Author: Lorenzo Mameli

July 25, 2026 PlaylistJuly 25, 2026 Playlist

July 25, 2026July 25, 2026|

A rare departure from our diverse hodgepodge of generation-spanning rock music takes you down my personal musical memory lane. Turning 65 made me wax nostalgic about the songs that helped shape my musical tastes in my formative years. Here’s a sampling of songs that resonated with me from toddler to tween to teenager in the years from 1961 through 1979. Click here to access the stream.

  • HOT BUTTER Popcorn
  • REUNION Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)
  • THE BEATLES She Loves You
  • BOBBY LEWIS Tossin’ and Turnin’
  • THE BEACH BOYS Barbara Ann
  • LOU CHRISTIE Lightning Strikes
  • THE ARCHIES Sugar Sugar
  • THE BOX TOPS The Letter
  • THE DRIFTERS On Broadway
  • BEN E. KING Spanish Harlem
  • THE O’JAYS Back Stabbers
  • OTIS REDDING (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay
  • THE BYRDS Turn! Turn! Turn!
  • THE ROLLING STONES Mother’s Little Helper
  • SIMON & GARFUNKEL Mrs. Robinson
  • JEFFERSON AIRPLANE White Rabbit
  • BOB DYLAN Lay Lady Lady
  • CREAM White Room
  • JIMI HENDRIX Purple Haze
  • THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN Something in the Air
  • EDWIN STARR War
  • RAIDERS Indian Reservation
  • ELVIS PRESLEY Burning Love
  • ELTON JOHN Crocodile Rock
  • THREE DOG NIGHT Joy to the World
  • CHUCK BERRY My Ding-A-Ling
  • NEW YORK DOLLS Personality Crisis
  • THE WHO The Real Me
  • LED ZEPPELIN Heartbreaker / Living Loving Maid
  • BLACK SABBATH Paranoid
  • ALICE COOPER No More Mr. Nice Guy
  • CHEAP TRICK Surrender (Live)
  • KISS Rock and Roll All Nite (Live)
  • VAN HALEN You Really Got Me
  • BLONDIE One Way or Another
  • JOE JACKSON Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  • RAMONES I Wanna Be Sedated
  • MOTT THE HOOPLE All the Young Dudes
  • THE ROLLING STONES In the Stars
  • JETHRO TULL Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll, Too Young to Die (coda)

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July 11, 2026 PlaylistJuly 11, 2026 Playlist

July 11, 2026July 11, 2026|

Listen to this edition of the program by clicking here.

  • FRANCIS MONKMAN Theme from “The Long Good Friday”
  • ANDY TAYLOR I Might Lie
  • AC/DC What’s Next to the Moon
  • TOO HOT FOR LEATHER Mess with Me
  • SCREAMING REBEL ANGELS Evil Kinda Gal
  • TROOPER We’re Here for a Good Time (Not A Long Time)
  • ROBYN HITCHCOCK Yesterday’s Rain
  • CHRIS VANDALAY PROJECT How Will You Know
  • THE SCHWA Kasey is a Punk
  • LED ZEPPELIN D’y’er Maker
  • RED VOODOO Mystery Girl
  • POINT BLANK Nicole
  • REO SPEEDWAGON Don’t Let Him Go
  • THE HIGH CHIEFS Darlin’ Donna
  • DAN CORIO BAND Hold On
  • CANCION FRANKLIN Twelve Tristezas
  • JOHNNY CASH I Hung My Head
  • THE CARS You’re All I’ve Got Tonight
  • THE STRANGLERS Always the Sun (Live)
  • OLIVIA RODRIGO with ROBERT SMITH What’s Wrong with Me
  • ANGELICA GIANNA You Know
  • CAROLE KING I Feel the Earth Move
  • THE ROLLING STONES Never Wanna Lose You
  • HANOI ROCKS Ice Cream Summer
  • RICHIE SAMBORA Every Road Leads Home to You
  • FISHBONE Everyday Sunshine
  • AL KOOPER I Stand Alone
  • JOAN CADDELL & THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR Cinderella
  • SARAH BORGES Mercy of the Moon
  • RHIANNON GIDDENS She Got You
  • GODDAMN WRECKS Almost Homesick Blues
  • AUTOGRAMM Wannabe
  • BAND OF HORSES Laredo
  • PAWNS OR KINGS Demons in Armani Shoes
  • THE AVETT BROTHERS I and Love and You
  • DAVE KEENER Someone
  • BONNIE TYLER Total Eclipse of the Heart

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July 3, 2026 Playlist – America’s 250th BirthdayJuly 3, 2026 Playlist – America’s 250th Birthday

July 5, 2026July 5, 2026|

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S.A. with perhaps her greatest export – rock and roll music! Click here to access the restream.

