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

good morning and welcome to episode 142 of the radio show, now playing (link in bio).  This week marks a couple of important anniversaries, one being it’s now been 13 years since the passing of Public Enemy’s Johnny Grunge (fig 1, left), another being the 4th anniversary of the time the Daily Texan decided in their infinite wisdom a guy owning 400 albums was in some way newsworthy (fig 2).    Unde...

so who amongst us has not been up until 5am contemplating how very different Abel Ferrera’s “Bad Lieutenant” would’ve felt had Schoolly D sampled Tony Joe White instead of Jimmy Page.  Or if Harvey Keitel had been listening to Rosko on WKTU instead of Chris Russo on WFAN.  I mean, we’ll never know for sure but there’s no harm in staying up all night thinking about it, recording a show meant to add...

Yesterday in this W12 rec room, I witnessed two of the lovely gentlemen above having a heated dispute over whether or not Suede were any good. If you know anything about me, you're well aware that I am something of an expert when it comes to lowering the temperature , so I tried to detour the discussion to the (true) tale about how I came to acquire a guitar previously owned by a member of Pu...

The late George C. Scott famously called the Oscars, “a two hour meat parade”, a description that could just as easily apply to this show. And as we’re a day removed from the reveal of nominations for the 95th Academy Awards, this week’s program explores the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ negligence in recognizing “Morbius” (dir - Daniel Espinoza).  Did the studio fail to place the...

while we're ringing the bell ten times for Jay Briscoe, let's maybe also considering paying Sade to sing something besides the phone book given she has such a great existing repertoire. When was the last time anyone dropped off the white or yellow pages anyway (and by no longer doing so, is someone trying to mess with Sade's earning power because if that's the case, it strikes...

you know the saying, “The Gerard Cosloy Radio Hour That Feels Like Two Hours Is For The  Children”?  No, I cannot say I have ever heard it before either, but in light of Big Thief’s invitation to educators (BRING KIDS TO SOUNDCHECK - GENIUS STUFF) I am extended a similar invite to school classes, youth groups, church outings, etc. to observe THIS PROGRAM's preparation and production.  I belie...

like many of you, I've been throughly enjoying Jim Ruland's exhaustively researched 'Corporate Rock Sucks : The Story Of SST', however I think it's time to take an equally deep dive into another historically neglected subgenre from the same era.  Much the way TKO Posse's, "Daddy's On The Pipe" was the perfect rejoinder to The Dogs' "Mama'...

as we knock 2022 on the head, episode 135 is a brief preview of ESPN's efforts this weekend to revive their 2005 telecast of Little Steven's Underground Garage's "New Year's Rockin' Eve".  While the original program (hosted by Little Steven and the late Stuart Scott) featured performances by The Chesterfield Kings and the Moony Suzuki, due to budget consideration...

good morning and a very Happy Hanukkah to all.  As you’re probably aware, this week marks Yo La Tengo's annual 8 night run at lower manhattan’s Bowery Ballroom and every year there is wild speculation over which artists, old or new, might be invited to appear as one of the surprise openers.     I’ve been reluctant to weigh in on the selection process — mostly because my calls and texts to the...

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of Aggie, Michael and James Bailey performing their homage to Einsturzende Neubauten on ITV’s “Coronation Street”.  That this performance failed to substantially boost Neubauten’s streaming numbers at the time is unfortunate, but this would not be the first time someone told Blixa he’d just have to take the L and smoke it (with apologies to Azealia Banks).  Or the l...

This week's show is up a little earlier than usual in light of recent events.   We're lucky we got to share the solar system for a bit with Hamish Kilgour. 

Tomorrow,  December 1 marks the 25th anniversary of Latrell Sprewell's attempted strangulation of coach PJ Carlesimo.  My apologies as I tried to find a good photo of Spree and PJ together but all I found was watermarked / lo-res garbage, so you'll have to settle for a pic of a highly medicated Calvin Klein being separated from Spree at Madison Square Garden some years later.  Though the...

with the arrival of episode 130, I am reminded that a large percentage of the program's listeners are either in transit today or feverishly preparing a family meal of some sort, and in either instance, I can think of no better musical/conversational accompaniment than 2 + hours of me moaning into your ear about how very difficult my past week was and/or how this show is criminally unappreciat...

as we hit episode 129, I’ll share a little personal note that sometimes I am asked what exactly is it I hope to accomplish with this program.  To which I can only reply, would you ask Marshall  Applewhite (or his QB son Major) what they hoped to accomplish? Would you ask Marie Curie (or her daughter Cherie) what they hoped to accomplish?  Maybe the full measure of this show’s importance cannot be...

