Episode 147: Dave Ramirez (Hypnolovewheel)

Episode 147: Dave Ramirez (Hypnolovewheel)

The initial lifespan of New York City indie-rock group Hypnolovewheel lasted only from 1986 to 1993, but in that relatively short time the band released five albums—starting with 1988’s Turn! Turn! Turn! and culminating with Altered States in 1993. While the band’s fine body of work has been hard to get hold of in the digital age, the band recently got the rights back to their catalogue and now, happily, Parallel Universe a career-spanning retrospective gets a full release (having previously been available on a limited vinyl run). And that’s what guitarist Dave Ramirez and I are here to discuss. Which is to say we’re going through the story of Hypnolovewheel. The formation, the releases, the tours, Yo La Tengo, Steve Albini, Kramer, Jesus Lizard and other names that pop up along the way. Sadly, drummer Peter Walsh is not around the be able to celebrate the release of Parallel Universe (having passed away in 2021), but for the remaining members of the band Dan Cuddy, Dave Ramirez and Stephen Hunking, the possibility of a few shows this year seem to be crystallising—you can follow the band on Instagram for updates. In the meantime, check out Parallel Universe in all its glory on bandcamp right here [https://hypnolovewheel1.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-universe]. Thanks to Howard at Howlin’ Wuelf Media. Hypnolovewheel on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/hypnolovewheel/]. For more stories from the musical underground you can read my new column at New Noise Magazine: https://newnoisemagazine.com/column/mapping-the-underground-1-conan-neutron-on-tour-drama/Mapping The Underground [https://newnoisemagazine.com/column/mapping-the-underground-1-conan-neutron-on-tour-drama/] Check out my latest album ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Real Silence on Drama Recorder⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://dramarecorder.bandcamp.com/album/real-silence] My music on https://ampwall.com/a/tomosmanAmpwall [https://ampwall.com/a/tomosman] Podcast artwork and logo: https://www.garjk.com/Get A Real Job Kid [https://www.garjk.com/] Intro music: “Detachment” by Tom Osman This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomosman.substack.com [https://tomosman.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Episode 146 hackedepicciotto

West Berliner Alexander Hacke and American-born Danielle de Picciotto both have no shortage of their own artistic and musical credits stretching back to the 1980s. While their collaborative paths have intersected over several different projects over the years, hackedepicciotto is the most enduring—with the duo’s 10th album LICHTUNG to be released on the 10th of July via Mute. A beautiful, otherworldly record, layered with electronic and acoustic instrumentation (as well as the pair’s elegantly intertwining voices) there’s plenty about the duo’s latest release to dive into. There’s also time for us to touch on the pair’s experiences of Berlin before, during and after the fall of the wall, why they finally settled down after years of nomadic existence, how they take their music on the road and on stage, Danielle’s writing practice, and a few funny tales featuring Alexander’s time in Einstürzende Neubauten and former Bad Seed Mick Harvey—the three having all worked together in Crime & The City Solution. Photo by Mara von Kummer. Thank you to Howard at Howlin’ Wuelf Media. Order LICHTUNG and check out more from hackedepicciotto on bandcamp [https://hackedepicciotto.bandcamp.com/music]. hackedepicciotto website [https://www.hackedepicciotto.de/]. See hackedepicciotto at silent green Kulturquartier, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany on the 27th of June (info and tickets here [https://www.silent-green.net/en/programme/detail/hackedepicciotto-sonic-morgue]) with more upcoming shows listed on the pair’s website. For more stories from the musical underground you can read my new column at New Noise Magazine: https://newnoisemagazine.com/column/mapping-the-underground-1-conan-neutron-on-tour-drama/Mapping The Underground [https://newnoisemagazine.com/author/tosman/] Check out my latest album ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Real Silence on Drama Recorder⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://dramarecorder.bandcamp.com/album/real-silence] My music on https://ampwall.com/a/tomosmanAmpwall [https://ampwall.com/a/tomosman] Podcast artwork and logo: https://www.garjk.com/Get A Real Job Kid [https://www.garjk.com/] Intro music: “Detachment” by Tom Osman This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomosman.substack.com [https://tomosman.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Episode 145: Joe Cannon (Resurrectionists)

