Lorenzo Mameli

January 15 Playlist: Remembering Ronnie SpectorJanuary 15 Playlist: Remembering Ronnie Spector

January 15, 2022|

On our latest show, we remembered the recently departed and thoroughly unique Ronnie Spector, and revisited the way a classic tune sounded before it became the irritating soundtrack to far too many TikTok videos

Listen to the full show here!

THE RONNETTES Be My Baby
DAVID BOWIE Sound and Vision
PHILIP LYNOTT Old Town
SQUEEZE Pulling Mussels from a Shell
ELVIS COSTELLO Blue Chair
JASON FAULKNER Photograph
PAUL STANLEY’S SOUL STATION Lorelei
THE STRUTS One Night Only
VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE A Perfect Place
THE TRIFFIDS Bury Me Deep in Love
RONNIE SPECTOR featuring EDDIE MONEY Who Can Sleep?
THE WARNING Evolve
HALESTORM Apocalyptic
KLAATU Juicy Lucy
BOB SEGER Rock and Roll Never Forgets
THE BEATLES Hey Bulldog
RAINBOW Since You’ve Been Gone
BOZ BOORER El Camino Real
THE THAMESMEN Gimme Some Money
THE FLAMING LIPS Do You Realize?
AEROSMITH Remember (Walking in the Sand)
BIG COUNTRY In a Big Country
WAILIN’ JENNYS Wildflowers
RONNIE SPECTOR You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory

January 1 Playlist: Happy New Year!January 1 Playlist: Happy New Year!

January 1, 2022|

Happy New Year! Our first show of 2022 featured a lot of local and independent talent. Give it a listen and then look into the artists that move you. Also, we invite you to join us in our crusade against the menace that is the throw pillow.

Listen to the full show here!

EAGLES Funky New Year
RED HOT CHILI PIPERS Auld Lang Syne
THE DANGEROUS New Year’s Day
SEMISONIC This Will Be My Year
PERSEI A Way Out
THE DEADNOTES Easy Summer
THE ATLICIC This Year
ALL-IN MOMENT For You
BLACK ROSE BURNING Black Sun Saturday
ON PINK Chastity Hearse
THE RAUNCH HANDS Respect
THE RECRUDERS Gunna Love You Anyway
RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Hangover N Out
PARK AFTER DARK The Dance
THE MOONDOGZ High Society
Perry Serpa – The Fever
REBECCA LOU Lovesick
DAN CORIO Hanging Up the Phone
BREWSTER MOONFACE 4000 Miles
GEM AND EYE Roaring Twenties
Dave Keener – Wait ’til You Love Someone
JOOLS HOLLAND Enjoy Yourself
MILLIE MANDERS & THE SHUTUP Silent Scream
OUR OWN YOKOS Carry On
HOUNDS OF JUSTICE Wisdom Teeth
FOO FIGHTERS This Will Be Our Year
ANDREW GOLD Thank You for Being a Friend
SLADE Auld Lang Syne

December 20 PlaylistDecember 20 Playlist

December 20, 2021|

Our last of three consecutive Christmas shows for the season featured our staff announcer (and my daughter) Nancy co-hosting our prime-time Christmas party! There were some minor audio issues early on, but we had a blast sharing the music with so many of you! Thanks so much and may the spirit of the season be with you and your always!

Listen to the show here!

