Articles by Rusty Moose

Rickie Lee Jones is often remembered as a one-hit wonder, and while that label is unfair, it is not entirely mysterious. Her career never became […]

Similar to Al Stewart, whom we highlighted previously, Nick Lowe has spent much of his career operating just outside the music business’s brightest spotlight. Yes, […]

Al Stewart’s classic period plays less like a conventional greatest-hits collection than a personal and historical journal discovered one page at a time. These songs […]

Mutant-FM may be one of my favorite categories because of its versatility and unpredictability. If the other playlists have clearer missions, this one works more […]

808 was the category I feared most going into this early-90s project, and not necessarily for the reasons one might expect. Hip-hop was clearly becoming […]

Pull up to the table for your next serving of musical fruitcake. Yes, it may look suspicious at first. There are strange colors, unexpected textures, […]

Mutant-FM 80–84 is the playlist for songs that refused to sit neatly inside the other four categories. They are not old-guard survivors like Fossil Fuel, […]

Since this project has somehow become considerably more complicated than baking a proverbial musical cake, we have accumulated a bit of a content backlog. That […]

By this point, our various stations have developed identities distinct enough that I probably no longer need to explain how they fit together. Naturally, that […]

Wrong Wave may be my favorite category because it is built from musicians pushing the envelope and playing with sound. This is not really about […]