By paulisded@yahoo.com (theledge) on March 17, 2023
This is another of those shows that really has no format. It’s pretty much a rundown of the music I’ve been listening to around the house the last couple of weeks. There’s some great reissued vinyl by Thee Headcoats, Beat Happening, Bottle Rockets, and others. There’s old faves pulled out of the stacks by the likes of Jason and the Scorchers, Hypstrz, Curtiss A, and (shockingly) The Replacements. But I also made room for some new tunes, highlighted by the return of Minneapolis faves High on Stress with their new single, “Over/Thru”. I have no word as of this point whether it’s a sneak preview of a new full-length album, but I’m obviously hoping that’s the case. Other new tracks include tunes by Huck 2, The Downhauls, Lone Wolf, and The Tearaways. As for the “52 Weeks of Teenage Kicks”series, I aired one of the more interesting remakes that I’ve found of this fabulous song. The story goes that at some point many years ago, former Young Ones star Adriam Edmondson “accidentally” bought a mandolin. After learning a few chords he began to play a few old punk rock faves. This led to him forming a Celtic-leaning band, The Bad […]
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By paulisded@yahoo.com on March 22, 2019
An extended broadcast showcasing the 1979 Midwest indie rock scene.
Posted in 1979, husker du, hypstrz, live ledge, midwest, minneapolis, music, Podcast, suburbs, suicide commandos, twin/tone
By paulisded@yahoo.com on October 16, 2015
Live Ledge goes back to 1980 for two hours of punk, post-punk, and every other form of alt-rock from that year!
Posted in angry samoans, black flag, clash, cramps, dead kennedys, devo, elvis costello, english beat, fleshtones, hollywood brats, husker du, hypstrz, jam, jim carroll, magazine, members, music, phones, Podcast, pretenders, purple hearts, ramones, realpunkradio, rockpile, Scott Hudson, soft boys, squeeze, suburbs, talk, x
By paulisded@yahoo.com on October 12, 2012
This week marked plenty of rock ‘n’ roll anniversaries, both good and bad. We plow through them all.
Posted in allah-las, circle jerks, clash, damned, eyes on film, garage, gene vincent, guitar gangsters, hard-ons, hellacopters, hickoids, hold steady, holly golightly, hoodoo gurus, howler, husker du guided by voices, hypstrz, indie, jim jones revue, lemonheads, libertines, meteors, music, old 97's, Podcast, punk, quakes, ramones, realpunkradio, rolling stones, Scott Hudson, sex pistols, sid vicioius, soul asylum, splashh, talk, ty segall, Wanda Jackson
By paulisded@yahoo.com on August 24, 2012
Tonight’s show features a ton of new and upcoming releases, along with quite a few rare finds.
Posted in black pistol fire, black randy, bob mould, brewers, clash, dead boys, divine fits, garage, gaslight anthem, hollywood brats, hypstrz, indie, jam, jeff the brotherhood, jesus and mary chain, kinks, magic christian, minutemen, mummies, music, new releases, only ones, paul westerberg, phones, pixies, Podcast, professionals, punk, realpunkradio, reverend horton heat, saints, Scott Hudson, sugar, supersuckers, sweet, talk, the bad lovers, the orwells, the rip-offs, the wall, the white wires, thee oh sees, ty segall, wolfmen, young fresh fellows