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 […]
For the next loving soundclash on ‘Elia vs ?’, Elia Einhorn takes on not one but two of NYC’s most brilliant musical minds! Martin Rev was half of the iconic proto-punk duo Suicide, and continues to make boundary-pushing music which he tours around the globe. Their Battle Category will be Jazz, and dude knows his […]