Citr -- Exploding Head Movies

In honour of the actor Val Kilmer (1959-2025), we aim for as diverse a profile as his œuvre. Although the main profile is on Bruce Broughton's score from the 1993 western Tombstone, we have bits from comedies & action films. 01. Bruce Broughton: Pit Orchestra Warmup (Tombstone OST, 2006) Intrada 02. Pulp: Spike Island (More, 2025) Rough Trade 03. Loscil & Lawrence English: Vermillion (Chroma, 2024) self-released 04. Stereolab: Aerial Troubles (Instant Holograms on Metal Film, 2025) Duophonic UHF/Warp 05. Needs: The Accursed Share (Rare Earths EP, 2013) self-released 06. Jerry Martin: Concrete Jungle (Simcity 3000 OST, 1999) Electronic Arts 07. The Makers: Modern Day Freak (The Sore Losers OST, 1997) Sympathy for the Record Industry 08. Shriekback: Lined Up (Care, 1983) Y/Warner Bros 09. Blondie: Union City Blue [instrumental] (Against the Odds: 1974-1982, 2022) Numero Group/Chrysalis/UMC 10. Mouth Congress: Fascist Love Song (Waiting for Henry, 2021) Captured Tracks 11. Etran de l'Aïr: Amidinine

25 years ago this week, Twin Peaks debuted on television and a cult phenomenon was born. In our 2nd tribute to David Lynch (1946-2025) this year, we combine past profiles around the world of Laura Palmer & Agent Dale Cooper, ranging from the original show, the 1992 prequel and the 2017 sequel series. Dream big, boy scouts & girl guides. Your coffee & doughnut menu: 01. Kraftwerk: The Model (The Man Machine, 1978) Kling Klang/EMI 02. Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz: Stöltzle (FRKWYS Volume 16: In a Word, 2020) RVNG Intl 03. Djo: Basic Being Basic (The Crux, 2025) AWAL 04. Richard Chamberlain: Why Can't I Be Two People (The Slipper & the Rose OST, 1976) EMI/MCA 05. Henry Mancini: Main Title (The Thorn Birds OST, 1983) Varèse Sarabande 06. Gewandhausorchester Leipzig: Gubaidulina's The Wrath of God Pt. I (Sofia Gubaidulina: Dialog Ich und du; The Wrath of God; The Light of the End, 2021) Deutsche Grammophon 07. oOoOO & Islamiq Grrrls: Be on Through (Faminine Mystique, 2018) Nihjgt Feelings 08. Light

We're behind on doing some funk so let's dig up some James Brown and his work for the 1973 blaxploitation film Slaughter's Big Rip-Off. As a bonus, you'll get some rare Mort Garson with music from the 1974 film Black Eye as gak becomes the 2nd hardest working man in the radio business. Star time! 01. Radio Trailer: Slaughter (Super Bad, Super Black: Radio Spots from Blaxploitation, 1972) Waste Management 02. Billy Preston: Slaughter (Slaughter OST, 1972) unreleased 03. Quincy Jones: Manteca (You've Got It Bad Girl, 1973) A&M 04. Sugar Pie Desanto: Do the Whoopie (1967) Brunswick 05. Isley Brothers: That Lady (3+3, 1973) T-Neck/Epic 06. Rusty Bryant: Friday Night Funk for Saturday Night Brothers (Friday Night Funk for Saturday Night Brothers, 1973) Prestige 07. Darkside: SNC (Nothing, 2025) Matador 08. Beak> The Seal (>>>>, 2024) Invada 09. Beak> SOS 7 (State of Silence OST, 2025) self-released 10. Badbadnotgood: Eyes on Me (Mid Spiral, 2024) XL 11. Charlotte Day Wilson: Money (Cyan Blue, 2024)

