Radio Base Camp

10/09/2025

Join me this Friday from 1pm to 4pm for special Radio Base Camp fill-in for Kevin Patrick’ . You can hear the program LIVE on community radio station WPKN 89-5 FM or stream it on our new APP ‘WPKN ENTERTAINMENT’. It’s free!
I have planned a show with new releases and vintage tracks- the entire show is decidedly FREE FORM- that means many genres and time periods, too.

Here are some of the artists you will hear: The Rolling Stones, Matt & Kim, Bufi, Dumbo Gets Mad. Black Uhuru, La Orme, Polo & Pan, Jessica Lauren, Ancestral Beats, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, George Harrison, The Reds, Pins and Purples, Praktika+Ko Saba, Brian Eno + David Byrne, Ofege, SAULT, Jackie Wilson, Aretha Franklin, Rotary Connection, Thornato, Charlie Feathers, Messer Chups, PowerSolo + The Courettes, The Problem With Kids Today, The Go Go Cult, Kevin Ayers + Syb Barrett, Sourmilk, The House of Love, RVG, Pregoblin, Bush Tetras, Steve Gunn + Truscinski Duo, Shabaka, Salif Keita, Baxter Dury, Major Lazer +Ms. Thing, Fe**sh + 6arelyhuman, Jumi Hendrix , David Bowie

10/07/2025

Here is the FULL PLAYLIST and link to the AUDIO:

 HOST: DJ DICO     Artist Song Release     ...

09/25/2025

FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY! I'll be doing a 'special; fundraising edition of RADIO BASE CAMP. I'm on from 4pm to 6:30pm.

We need to plug fiscal gaps due to funding sources that have had to pull back. I am urging all of my listeners to make any sort of a donation via 203-331-9756 or online at https://givebutter.com/c/wpknstronger. Every listener that has enjoyed 15 years of Radio Base Camp who has never made a donation....I AM LOVINGLY ASKING to be as generous as you can. I know many of you are in tough positions but there are also many of you who have been riding higher and higher on the stock market. NOW is when we need this help. From LA to Chicago to Florida to Wisconsin to Texas - please please HELP NOW!

09/22/2025

I'm happy to be back in the WPKN Studios after a month in Nepal. If you want to hear my special -fill-in from last Thursday it's in the archives with a show that was informed by my trip as well as the revolution that churned Nepal. This TUESDAY SHOW from 7am to 9am is going to be classic Radio Base Camp with multi genres, new releases and some vintage garage, punk, disco and electronica and psych.
Here are the artists you'll be hearing: Altin Gun, Go Kurasawa, Immersion (Wire), Garbage, Julian Cope, Kevin Coyne, The Hi-Fi's, The Besnard Lakes, Michel Legrand, Laufey,Folk Bitch Trio, The Magnettic Fields, BC Camplight, Les Big Byrd, Liverpool Echo, The Courettes, Doctor Ross, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Problems With Kids Today, Crocodiles, Guedra Guedra, Idris Muhammad + Walker&Royce, The Dare, Burning Spear, EERA, Bakar, Andrew Bird, New York, Lack of Afro,

08/12/2025

This week’s RADIO BASE CAMP (7am to 9am)lands in a pool of new releases. It’s just amazing HOW GREAT the music is these days. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. If you want to hear new tracks and fresh sounds WPKN is a pretty great station to tune to. We’ve been a free-form,multi genre since the early 1960’s and every GOOD DJ in the listening area probably clocked some time here at WPKN.

Here are some artists you will be hearing TUES: Fatback Band, (USA), Lord Echo (New Zealand), The Seeds (USA), Goose (USA), Scissor Sisters (USA), Soulwax (Belgium), Marianne Faithful (England), The Feelies (USA), Jon Batiste + Randy Newman USA), The Paper Kites (Melbourne), Charlie Crokett (USA), The Wood Brothers, (USA), Almamegetta (Italy), Sudan Archives (USA), Blind Yeo (England), Half Japanese (USA), The Reds, Pinks and Purples (USA), Young Jonn (Nigeria), Pariah (Texas), Psychedelic P**n Crumpets, (Perth Australia), Wet Leg (Isle of Wight), *supermodel (LA USA), The Dare (USA), Pylon (USA), Public Enemy (USA), Spiritual Cramp (USA), Thee Oh Sees (USA), outro from The Rolling Stones.

08/07/2025

I did my annual summer 'UNDER THE COVERS' show (artists covering other people's songs). It turned out to be one of my FAVORITE shows ever. I think you will dig the artists and the treatments. Here is a link to the FULL PLAYLIST and also the AUDIO of the show so you can stream it for two weeks. Here's where to find it: https://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/440473/radio-base-camp-with-steve-di-costanzo-under-the-covers-fill-in-

07/28/2025

Join me tomorrow Tuesday for my RADIO BASE CAMP show on WPKN-FM from 7am to 9am.

Expect to hear almost two hours of new releases from around the world. TUNE IN at 89.5-FM or listen on the new APP (WPKN Entertainment where you get your APPS)

Here is a line-up of the artists you'll hear. Chatham Rise (USA-MN), Annahstasia, (England), Folk Bitch Trio, (Australia), CMAT (Ireland), Baby Queen, (South Africa-England), Juniore + Al Baabi (France), The Budos Band (USA), Half Man Half Biscuit, (England) Half Japanese (USA), Prolapse (England), SAULT (England), Bobby Conn (USA), John Howard (USA), Raw Silk (USA), Automatic (USA-LA), The Reds, Pinks and Purples USA), Chrissy (USA-LA), Elle Barbara (Canada), Drink the Sea w/Peter Buck (USA), The Tenors (England), Bankie Banx (Jamaica-Anguilla)Modern Nature (England), Das Koolies (Wales), Smal Forward (USA0LA), Gelli Haha (USA)

07/20/2025

Down in NYC AT ONE OF MY FAV CLUBS Silvanna

07/16/2025

RADIO BASE CAMP is LIVE today on WPKN 89.5-FM or streaming wpkn.org and the APP. Join me from 4pm to 6:30pm. Should be an interesting show.

07/07/2025

It's a Tuesday so I'm on WPKN 89.5-FM radio with a new episode of Radio Base Camp. It will be a free form adventure with new releases and vintage pleasures. Listen LIVE from 7am to 9am of on the WPKN APP (photo). Here are the artists you will be hearing:
Quinteto Violado (Brazil), The Fernweh (Wales), Neggy Gemmy (USA), Sleeper (England) Fronted by Louise Werner Split in 1998 UK Tour kicks off next week. Shack (England), Escape-ism (USA), John Maus (USA), Asher White (USA), Foxygen (USA), Brian Eno (England), The Delmore Brothers (USA-Alabama), Romain Garcia (France-Spain), Sudan Archives (USA), Jesse Ware (England), The Dramatics (USA), RB Boo (USA), Project (USA), Slick Rick (England), Robert Randolph+Judith Hill (USA), LCD Sound System (USA), Atlas Sound (USA), Teenage Fan Club (Scotland), Oasis (England), Florian Hope (USA), General Jah Milky (England), Black Grape (England), Kokoroko (England)