Category: Playlist 2026

October 31, 2026 PlaylistOctober 31, 2026 Playlist

October 31, 2026October 31, 2026|

Songs about Halloween and all things spooky. Songs about things often considered spooky that have little to do with Halloween. Songs that are neither spooky nor connected to Halloween in any way, shape or form. May your jack o’lanterns burn long and bright and may you not be troubled by things that go bump in the night. Click here to listen to the show.

  • ALICE COOPER Keepin’ Halloween Alive
  • JOHN CARPENTER Theme from “Halloween”
  • BLUE OYSTER CULT Tattoo Vampire
  • JACUZZI FIRE They Came on Halloween
  • MR. FANG & THE DARK TONES Green Woman from Outer Space
  • ROBERT GORDON & LINK WRAY Flying Saucer Rock ‘n’ Roll
  • J.S. BACH Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
  • CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Bad Moon Rising
  • JOHN FOGERTY Eye of the Zombie
  • THE DARTS Zombies on the Metro
  • RICHARD O’BRIEN Science Fiction Double Feature
  • LOUVERS Main Title 1986
  • DONNIE IRIS Ah! Leah!
  • DEVIL LOVE Black Knight Satellite
  • TABI HARLOWE So Pretty (It Hurts)
  • SAINTS IN EXILE Haunted
  • MARK SNOW Materia Primoris
  • WARREN ZEVON Werewolves of London
  • WALLOWS Drunk on Halloween
  • THE DRAC-ULAS Walking with a Vampire
  • MARVELOUS 3 Vampires in Love
  • FRED MYROW & MALCOLM SEAGRAVE Intro and Main Title (Phantasm)
  • FIORI DEL MALE Allarme Rosso Nel Golfo Persico
  • MATTHEW SWEET Scooby Doo
  • BUS BOYS Cleaning Up the Town
  • EDGAR WINTER GROUP Frankenstein
  • GHOST Square Hammer
  • CHEAP TRICK Ghost Town
  • JON CASPI & THE FIRST GUN Ghosted
  • BLACK WIDOWS Love Witch
  • JOHNNY GUILBERT Cemetery Romance
  • LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS Ghoul You Want
  • ROBBIE QUINE It Came from Beyond
  • ALICE COOPER Skeletons in My Closet
  • DAVE EDMUNDS The Creature from the Black Lagoon
  • THE INCURABLES Halloween Bride
  • DICK DALE Ghost Riders in the Sky
  • SAMANTHA FISH It’s Your Voodoo Working
  • SNOWY WHITE & THE WHITE FLAMES Black Magic Woman
  • BOW WOW WOW I Want Candy
  • SWINGIN’ NECKBREAKERS No Costume, No Candy
  • GENE SIMMONS Radioactive
  • THE DICKIES Killer Klowns
  • DOKKEN Dream Warriors
  • SPLITSVILLE I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
  • BLACK WIDOWS Mummy Mama Boogie
  • BOBBY BORIS PICKETT & THE CRYPT KICKERS The Monster Mash

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October 17, 2026 – Listener Appreciation ShowOctober 17, 2026 – Listener Appreciation Show

October 17, 2026October 17, 2026|

We celebrated our 7th year on Maker Park Radio by renewing our annual tradition of inviting our listeners to build the playlist. What they came up with was in the best tradition of our motto: a diverse hodgepodge of generation spanning tunes from across the rock spectrum and beyond. Listen to the restream by clicking here.

  • SPUTNIK THE BAND Good Company
  • EGGS Head in Flames
  • ZZ TOP I Thank You
  • ALL THEM WITCHES Am I Going Up
  • LAZARETTES Undertow
  • JEFF TUOHY Bourbon Street
  • THE 1975 People
  • MODERN ENGLISH I Melt with You
  • BOSTON More Than a Feeling
  • NINE INCH NAILS Dead Souls
  • THE BEATLES Two of Us
  • WESTSIDE COWBOY Kick Stones
  • PHOEBE BRIDGERS Smoke Signals
  • AC/DC Have a Drink On Me
  • URIAH HEEP Poet’s Justice
  • GRAHAM PARKER I Want You Back
  • KISS Love Her All I Can
  • DAVID BOWIE Life On Mars
  • THE ENGLISH BEAT Save It For Later
  • SPANISH LOVE SONGS Good American
  • DAVE MATTHEWS & BRANDI CARLILE Papertown
  • ELTON JOHN Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
  • TOM JONES Tower of Song
  • JOHN PRINE When I Get to Heaven
  • THE AQUABATS Red Sweater
  • THE BATES Billie Jean
  • THE INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND Apache
  • GREEN JELLY Three Little Pigs
  • THE ZOMBIES She’s Not There
  • SASS JORDAN I Want to Believe
  • STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Life By the Drop
  • SANTANA Song of the Wind
  • D.L. BYRON Love in Motion
  • THUNDER QUEENS Teenage Years
  • OLIVIA RODRIGO All-American Bitch
  • RED RIDER Lunatic Fringe
  • MICHAEL BUBLE Everything
  • T. REX Life’s a Gas
  • THE DEAR BOYS Join the Queue

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October 3, 2026 Playlist – Tom WaitsOctober 3, 2026 Playlist – Tom Waits

October 5, 2026October 5, 2026|

I was joined by my MakerPark Radio colleague Magie Serpica on this episode of the program, in which we traded sets of our favorite Tom Waits tunes for the first two hours. We pivoted to some new and exciting stuff in the final hour, As Tom puts it, it’s “Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.” Check it out below.

