Mick Hans

This week's returning guest, Chicago native and Patron Mick Hans, brings us Britain's The Only Ones and their 1979 US release 'Special View'. While you might not be familiar with the band, you almost certainly have heard their iconic - often-covered - song 'Another Girl, Another Planet', which AllMusic has described as "Arguably, the greatest rock single ever recorded". Songs discussed in this episode: Another Girl, Another Planet - The Replacements/The Mighty Lemon Drops/The Greg Kihn Band/Bli...

Returning guest Mick Hans brings us a lost 60s nugget this week, as we explore the music of singer/songwriter/guitarist Merrell Wayne Fankhauser and his 1968 release: Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty 'Things'. It's as obscure a collection of wonderfully executed psyche/pop/blues as you're likely to come across, and we're here for it! Songs discussed in this episode: Wipe Out - Merrell Fankhauser (Live from The Tiki Lounge, 2013); Chicago Shuffle Blues - Julius H; Fort Lauderdale - The Impacts; W...

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 since the late 80s, they could quite possibly be England's best kept indie-rock secret. OG fan and Chicago resident Mick Hans brings us their latest release, 2021's 'Little Eden', a psychedelically-hewn panoramic take on brutalism Britain punctuated with pure pop melodies and...

Chicago's Mick Hans brings us the debut record by Derry lads The Undertones. Often referred to as the "Irish Ramones", their hyper charged tales of teenage angst and adolescent heartbreak caught the ear of legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who was an early champion of the band and famously dubbed "Teenage Kicks" his all-time favorite song! "A teenage dream's so hard to beat"