RAW impressions with Lou Barlow and Adelle Barlow

4-Track Man suggests that Lou practice a song for the upcoming Folk Implosion tour, live, in front of Adelle and the RAW Impressions audience. The tour dates (and more!) are discussed.

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The Bakesale series continues but gets side-tracked when Lou reveals Carlos Santana's influence on the song Together Or Alone. After he plays it, a discussion of footwear ensues and dominates the epi…

Adelle has an odiferous visit to the local cinema, Lou delivers a terrible Unsponsored Local Ad, rat-like heartthrobs are discussed.

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Adelle listened to the entire -bakesale- LP and has some feelings about it. Lou does a live RAW version of Jason Loewenstein's Not Too Amused and things get emotional.

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Adelle and Lou debut their first collaborative commercial re-creation: a provocative take on an already provocative Herbal Essences ad.

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Lou plays his song Rebound and Adelle, unexpectedly, seems intrigued by Sebadoh's Bakesale LP and peppers him with questions about the recording of the album. They agree that a Bakesale part 2 is in …

4-Track Man is back, Lou's prepping for an invasive medical procedure, and Adelle found her pen. Summer begins!

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Lou is home from tour and plays his song Father's Day, the day after Father's Day!! Adelle is happy Lou is back. A lost 7" with Dale Crover and Imaad Wasif is discussed.

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It's the last remote podcast for awhile as Lou's tour is nearing the finish line. Topics this week include: Adelle navigating relations with "Massholes", Lou's wonderful time in Europe, "cracking the…

Carlos brought Sonic Youth, Big Black, Scratch Acid, The Butthole Surfers and little ol' DInosaur Jr to Europe for the first time in the 1980s. He -asked- to be interviewed for RAW Impressions! He's…

Lou rolls into Gothenburg Sweden with The Knife on his brain, he figures out 1 and 1/2 of their songs and plays them for Adelle. Meanwhile Izzy did 402 cartwheels at school and The Folk Implosion rel…

Lou is on tour, in Denmark, sunburned and unable to sing for mini-music-monday. Adelle is ready to make the leap and introduce, not one, but two, cats to the Barlow Family Household. Hear their pros …

 Lou is in Amsterdam and Adelle is home in Massachusetts, glitches abound. Lou also shares a cover of “Dick About It” by the band MOTO. Yes, that’s right, the song already exists! Oops!

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Lou is leaving on a long tour and he and Adelle unleash their anxieties about it in this especially free-form, expletive laden episode.Topics include Don Henley, Jennifer Aniston and Lou's greatest u…

For this Mini Music Monday, Lou does a cover of the 1975 hit song "Junk Food Junkie" by Larry Groce. Adelle and Lou discuss the 1970's "health food" craze and their personal favorite Hostess brand "j…

4-track Man demands more Adelle time and Lou unveils a new toy commercial re-creation.

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Lou returns from Atlanta excited to report on Dinosaur Jr's Foo Fighters hang. Did he finally talk to Grohl? Adelle recites some incendiary high school poetry.

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tiny tunes tuesday METAL MACHINE MUSAK: Adelle hears Lou's contribution to the just-released (digitally) tribute to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music L.P. for the first time. After hearing the poem fra…

For this, the 75th episode of RAW Impressions, Adelle and Lou have a typically random conversation. Subjects include, but are not limited to, bunnies, wildlife selfies, the genius of Robyn Hitchcock,…

Adelle and Lou receive 2 pieces of actual, in the mailbox, fan mail! Lou plays a written request, HOME (from his 2005 LP EMOH) and he and Adelle discuss coffee beans and T.V. guides. Thanks Thomas an…