August 1st, 2020: The Hoboken Sound

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The legendary rock and roll club Maxwell’s closed 7 years ago. We miss it terribly! The revered Hoboken establishment was home to a bunch of great bands in the 1980s, including The Feelies, Yo La Tengo, The Bongos, and more. This episode highlights some of the artists that were part of the burgeoning Hoboken music scene of the 1980s. Tune in to hear songs from The Feelies, Wild Carnation, Yung Wu, Speed the Plough, The Trypes, Yo La Tengo, Winter Hours, human switchboard, The dB's, The Individuals, Rage To Live, The Bongos, and more! If you’re not familiar with Maxwell’s or the Hoboken Sound, lemme take you to SCHOOL!

• Playlist Title: Local Fidliety
• DJ Name: Tom Gallo
• Playlist Start Date: Aug 1, 2020
• Playlist Start Time: 2:00 PM
• Playlist End Time: 3:00 PM
• Show Description:

  Local Fidelity showcases the best new music from Brooklyn and the greater New York City area music scene. As an avid participant and gig-goer, host Tom Gallo guides listeners through the depths of the city’s unrivaled underground music scene with specially curated playlists and in-depth interviews with local artists that are just on the verge of breaking out. You can also catch the occasional live in-studio performance and hear recorded performances from Tom’s cassette archive, The McKenzie Tapes, which contains a plethora of live performance at various NYC venues over the course of the last 40 years.

Time	Artist	Song	Release	Label
2:01 PM	The Feelies	It's Only Life	Only Life	Bar None
2:06 PM	Wild Carnation	Dodger Blue	Tricycle	Delmore Recording Society
2:10 PM	Yung Wu	Aspiration	Shore Leave	Bar/None Records
2:14 PM	Speed the Plough	The Tide Won't Tire	The Plough & the Stars	Bar None
2:17 PM	The Trypes	The Undertow	Music For Neighbors	Acute
2:21 PM	Yo La Tengo	Barnaby, Hardly Working	Fakebook	Bar/None Records
2:26 PM	Winter Hours	Stay With Me	Winter Hours	Capitol Records
2:35 PM	Human Switchboard	(Say No To) Saturday's Girl	Who's Landing in My Hangar?	Fat Possum
2:39 PM	The dB's	Love Is for Lovers	Like This
2:42 PM	The Individuals	Walk By Your House	Fields/Aquamarine	Bar/None Records
2:47 PM	Rage to Live	Swimmer	Blame the Victims	Bar/None Records
2:55 PM	The Bongos	Come Back to Me	Beat Hotel	RCA Records Label