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Sep 30, 2026 · 38:16
For over twenty-five years The Verve has been designated as 'the band with the guy with the face that did Bitter Sweet Symphony.' But there is always more to discover. You see -…
Sep 23, 2026 · 39:57
Analog Africa is granted access to the Radio Mogadishu archives by vault guardian Colonel Abshir Hashi Ali and commence compiling a mind-blowing collection of funky oddities from…
Sep 16, 2026 · 45:44
Hard work and tireless genital thematics kept Poison consistently near the crest of Hair Hunx Mountain - but they reached the actual peak with their second album - Open Up and…
Sep 8, 2026 · 35:41
The tireless Cheap Trick’s second album In Color is loved by classic rock fans, critics and music historians alike - but hated by the band. They thought the producer Tom Werman…
Sep 1, 2026 · 34:18
Zebby Tembo was the drummer for Zamrock legends Ngozi Family - very true - but he also wrote his own songs. My Ancestors was the first of two known Zebby solo albums - recorded…
Aug 25, 2026 · 42:40
The Damned were at the forefront of British punk - a party band providing dark comedic relief to a scene often fueled by inner rage. But two years in and they were done - burned…
Aug 18, 2026 · 38:01
It took a traumatic event for young Robin Pecknold to realize he possessed the gift of the Mangina Majestica. Only a few years later he turned that haunting memory into an…
Aug 11, 2026 · 38:59
The Mac Attack's Mirage Tour concluded in October 1982 and the cranky gentle-rockers were clearly ready for a hiatus. While grandma-haired Lindsey Buckingham and the rest of the…
Aug 4, 2026 · 39:24
By the time the Isolar Tour ended in May 1976 David Bowie was sick of his family and friends (yuck) hassling him to stop snorting his beloved Raoul. Get out of my face. His plan…
Jul 28, 2026 · 50:46
The Who at their beautifully shambolic live peak. Pete Townshend had one goal as the new decade began - release a live Who album capturing all those new Tommy songs in their…
Jul 21, 2026 · 36:46
Pega Monstro are Portuguese sisters Júlia and Maria Reis - and that's it. Unless you count Rodrigo Rodizio as an actual member. The Reis girls quickly became leaders of the…
Jul 14, 2026 · 39:06
The Bushman of Limpopo was an awesome Pop Africanus singer who cranked out over forty records during his lifetime. This while also earning three college degrees and a career in…
Jul 7, 2026 · 38:35
An overlooked chestnut from 1970s New York City fixture Garland Jeffreys. Good guy and relentless overachiever facing challenges like - having a fanbase more famous than him and…
Jun 30, 2026 · 39:58
The Paisley Underground bands of Los Angeles were keeping garage rock revivalism on full blast out west in 1984. But on the east coast Monoman and Lyres were doing it alone in…
Jun 23, 2026 · 42:45
Not the brightest bulbs in the offseason tanning bed - but Jacksonville's 38 Special stumbled into genius by polishing up their southern rock frame for 1980s MTV consumption with…
Jun 16, 2026 · 31:40
Tireless synth-funklordz Chromeo had one goal in mind as they crafted Business Casual, their most presentable LP - make keyboard songs so infectious that even Michael Jackson…
Jun 10, 2026 · 42:56
Two roughs boys escape the high school tyranny of panty-masked Principal Montoya and form overachieving garage rock band Twin Peaks. Wild Onion is one of a handful of solid LPs…
Jun 2, 2026 · 1:03:34
During June of 1973 - the year the Grateful Dead got really good at being the Grateful Dead - the band played a weekend run at the gigantic RFK Stadium in the nation's capital.…
May 26, 2026 · 38:44
Barely out of their teens Carmelo and Michelangelo La Bionda of Milan established themselves as competent ballad authors for other Italian singers. But after a trip to Munich in…
