Author: Lorenzo Mameli

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

June 29, 2025June 29, 2025|

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)

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June 14, 2025 PlaylistJune 14, 2025 Playlist

June 14, 2025June 14, 2025|

It was Flag Day. It was also National Bourbon Day and Father’s Day Weekend. It was a week when we lost two giants within three days of each other: Sly Stone and Brian Wilson. We set out to address all of these issues in song and were sailing along when the gremlins intervened. That’s why there’s two links to this show: check out the first two hours by clicking here, and the final hour by clicking here.

  • SLY & THE FAMILY STONE I Want to Take You Higher
  • CHUCK BERRY Dear Dad
  • THE DRACU-LAS Fever Dream
  • SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS Run Baby Run
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND Theme from A Summer Place
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Shine
  • STEELY DAN Daddy Don’t Live in That New York City No More
  • GARLAND JEFFREYS 14 Steps to Harlem
  • GRACE POTTER Love is Love
  • THE ORIGINAL ALICE COOPER BAND Wild One
  • GYASI Nightcrawl
  • METAL BYRDS Sidewinder
  • JOHN MOORE Answered Prayer
  • SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS This Land is Your Land
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN American Land
  • CAT STEVENS Father to Son
  • LIVVA JONES Same Page
  • DAN CORIO BAND Rolling Away
  • STAIND Zoe Jane
  • SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Hot Fun in the Summertime
  • SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Everyday People
  • SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Dance to the Music
  • THE BEACH BOYS God Only Knows
  • THE BEACH BOYS Wouldn’t It Be Nice
  • THE BEACH BOYS Good Vibrations
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Come On Angels
  • CANCION FRANKLIN Lady of the Immaculate Blues
  • BOURBON BROTHERS Uncle Jack
  • FLIES ON FIRE Hello Mr. Daniel
  • CHRIS STAPLETON Tennessee Whiskey
  • AND THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Old Number 7
  • WEDDINGS, PARTIES, ANYTHING Father’s Day
  • CHRIS VANDALAY PROJECT This Modern Age
  • YOUR HETEROSEXUAL VIOLENCE House Outside the World
  • THICK Mother
  • THE ATARIS The Saddest Song
  • SIMPLE PLAN Perfect
  • DAN REED NETWORK Rainbow Child
  • BRIAN WILSON Love and Mercy

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May 31, 2025 PlaylistMay 31, 2025 Playlist

May 31, 2025May 31, 2025|

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

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May 17, 2025 PlaylistMay 17, 2025 Playlist

May 25, 2025May 25, 2025|

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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May 3, 2025 PlaylistMay 3, 2025 Playlist

May 3, 2025May 3, 2025|

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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April 19, 2025 Playlist – Our Own YokosApril 19, 2025 Playlist – Our Own Yokos

April 19, 2025April 19, 2025|

After a relatively brief but worrisome “hiatus”, local power pop/rock trio Our Own Yokos returned to our studio with exciting new music. Shaun Gold and Brian Buchanan let us in on what the immediate future holds for the band. We also paid tribute to the late Clem Burke and worked in a few odes to mother nature in anticipation of earth day. Listen to the show by clicking here – and don’t be put off by the file name.

  • CHICAGO Wake Up Sunshine
  • URGE OVERKILL Sister Havana
  • GANG OF FOUR Damaged Goods
  • THE POGUES Sunny Side of the Street
  • BRIAN ENO & JOHN CALE Lay My Love
  • STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Taxman
  • MARVIN GAYE Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
  • DAN CORIO BAND Rolling Away
  • DELTA CIRCLE Here’s to a Small Town
  • PAPA ROACH Scars
  • THE POLICE It’s Alright for You
  • DIRTY LOOKS Let Go
  • THE STRANGLERS The Lines
  • GIFTSHOP There’s You
  • AUDIOSLAVE Like a Stone
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Deriving Dariya
  • BLONDIE Dreaming
  • EURYTHMICS When Tomorrow Comes
  • PETE TOWNSHEND Brilliant Blues
  • DRAMARAMA Don’t Feel Like Doing Drugs
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Feel Alright Tonight
  • TAYLOR GLASHEEN When She Drinks
  • COUNTING CROWS with VANESSA CARLTON Big Yellow Taxi
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Crash
  • ZWALL Stranger
  • PLANETARY PEOPLE Springtime
  • MM ORCHARD Are You Comin’?
  • SOUND SIREN Washed Hands
  • RATT Way Cool Jr.
  • VAN HALEN Beautiful Girls
  • JESSE SALMON Comparing Ramadan, Passover and Easter
  • POISON Fallen Angel
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Thunder Road
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Carry On
  • JOEY RAMONE Wonderful World
  • FRANK ZAPPA Watermelon in the Easter Hay

