The Entroporium

This week’s episode celebrates the shared birthday of two American originals with pretty darn awesome hair: Amihr “?uestlove” Thompson and filmmaker-musician-painter-webmaster-iconoclast David Lynch.

In the first hour, I showcase great hip-hop and R&B from The Roots. Stay tuned for the second hour when I hit the reset button and feature music from the films, works and weird worlds of David Lynch.

James Murphy, the driving force behind LCD Soundsystem, will be the first to tell you that he’s standing on the shoulders of giants – everyone from Harry Nillson to Giorgio Moroder.  In this show, I roll through many of the bands that Murphy borrows from and pays homage to in his music.  Which is a really a music nerd way of saying: I’m playing punky disco and it’s hella fun.  

Continuing on from last week’s show that concentrated on last year’s best in R&B, Dance and Jazz, tonight I’ll run through some of the year’s best indie & rock.

If you’ve been looking to catch up with some of 2010′s hidden treasures, there are a lot of goodies in here, everything from a My Bloody Valentine/Beach Boys mash (not really) to the years’s best Michael Jackson imitation to a slew of 80s revivalists.

In this episode I take you through a few of my favorite things that got me through this very strange year. For the most part, I avoid the acknowledged great stuff that every critic is going to write up. Instead here are a few hidden 2010 gems from the worlds of R&B, jazz and electronica. Next week I’ll go deep into indie and a few select other genres.

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Holiday music doesn’t have to suck. Put on a sweater, fire up the yule lot and grab a twist-off capped bottle of wine and settle in for two hours of interesting, fun, poignant and just plain good Christmas tunes. Featuring guest DJ Susie Smith!

It’s the night after the Festival Of Lights, but there’s no reason to stop the music now. This podcast covers Jewish contributions to the pop music canon – along with a few hangers-on.

With no true mainstream radio smashes since 1993 and literally hundreds of records in the Wu-Tang catalog, you need an expert to know where to begin. DJ Bass 77 of The Bass-ment takes us through the history of the Wu, the influential production style of its sound leader The RZA, introduced us to a few of the strong personalities in the group and their solo work, and gives his personal view on where to start digging.

Following on the awful news that Neil Young’s personal warehouse of memorabilia had nearly burned down, this episode is devoted to an exploration of the Neil Young Archives released to date. No musician places as much emphasis on archiving as an essential part of their art as does Neil Young. If you’re a fan who has been daunted by the price tag or just the simple task of diving in, you’ll want to check out this episode.

In this episode, I pay tribute to the man who brought the LOUD to pop music: Phil Spector.  His Wall Of Sound was both smart marketing and a revolution in how records were made.  The songs were pretty good, too.  Then he started hanging with The Beatles and things just got weirder from there.  Really weird.