Episodes

This week, returning guest - and founder of Rochester New York's Carbon Records , Joe Tunis - brings us a subject near-and-dear to his heart: the music of the New Zealand underground. This essential compilation, ' Xpressway P...

What more can be said about the much maligned 1978 musical film ' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ' that hasn't been said already (11% on Rotten Tomatoes)? But this week's guest, multi-instrumentalist, artist and songwr...

For our first episode of 2026, we talked the New York Dolls and their eponymous 1973 debut with special guest Jerid O'Connell . As a Connecticut teen sneaking into New York City to see the Dolls play places like Club 82 and M...

For our final episode of 2025, we asked our Patrons to send in their favorite - and unlikely - musical collaborations. As usual, they did NOT disappoint! Songs discussed in this episode: Wanted Man (Take 1) - Bob Dylan & John...

When Grammy-nominated Louisiana Zydeco musician Corey Ledet offered to discuss Bruno Mars ' multi-platinum third album ' 24K Magic ', TRGMH host and part-time music snob Rob braced himself for a painful week. But Mars' tight,...

Detroit-born artist Josh Hight - now based in Lewes, East Sussex - brings us The Cure and their enigmatic third record, ' Faith '. For this 1981 release, Robert Smith and co. reached deep down into their souls and produced an...

Poet/Songwriter Sara Mae Henke (The Noisy) brings us Japanese Breakfast and their 2021 album, ' Jubilee '. The third release by musician/author Michelle Zauner , it's a gloriously joyful slab of indie pop with a side-helping ...

Renowned producer/engineer Larry Crane ( Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists, The Go-Betweens, Elliott Smith ...as well as editor and founder of Tape Op Magazine ) brings us Wire and their groundbreaking, highly influential thir...

One of our favorite returning guests, Miami drag icon Shelley Novak (aka Tommy Strangie) , joins us to once again explore his life-long obsession with all things Chrissie Hynde as we discuss The Pretenders and their third stu...

Named after the back seat of his family's car where he recorded the vocals to his early albums, Will Toledo's solo-project-cum-band Car Seat Headrest went from Bandcamp indie-darlings to headlining Coachella in a relatively s...

This week, we Zoomed all the way over to the medieval wine country of Romagna, Italy to discuss The Flaming Lips and their beloved 2002 release: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots with musician/artist Lucas Ward (The Silver Snai...

Arguably one of the most important groups of the 1980s, St Paul Minnesota punk rock trio Hüsker Dü paved the way for 90s indie superstars Nirvana and a host of others while never quite reaching anything close to that level of...

This week we're joined by Tate Brooks and Silas Lourenco Lang (two-thirds of the New Haven, CT band The Problem With Kids Today ) as we unpack Jon Brion 's long lost debut album, ' Meaningless '. Initially released independen...

Returning guest, singer/songwriter Oscar Herrera ( The Sleep of Reason, Black Tape for a Blue Girl ), brings us Bauhaus and their 1980 debut full-length: ' In The Flat Field '. Often cited as a foundational release in the Got...

What is it about multiple voices singing a beautiful melody together that just GETS to us? For this special BONUS Episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a song with amazing vocal harmonies...that got them high! Caution: Ear...

Returning guests Allan & Barb Vest of Oklahoma City-based doubleVee bring us a record considered by many to be one of the key alternative rock albums of the 1980s, ' Doolittle ' by Boston's Pixies . Released in 1989, this col...

Hailing from Cork, Ireland, songwriters Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan formed the band Microdisney in 1980. After relocating to London in 1983, the band recorded six Peel Sessions for BBC Radio and released their debut albu...

Returning guest Garry Messick ( American Doom Podcast ) brings us Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians ' 1991 release, ' Perspex Island '. His third album for A&M records, it's yet another sterling example of Hitchcock's quirkil...

In November 1973, Rolling Stone record reviewer Stephen Davis infamously slagged Elton John 's double album ' Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ', calling it - among other things: "a big fruity pie that simply doesn’t bake". Ahem. No...

For one of our first episodes back in 2018 (S1E3), we discussed ' Hunky Dory ' by David Bowie with then co-host Barry Stock. Honestly, though, for our first 20 episodes or so we were still finding our way and weren't even pla...

New York City singer/songwriter Robert Scheffler joins us this week with an artist Rob somehow slept on all these years - Aimee Mann . Her second full-length, 1995's " I'm With Stupid ", is the one that did it for Robert, and...

For this special BONUS Episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a short song - less than 2 minutes - that got them high. As usual, they did NOT disappoint! Songs discussed in this episode: Fingertips - They Might Be Giants; T...

This week's guest, musician Arad Evans (The Whimbrels, Glenn Branca's Ensemble, Heroes Of Toolik) , chose to discuss a record by groundbreaking New York City band Television that's NOT ' Marquee Moon '! The bands follow-up to...

Bob Dylan 's fifth studio album - and his first to incorporate electric instrumentation - 1965's ' Bringing It All Back Home ', marked a seismic shift in popular music that can still be felt today. This week's guest, Buffalo...