Mike Edison emerges from his post-4/20 haze and joins Judy McGuire for another week of The Mike & Judy Show! Joining Mike and Judy in the studio is author and famed journalist, Michael Azerrad. Michael is responsible for book's like Our Band Could Be Your Life and Come As You Are. More recently, Michael has started a website called The Talkhouse, which focuses on music writing by musicians. Tune in to hear why Michael believes that this model is a unique voice in the rote world of music criticism. How has indie rock and punk changed since the 80s and 90s? And what is the Internet's role in independent music? Find out all of this and more on The Mike & Judy Show! Thanks to our sponsor, Roberta's.

"It wasn't about the sound. It was more about the freedom to make whatever you wanted and the infrastructure that people built." [10:20]

-- Michael Azerrad on The Mike & Judy Show

This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks is talking with Mircha King of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives about the Pigford case- a class action lawsuit alleging racial discrimination on the part of the USDA concerning the distribution of loans and credits. Tune in to hear Mircha and Erin discuss the roots of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in the Civil Rights Movement, the history and intricacies of the Pigford case, and the changes that black farmers see twenty years after the case. To learn more about the Pigford case, visit BlackFarmerCase.com. This episode has been brought to you by Fairway Market.

"What these lawsuits had asserted that the United States Department of Agriculture had systematically discriminated against African American farmers on the basis of race, which violates the 5th Amendment."

"Before Reagan left office, one of the things that he did was terminate the office of civil rights for the U.S.D.A... So for years there were stacks of boxes and boxes with claims of discrimination that no one even touched."

"We have all of these discrimination claims- we have black farmers, Native American farmers, women farmers, Hispanic farmers- and he [Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture] made a personal commitment to settle these claims."

-- Mircha King on The Farm Report

This week on The Mike & Judy Show, Mike Edison and Judy McGuire are talking about re-zoning and development in Brooklyn, specifically in the Coney Island and Downtown Brooklyn neighborhoods. Guests on the show are politician Lincoln Restler, and filmmaker Amy Nicholson. Tune in to hear Lincoln talk about re-zoning in Coney Island, and how it divided the residents and developers of the neighborhood. Amy talks about her recent film, ZIPPER: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride, which focuses on the removal of the Zipper ride from Coney Island's amusement park. How has the Barclays Center affected Fort Greene and Prospect Heights? Tune into this episode of The Mike & Judy Show to find out! This episode has been sponsored by Roberta's.

"People who wear suits to work shouldn't decide what's cool... When you try to monetize the cool, that's the problem." [6:25] -- Amy Nicholson on The Mike & Judy Show