In 1979, Nurse With Wound entered a UK recording studio with no musical training whatsoever and created an album called Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, which promptly was awarded a rating of five question marks from Sounds Magazine. Since then, NWW has confounded critics and listeners alike, […]
Friday the 11th on Mikey Coltun’s Purplish Radio at 8am ET: This month’s guest curator (starts at 1 hour into the show) is Tuareg Post-Punk band TAKAAT! TAKAAT (pronounced tuh-cot), meaning “noise” in the Tuareg language Tamashek, is the trio of Ahmoudou Madassane, Mikey Coltun, and Souleymane Ibrahim, also known as the rhythm section of […]
Join Tough Luck Sunday at 10am ET as Henley takes some EVR time to remember Michael Hurley, departed this past week. An iconoclastic performer of sublime folk songs, inventive illustrator and all around musical legend, Hurley released his debut on Folkways in 1964 and steadfastly delivered right until now, still sporadically touring to an increasingly […]
Stephen Immerwahr will be joining Mister Mike to discuss the recently unearthed Bigheads Burst compilation, an early experiment in home 4-tracking which, in 1990, laid the groundwork for his pioneering NYC band, Codeine, and also includes demos from Seam’s Sooyoung Park (the cassette recently reissued by Numero Group), as well as his wide-ranging influences (Japanese […]