie McLean - O.D. (The Connection Sndtrk)

Suicide - Touch Me (The Second Album)

Ethel Smith - Tico Tico (V.A. - The True Vine 78 Series Vol. 11)

Crispy Ambulance - Lucifer Rising (Fin)

Dick Hyman - The Minotaur (Moog - The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman)

The Electic Pop Group - Summer's Day (Sunrise EP)

Ultralyd - Saprochord (Conditions For A Piece of Music)

Hugo Race & The True Spirit - Solid State (A Long Time Ago)

Dino Valente - Something New (S/T)

Tom Verlaine - Depot (1951) (Warm And Cool)

Harlan Ellison - Where There's Smoke (On The Road With Harlan Ellison Vol. 2)

Russ Garcia And His Orchestra - Frozen Neptune (Fantastica - Mono)

Various Amazing Artists - Reincarnation Of A Lovebird / Haitian Fight Song Montage (V.A. - Weird Nightmare: Meditations On Mingus)

Jazz Canto Ensemble with John Carradine - Poets To Come (Jazz Canto: An Anthology Of Poetry And Jazz)

Kenyon Hopkins (The Creed Taylor Orchesta) - The Living Tomb (Nightmare!!)

Hugo Montenegro - The Shark (The Lady In Cement Sndtrk)

Franco Micalizzi - Mara's Theme (V.A. - Bistro - Erotica Italia)

Dudley Moore - Moon Time (Bedazzled Sndtrk)

The Human League - Once Upon A Time In The West (The Golden Hour of the Future)

Paula Fraser - Gone (Indoor Universe)

The Delmonas - Dr. Goldfoot And His Bikini Machine (Delmonas 5)

Rain Parade - No Easy Way (Perfume River)

Woody Guthrie - Worried Man Blues (A Worried Man) (Worried Man Blues)

Lee Hazlewood - I'm Home (Lounge Legends)

Leonard Cohen - Is This What You Wanted (New Skin For The Old Ceremony)

Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies Man (Death Of A Ladies Man)

Thursday, May 15, 2014

The "It Runs the Gamit of Hallucinations" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 5/11/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Judson Fountain - The Nasty Roomer! (Dark, Dark, Dark Tales And Other Dark Tales)

Scarab - Fall Of The Towers of Convention (V.A.- Below The Radar: The Best of Wordsound Dub)

Modern Jazz - Life In Paris (Ash Wednesday And Other Friends 1980-1984)

Barry Adamson - Come Hell Or High Water (As Above So Below)

Faust - Psalter (Seventy One Minutes of Faust)

The Blue Hawaiians - Highlife (Savage Night)

The Fall - New Face In Hell (Grotesque)

Popealopes - Summer's Triangle (Cavalcade)

Simon Bonney - White Suit In Memphis (Everyman)

Soledad Miranda - La Verdad (V.A. - Absolute Belter)

Mary Martin - All Through the Night (V.A. - This Is Art Deco)

Russ Garcia - Sounds In The Night (Sounds In The Night)

Lou Rawls - Season Of the Witch (I can't Make It Alone: The Axelrod Years)

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles (Clear Spot)

Messer Chups - Twin Peaks Twist (Chuch of Reverb)

The Finks - Haunted Fink (Fill'er Up And Go!)

The Door And The Window - Nostradamus (Detailed Twang)

Warren Baker And His Orchestra - Malayan Nightbird (V.A. - Paradise Found w/ Rare Exotic Sounds)

Laurindo Almeida & Martin Ruderman - Sonatina For Flute And Guitar (V.A. - The Brazilian Scene)

Roy Eldridge - The Gasser (I Can`t Get Started (1943-1944))

Tuli Kupferberg - The Bunny Mother (No Deposit, No Return)

Sauter - Finegan Orchestra - Sleepy Village (Inside The Sound)

Hunting Lodge - Nomad Souls (Necropolis)

Buddy Merrill - Blues In The Shadow (Out Of This World)

Garbage & The Flowers - Holy Holy Blue (Eyes Rind As If Beggars)

Robert Forster - Warm Nights (Warm Nights)

Les Paul And Mary Ford - Bouquet Of Roses (Bouquet of Roses)

Al "Jazzbo" Collins - Jazzbo's Theory (Fairy Tales For Hip Kids)

The DJ Bonebrake / Skip Heller Quartet - My Lights (One More Midnight)

Akira Tana - Alfred Hitchcock's Theme (Secret Agent Man)

Henry Mancini - Harv's Blues (High Time)

feedtime - Confused Blues (Suction)

The Skip Heller Trio - Li'l Darlin' (Out Of Time: Live In Philly - 12/12/04 at Tritone)

Isaac Hayes - Walk On By (Hot Buttered Soul)

Sunday, May 4, 2014

The "Great Bowling Alley Of Your Mind" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 5/4/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon (Rubycon)

Gunter Schickert - 7/5 (Kinder in Der Wildnis)

The Three Suns - The World Is Waiting For Sunrise (Midnight For Two)

Ferrante & Teicher - Beyond The Moon (Easy Listening Favorites)

Nico - We've Got The Gold (The End...)

Blacworld - Financial Institutions (Subduing Demons (In South Yorkshire))

Richard H. Kirk - Heart And Mind Of Dub (Meets The Truck Bombers Of Suburbia Uptown Vol. 1 (Feat. Pat Riot))

Richard H. Kirk - Atomic (The Number Of Magic)

Max Steiner - Excerpts From The Soundtrack to King Kong performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra

Current 93 (W/ Rose McDowall) - A Sad Sadness Song (Thunder Perfect Mind)

Messer Chups - Dark Story (V.A. - Russkie Wig-Out! Demented Surf / Electro / Exotica From Behind The Iron Curtain)

The Virgos - Do The Sway (V.A. - Club Harlem: Whip! Wobble And Grind! 1962-1964)

The Electric Prunes - World Of Darkness (Lost Dreams)

Chris Heazlewood - Euro Disco (Ca$h Guitar)

Sensations' Fix - Barnhouse Effect (Music is Painting In the Air 1974-1977)

The Skip Heller Quartet - From The Night Before (Homegoing)

Skip Heller - Sophisticated Savage (Fakebook)

Sounds Inc. - Taboo (V.A. - The Dawn Of Psychedelia)

Kenneth Patchen - Glory, Glory (Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz in Canada)

Walter Rizzati - Excerpts From The Soundtrack to House By The Cemetary

Anita O'Day - Waiter, Make Mine The Blues (Waiter, Make Mine The Blues)

Leonard Cohen - The Stranger Song (Field Commander Cohen: Tour Of 1979)

Silmaril - October Road / Sleeping Magnificent (The Voyage of Icarus)

Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - If Eggs Had Legs (Life And Death (and Almost Everything Else))

The Fugs - Crystal Liason (It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest)

Soulful Strings - Inner Light (Another Excursion)

Jane Morgan - Elusive Butterfly (In My Style)

Dave Hamilton - Soul Suite (Detroit City Grooves)

The Psycheground - Psycheground (Psycheground)

The Golden Gate Quartet - Wade In The Water (Bad Seeds: Nick Cave - Roots and Collaborations

Teo Macero - Sounds Of May (Time Plus Seven)