Author: Carl

It’s been almost a year now.  Someone recently posted something to the effect that one year ago this week was our last normal week, at least in this country. We were aware of at...

Is it really all for swinging you around? Yes. Obviously. We invite you to swing ‘n’ sway with The Legal Matters, The Jam, Bhopal’s Flowers, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Richard Turgeon (covering The Monkees), Sylvain Sylvain, The Donnas, Sam...

Neither Dana nor I have ever met Steve Stoeckel. We hope to remedy that some day. In the mean time, we already regard him as a friend. We’ve been corresponding with Steve for years, and...

It’s TIRnRR # 1066! Man, you’d think we’d commemorate that number by somehow tying the show to the Battle of Hastings, or at least by playing Norman’s Normans. But no! Like a Bizarro Edward the Confessor (or maybe Sam Cooke),...

The basic mechanics of programming a killer rockin’ pop radio show require the same nuts and bolts one would use to slap together an ultimate mix tape. You want proper flow. You want dynamics....

We open with a true classic from the 1960s. We close with another classic from the ’60s. In between, we trip some lights fantastically across a span of decades: new music from The Legal Matters, Ken...

Love can be a fragile thing. We hear of hearts breaking, lovers parting, paths diverging, bitterness, tears. Regrets. We’ve had a few. We’ve all had a few. Love can also be more resilient than...

It’s Valentine’s Day! Candy! Flowers! Yeah, we’ll have none of that here. Instead, we’ll mark the halls with new music from Harmonic Dirt, The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness, Cold Expectations, Justine and the Unclean, The Gold Needles, John Dunbar,...

Guitar. The late Hilton Valentine played guitar for The Animals. That means Valentine’s playing was the very first thing most of us heard when we were introduced to The Animals’ music: the distinctive, bluesy lick that opens...

Hey, we’re FUN sized! We didn’t set out to play 60 songs in three hours; we just started spinning records, and that’s how it worked out. The Animals! Dolph Chaney! Roxy Music! Leslie Odom, Jr.! Siouxsie and the Banshees! The...