Episodes

For this BONUS Patreon episode we asked our Patrons to submit songs that make them happy and tell us why they do. It's a pretty joyful collection of songs guaranteed to make you feel good. Come on, get happy! Songs featured i...

Beloved in their native Canada but often unheralded elsewhere, Kingston Ontario's The Tragically Hip made intelligent, intensely evocative rock music that won them legions of fans in the Great White North. Their final concert...

This episode is about as punk rock as you can get: short, loud and to the point! Returning guest Joey Maya aka Joey Wrecked (The Reactions, Battalion of Saints, The Drummer of Miami Beach) brings us ' An Adjustment To Society...

Birmingham UK drummer Mark Williams (The Jacobites) joins us this week to discuss ' Strawberries ', the fifth studio album - and final one featuring their classic late-70s line-up of Vanian, Sensible, Gray and Scabies - by Br...

Los Angeles musician Marko DeSantis ( Sugarcult ) is a rock and roll lifer. Coming up in the Santa Barbara, CA music scene in the mid-90s, he's made hit records, toured the world and knows a LITTLE bit about the music-busines...

For this Patreon episode, we asked our Patrons once again to send in songs that break their hearts every time they hear them. They did NOT disappoint. Make sure you have a box of tissues within reach... Songs featured in this...

For this BONUS 'Mixtape Episode', we invited drummer Sam Fogarino ( Interpol ) to curate a mixtape and dug into his selections. Sam's mixtape: 1. Auf Wiedersehen - Cheap Trick 2. Smash It Up - The Damned 3. Panorama - The Car...

This week's guest Larry Smith brings us a record by the critically acclaimed, highly influential but criminally unheralded 80s Austin TX band Glass Eye . ' Bent By Nature ' is a melodic-yet-quirky, highly intelligent collecti...

Strap-in for this one, XTC fans: Record/Hot Sauce purveyor Kevin Chanel (Grooves Inspiralled Vinyl/El Enojado Hot Sauce) brings us a curious musical oddity called ' Take Away / The Lure of Salvage' , the 1980 debut record by ...

Returning guest Steve Michener (Big Dipper, Volcano Suns, Dumptruck) brings in Ground Zero for British punk, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols , the one and only studio album by the notorious Sex Pistol s. "We m...

Guitarist/vocalist Chris O'Rourke and drummer/vocalist Rachael McNally - two-thirds of the Boston band Sleepyhead - brings us a double record as intriguingly mysterious and expansive as its name: ' Dragon New Warm Mountain I ...

Wilco 's fourth studio album, the quirky-yet-beloved ' Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ', is widely considered to be the band's masterpiece. So of course Rob dismissed it as overhyped alt-rock critic-bait for 20 years. Returning guest S...

It's hard to discuss British rock band Badfinger and NOT focus on the tragic details of their too-short career. This week's guest, legendary Miami music maven Rich Ulloa (Yesterday & Today Records, Y&T Music), doesn't shy awa...

With their third full-length album, 2011's 'The English Riviera' , British band Metronomy transitioned from garish electro-pop to a sleek, sophisticated sound that's as much Steely Dan as Daft Punk. Our guest, Scottish singer...

For this BONUS Patreon episode, we asked our Patrons to send in songs about drinking and/or drugs. Real talk: Alcohol/Drugs in excess can be bad, but songs about them can be awesome! If you'd like to participate in these epis...

When this week's guest, singer/songwriter Elizabeth McCullough (Alpha Cat), heard the song 'Hoover Dam' by the band Sugar , she broke her 3-song rule (making sure an album has at least 3 good songs before purchasing it) and r...

Listening back to it now, it's hard to believe that Bad Religion 's seventh studio album - 1993s ' Recipe For Hate ' - was at the time considered a polarizing record that many hardcore fans felt was a sell-out. 30 years later...

Buckle-up listeners! This week's guest, Jeff Kaiser (), brings us a record - and genre - that got his teenage self extremely high: It's the 1995 debut album by Tampa Death Metal supergroup Six Feet Under (featuring members of Cannibal Corpse and...

Record store owner and self-professed 'music geek' David Lewis (Elizabeth's Records - Columbus, OH) thinks we should never stop discovering new (to us) music. He's right. Around 10 years ago he came upon the 1972 debut album ...

Buckle-up haters, because returning guest Bobbie Jo brings us mega-selling pop star Harry Styles ' third release, 2022's ' Harry's House '. It's a record engineered to make you feel good. Styles - along with producer/collabor...

For Halloween 2022 we asked our Patrons to send in a song or music that was used in a movie scene that made it MUCH more tense, terrifying...etc. They didn't just stick to horror films - any movie where a song/music was used ...

If you are unfamiliar with British rock band The Bevis Frond and its founder, singer/multi-instrumentalist Nick Saloman , you have some serious catching up to do. Releasing glorious pop/punk/psyche records at a feverish pace ...

While many fans of British band The The (aka Matt Johnson ) might immediately point to earlier albums Soul Mining or Mind Bomb as proof-of-concept, this week's guest Marcia Potts brings us 1993's ' Dusk ' to consider. With a ...

Our old pal Todd Nolan from Nashville Tennessee brings us a barn-burner of an album this week. The Geraldine Fibbers ' sophomore - and final - record, 'Butch' , is a weird, wild amalgamation of alt-country, punk, Appalachian ...