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  • The Ledge #471: 1981 US Punk Faves

    Posted on April 17, 2021 1:19 am by theledge Comment

    1981 was a very special year for your favorite podcast host. I graduated from high school, and immediately started at the local radio station when I entered college. While the 2 – 6 am shift may seem like a nightmare to most people, it was the perfect opportunity for me to investigate the floor to ceiling record racks in the cramped studio.

    This week’s show represents the US-originated records from that era that mean the most to me today. Most of them I discovered during these late night shifts, but a few of them I must admit they weren’t faves until years later. Of course, I have to highlight the first releases from my two favorite Minneapolis bands of all time, and longtime faves the Ramones put out their sixth album that year. There’s also a couple of new indie labels, IRS and SST, that would greatly influence me throughout the rest of the decade.

    After listening, please go purchase those tracks you enjoy! These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!

     

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  • The Ledge #455: Best Albums of 2020

    Posted on December 12, 2020 3:19 am by theledge Comment

    So let’s get this out of the way. 2020 was a dumpster fire of a year. A worldwide pandemic shut everything down. A contentious Presidential election tore apart friends and families. Race and sexual identity issues became online litmus tests. Everybody was angry.

    Putting together this year’s list then became a tougher task than usual. The initial list for this task included almost 100 records, and the pairing down included cutting out quite a few artists that routinely end up in the upper portion in a typical year. Elvis Costello’s new album didn’t make the cut. Nor did the 2020 records by Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, or Chuck Prophet. Even the surprisingly great reunion records by Wire, Close Lobsters, and the Psychedelic Furs were reluctantly dismissed.

    This week’s episode of The Ledge is a reverse order, Casey Kasem-ish countdown show featuring a track from each of these albums. After listening, please go purchase those albums or tracks you enjoy! These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs.

     

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  • The Ledge #437: 1980 American Punk

    Posted on July 25, 2020 1:29 am by theledge Comment

    Earlier this year I featured a show that focused on British punk rock from 1980. Tonight, I do the same thing but featuring nothing but tunes from American punk bands from that same year.

    It’s kind of interesting how the focus of the punk scene (at least as far as releases went) moved from New York to the West Coast. It was quite a year for California bands, with many veteran acts still pumping out new music, but also a ton of brand new bands with their first single or album. X, The Plimsouls, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, Red Cross, Minutemen, and so many more made their debuts that year. (And yes, there is one error as a non-1980 track was discovered to have aired.)

    After listening, please go purchase those tracks you enjoy! These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs.

     

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  • The Ledge #425: Rock ‘n’ Roll Women

    Posted on April 25, 2020 1:20 am by theledge Comment

    When I was putting together this month’s new release episodes I decided that it was time to also do another all-female episode of The Ledge. Both of those episodes had multiple sets of nothing but rocking women, as did previous months this year.

    The surprise release of X’s first album in over 35 years, along with today’s new albums by Lucinda Williams and Alice Bag, were the icing on that great cake. Plus tonight’s show features the world premiere of Hayley and the Crushers’ upcoming Jacaranda EP, which comes out on June 2. It’s a fantastic show featuring all sorts of different styles of rock and roll from all over the world.

    After listening, please go purchase those tracks you enjoy! These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs.

     

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  • Live Ledge #214: 1980

    Posted on October 17, 2015 1:16 am by theledge Comment

    Live Ledge goes back to 1980 for two hours of punk, post-punk, and every other form of alt-rock from that year!

     

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  • Live Ledge #210: By The Numbers, Part 1

    Posted on September 19, 2015 1:11 am by theledge 1 Comment

    To celebrate a birthday, Hudson starts a two-part series where he plays one song from every year he’s lived.

     

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  • Live Ledge #208: Number Eight

    Posted on August 29, 2015 1:16 am by theledge Comment

    Nothing but track eight’s to commemorate that we still have a couple days left in the eighth month of the year.

     

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  • Live Ledge #201: Track Six

    Posted on June 13, 2015 1:14 am by theledge Comment

    To celebrate the sixth month of the year, tonight’s show is nothing but the sixth tracks of fantastic albums.

     

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  • Live Ledge #199: 1985

    Posted on May 30, 2015 1:22 am by theledge Comment

    Hudson takes a trip back 30 years to night with a show featuring nothing but music from 1985.

     

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  • Live Ledge #195: Record Store Day

    Posted on April 25, 2015 1:20 am by theledge Comment

    Host Scott Hudson shares some of his Record Store Day haul, along with a discussion on the latest Replacements’ shows!

     

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