Author: Carl

I wrote this for my blog Boppin’ (Like The Hip Folks Do) a little over a year ago. Since it relates specifically to whatever it is we do here on TIRnRR, it’s worth revisiting here, with minor...

OH! Looks like this week’s rampagin’ rockin’ pop selections will include new music from THE LUNAR LAUGH, MIKE BROWNING, LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS, RICHARD TURGEON, THE JACKLIGHTS, THE INCURABLES, and THE ANDERSON COUNCIL, and a relentless, merciless program of picks t’click from...

Our 1100th show is a mere eleven weeks away. We don’t have anything special planned…or, I should say we don’t have a countdown or specific agenda in mind to commemorate this milestone. For TIRnRR # 1100,...

The art of hype presents its own challenges. In our case, we want to entice you to tune in to this little mutant music program we call The Best Three Hours Of Radio On...

“August is a wicked month.”–Edna O’Brien Is August a wicked month? In my experience, all months have the potential for both elation and misery. I had my heart broken in an August many decades ago. August...

Gotta play THE KINKS. Gotta play THE BEATLES. In between, we’ve gotta play new stuff from THE LINDA LINDAS and THE SAILS, new archival releases from IRENE PEÑA, DANNY WILKERSON, and QUEST FOR TUNA, stuff from the ’50s, the ’60s, the ’70s, ’80s,...

This week’s edition of This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio with Dana & Carl is presented in memory of singer Dian Zain. Dian is best remembered as the lead singer of the Most from 1979-1980, a group which also...

We open and close the show with music from THE MOST, in memory of the late, great DIAN ZAIN. We’ll have new music from KEROSENE STARS, RICH WILLIAMS, SORROWS, DEAN LANDEW, and THE ANDERSON COUNCIL, perched within an invigorating representation of rockin’...

In the history of your ongoing hit parade and the hit machine behind it, there have been good guys and bad guys (and in-between guys). Among the good guys are Rex Broome and Christina Bulbenko, curators and...

Go BIG STIR or go home. We open tonight’s extravaganza with the world premieres of TWO brand-new singles from the good folks at Big Stir Records, by THE FLASHCUBES WITH MIMI BETINIS (covering Mimi’s combo PEZBAND) and everyone’s fabulous...