Whild in the Streets

Norm from Bad Kitty Productions is at it again, this time bringing Detroit-based psychobilly/gothabilly madmen the Koffin Kats to the Boiler Room Sunday, June 17. Wear black.

With all due respect to KHUM-FM, the only local commercial station I tune in regularly, I have to say that the “radio without the rules” slogan is pretty much a relative thing. The deejays abide by less rules than most, but there’s always the FCC regulations to think of and the potential fine for saying fuck or shit or some other arbitrarily banned word is huge. The pirates of the Humboldt Free Radio Alliance, on the other hand, ignore all rules. Fuck that. Since the low-power broadcasters at 99.9-FM don’t have pledge drives like public stations, they throw the occasional benefit, typically at the Alibi, like the one Saturday night with renegade hillbilly Jay Dirt and Henpecker , who are either an anti-war folk punk band, an anti-folk war punk band or an anti-funk polka band, allegedly from Manila, but in truth from all over the map. Wherever they’re from, they’re funny. Support your local pirates and be there.

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