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April 5, 2025 PlaylistApril 5, 2025 Playlist

April 5, 2025April 5, 2025|

It’s been said that variety is the spice of life. If that’s true, then this playlist will surely deliver a zesty kick to your earbuds. Grab a place at our table and fill your plate from this bountiful buffet filled with some of the tastiest tunes we’ve ever served up. (Yes, you can have seconds.) Click here and turn the volume up!

  • W.A.S.P. I Wanna Be Somebody
  • KING LIKE MOM Fragrance
  • BRUCE DICKINSON Tattooed Millionaire
  • MOTLEY CRUE Bitter Pill
  • MANIC HONEY The Chain
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND Northern Lights
  • DELTA CIRCLE Here’s to a Small Town
  • JOE WALSH Rocky Mountain Way
  • ELTON JOHN & BRANDI CARLILE The River Man
  • LISA SCHERMA Jump and Shout
  • FACES Ooh La La
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)
  • THE WHO The Punk and the Godfather
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Radio Silence
  • FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Born to Run
  • THE NORMAL LIVING ’57 Chevy
  • RYAN ADAMS Burning Photographs
  • KILLDEER Alison, Alison
  • THE HOLD STEADY Sequestered in Memphis
  • THE ROLLING STONES Tumblin’ Dice
  • SEALS & CROFTS Diamond Girl
  • MIDDLE AGES Silver Lining
  • GREER Mugwump
  • CHAPPELL ROAN The Subway
  • DROPKICK MURPHYS Queen of Suffolk County
  • RAMONES Something to Believe In
  • KASABIAN L.S.F.
  • L.C.D. SOUNDSYSTEM Daft Punk is Playing at My House
  • BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE 60 Years Ago
  • VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE I Think I Love You
  • O.A.R. Shatter
  • JESSE MALIN Meet Me at the End of the World
  • THE TRAGICALLY HIP Something On
  • NORMAN NARDINI Sick and Tired
  • KYLE MATTHEW The Storm
  • EDWIN STARR War
  • NEIL YOUNG Throw Your Hatred Down

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March 22, 2025 PlaylistMarch 22, 2025 Playlist

March 22, 2025March 22, 2025|

This edition of the program is dedicated to the memory of our friend Michael Roberto, who was scheduled to co-host an upcoming show before he passed away suddenly on March 12. He was a big fan of The Beatles and Queen, so we played several selections from each in tribute to him. You can listen to the show by clicking here.

  • QUEEN Tie Your Mother Down
  • ACE FREHLEY Fox on the Run
  • CHEAP TRICK Can’t Stop Falling in Love
  • BOWLING FOR SOUP The Girl All the Bad Guys Want
  • NEW YORK DOLLS Personality Crisis
  • THE BEATLES Penny Lane
  • AUTOGRAMM Wannabe
  • REEL BIG FISH Take on Me
  • REAL SICKIES Wild Imagination
  • LEFT LANE CRUISER Justify
  • CARLY SIMON Jesse
  • BLONDIE I’m Always Touched By Your Presence, Dear
  • THOMPSON TWINS Lies
  • ALPHAVILLE Forever Young
  • QUEEN & DAVID BOWIE Under Pressure
  • KEITH DiBUDUO featuring MICHAEL ROBERTO Better Days
  • DAN CORIO BAND Hold On
  • THE BEATLES Nowhere Man
  • TEARS FOR FEARS Everybody Wants to Rule the World
  • MANIC HONEY Once Again a Mess
  • QUEEN Spread Your Wings
  • ZAC BROWN BAND featuring SONIA LEIGH Bar
  • DAVID JOHANSEN Funky But Chic
  • AC/DC Money Talks
  • JOHN WAITE Tears
  • THE BEATLES The Night Before
  • THE DOLLYROTS Brand New Key
  • DROPKICK MURPHYS Paying My Way
  • SPIN DOCTORS Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
  • KICK. SNARE. CRASH. What’s the Point
  • BOP HARVEY Bread and Circuses
  • QUEEN These are the Days of Our Lives
  • FRANK TURNER Be More Kind
  • CANCION FRANKLIN Low
  • SHAWN PARSONS Hell If I Know
  • QUEEN The Show Must Go On