With Ramadan partly in mind, we primarily dig into sounds from the Middle East, focusing on Syria, a country that after over a decade of civil war, entered a period of relief. Alexandre Desplat's score to the 2005 film Syriana gives some Western context but we also hear some film music from Lebanon amongst other inspirations. 01. Radio Damascus: 7 Oct 2010 [2133UTC] 9330 kHz (ShortWaveMusic 2011: United Arab Emirates, 2010) Myke Weiskopf 02. Benjamin Clementine: Phantom of Aleppoville (I Tell a Fly, 2017) Behind/Virgin EMI 03. Zakir Hussain: Tabla Taal/Ek Taal [w.Alla Rakha] (The Rough Guide to Zakir Hussain, 2018) World Music Network/Music Rough Guides 04. David Johansen: Imaginatin' Cocktail (Better an Old Demon than a New God, 1984) Giorno Poetry Systems 05. Michelle Trachtenberg: Dawn's Lament (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More with Feeling OST, 2002) Rounder/Fox Music/Mutant Enemy 06. Marta Salogni & Tom Relleen: March (Music for Open Spaces, 2023) Hands in the Dark 07. Sault: Heal (Acts of Fa

Happy St Patrick's Day! For this rare occasion, we dabble across multiple films dear to the Irish heart, including Michael Collins, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Brooklyn, The Secret of Kells and many more. Faith and begorrah! Here's the craic: 01. House of Pain: Danny Boy, Danny Boy (House of Pain, 1992) Tommy Boy 02. Formula Vee: I Could Drift (Dispersal, 2020) Mule 03. Lenny Randle & the Ballplayers: Kingdome [w.Rashawna] (Wheedle's Groove: Seattle Funk, Modern Soul & Boogie, Volume II 1972-1987, 2014) Light in the Attic 04. Les Brown & his Orchestra: Joltin' Joe Dimaggio [w.Judy Johnson] (1941) Okeh 05. Aaron Parks: Sports (Little Big III, 2024) Blue Note 06. The Baseball Project: Pete Rose Way (Volume 2: High & Inside, 2011) Yep Roc 07. Benjamin Gibbard: Ichiro's Theme (2012) Barsuk 08. Yukihiro Takahashi: The Trouble with Shohei (Poisson D'Avril OST [remastered & expanded], 2022) Yen 09. Georgia Harmer: Can We Be Still (2025) Arts & Crafts 10. P:ano: Song (Ba Ba Ba, 2024) COQ 11. L CON/

This will be Part I of our look at the music associated with the works of David Lynch (1946-2025). We'll first listen to some of the music tied & inspired by his films; we'll hold on Twin Peaks until next month when things line up for the 25th anniversary of its TV debut. There may be a Part III but we'll see what we stuff into April's ambitions. 01. Roy Ayers Ubiquity: Everybody Loves the Sunshine (Everybody Loves the Sunshine, 1976) Polydor 02. Space Ghost: Time Station (Private Paradise, 2022) Pacific Rhythm 03. Sonny Sharrock: Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Television's Greatest Hits Volume 7: Cable Ready, 1996) TVT 04. Space Ghost: Something to Think About (Space Ghost's Musical Bar-B-Que, 1997) Cartoon Network 05. Space Ghost: Hero in His Own Mind Pt 2 (Space Ghost's Musical Bar-B-Que, 1997) Cartoon Network 06. Man or Astro-man: Alternate Show Close (Space Ghost:Coast to Coast OST, 1997) Cartoon Network 07. Matterhorn: Space Ghost [DJ Egadz remix] (Knockoff EP, 2010) Kid Without Radio 08. Sam & Da

