mitch easter 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. […]
19 Jun 2023
Album Review: The Salt Collective – Life
In late 2019 I named The Loneliness of Clouds as one of my favorite releases of the year. At the time, the group (not exactly a group, but I’ll get […]
30 Oct 2022
Album Review: Various Artists — We All Shine On
When thinking back on a particular year in music, there’s often a temptation to focus on a specific subgenre. And most compilations surveying a period tend to organize their selections […]
17 Feb 2022
Album Re-Review: Two Pound Planet — Songs from the Hydrogen Jukebox
Today I’m revisiting a review originally posted more than a year ago. Songs From the Hydrogen Jukebox received what we’ll call a soft release in late 2020. As nice as […]
12 Jul 2021
Album Review: The Eyebrows – Fight/Flight
Listeners wandering into Fight/Flight expecting some sort of slavishly imitative power pop outing a la [any of hundreds of current artists; pick one] will find themselves in for a shock. […]
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 […]
20 Dec 2020
Album Review: Two Pound Planet — Songs from the Hydrogen Jukebox
The story of Two Pound Planet is the story of countless bands: they write and played some great music, got the chance to work with a great producer who understood […]
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