The Gerard Cosloy Radio Hour (That Feels Like Two Hours)

Episode 92 is upon us and as much as I appreciate all of your cards and letters each week (the cards, anyway) at the risk of being overly sensitive I must take issue with any instance in which this show has been characterized as a “mix” or a “mixtape” or god fucking forbid, a “playlist”. I’m certain there are philistines out there who engage in that sort of thing and if that’s how they choose to d...

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during a pre-dusk hike through the lovely park behind my vast estate, I was so overcome with the  beauty on display that I thought it would be a good idea to focus episode #90 of the program  around music inspired and informed by our natural environment. The air.  The trees.  The soil.  The water.  The tiny red ants that got into my right shoe and left me with a discernible limp that may or may ha...

for episode 89, the initial plan was to focus on decorated archival label Light In The Car Sick’s dogged efforts to assemble a box set containing the entire Mutha Records oeuvre. Months of interviews and post-production went down the toilet, however, when this program’s rights clearance department — currently on a losing streak to rival that of the 2010-2011 Cleveland Cavaliers —neglected to obtai...

greetings and welcome to episode #88. It was touch and go for a moment whether or not this show would get completed on time — I was occupied most of yesterday tracking the progress of my bid for an NFT of Wild Dogs’ ‘Man’s Best Friend’ (Shrapnel, 1984). Unfortunately, it seems my personal assistant fucked up royally and instead was bidding on the far less interesting 2015 reunion album NFT, ‘Born...

you may or may not have seen the recent story being circulated in which Jim Seals and Dash Crofts, aka Seals & Crofts, have asked Mixcloud to remove their music unless the online radio platform CANCELS this show. It seems the duo took exception to my recent claim that Brady Seals & Lua Crofts’ “Seals & Crofts 2” was a huge fraud on the scale of ELO Pt. II (though paradoxically, not nea...

As some of you have probably guessed, many weeks I struggle to come up with original content for this program.  The syndication service behind the show recently told me that telling the story about the time I was asked to leave the Bloodhound Gang’s green room would not be sufficient basis for a two hour podcast. Instead, it was suggested that I take a tip from some of my alleged “peers” in the wo...

For episode 85, let’s celebrate the 5th anniversary of the time I was physically ejected from an opening day matinee screening of “Patriot’s Day” because my ringtone (the Dropkick Murphy’s “Shipping Up To Boston”) went off a half dozen times during the film’s first 30 minutes. It was a new phone, I had trouble finding the mute button in the dark. This was an unfortunate incident for all parties, e...

For episode 84 and the first narrowcast of 2021, I'd like to take a few moments to discuss the SLEAZY SIDE of the streaming radio sector. To wit, the heavy-handed attempts of one disreputable label, Kindly Cock Records, to influence the programming of this show. Unlike most of you, I've got something called ETHICS -- not to be confused with a no longer in vogue skate shoe --- and it will...

With the 83rd episode of this program, I am sorry to announce that all New Year's Eve plans are cancelled due to AN ABUNDANCE OF STEVE CAUTHEN. While you'lll surely miss seeing your friends Friday night --- and possibly for many nights to follow --- there is considerable consolation in being able to spend that time combing thru hundreds of photos of Steve Cauthen. If you need any music t...

Have your holiday plans been upended by Omicron? Did your longtime sports-entertainment employer suspend you without pay for using the word "hospital" instead of "medical facility"? Has your significant other dumped all your shit on the sidewalk because you were told to never again repeat the story about riding on the same elevator with Fran Drescher and sure enough, you went a...

If you'll allow me to get personal for a moment, last week i was in a hotel room in (Justin Roberts voice) North Carolina flipping channels and came up on the cinematic atrocity known as "Blues Brothers 2000" (1998, dir. - John Landis). It would not be an exaggeration to say this Belushi-less exercise was a full frontal assault on the senses (if not the sensibilities), an insult to...

Episode number 80 of this show marks the 13th anniversary of the alleged passing of Newport, R.I. socialite Martha "Sunny" Von Bülow.  I say "alleged" because this week's special guest, music journalist & author Alexander Christmas-Barke, clams to possess proof that Von Bülow faked her own death in order to play a pivotal, albeit shadowy behind the scenes role in the T...

