Episode 29 – Walking Shadows: Mekong Delta 1987-1994
Under the guidance of bassist Ralf Hubert, Mekong Delta’s initial phase featured a revolving door lineup of Euro-metal luminaries. Adopting pseudonyms and lurking unseen in shadows, Mekong plied a bra...
9 Apr 20191h 34min
Episode 28 – Rock Out With Your Calc Out: A Math Rock Survey
As Pythagoras mused, “There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” So too is there magical energy in the shapely contours of the most mathematical ro...
26 Mars 20191h 21min
Episode 27 – Fall Into Overdrive: Spiral Architect’s Tech-Metal Masterwork
A Skeptic’s Universe is what happens when student becomes master. Spiral Architect’s school years were spent in obscurity, honing their craft, learning their lessons, keeping their noses to the grinds...
12 Mars 20191h 13min
Episode 26 – It’s Weird Being a Bob: NoMeansNo FTW
Angular, adventurous, and apocalyptic in nearly equal shares, few bands scratch the collective itches of Radical Research like Victoria, British Columbia’s Nomeansno. From their punky beginnings to th...
26 Feb 20191h 40min
Episode 25 – Pytten’s Chamber Music: Black Metal in Grieghallen
Pytten’s Chamber Music: Black Metal in Grieghallen As the ground began to swell in early ‘90s Norway, a shadowy figure known to metal fans only as “Pytten” (ne Eirik Hundvin) ensconced himself in B...
12 Feb 20191h 25min
Episode 24 – This is the Ritual of Divination: Nasty Savage ’87/’88
Emerging from the swampy wastes of Florida, Nasty Savage created a body of work built on the inimitable vocals of Ronnie Galetti (aka Nasty Ronnie), hammering percussion, and a harmonic guitar languag...
29 Jan 201958min
Episode 23.5 – Mystery Snippets
This game originates from one Jeff plays semi-regularly with our pal Tim Hammond, where CD-Rs fly back and forth between the Boros (States and Greens), and one has to puzzle out the other's mystery tr...
22 Jan 20199min
Episode 23 – What the Hell is Art Rock?
The possibly despicable term “art rock” is where pop, prog & rock meet, with a generous layer of quirk embedded throughout. Art rock is pop without restraint, prog with good table manners, rock stretc...
15 Jan 20191h 8min
