Welcome to another dig through the often overlooked music of the 1980s! This time around journalist and author John J Thompson of True Tunes fame...
The final in the series of interviews conducted at the 2016 International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, music enthusiastic Phil Oldham talks about the state...
Dr. Ming Wang is an Ophthalmologist and scientist who’s pioneered both the fields of health technology and molecular biology, having published research papers and...
Thieves have stolen all the arms and legs of a sweet child’s baby doll collection! Who would do such an inconsiderate thing? We’re not sure...
Joe Torre has been around the computing block both in soft and hardware since the 1970’s. By taking advantage of his luck and pushing discipline...
DJ Ron Slomowicz has been pumping dance beats out onto the club floors, airwaves and media avenues for over 20 years now. In a moment of...
Another flip through our 1980s back pages, this time around: interning at one of the first hip hop radio stations ever, getting that first kiss...
More philosophical tango, this time around touching on suppression of speech, everyone getting offended, riding on the fumes of past dreams, unheard words, thoughts missed...
As Jews, Geralda & Yuri Zhislin’s parents miraculously survived the Nazi invasion of the Ukraine only to next feel the persecution of the Soviet Union’s...
Tito Puente was considered hands down the “King of the Mambo”, pushing and molding the genre of Latin jazz known by many names over time....
Even when Charlie Coleman was a kid, hot jazz was fading from the mainstream public’s musical preferences. But knowing great music when he heard it,...
Master Hu is Taoist scholar who discusses with us the relationship between the philosophical and religious spectrum of Taoism, the attempt to incorporate Confucianism, making...
More highlighting of overlooked artists from the 1980’s decade. Including Pseudo Echo, The Lazy Cowgirls, the Roxanne Roxanne answer records, 鄧麗君, 15 60 75 Numbers...
This episode features a guy named Steve C who’s had a lot of disappointment in his life. Date-killing bad memory and bowels, opening for a...
Another philosophical discussion, this time around on such light subjects as martyrdom, socialism, forgiveness, failure and spilling huckleberries. Click here to find on iTunes! Click...
More tubular tripping backwards to the 1980’s where this time around we chat about The Kinks doing it again, a Tennessee Waltz crush in Zimbabwe,...
Creating digital worlds in which to explore and interact in used to be the privilege of those who both educated themselves on how to do...
On this week’s episode of In the Corner Back by the Woodpile, African-American Hattie Bruce comes from the past tells about her own simple but...
More philosophical back and forth at the woodpile, this time around discussing the stuff found in silence, time’s changing medicinal hands and knowing perfection through...
Fresh from the 2016 International Association of Jazz Record Collectors convention, we present the first of a series of interviews with some of the organization’s...
Wenzhou church before and after government demolition We’re over in China again and revisiting with our previous guest and friend “Peter”. The young man...
On June 6th, 1944, the Allied forces landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy, France, setting in motion the bloody business of retaking Northern Europe away...
Some years ago I had a record shop and there were moments that made all the struggles and heartaches of having a small business worth...
Almost all the music you hear today is a descendant of jazz music. But sadly it’s time in our mainstream American culture has come and...
If you’re a fan of old timey and traditional American rural music and you happened to catch an earful of the modern ‘Power Country’ or...
A short film that’s currently making the rounds of the film festivals is Sticks, a tense rural psychological drama. The work is set to play...
When it comes to Taoism, there’s few bright lights like Dr. Livia Kohn. A lecturer, author, publisher and a major translator of many obscure ancient...
Most folks know The Ramones as a 70’s band but the guys made some great records in the 1980’s that we could say ended up...
Come listen in to more philosophical badminton In the Corner Back By the Woodpile where art might be tangled up with spiritual disability, the pros...
Come on back to our favorite decade where this time around we ruminate on our major crushes and how they played out on the roller...