Entries by Johnny P

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Ep 121 – ‘Follow Yourself Around’ With music by: Rich Girls, Derek Frye, Public Eye, A Place to Bury Strangers, Satanic Togas, Bodega, Tenement

Best of the underground, week of Sept 1, 2020: Victory laps. The Kennedys talk themselves into making a documentary and then talk themselves out of it. 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 […]

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Ep 120 – ‘No Ragrets’ With music by: Hotdoggrrrl and the Sesame Buns, Crag Mask, Strange Unit, Shaken Nature, Loser Company, Electric Shit, Icarus Tyree

Best of the underground, week of August 25, 2020: John’s story about wearing electric gold knickers, some mildly useful advice for musicians and also…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: Sorry for an […]

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Good Trauma “21 Days”

Eli Raymer is the artist behind Good Trauma – I don’t think Eli Raymer understands how happy his music makes me. I really like pop music and people who understand hooks and melody and classic song writing. Eli plays drums for just about every badass band in the Asheville underground music scene – and when […]

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Bad Molly “Lucy Furs”

The direct reference to “Lucy Furs” and the dank atmosphere of this country ballad, the country of abandoned crossroads at midnight, embraces the darker side of music. This is a song that Kieth and Mick would have been happy to drag up from the basement of Mansion Nellcote. Rich reverb drenched guitars and Peter Elwell […]

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Ep 119 – ‘Female Vocalists and Tristan’ With music by: Sea of Dogs, Furies, Rhinestone Pickup Truck, Storm the Palace, Hayley & the Crushers, Foot Gun, Tilly and the Wall

Best of the underground, week of August 18, 2020: Lots of female vocalists. John’s controversial thoughts about the meaning of life and dominatrixes. Also, exclusive artist interview with Foot Gun. Also…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.) […]

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