Downtown Music Collective

The ninth installment of the White Noise: Night Coffee Sessions podcast will be with Tristan Geary!In the podcast we will discuss Tristan’s upbringing in the UK, his background in music and composing and why he veered into the life of a writer as both a poet and journalist, how he feels his work as a journalist informs his creative writing, and much more!Learn more about Tristan in our previous post and catch him perform his poems at the next White Noise event on Friday, November 21! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenkill.substack.com/subscribe

Night Coffee Sessions, October 14, 2025, featuring Ginger Winn!In our ~hour long conversation we talked about who Ginger Winn is, her journey (spanning regions and countries) which brought her to Kingston, what life is like as a full-time recording artist, her musical roots and inspirations, how she views the music and arts scene in Kingston and much more!Feel free to browse these clips to get a feel for the podcast, or find the recording on the Green Kill Sessions YouTube page!Ginger Winn will be our featured performer for our next event on Friday, October 24! Open mic to follow her performance. We can’t wait to see you there! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenkill.substack.com/subscribe

Downtown Music Collective Podcast Episode 6Gammage reviews soul revivalists Durand Jones & The Indications’ album Private Space (2021), The Cardigan’s Life (1995), the Velvet Underground album Live 1969 (1974), and the 2014 film “The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir”. Plus Phil's music video, some live performance, and more surprises! Welcome to the Downtown Music Collective where opinion about the arts matter! Host Phil Gammage reviews and discusses curated music, films, and books from the past and present. It’s a fast moving and engaging show with thoughtful opinion and conversation that will get you rethinking how you feel about artists and the art they make. Phil brings a fresh insight about the arts and he shares with us what he is passionate about and why he feels that way. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenkill.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the Downtown Music Collective where opinion about the arts matter! Host Phil Gammage reviews and discusses curated music, films, and books from the past and present. It’s a fast moving and engaging show with thoughtful opinion and conversation that will get you rethinking how you feel about artists and the art they make. Phil brings a fresh insight about the arts and he shares with us what he is passionate about and why he feels that way.It’s a Texas themed Downtown Music Collective featuring artists from the Lone Star state. Gammage reviews Ruthie Foster’s Joy Comes Back album (2017), ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres (1973), the 13th Floor Elevator’s Avalon Live ’66, and the 1993 film “Dazed and Confused”. Plus Phil's music video, some live performance, and more surprises! (Link in comment below) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenkill.substack.com/subscribe

This episode contains my review of the 80s E. Village art scene film “Make Me Famous”. I’d suggest we really push that in promo, I think there could be interest about the film.Welcome to the Downtown Music Collective where opinion about the arts matter! Host Phil Gammage reviews and discusses curated music, films, and books from the past and present. It’s a fast moving and engaging show with thoughtful opinion and conversation that will get you rethinking how you feel about artists and the art they make. Phil brings a fresh insight about the arts and he shares with us what he is passionate about and why he feels that way.Last Night in Soho, Passin, Polyrock, and Bobby “Blue” Bland.Phil discusses albums from Monica Passin, Bobby 'Blue' Bland , and forgotten new wavers Polyrock. Plus a review of the U.K. film Last Night in Soho (and it’s soundtrack), live performance, and some surprises! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenkill.substack.com/subscribe

The birth of punk blues, the genius of Jeffrey Lee Pierce, and a review the Gun Club’s essential 1981 Fire of Love album. Also reviews of the new album from Charley Crockett Music City USA, Eilen Jewell’s 2009 Sea of Tears album, and the film The United States vs Billie Holiday. Plus live performance, and more surprises!Welcome to the Downtown Music Collective where opinion about the arts matter! Host Phil Gammage reviews and discusses curated music, films, and books from the past and present. It’s a fast moving and engaging show with thoughtful opinion and conversation that will get you rethinking how you feel about artists and the art they make. Phil brings a fresh insight about the arts and he shares with us what he is passionate about and why he feels that way.Last Night in Soho, Passin, Polyrock, and Bobby “Blue” Bland.Phil discusses albums from Monica Passin, Bobby 'Blue' Bland , and forgotten new wavers Polyrock. Plus a review of the U.K. film Last Night in Soho (and it’s soundtrack), live performance, and some surprises! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenkill.substack.com/subscribe

Winter, Savoy, Borges, O’Hora, Swans, and Karen DaltonPhil reviews new singles from Tami Savoy and Sarah Borges, an album from Zephaniah O’Hora , and the amazing story behind Johnny Winter’s first album Progressive Blues Experiment. Gammage discusses the new bio film about the enigmatic 1960s and 70s folk singer Karen Dalton: In My Own Time. Plus the new book about NYC noise titans Swans and live performance.Last Night in Soho, Passin, Polyrock, and Bobby “Blue” Bland.Phil discusses albums from Monica Passin, Bobby 'Blue' Bland , and forgotten new wavers Polyrock. Plus a review of the U.K. film Last Night in Soho (and it’s soundtrack), live performance, and some surprises! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenkill.substack.com/subscribe

Phil discusses albums from Monica Passin, Bobby 'Blue' Bland , and forgotten new wavers Polyrock. Plus a review of the U.K. film Last Night in Soho (and it’s soundtrack), live performance, and some surprises!Welcome to the Downtown Music Collective where opinion about the arts matter! Host Phil Gammage reviews and discusses curated music, films, and books from the past and present. It’s a fast moving and engaging show with thoughtful opinion and conversation that will get you rethinking how you feel about artists and the art they make. Phil brings a fresh insight about the arts and he shares with us what he is passionate about and why he feels that way.Last Night in Soho, Passin, Polyrock, and Bobby “Blue” Bland.Phil discusses albums from Monica Passin, Bobby 'Blue' Bland , and forgotten new wavers Polyrock. Plus a review of the U.K. film Last Night in Soho (and it’s soundtrack), live performance, and some surprises! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenkill.substack.com/subscribe

This is the launching of “Podpoems.” The title coined by Joanne Pagano Weber. Podpoes takes over where Dial a poem left off. Dial-A-Poem was a public poetry service established in 1968 by the late poet, artist and activist John Giorno after a phone conversation with William Burroughs. The service enabled members of the public to call Giorno Poetry Systems and to listen to a poem selected at random by writers including Amiri Baraka, William Burroughs, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Bobby Seale, Patti Smith and Anne Waldman.One Podpeom will be podcast eachmonth featuring work by a poets and writers reccommented through an artist peer to peer curatorial process. This mponth features “Open Room #1” by Bruce Weber. recited by Bruce Weber.Open Room #1my cell phone was out of juiceit had a damaged psychesomething about jimi hendrix's guitarlots of reverb;a demented chorus of poets howling;j. d. rage showed up wearing the blood stained shirtof sid viciousanother poet kept winking at the moona third poet waltzed with a shadowand eve packer scatted a drum roll to billy higginsi read some poems i found in an old trunkwritten while intoxicated with the bluesa musician came by and harmonized with the despair of a hungry cati drank from the fountain of youthand made love with a slip of a girlwho learned to write poetry at the knee of jack michelineit was a beautiful ending to a rough rite of passagesunday afternoon's would never look so good againbruce weber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenkill.substack.com/subscribe