
It´s just another Wild Weekend as we jazz it up revolutionary style with mr. Shepp, take L Dopa with mr. Albini and preview El Classico with mr. Smith. Plus we´ve got a Cohen protégé, an sixties acid folkie and a new bluesy talent to watch. Enjoy and please do have a wild one. And we´re off in jazz mode with Archie Shepp and a soulful monster from his ´72 masterpiece Attica Blues . Grooves like hell, lamenting in the meantime the miserable fate of activist [...]

Really, really awful news out of the Twin Cities today - singer/songwriter Jeff Hanson was found dead in his apartment yesterday from an apparent fall or other accident. Between 2003 and 2008, Jeff released three well-received solo records for the Kill Rock Stars label. Before that, he was the leader of the Milwaukee-based m.i.j. , one of my favorite late-90's emo bands (even though their sole LP technically came out in 2000). Here's my favorite m.i.j. song from back in the day: m.i.j. , [...]