One of the most distinctive and exciting bands of the alternative era was Come. A band as likely to be seen playing the clubs of Central Square in Cambridge as opening for the 120 Minutes titans of the day, like Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., and Sonic Youth. In this episode, we follow Thalia Zedek’s journey through seminal bands Dangerous Birds, Uzi, and Live Skull to finally arrive at Come, the genre-defying band she formed with her musical soulmate Chris Brokaw.
We speak with Thalia, Chris, and WMBR DJ Jon Bernhart.
Hosted by Dylan Metrano and Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork by Alan Bull
In this episode, we uncover the story of a little-known but influential new wave artist from 1980’s Boston; a Jayne Mansfield-obsessed eccentric with a thick Boston accent, a frontman who combined the weird charm of Pee-Wee Herman with the punk attitude of the New York Dolls; an impresario who made himself the star of his own DIY variety shows. We are talking, of course, about the great Lou Miami.
We speak with Toby Ingalls (Lou Miami and the Kozmetix), Thalia Zedek (Come, Live Skull), and Clint Conley (Mission of Burma).
Hosted by Dylan Metrano & Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork by Alan Bull.
In this episode, we speak with DIY stalwarts Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson, founders of the influential Simple Machines label and the band Tsunami. We discuss running your own indie label, wearing shorts in the DC hardcore scene, Sassy magazine, and knowing when it’s time to let it all go.
Hosted by Dylan Metrano and Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork by Alan Bull.
For part three in our Boston series, we take a look at the scene in its pre-internet era, when radio played a key role in exposing bands to new listeners, fanzines and flyers were legitimate marketing tools, and musicians were lining up to play the shadiest bars in town.
Promoter Billy Ruane was a larger than life figure in the Boston music community. He was instantly recognizable as the man in the suit jacket with a drink in hand, dancing with reckless abandon at the front of the stage. Despite his chaotic appearance, Ruane was an integral part of Boston’s musical history.
And we speak with WMBR DJ Jon Bernhart about the days when pitching songs to college radio was sometimes the only way to get your music on the airwaves.
This episode also features Claudia Gonson (Magnetic Fields), Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna), Byron Coley (Forced Exposure magazine), Clint Conley (Mission of Burma), Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi), and Dana Hatch (Cheater Slicks).
Hosted By Dylan Metrano & Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork (Billy Ruane) by Alan Bull.
In this episode, we revisit the glory days of The Rat, Boston’s answer to CBGB’s; and remember an unlikely fixture of the club, Ed’s Redeeming Qualities- a ragtag folk group of artists who were a true punk band, even though they may not have looked like or sounded the part.
We speak with Toby Ingalls (Lou Miami and the Kozmetix, Magic 12), Jon Bernhart (WMBR DJ), Tanya Donnely (Throwing Muses, Belly), Clint Conley (Mission of Burma), Claudia Gonsen (Magnetic Fields), Dana Hatch (Cheater Slicks), Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna), Guy Capecelatro III (Bob and Guy), Kurt Davis (Bullet Lavolta), Tom Johnston (manager Galaxie 500), and Ray Halliday (The Buckets, Ed’s Redeeming Qualities manager).
Hosted by Dylan Metrano and Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork by Alan Bull.
Boston in the ‘80s and early ‘90s hosted a little-known and mostly undocumented underground music scene of incredible diversity, talent and vitality.
In this first episode in our examination of the Boston underground, we talk with proto-punk pioneer Clint Conley about the early days of Mission of Burma; we discover the alluring power of Peter Dayton and La Peste; and we speak to garage revivalist Dana Hatch about his long-running trio Cheater Slicks.
In this episode we also hear from Michael Cudahy (Christmas), Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, Belly), Tom Johnston (manager for Galaxie 500), and Kurt Davis (Bullet Lavolta).
Hosted by Dylan Metrano and Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork (Peter Dayton) by Alan Bull.
In our second installment of our discussion with David Pajo, he talks about playing Misfits covers in front of Glenn Danzig, why he changed his band names so often, and just how he ended up playing in Billy Corgan’s band Zwan.
For the first part of this conversation, listen to Revolution Come and Gone episode 5.
Hosted by Dylan Metrano and Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork by Alan Bull.
In this episode, we speak with the great David Pajo, who has played with a staggering list of seminal bands - Slint, Palace Brothers, Royal Trux, Tortoise, Stereolab, Gang of Four, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zwan, Interpol, and many others. He’s released his own music as M, Papa M, Aerial M, M is the 13th Letter, and Pajo.