Double EP (out this Friday on Seismic Wave Entertainment) brings together last year’s Anytime You Make A Place For Them and the previously-unreleased Ok, Let’s Play King (both on vinyl for the first time)—two EPs that showcase the distinctive charms of Milwaukee rock four-piece Resurrectionists. Joe Cannon has been leading the helm since the band’s formation in 2018 and we’re going to go through the history of the band and all its releases together. Well, we already have done, but you’re going to listen to it! I mean, you’ve come this far, so you might as well, eh. We’ll also discuss how Joe ended up heavily featuring in a documentary about the director of two of the band’s music videos, why the clock in Joe’s home never quite reaches midnight and take an unexpected diversion talking philosophy as we both attempt to dust off the mental cobwebs. What more could you possibly want? Answers on a postcard. Thank you to Conan (and Dan). Photo courtesy of Conan Neutron. Order Double EP and check out other Resurrectionists releases here [https://resurrectionistsmke.bandcamp.com/]. For more stories from the musical underground you can read my new column at New Noise Magazine: https://newnoisemagazine.com/column/mapping-the-underground-1-conan-neutron-on-tour-drama/Mapping The Underground [https://newnoisemagazine.com/author/tosman/] Check out my latest album ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Real Silence on Drama Recorder⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://dramarecorder.bandcamp.com/album/real-silence] My music on https://ampwall.com/a/tomosmanAmpwall [https://ampwall.com/a/tomosman] Podcast artwork and logo: https://www.garjk.com/Get A Real Job Kid [https://www.garjk.com/] Intro music: “Detachment” by Tom Osman This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomosman.substack.com [https://tomosman.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Episode 144: TOOMS

The members of Limerick, Ireland’s sludge metal band TOOMS have been making music together since before TOOMS was even a thing. Having started out together first as Gaia, bassist Anto Donnellan, drummer Kieran Grace and guitarist/vocalist Alex Hölzinger decided in 2017 the time had come to take the music into a new dimension and so TOOMS was born. Following their debut full-length album The Orb Offers Massive Signals in 2020 the existential black hole that was the global Covid pandemic was not strong enough to completely derail the band—with the trio having now released their follow up KARST on Fiadh, Cursed Monk and Road to Masochist. Visit the TOOMS bandcamp page for KARST and all things TOOMS. [https://tooms.bandcamp.com/merch] Follow the band on Instagram. [https://www.instagram.com/tooms_uta/] See TOOMS live in Galway and Cellar bar on the 26th of June, supporting Bad Aul Dose with Skellig and Partholón — tickets here. [https://fixr.co/event/bad-aul-dose-tooms-skellig-partholon-the-cellar-tickets-796512250?lang=en-US] For more stories from the musical underground you can read my new column at New Noise Magazine: https://newnoisemagazine.com/column/mapping-the-underground-1-conan-neutron-on-tour-drama/Mapping The Underground [https://newnoisemagazine.com/column/mapping-the-underground-1-conan-neutron-on-tour-drama/] Check out my latest album ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Real Silence on Drama Recorder⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://dramarecorder.bandcamp.com/album/real-silence] My music on https://ampwall.com/a/tomosmanAmpwall [https://ampwall.com/a/tomosman] Podcast artwork and logo: https://www.garjk.com/Get A Real Job Kid [https://www.garjk.com/] Intro music: “Detachment” by Tom Osman This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomosman.substack.com [https://tomosman.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Episode 143: Bob Bert (Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore)

Bob Bert has been involved in too many projects over the years to squeeze them all into a 40minute interview, but by golly I’ve done my best. We are first of all here to discuss Beach Bongo Bloodbath, his solo debut, out this Friday on Bar/None Records (in the year of the label’s 40th anniversary). On top of discussing this quirky delight of a record we find the time to talk about Lydia Lunch, John Spencer, Sonic Youth, Bewitched, Suicide (the band!!), Boredoms, playing CBGBs during the No Wave years, covering and interviewing Richard Hell, working with Steve Albini and Mark Kramer, interviewing Vincent Gallo for his 90s/early 2000s magazine BB Gun and, actually, even more. And if that doesn’t whet your appetite, then I guess you’re not a Bob Bert enthusiast. If you are, however, please do come this way. And by “this way” I mean watch/listen to this interview. Check out Beach Bongo Bloodbath on bandcamp. [https://therealbobbert.bandcamp.com/album/beach-bongo-bloodbath] And if you’re in New York, you can get tickets for Bob Bert’s Album Release Bash at Bowery Palace on June 15th right here as if by magic. [https://www.bowerypalace.com/tm-event/bob-bert-album-release-bash/] Thanks to Howard at Howlin’ Wuelf Media For more stories from the musical underground you can read my new column at New Noise Magazine: https://newnoisemagazine.com/column/mapping-the-underground-1-conan-neutron-on-tour-drama/Mapping The Underground [https://newnoisemagazine.com/column/mapping-the-underground-1-conan-neutron-on-tour-drama/] Check out my latest album ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Real Silence on Drama Recorder⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://dramarecorder.bandcamp.com/album/real-silence] My music on https://ampwall.com/a/tomosmanAmpwall [https://ampwall.com/a/tomosman] Podcast artwork and logo: https://www.garjk.com/Get A Real Job Kid [https://www.garjk.com/] Intro music: “Detachment” by Tom Osman This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomosman.substack.com [https://tomosman.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]