Each time I do a radio show, I refer to music of many different types and eras. No matter where that road takes me, I’m ultimately happiest when I discover new music. That’s the focus for the first show in 2023, where I look back to discoveries from 2022. This show does not pretend to…
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People talk a lot these days about storytelling. It’s as if it’s a new idea. But storytelling is something I’ve been doing ever since I started on radio. In my case, storytelling often happens without words. Music highlights the connections found in-between the songs. Perhaps it’s an era? Maybe it’s the converging of two wildly…
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There are times that you hear something that sounds like it’s light-years away. The new Sounds of Saturn release compiles seminal space-rock sounds from early-1990s Michigan, but a new treatment and a new perspective gives it fresh appeal. Not that it needed fresh appeal, and it could even be the new packaging, but there’s a…
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I borrowed lyrics from Sister Sledge to get where I need to go with this one. The first time I found out about Sister Sledge was as a young girl. My sisters and I gleefully sang “We Are Family” while driving to the beach one sunny summer day. We were young and those were innocent…
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The (almost) in-studio interview with ADULT. is featured on the latest edition of Alternate Take on dublab. It’s been several years since we talked on an official level about their music, but it felt like we hadn’t missed a beat. The overriding topic was about perception, in keeping with the name of their new record,…
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Things get deep — from the deep south (or notions of it) and deep techno to deep space. And there’s always room for new(ish) Marvin Gaye, Ryuichi Sakamoto and a Radio Slave remix of Apparat. Oh, and I can’t forget my extra special guest telling us all about dublab’s 20th anniversary celebration, Mr. Kion Warner.…
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I also share the music of R. Elizabeth (artwork featured here) on the new Alternate Take. There’s Lusine, Jackie Wilson and a pre-Funkadelic Bootsy Collins project called House Guests. Let’s not forget the nearly lost collaboration between Grace Jones and A Certain Ratio, shared in all its scratch-track beauty. There are a ton of new…
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