Category: This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio

Nowadays, I’m sure most of us are familiar with an occasional sense of disconnect in time. I generally know what day it is, but I can temporarily lose track of specific dates. That disconnect...

The summer’s here and the time is right for…staying home and listening to the radio. Man, the beach is overrated anyway. Although we don’t have any surf, sun, or summer tunes in the pipeline...

It occurs to me that I’m not really a record collector anymore. I still love the music, of course, and I still prefer to own physical copies of the songs I love, rather than...

Yeah, lately it can feel like all of the days just slide together into an anonymous and indistinct calendar page crumpling upon itself. But one thing remains clear: today is Sunday, and that means This...

This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio isn’t sufficiently big-time to succeed in popularizing catchphrases. If we did have the power to influence the common lexicon, the first thing we’d wanna brand into the public consciousness...

Well, this is a show. We reach all the way back to the ’40s for a rock ‘n’ roll track that predates the rock ‘n’ roll era. We hit the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s,...

Good times. We do wish for good times. When times aren’t good, there is an understandable inclination to look back and wish that things could be like they used to be. Nostalgia is comforting,...

There’s a good time comin’ on! Four years ago, The Monkees released a fabulous new album called Good Times!, and we intend to celebrate that anniversary by playing a couple of tracks from that record, and maybe...

Living after midnight. Maybe Judas Priest wouldn’t be among the first acts to come to mind when thinking about This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. It’s true that we very rarely play any...

We have grown cruelly accustomed to the act of saying goodbye. I’m not talking about the personal devastation we’re forced to navigate when we lose a loved one; this pop forum is too glib...