Episode 456: Sonny Stitt's 'Mr. Bojangles'

One of the greatest potential casualties of our fundamentally damaged copyright laws may be the erasure of not just black cultural history, but the unwinding of the artistic fabric that makes up Ameri...

18 Elo 20161h 2min

Warner Music exec Mike Jbara is leaving the entertainment monolith to join "HD music" firm MQA. Is there new music format the future of music, or just another Ogg-Vorbis in the also-ran annals of hist...

15 Elo 201653min

Anticipation. Excitement. Elation. Confusion. Disappointment. This week, Frank Ocean is all of these things and more.Supremely talented Chicago MC Noname first announced herself to the world two years...

11 Elo 201649min

Rumor has it that despite the constant cries of “foul”, 98% of all videos (over ONE BILLION) on YouTube are 100% kosher from a licensing perspective. Say what?Twenty-five years in the making, Nels Cli...

8 Elo 20161h 7min

Soundcloud may be up for sale, and Deezer, yet another streaming music service launches in the US. Just another day in the #streamingwars.Fronted by punk legend Kathleen Hannah, The Julie Ruin is back...

4 Elo 201642min

Franz Nicolay is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, true punk philosopher, and now…an author.The Humorless Ladies of Border Patrol chronicles Nicolay and his wife Maria’s tour thr...

1 Elo 201648min

Freetown Sound, the latest LP from Blood Orange (aka singer/songwriter and composer Dev Hynes), was already one of the most anticipated releases of 2016 when it dropped. But nobody could have been pre...

28 Heinä 201659min

A 2003 case against Ticketmaster has finally reached a settlement, which means that you, and you, and you, and YOU get vouchers to a whole mess of free shows. Orrrrrrrrrrr not.In just a few short year...

25 Heinä 20161h 1min