#641 Buried Treasures & A Giant Dog

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4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot dig up some buried treasures - albums that aren't yet in the mainstream but that deserve some more attention. Plus, cult rock outfit A Giant Dog join them for an interview and performance.

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0:00.0	He took the bomb. From W be easy Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Jim Deereg goddess.
0:21.0	And I'm Greg Kott from Italian Doom Stoner Rock to Los Angeles Electro.
0:25.0	We've got some great musical buried treasures that you need to hear.
0:29.0	Try to understand it's the people who we are. Not right together.
0:37.4	Plus Austin, Texas Indie Rockers, a giant dog.
0:40.8	Join us live in the show Jim. I'm not going to mince any words one of the best maybe the best live band of the last 10 years a giant dog is going to be in our studio. I know you're very excited about that. That's later in the show but
1:13.6	first Greg it's one of our periodic buried treasures episodes. We like to
1:18.8	dig deep and find music that most of our listeners will not have heard yet and share it because we're excited about it. This is up and coming
1:27.4	under the radar discoveries that we are eager to share. And first up for me is a feminist queer trans punk band is how they
1:36.5	brand themselves from Baltimore, Maryland. Came together in 2016. They are
1:41.8	singing about feminism, trans rights, love, sex, and the surveillance state.
1:48.0	Big, big ideas and they pulled them off, led by a really inspired vocalist Rain Alexander.
1:56.2	I love this story Greg the guitarist Kelsey Luz was part of the Peace Corps and while she was in Panama she became acquainted
2:08.0	with this patron saint of Los Tables her name was Santa Librada. And,
2:13.4	Librada, rather than become married to someone that was arranged and she didn't want that
2:19.1	marriage, she prayed to grow a beard and become more masculine to escape this arranged marriage.
2:27.9	Her father was furious and crucified her.
2:30.8	We forget, you and I don't, we were at Catholic school when we were young, you forget how gruesome some of these stories of the Saints are.
2:37.0	She was decanmonized in 1969, but obviously this notion of gender and rights and love and sex, all of this stuff is in this
2:48.4	band's music.
2:49.9	I'm going to play a song called Child Bride, which is about child sexual abuse, a heavy topic,
2:54.8	but Santa Labrada, the band, makes us think and also makes us rock.
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