Continuing in the same vein as the past few podcasts, this week's entry is about a three-piece band from the East Coast (Delaware area to be precise) called Papas Fritas. They were on the Minty Fresh label (same as The Cardigans) and I saw them open for a number of bands during the Nineties at small venues in L.A. In addition to opening for The Cardigans, who were riding high on their  single "Lovefool"  which was also featured in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet movie, they also opened for Blur, The Eels, and The Sugarplastic, whom I featured in Hour 30 a few weeks back. They seem to be largely inactive now so listing their links seems almost pointless, but they can be found on  Facebook , which doesn't appear to have been updated since 2016. However, they are worth checking out as all their albums are available  for purchase online. I was a big fan of them, and I re-ignited my interest in them when they guested on  Yo Gabba Gabba   in 2011. The po...

I bought the album Not In Kansas Anymore by ' 90s alt-rap band Basehead  around the same time I was creating a live rap group of my own with my buddy Syndrome. I was a little disappointed that Basehead wasn't really a full-fledged hip-hop group, but it also made me like the music more. It was far more original than I figured, and helped us to forge ahead with our musically adventurous vision of using live instruments behind dope lyrics. Michael Ivey still sticks by his eccentric, eclectic agenda, albeit now it is tempered with a healthy dose of religious and spiritual proselytizing. It's still an unconventional mix of the sacred and the profane, and I am taking time today to pay tribute to Ivey and his one-of-a-kind style. In a day and age where rappers are being accused of mumbling and not being particularly braggadocious, Ivey's influence is both completely understandable and also inadvertently baffling. When the album  Play With Toys  debuted in the early ...