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA First Snow
TRAIN Shake Up Christmas
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS White Christmas
SI CRANSTOUN Christmas Twist
LOS STRAITJACKETS Deck The Halls
RAMONES Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight Tonight)
SPLIT Last Christmas
REEL BIG FISH Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
KYLE BROOK Every Snowflake’s Different
BOOKER T & THE MGs Jingle Bells
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Santa Claus is Coming to Town
CHEAP TRICK I Want You for Christmas
CHUCK BERRY Run Run Rudolph
THE SINGING DOGS Jingle Bells
JOSE FELICIANO Feliz Navidad
MARIAH CAREY All I Want For Christmas is You
SABRINA CARPENTER Christmas the Whole Year Round
THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS Rockin’ Winter Wonderland
THE WAITRESSES Christmas Wrapping
BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
THE VENTURES The Christmas Song
THE SMITHEREENS Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
TOM PETTY Christmas All Over Again
LOS STRAITJACKETS Silver Bells
SALSOUL ORCHESTRA Merry Christmas All
CHICAGO God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
SPIRALING Do You Hear What I Hear
LOS STRAITJACKETS Sleigh Ride
THE GREEDIES A Merry Jingle
THE DROPKICK MURPHYS The Season’s Upon Us
.38 SPECIAL Hallelujah, It’s Christmas
KHRUANGBIN Christmas Time is Here
U2 Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
BOBBY HELMS Jingle Bell Rock
JOHNNY MAESTRO A Christmas Serenade
ED SHEERAN & ELTON JOHN Merry Christmas
JOHN LENNON Happy Xmas
TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA An Angel Returned

December 18 PlaylistDecember 18 Playlist

December 18, 2021|

Our latest show was like a bottomless Christmas stocking or one of those ridiculously large candy canes that no one can come close to finishing! Over three hours of the sounds of the season.

Click here to check it out. Here’s the playlist:

BRIAN SETZER Jingle Bells
JOHN MELLENCAMP I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
THE SONICS Santa Claus
U2 Baby Please Come Home
THE VENTURES O Christmas Tree
WEEZER The First Noel
PANIC! AT THE DISCO Feels Like Christmas
RAMONES Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight Tonight)
BOOKER T & THE MGs Jingle Bells
THE POGUES Fairytale of New York
ROB THOMAS A New York Christmas
LYZA WILSON Christmas in New York
THE SINGING DOGS Jingle Bells
THE JACKSON 5 Santa Claus is Coming to Town
THE TOASTERS Feliz Navidad
EMILIA CLARKE Last Christmas
KHRUANGBIN Christmas Time is Here
PAT BENATAR Please Come Home for Christmas
THE BEACH BOYS Little Saint Nick
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS White Christmas
THE VENTURES The Christmas Song
THE KINKS Father Christmas
REEL BIG FISH Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
BAD MANNERS Christmas Time Again
SLIM JIM PHANTOM & JENNIE LEE Rockabilly Christmas
BIG BUD & JOHNNY MARKS Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
JD McPHERSON Twinkle Little Christmas Lights
THE UNIQUES Rock’n Rudolph
THE REFRESHMENTS Santa’s Gonna Rock Tonight
ROBERT GORDON Blue Christmas
PAUL McCARTNEY Wonderful Christmastime
MICHAEL BUBLE Christmas Sweater
STEVIE WONDER Someday at Christmas
JAMES BROWN Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto
CHICAGO God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
FOGHAT All I Want for Christmas is You
INFAMOUS HER Christmas Wrapping
SIMPLE PLAN My Christmas List
THE PRETENDERS Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
GOO GOO DOLLS Better Days
THE EELS Christmas is Going to the Dogs
DARLENE LOVE All Alone at Christmas
SIA Candy Cane Lane
ED SHEERAN & ELTON JOHN Merry Christmas
JULIAN CASABLANCAS I Wish it was Christmas Today
DEE SNIDER & LZZY HALE The Magic of Christmas
HALL & OATES Jingle Bell Rock
BRYAN ADAMS Christmas Time
LYNYRD SKYNYRD It’s Christmas Time
EMMY THE GREAT & TIM WHEELER Christmas Moon
BLONDIE We Three Kings
GREEN DAY Xmas Time of the Year
REEL BIG FISH Whatever You Celebrate
JOHN LENNON Happy Xmas (War is Over)

December 11 Playlist: Rockin` Christmas JamsDecember 11 Playlist: Rockin` Christmas Jams

December 11, 2021|

Rest ye merry, gentlemen and ladies! We did all the work in putting together a rockin’ Christmas show for ya! If you missed it, just click here and turn up the volume! Here’s the playlist:

GEORGE THOROGOOD Rock and Roll Christmas
BOBBY HELMS Jingle Bell Rock
CHUCK BERRY Run Run Rudolph
THE PENGUINS Jingle Jangle
JOAN JETT The Little Drummer Boy
DROPKICK MURPHYS The Season’s Upon Us
SPLIT Last Christmas
NEON TREES Holiday Rock
CHEAP TRICK I Want You for Christmas
THE WAITRESSES Christmas Wrapping
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Do You Hear What I Hear?
THE SMITHEREENS Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
SI CRANSTOUN Christmas Twist
JD McPHERSON Hey Skinny Santa
JOSE FELICIANO Feliz Navidad
BRENDA LEE Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
.38 SPECIAL Hallelujah, It’s Christmas
BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
BUSTER POINDEXTER Zat You, Santa Claus?
TRAIN Shake Up Christmas
BOWLING FOR SOUP Frosty the Snowman
KYLE BROOK Every Snowflake’s Different
MARIAH CAREY & QUEEN Don’t Stop Christmas
THE MAVERICKS Hey Merry Christmas
BILLY IDOL Yellin’ at the Christmas Tree
THE GREEDIES A Merry Jingle
SLADE Merry Christmas Everybody
TOM PETTY Christmas Time Again
JOHN LENNON Happy Xmas (War is Over)

December 4 PlaylistDecember 4 Playlist

December 4, 2021|

Today’s show began with an ode to resiliency, a soulful tribute to Hanukkah, a comical walk-through Staten Island, a 20th birthday, a 29th wedding anniversary, a 50th anniversary of the events that inspired a classic rock tune, a tribute to Steven Sondheim, an incredible Michael Jackson cover and ended with a rockin’ rendition of Silver Bells…and that’s only a third of the show!

Listen to the rest of it here!

Here’s the full playlist:

THE BAD EXAMPLES Not Dead Yet
LOS STRAITJACKETS Game of Thrones Opening Theme
MATTHEW SWEET Sick of Myself
WINGS Junior’s Farm
BUSH TETRAS You Can’t Be Funky
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-TONE HORNS 8 Days of Hanukkah
GWEN McCRAE Rockin’ Chair
AVRIL LAVIGNE Sk8er Boi
RANCID Roots Radicals
THE ROOTS How I Got Over
PETE DAVIDSON, BIG WET, MARC COHN & METHOD MAN Walking In Staten
DEEP PURPLE Smoke on the Water
DOKKEN Just Got Lucky
THE BEATLES I’ve Just Seen a Face
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE No Choir
PET SHOP BOYS Somewhere
BRYAN FERRY Send in the Clowns
DURAN DURAN Femme Fatale
MINK DEVILLE Guardian Angel
CHRIS CORNELL Billie Jean
LENNY KRAVITZ Dig In
FOO FIGHTERS Love Dies Young
EAGLES OF DEATH METAL I Want You So Hard
PEARL JAM Rearviewmirror
TWISTED SISTER Silver Bells

November 20 Playlist: Our Own YokosNovember 20 Playlist: Our Own Yokos

November 20, 2021|

If you haven’t heard Our Own Yokos yet, click on the link here and be prepared to join the fan club. They were live and fantastic!

THE BLACK KEYS Lonely Boy
MARK RONSON & THE DAPTONE HORNS God Put a Smile on Your Face
TEENAGE HEAD Let’s Shake
BILLY SWIVS Baby, I’m Your Clown
CHEAP TRICK In the Street
LED ZEPPELIN Good Times, Bad Times
THE BEATLES The Ballad of John & Yoko
OUR OWN YOKOS Carry On
HOT CHOCOLATE You Sexy Thing
BLACK ROSE BURNING Every Single Thing
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS Two Girls in One
DADA Sick in Santorini
WEEZER We are All on Drugs
OUR OWN YOKOS Thunder
J. GEILS BAND ‘Til the Walls Come Tumbling Down
MILLIE MANDERS & THE SHUTUP Silent Scream
OUR OWN YOKOS New Wave Dave
YOGABALL HEADACHES Perpetual Retreat
THE KILLERS On Top
OUR OWN YOKOS Follow You Down
GRAHAM PARKER Almost Thanksgiving Day

November 6 PlaylistNovember 6 Playlist

November 6, 2021|

A stupendous potpourri of sounds from then and now, including some cuts from participants in The Battle of the Bands at Flagship Brewery. Click her e and turn it up!