He’s a virtuosic guitarist who seems to be able play anything with anyone at any time. The story begins while he was still a teenager, and formed one of the most influential indie bands of all time…
Hosted by Dylan Metrano & Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork (Slint's "Spiderland" papercutting) by Dylan Metrano.
This is the story of the rise and fall of the greatest club in America: Chicago’s Lounge Ax, and the club’s iconoclastic house band, the Coctails. We speak with Lounge Ax owners Julia Adams and Susan Miller Tweedy and the Coctails’ Mark Greenberg about the city of Chicago, creeping gentrification, drawing monkeys on envelopes with Fred Armisen, unaired Coke commercials, and much more.
Hosted by Dylan Metrano and Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork (The Coctails) by Alan Bull.
In this episode, we talk to the stalwart indie rock sideman Tim Foljahn about his wide-ranging experiences playing with Half Japanese, Mosquito, Cat Power, Thurston Moore, the Boredoms, and Townes Van Zandt, as well as writing music for the fictional band Sideboob on the television show Orange is the New Black.
Hosted by Dylan Metrano & Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork by Alan Bull.
For the second part of our Lollapalooza story, we hear from the bands who were on the ground, played on, and witnessed the magic of the second stage. We hear from Ron Regé Jr., Damon Tutunjian, and Andy Bernick (Swirlies); Mark Greenberg (the Coctails); Jenny Toomy and Kristin Thomson (Tsunami); Jad Fair and Tim Foljhan (Mosquito); Mark Robinson (Unrest), David Pajo (King Kong); Carrie Bradley-Neves (The Breeders); and Scott Booker (The Flaming Lips manager).
Hosted by Dylan Metrano & Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork (Nick Cave & Wayne Coyne) by Alan Bull.
What would you have done if, at the tender age of 23, you were asked to curate a stage at a multimillion-dollar festival, and you could include all your favorite bands? For Revolution Come and Gone’s first episode, we talk with John Rubeli about booking the second stage at Perry Farrell’s traveling music festival, Lollapalooza, circa 1993. This is John’s first-hand account of bringing the underground to the masses, getting conned by Coolio, not booking the Fugees, and the only band to turn him down. This is Lollapalooza, part one.
Hosted by Dylan Metrano and Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork by Alan Bull, after a photo by Paul Bergen.
In the early ‘90s, a vibrant American underground music scene was dragged kicking and screaming into mainstream visibility – with turbulent, controversial, sometimes hilarious results. Musician Dylan Metrano and writer Gregory S. Moss speak with major bands, producers, label heads and hangers-on of the era, look back and try to make sense of this transformative moment in American cultural history. If you’re hungry to hear about the independent, lo-fi, garage, grunge, avant-garde and punk music of the late 20th century, this podcast will fill your goddamn socks.
In our first 13-episode season, we revisit the second stage of Lollapalooza; explore the careers of journeyman musicians like David Pajo (Slint, Palace Brothers, Zwan) and Tim Foljahn (Cat Power, Half Japanese, Townes Van Zandt); uncover the secret history of Boston’s underground with members of Galaxie 500, Mission of Burma, Throwing Muses, and The Breeders; visit Chicago’s legendary Lounge Ax club; trace the history of the influential Simple Machines record label with its founders Jenny Toomy and Kristin Thomson; and rediscover the final, forgotten Pussy Galore album with Jon Spencer.
Gregory Moss is a writer, educator and performer from Newburyport MA. His work has been produced at Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Steppenwolf, La Comédie-Française, EST-LA, Clubbed Thumb, Capital T Theatre and South Coast Rep, among others. His plays include Indian Summer, punkplay, Reunion, Billy Witch, House of Gold and sixsixsix. He is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Head of the MFA Dramatic Writing Program. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories and his first novel.
Dylan Metrano is a papercutting artist, musician, chocolatier, and writer. He co-hosts the weekly Burst & Bloom Podcast, which discusses every album from his Burst & Bloom Records’ fifteen-year history. He founded the long-running bands Tiger Saw and Cape Snow.
Gregory Moss and Dylan Metrano published the indie rock zine Buzzy from 1993-1998, and played together in the post-rock band Hamlet Idiot from 1992-1999. They’ve collaborated on various other music, theatre, and performance projects over the years.