May 20, 2026 · 41:11
During the 1970s the Doobs were everyone's older brother's THIRD favorite band with their sassy motorcycle riffs and church-ready harmonies. First five LPs with the core original…
May 12, 2026 · 41:35
Reckless crowned young denim dandy Bryan Adams the surest thing in rock and roll in 1984. Ten flawlessly-constructed and produced songs void of experimentation but full of heart.…
May 6, 2026 · 32:49
We got a fresh one on site tonight - only a few months old. Twisted Teens make infectious New Orleans garage rock and have a pedal steel guitar player named Razor Ramone - with…
Apr 28, 2026 · 34:03
Erasure are NOW regarded as 'homosexual pop' icons - but back when they started in the eighties no one noticed because EVERYONE was wearing spandex and sequined vests. The duo's…
Apr 21, 2026 · 42:50
The paradoxical Mötley Crüe hit the Hair Hunk heavens with Shout at the Devil in 1983 as Frank Ferrana gets to quit his day job and continue one of rock and roll's greatest…
Apr 14, 2026 · 35:22
Italian prog rock band Goblin found their destiny during the second half of the 1970's when they became the go-to musical score composers for the hot-shot horror movie directors…
Apr 8, 2026 · 56:00
Following the surprise success of their eponymous debut in 1971 the informal New Riders of the Purple Sage needed a couple FULL-time members to keep the party going - including a…
Mar 30, 2026 · 36:00
Creatively juiced by the wet-mulleted beefcakes of production team Full Force, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam continued to pump the coffers of the Freestyle genre they helped create with…
Mar 24, 2026 · 38:36
The atmospheric, echo-laden martian world of Dub is the most 'reggae-sounding' varietal of all the reggaes - and it was created by a workaday radio wireman from Kingston. King…
Mar 18, 2026 · 39:39
In 1974 forty-five year old Cameroonian Renaissance Man Francis Bebey retired from a career as a journalist and musical director of UNESCO to focus more time on his family and…
Mar 11, 2026 · 41:55
Ten years before transforming into a suited-DILF headed for MTV rapture - Robert Palmer along with the coolest cast of session musicians ever - cranked out a spirited blue-eyed…
Mar 4, 2026 · 39:45
A galley pisser and a tighty-whitey wearer meet in a record store in Athens, Georgia and form R.E.M. They begin their thirty year gentle-rock quest with Murmur - a deep-track…
Feb 25, 2026 · 55:48
Released during the height of the Grunge Hunx Dynasty - Dirt remains one of the coolest albums of the 1990s - an absolutely heroic effort by Jerry Cantrell. Dirt was Alice In…
Feb 18, 2026 · 30:13
A dispatch of wonderful garage sleaze from France made by a Boogie Chitz supergroup consisting of The Limiñanas, loose-of-mind Anton from Jonestown and Emmanuelle Seigner - the…
Feb 11, 2026 · 35:13
Even as the musical tide was shifting from the Golden Oldies Era to the Classic Rock one in 1963, the radio was still filled with snappy sing-alongs regardless of genre. You had…
Feb 4, 2026 · 37:59
Somewhere is the only release by Gum Country - a side project of the guitarist from artisanal grunge band The Courtneys. Infectious 1990s shoegaze rockery for the present day…
Jan 28, 2026 · 38:20
We enter the world of Kosmische Musik thru the psychedelic soundscapes of Manuel Göttsching's Ash Ra Temple. Starring Rosi was the fifth and final Ash Ra LP - and it's definitely…
Jan 21, 2026 · 38:45
Given the MTV buzz and debutantal boom the Bangles experienced during the second half of their run, it's easy to forget their debut LP is a bonafide hitless alt-rock classic. All…
Jan 14, 2026 · 50:46
During summer 1972 - in between the end of a historic European run and a tour schedule that would have the band zipping around the country for the rest of the year, the Grateful…
