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Original 7-inch reel-to-reel tape containing a recording of an interview of synth-punk band Suicide by Howie Klein on the San Francisco radio station KSAN 94.9 FM, which likely dates to 1976-1978, the period when Klein served as a co-host on KSAN’s pioneering punk radio show The Outcastes, America's first regularly scheduled punk rock radio show. The reel, which bears an affixed label annotated “Howie Klein with Suicide,” includes its original storage box marked on the spine, “Suicide with Howie Klein, ‘77.” The cover’s KSAN log sheet was initially filled out for a Sex Pistols recording. In fine condition.
Suicide was an American duo of vocalist Alan Vega and instrumentalist Martin Rev, active intermittently from 1970 to 2016. A pioneering act in minimalist electronic music, they employed synthesizers and primitive drum machines and became known for confrontational early performances. The group was among the first to use the term ‘punk music,’ adopting it from Lester Bangs and featuring it in early concert advertisements.
Howie Klein (1948-2025) was a writer, political activist, and media personality who, after moving to San Francisco in the mid-1970s, became active in the city’s underground culture, using radio to champion emerging artists. From 1976 to 1978, he co-hosted The Outcastes on KSAN with Norman Davis and Chris Knabm, widely considered the first regular punk radio show. He went on to serve as president of Reprise Records from 1989 to 2001, overseeing the careers of artists including Depeche Mode, Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, the Ramones, Neil Young, Alanis Morissette, Green Day, and Eric Clapton, among many others.
From the archives of Norman Davis, the co-host of the pioneering punk radio show The Outcastes on KSAN-FM in San Francisco, America's first regularly scheduled punk rock radio show. For nearly two years, The Outcastes went live every Friday night from 2 to 4 a.m. (Saturday morning) and featured some of punk’s biggest early stars, including Devo, The Cramps, Roky Erickson, The Nuns, The Dead Boys, Iggy Pop, and the Sex Pistols. He interviewed Paul Cook and Steve Jones on January 13, 1978, a day before the band’s final concert at the Winterland. The interview was notorious for its airing of unedited expletives used by Cook and Jones, profanity that could have potentially cost the radio station its license.
