FRESH AIR Reverend Carroll Pickett was the death-house chaplain at the Walls prison unit in Huntsville, Texas for 13 years. During his tenure, he ministered to 95 inmates executed by lethal injection. Because he was employed by the state, Pickett was unable to voice his disapproval of capitol punishment while performing his ministry. But he has become an opponent of the death penalty since leaving the prison system. Pickett co-authored a memoir with Carlton Stowers, titled Within These Walls. He is now the subject of a new documentary, At the Death House Door. RADIO TIMES Hour 1 is our country’s […]
THE PSYCLONE RANGERS: Ain’t Goin’ Down
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was my old band, and if we had a Nugget, this was it.
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
Making Time, Pure, Last Night [Photos by TIFFANY YOON/CLICK TO ENLARGE] BY TIFFANY YOON There comes a time when a night life party as big as Making Time reaches its threshold and edges perilously close to the shark-tank. The shameless and pervasive display of look-at-me-I’m-a-raging-drunk assholish behavior last night does not bode well for the future of Making Time. Dave P and the other resident DJs celebrated the party’s 8th year and with an impressive lineup with Mobius Band, Black Kids and Cut Copy. We congratulate the guys for their years of rad party throwing, but fear for the future […]
THE EARLY WORD: People Have Their Uses
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HEAR YE: Mud Crutch
Now playing on Phawker Radio! Why? Because we love you, man! NEW YORK TIMES: Thirty-two years after the band broke up, Tom Petty has reassembled Mudcrutch, the group he started in his native Gainesville, Fla., and moved to Los Angeles, seeking stardom. Mudcrutch didn’t hit it big back in the 1970s, but out of the band’s ashes Mr. Petty created the Heartbreakers, who have generated a staggering stream of hits for three decades. Most of the album’s 14 songs (including covers of the trucker classic “Six Days on the Road” and the Byrds’ “Lover of the Bayou”) were done in […]
NPR 4 THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR Suze Rotolo — she was the woman walking beside Bob Dylan on the album cover for The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan — was Bob Dylan’s girlfriend in the early 1960s. She’s an artist, and a teacher at the Parsons School of Design in New York. And she’s written about her relationship with Dylan in a memoir, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. Reviewing the book for Salon, Stephanie Zacharek writes, “This is an honest book about a great love affair, set against the folk-music revival of the early 1960s, but its sense of time […]
INSTA-REVIEW: Duffy Rockferry
Now playing on Phawker Radio! Why? Because we love you, ya big dummy! BY ED KING ROCK EXPERT How can I review Welsh import Duffy‘s Rockferry album without getting caught up in the UK retro-pop marketing race? “If you like the sound of Amy Winehouse but are put off by the extraneous skank angle, try Duffy!” That works for me. Beside, there’s no topping Winehouse’s take on Lenny Bruce’s “Girl Singing” bit, and the cost of producing bubblegum with Sugar in the Raw is prohibitive. Duffy’s the cute, ever-so-slightly sassy good girl of swingin’ ’60s culture. She’s at her dinner […]
HEAR YE: Duffy Rock Ferry
Now playing on Phawker Radio! Gorgeous voice, soulful eyes, and the ‘Second Coming of Dusty Springfield’ and ‘New Amy Winehouse‘ hype is more than earned. From Wales. She plays the Apollo tonight. Sigh. We are officially in love.
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
EVERYBODY DANCE NOW: Broadzilla DJs, One, Last Night [Photos by TIFFANY YOON]