Author: Lorenzo Mameli

February 8, 2025 PlaylistFebruary 8, 2025 Playlist

Lots of new music from noteworthy artists shared our sonic space with some very well-established names. Some of then started their careers when your host was but a wee lad! Diversity not only lives on this program – it thrives – and always will. Click here to listen to the show!

  • JUDAS PRIEST Living After Midnight
  • THE CLASH Train in Vain
  • BOB DYLAN Everything’s Broken
  • JOAN ARMATRADING Me Myself I
  • LIVING COLOUR The Solace of You
  • THE PEAWEES Drive
  • THE CARS Touch and Go
  • ROBERT GORDON Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache
  • FRANK TURNER Bar Staff
  • CHAPPEL ROAN Pink Pony Club (Rock Remix)
  • MARIANNE FAITHFUL Broken English
  • MARIANNE FAITHFUL As Tears Go By
  • GREEN DAY Last Night on Earth
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND Good Company
  • COCKTAIL SLIPPERS St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
  • BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE Rush
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Radio Silence
  • DAN CORIO BAND Forever with You
  • RHONDA FUNK ‘Til I Don’t
  • CANCION FRANKLIN featuring HANNAH SUMMER Hard Times
  • SHINEDOWN A Symptom of Being Human
  • THE METAL BYRDS Because
  • UFO Diesel in the Dust
  • ROBIN TROWER Bridge of Sighs
  • LED ZEPPELIN Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You
  • THE KILLERS Human
  • THE OFFSPRING Gone Away
  • LINKIN PARK The Emptiness Machine
  • SWITCHFOOT This is Your Life
  • ZZ TOP Cheap Sunglasses
  • QUEEN Keep Yourself Alive
  • MOTHER LOVE BONE This is Shangri La
  • MILLIE MANDERS & THE SHUTUP Me Too
  • PAUL McCARTNEY Tug of War
  • JULIAN COPE Five O’Clock World

February 7, 2025 – International Clash DayFebruary 7, 2025 – International Clash Day

Maker Park Radio’s annual participation in the celebration of International Clash Day featured over a dozen of our DJs playing 60-to-90-minute sets which featured music by The Clash and a variety of other artists. It’s our way to celebrate the spirit and the legacy of The Clash and socially conscious music in general. Here’s our playlist:

  • THE CLASH Capital Radio (Edit)
  • WILLIE NILE Hard Times in America
  • WORLD PARTY Ship of Fools
  • SPENCER TRACY Fanaticism and Ignorance (from “Inherit the Wind”)
  • BAD RELIGION American Jesus
  • WHITE ROSE MOTOR OIL Hateland
  • GARLAND JEFFREYS Reggae on Broadway
  • WYCLEF JEAN Featuring THE REFUGEE ALL-STARS Fortunate Son
  • FAITH NO MORE We Care a Lot
  • THE DROPKICK MURPHYS Worker’s Song
  • MILLIE MANDERS & THE SHUTUP Me Too
  • LITTLE GREEN CARS My Love Took Me Down to the River to Silence Me
  • FRANK TURNER Make America Great Again
  • JOHN MELLENCAMP Rain on the Scarecrow
  • LOU REED Strawman
  • ROD SERLING The Tools of Conquest (from “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”)

January 25, 2025 PlaylistJanuary 25, 2025 Playlist

Three glorious hours of the new and not-so-new, the widely known and the lesser known, the local and the international; along with remembrances of a few artists who were recently taken from us. The music they left behind will never be forgotten. Click here to listen and raise the volume for maximum enjoyment.

