Keep Your Ear To The Ground : A Conversation With John Davis

It was a real pleasure to talk about and to Las Mordidas this episode. A Dischord supergroup of sorts, featuring Dug E Bird (Beefeater/Fidelity Jones), Jerry Busher (Fidelity Jones/Fugazi), Jon K (Rain/Special K) and Chris Thomson (Ignition/Circus Lupus), these guys only lasted just over a year, but made an indelible mark on the DC scene. Check out the Ex-Voto 12" recently released on LG Records! 

Can't believe we made it to episode 150! We're celebrating by paying our respects to Severin's swan song double 7' release with cohost with comost, Ken Smallwood. Later in the show, singer/guitarist Alec Bourgeois stops by to fill in the context for this elusive and powerful final release. Don't sleep on this one!

Power-pop mod meets hardcore in this beloved Dischord outlier of a release. It was a pleasure to lose myself in these candy coated hooks and non-stop propulsion. And don't get me started on the ridiculously well written lyrics. Adz joins me in the copilot seat once again and we speak with the band later in the episode. Strap in, this is a long ride!

Welcome to yet another EOE side-road episode! I promise to return to regular programming next episode, but I've been sitting on this great conversation for months and this seemed as good a time as any to share it. I had a blast talking with John Davis (QandNotU) author of the great new book on the history of DC fanzines, Keep Your Ear To The Ground. Hope you enjoy the talk as much as I did. Now go order the [email protected]

Consider this a EOE Special Report! In our first non-music podcast, I sit down with author/podcaster/educator Matthew Remski (Anti-Fascist Dad) to talk fascism and how to fight it. 

...And here's the second installment of our examination of Pass and Stow by Lungfish. Adz is back in the copilot seat and Paul Hutzler (whom roadied and road managed for the band) stops by to share some fascinating stories from his time with Lungfish. Close your eyes and open your third... [email protected]

I'm always excited when a Lungfish release comes up on the ledger! Perhaps too excited...? Anyhow, this show I'm joined by Adz Clayton (Holiday) in the cohort chair and we go all the way down the wormhole on this album, and the band in general. Throw the year's top fives in the mix in the intro and you end ups with a ridiculously (even by EOE standards) long episode. Thus cleaving it in two. Consider this the Pass and next time we'll finish up with an interview and the Stow.

On this EOE Sideroads (Patron picked) episode, we dive headfirst into the wild and wooly catalogue of Milwaukee, WI's own Die Kreuzen. In the copilot's chair today is Scott Sheridan. 

On today's episode we welcome a new group to the Dischord roster. Fan favorite Jeff Kaplan returns to help initiate Norman Mayer Group into the EOE family. We talk about the heavy elements, in both sound and lyrics, of these tracks and scrape the internet for the scraps we could find about their history. Then drummer/vocalist Kathy Sawhill joins the conversation to flesh out the band's essence and [email protected]

This episode Sonny Kay joins me to discuss the highly influential debut album by Slant 6. We had a great conversation and surprises abound!