Author: Carl

Any record you ain’t heard yet is a new record. And if you like it, you don’t care if it’s old or new, a cover or an original, performed by a tyro or a...

Sometimes a great pop act just doesn’t get its due. An American soul act that began in the ’60s as The Bandwagon (later Johnny Johnson & the Bandwagon) recorded some terrific sides, but never troubled the Billboard Hot 100....

Hmmm. New music from The Muffs, Alice Cooper, The Successful Failures, The GoAllTheWays, The BOTP Band, Sex Clark Five, and ANC4, all mixed with an invigmoratin’ blend of fave raves from yesterday, today, and the week after next? Yeah, that’s us. From Merle...

It is physically impossible to fit all of this great music into a mere three-hour blip of time. We’re gonna spend those three hours in desperate search of a loophole in the laws of...

I played hooky from TIRnRR this week, which left Dana lotsa open space to slap together a stellar salute to classic power pop and its sublime periphery. He welcomed our pal (and yours!) Jeanne Chu to the studio,...

DANA takes charge! What will he play? “Looks like it’s going to be ’70/’80s power pop night,” he says, “with perhaps a special guest?” These contents under pressure. Radio works better that way. Sunday night, 9...

Tonight we share our broken hearts. I did not know Kim Shattuck. I’ve been a fan for decades, but we were, at best, casual friends on Facebook. I don’t think we ever had a conversation...

We begin with music from Kim Shattuck. Sunday night, 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/

Over the course of 993 shows, we’ve developed a reputation for making things up as we go. This rep is earned. It’s not necessarily true that we don’t ever plan anything; we’ve done theme shows...

TIRnRR # 994. We’re wingin’ it, man. I figure we’ve already made it through the previous 993 episodes of TIRnRR with barely enough cumulative planning to fill seven episodes; no need to start overkilling now. It’s The...