  • VIOLENT FEMMES American Music
  • THE BLASTERS American Music
  • DAVID LEE ROTH Yankee Rose
  • GREEN DAY Last of the American girls
  • PAUL McCARTNEY Freedom
  • THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM American Slang
  • THE BEACH BOYS Surfin’ USA
  • MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS Heat Wave
  • JOHN MELLENCAMP Pink Houses
  • IAN HUNTER Cleveland Rocks
  • GRAND FUNK RAILROAD We’re an American Band
  • KISS Kissin’ Time USA
  • DEBBIE HARRY French Kissing in the USA
  • KIM WILDE Kids in America
  • SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS This Land is Your Land
  • JAMES BROWN Living in America
  • LENNY KRAVITZ American Woman
  • DAVE ALVIN 4th of July
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN American Land
  • BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND American Storm
  • TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS American Girl
  • DEF LEPPARD Hello America
  • NIGHTRANGER You Can Still Rock in America
  • CHUCK BERRY Back in the USA
  • BROOKS & DUNN Only in America
  • ME FIRST & THE GIMME GIMMES Country Roads
  • Y&T All American Boy
  • COUNTING CROWS American Girls
  • NEIL DIAMOND America
  • JOHN MELLENCAMP R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.
  • CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Fortunate Son
  • NEIL YOUNG Hawks and Doves
  • DON McLEAN American Pie
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE What are You Waiting For?
  • VAN HALEN Dreams
  • JACKSON BROWNE I Am a Patriot
  • JEFFERSON AIRPLANE Volunteers
  • STEVE MILLER BAND Living in the USA
  • THE TEMPTATIONS Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
  • MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS Dancing in the Street
  • RAY CHARLES America the Beautiful

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June 27, 2026 Playlist with Melo DiBartolo of Beat BrigadeJune 27, 2026 Playlist with Melo DiBartolo of Beat Brigade

June 28, 2026June 28, 2026|

A very ska-centric episode! All you rude boys and girls can check it out by clicking right here!

  • MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA Get Smart
  • THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES The Impression That I Get
  • THE HOLOPHONICS Havana
  • URBAN BLIGHT Three More Roses
  • BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS Spinning Wheel
  • UB40 Can’t Help Falling In Love
  • REEL BIG FISH Take On Me
  • DONKEY SHOW Mr. Brown
  • DODGY Summer Forever
  • BEAT BRIGADE Armageddon Beat
  • BEAT BRIGADE Just Got Lucky
  • GOLDFINGER More Today Than Yesterday
  • FISHBONE Unyielding Conditioning
  • BEAT BRIGADE You Charming Thing
  • MELO DiBARTOLO 401Kill (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • MADNESS One Step Beyond
  • MADNESS Our House
  • BEAT BRIGADE Lori
  • MELO DiBARTOLO Walk Away (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • BEAT BRIGADE Racists and Fools
  • RANCID Time Bomb
  • THE INTERRUPTERS featuring TIM ARMSTRONG Family
  • SAVE FERRIS Come On Eileen
  • THE ENGLISH BEAT Save it for Later
  • BEAT BRIGADE Has the Fire Died
  • MELO DiBARTOLO Ferguson Bullets (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • THE CLASH Rudie Can’t Fail
  • THE SPECIALS A Message to You, Rudy
  • THE SELECTER Too Much Pressure
  • THE TOASTERS East Side Beat
  • BEAT BRIGADE All the Lights Have Gone Out
  • BEAT BRIGADE Keep Still Dark
  • BEAT BRIGADE Another Cause
  • BEAT BRIGADE Bittersweet

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June 13, 2026 PlaylistJune 13, 2026 Playlist

June 14, 2026June 14, 2026|

Guest: Dominic Lucente, Director, Staten Island Chapter, New York City Mountain Bike Association. To listen to a restream of this epiosde, click here.

