RAW impressions with Lou Barlow and Adelle Barlow

tiny tunes tuesday: perfect way, lazy mind

This tiny tunes tuesday is immediately derailed, for no good reason, by ringworm talk. Lou manages to play two songs: Perfect Way and Lazy MInd before the ringworm talk s

EMERGENCY episode: was the fair unfair to artisans?

Adelle urgently needs to share her RAW impressions of the arts’n’crafts’n’vegetables exhibit inside the round house at the Franklin County Fair. Lou responds by playing s

Earache My Eye: the full re-creation

On his Western Canada tour earlier this year, Lou realized he had to cover both sides of Alice Bowie’s (Cheech and Chong) 1974 single Earache My Eye/Turn That Thing Down.

MUSIC MONDAY: Frausdots, There Near, and the secret of Pitchfork's L.P. ratings.

Lou plays Dead Wrong by Frausdots (a song he takes personally) and his own Blowin' Up (from the new DInosaur Jr LP 'There Near') for Adelle. Sad times in L.A. and Pitchfo

Stephanie Says there's too much 4-Track Man in this episode

Awake after weeks of being unplugged, 4-Track Man interrupts Lou and Adelle constantly as they try (and fail) to recap Lou's 60th birthday SHOW/PARTY. Hear a podcast fan'

RAW OF FAME: novelty trinity

From the RAW archives, 4-Track Man consolidates 3 classic RAW shows for one glorious hour devoted to Lou's slavish re-creations of his 3 most-favorite novelty songs of th

family on tour, band of horses, and Blowin' Up

Lou and Adelle recap their time on tour with Band Of Horses and DInosaur Jr. The second single from DInosaur Jr's new LP There Near is 'out' now https://youtu.be/zS-yO

colorblind, phantasm, hail mary

Lou plays an old song about current issues. Adelle and Lou review an old movie (Phantasm) and a new movie (Hail Mary). 4-Track Man abides. There's still a few tickets l

every t-shirt tells a story

Lou and Adelle are back and discussing a mere fraction of all the stuff that's happened to them in the last two weeks. Topics include the influence of Pete Holmes, festiv

RAW of FAME: the Sconnisodes

While Lou and Adelle are in Wisconsin and -not- able to do a new episode, please enjoy these two episodes recorded in Wisconsin in July 2023! First, a mini-music-monday f

profoundly belated birthday shout-outs

Can't quit the birthday shout-outs, we -won't- quit the birthday shout-outs!! 4-Track Man officiates this HBD episode in classic, awkward, style with requests dating back

talkin' summer tour plans

Lou and Adelle check in about the anticipated Dinosaur Jr summer tour with Band of Horses. The show begins an ends with a 'song' Lou recorded in 1982: Automatic Banana Pe

Melissa from Montreal

What's this? An interview? Why yes, it's a proper interview. How unusual for this RAWcast! Lou and Adelle have the pleasure of chatting with Melissa Auf der Maur about he

RAW of Fame: big double juicy

Lou and Adelle just got back from Adelle’s mom’s memorial/celebration of life in Wisconsin and can’t find their way in front of the microphones yet. In the meantime pleas

RAW of Fame: zig-zag REMASTERED

Please to enjoy this nugget from the distant past (December 7, 2022), Raw Impressions episode 4 -REMASTERED- (the original episode had some jarring volume jumps in it but

mini-music-monday: circle game

Adelle has a realization about what she's going to say at her mother's upcoming Celebration Of Life service after listening to Lou's version of Joni Mitchell's Circle Gam

mini-music-monday: the breezes

Lou plays Adelle another song from his 2016 Apocalypse Fetish e.p., The Breeze. He borrowed the title from, and as a tribute to, the D.C. band Quix*o*tic and plays his ve

'stuff people sent' part II, war pigs and the apocalypse fetish

Lou and Adelle return with an actual new episode, yay! Lou plays another excerpt from his early 1990's mix tape 'Stuff People Sent'. This time it's Music of the Butterbea

RAW of FAME: red light fever..Izzy's CVS jingle

Continuing to adjust to the loss of Adelle's mom with a massive rearrangement of stuff, Lou and Adelle simply can't find time to record their conversations! Please to e

RAW of Fame: silent but deadly the Laurel Canyon experience

As Lou and Adelle gather themselves and adjust the The Shift, why not listen to an olden show of yore! Lou was in a Hollywood Movie many years ago (Laurel Canyon starring