THE PLAYLIST:

CHEAP TRICK Hello There
BOBBY LEE COMBO Let’s Dance
JD McPHERSON Everybody’s Talkin’ ‘Bout the All-American
LEON BRIDGES Better Man
MANNESKIN Beggin’
SCORPIONS I Can’t Explain
BREWSTER MOONFACE Catcall Blues
LISSIE Better Days
TEDDY GEIGER Tomorrow Never Comes
DAN CORIO BAND Hanging Up the Phone
THE HORRIBLE CROWES Behold The Hurricane
THE BEATLES And Your Bird Cam Sing
LOVELY THE BAND These are My Friends
BLACK ROSE BURNING Black Sun Saturday
GOON DADS Peps
ALL-IN MOMENT For You
ON PINK A Lighter
PERSEI A Way Out
YOGABALL HEADACHES Perpetual Retreat
TOM WAITS Downtown Train
DAVID BOWIE Heroes
ELVIS COSTELLO Alison
AMY WINEHOUSE Me and Mister Jones
GEM AND EYE Roaring Twenties
ROD STEWART Maggie May
ALLMAN BROTHERS Revival

October 23 Playlist: Saints In The CityOctober 23 Playlist: Saints In The City

October 23, 2021|

Joey Thompson and Matt Kutner from the Springsteen tribute band Saints In The City joined us live in the studio. They gave us four excellent renditions of Bruce classics. Listen here! Here’s the full playlist:

DAVE EDMUNDS From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)
TRAFFIC Glad
PERSEI No Way Out
THE DEADNOTES Easy Summer
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE I Don’t Love You
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES Love on the Wrong Side of Town
JOEY THOMPSON & MATT KUTNER Growin’ Up
WILLIE NILE Someday
CHUCK BERRY Johnny B. Goode
PATTI SMITH Because the Night
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
JOEY THOMPSON & MATT KUTNER I’m on Fire
THE ALARM 68 Guns
SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS Hell!
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Staying Alive
GEM AND EYE Roaring Twenties
REBECCA LOU Lovesick
JOEY THOMPSON & MATT KUTNER Incident on 57th Street
DONNA SUMMER with BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Protection
TUK SMITH & THE RESTLESS HEARTS Same Old You
JARED JAMES NICHOLS Can You Feel It
JOEY THOMPSON & MATT KUTNER The Rising
ALAN MORRISSEY Fresh Kills

October 9 Playlist: 2 Year AnniversaryOctober 9 Playlist: 2 Year Anniversary

October 9, 2021|

For our 2nd anniversary show on MPR, we asked our listeners to tell us what they wanted to hear. This is the playlist they created. Click here for the link to the show.

CHRIS JAGGER Anyone Seen My Heart?
DAVID BOWIE Putting Out Fire
THE SMITHS Cemetry Gates
MOTLEY CRUE On with the Show
THE BEATLES Tomorrow Never Knows
QUEEN Bohemian Rhapsody
STEVIE WONDER You Are the Sunshine of My Life
DION The Wanderer
HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS Doing it All for my Baby
KISS Cold Gin
KEANE Somewhere Only We Know
POST MODERN JUKEBOX Dream On
NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS We’re on Our Way Now
THE KINKS Lola
THE CLASH Lost in the Supermarket
OUR DAUGHTER’S WEDDING Lawn Chairs
THE BEAT Rock and Roll Girl
LED ZEPPELIN Stairway to Heaven
HALESTORM I Like it Heavy
KILLERS featuring BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Dustland
ROBERT PALMER Every Kind of People
TOM PETTY Wildflowers
H BLOCKX Time of Your Life
CAROLE KING Now and Forever
CANDLEBOX Criminals
THE ROLLING STONES Brown Sugar