It was reported yesterday (fig. 2) that Chris Christie’s new book, despite a #1 ranking in Amazon’s “Radical Thought” category had sold, well, zero copies.  I think we can blame this predicament on something besides the former NJ governor being a universal  pariah and more on his failure to heed my suggestion to title the tome, “Q : If Joe Grushecky and Jon Cafferty Were Both Drowning And You Coul...

with the runaway success of celeb video greeting service Cameo, this week's program dives into what was essentially the proto-Cameo, the barely-hanging-on Hollywoodiscalling.com, a rogues gallery of D-list (and sometimes z-list) talent and reprobates, many of whom are weirdly unavailable AT ALL times (perhaps because they cannot be located). The sub-geocities home page is only the start of th...

Occasionally, there's some miscommunication between an event planner and a performer. The latter might neglect to mention their show includes throwing raw meat into a wood chipper. Or that what's touted as a mock crucifixion is in fact, the real thing (with an unwilling participant). I mean, this stuff happens. We've all been there. Or at least I would've been there had my invi...

as we approach episode 76 of this program, it’s looks as though, once again, I’ve got some good news and some bad news for all of us. For starters, I am sorry to say I have not been able to reach an agreement on my compensation package for teaching a course at the newly launched University Of Austin on the life’s work of Curt Low (see fig. 1). It saddens me that an institution that feigns dedicati...

welcome to the 75th episode of this program and as you’ve come to expect, I’m not about to shy away from topics other online radio shows are too cowardly or squeamish to touch. I’d hoped to devote this show exclusively to an in-depth discussion of who is more dangerously delusional, Klay Thompson for thinking he ought to have been named as one of the NBA’s 75 top players of all-time or Carmine App...

for episode number 74 of the greatest online radio program (produced in this zip code…well, this side of the street, anyway) it’s time for my annual LEVITATION FEST preview. If you know me, and i hope you do, the Levitation Festival is sort of like Xmas & the 4th of July all smashed together. No check that, it’s more Yom Kippor meets Take Your Anaconda To Work Day, and both of ‘em are running...

this week’s episode tackles the thorny subject of Volkswagon’s 2020 three-part series of television commercials for the Atlas Cross Sport (21 mpg city, 24 mpg highway).  The ad agency tapped Paul Giamatti and Kieran Culkin to play parts  designed to not so loosely recall their current roles on “Billions” and “Succession” respectively, thus causing confusion on the part of viewers who would prefer...

For episode 72, I’m happy to announce this is the first-ever ALL-REQUEST show, but perhaps not nearly as happy that the majority of the requests were either “go fuck yourself” or “drop dead”.  Much like Cronos’ difficulty negotiating with a unruly City Gardens mob, I humbly ask that you refrain from all shouting at me at the same time. I realize I’m not John Gambling, but surely you can understand...

Whether it had anything to do with this program’s staggering popularity or it was a purposeful, malicious act on the part of a rogue state or an ransom-minded hacker, we’ll never know for certain. What we have learned, however, is that Monday’s Mixcloud outage is a cautionary tale for a modern society far too obsessed with convenience. For instance, when was the last time you sought out someone wh...

Did i ever tell you about the time I made a dating profile for King Diamond on Christian Mingle? I felt pretty good about the level of detail that went into it, but only a few days went by before the profile was taken down and my account was blocked.  While this was less galling than the half dozen or so times I've been banned from Yelp, THE JOKE WAS ON THEM because I've since mingled wi...

I don’t often get into deeply personal stuff on this show but for episode 69 I will make a rare exception.  My Amar’e Stoudemire headphones broke into pieces during the recording of this program and it’s hard for me to put into words how upsetting this is.  You can keep your Koss, your Beyer-Dynamics, your Sennheiser cans.  True audiophiles know that Amar’e Stoudemire Skullcandy headphones are the...

A guided tour of the world's 17th biggest landfill isn't quite what it's cracked up to be. Though to be honest, no one really built it up that much.  There's an old saying, "one man's garbage is pretty much straight up garbage" and we're going to try our best to find whoever was responsible for this unhelpful statement.