Beats Around The Bush, Episode 05: The Mystery Of Tone Loc
Tone Loc was everywhere; then, he wasn't -- or so it seemed. Did Anthony Terrell Smith really disappear, or did the nineties just make him less visible? What exactly is in a Fuzzy Navel? Why does his ...
21 Nov 202241min
Beats Around The Bush, Episode 04: May The JVC Force Be With You
Sarah is obsessed with late-'80s Bronx/Central Islip outfit JVC Force! Mark...is also on this podcast! ...But seriously, folks: we're unpacking a handful of tracks from "Doin' Damage," peering into th...
14 Nov 202234min
Beats Around The Bush, Episode 03: Salt-N-Pepa Six-Pack
Salt-N-Pepa's here and they came to out-rap you -- but not in a mean way! Today we're talking about six Salt-N-Pepa hits across a handful of albums, the difference between '80s and '90s SNP, when #sma...
7 Nov 202244min
Beats Around The Bush, Episode 02: Def Jef Jam
In our second Beats Around The Bush-isode, we're (re-?)introducing the world to the joyous, winking, horny turn-of-the-nineties sound of Jeffrey Fortson, aka Def Jef. We're also remembering Def Leppar...
31 Okt 202227min
Beats Around The Bush, Episode 01: Hippie Hop Hooray
Welcome to our Beats Around The Bush season, in which we investigate the rap and hip-hop that brought us joy during/near the first Bush presidency, 1988-1993ish. After we try to explain our constructi...
24 Okt 202257min
The Lilith Fair 40, Episode 08: The Final Ranking
Who is the Lilith Fairest of them all? At last, our answer -- but first, we look at last-comers Heather Nova, Jewel, Paula Cole, Des'ree, and Natalie Merchant. And we ask a few more questions, like wh...
12 Sep 20221h 8min
The Lilith Fair 40, Episode 07: The Penultimate 35
The second-to-last set of 5 songs joins the Lilith fray by zig-zagging all over the map: Ani DiFranco, India.Arie, Natalie Imbruglia, Aimee Mann, and Chantal Kreviazuk take us from a soggy subbasement...
5 Sep 202254min
The Lilith Fair 40, Episode 06: The Hurty 30
The murderers' row of artists joining us for our Top 30 episode -- Joan Osborne, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple, Shawn Colvin, and Lisa Loeb & 9 Stories -- might actually literally kill us? Primitivism wi...
29 Aug 202256min