The 97th Academy Awards were handed out on Sunday so gak rushes to recap the winners and sort through all the latest news as a lot of folks have passed away recently. 01. Electropoint: Razor Blades (2024) self-released 02. Daniel Blumberg: Intermission (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 03. Daniel Blumberg: Overture [Bus] (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 04. Daniel Blumberg: Construction (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 05. Daniel Blumberg: Monologue [w.Adrien Brody] (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 06. Daniel Blumberg: Jazz Club (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 07. Zoe Saldaña: El Mal (Emilia Pérez OST, 2024) Sony Masterworks 08. Cynthia Erivo: Defying Gravity (Wicked: the Soundtrack, 2024) Republic/Universal 09. Hans Zimmer: Beginnings are Such Delicate Times (Dune: Part 2 OST, 2024) Watertower 10. Roberta Flack & Quincy Jones: When You're Smiling [the Whole World Smiles with You, End Title] (Dollar$ OST, 1971) Reprise 11. George & Gwen McCrae: The Rub (Together, 1975) RCA Victor 12. Don Ellis: Theme

For our fourth episode tied to nominees for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, we listen to the final two nominated songs and the nom'd score to the 2024 film Emilia Pérez with music by Camille & Clément Ducol. 01. Kyle MacLachlan & Angelo Badalamenti: Agent Cooper's February 24th Opening Monologue/Laura Palmer's Theme [Letter from Harold] (Diane...the Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper x Twin Peaks Archives, 1989) David Lynch 02. The Shapeshifters: Lola's Theme [w.Cookie, radio edit amongst other unintentional radio edits] (Lola's Theme single, 2004) Positiva/Nocturnal Groove 03. Regularfantasy's Rendezvous: Money [instrumental premix] (Alt House, 2024) Rendezvous 04. Suzy Q: Get On Up and Do It Again (Get On Up and Do It Again, 1981) Atlantic 05. Chic: I Want Your Love (C'est Chic, 1978) Atlantic 06. Tim Hecker: Sars Requiem (Shards, 2025) Kranky 07. Jackmaster: Ode 2 U (Don't You Want My Lovin' 12", 2024) Crosstown Rebels 08. Terror Danjah: Dark Crawler [w.Riko] (Hyperdub 10.1, 2014) Hyperdub 09. Er

For your Family Day programming, we continue on with our Oscars profiles with a nominated song from Elton John: Never Too Late and 2 nom'd scores: Kris Bowers' music from The Wild Robot along with John Powell & Stephen Schwartz and their score to the film adaptation of the musical Wicked. 01. Magazine: The Light Pours out of Me (Real Life, 1978) Virgin 02. Sebastiaan Hooft: Magazine (Modern Times, 2024) Taktschleife 03. Jex Opolis: This Ain't No Disco (Digital Magic, 2025) Bad Timin' 04. Let's Go to War: Burning Down the Disco (Karmageddon, 2009) Last Gang 05. Universal Energy: Disco Energy I (Universal Energy, 1977) EMI 06. Brenton Wood: The Oogum Boogum Song (Oogum Boogum, 1967) Double Shot 07. Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs: Stay (Stay, 1961) Herald 08. David Holmes: Gone [w.Sarah Cracknell, K&D session] (Kruder & Dorfmeister: The K&D Sessions [25th Anniversary Edition], 2024) !K7 09. Oklou: Family & Friends (Choke Enough, 2025) True Panther 10. Family Band: Take Care (Family Band '15, 2015) Eg

Along with it being week 2 of our annual Oscars profile, it's Fundrive time again! Discorder Magazine, the print cousin of CITR 101.9FM, is reaching out in new ways and with whatever donation you can provide, you can help expand our physical archives & distribution throughout the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. It'll be a disco inferno, hence why amidst two of the best original song nominees and two surprise snubs for the upcoming Oscars, we have lots of fiery disco songs. 01. [trailer] Disco 9000 (Super Bad, Super Black: Radio Spots from Blaxploitation, 1977) Waste Management 02. DD Sound: Burning Love (Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985, 2008) Strut 03. Mark Haney: Placentia Bay, 1st Movement - Tempest, Fire & Foe (Placentia Bay: Summer of 1941, 2024) self-released 04. Ghia: Keep Your House in Disorder (This Is, 2023) The Outer Edge 05. Kiefer: My Disorder (It's OK, B U, 2023) Stones Throw 06. Bryce Dessner: Sing Sing (Sing Sing OST, 2024) A24 07. Adrian Quesada & Abraham Al

