***UPDATE 2-15-17***

After more than 10 years of documenting the DC punk and underground music scene, Dissonance is going off the air. The building in which Radio CPR has operated has been sold, and the station is being evicted at the end of February. Radio CPR may yet find a new home someday, and this show might return once again in a different form. But for now I'm calling an indefinite hiatus, Fugazi-style. It's been a wonderful decade sharing music and memories with so many amazing artists who call the DC/MD/VA area their home. If anything changes, I will post the news here. Thanks to everyone for listening, it's been a lot of fun. --Mike

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DISSONANCE is a biweekly music and talk show broadcasting Tuesday nights at 9:00 on community station Radio CPR, 101.7 FM in Washington, DC, hosted by Danger Mike.  Each episode features a different guest from the DC music and creative community who serves as guest DJ, picking the show's playlist and answering questions.  New episodes are available for free download here the following Wednesday:

DISSONANCE in the press:

Punk Life zine with Don Irwin

Interview with On Tap magazine

Article on BORF art exhibit in the Washington Post

Blogs, etc:

VICE | Washington City Paper | Brooklyn Vegan | Brightest Young Things 1 | 2 | Absolut Zine | Inflight at Night | Upset the Setup | Metro/Sea| Scene Point Blank  | Memoria del Fuego | Germen Terror | The Witch Fire | Brave Words | Franconia Station  | AHFR | Scapegoat Publishing | Urban Outfitters

Elsewhere on the web:

Radio CPR

Contact for potential guests, etc: mpberg02 at hotmail dot com

Guests: Ian MacKaye (Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Embrace, Egg Hunt, Skewbald, Fugazi, The Evens, Dischord Records), Alec MacKaye (Untouchables, Faith, Ignition, The Warmers), Basla Andolsun (Beauty Pill, Warm Sun, the Andalusians, Del Cielo), Jason Hamacher (Frodus, combatwoundedveteran, Battery, Regents, Lost Origins Productions), Carlos Izurieta (Worn Thin, Police & Thieves), Gene Melkithesian (Lion of Judah, Give, Joint Custody Records), Dave Byrd (Striking Distance, Set to Explode), Jeff Barsky (Insect Factory), Travis Johnson (Asshole Parade, Outliers, False Flag), Reese Higgins (Gentle Reminder Records), Tad Peyton (Worn Thin, Set to Explode, Slumlords, Neurotiks, Jinx Proof Tattoos), Brien Stewart (Avail, Lickity Split, 22 Turns for the Worse, Key Figures, Ruin by Design) | Playlist: ... Minor Threat - Salad Days | Elvis Costello - Pump It Up | Jackson 5 - ABC | Talking Heads - Air | Paul Simon - The Obvious Child | Government Issue - Caring Line | Tipsy - Mr. Excitement | Converge - Plagues | Post Teens - Fucked Up Perception | Suicide - Rocket USA | Kathy Cashel - Suburbs' End |

Guests: Amanda Kleiman and Erick Jackson (The Apes, Heavy Breathing) | Playlist: ... Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes | Chicago - I'm a Man | Loudness - Crazy Nights | J.J. Cale - Ride Me High | Sister Sledge - Pretty Baby | Stone Poneys - Different Drum | Jeff Beck Group - Barabajagal | The Jimmy Castor Band - Supersound | Captain Beefheart - Tropical Hot Dog Night | Ace Frehley - New York Groove |

Guests: members of Fury, New Brigade, Worn Thin, Police & Thieves, Mindset, Clear, Line of Sight, Intent, Mob Mentality, Give, Mosher's Delight | Playlist: ... One Last Wish - My Better Half | Neil Young - Lookin' for a Love | Porches - Car | GZA - Shadowboxin' | Sportswear - The Power to Change | Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes | Battery - That'll Never Be ME | Alex G - Boy (live) | Beach Boys - God Only Knows | Lion of Judah - Preemptive Fear | Cat Party - Tar & Feathers | Danzig - Dirty Black Summer | Big Star - Thirteen | Dinosaur Jr. - Little Fury Things | Guided by Voices - Gold Star for Robot Boy | Gang of Four - At Home He's a Tourist | Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun | Turnstile - Fuck Me Blind (Give) | Bruce Springsteen - I'm Goin' Down | Fury - The Feeling |

Guest DJs: Walker Grooms and Travis Johnson (Outliers, False Flag) | Playlist: ... Misfits - Static Age | Citizens Arrest - Serve and Protect | Born Against - Half Mast | His Hero Is Gone - Like Weeds | Blue Eyed Boy Mister Death - A Lipstick Transfer | Vanbuilderass - Choices | Section 8 - Bossman | Hot Water Music - Us & Chuck | Death of El Dona - Red 5 Standing By | The Hell - Red Hegemony | Alan Ogg - Episteme | Dan Sartain - Fuck Friday | The Ackleys - Blank Mind Between the Traffic Lights | The Judy Garland Death Squad - Talkin' Spit Raw Out of the Basement Blues | Panthro UK United 13 - Jackson | Assholeparade - Prelude to Ignorance | Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose | Rumbleseat - Cursing Concrete | Now I Have a Machine Gun - Untitled 2 | False Flag - Desertification | Outliers - Apotheosis |

