Revolution Come and Gone

For the final episode of season one, we look back at the preeminent ‘80s trash rock band, Pussy Galore , and their long out-of-print final LP, Historia de la Musica Rock . We talk to Pussy Galore founder Jon Spencer , as well as longtime drummer/metal pounder Bob Bert and the record’s recording engineer Peter Arsenault . Because the band split for good before the record’s release, they were unable...

One of the most distinctive and exciting bands of the alternative era was Come . A band as likely to be seen playing the clubs of Central Square in Cambridge as opening for the 120 Minutes titans of the day, like Nirvana , Dinosaur Jr ., and Sonic Youth . In this episode, we follow Thalia Zedek ’s journey through seminal bands Dangerous Birds, Uzi, and Live Skull to finally arrive at Come, the gen...

In this episode, we uncover the story of a little-known but influential new wave artist from 1980’s Boston; a Jayne Mansfield-obsessed eccentric with a thick Boston accent, a frontman who combined the weird charm of Pee-Wee Herman with the punk attitude of the New York Dolls; an impresario who made himself the star of his own DIY variety shows. We are talking, of course, about the great Lou Miami...

In this episode, we speak with DIY stalwarts Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson , founders of the influential Simple Machines label and the band Tsunami. We discuss running your own indie label, wearing shorts in the DC hardcore scene, Sassy magazine , and knowing when it’s time to let it all go. Hosted by Dylan Metrano and Gregory Moss . Episode artwork by Alan Bull .

For part three in our Boston series, we take a look at the scene in its pre-internet era, when radio played a key role in exposing bands to new listeners, fanzines and flyers were legitimate marketing tools, and musicians were lining up to play the shadiest bars in town. Promoter Billy Ruane was a larger than life figure in the Boston music community. He was instantly recognizable as the man in th...

In this episode, we revisit the glory days of The Rat , Boston’s answer to CBGB’s; and remember an unlikely fixture of the club, Ed’s Redeeming Qualities - a ragtag folk group of artists who were a true punk band, even though they may not have looked like or sounded the part. We speak with Toby Ingalls ( Lou Miami and the Kozmetix, Magic 12 ), Jon Bernhardt ( WMBR DJ), Tanya Donnely ( Throwing Mus...

Boston in the ‘80s and early ‘90s hosted a little-known and mostly undocumented underground music scene of incredible diversity, talent and vitality. In this first episode in our examination of the Boston underground, we talk with proto-punk pioneer Clint Conley about the early days of Mission of Burma; we discover the alluring power of Peter Dayton and La Peste ; and we speak to garage revivalist...

In our second installment of our discussion with David Pajo , he talks about playing Misfits covers in front of Glenn Danzig, why he changed his band names so often, and just how he ended up playing in Billy Corgan’s band Zwan. For the first part of this conversation, listen to Revolution Come and Gone episode 5. Hosted by Dylan Metrano and Gregory Moss. Episode artwork by Alan Bull.

In this episode, we speak with the great David Pajo , who has played with a staggering list of seminal bands - Slint , Palace Brothers , Royal Trux , Tortoise , Stereolab , Gang of Four , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , Zwan , Interpol , and many others. He’s released his own music as M , Papa M , Aerial M , M is the 13th Letter , and Pajo . He’s a virtuosic guitarist who seems to be able play anything with any...

This is the story of the rise and fall of the greatest club in America: Chicago’s Lounge Ax , and the club’s iconoclastic house band, the Coctails. We speak with Lounge Ax owners Julia Adams and Susan Miller Tweedy and the Coctails’ Mark Greenberg about the city of Chicago, creeping gentrification, drawing monkeys on envelopes with Fred Armisen, unaired Coke commercials, and much more. Hosted by D...

In this episode, we talk to the stalwart indie rock sideman Tim Foljahn about his wide-ranging experiences playing with Half Japanese , Mosquito , Cat Power , Thurston Moore , the Boredoms , and Townes Van Zandt , as well as writing music for the fictional band Sideboob on the television show Orange is the New Black . Hosted by Dylan Metrano & Gregory Moss. Episode artwork by Alan Bull.

For the second part of our Lollapalooza story, we hear from the bands who were on the ground, played on, and witnessed the magic of the second stage. We hear from Ron Regé Jr. , Damon Tutunjian , and Andy Bernick (Swirlies); Mark Greenberg (the Coctails); Jenny Toomy and Kristin Thomson (Tsunami); Jad Fair and Tim Foljhan (Mosquito); Mark Robinson (Unrest), David Pajo (King Kong); Carrie Bradley-N...

What would you have done if, at the tender age of 23, you were asked to curate a stage at a multimillion-dollar festival, and you could include all your favorite bands? For Revolution Come and Gone ’s first episode, we talk with John Rubeli about booking the second stage at Perry Farrell’s traveling music festival, Lollapalooza , circa 1993. This is John’s first-hand account of bringing the underg...

In the early ‘90s, a vibrant American underground music scene was dragged kicking and screaming into mainstream visibility – with turbulent, controversial, sometimes hilarious results. Musician  Dylan Metrano  and writer  Gregory S. Moss  speak with major bands, producers, label heads and hangers-on of the era, look back and try to make sense of this transformative moment in American cultural hist...