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Snow Tires (Hidden Agenda). Review by Rob Walsh.
Snow Tires (Hidden Agenda). Review by Rob Walsh.
Revolutions (Sony). Review by Rob Walsh.
Today’s episode: “Indie Geek admits to being an Emo Loser.” Narration by Rob Walsh.
Damn! Mates of State and Rainer Maria together! What more can an indie geek (like Rob Walsh) ask for?
Mike McColgan left the Dropkick Murphys to become a Boston firefighter. His tenure with the Street Dogs marks his return to punk rawk. And now he’s sharing his experiences from the past six years with Rob Walsh.
And Friends (Special Potatoe). Review by Rob Walsh.
Dropkick Murphys’ bassist Ken Casey talks with Rob Walsh about nearly eight years of giving a voice to the man on the street.
dead flowers, bottles, bluegrass and bones (Fat Wreck Chords). Review by Rob Walsh.
Road Star Doolittle (Five One, Inc.). Review by Rob Walsh.
Ten Years and Gunnin’ (Columbia). Review by Rob Walsh.
Various Artists (Reverb). Review by Rob Walsh.
Sonic Youth calls in sick and Wilco offer a languid performance. No, it wasn’t all bad. It just could’ve been better. Rob Walsh was there.
Various Artists (Lakeshore). Review by Rob Walsh.
Log Bomb (Fat Possum). Review by Rob Walsh.
Hate (Mantra Recordings). Review by Rob Walsh.
Love and Distortion (Jetset). Review by Rob Walsh.
Purgatory (Thick Records). Review by Rob Walsh.
three-four (Quarterstick Records). Review by Rob Walsh.
Return of Jacques de Molay and Phase II (GMM Records). Review by Rob Walsh.
Jesus Muhammad-Ali’s remembrance of Elijah Muhammad’s mission to instill pride and self-reliance in black America is plagued with acute myopia. Rob Walsh offers his particular diagnosis.
Bob Pomeroy gets into four Radio Rarities from producer Zev Feldman for Record Store Day with great jazz recordings from Wes Montgomery, Les McCann, Cal Tjader, and Ahmad Jamal.
Bob Pomeroy digs into Un “Sung Stories” (1986, Liberation Hall), Blasters’ frontman Phil Alvin’s American Roots collaboration with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and New Orleans saxman Lee Allen.
Roi J. Tamkin reviews A Darker Shade of Noir, fifteen new stories from women writers completely familiar with the horrors of owning a body in a patriarchal society, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Feeling funky this week, Christopher Long gets his groove on while discovering a well-cared-for used vinyl copy of one of his all-time R&B faves: Ice Cream Castle, the classic 1984 LP from The Time, for just a couple of bucks.
During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso interviewed director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, whose impressive debut feature, City of Wind, carefully examines the juxtaposition between the identity of place and tradition against the powers of modernity in contemporary Mongolia.
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.
Ever-focused on finding (affordable) vinyl treasures, Christopher Long returns this week with his latest gem — a reasonably well-cared-for LP copy of The Glow, the 1979 studio classic from Bonnie Raitt.