  • ELLIOT, ALAINA & PUPA SANTIAGO Summertime
  • JOEY RAMONE New York City
  • PATTY SMYTH My Town
  • MODERN DAY MACHINES I’ll Disappear With You
  • MOTHER’S FINEST Don’t Stop
  • THE ROLLING STONES In The Stars
  • STRESS DOLLS Better
  • PAUL McCARTNEY with RINGO STARR Home To Us
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Crash
  • STEVE EARLE City of Immigrants
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Thunder Road
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Better
  • DODGY Summer Forever
  • STEVIE NICKS Talk To Me
  • NICK LOWE Cruel To Be Kind
  • NICKELBACK Gotta Be Somebody
  • SAINTS IN EXILE Need An Escape
  • LOUVERS Drive Tonight
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND It’s Not Complicated
  • JIMI HENDRIX Wait Until Tomorrow
  • THE DAMNED The Limit Club
  • ELTON JOHN Candle In The Wind
  • THE GET ALONGS Sound
  • ZINADELPHIA Call Up Nancy
  • ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION So Into You
  • AMANI BURNHAM I Wanna Know
  • ORBIS MAX featuring CHRIS VANDALAY Falling Through The Cracks
  • RUSH Subdivisions
  • CHUMBAWUMBA Tubthumping
  • THE MOUNTAIN GOATS Charlie Sheen Reaches Out To The Feds
  • THE EINES Why Not?
  • THE RALLIES Come and Go
  • STAN BUSH The Touch
  • MONA FREAKA Last Song
  • BEAUTY SCHOOL DROPOUT Daddy Don’t Cry
  • ALICIA KEYS Empire State of Mind (live AOL session)

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May 30, 2026 PlaylistMay 30, 2026 Playlist

May 30, 2026May 30, 2026|

Contest winner Nancy Glennon returned to the show and brought her daughter, Lauren, with her – and they each put a playlist of some of their favorite songs together – and we played ’em all. Listen to the show by clicking here.

  • ACCEPTANCE Ad Astra Per Aspera
  • TOXIC TITO Carol
  • SANS PETRIE The Gin Twist
  • DEF LEPPARD Bringing On the Heartbreak
  • JOURNEY Stone In Love
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Tunnel of Love
  • THE CARDIGANS Lovefool
  • BOWLING FOR SOUP Almost
  • THE STROKES 12:51
  • DAN CORIO BAND Back When
  • DIAMOND SPUR RODEO Somebody’s Mother
  • SAINTS IN EXILE Pain Is My Best Friend
  • INXS The One Thing
  • ASIA Heat of the Moment
  • WHITESNAKE Here I Go Again
  • HOZIER From Eden
  • MICHELLE BRANCH Are You Happy Now?
  • FALL OUT BOY Grand Theft Autumn
  • GARLAND JEFFREYS 96 Tears
  • THE ROLLING STONES Waiting On a Friend
  • MODELE Under the Starlight
  • EDDIE MONEY I Think I’m In Love
  • JOHN COUGAR Ain’t Even Done with the Night
  • THE 1975 She’s American
  • JEFF BUCKLEY Lover, You Should Have Come Over
  • THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT Wishing Well
  • HALSEY Nightmare
  • AMY WINEHOUSE Tears Dry On Their Own
  • FOREIGNER Head Games
  • U2 With or Without You
  • THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Someday’s Gone
  • THE COUNTING CROWS Angel of the Silences
  • NO DOUBT Bath Water

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May 16, 2026 Playlist – Guest Host: Gwen GibsonMay 16, 2026 Playlist – Guest Host: Gwen Gibson

May 17, 2026May 17, 2026|

Familial obligations took me elsewhere on this day, but thankfully, my Sister of Sound Gwen Gibson was able to take the ride up from Philly to cover the show. Check out her playlist below and click here to listen to the terrific job she did in my absence.

