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This week, I'll introduce another deejay from Little Steven's Underground Garage: Palmyra Delran.   She’s an American Rock & Roll musician, songwriter, guitarist and producer who was born in Princeton, New Jersey and later moved to Philadelphia.  She played in seminal 1990’s Philadelphia-area rock bands The Friggs and Pink Slip Daddy (I’d never heard of them either), as well as several of her own solo releases and recordings.

Little Steven Van Zandt was a reported fan of Delran’s previous band, the Friggs, and attended their 2008 NYC reunion show.  After striking up a conversation with Palmyra, he learned of her new six-track solo EP She Digs The Ride.  He added it to the Little Steven’s Underground Garage playlist, picking “Baby Should Have Known Better” as “Coolest Song in the World This Week” (a regular segment on his station.  This was followed by listeners voting it “Coolest Song in the World” for 2008, which gained Delran considerable attention for her efforts.  

The EP was followed up in 2013 with You Are What You Absorb, Delran’s first full-length solo effort.  The album included “You’re My Brian Jones’, LSUG’s #1 song of 2013.  Little Steven named the album #3 best record of 2013.  Delran tours the east coast, Scandinavia, and the West Coast each year.  

In 2019, Palmyra co-founded The Coolies, a female pop-punk supergroup, with Kim Shattuck and Melanie Vanmen of The Pandoras and The Muffs.    The group released a six-song benefit EP titled Uh Oh! It’s….The Coolies, which was backed by Little Steven’s Wicked Cool Records label and raised over $15,000 for ALS research in honor of Shattuck, who passed away from the disease later that year.  The EP included some of Kim’s final recordings, making it a meaningful and memorable release for fans and collaborators alike.

Palmyra has continued to champion garage rock and punk through her work as a host on Little Steven’s Underground Garage.  Her show, Palmyra’s Trash-Pop Shindig, airs Wednesdays and Thursdays 8 pm-midnight ET and Sundays from 8 am-noon eastern.  In December 2019, she co-hosted a special live broadcast of Jesse Malin’s Sunset Kids album release show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, alongside Outlaw Country’s Mojo Nixon.  

No vlog this week.  Next week I’ll continue chronicling the deejay’s of Little Steven’s Underground Garage!