Jan 7, 2026 · 36:30
A young guitarist named Maximiliano Chavez experiences a flash of divinity when he discovers the Wah-Wah guitar pedal in mid-1960s Peru and assembles Los Orientales de Paramonga…
Dec 31, 2025 · 40:25
The most exhilarating rock album of the nineties came from the guitar and mouth of one of the most lovable heroes of the college rock eighties. Five years after the end of Hüsker…
Dec 24, 2025 · 35:07
A hobbyist Sikh devotional singer and her three sons create the first ever Asian-infused electronic dance album in England at their kitchen table in the Punjabi-populated London…
Dec 17, 2025 · 46:07
A solid discog you could hold in one hand - Dead Kennedys managed to make some awesome rock and roll while simultaneously defying music industry promises and pee-pee tugs. We're…
Dec 10, 2025 · 36:00
The first music ever recorded in the multi-track format in Ethiopia came about from a Swedish national living in Addis Ababa who offered use of his four-track recorder to a group…
Dec 3, 2025 · 43:38
If you've ever listened to or bought this album because of (Don't Fear) The Reaper - then you were in for a big surprise upon the initial neck-to-nut - All five members of the…
Nov 26, 2025 · 34:46
After a decade of missionary work in Singapore, Sister Irene O'Connor returns home to Australia and unleashes her one true miracle - a 12-song lo-fi/high-spirit psyche-pop…
Nov 18, 2025 · 44:32
Only a year removed from chaining themselves to the walls of the One-Hit WonderDome with Happy Together, jaded L.A. fun boys The Turtles stopped listening to their handlers and…
Nov 12, 2025 · 46:42
A group of working-class Bergen County Italians transform into zombie male strippers and form one of the coolest bands ever. This self-titled compilation (a.k.a. Collection I)…
Nov 3, 2025 · 35:23
This week's ep is up early because myself, Jose and Bemba have to travel to Mexico for business. 1970's David Bowie is one of the greatest musical runs ever - but we begin with…
Oct 29, 2025 · 36:45
Ry Cooder, one of classic rock's greatest journeymen convinces Malian legend Ali Farka Touré to forget about his rice farm for a month to create one of the coolest albums ever…
Oct 22, 2025 · 39:00
Years before getting the indie gold star with Before Today, Beverly Hills trust fundie Ariel Rosenberg recorded a couple hundred cassettes-worth of home made pastiche psychedelic…
Oct 15, 2025 · 41:17
The two most staph-infected former members of the New York Dolls get stranded in England with their new band and unload an absolute classic. One of my very favorite two sides of…
Oct 8, 2025 · 41:15
During the 1960's - in the wake of a Coup d'état and weird middle-of-the-night Presidential pushup challenges from JFK, Brazil started pumping out some of the most wonderful…
Sep 30, 2025 · 42:50
Doors-lovin' Liverpudlian sassboys Echo & the Bunnymen made a single-hander of LPs during the 1980's that are all solid. My favorite is number two - Heaven Up Here - Post-punk…
Sep 23, 2025 · 39:05
Harry Hosono's tropical-themed Japanese jamboree from 1978 is the perfect album to put on if you ever find yourself dosed on acid at a Lu’a. Paraiso was Hosono's fourth LP…
Sep 16, 2025 · 43:02
During the summer of '92 - amidst the official transition of rock and roll power from the Hair Hunx to the Grunge Hunx - the Gin Blossoms dropped the lovable New Mis' - a dryly…
Sep 9, 2025 · 59:07
We pick up where we left off with Faith No More (Check out 045 Introduce Yourself) - the funk-metal carnival continues with a new singer and an oddball classic of an album that…
Sep 2, 2025 · 33:57
Hair-raising new album from one of Jose's favorite bands - we'll also explore nuggets from Water From Your Eyes' back catalog - boundless creativity with this duo.
