New Year’s Eve
If you’re snowed in at home this New Year’s Eve, here’s a little tip… Tune it to Radio Dismuke, where they’ll be playing classic 78 rpm recordings from the 1920s and 30s. Things get started at 10:00...
View ArticleThe Refuse Stealing Kukana Kuba Band
As I’ve mentioned here before, my friend Pete has been in the African country of Malawi these past several weeks, conducting scientific research in support of his PhD thesis. Fortunately for those of...
View ArticleThe Ex in Ethiopia
Brian Turner at WFMU just turned me on to a band from the Netherlands called The Ex, who were just on tour in Ethiopia. Here’s how they describe themselves: Formed in 1979, The Ex has developed over...
View ArticleOn the passing of Gill Scott-Heron
Gill Scott Herron died a few days ago. I was going to commemorate his passing with The Revolution Will Not be Televised, but, seeing as how most of us reading this site are living in SE Michigan, I...
View ArticleMore on the last three $1,000 grants awarded by the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation
For those of you who didn’t happen to see it, Tom Perkins, the heir to the Perkins Pickles empire, penned a very nice piece for AnnArbor.com about the work of the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation. I’d...
View ArticleShadow Art Fair defenders and detractors mix it up one last time
Like every year at this time, the Shadow Art Fair media juggernaut has begun in earnest. As of today, there are articles in The Ypsi Courier and The Current, as well as on AnnArbor.com. And, this...
View ArticleJelly Roll Morton and the gritty origins of jazz
At some point in 1938, while employed by the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song to record and preserve regional American music being put at risk by popular music like jazz, music...
View ArticleBruce Conforth on the real life of Robert Johnson, the real hell of the Rock...
When I first started talking with ethnomusicologist Bruce Conforth about the possibility of his being on the show, I wasn’t exactly sure what we’d be talking about. He didn’t seem terribly...
View ArticleJohn Sinclair on his efforts to bring down the U.S. government,...
The last episode of the Saturday Six Pack is now available online. If you’re so inclined, you can either scroll to the bottom of this post, where you’ll find the Soundcloud audio embedded, or just...
View Article90 Hours in New Orleans: The Monkey Power Trio’s Twenty-Fifth Day as a Band
[above: We were staying right on a trolley line, and the buzzing of the overhead power lines was incessant. I doubt that it’ll make a record, as we had better songs this time out, but this fact gave...
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