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Radio Rumpus Room is a garage-sale high-speed mixmaster missing its top, slinging a messy slop of surf, hot rod, '60s garage, primal pop, primitive rock 'n' roll, rockabilly, psych and traditional twang since May 1994.

Getting out in the community: In addition to our weekly radio show we hosted the monthly First Saturday Surf Stomp at the Hexagon Bar in Minneapolis for nearly four years. Featured at this continuing event (now known as Surf Night and which we unfailingly attend and occasionally announce) is a revolving cast of surf and instrumental rock bands, with twang and vocal groups frequently included as well. We also hosted the Radio Rumpus Room Hootenanny! series at Lee's Liquor Lounge, featuring a mix of bands from the RRR musical melting pot of surf, twang and rock'n'roll. We have been the primary media sponsor of the Minneapolis Messaround traditional hot rod and custom car show for the past three years, and the Twin Cities Riot multi-day garage blowout too. We hosted a sold-out Trashmen/Neanderthals/Davie Allan & The Arrows surf'n'garage spectacular at the Turf Club in late 2008, and one-off shows at bars like Stasiu's and the Acadia Cafe as well.

Submissions for airplay: We welcome your CDs and vinyl for spinning on Radio Rumpus Room. Take a look at our playlists, and if you think your sound fits in with the stuff we play, please mail what you have to:

KFAI Fresh Air Radio
ATTN: Radio Rumpus Room, Box 23
1808 Riverside Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55454

Email: You can contact Ron and Jean right here.

Phone: You can talk to Ron or Jean in the studio during the broadcast (Fridays 9:00-10:30 pm Central) by calling (612) 341-0980.

Website: Visit the original Radio Rumpus Room website to see playlists going back to 1995, a calendar of upcoming musical events, and the Bird Dance Beat site devoted to the rockin' '60s sounds of the Upper Midwest.

MySpace: Please visit our MySpace profile, where you'll find many info-packed links to like-minded friends and favorite bands. Lotsa other interesting RRR-related stuff too!


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6/26/2009 Radio Rumpus Room

Jean called it our "necrology" show, as we acknowledged the recent passing of Bob Bogle, founding and lifelong member of the Ventures, and Sky Saxon of the Seeds. Some pop guy named Michael died the day before -- we heard about it somewhere -- but we've never played any of his music, so...

Note: KFAI's MP3 server was on the fritz over the weekend again, so there is only a RealAudio archive this week. It's since been fixed.


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6/19/2009 Radio Rumpus Room

We called this show BANKRUPT! Hot Rods To Hell 2009! Tonight we saluted the glory days of the once-proud, now pathetically collapsed car companies General Motors and Chrysler. In the process we took particular note of the special relationships a lot of us have with our cars... god bless their big cast-iron hearts! So on to our 17th annual edition of Hot Rods To Hell..."

"Well, the front bumpers off
And she's jacked real high.
And the words on the trunk
Spelled out 'bye bye'
Those M&H slicks helped her off the line
The cheatin' little Chevy was nuthin' but fine.

-- Sugar-Ree, Cheater


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6/12/2009 Radio Rumpus Room

Next week Radio Rumpus Room salutes the collapsed U.S. auto industry in Bankrupt! Hot Rods To Hell 2009. Join us for an unabashedly nostalgic look at the Glory Days of GM and Chrysler, when the brands Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, Olds, Pontiac, Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth meant more than mere lines on corporate bankruptcy forms.


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6/5/2009 Radio Rumpus Room

Jamey Cummings, a former Navy Seal who is now an executive headhunter, said most Seal platoons of 16 had at least two snipers who were essential to the tactics of the group. “It’s a common misperception that Seals like to sneak up on people and use knives on them,” he said. “If you have to do that, the mission probably wasn't planned that way.”

-- some unattributed article on the rescue of an American ship's captain from (several recently deceased) Somali pirates


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5/29/2009 Radio Rumpus Room

Guitar player played a solo
one note at a time
Organ player disappeared
and drank a bottle of wine
We tried to save my discography
But in the end we had to sever
We tried to make a record
But we couldn't get it together

-- Eugene Chadbourne, We Tried To Make A Record But We Couldn't Get It Together


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