Tuareg Post-Punk Band TAKAAT Curates Purplish Radio April 11th

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 […]

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Remembering Michael Hurley on Tough Luck April 6th

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 […]

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Codeine’s Stephen Immerwahr on Two Hours In Tongues April 11th

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 […]

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UK Poets John Cooper Clarke and Mike Garry Visit EVR Tuesday September 17

Join host Vivid Oblivion as John Cooper Clarke and Mike Garry stop by Two Hours In A Cellar Under A Lightbulb Tuesday night 8-10 pm ET for a quick chat, ahead of their US Tour hitting Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday night. In the late 70s Clarke styled himself as a “punk poet” of rapid-fire […]

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