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Andy Turner
@zerohourradio.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, and WMSE DJ living in Wisconsin. Virginia native.

Blog: https://paperbackzero.com
Playlists: https://wmse.org/program/zero-hour/
Instagram: @zerohourradio
Stuck in my head - and not just the dynamite screaming!
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I Remember Tommy Tate
YouTube video by countrysoul
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December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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"On the scene in the Southern USA since the mid-’90s, Tyler Keith specializes in what one might call roots punk. He’s played in numerous bands and even released a few records under his own name along the way. His latest, I Confess, is the byproduct of tough personal circumstances..."
Graded on a Curve: <br>Tyler Keith, <br><em>I Confess</em> - The Vinyl District
On the scene in the Southern USA since the mid-’90s, Tyler Keith specializes in what one might call roots punk. He’s played in numerous bands and even released a few records under his own name along t...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Beware: The Killer is Loose (1956)
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Sun Ra presents The Qualities - It's Christmas Time (1960)
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"Doo Wop produced by Sun Ra on Saturn Records, 1960. Written by Alton Abraham and Sun Ra."
Sun Ra presents The Qualities - It's Christmas Time (1960)
YouTube video by WEEMUS STUDIO 2022©
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December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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To be fair, he does get a bit slurry by late afternoon.
Pete Hegseth, 'SSecretary of War'
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
"I had enough of this modern life" -- Current favorite from Radioactivity's Time Won't Bring Me Down youtu.be/NDRjyzGJxfc?...
Analog Ways
YouTube video by Radioactivity - Topic
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December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The Chicago Bears Shufflin’ Crew recorded “The Super Bowl Shuffle” 40 years ago today.
December 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Recent first-time watch: Joy House (1964). Very fun movie, cool opening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLqI...
Lalo Schifrin - Joy House (Opening Titles)
YouTube video by Easy Library
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December 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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You love Larry Cohen, so you MUST listen to @thelastmachine.bsky.social's interview with @jfkenney.bsky.social, editor of Cohen's newly published memoirs and an unreleased Cohen screenplay! Joined by Andrew Overbye of @authorizedpod.bsky.social on THE PINK SMOKE!

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Ep 161 I Killed Bette Davis by Larry Cohen
Podcast Episode · The Pink Smoke podcast · 12/02/2025 · 1h 56m
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December 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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BTD - the one and only Jack Davis - The Long Goodbye - original poster art
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Wednesday December 21st, 1966 opening day NY Times ad for Roger Corman/Peter Bogdanovich's THE WILD ANGELS
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Playing an absolute banger of a record. Their first eight singles and b-sides and every song is a winner.
#nowspinning #vinyl #vinylcollection #buzzcocks
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Loving the Buzzcocks' "Love You More"

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November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...
When The Replacements' Courage Was at its Peak
On their 1984 album ‘Let It Be,’ the Minneapolis indie-rock wastrels spewed a message of working-class passion and outsider solidarity into the world's answering machine.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I miss the Moaners and here's my salute to "When We're Dead & Gone," their song from 2007's Blackwing Yalobusha: paperbackzero.substack.com/p/when-were-...
When We're Dead & Gone: The Playlist Pounder
I haven’t let the fact that the The Moaners, Melissa Swingle and Laura King, last released an album in 2010 — about a year after the debut of Zero Hour — stop me from playing the late Chapel Hill band...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Paperback Zero has a new home! Check out my new Substack at paperbackzero.com and please subscribe for free if you would like. My new post looks at a forgotten neo-noir from Jim McBride, starring Rosanna Arquette and John Lithgow.

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The Wrong Man Revisited: Nope, Not That One
Welcome to the new home of Paperback Zero.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The culmination of a lifelong dream…or nightmare? What a pleasure to cook this up with @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social (with an uncredited assist from Jay C); special thanx to Aliza at the Channel…
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Educators worry that excessive screen time is causing speech delays children
"Parental tech use has been likened to secondhand smoke in that it might endanger children’s health and development in ways we don’t even fully understand yet."

Here's my latest feature for WPR:
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Educators worry excessive screen time is causing speech delays in early childhood
“When I look into a baby's eyes and ‘goo go ga ga,’ and the baby makes those sounds back, that child is learning how to make that hard G sound with me,” Sauk Prairie School District Superintendent Jef...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Flamin' Groovies - Headin' for the Texas Border
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Flamin' Groovies - Headin' for the Texas Border
YouTube video by BlauweBarry
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October 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Hound Dog Taylor "Wild About You Baby"
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'From the Ann Arbor festival poor picture but it rocks'
Hound Dog Taylor "Wild About You Baby"
YouTube video by schmorre
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October 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Diane Keaton at The Schwab’s Pharmacy counter in 1983.

Farewell to one cinema's greatest legends Can’t believe we’ve lost her. Such a shock. Rest in peace Diane Keaton. “La-dee-da, la-dee-da” forever.
October 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Ida Lupino songwriting in 1943, while husband Louis Hayward was with the Marines.

“Ida is still putting out songs as regularly as most people put out the cat. She has composed many of them for the RAF in Canada to use in their camp shows, and a special song dedicated to Hayward.”
October 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM