Unpaulished Podcast

FOR VIRGINIA AND TAYLOR
These are the words you will find faintly printed on the back of this record's cover. The songs contained within the cover would not be so faint. Dave Grohl reaches into his deepest depths to bring to surface the grief of losing both his mother and his dearest friend in the same season. We all deal with grief. We all deal with death. But when will those things be dealt with for good? And who will be the dealer?

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opening music : "Mischief" by AlexiAction
closing music: "Passion" by AlexiAction
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A very special thanks to Jessica Rodriguez for making the world of podcasting a bit easier to navigate, even to a slow learner.

This week I had the opportunity to sit down with long time friend Miggy Sanchez, founding member and lead vocalist of Relent. In 2016 Relent hit the ground running and they have the highway miles, air miles, and stories to show for it. Their music and message of hope in the face of hopelessness has taken them all over the world. So with coming up on eight years of writing, recording and touring is Miggy Sanchez and Relent at it's end, or has the adventure only begun? Tune in and find out.

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opening music : "Mischief" by AlexiAction
closing music: "Passion" by AlexiAction
via: pixabay.com

A very special thanks to Jessica Rodriguez for making the world of podcasting a bit easier to navigate, even to a slow learner.

It's 1991. The pop musical landscape is ever changing and at the forefront of this change comes a band from Seattle via a short San Diego flight, Pearl Jam. The only question I had in the fall of 1991 concerning this album was, "Do I purchase this new digital aged compact disc, or do I stick with the trusty cassette tape." Those were simpler times, true, but to be fair I was only in middle school so this was a big decision. Of course, I went with the CD. I couldn't be left behind while desktop computers where taking over every household in America. Ten would go on to sell over 13 million albums, producing singles like Even Flow and Jeremy. Another great song that took over the airwaves in the years to come was Alive. It became less and less just a song and more and more an anthem for a generation grasping for hope.

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opening music : "Mischief" by AlexiAction
closing music: "Passion" by AlexiAction
via: pixabay.com

A very special thanks to Jessica Rodriguez for making the world of podcasting a bit easier to navigate, even to a slow learner.

Few artists can boast the way that Kanye West can, that is both a fact and a play on words. With the kind of impact he has had in the worlds of fashion, rap, and hip hop it's easy to see why he would boast. However, everything Kanye had built up to that point almost came tumbling down following the controversy with Taylor Swift in September of 2009 at the MTV VMA's. If there was ever the perfect time for him to crawl into a secluded space and fade away into the world of used-to-be-great hip hop artists that would have been it. But instead, he draws back into the studio with the biggest team of collaborators he could find to conduct a symphony of creativity and emerges with his greatest work of art up to that moment. Perhaps, that is the greatest lesson we could ever take from this record. Your greatest works of art happen when you surround your self with the greatest artists.

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opening music : "Mischief" by AlexiAction
closing music: "Passion" by AlexiAction
via: pixabay.com

A very special thanks to Jessica Rodriguez for making the world of podcasting a bit easier to navigate, even to a slow learner.

Country musician Anthony Oliver (you know, the guy with the red beard) has recently taken youtube and social media outlets by storm with the song Rich Men North of Richmond . But why, or how? He's not part of a well oiled media campaign. He's not signed to a major record label. He's not donning the latest fashions. He's not surrounded by the "who's who" of the music industry. He's just a guy with a guitar singing from the heart. With his lyrics Oliver has pierced the soul of working Americans facing every array of hardships and hopelessness, many of whom feel let down or even abandoned by the people in government.
To be honest: I don't normally listen to country music, but what is called country music today is hardly country at all. Its more like big city ideas with a pickup truck, a cowboy hat, and fake country twang. Anthony Oliver Music is real country. Even I can tip my hat to that.

RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND

Well, I’ve been selling my soul
Working all day
Overtime hours
For bullshit pay

So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home 
And drown my troubles away

It’s a damn shame
What the world’s gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true 
But it is
Oh, it is
Livin’ in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
They wanna know what you think
They wanna know what you do
And they don’t think you know but I know that you do
‘Cause your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed to no end
‘Cause of rich men north of Richmond

I wish politicians 
Would look out for miners
And not just minors on an island somewhere

Lord, we got folks in the street
Ain’t got nothing to eat
And the obese milking welfare 
God, if you’re five foot three
And you’re three hundred pounds
Taxes ought not to pay
For your bags of fudge rounds

Young men are putting themselves 
Six feet in the ground
‘Cause all this country does
Is keep on kicking them down

Psalm 121 NLT

I look up to the mountains—
does my help come from there?
My help comes from the LORD
who made heaven and earth!

He will not let you stumble;
the one who watches over you will not slumber
Indeed, he who watches over Israel never slumbers or sleeps.

The LORD Himself watches over you!
the LORD stands beside you as your protective shade.
The sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.

The LORD keeps you from all harm
and watches over your life.
The LORD keeps watcher you as you come and go,
both now and forever.

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opening music : "Mischief" by AlexiAction
closing music: "Passion" by AlexiAction
via: pixabay.com

A very special thanks to Jessica Rodriguez for making the world of podcasting a bit easier to navigate, even to a slow learner.

On Leap Year (February 29th) of 2020, just weeks before COVID 19 brought the city of San Antonio to its knees MXPX came through and brought the city to its feet. Energetically led by Mike Herrera, bassist and lead vocalist of the band, the 23 song set was recorded at the Paper Tiger and released two years later. I remember the first time I saw MXPX perform live, it was around 1997. Its refreshing to see that some things never change. Its heart breaking to know that some things do.

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opening music : "Mischief" by AlexiAction
closing music: "Passion" by AlexiAction
via: pixabay.com

A very special thanks to Jessica Rodriguez for making the world of podcasting a bit easier to navigate, even to a slow learner.

The music world recently lost the life and voice of Sinead O’Connor in July of 2023. Her most commercially successful song "Nothing Compares 2 U" was on her second studio album "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got." The title of the album did not match the life she would go on to live. It seems that Sinead's life consisted mostly of going after the things or people she didn't have, with them ever eluding her grasp. Can I stand up and judge her? Or am I just like her?

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opening music : "Mischief" by AlexiAction
closing music: "Passion" by AlexiAction
via: pixabay.com

A very special thanks to Jessica Rodriguez for making the world of podcasting a bit easier to navigate, even to a slow learner.

When Nirvana’s second album cleverly titled Nevermind came bursting
into my living room in 1991 it did not stop there. It took me somewhere I
never thought it could. Eighteen years later that journey came to an abrupt
end. I have the scars to prove it, and I reveal them with a peace beyond
words. Your music is taking you somewhere. Don’t believe me? Oh well,
whatever, NEVERMIND.

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opening music : "Mischief" by AlexiAction
closing music: "Passion" by AlexiAction
via: pixabay.com

A very special thanks to Jessica Rodriguez for making the world of podcasting a bit easier to navigate, even to a slow learner.