RAW impressions with Lou Barlow and Adelle Barlow

Lou's in Ashland, Oregon for a day off and plays a new song for Adelle to see if it has 'legs'. Adelle says it does! Yay!

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What's with hotels these days? More expensive than ever and they want you to check yourself in and make your own keys!?!? Lou and Adelle face the fact that they are just old.

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Lou and Adelle unveil a new segment: Explaining NOT Complaining, where they are a free to talk about frustrating things without judgement! Adelle has Seasonal Affective Disorder and Lou is living ins…

After fearing the worst, Adelle wakes Lou for the podcast with the Find My I-Phone alarm. Lou is awakened, well and plays Lucinda Williams’ I Envy The Wind before launching into his story about meeti…

Lou finds out about The Folk Implosion's bad review in Pitchfork 3 months after the fact. Adelle tells of her crocheting/knitting plans for the Fall/Winter. Lou reveals, publicly, his life-long strug…

Lou writes a tune about touring (Another Day) just before the podcasting begins. Unusually energetic, Adelle asks him what he's on. The continuing DInosaur Jr tour with Weezer and Flaming Lips is rec…

While watching Band of Horses perform, Adelle has an epiphany about live music. Lou smells his own face. Happy Friday The 13th!

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Home for a day, Lou plays Adelle his song Imagination Blind from Dinosaur Jr's FARM L.P. (15 years old!). The continuing tour with Weezer, Tom Petty playlists, and Adelle and Lou's 'datey-poo' at Bos…

Lou is on the Weezer/Flaming Lips/Dinosaur Jr tour! Back on the tour bus, he is reunited with his buddies Stuffy Bunks and Whistlin' Willy who graciously announce this week's episode. Stories from th…

 Lou tries to prove that Sebadoh’s Bakesale influenced Weezer’s Pinkerton L.P., plays his 4-track version of their song Why Bother, and sneaks in a live cover of the Flaming Lips With You just before…

A new announcer for the podcast, Tim Huff, introduces himself and plays a portion of his guided breathing app. Adelle and Lou are excited for the Minnesota State Fair. 

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In the 5th and final (?) installment of the Bakesale series, Adelle and Lou complete their 'dirt to diamonds, diamonds to dirt’ ratings of the LP's songs. Also, Lou plays and explains Mystery Man. 

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On this, the fourth installment of the Bakesale (Sebadoh’s acclaimed 1994 L.P.) series, Lou plays Magnet's Coil then he and Adelle rank their favorite (Adelle) and least favorite (Lou) songs from th…

Ekheart Toll replaces 4-Track Man as the RAW Impressions announcer. Adelle discovers the connection between Dan Harris, the founder of her new favorite app (10% Happier) and her husband, Lou Barlow. …

Carlos Van Hijfte (from mini-music-monday, June 10) travels from Holland to Chicago to attend Steve Albini's memorial weekend. On his way home he stopped in Massachusetts to visit friends, including …

on this super special bonus episode of RAW Impressions, Lou and Adelle discuss 'pole' vaulting, another bat-i-sode, and buzzed scrolling.

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Lou addresses the confusion surrounding the assertion that The Folk Implosion are playing their first shows in 26 years when, in fact, he toured as The Folk Implosion, with a different line-up, exten…

Lou is on intermission from tour and Adelle receives some good news regarding a "problem wildlife" encounter. Lou shares an excerpt from Eckhart Tolle's The Power Of Now audiobook and discusses his c…

Lou finally finds the time, early morning, sitting on the floor in an after-show crash pad, to pod with Adelle. Details of the on-going The Folk Implosion tour are discussed as well as new cat name i…

Not-so-ready to air Bakesale part 4, Adelle and Lou chat about the Newark airport, bro-ing down to obscure music, and porn as wallpaper instead. Lou then plays two songs: Holding Back The Year and Cl…