Author: Lorenzo Mameli

March 25 Playlist: Brewster MoonfaceMarch 25 Playlist: Brewster Moonface

They describe themselves as “a vocal driven blues band with a minimalist, nail-driving rhythm section from NYC.” On the latest show, Brewster Moonface performs live at the Maker Park Radio Studio! Click here to listen to the full show.

  • STEVE STEVENS Flamenco A Go Go
  • FRANK TURNER Get Better
  • GOODBYE JUNE Three Chords
  • LYNYRD SKYNYRD Gimme Three Steps
  • CYNDI LAUPER Money Changes Everything
  • THE WEAKERTHANS Tournament of Hearts
  • ME FIRST & THE GIMME GIMMES Country Roads
  • THE CHURCH KEYS Viva Viva Rock ‘n Roll
  • ELLE KING Ex’s and Oh’s
  • ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Lips Like Sugar
  • RELIC Dance with the Devil
  • JOE BONAMASSA Prisoner
  • ELASTICA Connection
  • LINDA RONSTADT Poor Pitiful Me
  • MARGO PRICE with SHARON VON ETTEN Radio
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Same Old Mistake (Live in the MPR studio)
  • MERRY CLAYTON Gimme Shelter
  • SAMANTHA FISH Better Be Lonely
  • FONTELLA BASS Rescue Me
  • GWEN McRAE Rockin’ Chair
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Marie Laveaux (Live in the MPR studio)
  • SUZI QUATRO Lipstick
  • CHERIE CURRIE Roxy Roller
  • VIXEN Edge of a Broken Heart
  • DETROIT COBRAS Midnight Blues
  • THE GET-AROUNDS I Want Something More
  • HOOVERPHONIC Vinegar and Salt
  • AMY WINEHOUSE Tears Dry on Their Own
  • ANDRA DAY Forever Mine
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE It’s a Damn Shame (Live in the MPR studio)
  • HOORAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Living in the City
  • DOLORES O’RIORDAN Ordinary Day
  • SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES Dear Prudence
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE House of the Rising Sun (Live in the MPR studio)
  • LAURA NYRO Stoned Soul Picnic

March 11 Playlist: Celebrating Women’s VoicesMarch 11 Playlist: Celebrating Women’s Voices

In honor of March being National Women’s History Month, we filled our playlist with over 40 different female voices. Listen to the full show here!

  • NO DOUBT Just a Girl
  • THE SURFRAJETTES Snowball
  • THE RUNAWAYS Queens of Noise
  • LIZ PHAIR Rock Me
  • THE WAITRESSES I Know What Boys Like
  • JAX Victoria’s Secret
  • TLC Unpretty
  • LANA DEL REY Young and Beautiful
  • THE RONNETTES Be My Baby
  • THE SUPREMES I Hear a Symphony
  • THE SHIRELLES Dedicated to the One I Love
  • JANIS JOPLIN Kozmic Blues
  • THE PRETENDERS Human
  • THE BREEDERS Divine Hammer
  • LUSCIOUS JACKSON Ladyfingers
  • THE REGRETTES Seashore
  • MARTHA & THE MUFFINS Echo Beach
  • PAT BENATAR All Fired Up
  • CARLY SIMON You’re So Vain
  • PARAMORE The Only Exception
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Catcall Blues
  • JOAN JETT You Don’t Own Me
  • TORI AMOS Silent All These Years
  • KATE BUSH This Woman’s Work
  • CONCRETE BLONDE Happy Birthday
  • HEART There’s the Girl
  • DEAD SARA Anybody
  • HALESTORM I Like It Hard
  • McKENNA GRACE You Ruined Nirvana
  • QUEEN LATIFAH Fly Girl
  • BABES IN TOYLAND We Are Family
  • BLONDIE Sunday Girl
  • THE FAITHETTES River Deep Mountain High
  • YEAH YEAH YEAHS Burning
  • THE PRETTY RECKLESS Champagne Supernova / Dear Prudence
  • HALEY REINHART The Letter
  • THE INTERRUPTERS Bad Guy
  • THE EURHYTHMICS Miracle of Love
  • ALISON MOYET Whispering Your Name
  • BONNIE RAITT Thing Called Love
  • INGRID MICHAELSON Girls Chase Boys
  • NONA HENDRYX Women Who Fly

February 19 Playlist: Lenny Kravitz SpecialFebruary 19 Playlist: Lenny Kravitz Special

Listen to the latest episode of The Rocker on Maker Park Radio!

