If you’ve ever wanted to know what Wanda Jackson duking it out with Shirley Bassey in an alley while Rosanne Cash, Sharon Jones and Amy Winehouse egged them on sounded like, look no further than Sassafrass!, the terrific new album from New Zealand’s Tami Neilson
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Just wow. The new self-titled LP from Reno’s Rob Ford Explorer, out earlier this month, is a potent gem, a heady amalgamation of jazz fluidity and math-rock specificity, and a…
As Saleeha, the Australian-born, Vancouver-based Max Buchanan makes meditative, slowly unfurling soundscapes that, surprisingly enough, do not echo or mime fellow Vancouver-based ambient artist Loscil. I say surprisingly because, as…
Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Sixty shows is no small number; a lot of thought and work goes into assembling these podcasts and you can…
A multiracial British band gave us two of the most indelible hits of the ’60s
Ugh. The new Melvins record, I am sad to report, dear reader, is a bit of a trainwreck. It’s not that Pinkus Abortion Technician, out Friday on Ipecac, lacks ideas….
It’s no secret how much Popdose likes Lisa Said. And it should come as no surprise that this first E.P. with her new band, Piramid Scheme, is on par with…
We’re raising the ante in this month’s installment of What’s THAT Supposed to Mean? — this month’s singer is a fictional version of an important historical/theological figure, Judas. Erm ……
A worthwhile history lesson: Wreckless Eric is Mr. Eric Goulden. His recording career began in 1977 with the enduring ”Whole Wide World”. He was one of the original Stiffs, alongside…
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It’s been…time this show had a leprechaun dance moment. Can’t understand what I mean? You soon will.
Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Fifty Nine A new intensity and depth is now surging the direction forward of Radio City… and this 59th instalment is…
Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s influence extended well beyond his hit records
The cello weeps and sows and soars, and so it goes with Randall Holt and his Inside The Kingdom of Splendor and Madness, which gets the CD/cassette re-release treatment April…
It goes without saying Chris Stamey is one of my favorite songwriters/musicians. Having fallen under the spell of The dB’s from 1981 onward, the band he formed in New York…
Can’t the “classic” version of this band stay on good terms for more than a few months at a time without everything exploding like a chunk of pure sodium tossed…
Well, turns out climate change — for those rational people who agree with the science behind it — might not be all bad, after all. Big Weather, the latest effort…
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In 2017, singer Mike Stand was looking at a future where he could not sing. The circumstances would bring to him a voice from the past: his own.
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Fifty Eight Even being waylaid by illness doesn’t stop these fine reporters/radio personalities from doing their jobs and in this latest…
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“The Godfather of G-Go” had his biggest hit in 1979
It’s a little difficult to be completely objective after watching New Wave: Dare To Be Different, the story of WLIR radio, from Long Island. I listened to the station religiously…
Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Fifty Seven While this episode is later than usual, due to illness, our brave and fearless reporters still tackle an amazing…
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