  • LOS STRAIGHTJACKETS Galaxy Drive
  • THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Rock and Roll
  • GODDAMN WRECKS Here’s To You
  • CAGE THE ELEPHANT No Rest for the Wicked
  • GREEN DAY Boulevard of Broken Dreams
  • THE DEAR BOYS Procrastination
  • THE BEATLES Think for Yourself
  • THE SECOND SUMMER I Should
  • HOLE Malibu
  • THE STANDELLS Dirty Water
  • CHUCK BERRY Come On
  • CANCION FRANKLIN Pass Me By
  • VAN HALEN I’ll Wait
  • BEE GEES In My Own Time
  • BLACK PUMAS Fire
  • COURAGE MY LOVE Bridges
  • INXS Red Red Sun
  • BIG JOE TURNER Shake Rattle and Roll
  • TENACIOUS D Tribute
  • THE ZOMBIES Time of the Season
  • THE TRANSFERENCE Ramon Says I’m The Devil
  • MIDDLE AGES Silver Lining (Don’t Count Me Out)
  • MERESHA Night Sky
  • THE CHURCH Reptile
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
  • FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES Wild Flowers
  • THE EINES 48 Beers
  • MOMMA Speeding 72
  • THE RALLIES Not So Much Anymore
  • THE LEN PRICE 3 I’m A Fake
  • NIRVANA You Know You’re Right
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Follow You Down
  • 6KITTY June
  • JACK WHITE Archbishop Harold Holmes
  • SUZZALLO River
  • TRACY BONHAM Mother Mother
  • CROWDED HOUSE That What I Call Love
  • DEMOLITION 23 Hammersmith Palais
  • JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)
  • THE EASYBEATS Friday on My Mind
  • OLD 97s Every Night is Friday Night (Without You)
  • DAVE EDMUNDS Almost Saturday Night
  • THE HIVES Tick Tick Boom
  • THE KNICKERBOCKERS Lies
  • THE POWER STATION Some Like It Hot
  • LOS PAJAROS Gato Negro
  • CHAGALL GUEVARA Tale O’ The Twister

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May 2, 2026 PlaylistMay 2, 2026 Playlist

May 3, 2026May 3, 2026|

Listen to the restream of this episode by clicking here.

  • MARK RONSON with THE DAPTONE HORNS God Put a Smile on Your Face
  • CRACKER Let’s Go For a Ride
  • GODDAMN WRECKS Away From Here
  • SOCIAL DISTORTION Partners in Crime
  • THE BLACK KEYS Lonely Boys
  • FISHBONE A Movement in the Light
  • PRIMAL SCREAM Movin’ On Up
  • THE CHRIS VANDALAY PROJECT This Modern Age
  • LOUVERS Arcade Sunset
  • LINK WRAY & THE WRAYMEN Rumble
  • JIMI HENDRIX Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
  • ALBERT COLLINS I Ain’t Drunk
  • STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES Champagne Corolla
  • JOE COCKER Feelin’ Alright
  • DAVE MASON We Just Disagree
  • PARALLEL LINES Dream Girl
  • APRIL WINE Just Between You and Me
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND The Brightest Day of Summer
  • SCOTT FRILOT Clock Radio
  • THE POLICE Driven to Tears
  • DAN CORIO BAND Rolling Away
  • PARKER BARROW Blinded
  • STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Crossfire
  • GINA BRILLON Midwestern Husband in NYC
  • GRAND PEPPER OF REALITY Let’s Be Easy
  • SANTANA with MICHELLE BRANCH The Game of Love
  • WAR Cisco Kid
  • MALO Suavecito
  • ANJELIQUE RODRIGUEZ Tell Me
  • SAINTS IN EXILE Good Won’t Get You In
  • LINKIN PARK Numb
  • DANZIG Mother
  • SYSTEM OF A DOWN Aerials
  • JOHNNY DEPP & IMELDA MAY Haunted
  • JUDAH AND THE LION Suit and Jacket
  • ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO Sister Lost Soul
  • TRASHCAN SINATRAS The Bitter End
  • SCORPIONS No One Like You
  • CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Albatross
  • ELTON JOHN Song for Guy

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April 18, 2026 PlaylistApril 18, 2026 Playlist

April 18, 2026April 18, 2026|

Listen to the restream of this episode by clicking here.

