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An extremely late entry is upon us. We’re still getting this show back on a regular road, so please forgive us. We didn’t expect it to be so bumpy with everything else that is also consuming our time. The hope is that this will eventually be steadier on the sea of new music that we all once came to expect and appreciate from Radio Casbah. The Holidays are looming so hopefully, we can get a few shows in before the New Year slaps us all in the face. Without further ado,…
Gabrielle Metz has appeared a few times within the highlights of Radio Casbah for a quick review or two. She deserves more than a quick listen. We see a lot of artists that are impressive in one way or another, but Gabrielle is truly amazing. We are hoping that she records more soon, wherever and whatever she is doing at the moment. The world is too silent without her voice and artistic contributions. We open and close with two of her recordings from a few years ago: Cajun Words and Hey Cupid, both originals. Her Facebook is here, and her Instagram is here. You can also probably find some choice treats at YouTube.
Chukwalla, recently submitted their EP, July 2026, and from it, we have, Something Sharper, a song with lush orchestration, and a lyrical sentiment that will rip out your heart and bring you to tears as it explores the mundane details of life as the band rips open a void to explore the vastness of the Universe. The whole EP, recorded over a few days in July of this, is worth exploring as well as the band’s biography of how the recording evolved.
Sometimes, as humans, we listen to music, and it fills us with longing for something unknown, anticipating the wondrous and the beautiful, and the sometimes ethereal and strange. Jack Barnett’s Static is one of those moments. Hopefully, our longing yields more in the form of an album.
And sometimes, it’s all fun that doesn’t get any better than the jangly power pop of the plastic soul of … Plasticsoul. When that guitar jumps from the stage to the middle of the audience making the chords jangle and echo in your ears makes you occasionally grin and yearn for more. J’adore, may we have more? There is probably much more. Follow the link and see where it leads.
Several tracks from this show make us long for a distant time that we enjoyed New York City when the City was still new and we had just begun this show under a different incarnation, wandering from one venue to another discovering a world of sounds in new bands. Some of those sounds, like many still do, filled us with longing. The Search, from Sweden, sent us Lost in a City from the album, Songs About Losers. If they are still around, do fill us with nostalgia for that time, even though we have no desire to return to the City except to visit. For the record, there seems to be a happy abundance of jangle pop in this show. We hope you enjoy it.
And just in time for Halloween and the chilly season, The Jack Rubies have rereleased the 40th anniversary edition of their 1986 EP. The title track, Witch Hunt in Lotusland is sure to delight those that appreciate slightly spooky jangle pop punk. Hopefully, we’ll have more from them in the future. They are a fun band.
Disconnected Genius’ new album has a bit of suburban New Jersey angst in their new album, Nirvikalpa Meow. It may be that we have been listening to a lot of New Jersey radio, though. The album certainly contains a lot of pent-up energy, wound up and eager to release on the world. Just Stay Don’t Go, the fourth track, brings it with a lot of jangly pop punk. The whole album might be danceable.
DANAE released Gold in the Dirt too long ago on the Fevered Brain timeline, and at this point, she has moved on to other things under another name. With the links we were able to find, throughout this exploration. It’s dancey-type music, and she’s got a voice powerful enough to carry it to a level beyond a mere dance track, conveying a story of searching and hope, which we all seem to need an abundance of at this point.
Sometimes, we encounter obstacles that attempt to prevent us from flowing forward with words in some sort of flow or poetic fashion, whether it is musically, here, or the academic writing we are now immersed in. While we need to write many words in a lot less time, getting stuck has never meant “writer’s block” because we keep pushing with a legible scribble on a receipt, a notebook, or on the phone and clean it up to look pretty. Unknower is the project of Steven A Williams. The music is a stark exploration of what seems to be a stark post-apocalyptic industrial, electronic, and synthetic musical landscape. Captive Ones from the album, Unknower 2, released July 2017, is a telling commentary on possible current events and someone’s view of them, albeit from almost ten years ago.
We end with another Gabrielle Metz track, but before we end there, I Am Skully Vegaz brings it with some gymnastic wordplay with The World Is Going Crazy, an almost ten year old track that unfortunately has not aged in its timeliness. The track here is the clean version, but the imagery is still painful to envision, and the commentary is powerful. There are a few newer tracks available on his YouTube channel,h is Facebook page, and his Instagram. If you appreciate his efforts, you should check it out.
RadioMike, A very late 27 September 2026