  • FRANK TURNER I Still Believe
  • VAN HALEN Right Now
  • STEVE MILLER BAND Winter Time
  • THE BAND Chest Fever
  • ARCTIC MONKEYS Arabella
  • R.E.M. Fall On Me
  • OZZY OSBOURNE Mama, I’m Coming Home
  • SAM & DAVE Soul Man
  • SAM & DAVE Hold On, I’m Coming
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Wake Up, You’re Rockin!
  • RED KROSS It’s the Little Things
  • GODDAMN WRECKS Away From Here
  • LYONS LANE Femme Fatale
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Deriving Dariya
  • THE RECORD COMPANY So What’cha Want?
  • WHEATUS Teenage Dirtbag
  • 24-7 SPYZ Jungle Boogie
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Radio Silence
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Radio Nowhere
  • RAMONES (Do You Remember) Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio
  • ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS Radio Radio
  • EVERCLEAR AM Radio
  • SOUND SIREN Time
  • BLUE MURDER Jelly Roll
  • JOHN SYKES with PHIL LYNOTT Please Don’t Leave Me
  • GARY MOORE All Messed Up
  • BEAT BRIGADE Just Got Lucky
  • TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB What You Know
  • DURAN DURAN Union of the Snake
  • WEEZER O! Girlfriend
  • STRESS DOLLS Body
  • JEFFERSON STARSHIP Runaway
  • THE HOLLIES Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
  • GIORGIO SATTA Man in the Mirror
  • JULEE CRUISE Falling
  • KICK AXE Hellraisers

January 11, 2025 PlaylistJanuary 11, 2025 Playlist

Our first show of the new year provided ample evidence that our commitment to bringing you a diverse hodgepodge of generation-spanning music from across the years – and full spectrum – of rock music continues unabated. You can listen to the program by clicking here.

  • WARRIOR SOUL We Cry Out
  • RAINBOW Since You’ve Been Gone
  • KICK. SNARE. CRASH. What’s The Point
  • CIRCUS OF POWER Motor
  • ROCK GODDESS I Didn’t Know I Loved You (’til I Saw You Rock and Roll)
  • KULA SHAKER Tatva
  • SOUNDGARDEN Black Hole Sun
  • BLACK ROSE BURNING Black Sun Saturday
  • DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Black Sun
  • THE LOVELY EGGS Nothing Everything
  • SOUND SIREN One of Them
  • FALL OUT BOY My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark
  • JIMMY EAT WORLD Futures
  • TRAPPER SCHOEPP On, Wisconsin
  • CANCION FRANKLIN Just Made Rent
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Come On Angels
  • DAN CORIO BAND Heartbreaker
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Follow You Down
  • PABLO CRUISE Love Will Find a Way
  • SANFORD TOWNSEND BAND Smoke From a Distant Fire
  • HALL & OATES So Close
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE The Girl’s In Love
  • FRANK SINATRA Nancy with the Laughing Face
  • THE ROLLING STONES Paint It, Black
  • SABRINA CARPENTER Taste (Matt Girst Rock Remix)
  • WOOF WOOF Dizzy
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE End of the Day
  • MIDDLE AGES Never Mind Blues
  • KILLDEER Nice Enough
  • CASTLE BLACK Deer in the Lights
  • LISA SCHERMA & GUY MICHETTI Disappear
  • FIVE FOR FIGHTING 100 Years
  • RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Hallelujah
  • JOHHNY THUNDERS featuring PHILIP LYNOTT & STEVE MARRIOTT Daddy Rollin’ Stone

December 28, 2024 PlaylistDecember 28, 2024 Playlist

Our last show of the year featured a selection of songs about time and our never-ending love-hate relationship with it. We also featured a few independent artists that we first heard in 2024 and are looking forward to hearing more from in 2025. Turn up the volume and click here to listen!