  • THE DEAR BOYS The New Reverend Jam
  • STROKE 9 Kick Some Ass
  • BILLY IDOL Dancing with Myself
  • EMF Hands in the Air
  • THE ALARM Live Today
  • J. GEILS BAND Must of Got Lost
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Embers in the Ash
  • THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You
  • IMAAD WASIF The Rainbow
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Cadillac Ranch
  • JON CASPI & THE FIRST GUN We Don’t Talk About It
  • OASIS Don’t Look Back
  • FUNKADELIC Can You Get to That
  • CORPSE BARGE Baloney Overdose
  • ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Telephone Line
  • PINK FLOYD See Saw
  • BLACK PUMAS Wichita Lineman
  • PHIL COLLINS I Don’t Care Anymore
  • DICK DALE Miserlou
  • NEW ORDER Bizarre Love Triangle
  • ANJELIQUE RODRIGUEZ Tell Me
  • SADE By Your Side
  • LUTHER VANDROSS Buy Me a Rose
  • IRON MAIDEN Flight of Icarus
  • DIO Mystery
  • EVANESCENCE Who Will You Follow
  • LOUVERS Quarantine Dream
  • CURIOUS VOLUME Former King
  • MINA Nessuno
  • SUNNY WAR featuring VALERIE JUNE Crybaby
  • LEE FIELDS Forever
  • SHAWN PARSONS Grateful
  • CANCION FRANKLIN Just Made Rent
  • JALEN NGONDA Doctrine of Love
  • THE PEAWEES Baby I’m in the Mood for You
  • TRUE RUMOR Imperfect Circle
  • BLACK ROSE BURNING Sadness
  • THE PRETTY RECKLESS Love Me
  • WU-TANG CLAN C.R.E.A.M. (instrumental)

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April 4, 2026 PlaylistApril 4, 2026 Playlist

April 4, 2026April 4, 2026|

The world is in a particularly crazy state right now, and damn if I know how to fix it. (Honestly, I have some ideas, but that’s a conversation for another day.) I do know that everybody needs some down time away from the endless news cycle of gloom and doom…and music can be your light in the darkness. Here’s three hours of it that I played on Muddy Waters and Maya Angelou’s birthday, which curiously fell on the same day as National School Librarian’s Day ad International Carrot Day. Make of that what you will. Dig it by clicking here.

  • JOE SATRIANI Hill of the Skull
  • MUDDY WATERS The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll
  • ENUFF Z’NUFF New Thing
  • THE SHA LA LA’S Baby, You’re a Scene Freak
  • COLLECTIVE SOUL Gel
  • THE B-52s Paperback Writer
  • THE TROGGS Wild Thing
  • THE ZOMBIES Tell Her No
  • EDDIE FLOYD Knock On Wood
  • THE THING Irresistible
  • THE DEAR BOYS I Hope You Know How F**ckin’ Cool You Are
  • ROSECOLOREDWORLD Hanging on by a Thread
  • PETE TOWNSHEND Let My Love Open the Door
  • ROBYN HITCHCOCK I Am This Thing
  • STANLEY SIMMONS Dancing While the World is Ending
  • SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES Vertigo
  • THE KINKS A Gallon of Gas
  • TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Future Soul
  • SCOTT FRILOT Clock Radio
  • LOUVERS Nostalgia Road
  • REAL LIFE SUPERHERO 8:35 pm / Trouble in the Nightime
  • LENNY KRAVITZ It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over
  • BLACK LABEL SOCIETY & ZAKK WYLDE Ozzy’s Song
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Your Time Will Come
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN A Rainy Night in Soho
  • U2 Pride in the Name of Love
  • SIERRA FERRELL Dollar Bill Bar
  • ELLA LANGLEY Choosin’ Texas
  • DAN CORIO BAND Used to Love the Rain
  • SUZI QUATRO & ALICE COOPER Kick Out the Jams
  • THE BAD ACTORS My Motorola
  • PALMYRA DELRAN & THE DOPPEL GANG Lucky in Love
  • ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Seven Seas
  • JOAN OSBORNE What if God Was One of Us?
  • ELTON JOHN Rocket Man
  • PAUL McCARTNEY Days We Left Behind
  • JOE JACKSON After All This Time
  • IAN HUNTER & THE RANT BAND Just the Way You Look Tonight
  • DURAN DURAN Come Undone
  • U2 Resurrection Song

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