All Lights Off Radio

Episode thirteen features tracks from La Crosse’s Ska & Reggae veterans T.U.G.G., energetic Twin Cities pop-rock quintet Joey Ryan & The Inks, Rochester/Winona experimental rock trio Grey Matter Black, and MN folk/blues institution Papa John Kolstad, as well as a set of related tunes by nomadic mad-cap rock legends Baker London, avant-jazz act Matty Harris…

All Lights Off Radio has got the blues! Episode number 12 features music from folk-blues legend Spider John Koerner, Decorah’s prolific performer Joe Price, Chicago’s Bentonia-style bluesman Mississippi Gabe Carter, and roots stompers Steve Kaul & The Brass Kings. For good measure, I also threw in some Winona tracks from looping instrumentalist Bo.Monro, pop-rock jam band The Weathered Heads, and SMUMN math-rockers The Cobbs.…

I kick off 2014 by looking back at the in-studio performances I recorded during my tenure as GM at 89.1 KPVL Community Radio. This episode features original recordings of music by indie-blues maestros General B & The Wiz, inspired Twin Cities shoe-gazers Brilliant Beast, NW Iowa’s premier social justice folk-rock act Andy Juhl & The Bluestem Players,…

All Lights Off Radio’s last episode of 2013 kicks off with brand new music from Winona’s favorite traveling banjo-pluckin’ songstress Kendl Winter, before moving onto cuts from jazzy folk-rock teen phenoms Bomba de Luz, Winona punk rockers Rogue the Wolf, MPLS ska & early reggae champions The Prizefighters, Winona pianist & songwriter Amanda Grace, bluegrass-without-boundaries…

A pair of anti-frac sand tunes — one earnest and one clever — from Winona acts Coconut & The Duke and Corey Koehler start off the ninth episode with a delightful conservationist kick. Music is also featured from cajun country crooner Kevin Anthony & The Twin City Playboys, earnest two-step indie folkers Very Small Animal, MPLS…

Episode 8 showcases music from the brand new John Paulson Big Band Project recording, in addition to cuts from 70’s Chicago Old Town folk scene luminary (& current Decorah resident) Bonnie Koloc, prolific odd-ball Winonan Mista Clue, Rochester’s mad-cap genius Hound (Eric VanKirk), Red House Records artists The Pines, Winona’s own crooner extraordinaire Jacob Grippen, and Twin Cities songsmith Jeremy Messersmith. The…

Episode 7 features brand new music from Winona blues-rockers Shoe Shop and Stillwater’s retro rock revivalists Ruben, in addition to top-notch tunes from Winona-based female-fronted indie-pop act Riflebird, Winona’s country-folk traditionalists The Beef Slough Boys, Duluth slow-core giants Low, Red Wing’s extremely promising young indie-rockers Seb’s Medicine, and former Rearview Mirror members’ odd-ball experimental studio collaboration Objective Subject. Objective Subject is a musical…

An epic 6-minute jam from Jake Ilika’s alt-country four-piece The Heavy Set leads off this week’s show (recorded a day late, because of the River North Dance Chicago performance in Winona), followed by another four-piece with Winona roots: teenage alt-pop act Driftwood Bones. Music from electro-rock favorites Apollo Cobra (a band “bigger than the Beatles” in Winona)…

Music from Winona-raised, Twin Cities-based accordionista & chanteuse Simone Perrin gets episode #5 rolling before transitioning to a three-song set of chamber pop from musical prodigy John Mark Nelson, orchestral indie-rockers We Are the Willows, and crooner extraordinaire Chris Koza. The show concludes with some heavier riffage from indie-blues adventurers General B & the Wiz,  Winona’s mostly-female alt-rockers The Ultrasounds, and legendary…

I lead off this episode by taking advantage of the chance to play the show’s theme music by Mike Munson from start to finish. Mike has finally released his debut full-length album and this show features two cuts from it, in addition to music from Duluth legend Charlie Parr, recent Decorah transplant Namoli Brennet, La…