Let It Roll EXTRA

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode, Nate Wilcox and author Ned Sublette have the second of several conversations about Ned’s book “⁠⁠Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo⁠⁠.”

This episode looks at the musical developments in the colonial Caribbean as the Spani…

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode, Nate Wilcox and author Ned Sublette have the first of several conversations about Ned’s book “⁠⁠Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo⁠⁠.”

This episode focuses on the cultural collisions and cross-pollination triggered when E…

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode,Nate Wilcox and author Dave Thompson discuss the first chapter of Dave’s book ⁠An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music⁠.

The Child Ballads, so called because they were collected by Francis James Child in the 1…

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode, host Nate Wilcox welcomes Ned Sublette, author of “⁠The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square.⁠“

Sublette’s book is “a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the …

We're relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. Hosts Nate Wilcox and Yuri Campbell look back at Nate's discussion with Ted Gioia about his book "Music: A Subversive History" and what we learned about the uncontrollable, dangerous power of music, music as magic, and how authorities always try to tame m…

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter.

This episode goes back to the beginnings of human culture and features Ted Gioia discussing his book ”Music: A Subversive History.” Ted and Nate discuss the tension between the social outsiders who’ve always been the source of musical innovation and the ma…

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Justin Bankston take it back to Tejas for the final installment of the first series of "We Dig Rock Docs" with a discussion of Les Blanks' classic 1976 film Chula Fronteras.

Originally dropped in 2022.

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Justin Bankston discuss “Hype!” the masterful telling of what happened when Seattle’s happy little underground scene became an international pop culture sensation, attracting thousands of wannabes and hundreds of reporters to the city.

This episode originally dropped in 2022.

Just before the release of Nevermind and "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Nirvana toured Europe opening up for mentors Sonic Youth. Hosts Nate Wilcox and Justin Bankston look back on this iconic moment from their youth in their discussion of the documentary 1991 - The Year Punk Broke.

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Justin Bankston continue our series on rock documentaries with a discussion of two very different takes on the Sex Pistols story, -- The Great Rock & Roll Swindle and The Filth and the Fury -- both films directed by Julien Temple.

This episode originally dropped in 2022.