gak's back from Japan and he's back in the thick of things as it's time for our annual Oscars profile series! The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards were announced belatedly whilst he was away so with 4 weeks to tackle the nominees, our 1st profile looks at Volker Bertelmann's score from Conclave & Daniel Blumberg's music from The Brutalist, both up for best original score. We also talk about the Los Angeles fires that impacted the usual awards schedule as many artists have lost homes this January. 01. Fucked Up: Year of the Snake [Container remix] (Year of the Snake 12", 2017) Tankcrimes 02. IKSRE & Anthène: Cumulus (Seasons Shifting, 2023) Polar Seas 03. David Lynch: And Light Shines (The Big Dream [deluxe edition], 2013) Sacred Bones/Sunday Best 04. Marianne Faithfull: Last Song (Before the Poison, 2005) Naïve 05. Chad Allan & the Expressions: Made in England (Hey Ho: What You Do to Me, 1965) Quality/Legend/True North 06. Brave Belt: Crazy Arms, Crazy Eyes (Brave Belt, 1971) Reprise 07. Lennie de

gak remains on the road and he lacks the future vision to anticipate what, let alone when, the Oscar nominations will be, so you're getting an outsider Japan experience via John Williams' score to 2005's Memoirs of a Geisha amidst some older gems that never it to air despite years in waiting. For those unfamiliar with geisha, these are Japanese women trained in performing arts to entertain people with music, conversation & other skills. There's a misinterpretation that they also tackle less classy forms of entertainment due to mistranslations into English. 01. N.i.c.o.l.e: Geisha (2014) self-released 02. Phonogenic: Mizumono (Hobo Dots 12", 2015) Turquoise Blue 03. Forest Swords: Exalter (Compassion, 2017) Ninja Tune 04. Maria Minerva: The Sound (Will Happiness Find Me?, 2012) Not Not Fun 05. Blank Banshee: Enso (Gaia, 2020) Hologram Bay 06. Lucy Gooch: Stalagmites & Helictites (Rushing EP, 2020) Past Inside the Present 07. Tigerwing: Weight of Want [2.0] (I Want to Rip Your Heart Out, 2014) self-r

gak's on the road or in the air again so for the 15th episode in our all-ambient series, he recaps some of the music that fits under the ambiguous genre banner. 01. Voice of Hearing: Breathespace (Breathespace, 2024) self-released 02. Tsrono: Shift 01 (Shift, 2024) Not Yet Remembered 03. Deborah Martin & Erik Wøllo: Voices of Nature (Kinishba, 2024) Spotted Peccary 04. Fhae: 2001 (2024) self-released 05. Adam Wiltzie: Tissue of Lies (Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal, 2024) Kranky 06. Laraaji: Ocean [Glimpse] (Glimpses of Infinity, 2024) Numero Group 07. Colonial Skyway: Rain Like Sixty (Until Satellites Collide, 2024) Submarine Broadcasting Company 08. God Body Disconnect: Nostalgia Park 1986 (Dreams to be Buried In, 2024) Cryo Chamber 09. Mark Hjorthoy: A Heart Full of Hollow Wounds (Anthology of Experimental Music from Canada, 2024) Unexplained Sound Group 10. Aphex Twin: Th1 [evnslower] (Selected Ambient Works: Volume II [expanded], 2024) Warp 11. Stefan Smulovitz: Maple Seed Pods (Bow & Br

