January 14 Playlist: Our Own Yokos

Nothing like being able to combine my love of rock ‘n’ roll with the sounds of my favorite season. This edition of the program featured a somewhat unconventional playlist of holiday tunes that I think are every bit as cool and rich as a glass of spiced egg nog. (I really like egg nog.) Check it out by clicking here.

• GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS Rock and Roll Christmas
• LEMMY, BILLY GIBBONS & DAVE GROHL Run Run Rudolph
• THE GREEDIES A Merry Jingle
• GREEN DAY Xmas Time of Year
• MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE Every Snowflake’s Different
• SPIRALING Do You Hear What I Hear?
• AC / LEE C Dirty Deeds ‘Round the Christmas Tree
• MAVIS STAPLES Christmas Vacation
• CHEAP TRICK I Want You for Christmas
• BROTHER DYNAMITE It’s Christmas Time, Alright!
• LOUVERS Retro Christmas
• TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS It’s Christmas All Over Again
• THE MAVERICKS Hey! Merry Christmas!
• SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS 8 Days of Chanukah
• ADAM SANDLER The Chanukah Song
• REEL BIG FISH Whatever You Celebrate
• JOSE VAN HALIANO Ain’t Talkin ‘Bout Feliz Navidad
• DROPKICK MURPHYS The Season’s Upon Us
• WHEATUS Christmas Dirtbag
• THE SONICS Santa Claus
• ANNIE LENNOX & AL GREEN Put a Little Love in Your Heart
• MOSSY LEDGE Christmas Lights
• SPUTNIK THE BAND Baby, Please Come Home
• THE OFFSPRING Please Come Home for Christmas
• THE PRETTY RECKLESS Where Are You, Christmas?
• REEL BIG FISH Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
• BAD MANNERS It’s Christmas Time Again
• JULIAN CASABLANCAS I Wish it Was Christmas Today
• MxPx Punk Rock Christmas
• SIMPLE PLAN My Christmas List
• ELI “PAPERBOY” REED Last Christmas
• JACKSON 5 Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• KING FALCON Dear Mrs. Claus
• THE KINKS Father Christmas
• BOWLING FOR SOUP Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy
• THE REGRETTES Marshmallow World
• THE PULLTOPS I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
• THE LINDA LINDAS Groovy Christmas
• BLONDIE We Three Kings
• BAD RELIGION O Come All Ye Faithful
• BILLY IDOL Yellin’ at the Christmas Tree
• HALL AND OATES Jingle Bell Rock
• THE OLD 97s Here it is Christmas Time
• LOS LOBOS Christmas and You
• STEVE AUGERI Home This Christmas Time

The extraordinarily versatile singer and songwriter Lisa Scherma was our guest in the studio. She performed four unrecorded songs from her extensive genre-defying repertoire. As two Brooklyn kids from opposite ends of the same neighborhood, our conversation flowed free and easy. Check out the show by clicking here.

• THUNDERMOTHER We Fight for Rock and Roll
• ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO Real as an Animal
• IGGY POP Something Wild
• JOOLS HOLLAND featuring JAMIROQUAI I’m in the Mood for Love
• FRANK TURNER I Still Believe
• SAMANTHA FISH Can Ya Handle That
• TOXIC TITO The Music Died
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Atlantic City (Electric Nebraska Version)
• LONESOME DAVE FISHER I Got My Education (Rockin’ to the Radio)
• LISA SCHERMA Fight The Past
• LISA SCHERMA Southern Fried Country Blues
• LISA SCHERMA The Damsel
• LISA SCHERMA Something in the Water
• LISA SCHERMA Save Myself (Live in the MPR Studio)
• ALLMAN BROTHERS Revival
• LISA SCHERMA I Gotta Go to Church
• BONNIE RAITT Angel from Montgomery
• LISA SCHERMA Alone
• LISA SCHERMA Play Dead (Live in the MPR Studio)
• LISA SCHERMA The One Who Loves You
• THE CHIFFONS Sweet Talking Guy
• LISA SCHERMA Last Night
• LISA SCHERMA When the Wrong Thing Feels So Right
• LISA SCHERMA Commonality (Live in the MPR Studio)
• MELISSA ETHERIDGE I’m the Only One
• B.B. KING Every Day I Have the Blues
• LISA SCHERMA Jump and Shout
• LISA SCHERMA Good Soul (Live in the MPR Studio)
• LISA SCHERMA Wrong Impression

It was beer for breakfast as the brewer of Mad Love Beer, Ricky Boyance, stopped by the studio. We did some early day drinking, talked about how he came to be a brewer, and his time as a member of one of my favorite bands, The Atlicic. Pour yourself a cold one and check it out here

• THE DOORS Roadhouse Blues
• T. REX 20th Century Boy
• SEETHER Rise Above This
• TALK TALK Talk Talk
• BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
• DIVINYLS Pleasure and Pain
• FIGHTMILK That Thing You Do
• FUEL Fall on Me
• MIDDLE AGES Never Mind Blues
• CANCION FRANKLIN Better Not Let Me Knock
• SLASH with CHRIS STAPLETON Oh Well
• THE ATLICIC Shackled
• KING LIKE MOM Die Cry Hate
• GRANDMA DRINKS Laundry Day
• YES Long Distance Runaround
• JON ANDERSON & THE BAND GEEKS Shine On
• SNACKTIME The High Life
• LEE FIELDS Forever
• THE REPLACEMENTS Beer for Breakfast
• REEL BIG FISH Beer
• ZZ TOP Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
• THE PEAWEES The Wolf
• THE ALARM 68 Guns
• THE CALAMATIX Still Rudy
• JIMMY EAT WORLD If You Don’t, You Don’t
• KILL THE ROBOT Another Round
• MODERN DAY MACHINES Vox Populi
• LINKIN PARK The Emptiness Machine
• THE ZOMBIES Tell Her No
• THE GUESS WHO No Time
• OUR OWN YOKOS Deriving Dariya
• THE SUBWAYS Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• THE OFFSPRING Make It All Right
• BLINK-182 Every Other Weekend
• STARCRAWLER She Said
• EARTH, WIND AND FIRE September