Category: Special Shows

Check out the local artists, themed shows, and more that have been featured on The Rocker!

March 25 Playlist: Brewster MoonfaceMarch 25 Playlist: Brewster Moonface

March 25, 2023March 25, 2023|

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

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

February 19, 2023February 19, 2023|

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

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January 28 Playlist: Radioactive MaterialJanuary 28 Playlist: Radioactive Material

January 28, 2023January 28, 2023|

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

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

January 14, 2023January 14, 2023|

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

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

November 5, 2022November 5, 2022|

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

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October 8 Playlist: Brother DynamiteOctober 8 Playlist: Brother Dynamite

October 8, 2022October 8, 2022|

Listen to the full show here with our guest performers, Brother Dynamite!

  • The Power Pop special, featuring a live performance by BROTHER DYNAMITE!
  • BIG STAR In the Street
  • PAUL COLLINS Kings of Power Pop
  • CHEAP TRICK Ain’t That a Shame
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE You Could Do So Much Better
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Everything Changes (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • THE WHO I Can’t Explain
  • THE RASPBERRIES I Wanna Be with You
  • BADFINGER No Matter What You Do
  • ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Do Ya
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Until the Stars Fall (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • NELSON (Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection
  • TAL BACHMAN She’s So High
  • FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Stacy’s Mom
  • CHEAP TRICK I Want You to Want Me
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE You Cannot Bring Me Down (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • RICK SPRINGFIELD Jessie’s Girl
  • THE SWEET Fox on the Run
  • GREG KIHN BAND The Breakup Song
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Beautiful Lie (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • THE RECORDS Rock ‘n Roll Love Letter
  • THE RUBINOOS I Want to Be Your Boyfriend
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE All Your Life (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND I’m on Fire

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September 24 Playlist: Alexis P Suter InterviewSeptember 24 Playlist: Alexis P Suter Interview

September 25, 2022September 25, 2022|

Listen to the full show here!

  • ERIC JOHNSON Cliffs of Dover
  • MANIC STREET PREACHERS Autumn Song
  • DIANA KRALL Autumn in New York
  • SMITHEREENS Top of the Pops
  • Y&T Lonely Side of Town
  • ARCTIC MONKEYS Leave Before the Lights Come On
  • ANN WILSON Missionary Man
  • JOEY RAMONE New York City
  • CHRISTIAN VEGH Quick Love
  • MERESHA Enter the Dreamland
  • VAN HALEN Jamie’s Cryin’
  • PINK White Rabbit
  • ALEXIS P. SUTER BAND Be Love
  • Interview with Alexis P Suter
  • ALEXIS P. SUTER BAND Let It Be
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Used to Have a Lover
  • DYING STILL Floral Designs
  • BUDOS BAND Gun Metal Gray
  • BLINK-182 Hey I’m Sorr
  • PSYCHEDELIC FURS Heaven
  • THE MOUNTAIN GOATS Training Montage

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August 8 Playlist: Santana SpecialAugust 8 Playlist: Santana Special

August 8, 2022August 8, 2022|

You can’t do justice to the career of a man who has been making great music for over half a century in two hours. This was just a small playlist well-suited for a sultry summer evening.

Listen to the full show here!

  • SMOOTH
  • BLACK MAGIC WOMAN / GYPSY QUEEN
  • WELL ALL RIGHT
  • PRIMERA INVASION
  • SEARCHIN’
  • SAY IT AGAIN
  • WINNING
  • WHY DON’T YOU AND I
  • ONE CHAIN (DON’T MAKE NO PRISON)
  • OYE COMO VA
  • HOLD ON
  • SHE’S NOT THERE
  • THE GAME OF LOVE
  • THE SENSITIVE KIND
  • EVIL WAYS
  • HAVANA MOON
  • ANYWHERE YOU WANT TO GO
  • JUST FEEL BETTER
  • MOVE
  • IN SEARCH OF MONA LISA
  • PUT YOUR LIGHTS ON
  • MARIA MARIA
  • THE FACTS OF LOVE
  • TALES OF KILIMANJARO

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July 16 Playlist: King Like MomJuly 16 Playlist: King Like Mom

July 16, 2022July 16, 2022|

On our latest show, we previewed the big 5th Anniversary concert in Maker Park with selections from each of the scheduled performers plus an in-studio interview with Battle of the Bands winners King Like Mom!

Here’s the playlist, and click here to re-stream. Long Live MPR!

  • THE ROUTES Trans-Europe Express
  • SALIVA Ladies and Gentlemen
  • SUPERSUCKERS Play that Rock and Roll
  • THE LIBERTINES Can’t Stand Me Now
  • FUNKRUST BRASS BAND Riptide
  • THE PEPPER POTS Time to Live
  • THE ARCS Put a Flower in Your Pocket
  • TRIUMPH Follow Your Heart
  • OUR OWN YOKOS Good Times Bad Times
  • ROD STEWART True Blue
  • MOTT THE HOOPLE All the Young Dudes
  • ELTON JOHN Rocket Man
  • BLAC RABBIT Seize the Day
  • THE GIRAFFES Like Hate
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Hot Rod
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE The Broken Pieces of New York City
  • THE ATLICIC This Year
  • ON PINK Chastity Hearse
  • JIGSAW YOUTH She’s Alright
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE Until the Stars Fall from the Sky
  • TOO MUCH SATURN Life on Repeat
  • THE VON BONDIES Come On Come On
  • DAN CORIO BAND Heartbreaker
  • ABOVE THE SUN Lost and Found (End of the World)
  • SOUL ASYLUM Misery
  • FREHLEY’S COMET Into the Night
  • FUNKRUST BRASS BAND Zoology

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June 18 Playlist: The Dan Corio BandJune 18 Playlist: The Dan Corio Band

June 18, 2022June 18, 2022|

On the latest edition of the show, we had live music and conversation with The Dan Corio Band. Great songs and stories from Dan, Sean and Liv; one too many uses of the phrases “without further adieu” and “by all means” from me. Click on the link if you missed it!

The playlist:

  • THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Jessica
  • RAINBOW Long Live Rock and Roll
  • LOS STRAITJACKETS Sardinian Holiday
  • WEDDINGS, PARTIES, ANYTHING Father’s Day
  • THE HEAVY HOURS Don’t Walk Away
  • DAN CORIO Rolling Away (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Love Me Darlin’
  • VAUGHAN BROTHERS Tick Tock
  • ROBERT CRAY Right Next Door
  • DAN CORIO Heart Won’t Let Me Love Her (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • THE DIAMONDS Little Darlin’
  • ELVIS PRESLEY Little Sister
  • RITCHIE VALENS La Bamba
  • DWIGHT YOAKAM It Takes a Lot to Rock You
  • WINGS Listen to What the Man Said
  • DAN CORIO Hanging Up the Phone / Heartbreaker (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • LIVVA JONES & DAN CORIO Stay or Go
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Tin Woman
  • BROTHER DYNAMITE You Could Do So Much Better
  • DAN CORIO Hold On (Live in the MPR Studio)
  • ANTHONY HAMILTON & ELAYNA BOYNTON Freedom

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