One day, I was sitting in the cafe of Barnes & Noble in Springfield, IL, perusing a book entitled The Art of the LP. This book gathers hundreds of albums covers and dissects them in great detail. Thumbing through each page, I began thinking about some of my favorite album covers…
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Read MoreThere once was a time when our country split in two and those two parts ran around fucking murdering each other. It was far from civil. But it was a war, and we all know the monumental debate that it settled. Those who know a little bit more about the non-Civil War know there was a second monumental debate that it settled, separate from slavery.
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The Valentinos • Eyes • Fuzz • The Pandoras • Blue Oyster Cült • Les Sequelles • Fabienne • Gilberto Gil • Third Ear Band • The Alarm Clocks • Status Quo • Daevid Allen • The Stooges •Dirk Dirksen • F-Word • Harvey Mandel • Fabienne Delsol • David Bowie and MANY MORE…
Read MoreOld Friends and Some New Ones.
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Turner Joy • Brazilian Girls • Doves • Big Country • Bee Gees • Special Ed • The Dead Milkmen • The Dukes of Stratosphear • The Charlatans • The Sugarplastic • Pilot • Echo and The Bunnymen • Ultimate Spinach • United States Three
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The Who • The Standells • Ike & Tina Turner • Sly & The Family Stone • Belfast Gypsies • The Runaways • Betty Davis • Yoko Ono • Scott Walker • Rodd Keith • Jim Sullivan • Sagittarius • Can • Silver Apples • Faust • Flipper • The Rolling Stones • Black Sabbath and MANY MORE…
Read MoreLocated in the Old Levee Vice District, the ten story steel frame cube filled the north east corner of Michigan*and Cermak. As construction wrapped up in 1892 It wass now ready for the crush of visitors attending the Columbian Exposition. 370 guest rooms were available. The large hotel could also accommodate permanent residents…
Read MorePHYCHO-ACOUSTIC PHENOMENON SUBJECTS:
John Martyn • Young Marble Giants • Davy Graham • The Country Teasers • The Pretty Things • Neil Young • Moon Duo • Spacemen 3 • Disappears • Battles • Pretenders • Ride • Eddy Current Suppression Ring • Roy Wood • Rain Parade • Entrance Band • Amon Duul II • Hayvanlar Alemi • Wooden Shjips • Pylon • Cosmonauts • Witch Hats • Budos Band • Steroid Maximus • Von Sudenfed • Magic Sam • Airbus • Swell Maps • Reigning Sound • Gene Clark • R. Stevie Moore • Michael Rother • Gary Ogan and Bill Lamb
Read MoreOur first show dealt with recent School Closings in CPS. We talked about Mayor Emanuel and CEO Brizard's rationale behind the school closings and the community response to it. The community responses were plentiful and included the opinions of school leaders, parents, students, teachers, and community leaders.
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The Ramones • The Archies • Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention • The Grates • Tom Pettyt • Cat Power • Harlem • Sleater-Kinney • Jenny and Johnny • The Beatles • The Strokes • The Drums • Cyndi Lauper • Gorillaz • Las Kellies • Mark Ronson (feat. Ol' Dirty Bastard & Tiggers) • Little Joy
Read MoreUS Punk and New Wave 45's 1975-76
The earliest moments of 70's Punk from the UK have already been covered on two Soul Station π events, so now, I am jumping in to play a number of important and early American records. These initial shots of Punk and Rock energy were exciting to live through, often difficult to hear and find, and they have all held up well after almost 40 years.
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Van Morrison • Sonic Youth • Lead Belly • T.Rex • Be Your Own Pet • Jefferson Airplane • The Moldy Peaches • Lee "Scratch" Perry • Frank Zappa • Wild Flag • CAKE • The Monkees • Amy Winehouse • Howlin' Wolf • Las Kellies • Super Furry Animals • The Beatles • Nine Inch Nails • Kimya Dawson
Read MoreThe New Colony Six, The Riddles, The Knaves and more...
This show, featuring the New Colony Six, resumes an earlier focus on 60's era Chicago Rock bands. The early New Colony Six records were released on their own label, Centaur, later changed to Sentar. Though they twice recorded the Yardbird’s Mister You’re A Better Man Than I, much of their early work is popish Folk Rock with an emphasis on the vocals. The group had several…
Read MoreFLAMING LIPS! Part 2 (archive)
This is show 8, and we continue to revisit The Flaming Lips career. From ZAIREEKA their 4CD experiment, to Embryonic. They have a new record coming out soon, so now that you know where they’ve been you’ll be ready to hear the future, The Terror.
Read MoreJohn Cale 2 The Island Records Show
I did an earlier show that featured Cale's work after parting company with the Velvet Underground. Those early recordings are quite pop and feature delicate, shimmering melodies and first reveal Cale's interest in songs that have a debt to the Beach Boys. Once he had signed to Island, he began to further experiment in this vein, often using pumping piano parts that resemble…
Read MoreFLAMING LIPS! Part 1 (archive)
This show, 7, is dedicated to all you Flaming Lips fans. From Here it Is, to Clouds Taste Metalic, we revisit their earlier rocking days.
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