Aug 27, 2025 · 53:29
Mick puts down his Majesties' wizard hat and Keith picks up open E and D tuning on the guitar as The Rolling Stones pound thru 1968 with something to prove - resulting in Beggars…
Aug 20, 2025 · 56:47
The best rock album ever made by a band with a frontman pretending to not have a penis. The gloriously unwieldy catalog of The Smiths is tremendous front to end - but there was a…
Aug 12, 2025 · 49:41
Classic rock radio giveth much thanks to that Steve Miller Greatest Hits album with the gay horse head on the cover. And most of those laser-beamy soft rock classics were birthed…
Aug 6, 2025 · 45:46
After neck-to-nutting The Doors discography in chronological order I was like 'what is up with The Soft Parade?' It might not be the best Doors album - but it definitely has the…
Jul 30, 2025 · 48:52
Roky Erickson barely survived the 1960s - lost his mind during the 1970s - and still somehow managed to release his most awesome LP in 1981. The Evil One is a treasure chest of…
Jul 23, 2025 · 42:22
Fifteen track gift from Analog Africa proving that you can't spell Funaná without F-U-N. Bemba Restrepo's discovery on the shores of São Nicolau adds an extra jolt of weirdness…
Jul 16, 2025 · 59:31
Keystone Berkeley ran live music shows for twelve years and also served as a favorite hangout spot for rockers living in the Bay Area. Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia were two of…
Jul 9, 2025 · 32:46
Gelli Haha is a new act and it is my job as Mr. Cool music show host to alert you of her existence. Switcheroo is fun-ass dance music - slammers about Italian desserts and…
Jul 2, 2025 · 49:02
I love Bleached tremendously - so it's on a curve when I say Welcome the Worms is one of the better no-fuss rock records of the past decade - a controlled frenzy of catchy songs…
Jun 25, 2025 · 42:10
Before Daft Punk got the robot sex change operations and became the sound of global gloss there was Homework - the self-financed and home-recorded debut. And it's fantastic.
Jun 18, 2025 · 51:29
While not the most coveted 'Mats LP - Hootenanny is the one that got them out of the icy Jesse Ventura-ness of their beloved Minnesota - and on the road to alt-rock knighthood.…
Jun 11, 2025 · 32:08
Here we are blessed with a baker's dozen of Anatolian-flavored funk nuggets via the side project of a Swedish film and television composer.
Jun 4, 2025 · 55:19
The eponymous third aka Grey Album from 1969 began the second half of the VU's run - the forgotten half - when they were an actual touring rock and roll band trying to pop big.…
May 28, 2025 · 36:26
Back to Zamrock with Amanaz (Ask me about nice artistes in Zambia). The group only made one album - 1975's Africa - but that's all that is needed to ingest the 'One Zambia, one…
May 21, 2025 · 57:39
Led Zeppelin return from the meadows of Bron-Yr-Aur, shave the beards and begin another three album run that would lead them to the top of King Shit Mountain. They would get one…
May 14, 2025 · 47:54
A new wave band made up of musically-gifted members of Frank Zappa's backing band, Missing Persons dropped a solid debut in 1982 that's kind of a paradox - loose music made by…
May 7, 2025 · 49:51
The same year their Seattle cohorts made flannel globally sexy Mudhoney stayed local and loyal to their friends at Sub Pop and released Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge - an…
Apr 29, 2025 · 36:12
Disco was becoming played out in America at the start of the 1980's but it was just getting started in Italy. Pino D'Angiò landed a YMCA-level Italian hit with the song Ma Quale…
Apr 23, 2025 · 38:30
WoV was way too loose with the drizzugs to build any sort of career sustainability - but they managed to uncork the forgotten classic Call of the West along the way - angular art…
Apr 15, 2025 · 36:21
The Ghetto Brothers were one of thousands of street gangs that skulked the busted-ass neighborhoods of the Bronx in leather vests during the 1970's. I think they are the only one…
Apr 9, 2025 · 53:55
Hair Hunk Titans Poison fought their way thru pubic lice and a universally-perceived lack of talent to crank out their debut - Look What the Cat Dragged In - an overachieving…
Apr 1, 2025 · 44:03