  • J. GEILS BAND Gettin’ Out
  • PINK FLOYD Time
  • THE GUESS WHO No Time
  • BADFLOWER Detroit
  • CHEAP TRICK I Can’t Take It
  • ENUFF Z’NUFF Baby Loves You
  • DAN CORIO BAND Used to Love the Rain
  • DEFAULT Wasting My Time
  • KRISTIN FLAMMIO & THE PRETTY BITCHIN’ Not This Time
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND Villa Capri
  • MANIC HONEY Problems
  • THE BANGLES Hazy Shade of Winter
  • GOO GOO DOLLS One Last Song About Christmas
  • THE TRIFFIDS Save What You Can
  • INXS Not Enough Time
  • THE CARS Candy O
  • BEVIN LUNA Just Movin’
  • RED RIDER Lunatic Fringe
  • CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Give Me Just a Little More Time
  • GARLAND JEFFREYS Time Goes Away
  • TOM WAITS Time
  • CREED My Sacrifice
  • THE MOONDOGZ Free Yourself
  • IRIDESCENT POOLS Chew You Up
  • SIMON & GARFUNKEL The Boxer
  • EVERLAST What It’s Like
  • JOE JACKSON One More Time
  • JAMES Sit Down
  • THE DEAR BOYS Gone Viral
  • THE BEATLES Anytime At All
  • THE WHO Time is Passing
  • PORCUPINE TREE Time Flies
  • THE ROLLING STONES Time Waits for No One
  • DADA Bob, The Drummer
  • DARDEN SMITH Midnight Train
  • GIFTSHOP We Want You
  • SEMISONIC Closing Time

December 21, 2024 Playlist – Christmas SpecialDecember 21, 2024 Playlist – Christmas Special

Her pre-recorded voice greets you at the start of each show, but Nancy gets to do it live – and co-host – once a year when she joins me in studio for our annual Christmas show! The entire program is available to restream. Just click right here and get ready to rock the halls!

  • DARLENE LOVE All Alone on Christmas
  • SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS White Christmas
  • NEON TREES Holiday Rock
  • THE PAYOLAS Christmas is Coming
  • THE RONETTES Frosty the Snowman
  • BILLY SQUIER Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You
  • PANIC! AT THE DISCO Feels Like Christmas
  • THE KINKS Father Christmas
  • CHICAGO God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
  • .38 SPECIAL Hallelujah, It’s Christmas!
  • BILLY MACK Christmas is All Around
  • HALL & OATES Jingle Bell Rock
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE It’s Christmas Time Alright!
  • SPIRALING Do You Hear What I Hear?
  • LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Holiday Road
  • MAVIS STAPLES Christmas Vacation
  • U2 Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
  • LYZA WILSON Christmas in New York
  • SABRINA CARPENTER Buy Me Presents
  • ARIANA GRANDE Santa Tell Me
  • BILLIE EILISH Silver Bells
  • THE CHRIS VANDALAY PROJECT Good Morning Christmas
  • THE GREEDIES A Merry Jingle
  • TOXIC TITO Feliz Navidad
  • LEMMY, BILLY GIBBONS & DAVE GROHL Run Run Rudolph
  • RAMONES Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)
  • DROPKICK MURPHYS The Season’s Upon Us
  • ELI PAPERBOY REED Last Christmas
  • THE WAITRESSES Christmas Wrapping
  • REEL BIG FISH Whatever You Celebrate
  • BAD MANNERS It’s Christmastime Again
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Santa Claus is Coming to Town
  • THE POGUES Fairytale of New York
  • JOHN LENNON Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
  • THE SALSOUL ORCHESTRA Merry Christmas All
  • THE SMITHEREENS Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • DEE SNIDER & LZZY HALE The Magic of Christmas Day
  • TRAIN Shake Up Christmas
  • STEVIE WONDER Someday at Christmas

November 30, 2024 Playlist – From the Church to the CrossroadsNovember 30, 2024 Playlist – From the Church to the Crossroads

This edition of the program explored the connection between the world of spiritual and secular music. The journey from Gospel to Soul and then to Rock ‘n’ Roll is a long and fascinating one, and we conducted a basic crash course with selections from each of those genres, focusing on where they cross paths. You can access the show in its entirety by clicking here.

