Category: Special Shows

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

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

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

August 8 Playlist: Santana SpecialAugust 8 Playlist: Santana Special

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

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

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

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

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

February 26 Playlist: Garland JeffreysFebruary 26 Playlist: Garland Jeffreys

Our Garland Jeffreys special is here in all its sonic glory. As Garland himself would say: “Turn It Up!”

Listen here!

  • HAIL HAIL ROCK AND ROLL
  • REAL MAN
  • INNOCENT NOT GUILTY
  • CONEY ISLAND WINTER
  • R.O.C.K.
  • REELIN’
  • WHY-O
  • 96 TEARS
  • ROLLER COASTER TOWN
  • OH MY SOUL
  • GHOST WRITER
  • GOTTA GET AWAY FROM THIS WORLD
  • SHOOT THE MOONLIGHT OUT
  • WILD IN THE STREET
  • ‘TIL JOHN LEE HOOKER CALLS ME
  • TRUE TO ME
  • 14 STEPS TO HARLEM
  • I WAS AFRAID OF MALCOLM
  • REGGAE ON BROADWAY
  • HAPPINESS
  • SURRENDER
  • GUTS FOR LOVE
  • COOL DOWN BOY
  • MODERN LOVERS
  • ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC
  • MATADOR
  • COLLIDE THE GENERATIONS

February 12 Playlist: Brewster MoonfaceFebruary 12 Playlist: Brewster Moonface

We were knee deep in the blues on this day, especially when Brewster Moonface – led by the serious pipes of Julie Notwicz – performed live.

If you missed it, you owe it to yourself to check it out!

  • STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN The House is Rockin’
  • STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Scuttle Buttin’
  • GARY MOORE Walkin’ by Myself
  • DAVE ALVIN Beautiful City ‘Cross the River
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Same Old Mistake (Live in MPR studio)
  • BETH HART Bad Woman Blues
  • KOKO TAYLOR You Can Have My Husband
  • LARKIN POE Sucker Punch
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Hoochie Coochie Woman (Live in MPR studio)
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE End of the Day
  • TEDESCHI-TRUCKS BAND featuring SHARON JONES She Ain’t a Child No More
  • BOZ BOORER featuring EDDIE ARGOS Girl from Atlanta
  • ROLLING STONES Ruby Tuesday
  • B.B. KING The Thrill is Gone
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Up in Smokes (Live in MPR studio)
  • MUDDY WATERS Got My Mojo Working
  • JOHN LEE HOOKER Boom Boom
  • DANNY GATTON Thirteen Women
  • BREWSTER MOONFACE Carry the Weight / Catcall Blues (Live in MPR studio)
  • JOE BONAMASSA Redemption
  • STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Say What!

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

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

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

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

September 25 Playlist: George GrantSeptember 25 Playlist: George Grant

If you missed any or all of Saturday’s show with special guest George Grant, the link and playlist are below. We focused on his current band, Black Rose Burning, while also doing a bit of a career retrospective. Ignore the frozen video, and enjoy the music here!

  • ROCKS by Primal Scream
  • BUDOS RISING by The Budos Band
  • UNDER TWIN SUNS by Black Rose Burning
  • EVERY SINGLE TIME by Black Rose Burning
  • SHOUT by Black Rose Burning
  • LEAVING NOT BELIEVING by George Grant & The Mighty Templars
  • SOLAR ANGELS by Black Rose Burning
  • WHEN WE DANCE by Black Rose Burning
  • HUNGER by Monster Zero
  • NEW YORK GROOVE by George Grant & The Mighty Templars
  • BLACK SUN SATURDAY by Black Rose Burning
  • UNBELIEVABLE by The Serpenteens
  • GIMME GAUGE by Vainglorious
  • RAINMAKER by The Final Sound
  • OUTGUNNED by Black Rose Burning
  • ZIGGY STARDUST by Bauhaus
  • A PASSAGE TO BANGKOK by Rush
  • MASSACRE by Iron Maiden
  • GOT TO GET MY MIND RIGHT by George Grant & The Mighty Templars

December 5 Playlist: John Lennon TributeDecember 5 Playlist: John Lennon Tribute

We remembered John Lennon 40 years after his tragic death. Listen here!

  • NEW YORK CITY
  • WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT
  • I SAW HER STANDING THERE (Live, with Elton John)
  • I’M STEPPIN’ OUT
  • WATCHING THE WHEELS
  • REVOLUTION
  • POWER TO THE PEOPLE
  • GIMME SOME TRUTH
  • WORKING CLASS HERO
  • BEAUTIFUL BOY
  • (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER
  • INSTANT KARMA
  • I’M LOSING YOU (with Cheap Trick)
  • GROW OLD WITH ME
  • WOMAN
  • #9 DREAM
  • MIND GAMES
  • YER BLUES (with Dirty Mac)
  • THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO
  • NOBODY TOLD ME
  • BLESS YOU
  • JEALOUS GUY
  • STEEL AND GLASS
  • ISOLATION
  • IMAGINE
  • ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE