Episodes
S6E252 - New Model Army 'Thunder and Consolation' with Markus Reuter
For the official start of our SIXTH season, musician/composer/producer/instrument designer Markus Reuter brings us an album that …
S5E250 - Gastr del Sol 'Crookt, Crackt, or Fly' with Joe Tunis
This week's guest Joe Tunis (Carbon Records, Pengo) once again guides us into the world of post-rock, with Chicago-by-way-of-Kent…
S6E251 - Bonus Mixtape Episode with Cheetah Chrome
For this BONUS 'Mixtape Episode', we invited guitarist Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys, Rocket From the Tombs) to curate a mixtape and …
S5E249 - Echo & The Bunnymen 'Ocean Rain' with Corey duBrowa
For Liverpool UK band Echo & The Bunnymen's fourth release, 1984's 'Ocean Rain', they went all-in. Recorded primarily in Paris wi…
S5E248 - Dag Nasty 'Can I Say' with Tim Hinely (Dagger Zine)
This week's guest, Tim Hinely (founder of Dagger Zine and editor of 'Where The Wild Gigs Were: A Trip Thru America’s Legendary Un…
S5E247 - 'That Work Song Got Me High' Patron-curated Bonus Episode
For Labor Day 2022 we asked our Patrons to send in their favorite work-related songs. It's an impressively eclectic list, with su…
S5E246 - The Legendary Pink Dots - 'The Maria Dimension' with Allan a…
Formed in London in 1980, The Legendary Pink Dots - led by core members Edward Ka-Spel and Phil Knight - are an uncategorizable e…
S5E245 - Tori Amos 'Boys For Pele' with Kenny Franklin and Efrain Sch…
Coming up as a teenager playing piano in Washington, D.C. gay bars, Tori Amos has always had a special connection to the LGBTQ co…
S5E244 - Mott the Hoople 'The Hoople' with Brad Elvis and Chloe Orwell
We discuss 'The Hoople' by Mott the Hoople with Brad Elvis and Chloe Orwell of The Handcuffs
S5E243 - The Orb 'Pomme Fritz' with Nick Morfitt
This week we ventured outside the box a bit, as we explored 1994's confounding 'Pomme Fritz' (The Orb's Little Album) by English …
S5E242 - Bonus Mixtape Episode with Mike Watt
"The Man In The Van" himself, Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges) joins us for another BONUS "Mixtape Episode", where we…
S5E241 - Fountains Of Wayne 'Welcome Interstate Managers' with S.W. L…
This week's guest, writer/drummer S.W. Lauden, first wrote about NY band Fountains Of Wayne in the book 'Go All The Way: A Litera…
S5E240 - That Duet/Collaboration Got Me High BONUS Patron-curated Epi…
For this BONUS Patron-curated episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a Duet/Collaboration that got them - metaphorically - high…
S5E239 - Be-Bop Deluxe 'Sunburst Finish' with Bill Burns
Founded in Wakefield, West Yorkshire UK in 1972 by singer/guitarist Bill Nelson, Be-Bop Deluxe were a band that combined art-rock…
S5E238 - Harry Nilsson 'The Point!' with Tony Kapel & Maitejosune Urr…
Husband-and-wife bandmates Tony Kapel & Maitejosune Urrechaga (Pocket of Lollipops) bring us Harry Nilsson's wonderfully weird 19…
S5E237 - 13th Floor Elevators 'Easter Everywhere' with Paul Mahern
When this week's guest, producer/audio engineer Paul Mahern, discovered 'Easter Everywhere' by Texas psychedelic rock band 13th F…
S5E236 - Bonus Mixtape Episode #2 with Vanessa Briscoe Hay (Pylon, Py…
Singer/Artist Vanessa Briscoe Hay (Pylon, Supercluster, Pylon Reenactment Society) joins us for another BONUS "Mixtape Episode", …
S5E235 - Ween 'The Mollusk' with Les Norris
Our 2nd foray into the rock and roll enigma that is Ween, this time diving into their sixth studio album The Mollusk with special…
S5E234 - Curtis Mayfield 'There's No Place Like America Today' with A…
Canadian documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig (Vinyl, I, Curmudgeon, When Jews Were Funny) brings us an album of understated, fluid f…
S5E233 - That Instrumental Song Got Me High
It's another BONUS Patron-curated episode! For this one, we asked our Patrons to send in their favorite INSTRUMENTAL song. No sin…
S5E232 - The Motels 'All Four One' with Shelley Novak
We put the AA batteries into our Sony Walkman and fired up Berkeley California's The Motels 1982 New Wave classic 'All Four One'.…
S5E231 - The Police 'Ghost In The Machine' with Russell Mofsky
The fourth - and penultimate - studio album by The Police, "Ghost In The Machine", is both the sound of a band ascending to super…
S5E230 - Scritti Politti 'Cupid & Psyche 85' with Paul Marfleet
When British band Scritti Politti originally got together at Leeds Polytechnic in 1977, they were a punk-inspired collective of a…
S5E228 - David Bowie 'Diamond Dogs' with Oscar Herrera
In 1974, the one-of-a-kind chameleon that is David Bowie was poised to shed his Ziggy Stardust persona for the Thin White Duke. B…