Guest: Pete Stahl (Scream, Wool, Goatsnake, Earthlings?) | Intro: Scream - Ameri-Dub | Outro: Goatsnake - Juniors Jam |

With Kristen and Frankie of The Kid and I Zine >kiss off-violent femmes >heart shaped box-nirvana >northern whale-the good the bad and the queen >10th floor ghost girl-cibo matto >run fast-Julie ruin >king of carrot flowers pt.1- neutral milk hotel >I wanna go home-Shannon and the clams >psychic hearts-thurston moore >eau d' bedroom dancing-le tigre >blue jay way-the Beatles >something about space dude-Miley Cyrus and her dead petz >my terracotta heart-blur >don't talk like-sleater-kinney >for tammy rae-bikini kill

>tea with j and t- read out louds

Guest DJ: Jim Thomson (Gwar, Alter Natives, Bio Ritmo, CSC Funk Band, Multiflora Productions, Electric Cowbell Records) | Playlist: ... Karthala 72 - Dans le Coeur du Feu | CSC Funk Band - Catcher's Mitt | The Sway Machinery feat. Khaira Arby - Youba | Los Ribereños - Silvando | Cheick Hamala Diabate - Sigi Diya | Super Hi Fi - Single Payer | Slavic Soul Party - Gangsta | Tèshomè Meteku - Gara Ser New Betesh | Flash and the Pan - Walking in the Rain | The Pyramids - Penetration | The Swinging Machine - Do You Have to Ask | The Beatles - You Know My Name | Angry Samoans - You Stupid Asshole | Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero | Nomeansno - Two Lips, Two Lungs and One Tongue |

Guest DJs: Brandon Brown, Alex Anderson, and Devin O'Donoghue (Loud Boyz) | Playlist: ... Danzig - How the Gods Kill | Government Issue - Sheer Terror | Dag Nasty - One to Two | Annihilation Time - Too High to Die | Red Death - Unholy Agony II | The Exploding Hearts - Sleeping Aides and Razor Blades | Hatebreed - Last Breath | Gucci Mane - Back in 95 | Misfits - London Dungeon | 86 Mentality - Degenerate | Bad Brains - She's Calling You | Genocide Pact - Angiogenesis | Slayer - Dissident Aggressor | Avail - South Bound 95 | Angel Du$t - Stepping Stone | Sublime - Garden Grove | Agnostic Front - Last Warning | Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreaks - Chinese Rocks | Chunks - Last Rights | Ozzy Osbourne - S.A.T.O. | Cro-Mags - Life of My Own | Striking Distance - Knockdown Drag Out |

DC and punk rock lost a legend yesterday. John Stabb, singer of Government Issue and the Factory Incident, passed away after a long battle with cancer. 

John was nice enough to come on this show twice, in 2006 and 2008. I was joined by DJ Stereo Faith, and we had two long (nearly 5 hours total) discussions about (first episode) the origins of Government Issue, the Unheard Music Fest, the St. Anselm's Valentine's Day show, and the GI reunion that "will never happen," and (second episode) marriage, cats, growing up in Wheaton, bumming out Jello Biafra with his outfits, his deep love of movies, and the GI reunion that eventually happened.

John also was guest DJ for both shows and picked two great, wide ranging playlists, including a bunch of rare punk covers of and by the Beastie Boys, Naked Raygun, Lillian Furneaux, and of course GI. He was a true original, relentlessly upbeat, kind soul who embodied the spirit of punk rock. We will miss him dearly.

Listen to the interviews here:

8-29-06: John Stabb / Government Issue

6-3-08: The Return of John Stabb

Guest DJs: Michael Coltun (Les Rhinocéros, Connect the Dots) and Reese Higgins | Playlist: ... Zu - Cortar Todo | King Ayisoba - Bayeti Eoi | Maalem Mahmoud Guinia - Bania | Kletka Red - Sirba | Seabrook Power Plant - Lamborghini Helicopter | Trophies - Beset by Anxiety (for Louise Bourgeois) | Los Pirañas - Sir de Gusano | Mamane Barka - Mashi | Jerusalem in My Heart - 7ebr El 3oyoun | Meridian Brothers - Salsa Caliente | Zeus! - Forza Bruta Ram Attack | Zs - Concert Blade | Omar Khorshid - Wadil Muluk | Mary Halvorson - Sea Seizure | Arlt - Grande Fille | Les Rhinocéros - Coltun's Pinkie Crusher |