Signed, sealed, delivered–it’s yours: another collection of rockin’ pop music on the radio, blithely mixing eras and styles because it’s all pop music. It stands together as one. That idea appeals to me: Standing together as...
We got stuff. We’re STUFFED with stuff! New stuff from Ken Sharp, Clockwork Flowers, Irene Peña, and Geoff Palmer and Lucy Ellis, new-to-us stuff from Sugar Snow (covering Crowded House), and classic stuff from Stevie Wonder, The Clash, and The Bangles. Old stuff! Recent stuff!...
It has certainly been a year. Maybe we can’t quite hit reset and start over, but we can forge ahead. We can play music. We can dance separately until we’re again able to dance together. Turn...
Last year? No, I don’t remember it, either. Must not have happened. So let’s start this new year with new music from Arielle Eden, Paul McCartney, The Click Beetles, Tina and the Tiny Potatoes, The Shang Hi Los, The Stan...
Ah, 2020. No one is sorry to see you go. But for now, to hell with all of that. We’ve got some music, and music is usually a good idea. We end every year...
THE COUNTDOWN!! Over the past twelve months, there were 58 tracks we played more often than any other tracks. More than a third of those tracks were new releases in 2020, while the rest have...
Father Christmas sighed. He was a saint, but he was in many ways still as human as any of us. It had been such a long, difficult year. He could feel the pain of...
It’s time for The 22nd Annual This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Christmas Show! We’ve got fresh ‘n’ festive new seasonal sides by NICK PIUNTI AND THE COMPLICATED MEN, BERK/LEHANE, KARLA KANE, IRENE PEÑA, THE JAC, QUINT (featuring KAREN BASSET), and SLINGSBY HORNETS. We...
Man, this year sucked. In normal times, I vacillate between believing the glass is half-full and insisting that the glass is half-empty, dirty, cracked, and who would wanna drink this swill anyway? I can...
Is this our final regular show of 2020? YES IT IS! Is it a good feeling to finally be nearing the end of this misbegotten year? YES IT IS! Is this another gimmick that Carl is gonna piledrive...
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