Author: RTS
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Episode 89: Perfect pop – Nikki Minaj, Foo Fighters
As Perfect Pop Week winds down, our hosts Jim & Patrick add two more picks to the playlist. How about some “Super Bass” and “Everlong?”
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In 1978, Nils Lofgren gave Washington ‘Bullets Fever’
The year was 1978 and a young musician and Washington Bullets (nee Wizards) fan combined his profession and passion. The result was worthy of the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy.
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Episode 88: Perfect Pop – Stone Roses, Big Star
More listener picks for Perfect Pop Week. We discuss the beauty in songs by the Stone Roses and Big Star.
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Episode 87: Perfect Pop – Fastball, Garageland
Perfect Pop Week continues with two listener picks, one by Texas pop-rockers Fastball (it was the song of the summer in 1998) and the other by New Zealand indie rockers Garageland.
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RECORD REVIEW: Joan Shelley
Five new slabs o’ throbbin’ wax from Joan from down the block where Sandy lives.
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Episode 86: Perfect Pop – Dusty Springfield, The Who
We kick off Perfect Pop Week with two nominees: a song by Dusty Springfield (via Chuck Prophet) and Who anthem (via friend Matt Beekley).
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Episode 85: Fan Mail Friday 5
It’s an episode programmed by you, the listeners! This edition of Fan Mail Friday includes songs by Bonny Doon, Concrete Blonde, the Spice Girls with Echo & the Bunnymen (what?), the Lightning Seeds, Better Than Ezra and more. (There’s even a song about poo; it was bound to happen.) Our friend Adam Woodard joins in the fun.
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This is Video Clash: The only band that matters, on TV!
One would think the network TV landscape of the late ’70s and ’80s would offer no career opportunities for political punkers like the Clash, but one would be wrong.
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Episode 84: Record Store Day with Quartjar’s Randall Brown
You know that rippin’ theme music for Rockin’ the Suburbs? It’s actually called “Ascension,” and it’s performed by Knoxville, Tenn.’s greatest cosmic power trio, Quartjar. Today, guitarist/singer Randall Brown joins via Skype to reveal his Record Store Day scores (Flaming Lips, The Claypool Lennon Delirium) and discuss Quartjar’s new album, “Squatch: An Odyssey in Space and Time.”
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Episode 83: Record Store Day with Hard Rock’s Jeff Nolan
Record Store Day Week continues. We talk with Jeff Nolan, music and memorabilia historian for Hard Rock International. He visited East West Records, an Orlando mom-and-pop shop he has frequented since his youth. And he left with quite the honorable purchase.