  • TOM WAITS The Heart of Saturday Night
  • RAMONES I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
  • TOM WAITS The Return of Jackie & Judy
  • TOM WAITS New Coat of Paint
  • TOM WAITS Ol’ 55
  • TOM WAITS 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six
  • TOM WAITS Hold On
  • TOM WAITS Goin’ Out West
  • TOM WAITS House Where Nobody Lives
  • LOS LOBOS Jockey Full of Bourbon
  • TOM WAITS Jockey Full of Bourbon
  • TOM WAITS Hang on St. Christopher
  • TOM WAITS Temptation
  • BOB SEGER Downtown Train
  • TOM WAITS Jersey Girl
  • TOM WAITS Eggs and Sausage
  • TOM WAITS Earth Died Screaming
  • TOM WAITS The Black Rider
  • TOM WAITS Clap Hands
  • TOM WAITS Time
  • TOM WAITS Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
  • SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY Hang Down Your Head
  • JON CASPI Alone in My Hot Tub
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Good Trouble
  • MANIC HONEY Limerance
  • SOMEWHERE NOT HERE Cycles
  • GARY CALAMAR feat. ROBYN HITCHCOCK Who Are We Gonna Be Today?
  • TOM O’DRISCOLL Remember Days
  • BAD MANNERS Inner London Violence
  • K-MAN & THE 45s The Girl Likes Heavy Metal
  • PARALLEL LINES Dream Girl
  • TALL DAYS Rock Shake
  • THE EX-BOMBERS Down and Dirty
  • MERESHA Night Sky
  • LOUVERS Drive Tonight
  • COWBOYS IN THE CAMPFIRE Dream
  • AUTUMN KINGS Livin’ La Vida Loca

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September 19, 2026 Playlist – Rocker JennSeptember 19, 2026 Playlist – Rocker Jenn

September 20, 2026September 20, 2026|

Tales from The Rock House, with owner and operator Jennifer Lee “Rocker Jenn” Padilla, along with our usual diverse hodgepodge of generation spanning music from across the rock spectrum. Lotsa laughs and loudness will greet your ears when you click here.

  • DEAD BOYS Sonic Reducer
  • IGGY POP Lust For Life
  • ROBBIE QUINE Fabulocity
  • T REX Jeepster
  • LOU REED Down at the Arcade
  • THE GERSHWIN BROTHERS Doomscrollin’
  • THE GET AROUNDS Bones
  • THEN COMES SILENCE Judgement Day
  • PEGZILLA Chelsea
  • SO GOOD I Will Love You Until
  • GREEN DAY Basket Case
  • HARVEY DANGER Flagpole Sitta
  • STEPPENWOLF Born to Be Wild
  • KISS Mr. Speed
  • AC/DC That’s the Way I Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll
  • THE ROLLING STONES Hang Fire
  • STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN The House is Rockin’
  • HALESTORM I Like It Heavy
  • OZZY OSBOURNE Over the Mountain
  • MOTLEY CRUE Red Hot
  • RATT Round and Round
  • DAN CORIO BAND Heartbreaker
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Feel Alright Tonight
  • GODDAMN WRECKS Away From Here
  • LED ZEPPELIN Communication Breakdown
  • MOTORHEAD Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
  • THE FRATELLIS Chelsea Dagger
  • THE RUNAWAYS Cherry Bomb
  • THE BLACK CROWES Too Hard to Handle
  • MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Come On Angels
  • THE WHO I Can’t Explain
  • THE KINKS All Day and All of the Night
  • BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE Takin’ Care of Business

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September 5, 2026 Playlist – WestFest 19 PreviewSeptember 5, 2026 Playlist – WestFest 19 Preview

September 5, 2026September 5, 2026|

Julia Aponte, co-director of this year’s Westerleigh Folk Festival, joined us for a preview of this year’s event. We also remembered Dolly Parton, Shelly Faberes and Tim Curry, and gave away a pair of tickets to Pig Fest NYC to lucky winner Nanci Richards! Check out all the music and goings on by clicking right here!

  • RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Orion
  • STYX Blue Collar Man
  • DROPKICK MURPHYS Worker’s Song
  • THE ROMANTICS What I Like About You
  • REM Toys in the Attic
  • THE GOODS Summer’s Almost Gone
  • DULCET TONES As I Am
  • KABUKI LOVE The Wolf Dance
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Shine
  • DREW ANGUS Lost
  • KYLE LACY One Trick Pony
  • CARRIE ANN Parent’s Room
  • GYM CLASS HEROES featuring RYAN TEDDER The Fighter
  • THE MORNING LINE Staten Island
  • WINE LIPS Stimulation
  • FLOWERS FOR JAYNE Pocket Superman
  • CANCION FRANKLIN Just Made Rent
  • THE NEW STUDENTS Black Earth Country
  • MOONMILL Ruin It
  • DOLLY PARTON 9 to 5
  • SHELLY FABARES Johnny Angel
  • TIM CURRY Sweet Transvestite
  • RORY D’LASNOW I Won’t Do Anything
  • RONIT & THE INVISIBLE STRINGS Can’t Wait To
  • GOATROPER The Kind of Woman You Can Hold
  • DIAMOND SPUR RODEO Virginia Slims
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Snack Dad
  • JOAN CADDELL & THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR When
  • SHERYL CROW featuring JESSE WELLES Freedom Bus
  • DAN CORIO BAND Hold On
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Broken Pieces of New York City
  • LUNA’S WERELD Bunnies in the Clover
  • HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS Workin’ for a Livin’
  • CHRIS VANDALAY PROJECT How Will You Know
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND Villa Capri
  • THE JAZZTRONAUTS Shoot Your Shot

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August 22, 2026 Playlist – Brother DynamiteAugust 22, 2026 Playlist – Brother Dynamite

August 22, 2026August 22, 2026|

Take a heaping helping of harmony, add a sumptuous serving of melody, mix thoroughly and yield a distinctive dose of polished power pop. That’s the music of Brother Dynamite. Alan Miller and Sean Moynihan joined me for a trip down their personal memory lane, with stops along the way at their time as Next Big Thing and Save Pluto. They also performed five songs live. We also shared a memory and the music of our late friend, Doug Principato, of Grand Pepper of Reality. Listen by clicking here.

  • ZZ TOP Sleeping in the Desert
  • ZZ TOP La Grange
  • ZZ TOP Sharp Dressed Man
  • COLLECTIVE SOUL Eye On You
  • REGINA SPEKTOR Becoming All Alone
  • LUCID DREAMER Music is Medicine
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Radio Silence
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Better
  • NEXT BIG THING Radiate
  • SAVE PLUTO What If
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE The Girl’s in Love (Live in MPR Studio)
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE You Could Do So Much Better
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Violet
  • SAVE PLUTO Red Letter Day
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Things You’ve Left Behind (Live in MPR Studio)
  • GRAND PEPPER OF REALITY Let’s Be Easy
  • GRAND PEPPER OF REALITY Elephants Fly
  • GRAND PEPPER OF REALITY Your Eyes Just Shine
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Shine (Live in MPR Studio)
  • SAVE PLUTO When I Got There
  • SAVE PLUTO All Fall Down
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Get Up
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE What Are You Waiting For?
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE This Time
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Beautiful Lie
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE You Cannot Bring Me Down (Live in MPR Studio)
  • NEXT BIG THING Said and Done
  • SAVE PLUTO Life is Good
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Until the Stars Fall (Live in MPR Studio)
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Your Time Will Come

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August 8, 2026 PlaylistAugust 8, 2026 Playlist

August 8, 2026August 8, 2026|

An extraordinary variety of sounds from across the years, and a whole bunch of recommendations from my recent Foodie-themed vacation around NYC and its surrounding environs. Listen to the show by clicking here.

  • FREDDY deBOE Remember (The Good Times)
  • TEN YEARS AFTER I Woke Up This Morning
  • PAT BENATAR You Better Run
  • THE DEADNOTES Easy Summer
  • VAN MORRISON Dweller on the Threshold
  • AMANI BURNHAM Bluejay
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Carry On
  • ANGELICA GIANNA You Know
  • CATBITE Everybody Talks
  • THE SEEDY ARKHESTRA A Thousand Years
  • SKARAMONES Blitzkrieg Bop
  • SPUTNIK THE BAND Starlight’s Glow
  • MINK DEVILLE I Must Be Dreaming
  • LAZARETTES Undertow
  • JOAN CADDELL & THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR Little Miss Audacoius
  • THE BLUES BROTHERS Rubber Biscuit
  • ROD STEWART Passion
  • DODGY Summer Forever
  • JUDY COLLINS Give My Regards to Broadway
  • CANCION FRANKLIN Stephanie
  • GLEN HANSARD This Gift
  • HALESTORM Like a Woman Can
  • YBH Puppy Love
  • THE DEAR BOYS Chocolate
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Violet
  • FATS DOMINO Blueberry Hill
  • FRANKIE LYMON & THE TEENAGERS Why Do Fools Fall in Love?
  • CURTIS MAYFIELD Superfly
  • DAVID BOWIE Golden Years
  • SAINTS IN EXILE Bad Vibes
  • GREEN DAY I’m Never Gonna R.I.P.
  • DOGHOUSE ROSE It Gets Worse
  • VIOLET GROHL Bug in the Cake
  • BLACK ROSE BURNING No Love Lost
  • GIFTSHOP Stylish Junkie
  • IN TUA NUA All I Wanted
  • 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER Amnesia
  • SEMISONIC Don’t Give Up Yet
  • JACK WHITE G.O.D. and the Broken Rib
  • THE KYLE DECEMBER Plunge: Disillusion

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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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