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12/23/2024

The to Gerry & It’s Another Sunday Podcast for this Matt Piucci/Rain Parade interview!

This week we celebrate our 1st fresh episode to kick off Season 5 of the podcast!This week we welcome Matt Pucci of the band Rain Parade! Rain Parade was a band from the Paisley Underground era in LA back in the 80s. They have just re-released the...

12/19/2024

Thx to Brett & Music Connection Magazine for this Steve Wynn preview from his upcoming West Coast tour in January!

Erstwhile Dream Syndicate man Steve Wynn told us about his love for his Schubb capo... Steve Wynn: I do have favorite guitars and amps and stomp boxes but I swap ‘em out regularly just to keep an element of surprise, avoid boredom and, of course, to match the sound and style of whoever I’m playi...

12/19/2024

Thank you Frank & Under the Radar for this terrific gift guide featuring Skin Yard!

12/18/2024

Thank you Gillian and Goldmine: The Music Collector's Marketplace for this terrific piece on the new Skin Yard box set!

'Skin Yard Select' is here, hitting all those 1980s-era record collecting buttons. Daniel House details the release and more.

12/16/2024

New Skin Yard video!!!!

This is the first time that a video has been made for Ritual Room.SKIN YARD SELECT is a limited-edition colored vinyl 7” box set of 14 songs from Skin Yard, ...

12/16/2024

Thank you to Nate & The Vinyl Guide for this fantastic interview w/ Daniel House of Skin Yard’s new 7” box set. Link in comments!

12/15/2024

Thank you Rumore for this great Afterimage review from Independent Project Records.

12/15/2024

The to the The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music & Joseph for including this cool Rain Parade track for your playlist

The 12 December edition of The Wire ’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Kate Bush, The Unthanks, The High Llamas, Annette Peacock and more

12/13/2024

Thanks to Peter and Ink 19 for this lovely Rain Parade review on release day from Area 51 Recordings!

Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (Label 51 Recordings). Review by Peter Lindblad.

12/10/2024

Thank you Jedd & Strange Currency / KMUW!

Daniel House discusses the Seattle music scene of the 1980s, the importance of The U-Men, the role that community played during his time as a young musician in Seattle and the continued importance music plays in his own community making. We also get some news about at least one future Skin Yard proj...

12/09/2024

Many thanks to The Five Count for this Akin Yard interview with Jack Endino

Check Playlist This episode of The Five Count featured an exclusive interview with musician Jack Endino. Jack is best known as the founder and guitarist of the band Skin Yard. He’s considered by some to be the “Godfather of Grunge” for helping shape the early grunge sound of Seattle. During th...

12/07/2024

Thank you David and thank you Rolling Stone for this Aftetimage review in MOJO

Massive thanks to MOJO and David Fricke for the fab review of the new Afterimage compilation Faces to Hide!

12/07/2024

Pretty, pretty good Dengue Fever….

12/07/2024

GREAT band!

The only Skin Yard song in drop-D tuning. From the odds-n-sods rarities comp Start at The Top.SKIN YARD SELECT is a limited-edition colored vinyl 7” box set ...

12/06/2024

Thx to Jonathan & Outsideleft for this Rain Parade feature from Flatiron Recordings

Outsideleft.com an independent Arts, Music and Culture Magazine our newest story is Third Rail PowerTrip - Revisited

12/06/2024

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12/03/2024

The house is burning but there’s no one home!

**NEW EPISODE ALERT! Listen wherever you get podcasts or go to https://linktr.ee/onlythreelads . Drop you list in the comments!**

We're not content to just talk about great synth-pop albums of the pivotal year of 1980...we wanted to share the discussion with musicians who created one of the great synth-pop albums of 1980! The album, you ask? Party In The War Zone by L.A. band Vivabeat, and we were fortunate enough to have bassist/songwriter Mick Muhlfriedel and keyboardist/vocalist Marina Muhlfriedel joining us.

This surely must be one of the most remarkable stories we've heard of living on the precipice of the big time. They had the hooks and the looks. They were discovered by Peter Gabriel (who was inspired by the whistling hook in the band's "Man From China" to write "Games Without Frontiers) and signed to Charisma. Their song "The House Is Burning (But There's No One Home)" was prominently featured in the film Body Double, and the music video subsequently won an MTV Video Award. Their second incarnation included former Japan guitarist Rob Dean, contributing to their standing as the opening act to bands like Depeche Mode and Gary Numan. However, a series of unfortunate events and unscrupulous managers limited Vivabeat's shelf life.

Fortunately, in 2024, Rubellan Remasters (www.rubellanremasters.com) re-issued Party In The War Zone on CD for the first time, as well as the vinyl-only compilation The House Is Burning: The Best of Vivabeat 1979-86.

Mick Muhlfriedel went on to work on scores for films such as Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, and is currently the President of the wonderful youth organization Downtown LA Soccer Club. Marina Muhlfriedel also got into the film industry, starting as a Production Assistant for Danny DeVito, and eventually getting a Producer credit on movies like Throw Momma From The Train. She is a highly experienced storyteller, writer, and producer, who is currently working on her memoir.

Thanks to Josh Mills from It's Alive Media for the introduction!

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