YOBCast Episode 001: RIDE – Nowhere

Welcome to the show notes for Episode 1 of Your Older Brother’s Podcast! I’m not sure how these will evolve over time, but here goes. I’ve included some links to the bands mentioned in the podcast (perhaps not all of them), and some articles where they help expand on the ideas we were talking about. […]

Your Older Brother’s Podcast

Hello siblings! Today I’m announcing the debut of Your Older Brother’s Podcast – because the world needs another podcast! 😄 We have a few ready to release and I have some more people lined up to talk music. For the first episode, my friend Scott Riggs and I talked in spring 2018. We almost started […]

Your Older Brother’s 2017 Year-End Music List

After the loss of David Bowie and Prince in 2016, 2017 turned out to be a good year for music. I don’t know if everyone stepped up their game to fill in the gap (not that anyone could fill for those two) or if it was the political climate, but I really enjoyed the music […]

Juicy Tapes Vol. 5 – A little bit country & rock n’ roll

The full name of this tape is actually “I’m a little bit country & I’m a little bit rock n’ roll, babe. So back off” – you know, from the Donny & Marie TV show? No? There’s not that many of us that remember that show at this point…. Anyway, that title is too long […]

Album Listening Club – I Wasn’t Born To Lose You discussion

I first became aware of Swervedriver sometime around 1991 or ’92 when their U.S. label A&M was heavily promoting them. I was working in college radio, and found out that Swervedriver were from the same town as one of my other musical loves of the time, Ride. Swervedriver had a huge wall-of-guitars way of crafting […]

Stone Roses reunion rumors…again

Last Friday there were rumors swirling around that The Stone Roses might re-form and play some gigs. I don’t really play the “will they/won’t they” game too much. If they do, they do, if they don’t, they don’t. These rumors pop up every year or so, and they never amount to anything. I also don’t […]