This Sunday, NPR's All Things Considered will feature a story about the new box-set of music: "East of Underground: Hell Below." It was released on October 25th by Now Again Records and David Hollander of Marfa, Texas. NPR host Guy Raz interviews Hollander, who is also a KRTS DJ.
You can hear this episode of All Things Considered on 93.5 FM at 4-5 PM this Sunday, October 30. Listen at Noon to hear selections from the 3-CD box-set.
The anthology contains three rarely heard LPs recorded by US Army GIs stationed in Germany during the Vietnam War. East of Underground, as well as the other bands - SOAP, The Black Seeds, and the Sound Trek - won a Battle of the Bands contest, and recorded albums that were pressed and then given out at recruitment centers to prospective recruits. The blazing deep funk and sweet soul music on the LPs - mostly cover songs -serves as a time capsule of that politically charged moment.
"East of Underground: Hell Below" was produced and annotated by KRTS DJ David Hollander (Inter-Dimensional Music, first Sunday of every month at 9-11 PM), who will be interviewed along with Lewis Hitt, the guitarist of East of Underground.