There's an old baseball adage that claims the key to successful club management is keeping the players that hate you away from those who are undecided. The same could be said of keeping persons who hate Queensryche's 'Operation : MIndcrime' and W*A*S*P*'s 'The Crimson Idol' (ie. me) away from those who attempt to determine which was better (ie. Blackie Lawless, w...

These are confusing times, to say the least (Cronos in Trenton NJ) voice.  If I turn on the television, I can either pick a spirited debate about Kyrie Irving’s YouTube recommendations, a panel discussion about who was the worst Nixon Richard, Mojo or Dale, or most confusingly of all, a gang of thugs labeling Coronation Street’s Peter Barlow, “The Wokemeister” for his walking out on an (unnamed) r...

for episode 126, it’s time to celebrate my favorite week on the musical calendar as we preview the annual Austin edition of the Levitation Festival. As always, it’s an absolute musical embarrassment ….OF RICHES, my friends. Why are there only 4 appearances by the Osees? Why not 40? Are 2 nights really enough for King Gizzard Lizard Wizard Dairy Queen Blizzard? Can a room the size of the former Bee...

Given that this week’s program features a selection from Jerome Cooper’s 1979 one-man percussion opus ‘The Unpredictability Of Predictability’, I asked my producer to arrange for an interview with an expert on private press recordings. Trouble is, he misheard me and thought I said PRIMATE PRESS and instead called the Kyoto University Press Tour who hooked him up with the Primate Research Institute...

there was a lot of discussion online yesterday yesterday about a cancelled EU tour by A.C. which to be perfectly frank, surprised me because if you cannot make a Seth Putnam hologram work out financially, I don’t know what hope there is for holograms of anyone else. I do have a bit of experience in this realm having attempted to mount a hologram tour featuring Mungo Jerry’s Ray Dorset in the early...

for episode 123, I have attempted to determine exactly what was happening on this day nearly 15 years ago when a south austin party store advertised the appearance of LIMPY THE CLOWN with some sort of vampire motif. For all this time I have not been able to reconcile whether Limpy was a clown, a vampire, a combination of both or perhaps the proximity to halloween was crying out for something less...

  Greeetings everyone and welcome to episode 122 of my favorite online radio show (and perhaps yours as well). This week we’re in the midst of Harry Styles’ sold old six-night stand at the new basketball arena (which is a pretty neat trick considering Austin doesn’t even have an NBA team — why don’t we build an Olympic velodrome while we’re at it?). This joyous occasion means asking hard Q’s about...

Episode 121 neatly coincides with the eve of the 19th edition of Memphis TN's venerable Goner Fest and in true investigative journalist/podcast-crusader fashion, I have dove head first in the murky waters that constitute Goner's annual failure to secure the services of THE DOG POLICE for their otherwise otherworldly multi-day event. I'm sure it's through no lack of trying (most...

occasionally, i make a mistake or two on the program. Maybe I accidentally leave the microphone on when I’m yelling at children (someone else’s — they’re a couple of houses away but if I don’t speak up they’re gonna grow up to be total shits). Perhaps I’ll mispronounce a name or a title (apologies to former Canadiens/Avalanche netminder Patrick Roy) , and worst of all, there’s the times i’ve playe...

I think we can all agree there was only one Wayne Static, even if some of us occasional get him mixed up with the guy from Drowning Pool (there's only one of him too, though if I were to google his name I might learn he's been cloned). I can't remember which sports pundit with the extremely punchable face (ie. all of them) opined some years ago that you don't wanna be the guy w...

episode 118 premieres this morning with all the fanfare you’d associate with a a carefully crafted non-apology / apology composed by the crisis management team of Muffy and Missy McGlugglug  -  offspring of the late music industry public relations legend Drinky McGlugglug killed in 2009 during a hostage situation at OddBins (after 2 hours in captivity, Drinky heroically sought to mediate the dispu...