Category: This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio

We pay humble tribute to the originator, the architect, the one, the only Little Richard. We’ll hear a small sample of the late, great Georgia Peach’s unforgettable hits as well as a few renditions of...

Hey. How’s everyone holding up out there? This week’s show was already completed when news broke that the legendary architect of rock ‘n’ roll Little Richard had left us. Dana was able to attach Little Richard’s...

We begin with The Grip Weeds‘ sparklin’ new cover of the song that used to close second-season episodes of The Monkees‘ TV series. We end with the maximum R & B/power pop sound of The Who. In...

After more than 21 years doing whatever it is that Dana and I do on This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio, and an even longer tenure doing that same indefinable thing since the first pre-TIRnRR Dana & Carl...

The Corner Laughers have a new album called Temescal Telegraph due out in June, and it presents an immediate problem for dedicated rockin’ pop DJs: with such a superfine album, how the hell can we pick just...

RADIO HELD HOSTAGE, DAY…ah, screw it, who’s counting anymore? We’re sorta getting the hang of this radio-from-remote-location gimmick, and this week’s exercise in homemade broadcasting offers new music from Willie Wisely, Richard Turgeon, The False Positives, Justine’s Black...

This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio has always played favorites. But nearly half of the selections on tonight’s show are tracks we’ve never played before. That includes new stuff from Willie Wisely, Richard Turgeon, Spygenius, The False Positives, and Justine’s...

This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio with Dana & Carl in the time of self-quarantine. The process of putting the show together from remote locations remains weird. After more than two decades of doing whatever...

We know exactly what we’re gonna play! Man, that never used to happen. But we have new stuff from THE CORNER LAUGHERS, KEKKER, TRIP WIRE, ED RYAN WITH ORBIS MAX, JUSTINE & THE UNCLEAN, and JOHN DOWLER’S VANITY PROJECT, another...

Sometimes yesterday feels a lot closer than tomorrow. Tomorrow can seem like a vague promise, a mere possibility. Tomorrow isn’t even a destination; it’s just the next leg of our journey, a marker we...