May 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

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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

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Whether he’s performing with his band Middle Ages or playing his songs on his acoustic at a coffee shop, Mickey Ehrlich’s music resonates with honesty and sincerity – and zero pretense – that is almost immediately apparent to anyone fortunate enough to be listening. He was my guest on this edition of the program, which you can access by clicking here.

  • THE HIVES Legalize Living
  • THE STRUTS Rock and Roll Fantasy
  • BLINK-182 All the Small Things
  • ABSOLUTE LOSERS At the Same Time
  • BLACK ROSE BURNING Into the Black
  • THE CLASH Should I Stay or Should I Go
  • SAVE FERRIS Get Dancing
  • THE PLANET SMASHERS Things You Do
  • DAVE BARRY Fight the Bumble Bees
  • ZZ TOP Legs
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Feel Alright Tonight
  • RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Hangover and Out
  • MIDDLE AGES Nevermind Blues
  • THE WHITE STRIPES Seven Nation Army
  • THE YARDBIRDS Heart Full of Soul
  • DAN CORIO BAND Hold On
  • MIRANDA LAMBERT Gunpowder and Lead
  • JON CASPI & THE FIRST GUN Last Ride Home
  • WEEZER Pork and Beans
  • SAMMY DAVIS JR. Theme from “Baretta”
  • WAR Low Rider
  • SANTANA with STEVE WINWOOD A Whiter Shade of Pale
  • MICKEY EHRLICH Sheepshead Bay (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • THE RONNETTES Be My Baby
  • BOB DYLAN Mozambique
  • DOLLY PARTON Jolene
  • MIDDLE AGES Silver Lining (Don’t Count Me Out)
  • MANIC HONEY Problems
  • CARMEN TOTH Pretty Dresses
  • SOUND SIREN Washed Hands
  • THE ATLICIC This Year
  • MICKEY EHRLICH Down in The Narrows (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE I Don’t Love You
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND They Don’t Know
  • STYX Lady
  • MICKEY EHRLICH On the Loose (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • HOUNDS OF JUSTICE Wisdom Teeth

June 28, 2025 Playlist – Mighty Joe CastroJune 28, 2025 Playlist – Mighty Joe Castro

It was a bit of a rockabilly rave up on this edition of the program, with most of the music provided by Philadelphia-based Mighty Joe Castro and his band, The Gravamen. Joe joined us in the studio as we played his new album, “Between the Lightning and the Thunder” in its entirety, and a number of selections from throughout his career. He even graced us with a live acoustic performance. Click here to restream the show.

  • JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Just Like Honey
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Wake Up, You’re Rockin’!
  • BUDDY HOLLY Rave On
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Cold and Bitter Tears
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Can’t We Just Start Again
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Embers in the Ash
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Dominoes
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Come On Angels
  • THE SITUATION The Best Prescription Pill Available
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Gone (When the Morning Comes)
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Look of Eagles
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Automatic Amnesia
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO Hope and a High Road (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • BEDOLINA We Are the Clock Ourselves Again
  • BULLETTE When You’re Tuff
  • 49 BURNING CONDORS Half Hung Mary
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN The Future Gets Put Away
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN The Dying Breed
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Let Me Take the Blame
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Disappointed in You
  • THE SITUATION Amoralia
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN June (90 Degrees)
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO Everybody Tells Her That (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN There Are No Secrets Here
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Better Hold Tight
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Why Not Just Give in This Time
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Whispering Hell (The Finish Line)