  • Black Velveteen
  • Are You Gonna Go My Way
  • Whole Lotta Love (Live at the Kennedy Center Honors)
  • American Woman
  • Mr. Cab Driver
  • Dig In
  • Again
  • Always on the Run
  • New York City
  • California
  • Can’t Get You Off of My Mind
  • Believe
  • Fly Away
  • Like a Jet
  • Deuce
  • Lady
  • Where Are We Runnin’
  • Stillness of Heart
  • Minister of Rock n’ Roll
  • Rock n’ Roll is Dead
  • Bring It On
  • I Belong to You
  • 5 More Days ‘Til Summer
  • Black and White America
  • Stand
  • I’ll Be Waiting
  • Stand By My Woman
  • It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over

February 11 PlaylistFebruary 11 Playlist

Listen to the full show here!

  • BORICUA GUITAR POWER No Way Out
  • CRASH STREET KIDS Do You Still Believe in Rock and Roll?
  • VOLBEAT Heaven nor Hell
  • MANESKIN Gossip
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Sir Chunk
  • TOTO Hold the Line
  • WEEZER Run Over By a Truck
  • DEVO Gates of Steel
  • GOO GOO DOLLS Never Take the Place of Your Man
  • SUPERGRASS Pumpin’ On Your Stereo
  • THE BYRDS Turn! Turn! Turn!
  • CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG Woodstock
  • DAUGHTRY with LZZY HALE Separate Ways
  • RIVAL SONS Pressure and Time
  • WHITE LION Broken Heart
  • DAN CORIO Hold On
  • TESKEY BROTHERS Never Tear Us Apart
  • THE DEADNOTES Forever Outsider
  • SLOAN The Day Will Be Mine
  • PARAMORE Ain’t It Fun
  • WILBERT HARRISON Kansas City
  • ALL TIME LOW Umbrella
  • ELTON JOHN Philadelphia Freedom
  • THE STRANGLERS Walk On By
  • PAUL WELLER Close To You
  • EVERLAST Only Love Can Break Your Heart
  • ELVIS COSTELLO & BURT BACHARACH I’ll Never Fall in Love Again
  • FAITH NO MORE This Guy’s in Love with You
  • C.C. VOLTAGE Berliner Pilsner
  • ZZ TOP Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
  • THE COCKTAIL SLIPPERS St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
  • 10 CC The Things We Do for Love
  • BRYAN FERRY Slave to Love
  • TRANSVISION VAMP Bad Valentine
  • TELEVISION See No Evil
  • TELEVISION Venus
  • BONNIE RAITT Just Like That

January 28 Playlist: Radioactive MaterialJanuary 28 Playlist: Radioactive Material

The Rocker was joined by Radioactive Material, a local punk band. Listen to the full show here!

  • HOUNDS OF JUSTICE Wisdom Teeth
  • SR-71 Right Now
  • RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Good Mood Song
  • BOWLING FOR SOUP Girl All the Bad Guys Want
  • FALL OUT BOY Sugar, We’re Going Down
  • BLINK-182 Don’t Leave Me
  • MILLENCOLIN Trendy Winds
  • MXPX Foolish
  • RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Drunken Love Story
  • GREEN DAY Minority
  • GOLDFINGER Superman
  • RAMONES Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio?
  • RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL I’m Sorry (Screw You)
  • SAW LOSER I’ll Be There for You
  • BLACK FLAG TV Party
  • THE CLASH Brand New Cadillac
  • LESS THAN JAKE Hopeless Case
  • SUM-41 Nothing on My Back
  • NEW FOUND GLORY Hit or Miss
  • RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Give It All You Got
  • THE INTERRUPTERS A Friend Like Me
  • THE HOLOPHONICS Havana
  • RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Hangover ‘n Out
  • ABOVE THE SUN Lost and Found

January 14 Playlist: Our Own YokosJanuary 14 Playlist: Our Own Yokos

Our first show of 2023 featured Shaun Gold and Brian Buchanan of Our Own Yokos joining us in our studio to share some stories and debut their new single. We also paid tribute to the genius of the recently departed Jeff Beck. Listen to the show here!

