Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio with DJ B The T Jr.

In the words of the inimitable John Paul Jones, "this is TOMORROW!" Well, Thursday 10/22 7-9AM and podcast land beyond that on WPKN o' course. It's just your ol' faithful spinning rock 'n' roll webs that eventually evolve into complete spooktown music for the season. Like our main man Roky pictured here. May we all legally declare ourselves aleins from other planets... someday.

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10/8's Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio with DJ B The T Jr. hosts a reunion of sorts. WPKN's Brooklyn Dave, who decades ago ascended to the studios of WFMU in Jersey City as Dave the Spazz with Music to Spazz By, will be LIVE - back at the WPKN studios. No, not just to locate library record #666 (Dr. Strangelove soundtrack), but to dish on his debut book Your Time Is Now: The Sammy Petrillo Story.

Promo reads: The first full-scale biography of the legendary Jerry Lewis look-alike whose strange, funny, and often heartbreaking life unfolded in the long shadow of one of America's most famous comedians... This deeply researched work of comedy history delivers a rare dual portrait: a parallel biography of Sammy Petrillo and Jerry Lewis, two performers bound together by imitation, rivalry, resentment, and an uneasy mutual awareness that lasted decades. Drawing on original interviews with Petrillo, Lewis, family members, show-business insiders, and surviving mid-century comedy figures, the book reconstructs the improbable life of a journeyman comic who both benefited from and was trapped by his uncanny resemblance to a superstar.

Blending biography, film history, and cultural criticism, Your Time Is Now explores the strange ecosystem of postwar show business--from live television and burlesque stages to poverty-row film studios and cult movie houses. Readers discover the bizarre making and afterlife of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, Petrillo's complicated relationship with Jerry Lewis, and previously untold connections to figures such as Barbara Loden and the early development of television comedy culture. The result is a richly detailed, often darkly comic examination of identity, fame, imitation, and failure in American entertainment.

Congrats Spazz!

THURS 9/24 7-9AM at WPKN 89.5FM Brrrrridgeport and podcast shortly thereafter lets BURN K-DOE BURN it on down with the flashiest, trashiest amalgamation of rock 'n' roll you can imagine at these waking hours. We'll celebrate the imminent WPKN Presents: The Buzzcocks and District Music Hall in Norwalk this Fri. Let's cause some trouble.

Do the dog daze of summer turn into rabid dog daze? Asking for a friend... Speaking of which I have some fabulous friends joining the Shake 'n' Vibrate stratosphere at the 8AM hour. I'm talking Colleen Van Tassell, Tom Smith, and John Guillemette who with a team of mighty volunteers have resurrected the New Haven Advocate - a staggering newsprint arts quarterly that makes us all feel like "nature is healing."

Heal with DJ B The T Jr. and some autumnal rock 'n' roll starting at 7AM. On-demand podcast follows on Apple Podcasts for you ne'er do wells!

This THURS 8/27 7-9AM WPKN & podcast Shake 'n' Vibrate welcomes a rock 'n' roll/pop heavyweight in B The T Jr's world, Chandler Travis, Cape Cod and Massachusetts cult leader, I mean - rock 'n' roll tour de force - with bands and projects that include the Incredible Casuals, Catbirds, Three-O, Chandler Travis Philharmonic, Travis Shook & Club Wow.

The Incredible Casuals are all-timers for yours truly. Made this whole thing click. Cavern Club like stuff live, with a wealth of recorded gems transporting you to a world and ways of being you never knew existed. Music is amazing.

Chandler's new album Branches Out is a Van Dyke Parksian wonder based on a midwest couple's grapple with dementia, aging, and mind loss and their attempt to communicate and find joy in and amongst art and creation. Branches Out, of course, channels Chandler's brilliant pop and rock 'n' roll warmth and wit, flourishing through a cast of many collaborators that include Patty Larkin and David Greenberger. Beauty, love, loss - stop reading and start listening. There's your pull-quote baby!

You can find all Chandler's troublemaking at https://chandlertravis.com

We start it all off with a brief tribute to Darien CT's own Jeff Connolly of the Lyres (MONOMAN!) and DMZ. What a beautiful complicated rockin' soul. Thank you. GO dig Miriam's Kicksville episode with Fleshtones Peter Zaremba for more essential rabbit holes.

It's all a gas.

A continuation of an intelligent look into the moronic side of rock 'n' roll. What else can you expect?!

With sympathies to all who celebrate...

Shake N Vibrate returns as ever to its alternating Thursday morning hotbed. This curly haired fella starts us off and then its to a tranche of 45s, and latest assortment of erratic rock n roll and junk to shake your trunk. Get that morning jolt at WPKN 7-9AM tomorrow THURS 7/16 or via the Apple of your ear podcast...

Just B the T Jr. and a pile of revved up rock 'n' roll a la (pictured) Wet Leg, Slade, Mary Gauthier, Paul Westerberg, Mickey Dolenz, Otis Redding and never forget - the South Bay Surfers!

With thanks to all who donated over $21K in support of radical, freeform, community radio! You can always donate at https://wpkn.org/donate

My shift with Herman Olivera highlighting the summer/fall's great concert dates. DIIIIIG!

