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Episode 1996: Rocktober New Music 3: Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Brower, Abstract Crimewave, Isak Benjamin
The Rocktober 2024 New Music Train is on a long distance journey today, chugging from Wisconsin to Sweden. Bob Peterson and Niklas Nygards are in control and they are talking up new tunes from Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Brower, Abstract Crimewave and Isak Benjamin.
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Episode 1995: Rocktober New Music 2: Dream Theater, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Body Metta, Christina Mantis
All aboard the Rocktober 2024 New Music Train! We throw the horns up and crank it to 11 with Steven Routledge and Paul Hayden and new tunes from Dream Theater, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Body Metta and Christina Mantis.
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Episode 1994: October New Music – Superchunk, Baseball Project, Bartees Strange, Kathleen Edwards
Jim kicks off the October New Music series with choice cuts by Superchunk, the Baseball Project and Bartees Strange. Plus, a Tom Petty cover from Kathleen Edwards.
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Episode 1993: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 4: Progressive Bluegrass AKA Newgrass
It’s time to crack the final can of our Bluegrass 4-Pack! It contains the history of progressive bluegrass, when younger musicians began to expand and enhance the traditional sounds of Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs.
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Episode 1992: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 3: The Festival Movement
We’re onto part three of the Bluegrass 4-Pack today, in which we take a look at the birth of the bluegrass festival movement, which began with two seminal events in Virginia in the 1960s.
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Episode 1991: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 2: Flatt and Scruggs
We open another can from the Bluegrass 4-Pack today, as Patrick outlines the remarkable career of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. They left Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in 1948 and went on to take the music to a whole new audience and level of popularity.
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Episode 1990: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 1: Genre and History with Bill Monroe
It’s time to crack into the Bluegrass 4-Pack! Patrick takes a trip back in musical history to the formation of the band that led to the genre of music known as Bluegrass. That trip begins with Bill Monroe and his brother Charlie in the mid-1930s and continues until Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs arrive in 1946.
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Episode 1989: Quincy Jones – Rest in Power
We pay tribute to Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024, at age 91. The man was a legend in music and beyond. Edward Bowser of soulinstereo.com joins the conversation.
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Episode 1988: AC Newman, The Breeders, The Cure
We wrap up the week with a triple dose of Perfect Pop! Tim Hoffman picks AC Newman’s “Miracle Drug,” Mark Neese carefully considers “Cannonball” by the Breeders and Kevin Clement selects The Cure’s “A Forest.”
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Episode 1987: Perfect Pop: Fairground Attraction, Todd Rundgren, Billy Bragg
Belly up to the bar for another round of Perfect Pop! Today, Jay Igancio and Kurt Gallagher induct songs into the Perfect Pop pantheon, specifically Fairground Attraction’s “Perfect,” Todd Rundgren’s “Hello It’s Me” and Billy Bragg’s “The Saturday Boy.”