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All About You The 15th episode of The Desperate Hour is all about you. Yeah, you. And yours. All tunes with You in the title. Music with you in mind. Featuring tuneage you'll like from The Miracle Workers, Cripplers, Dead Moon, Triple Thick, The Konks, and The Methadones. DOWNLOAD
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More In the 17th episode of The Desperate Hour Alex brings you more-no, not just tunes with "more" in the title-but tunes more tunes about love gone bad, drugs and depravity, songs by the numbers and stuff from the CoCoComa, The King Khan and BBQ Show, Thee Headcoats, Wayne/Jayne County and more D...
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I Call Her Name The 18th episode of The Desperate Hour is all tunes with girls names in the titles. Mary, Lorna, and a boatload of Lindas. Featuring tunes from the Lyres, Lightnin' Hopkins, and The Barbarians. DOWNLOAD
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On the 19th episode of The Desperate Hour, Alex cleans house with a whole heap of unlabeled mp3s that he found in the music files of his PC. It's all mixed in with tracks from artists everybody ought to identify like The Slow Slushy Boys, Armitage Shanks, Downliners Sect, The Real Kids, Little Kille...
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The Desperate Hour turns 20-episodes, that is. This episode features tunes from the Woggles, Honkeys, Headcoatees, Hipshakes and more scrap from the musical heap in Alex' PC. DOWNLOAD
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All About Me The 21st episode of the Desperate Hour is all about me, not you, me. All songs with I, me, my in the title or tunes otherwise told in the first person. Featuring tuneage by Unrelated Segments, Urgencies, Busy Signals, and The Hentchmen DOWNLOAD
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Less Is More The 22nd episode of The Desperate Hour is only 36 minutes and 10 seconds, but it's the best 36 minutes and 10 seconds you ever spent. Alex says so. Featuring tunes by The Yardbirds, Richard Hell and The Voidoids, Midnight Shakes and more. DOWNLOAD
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The Halloweeny Spooktacular-ish Thingy... Kinda The 23rd episode of The Desperate Hour packs and hour and eight minutes worth of tunes into 68 minutes. Featuring tunes by The Misfits, Screaming Lord Sutch, The Downliners Sect, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant and what is the creepiest and most appalling ...
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The 24th episode of The Desperate Hour is all about the money. Yesirree Bob, the denaro, filthy lucre, simoleans, scratch...or lack thereof. Featuring 3 different versions of Money (that's what I want) and other tracks featuring The Outsiders, Nomads, and early vocals from the likes of Sammy Hagar a...
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Abbey Lounge R.I.P. For the 25th episode of The Desperate Hour, Alex pays tribute to the Abbey Lounge in Inman Square in Somerville, MA. The Abbey was an integral part of the garage punk revival earlier this decade and was home to many bands that would enjoy popularity outside Boston and New Englan...