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April-May Showers Bring Podcastin' Flowers

If one was to program a podcast series in honor of the Spring season, they might be tempted to discuss the technicolor jubliance of...

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Missive to Loozanteen: We Love You, Robert Haimer

Robert Haimer is gone. Well, at least in his physical form, since a cat like that can never truly be gone. Some artists are so...

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No Man is an Island:Bill Ward's Ward One: Along the Way

I originally wrote this back in 2017 for my old Mondo Heather blog. It's now a few years later and this album is STILL out-of-print....

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Rock & Roll Transcendence with a $30 Beer Tab: Blue Oyster Cult Live

One of the greatest shams that happened in the last few decades is the de-fanging of rock & roll: a genre that once inspired nervousness...

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March 2022 Updated-The Rockabilly Music Video Verne Langdon Edition

Spring is almost a-sprunging, which means we are more than overdue for a little Mondo-update! On the podcasting front, I have had the...

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The Rocket Files: TV Party Tonight!

There once was a gift to the American television landscape and that gift was called local or public access. The act of truly...

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Your Nightmare is My Brand: The Art of Patriarchy

In an ocean of the expected, there is an angel of vengeance, a siren of light, and a ruddy-mouthed creature as an artist who goes by a...

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P is for Patreon-Mondo Style!

2021 has been a strange year. Granted, I think I say that about EVERY year, but still, the statement stands complete with funny little...

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ELECTRONIC VOYAGER: IN PRAISE OF RUTH WHITE

There are two key parts that move the vast majority of my nonfiction: heart & preservation. I'm a deeper dive writer, which probably...

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Love That Album Podcast 10th Anniversary a Go-Go!

One of the biggest and best perks of podcasting is the rich art of connection. It's like that one really long "begat" section in the...

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Jim Steinman is The Emperor in Black Leather

If music be the food of love; Give me excess of it “Twelfth Night” Shakespeare Let the revels begin Let the fire be started We're dancing...

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Two Minutes to Midnight: Loss of Cultural Memory & Nuclear Fear in 1980s Music Video

Cultural memory is something that is shaky. Much like our own individual memory, it can be hard enough trying to navigate life when our...