The USA was on fire in 1969 with Vietnam War protests and such. Everyone had a voice and wanted to be heard. But they also wanted to be SEEN. It was a flashy year of afros,…
Mar 26, 2025 · 36:05
During the 1970's while China and Vietnam were busy playing grab-ass and keep-away with the Spratly and Percocet island chains in the South China Sea, the other countries…
Mar 19, 2025 · 44:37
LCD Soundsystem is an exhaustive one-hundred minute affair that showcases the best of what the combination of rock and dance music can become when crafted by the hands of an…
Mar 11, 2025 · 46:04
Marty Robbins' cinematic western music classic was released at the end of a decade that would soon be overshadowed by the one that followed. JFK was about to be President, the…
Mar 5, 2025 · 32:19
So few bands remain that were born during the post-MTV, pre-streaming and social media purgatorial zone of the mid-aughts. Woods are still with us. And despite having one…
Feb 26, 2025 · 44:58
The 1980s proved that as big as forty-something millionaire cultural icon Bob Dylan was during the decade, he was not bigger than the ever-evolving and fickle world of rock and…
Feb 18, 2025 · 41:29
Myself, my dad and the Canseco Twins neutralize Dee Dee's annoying production duo so that she can crank out a classic without interference. Too True is the final (boo) and best…
Feb 11, 2025 · 1:03:42
Exclusion was a word rarely used in Grateful Dead world - so in April 1972 when it came time to decide who was and who wasn't joining the band for their spring tour of Europe the…
Feb 5, 2025 · 41:53
Pixies (there's no the 'The') started their ascent into alt-rock wonderhood with Surfer Rosa. No album from the 1980s had a greater influence on the rock sound of the 1990s than…
Jan 29, 2025 · 39:58
The men who make Mangina Music suffer for us. They play with soft hands for our hard hearts - and we need to give thanks. Lord Huron's Strange Trails is a sprawling hallucinatory…
Jan 22, 2025 · 38:33
Several years before Parliament Funkadelic grew into a multi-banded gang of diaper daddies traveling around the country in a crack-fueled spaceship, there was Maggot Brain - a…
Jan 15, 2025 · 50:25
We enter the Guns N' Roses Herpeverse via the band's second album G N' R Lies which contains songs recorded both before and after their historic Ape Tit debut. Initially released…
Jan 8, 2025 · 36:05
Holy Fuck are pure punk electronica - creating dance music using everything BUT the standard loops and laptops to achieve that sound. This chaotic urgency is never more apparent…
Jan 1, 2025 · 40:56
With so many time-ambiguous single song bangers, it's tough to not classify The Cars as a 'greatest hits' band. But 1979's Candy-O is as cohesively beautiful as a standalone LP…
Dec 25, 2024 · 38:42
Pantera ditch their hair hunk past yet keep the gay superhero band name and begin their groove metal assault on the nineties with Cowboys From Hell.
Dec 18, 2024 · 45:13
Mbaqanga was a style of music birthed in the segregated South African township of Soweto in 1964. The super-unit of Simon 'Mahlathini' Nkabinde, Mahotella Queens and the Makgona…
Dec 11, 2024 · 50:15
One of a kind delight. A fictional band from a fictional television show creates a very-real compendium of sonic pleasure. Plus, we put the Hermanos Cansecos into action and show…
Dec 4, 2024 · 37:31
A chugging audio compote of cinematic psychedelia created by a garage rock lovin' couple from Perpignan, France. The Limiñanas are generally a two-person operation, but Shadow…
Nov 27, 2024 · 51:22
Seems like by 1970 Steppenwolf were already becoming a two-hit relic of the cultural past. Nonsense. Steppenwolf 7, which is technically their fifth album, is a furious…
Nov 20, 2024 · 36:26
A neck-to-nuts banger of a synth album found in a genre mostly celebrated via individual songs and videos rather than LPs. Upstairs at Eric's contains by my count three 'oh yeah…
Nov 13, 2024 · 34:42
Marination/Hibernation season is ovah for the class of 2023. Let us celebrate one of the stronger bears to emerge from the cave - or in this case frogs...ManFrogs.
Nov 5, 2024 · 40:22
Grimes dropped out of college before uncorking this masterpiece - created during a nine-day frenzy of imagination in her Montreal apartment. Good. Class dismissed.
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