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A Requiem for Daft Punk
Season 1 Episode 271
It takes a special kind of band to obscure their appearance…but if you can do it right, then it moves from being a silly gimmick to an important piec…
5 years, 1 month ago
Hobbies of Musicians
Season 1 Episode 269
What do you for fun?...hobbies, pastimes—things that you do just for you, away from your job and all your other responsibilities?...
I’ve got my dogs…
5 years, 2 months ago
Big Bands from Small Towns
Season 1 Episode 268
Let me say from the outset that I have nothing against small towns…I grew up in one myself…population: 2000…it was in the middle of the Canadian prai…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Post-Punk Explosion Part 7: All the rest
Season 1 Episode 267
The original punk rock explosion of the 1970s was two things…first, it was a major reset for rock’n’roll…think of it as a great musical decluttering……
5 years, 2 months ago
The Post-Punk Explosion Part 6: Ska
Season 1 Episode 266
Every once in a while, music enters a state of flux where the direction of everything is, shall we say, undefined…we see and hear change but we’re no…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Post-Punk Explosion Part 5: Goth
Season 1 Episode 265
On April 10, 1815, a volcano erupted in the central part of the Indonesian archipelago…Mount Tambora blew up, ejecting nearly 200 cubic kilometres of…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Post-Punk Explosion Part 4: Alt-Dance
Season 1 Episode 264
Dancing is as old as the human race…not long after we started walking on two legs, we found a groove and have been moving to the music ever since…
Fa…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Post-Punk Explosion Part 3: Industrial
Season 1 Episode 263
By the time we got to the mid-70s, rock had organized itself so that were rules…you did things this way and not that way…then came punk…
One of the g…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Post-Punk Explosion Part 2: Techno-Pop
Season 1 Episode 262
For the longest time, the sounds of rock were made with voice, guitars, bass, drums, and keyboards like piano and organ…there were plenty of ways to …
5 years, 3 months ago
The Post-Punk Explosion Part 1: New Wave
Season 1 Episode 261
If you’ve been around enough, you may remember those special times when you know that you’re in a middle of music history being made…
You might be o…
5 years, 3 months ago