"If you’re looking for Top-40 hits, bubble-gum pop “country” or classic rock radio staples, you’ve taken a wrong turn, pal..."
...and that wrong thrusts you to the bizarre, unhinged world of Dustbin Mayhem!
Every Saturday from 3-4 PM, get ready for an hour-long twisted trip through the depths of 50+ years of outlaw country and garage rock history (genre alternates weekly). Inspired by compilation series such as "Back From The Grave" and "Twisted Tales from the Vinyl Wastelands," each Dustbin Mayhem set is curated to feature the best representations of the genres and be a hell of a listening experience.
Most of the tracks played on Dustbin Mayhem! were recorded by small artists and released on practically unknown labels. Some of these recordings have never even been pressed on vinyl (acetates and demos)! There will also be tracks from more well-known artists that fit the theme of the show such as Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Paycheck, The Sonics, and the Standells. The show also features fun facts, anecdotes about the artists, and catchy WVCW sweepers. You better buckle up and get ready for nothing but kickass outlaws and garage killers ripped straight from the dustbins and here to cause serious mayhem!!!
(Left) The cover of the first "Back From The Grave" garage compilation of mind-melting garage killers; (Right) The cover of the fourth volume of the Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands series highlighting the "raw and demented" side of country music seldomly played on traditional radio stations.
The set cover for the 4/27/24 set "When You're Hot, You're Hot"
Country sets highlight obscure outlaw, hillbilly, honky-tonk, rockabilly, and oldie country boppers into both themed and unthemed sets. These tracks are chock full of tales of bars, booze, crazy chicks, truckers, small hick towns, prison, life, death, motorcycles, fast cars, and wild times.
The set cover for the 2/4/24 set "She Tore My Brain!"
Garage sets feature the forceful, primitive, and aggressive side of rock and roll with the raw delivery of tracks about lust, cheating chicks, sticking it to "the man" and the various traumas of high school life in the 60s. No shortage of fuzz distortion, climactic yelling, or Farfisas here.
Me in the old WVCW studio on Broad cranking out some outlaw tunes for the last Dustbin Mayhem! set of the 2023-2024 school year