  • JEFF BECK ‘Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers
  • THE YARDBIRDS Heart Full of Soul
  • JEFF BECK Gets Us All in the End
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Good Times, Bad Times
  • FIGUREHEAD Time’s Arrow
  • JACUZZI FIRE 9:30 Boat
  • SEAL & JEFF BECK Manic Depression
  • HEAVEN Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
  • JEFF BECK & ROD STEWART People Get Ready
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Sir Chunk
  • MILLIE MANDERS & THE SHUTUP Not Okay
  • BECK, BOGERT & APPICE Why Should I Care
  • DAN CORIO Hold On
  • BLESSING OFFOR Brighter Days
  • RAV3N Irresistible Queen
  • KING LIKE MOM Tantrum
  • SUBURBAN LEGENDS Thank You for Being a Friend
  • SAVE FERRIS Come on Eileen
  • LEE FIELDS Two Jobs
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Feel Alright Tonight (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • JEFF BECK Freeway Jam

December 3 PlaylistDecember 3 Playlist

Just in case you missed it and need something to listen to while running through your daily routine or dealing with a contact high, here’s the playlist to the latest program. And listen to the full show here!

  • DICK DALE Take It or Leave It
  • WHITFORD-ST. HOLMES Every Morning
  • LOS STRAITJACKETS Silver Bells
  • COHEED & CAMBRIA You Got Spirit, Kid
  • THE RENTALS Friends of P
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Hot Rod Girl
  • THE CRAMPS Goo Goo Muck
  • THE 1975 Girls
  • RINGO STARR Photograph
  • FLEETWOOD MAC Songbird
  • THE ANXIETY Meet Me at Our Spot
  • THE ATARIS The Saddest Song
  • BLACK HONEY Heavy
  • ALIVE AND KICKING Tighter, Tighter
  • GOODBYE MR. MACKENZIE Now We Are Married
  • MINK DEVILLE I Must Be Dreaming
  • JOHN HIATT Real Fine Love
  • IMMACULATE FOOLS Got Me by the Heart
  • GUTTERBOY Rainy Day on Mulberry Street
  • ERASURE A Little Respect
  • THIN LIZZY Sweet Marie
  • GARLAND JEFFREYS Guts for Love
  • BADFINGER Day After Day
  • JOHN LENNON Woman
  • TINA TURNER Simply the Best

November 19 PlaylistNovember 19 Playlist

According to a very unscientific poll conducted by a notoriously disreputable organization (which shall remain nameless), this edition of the show was second in popularity to only Taylor Swift in the past week. Taylor. Swift. Yeah. Here’s the playlist and link:

  • JOE SATRIANI Satch Boogie
  • ROBERT PLANT, IMELDA MAY & JOOLS HOLLAND Rock and Roll
  • BEASTIE BOYS Electric Worm
  • THE HEAVY What Makes a Good Man
  • THE HOLD STEADY Sequestered in Memphis
  • THE SUBWAYS Black Wax
  • THE BEATLES Bad Boy
  • JERRY LEE LEWIS Great Balls of Fire
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time
  • JAY & THE TECHNIQUES Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie
  • TOO MUCH SATURN Daydream Believer
  • CURIOUS VOLUME Forget to Run
  • GRADE 2 Under the Streetlight
  • OUR LADY PEACE Life
  • GOO GOO DOLLS Iris
  • MERESHA Greatest Time
  • DAN CORIO Still Ahead
  • CHRIS STAPLETON Midnight Train to Memphis
  • MILLIE MANDERS & THE SHUTUP Not Okay
  • KING LIKE MOM Tantrum
  • VEGA MAESTRO American Cheese
  • ALEXIS P. SUTER BAND Let It Be
  • BLACK ROSE BURNING Shout
  • JAMIE LENMAN Lena Don’t Leave Me
  • PARKER Problems

November 5 Playlist: Open Airwaves with Brewster MoonfaceNovember 5 Playlist: Open Airwaves with Brewster Moonface

Bandmates (and soulmates) Jim Scott and Julie Notwicz joined us in the studio for MPR’s Open Airwaves series, which this month celebrates and explores Gospel, Soul, Jazz and Blues. They performed three songs from their latest album, closing with a show-stopping rendition of “House of The Rising Sun”. They also grooved along to this blues-centric playlist. If you missed it, click on the link here!