25 shy of your standard BR selection, in celebration of the subatomic particle the quark, we offer six channels in six directions so make you listen to this with a couple friends and each of your ears can focus on different elements on this the 1 000 072nd birthday of art. TOP FLAVOUR t1. Au Vol: The Garden of Forking Paths (The Garden of Forking Paths, 2022) self-released t2. Bill Nace: Les Echos [Piece for Tuba] (Through a Room, 2022) Drag City t3. Body/Dilloway/Head: Body/Erase (Body/Dilloway/Head, 2021) Three Lobed t4. Alvin Lucier & the Brandeis University Chamber Chorus: Toshi Ichiyanagi's Extended Voices (Extended Voices, 1968) CBS t5. Coin Gutter: Asthmatics of Failure (Asthmatics of Failure, 2010) Panospria t6. Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck: Mycorrhizæ (Stardust, 2021) Touch t7. Annie Gosfield: EWA7 - Part 1, Rotation/The Rails to Fürth/From Lever to Wheel Revolution, Translation, Cylinders/The Unaflow Principle/Friction (Flying Sparks & Heavy Machinery, 2001) Tzadik t8. Dick Maaijmakers: Ach

In honour of gak's 17th anniversary on CITR 101.9FM Vancouver BC, we dive into a favourite film: 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension with a score by Michael Boddicker. 01. Mitzi Gaynor: Happy Anniversary (Happy Anniversary OST, 1959) Top Rank 02. Botany Bay: Winter Wolfpack Serenade (Thanksgiver, 2024) Submarine Broadcasting Co. 03. Abigail Lapell: Anniversary Song (Anniversary, 2024) Outside Music 04. Elephant Stone: The Spark (Back into the Dream, 2024) Fuzz Club 05. Juice Joint: Tortoise Shell (Juice Joint [cassette version], 2024) self-released 06. Destroyer: Bologna [w.Fiver] (Dan's Boogie, 2025) Merge 07. Japanese Breakfast: Orlando in Love (For Melancholy Brunettes & Sad Women, 2025) Dead Oceans 08. Hiromasa Suzuki: Romance (Wonderful Guys, 1975) Nippon Columbia 09. Devours: Sports Car Era (Sports Car Era, 2025) Surviving the Game 10. Dax Pierson: For the Angels (Nerve Bumps: A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction, 2021) Dark Entries/Ratskin 11. CFCF: Not Gonna Let Me

It is now 2025 and as we scan for fiction set in this once futuristic year, we'll profile bits from Ramin Djawadi's score to the 2013 kaiju film Pacific Rim. We also catch up on the recently deceased and some work that has now entered the public domain in some parts of the world. It was a matter of time we had to learn to fight monsters so lasso up your robots! 01. Dramatis: Oh! 2025 (For Future Reference [expanded edition], 2022) Rocket Record Co. 02. Contaqt/Bell Dreams: Red (Terroirs, 2024) People Places Records 03. Ann Savoy: Gabie's New Year's Lament (Another Heart, 2024) Smithsonian Folkways 04. Linda Lavin: Theme from Alice (Television's Greatest Hits: Volume 6, 1996) TVT 05, Jimmy Carter: 1976 Washington Political Campaign advert (Politicking: Volume 1, 2011) Funky Frolic 06. The Allman Brothers Band: In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Idlewild South, 1970) Capricorn 07. Nikki Giovanni: Ego Tripping (The Reason I Like Chocolate, 1976) Folkways 08. Nino Rota: O Happy Dagger [the Death of Juliet] (Ro

As this confounding year draws to a close, we'll do our annual recap of the past 12 months in review. Along with some of the artists & songs that defined 2024, we'll profile Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow's score to that year's film Civil War. 01. Jessica Pratt: The Last Year (Here in the Pitch, 2024) City Slang 02. Kristen Roos: Nova (Universal Synthesizer Interface: Volume III, 2024) Hotham Sound 03. Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee (Diamond Jubilee, 2024) Realistik Studios 04. Apollo Ghosts: No One Knows Your Mind (Amethyst, 2024) You've Changed 05. Jackson Ramsey: Tropical Drone (Tropical Drone, 2024) Fanta 06. P:ano: Days Swing (Ba Ba Ba, 2024) COQ 07. The Softies: California Highway 99 (The Bed I Made, 2024) Father/Daughter 08. Yoo Doo Right: Spirit's Heavy but Not Overthrown, Pt. I (From the Heights of Our Pastureland, 2024) Mothland 09. Waxahatchee: 3 Sisters (Tigers Blood, 2024) Anti- 10. MJ Lenderman: You Don't Know the Shape I'm In (Manning Fireworks, 2024) Anti- 11. Kilometre Club: Light [in T

