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On this episode of My Little Underground, my brothers Richard Arriaga and Michael "Smiley" Arriaga join me for a retrospective on our favorite video games of 2004!

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On the 2023 finale of My Little Underground, Katherine Rye Jewell; Fitchburg State University professor, historian, and author is on the show talking up her new book, Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio. Listen as Professor Jewell and myself discuss our shared experience in college radio, the evolving identity of the medium, diversity issues, the punk origins of Newbury Comics, plus the important influence Long Is...

December on My Little Underground means it’s time for Finals! Concert photographer, writer, and all around friend to the show, Conor Rooney returns for our annual recap of our favorite music of the second half of year. Listen to us talk about how we enjoyed the 2023 works of Homeboy Sandman, Foo Fighters, Hotline TNT, Don’t Tell A Soul, DJ Koze/Roisin Murphy, Danny Brown/JPEGMAFIA, and more! 

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This week on My Little Underground, New Jersey band Lightheaded is on the show to talk up their debut EP ‘Good Good Great!’ on Slumberland Records. Stephen Stec (guitarist) and Cynthia Rittenbach (bass and guitar) talk up establishing a relationship with the legendary Bay Area label, their thoughts on Romance and love from family friends, inspiration from The Cleaners From Venus, great Jersey bands and our shared love of The Vaseli...

This week on My Little Underground, radio veteran DJ Sandra Dee tells inspiring stories behind her experiences at Radio Disney and starting her genre-bending show, SweetBeatz on SUNY Old Westbury’s OWWR, Old Westbury Web Radio (my alma mater). We talked about Sandra getting pulled out of her comfort zone during her time at Radio Disney as well as her process of reaching out to artists to interview for her SweetBeatz show that airs ...

This week on My Little Underground, Samantha Campanile (vocals, guitar) of New York quartet, Sadlands! Sam talks up the debut self titled EP of Sadlands and provides an updates on her Samantharants solo project and her other band Answering Machine; who are playing FEST this year! Campanile also talks up the songwriting collaboration of Sadlands, shares some insights to the lyrics from the EP, gives inspiring perspective in balancin...

This week on My Little Underground is video game centric; talking some of the best games of 2003! My brothers Richard and Michael “smiley” Arriaga return to the show to talk up the games from 2003 that had a massive impact on us 20 years later! Listen as three brothers talk up how decades old games like Tony Hawk’s Underground, SSX 3, The Simpsons Hit and Run, WWE Smackdown!: Here Comes The Pain, Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando, ...

On the fall premiere of My Little Underground, Tallahassee based rapper, producer, photographer, Buster Wolf returns to talk up his new genre ambigous instrumental album ‘Jewel Cake’ along with video games he’s currently playing, his upcoming "Don't Tell A Soul" collaboration with his Citronella Room tag team partner, Artisan P and so much more! 

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On an all new My Little Underground, my fifth ever guest, Kelly Moonstone (fka The Afr0dite) returns to talk up her new album ‘I Digress…’, lessons learned from her first tour, including cities that gave her the most love, pre-show rituals, and more! 

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Lamark, host of the podcast Lamark After Dark is back on My Little Underground to talk about what differs this show from Lamark’s previous show The Fresh Movement. Lamark also talked about not being put in a box creatively, celebrities entering the radio/podcast space, questions submitted from the audience and more! 

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Best of ’23 - Midterms 

This week on My Little Underground, it’s my annual Midterms show where I go through some of my favorite music from January to July of this year! Concert photographer/music columnist and my good friend, Conor Rooney returns to My Little Underground to give his mid year music report as well. Conor also talks about his rapidly expanding concert photo portfolio and his upcoming trip to Ireland to shoot a Me...

Betty Taylor, who performs as Velvet Vision, returns to My Little Underground to talk up her debut full length LP, ’Together’! Betty discusses how she picked the singles for this album and evolving her live set. We also unpack some of the anti-capitalistic themes from ’Together’, the concept of guilty pleasures, her growing connection to the Santa Fe music scene, if she misses her radio show The Independent Hour and more! 

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This week on My Little Underground, Dominic Sen returns to the show to talk up her new album ‘Apparition’, her novel that inspired the concept of this album, collaborating, her love of the Brooklyn venue Purgatory and more! 

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This week on My Little Underground we go back ten years to talk up some great albums of 2013! This was a year of great rap team ups (CZARFACE and Run The Jewels), comeback albums (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Quasimoto, My Bloody Valentine) and tremendous debuts (Courtney Barnett, The History of Apple Pie, La Luz). I also compiled a playlist of all releases discussed which is linked below. Happy listening! 

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One of New York City’s finest underground bands, Desert Sharks pulled up to My Little Underground to catch me up on their EP release show for ‘The Tower’ at The Sultan Room because I was on the Left Coast when it all went down. The Sharks also talked up their contribution to ‘Cool Kids Belong Together’; a Yeah Yeah Yeahs tribute compilation, Record Store Day, and Tarot Cards. Listen to a conversation with a band that’s so passionat...

Miami based DJ/Producer, DJ Proof pulled up to My Little Underground to talk up his latest project; Red Wine & Veggie Burgers on Citronella Room. Speaking of which, Proof is the third artist from Citronella Room to appear on MLU and he talks up how he got connected with the Tallahassee, Florida collective. We also have an important conversation about keeping your skills sharp because you never know who is watching or listening....