Entries by Johnny P

Ep 127 – ‘Banshee!’ With music by: Riverghost, Neutrals, Oh Sees, Rhinestone Pickup Truck, Cherry Parke, Crying, Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios

Best of the underground, week of Oct 13, 2020: Natural-born performer Summer McClinton offers advice on how to become a natural-born performer. Also TWO big hlycrp announcements. Also, great great music. (All podcasts and reviews are on www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.)   […]

Blog 54: Band Management: Phoenix or Crows…

I’d been writing a weekly blog about seeing how far I could take the Egg Eaters, make them famous, manipulate the levers of power, all the ways to be charming and pushy and brave and game the system. Radio. Label. Press. It kind of worked. But it didn’t work. On February 28th of this year […]

Ep 126 – ‘Imposter Syndrome is Your Friend’ With music by: Dick Move, Fort Not, Fantomex, Neurotic Fiction, The Archaeas, Zig Zag, The High Dials

Best of the underground, week of Oct 6, 2020: Reporting in from different parts of the country, the Kennedys give  valuable bullshitting advice, and also great great music. (All podcasts and reviews are on www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.) This week we played: […]

Ep 125 – ‘The Kennedys Fix Halloween’ With music by: Deaf Preachers, Garett Hatch, Ghost Funk Orchestra, KARKARA, The In-Fuzzed, Violent Mae

Best of the underground, week of Sept 29, 2020: Gookie apple (the game), John’s weird spirituality, and we really do solve the Halloween problem. Also, great great music. (All podcasts and reviews are on www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.) This week we played: […]

Ep 124 – ‘Depressed Bob: A Hip-Hop Musical’ With music by: The Death Valley Girls, Hallelujah the Hills, The Urojets, Butthole, Wild Rocket, Los Oxford, Call the Next Witness

Best of the underground, week of Sept 22, 2020: Famous daughter/guest Cathy Kennedy gets some hard news about her inheritance and becomes a hip hop star. Also, great great music. (All podcasts and reviews are on www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.) This week […]

Ep 123 – ‘To Band or Not to Band’ With music by: Stephen Britt, Los Chousettes, Three Minute Riot, Shred Flintstone, John Kirby & the New Seniors, Impossible Colors, Nicholas Mallis

Best of the underground, week of Sept 15, 2020: Drummers, nunchucks, aliens, male politicians, and John’s secret revenge fantasies. Also, great great music. (All podcasts and reviews are on www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.) This week we played: Left the Party by Steven […]

GARETT HATCH, “Moment Undone”

I couldn’t be a bigger fan. This feels like a song that has been around forever, in these mountains, along these rivers, and through this land. This is today and a decade ago and fifty years ago and muttered at hearths, around campfires, someone’s back room. in the back of a dive bar and up […]

TOP NACHOS, “Frens”

Sure they have a fun name and fun live shows and their band photos are splattered in nacho sauce – but I’m gonna make a pitch here that Top Nachos are some of the best songwriters in the underground music scene. “Frens” is on “Best of BTR Vol 1” by King Pizza Records. The start […]

Ep 122 – ‘Plight of the Worker’ With music by: Harriers of Discord, Astronotun Bir Gunu, Annabell Chairlegs, Benito Plaza, The Pack A.D., The Humms, Sweet Pill 

Best of the underground, week of Sept 8, 2020: Jobs we have known and disliked. First shot at a song about Middlemarch. Also, great great music. (All podcasts and reviews are on www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.) This week we played: Cheers to […]