  • CREAM Crossroads
  • PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC Are You Ready?
  • THE STAPLE SINGERS I’ll Take You There
  • SISTER ROSETTA THARPE & THE SAM PRICE TRIO The Lord Followed Me
  • GEORGE GRANT & THE MIGHTY TEMPLARS Examine My Soul
  • MARVIN GAYE Can I Get A Witness
  • CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD I’m On My Way to a Better Place
  • PAUL SIMON Love Me Like a Rock
  • SHAWN PARSONS Grateful
  • SAM COOKE A Change is Gonna Come
  • LITTLE RICHARD Ride On, King Jesus
  • THE DOOBIE BROTHERS Jesus Is Just Alright
  • ZZ TOP Jesus Left Chicago
  • ARETHA FRANKLIN Border Song
  • RAY CHARLES Let It Be
  • THE IMPRESSIONS People Get Ready
  • CHARLES JENKINS & FELLOWSHIP CHICAGO Awesome
  • QUEEN Somebody to Love
  • FOREIGNER I Want to Know What Love Is
  • NORMAN GREENBAUM Spirit in the Sky
  • MARC COHN Walking in Memphis
  • LEON BRIDGES River
  • JOHNNY CASH Wayfaring Stranger
  • TALKING HEADS Take Me to the River
  • THE HARLEM GOSPEL TRAVELLERS Jesus Rhapsody Part 1
  • MANHATTAN TRANSFER Operator
  • STEVIE WONDER Higher Ground
  • THE BYRDS Turn! Turn! Turn!
  • BILLY JOEL River of Dreams
  • BLIND FAITH Presence of the Lord
  • U2 featuring MARY J. BLIGE One
  • SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS Call On God
  • THE EDWIN HAWKINS SINGERS Oh Happy Day

November 16, 2024 PlaylistNovember 16, 2024 Playlist

We placed a deliberate emphasis on female voices and women’s issues when compiling this playlist. However, that was not our exclusive focus, as evidenced by the usual wide assortment of sounds and styles represented herein. The entire program can be accessed by clicking here.

  • LIZ PHAIR Extraordinary
  • QUINCY JONES Soul Bossa Nova
  • ARETHA FRANKLIN Respect
  • LESLEY GORE You Don’t Own Me
  • BAD COMPANY Do Right by Your Woman
  • TEN YEARS AFTER I’d Love to Change the World
  • THREE DOG NIGHT One
  • VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE A Perfect Place
  • SUSAN VEGA & DNA Tom’s Diner
  • LISA SCHERMA I Gotta Go To Church
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Tin Woman
  • KILLDEER Nice Enough
  • MANIC HONEY Photodump
  • HOLE Celebrity Skin
  • TRAPPER SCHOEPP Ogalala
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN She Don’t Love Me No Now
  • HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Living in the City
  • TEARS FOR FEARS with OLETA ADAMS Woman in Chains
  • SHERYL CROW & JOHNNY CASH Redemption Day
  • CHAPPELL ROAN Pink Pony Club (Rock Remix)
  • DAVID BOWIE Rebel Rebel
  • JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS Bad Reputation
  • BIKINI KILL Rebel Girl
  • THE BEACHES Blame Brett
  • NO DOUBT Just a Girl
  • TRAPPER SCHOEPP with NICOLE ATKINS What You Do to Her
  • LISA SCHERMA Here in My Heart
  • MANIC HONEY Nothing Comes Out
  • HALESTORM Dear Daughter
  • THE ROLLING STONES Sweet Neo Con
  • BLACK ROSE BURNING No Love Lost
  • ELTON JOHN Believe
  • JACKIE DE SHANNON What the World Needs Now
  • ALEXIS P. SUTER BAND Let It Be
  • THE BELL-RAYS Black Lightning
  • THE WARNING More
  • X-RAY LOVE On My Stereo
  • THE DISCARDED Testify!
  • MILLIE MANDERS & THE SHUT UP Angry Side
  • SARA BAREILLES Brave

November 2, 2024 PlaylistNovember 2, 2024 Playlist

Among life’s many true pleasures is the ability to begin a crisp autumn morning with three hours of great rock ‘n’ roll – and sharing that music with so many of our wonderful listeners. If you were unable to join us live, you can enjoy the entire program at your convenience right here.

