let’s active Archive
20 Oct 2025
BONUS POST: Preview – Mitch Easter and Gang
One of the best (and most underrated) bands of the so-called new wave era was Let’s Active. Founded by Winston-Salem musical wunderkind Mitch Easter, Let’s Active combined sophisticated pop with […]
22 Nov 2024
Edge of the World: Let’s Active at 40 (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… Easter initially liked what he knew of the I.R.S. business model. “I liked it from a practical standpoint,” he says. “But I had a very cavalier […]
21 Nov 2024
Edge of the World: Let’s Active at 40 (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Easter looks back at that period – now thought of as the dawn of “college rock” or alternative rock – as a musically freewheeling time when […]
20 Nov 2024
Edge of the World: Let’s Active at 40 (Part 1 of 3)
NOTE: This feature was originally commissioned by a print magazine in 2022, never to appear. After three years on that merry-go-round I’ve decided instead to publish it here on Musoscribe. […]
29 Jun 2021
Album Review: Various Artists – Yesterday’s Tomorrow
If you’re at all familiar with the alternate and/or college rock scenes of the 1970s and ‘80s, you’ll know the names Mitch Easter (Let’s Active, producer of R.E.M.), Peter Holsapple […]