Tag: The Beatles
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Episode 457: Guest Shot – Short Guitar Leads
Mike Wagner of Houston fills in for Jim & Patrick. He talks about the fine art of the succinct guitar solo.
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Episode 398: Guest Shot – Middle Eights
One more guest episode! Mike Wagner of Houston fills in today and talks about songs with great “middle eights.” What’s a middle eight, you ask? Mike will explain. Features music by the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin and the Replacements.
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Episode 310: Perfect Pop – Tommy Keene picks The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel
About a month before his passing, we conducted a long interview with power pop master Tommy Keene. At the end of the interview, we asked him to make a Perfect Pop pick. He choose songs by the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel.
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Episode 226: Perfect Pop – The Beatles
We close out this Perfect Pop Week with a true classic. Our friend Mike Snider picks a pop standard by the Beatles.
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Episode 205: Book Nook – NYC in the 2000s, Beatles
Patrick just finished two books and wants to share them with you. The first is “Meet me in the Bathroom,” by Lizzy Goodman, an oral history of the New York music scene in the 2000s, which brought us the Strokes, Vampire Weekend, Interpol, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem and many other cool indie bands. The second book is “You Never Give me Your Money” by Peter Doggett, about the business and legal battles of the Beatles after they broke up.
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Episode 202: Perfect Pop – Raspberries, Beatles, Young Rascals
Matthew Sweet joins the pod again, this time to talk about two songs he considers Perfect Pop. Plus, a listener pick closes out the week.
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Episode 184: Interview: Matthew Sweet, Part 2
We pick up the conversation with Matthew Sweet. He talks about recording via file sharing and the mysteries of time, space and songwriting.
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Episode 169: Hurricane Harvey update from Mike Wagner in Houston
We check in with a member of the Rockin’ the Suburbs extended family, Mike Wagner of Houston, In the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
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Episode 154: Guest Shot: Bud Verge – Beatles, Sergio Mendes
This week: a series of mini-episodes from listeners (while Jim & Patrick continue their Summer Break). Today, the great Bud Verge talks about attending a record auction and nabbing some Beatles, Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66, and more.
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A Month with The Beatles Channel
SiriusXM satellite radio debuted a Beatles channel in mid-May and our pal Phil Ingrassia soaked it all in. Here are his impressions after 30 days with The Fabs.