  • IAN HUNTER & MICK RONSON Big Time
  • THE GREYHOUNDS West Texas
  • THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Zero
  • THE CULT King Contrary Man
  • THE BABYS Back on My Feet Again
  • THE CURE Mint Car
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Souls of the Departed
  • DAN CORIO BAND Used to Love the Rain
  • LIVVA JONES Drowning
  • TOXIC TITO Toxic Love
  • MIDDLE AGES Never Mind Blues
  • PATTY SMYTH My Town
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND King of the L.E.S.
  • MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND Runner
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE 4,000 Miles
  • CANNED HEAT Let’s Work Together
  • JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS Roadrunner
  • BE BOP DELUXE Ships in the Night
  • THE DEAR BOYS Gone Viral
  • THE WHO I’m a Road Runner
  • WHITESNAKE The Deeper the Love
  • LINKIN PARK Over Each Other
  • CHRIS VANDALAY PROJECT Your Favorite War
  • HOZIER Too Sweet
  • KISS Talk to Me
  • BILLY GIBBONS Treat Her Right
  • CHALK CIRCLE This Mourning
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Carry On
  • ROVER BOYS TRIO Stop That Boogie!
  • FRANK TURNER Get Better
  • BLACK ROSE BURNING Fight
  • JOHNNY MARR Armatopia
  • CANCION FRANKLIN Better Not Let Me Knock
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Embers in the Ash
  • SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS This Land is Your Land
  • SLOAN This Day Will Be Mine
  • EDEN JAMES Stranger
  • GENE LOVES JEZEBEL Motion of Love
  • THE HOOTERS Private Emotion
  • MICK JAGGER Vision of Paradise
  • THE BUDOS BAND Hidden Hand

October 26, 2024 Playlist – 5th Anniversary SpecialOctober 26, 2024 Playlist – 5th Anniversary Special

We continued our tradition of letting our listeners compile the playlist for our annual anniversary show, and this year, they came up with perhaps the most eclectic hodgepodge they have ever produced. Open your mind as wide as you can and give it a listen here.

  • MC5 Kick Out the Jams
  • T REX Buick Mackane
  • SASS JORDAN Pissin’ Down
  • GUANO APES Kumba Yo!
  • HEART Rock and Roll
  • X RAY LOVE On My Stereo
  • SOCIAL DISTORTION Don’t Take Me for Granted
  • THE DEAR BOYS Gone Viral
  • DOUG AND THE SLUGS Too Bad
  • EDISON LIGHTHOUSE Love Grows Where My Rosemary Grows
  • KING HARVEST Dancin’ in the Moonlight
  • JASON MRAZ Living in the Moment
  • TIM McGRAW Humble and Kind
  • VAN MORRISON Bein’ Green
  • WEEZER Say It Isn’t So
  • COUNTING CROWS A Murder of One
  • RAY PARKER JR. Ghostbusters
  • MISFITS Halloween
  • IRON MAIDEN Killers
  • ALICE COOPER Poison
  • BOB SEGER Roll Me Away
  • .38 SPECIAL Hold on Loosely
  • SURVIVOR Eye of the Tiger
  • SHAWN PARSONS Grateful
  • LOUIS ARMSTRONG What a Wonderful World
  • OASIS Wonderwall
  • PHIL COLLINS Lorenzo
  • WOOF WOOF Dizzy
  • MOTORHEAD Ace of Spades
  • KING’S X Black Flag
  • IDLES Love Song
  • LEE FIELDS Forever
  • BAD MANNERS Walking in the Sunshine
  • SABRINA CARPENTER Espresso
  • FINNEAS For Crying Out Loud
  • MELISSA ETHERIDGE I Run for Life
  • AUTOGRAMM Wannabe
  • McFADDEN & WHITEHEAD Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now