For our 17th annual counter-Christmas carol episode, we plunge deep into some of Dimitri Tiomkin's score that was cut from the 1946 holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life as we mark the festive season with our usual mix of snark, candour, grief & joy. 01. Tito Jackson: Season's Greetings (Season's Greetings from Motown Records 7", 1973) Motown 02. En Attendant Ana: Close Your Mouth Because Christmas is the Day! (En Attendant Ana Sings Christmas, 2024) self-released 03. Fflwcs: Let Nothing You Dismay (Christmas Shopping 1989, 2024) self-released 04. Al Jarreau: Peggy Virginia (Smooth and Soulful Christmas, 2006) YMC 05. Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66: The Christmas Song (Something Festive, 1968) A&M 06. Quincy Jones: Greensleeves and All That Jazz (The Italian Job OST: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition, 1969) Paramount 07. Martin Mull: Santafly [w.the Sondra Baskin Glee Club] (Santafly 7", 1973) Capricorn 08. The Smothers Brothers: Swiss Christmas (Curb Your Tongue, Knave! 1963) Mercury 09. Khruangbin:

The drawing to the close a year allows us to look back a bit to the past 12 months but also ahead to the coming new calendar. We'll juggle mostly Canadian songs amidst all this reflection with a profile on Seth A Smith's scores from The Crescent and Tin Can. Warning: levels may be hot at the start so adjust volume accordingly. Not sure what changed on the board but feedback galore. 01. Freak Heat Waves: Music Has an Interesting Power (Mondo Tempo, 2023) Mood Hut 02. Stillwaves: I'm Haunted (Undiagnosed, 2023) Safe Sounds 03. Kristen Roos: Feight (Universal Synthesizer Interface: Volume III, 2024) Hotham Sound 04. Jody Glenham: The Local (Still Here EP, 2024) self-released 05. Kylie V: Golden (Crash Test Plane, 2024) Royal Mountain 06. Norman McLaren: Loops (Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren, 2024) Phantom Limb/We are Busy Bodies/NFB 07. ?Numb?Dame? Good Luck is for Suckers (This One is for You, 2024) self-released 08. Daft Punk: Aerodynamic (Discovery, 2001) Daft Life/ADA/Warner France

Stepping out of our 20th century rut a bit, we profile Mark Jenkin's score to the 2019 film Bait. We also start looking at 2024 in review and preview your Shindig finalists as part of CITR's annual battle of the bands competition here in Vancouver. 01. Taylor Swift: 'tis the Damn Season (Evermore, 2020) Republic 02. Kohellus: Kalanvihreä (Anthology of Electroacoustic Music from Finland, 2023) Unexplained Sounds Group 03. Kendrick Lamar: Squabble Up (GNX, 2024) PGLang/Interscope 04. Schoolboy Q: Ohio [w.Freddie Gibbs] (Blue Lips, 2024) TDE/Interscope 05. The Sabres of Paradise: Tow Truck [Depth Charge mix] (Versus, 1995) Warp 06. Depth Charge: Depth Charge [Han Do Jin] (Nine Deadly Venoms, 1994) Vinyl Solution 07. Philip Glass: It Was Always You, Helen (The Music of Candyman, 2001) Orange Mountain 08. Angèle Dubeau: Candyman Suite (Signature Philip Glass, 2023) Analekta 09. Brijean: Breathe (Macro, 2024) Ghostly International 10. Pearl & the Oysters: Cruise Control (Planet Pearl, 2024) Stones Throw