  • LONG JOHN BALDRY Don’t Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll
  • BUDDY GUY Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues
  • STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Say What!
  • BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY Piece of My Heart
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Same Old Mistake (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Statesboro Blues
  • SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS Midnight Rider
  • GARY CLARK JR. Come Together
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Tin Woman (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • ETTA JAMES I’d Rather Go Blind
  • SUSAN TEDESCHI It Hurts So Bad
  • U2 & B.B. KING When Love Comes to Town
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Broken Pieces of New York City (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • GARY MOORE Still Got the Blues for You
  • CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Midnight Special
  • JOHN LEE HOOKER Boogie Chillen
  • MUDDY WATERS Mannish Boy
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE House of the Rising Sun (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • DANNY GATTON Funky Mama

October 31 Playlist: The Halloween Special!October 31 Playlist: The Halloween Special!

Listen to the full show here!

  • This is Halloween from “The Nightmare Before Christmas”
  • ALICE COOPER Welcome to My Nightmare
  • JOHN CARPENTER Halloween Main Theme
  • BOBBY “BORIS” PICKETT The Monster Mash
  • SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS I Put a Spell on You 
  • Theme from “The Munsters” (Vocal Version)
  • Dialog from “Ghostbusters”
  • MATTHEW SWEET Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
  • Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by J.S. Bach
  • OINGO BOINGO Dead Man’s Party
  • CAST OF THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Time Warp
  • Dialog from “Christine” 
  • B52s Devil in My Car 
  • MARK SNOW Materia Primoris (Theme from “The X Files’)
  • ALICE COOPER Devil’s Food / The Black Widow
  • FASTWAY Trick or Treat
  • Silver Shamrock Commercial from “Halloween III”
  • OZZY OSBORNE Mister Crowley
  • KYLE DIXON & MICHAEL STEIN Theme from “Stranger Things”
  • BLUE OYSTER CULT Godzilla
  • DAVE EDMUNDS Creature from the Black Lagoon
  • ROBERT GORDON & LINK WRAY Flying Saucer Rock ‘n Roll 
  • THE DICKIES Killer Klowns
  • MIKE OLDFIELD Tubular Bells
  • Dialog from “The Exorcist”
  • THE CRANBERRIES Zombie
  • Dialog from “Night of the Living Dead”
  • ROKY ERICKSON I Walked with a Zombie
  • THE SERPENTEENS Please Be My Zombie Bride
  • MALCOLM SEAGRAVE Phantasm Main Theme
  • JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS Science Fiction Double Feature
  • J GEILS BAND Nightmares
  • RAMONES Pet Sematary
  • Dialog from “The Silence of the Lambs” 
  • BLACK SABBATH Children of the Grave
  • BERNARD HERRMANN End titles from “The Twilight Zone”
  • BLUE OYSTER CULT Don’t Fear the Reaper
  • WARREN ZEVON Werewolves of London
  • THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN Fire 
  • “The Outer Limits”
  • ELTON JOHN I’ve Seen the Saucers
  • WEBB WILDER Horror Hayride
  • AC/DC Highway to Hell
  • EAGLES Witchy Woman
  • Dialog from “Halloween”
  • JUDAS PRIEST The Ripper
  • “Tales from the Darkside”
  • EDGAR WINTER GROUP Frankenstein
  • Dialog from “Dracula”
  • ROB ZOMBIE Dragula
  • “Creature Feature”
  • ROLLING STONES Sympathy for the Devil
  • RAINBOW Gates of Babylon
  • IRON MAIDEN Transylvania
  • BLUE OYSTER CULT with STEPHEN KING Astronomy