Billy Bragg, Local H, & Tom Waits
The week in new music & Dig Me Out podcast
New Reviews
Danko Jones - Power Trio
Twenty-five years into their career, the veteran Toronto hard rock band delivers their eleventh album …
The Specials - Protest Songs 1924 - 2012
The new covers album by The Specials features twelve takes on specially chosen protest songs across an almost one-hundred-year span, including artists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Leonard Cohen, Rod McKuen, The Staples Singers, and more …
New Releases
Shihad - Old Gods
Tenth studio album and first since 2014's FVEY
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Billy Bragg - The Million Things That Never Happened
His tenth studio album and the British singer-songwriter and activist’s first collection of new music in four years.
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Local H - Local H's Awesome Quarantine Mix-Tape #3
While locked under quarantine, the band recorded their third covers album, paying tribute to everyone from Prince and Blondie to Fountains of Wayne and Mark Lanegan.
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New 90s Podcast
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Tom Waits' Grammy Winning eleventh album Bone Machine from 1992 is a wild ride of strange characters and stripped-down production
He's an outlier, an enigma, an iconoclast, an original. We're talking about Tom Waits, whose career is more closely tied to the 70s and 80s, but who released his Grammy Award-winning album Bone Machine in 1992 just as the first wave of grunge was talking off in 90s rock. Trying to compare Waits, and this album in particular, to any of his contemporaries, is a fool's errand. Sure, there's a bit of Nick Cave here, some Mark Lanegan there, even some Morphine and Beck, but Waits is often on another planet entirely. Using a collection of non-traditional percussion instruments (some homemade) combined with buzzing guitars and ramshackle pianos, to create a junkyard orchestra. It often sounds like it's falling apart before it even starts, but Waits is able to bring it together with his vocals, even if they are the most divisive aspect of a Tom Waits album. Special guest: Andrew "OC"- DMO UNION
Coming Soon
Chapel Hill in the 90s
After considering three scenes, our Steering Committee and Board of Directors at Patreon have decided. We’re excited we’ll be recording a roundtable episode to examine Chapel Hill in the 90s.
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