Sounds of the hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!

In tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Shut-In, your Moderator celebrates Rock Town Hall’s seventh year in public blog form and pledges to take this place to the next level (not saying if it’s gonna be up or down) in 2014. To be fair, you may not consider this our seventh year at this URL. Perhaps you don’t abide by the Christian calendar. Perhaps I counted wrong (we started this place on January 12, 2007, if you want to check my math). Nevertheless, critics will consider this a truly remarkable episode, even by our usually remarkable standards. We’ll keep setting ’em up; you keep knocking them out!

RTH Saturday Night Shut-In, episode 124

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Sounds of the hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!

I’ve always felt that bands from Minneapolis, Montreal, Buffalo, and other cold or snowy weather towns should receive a Scout badge for their winter weather skills. When loading your gear into the club from the van do you leave your coat off and freeze or do you keep your coat on and sweat your ass off? It’s a no win situation.

Cold Wave

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Sounds of the hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!

This is my third independent records spotlight. In this episode we look at the 1980’s label Coyote Records out of Hoboken N.J. It was interesting how much of Coyote Records material is long out of print compared with my two previous record label spotlights from the ’60s (Kapp & Hideout). Further, there is hardly any documentation about the label’s existence despite popular releases by The Feelies and Yo La Tengo. Since this is music from the ’80s, the studio production might recoil some Townspeople but I think there some good gems included in the episode.

Wolves & Coyotes

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