Stop N’ Shop Rock: A Jonathan Richman Birthday Mix
Jonathan Richman makes music for any day worth living– which is to say, all of them. Often camouflaged in naivete (don’t fall for it),…
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Boogaloo It: A Beach Boys Mixtape
On Thursday, May 18, The Beach Boys will perform at the Macon City Auditorium, and while Mike Love & company are guaranteed to play…
Rumble On: A Link Wray Six-Pack
Link Wray, dang it! Not before or since has a guitarist seduced six strings so desperately, wantonly, and without a note of remorse, deconstructing…
Required Listening: ‘Dirt Track Date’
Volumes have been written about Nirvana’s Nevermind spearheading a fuzzed-out, screaming mess of a sea change that reintroduced punk into the national conversation. Predictably,…
Thee Aaron Irons’s Top Five Picks for RSD 2023
Ah, Record Store Day… How I love and loathe thee. For vinyl enthusiasts, there may be nothing more maddening than that platter that truly…
Required Listening: ‘Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell’
There’s a legend around Mike Ness, lead singer and founding member of Social Distortion. It extends from those early do-or-die years on the West…
Bopcatus Playlisticanus: A Robert Gordon Mixtape
Elvis’s Sun days (and an hour two on RCA), Charlie Feather’s tremulous bark, Jerry Lee’s murderin’ everythang, Wanda Jackson’s mighty hair and bare shoulders–…
The Man From San Benito: A Charley Crockett Birthday Six-Pack
Slingin’ old school blues-drenched country twang, channeling Texas cowboy poets, or simply firin’ off a signature honky tonk grin lickety-split, Charley Crockett roams planet…
Certified, Son! A Jerry Reed Retrospective
When it comes to pure talent across the pine board, few stack up to Jerry Reed. His guitar skills? Exquisite. His lyrics? Infinitely quotable.…