Episode 85: Michael Azerrad
Episode description
Mike Edison emerges from his post-4/20 haze and joins Judy McGuire for another week of The Mike & Judy Show! Joining Mike and Judy in the studio is author and famed journalist, Michael Azerrad. Michael is responsible for book’s like Our Band Could Be Your Life and Come As You Are. More recently, Michael has started a website called The Talkhouse, which focuses on music writing by musicians. Tune in to hear why Michael believes that this model is a unique voice in the rote world of music criticism. How has indie rock and punk changed since the 80s and 90s? And what is the Internet’s role in independent music? Find out all of this and more on The Mike & Judy Show! Thanks to our sponsor, Roberta’s.
“It wasn’t about the sound. It was more about the freedom to make whatever you wanted and the infrastructure that people built.” [10:20]— Michael Azerrad on The Mike & Judy Show
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