by Austin Jared | Nov 14, 2017 | DJ Posts
Today’s episode focused on many of the groups that started the Alternative music genre in the late 1970s: Gang of Four, Wire, Television, Talking Heads, Buzzcocks, and Elvis Costello & The Attractions. These groups would be major influences on the next 30...
by Austin Jared | Nov 8, 2017 | DJ Posts
As a general rule, the music scene today is one big cash-driven system with no respect for true ability or meaningful music. Turn on any major radio station or look at the billboard top 100 and you will hear the pop garbage I am referring to. Today’s music trades...
by Austin Jared | Nov 8, 2017 | DJ Posts
This week’s episode focuses on the mid to late 70s punk rock movement in the US and the UK. The albums played were Ramones, the debut punk album by the Ramones, Nevermind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, the debut punk album by the Sex Pistols, and...
by Austin Jared | Oct 17, 2017 | DJ Posts
Before he created his fictional androgynous, bisexual rock star persona, Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie was an odd, sci-fi loving, psychedelic/ prog rock performer with little success. Before he reached great fame in 1972 he produced two brilliant and influential albums,...
by Austin Jared | Oct 16, 2017 | DJ Posts
In this week’s episode we listened to Lou Reed’s 1972 album Transformer and David Bowie’s 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars. Transformer is an album mostly composed of songs Lou Reed wrote while working with...