Month: May 2025

May 31, 2025 PlaylistMay 31, 2025 Playlist

One week after the unofficial start of summer, we offered up a selection of music that sounds like it was made for enjoying with beer, barbecue and backyards. We also remembered the recently departed Rick Derringer and gave some well-deserved airtime to local artists you need to know. Click here to listen to the restream. (Please excuse the microphone issues we had in the first hour – it’s the music that matters most – and it came through loud and clear.)

  • PLASTIC FLAMINGOS Are You Ready for the Summer?
  • ALICE COOPER School’s Out
  • FUNKRUST BRASS BAND Riptide
  • MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD Shine
  • THE DEADNOTES Easy Summer
  • MOTLEY CRUE Public Enemy #1
  • SUPERSUCKERS Play That Rock and Roll
  • ALEXIS P. SUTER BAND Some People
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Land of Hope and Dreams
  • IAN HUNTER Cleveland Rocks
  • INEZ FOXX Mockingbird
  • THE AQUABATS Whatever Forever
  • THE WAYWARD STRANGERS We’re Through
  • LED ZEPPELIN The Ocean
  • MICHAEL DAVID WOLF Undeniable
  • RICK DERRINGER Rock ‘n’ Roll Hootchie Koo
  • RICK DERRINGER Hang On Sloopy
  • THE EDGAR WINTER GROUP Free Ride
  • RICK DERRINGER Everything
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Snack Dad
  • BYE BYE EMPIRE Around
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND Listening to NRBQ
  • NRBQ RC Cola and a Moon Pie
  • GRAND PEPPER OF REALITY Elephants Fly
  • KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Deadstick
  • FOGHAT Fool for the City
  • TRAPPER SCHOEPP Loaded
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE What are You Waiting For?
  • BEAT BRIGADE Just Got Lucky
  • SAVE FERRIS Get Dancing
  • BLEACHERS I Wanna Get Better
  • FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION Perfect
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Dominoes
  • FUN BOY THREE Summertime
  • THE DANLEERS One Summer Night
  • SOFI TUKKER Summer in New York
  • KISS Firehouse
  • ELTON JOHN Grimsby
  • GRAND FUNK RAILROAD Some Kind of Wonderful
  • BLACK ROSE BURNING Ad Astra

May 17, 2025 PlaylistMay 17, 2025 Playlist

We opened this edition of the program with a scintillating selection from underappreciated funk/soul/rock innovators, Mandrill. From there, we embarked on a playlist that reflected our unwavering commitment to exposing you to lesser-known artists while keeping you engaged by mixing in a smattering of those you’re more familiar with. The show is available to restream by clicking here.

  • MANDRILL Two Sisters of Mercy
  • BOZ BOORER with EDDIE ARGOS Girl from Atlanta
  • RINGO STARR Photograph
  • HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Alibi
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE The Girl’s in Love
  • HEADPINS Don’t It Make Ya Feel
  • JON SPENCER Come On!
  • BLACK ROSE BURNING Black Sun Saturday
  • BUDOS BAND Overlander
  • WARREM ZEVON A Certain Girl
  • SUGAR RAY Falls Apart
  • ROCKPILE Teacher Teacher
  • KILLDEER Lost in Webster Hall
  • THE STYLISTICS Stone in Love with You
  • JOHN MELLENCAMP Key West Intermezzo
  • WILLY DEVILLE I Can Only Give You Everything
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Dominoes
  • CANCION FRANKLIN Just Made Rent
  • DAN CORIO BAND Used to Love the Rain
  • POISON Something to Believe In
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Crash
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Badlands
  • VOLBEAT Time Will Heal
  • ‘TIL TUESDAY Coming Up Close
  • LISA SCHERMA Lesson Learned
  • R.L. BURNSIDE Someday Baby
  • CHI COLTRANE Thunder and Lightning
  • TEMPLE OF THE DOG Hunger Strike
  • THE KNIGHT SHADES Mover!
  • HIS LORDSHIP I Live in the City
  • THE STROKES You Only Live Once
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND Northern Lights
  • THE WHO The Song is Over
  • WILLIE NILE The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • THE PARALLEL LINES Dream Girl
  • SOUND SIREN Washed Hands
  • FINNEAS Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa
  • SON VOLT Livin’ in the U.S.A.
  • DEZO WILLIAMS Warmer Weather

May 3, 2025 PlaylistMay 3, 2025 Playlist

On this edition of the program, we celebrated James Brown’s birthday, bid farewell to Mike Peters of The Alarm and Jill Sobule, reviewed the new inductees to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and learned that a keystroke error in the chat room that we thought was caused during the preparation of pierogi was actually caused by the family cat named Pierogi.

  • THE DEAD DAISIES Boom Boom
  • SOUL COUGHING Super Bon Bon
  • THE CLASH Brand New Cadillac
  • THE BELLRAYS Revolution Get Down
  • GODDAMN WRECKS Away From Here
  • DISHWALLA Counting Blue Cars
  • MATTHEW SWEET Save Time for Me
  • JAMES Laid
  • JAMES BROWN Superbad
  • THE ALARM Strength
  • JILL SOBULE Supermodel
  • LIAM LYNCH United States of Whatever
  • JAMES BROWN Night Train
  • PRIMITIVE RADIO GODS Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand
  • PULP Spike Island
  • BORTS Snow in Hell
  • CHUBBY CHECKER The Twist
  • CYNDI LAUPER Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
  • BAD COMPANY Can’t Get Enough
  • SOUNDGARDEN My Wave
  • THE WHITE STRIPES Seven Nation Army
  • OUTKAST Hey Ya!
  • THE ORIGINAL ALICE COOPER GROUP Black Mamba
  • SAMMY HAGAR Encore, Thank You, Good Night
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Feel Alright Tonight
  • JOE COCKER Feeling Alright
  • SOUTH SUMMIT Catacombs
  • MANIC HONEY Problems
  • LOUISIANA CHILD Cocaine Cowboy
  • SAMANTHA FISH It’s Your Voodoo Working
  • VANDOLIERS Every Saturday Night
  • STEVIE WONDER If You Really Love Me
  • TORONTO What About Love
  • LOOSE CATTLE Crescent City
  • MARY CHAPIN-CARPENTER Bitter Ender
  • THE NORMAL LIVING ’57 Chevy
  • SMASH-CUT You Can’t Get Even
  • SWITCHFOOT & BUDDY GUY Last Man Standing
  • DENNIS DEZO WILLIAMS Warmer Weather