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March 8, 2025 Playlist – International Women’s DayMarch 8, 2025 Playlist – International Women’s Day

March 8, 2025March 8, 2025|

We marked the day by filling our space with the voices of extraordinary women from across the musical spectrum, past and present. The entire program is available to restream at your pleasure. Simply click here to access it in all its feminine glory.

  • X RAY LOVE On My Stereo
  • THE SURFRAJETTES Toxic
  • ANN WILSON Missionary Man
  • THE DETROIT COBRAS Stay Down
  • DOROTHY Tombstone Town
  • THE PRETENDERS Stop Your Sobbing
  • LIVVA JONES & ANGELA TINARI Joker
  • HALESTORM Gold Dust Woman
  • PIXIES Gigantic
  • LIZ PHAIR Sweet Jane
  • THE HELLFLOWERS Girl U Want
  • B-52s Give Me Back My Man
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Hot Rod Girl
  • CASTLE BLACK Radio Queen
  • ROBERTA FLACK Killing Me Softly
  • ARETHA FRANKLIN You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman
  • BARBARA LEWIS Hello Stranger
  • PATTI SMITH Because the Night
  • CONCRETE BLONDE Happy Birthday
  • PARAMORE Rose Colored Boy
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND Good Company
  • KILLDEER Nice Enough
  • GIFTSHOP Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You)
  • RHONDA FUNK ‘Til I Don’t
  • BRANDI CARLILE The Story
  • THE METAL BYRDS Good Harbour
  • NORA KELLY BAND Hymn for Agnostics
  • SCARLETT TAYLOR Reckless Love
  • MANIC HONEY Nothing Comes Out
  • THERINA BELLA Starcrossed
  • LISA SCHERMA I Gotta Go to Church
  • JOAN CADELL & THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR Piece of Heaven
  • ELOUR Good Girl
  • THE INTERRUPTERS Bad Guy
  • ANNIE GOLDEN Hang Up the Phone
  • AMY WINEHOUSE Back to Black
  • INGRID MICHAELSON The Way I Am
  • ROYAL SHE Rollercoaster
  • KATE BUSH This Woman’s Work
  • PJ HARVEY This is Love
  • JOAN JETT Riddles
  • ALICIA KEYS Girl on Fire

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February 21, 2025 PlaylistFebruary 21, 2025 Playlist

February 22, 2025February 22, 2025|

A rare prime time edition of the program – and on a Friday night as well! Songs celebrating the arrival of the weekend and a selection of music by artists of color in honor of Black History Month. Tune it in and turn it up by clicking right here!

  • VANDENBERG Friday Night
  • JOE JACKSON Friday
  • GARY MOORE Friday On My Mind
  • GENERATION X Friday’s Angels
  • GOLDFINGER 99 Red Balloons
  • YOGABALL HEADACHES Puppy Love
  • BLINK-182 Every Other Weekend
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Good Times, Bad Times
  • SOUND SIREN Time
  • RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Good Mood Song
  • BETTER THAN EZRA Good
  • THE DARKNESS Friday Night
  • FATS DOMINO Ain’t That a Shame
  • CHUCK BERRY Carol
  • LITTLE RICHARD Good Golly Miss Molly
  • BIG MAMA THORNTON Hound Dog
  • MABLE JOHN Able Mable
  • THE CURE Friday I’m In Love
  • BLACK ROSE BURNING Shout
  • CANCION FRANKLIN Break Them Against Sky
  • WE THE KINGS Friday is Forever
  • LEE FIELDS Forever
  • ALEXIS P. SUTER BAND Four Wheels Beats Two Heels
  • BLAC RABBIT Seize The Day
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE End of the Day
  • JIMMY CLIFF AND ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS Seven Day Weekend
  • REAL LIFE Send Me An Angel
  • LENNY KRAVITZ Dig In
  • DAVE EDMUNDS Here Comes the Weekend
  • THIN LIZZY Having a Good Time

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