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The Everett Public Library produces review podcasts of movies (The Treatment) , books (The Lone Reader), and music (Mr. Neutron's Record Closet.) We also produce historical podcast series, such as "Everett Voices" and "Smokestack Soundbites." All are produced under Creative Commons licenses with Attribution and Sharealike provisions.
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Now displaying: Category: Mr. Neutron's Record Closet
May 19, 2020

Mr. Neutron gives the skinny on this early Lawrence, KS punk band, whose music is "somewhat repetitive, minimal, slow to develop, without much growth or direction. Vocals are stylistically odd and sparse. There is a sloppy feel to the whole endeavor. But it all works together brilliantly!"

Apr 21, 2020

What do Akron Ohio and Portland Oregon have in common? Why, iconic first-wave punk music. Mr. Neutron elucidates...

Mar 17, 2020

At times funky, possible progenitors of post-punk, filled with the occasional outburst of bubbly pop music, Talking Heads brought a healthy arsenal of tools to their repertoire.

Feb 18, 2020

Demonstrating a praiseworthy diversity of styles from this fabulous album.

Mr. Neutron is Ron Averill of Everett Public Library (WA).

Nov 19, 2019

Mr. Neutron explores the dark underbelly of mainstream popular music in the form of Portland's three-sister-act, "Joseph"

Oct 15, 2019

From punk to country, from old-timey, to sugar-coated power pop, Mr. Neutron scales the best of 2019.

Sep 17, 2019

Mr. Neutron is beguiled by the many flavors of Pacific Northwest pop music, as it infectiously invades his brain and heart with a mishmash of resplendent gravity and joy.

Aug 20, 2019

Mr. Neutron searches his record closet for twang and bonyfidy country western stars from the Pacific Northwest.

 

Mr. Neutron is Ron Averill of Everett Public Library (WA)

Jul 22, 2019

Jug band, hokum, whatever you call it, the Pacific Northwest has it.

Jun 18, 2019

Mr. Neutron's panegyric to the varieties of current Pacific Northwest Punk.

May 21, 2019

Mr. Neutron pontificates on the profusion of fine surf bands in the Pacific Northwest

Apr 16, 2019

...it's not your electropop or your indie pop or your synth pop. Today is about...Power Pop.

Mar 19, 2019

Mr. Neutron spotlights the soundtrack for the 2017 film Baby Driver, and marvels at its melding of audio and visual.

Feb 19, 2019

Mr. Neutron is Ron Averill of Everett Public Library (WA). Focus is on music of the Ram Rams, Choke the Pope, and Kulululu.

Jan 15, 2019

Spotlighting the swing music in Everett Public Library's music collection.

Ron Averill is Mr. Neutron

Dec 18, 2018

Ron ruminates about his favorite 2018 PNW albums.

Nov 20, 2018

Mr. Neutron spotlights Birch Pereira, a laid-back, yet frenetic Seattle artist who, along with his band The Gin Joints, somehow spans the chasm separating Perry Como, Johnny Horton, Fats Waller, and Artie Shaw.

Oct 18, 2018

Mr. Neutron's audio tribute to Tacoma band Girl Trouble, who weaves a magical web of lava lamps, black light posters, and shag carpeting.

Sep 18, 2018

Mr. Neutron sketches sixty years of Pacific Northwest rock.

Aug 21, 2018

Mr. Neutron samples The Funhouse Comp Thing 2, a raw, dirty-sounding, dangerous compilation of bands who played in Seattle's Funhouse, a punk bar that closed in 2012 to make way for an apartment building.

Jul 17, 2018

Mr. Neutron analyzes the psychedelic roadtrip, fuzz, reverb, and patchouli served up by Seattle's own Night Beats.

 

chord fragments: "Something's Missing," by Brett Edmonds. Courtesy of Internet Archive.

Jun 21, 2018

They're young, they're fresh, they're huge in Spain! Hear fuzz, psychedelia, hooks courtesy of Paul Revere and the Raiders, Yardbird guitar solos, and a trip to the garage circa 1966. 

May 15, 2018

Mr. Neutron surveys the Country/Power Pop/Cuddle-Core output of our own Neko Case.

 

Mr. Neutron theme music by Ron Averill.

Apr 17, 2018

Mr. Neutron provides a snapshot of a truly dynamic era in Everett music.

Mar 20, 2018

Seattle-area instrumental music of the fifties and sixties is the focus of Mr. Neutron's latest foray.

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