Month: April 2020

vinylcast #27: Yo La Tengo’s I can Hear the Heart Beating as One

Today was a bit overcast and melancholic, so I wanted to set the sountrack right with Yo La Tengo’s I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. It…

vinylcast #26: Yaz’s Upstairs at Eric’s

Did some blogging in the morning about some of the experimentation I did over the weekend getting my classic gaming streaming rig in order, and figured it would…

vinylcast #25: Depeche Mode’s Master & Servant (U.S. Black & Blue Version)

Rowan Peter came on the radio blasting some Depeche Mode through the microphone lo-fi style, so I offered to play him some vinyl. He obliged, but he is…

vinylcast #24: Violent Femmes

Antonella told a great story of her calling Gordon Gano’s house in the mid-80s on the Jim & Anto show so I took that as the cue for…

vinylcast #23: The Psychedelic Furs’s World Outside

I picked this album up in Galway while attending OER19 at Bell, Book, & Candle. It was an awesome little shop, and I bought a few albums, but…

vinylcast #22: INXS’s Kick

I bought this album at a record store in Trento, and after a listen I realized how good it was from beginning to end. Not one I owned…

Cover of the Cars Candy-O album

vinylcast #21: The Cars’s Candy-O

Day 29 of #lockdown and this album popped into mind based on an 2009 Twitter storm by Brian Lamb talking about using this vinyl to wash away the…

vinylcast #20: AC/DC’s Powerage

https://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/1247121443915251712 NB: I had to do my #vinylcast earlier today given I had a jam-packed day of radio. The Jim & Anto show was on course and I…

vinylcast #19: Unwound’s New Plastic Ideas

After lunch I'll be doing a #vinylcast of another Unwound album (The Future of What) along with some band stories from April 5, 1994: the day Kurt Cobain…

vinylcast #18: The Sugarcubes’ Life’s Too Good

Following an epic run from NZ will be picking up the afternoon #ds106radio duty with the Jim & Anto Show – updates from the Italian frontier with Lockdown…