RATBONE APPROVED! Another pounding and resounding Shake N Vibe with selections by B The T Jr. - Cheap Trick, Redd Kross, Lys Guillorn, Everly Brothers, Aretha Franklin, oh my!

VERY SPECIAL GUESTS, KWEEN KONG, IN-STUDIO on another SHAKE 'N' VIBRATE RADIO on WPKN 89.5FM BRIDGEPORT, BABY! at the 7:45AM hour taking over the DJ decks and waxing rock 'n' roll domination. One of New Haven's best IMHO. Excited to have had them here. Otherwise its the usual high energy frisee salad with co-conspirators VVEBS, The Problem With Kids Today, the Raincoats, Devo, Irma Thomas and mo' !

THURS 5/7, 7-9AM we commence tomorrow reflecting on the sage words Swamp Dogg once bestowed on me and @dansoto when we told him he looked great. Swamp said, "Well, I think if I look like shit, I'll probably play like shit." This is to say I'll be LOOKING GREAT as I broadcast on @ rifling through, yes, new Swamp Dogg, Stones, Gary Stewart, the Ronettes (oh, Nedra!), C & The Shells, The Bub Club and more. Otherwise, head to thee podcat.

Jackie Downing, Senior Director of Grantmaking and Nonprofit Support at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven pops in to talk all things Great Give, the 36-hour non-profit giving event swinging NOW through Thursday. Donate to WPKN and fine greater New Haven non-profits if you have the means!

THURS! 4/23, 7-9AM EST on WPKN, Shake 'n' Vibrate soldiers on in the redemptive rock 'n' roll spirit for its 51st WPKN show?! With levitating music by such hitmakers as Jedediah Parish, Suburban Lawns, and Grandpaboy. Singer/songwriter and all-around prolific artist, Kierstin Sieser, joins us at the 8AM hour to discuss her latest album Love's Poem out on Dead Language Records. Kierstin waxes about her process whilst also spinning formative and influential tracks. Brian Ember also gives a ring-a-ding to talk about the 2026 New Haven Music Video Festival!

THURS, 7-9AM and via apple podcasts beyond that, its SHAKE N VIBRATE on WPKN, your shot of rock n roll caffeine to get your morning on the move. The 8AM hour brings SPECIAL GUEST BUZZ GORDO (pictured o' course) of New Haven's legendary BIG BAD JOHNS, GONE NATIVE, and BRONSON ROCK who will be previewing his new solo album "Pen and Ink." We'll be chewing the fat and spinning trax, come join us! Album release show commences this Saturday 4/11, 7PM at Best Video with the equally incredible Jed Parish of GRAVEL PIT supporting. Hey hey, my my...

DJ B The T Jr. soldiers on through this cruel world finding refuge in the starlets and nuggets of rock 'n' roll. Featuring Shake 'n' Vibrate patron saints Slade, Bully, Stereolab, Jalen Ngonda, Julia Cumming (pictured above), Teenage Fanclub, Dirtbombs and more bands/artists you should be wrapped in!

WPKN's own Christine Ohlman (Soul Hive), Beehive Queen, calls 'round 8AM to preview her The Queen meets The Kings show with Liberty Devitto's The Slim Kings hitting Fairfield Theatre Company, Sunday April 19th, 6PM doors, 7PM show.

Rise with the greats 7-9AM at WPKN 89.5FM for another installment of Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio. Scene here is SNV patron saint Les Blank, documentarian extraordinaire whose films on garlic, gap-toothed women, creole cooking, new london polka (not kidding) are essential viewing! I say this because tangentially my 8AM guest will be Sean Fox from the Norwalk Film Festival hitting Friday March 20 through Sunday March 22. We'll talk films, workshops, the CT film scene and so much more. TUNE IT tot he WPKN app, local at 89.5FM, or dial later via podcast along with 45+ archival jaunts.

THURSDAY! It's the hallowed SHAKE 'n' VIBRATE morning tradition taking a sojourn into the world and influence of my pal the recently passed Scott Foust - musician/theorist/thinker/drinker/instigator/commander/director visionary behind Idea Fire Company (IFCO), The Pickle Factory, Anti-Naturals, the fabulous Swill Radio distro and catalogs (The Quality Quality since 1983) and so much more. Will pair well with a mono-chrome suit, Dunhill cigarette smoke, Chanel No. 5, cheap red wine, St. Paulie Girl. Heck, just take the day off. A warming salute in this cold cold world.

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER SHOW! Oh, where doth the time go? Maybe our high-banged, beloved rockers SLADE know? Figure it all out with Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio live again and in your ears THURS 2/12 @ 7-9AM EST and across all verses and perpetuities in the Apple podcast realm. Love on ya!

SHAKE 'n' VIBRATE RADIO RETURNS! Asking the eternal question: if a radio show is not promoted, does anyone hear it? Tune into hot moving rock n roll essentials like Arthur Alexander pictured here; an obsession of both Elvis and the fab four...

OH THE DELUSIONS OF YOUTH! Look what rock 'n' roll can do to a man. This man being Mark E. Smith. One of only a handful of Smiths I like if you catch my drift Morrissey! Hear a Fall classic with this crooner as well as plenty other rock 'n' roll goldies. Start your day right with the equivalent of an espresso to the face! I'M SO OVER 2026!