By E.K.Mam
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1. “Dixie Chicken” / Little Feat
Posted on June 24, 2020
20 Albums That Are Very Important To Me
By Timothy Inklebarger
Most of the albums that I ever pick for these lists were recorded in the late ’80s and early ’90s. No surprise since I was in my formative years at that time.
Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation is and will always be probably almost my favorite album of all time. It’s about as perfect as a record can get. I think the thing I loved about bands like Sonic Youth is it felt like they were ours. They belonged firmly in the Gen X generation and spoke our language. They helped invent the language.
Posted on June 9, 2020
The Last 10 Songs I Shazammed
By Steve Rhodes
With accompanying video for your enjoyment.
1. “I’m Good” / Wafia
Posted on February 14, 2020
College Radio, Eh?
By Bryce Prewitt
This was the anniversary show for my first year at WHPK. It was only supposed to be an hour-long show but people kept not showing up – college radio, eh? – so it got stretched to 3 1/2 hours. All 7″ records, probably the best show I’ve ever done and will ever do. You can listen to it here.
1. KRGA – Mysterious Lady [2019]
2. IL TANDRE NEU – Shades [2014]
3. GEROS – Don’t Call Me [2017]
4. THE MONOCHROME SET – Mr. Bizarro [1979]
5. CHROME SPIDERS – Black Butterfly [2009]
Posted on October 15, 2019
RockRadio.Com
At 7:45:36 on Wednesday evening.
Classic Rock: Yer So Bad/Tom Petty
Blues Rock: It’s My Own Tears/Coco Montoya
Classic Metal: Halloween/Helloween
Soft Rock: Shape Of My Heart/Sting
Classic Hard Rock: Slow Ride/Foghat
Posted on August 16, 2018
BeachFest 2017! The Playlist
A Journey Spanning Genre And Era
1. Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love/Van Halen
2. Flying High Again/Ozzy Osbourne
3. Melissa/The Allman Brothers
4. Dreams/Letters To Cleo
5. Shoot To Kill/1994
Posted on June 28, 2017
Like A Cloud
By Steve Rhodes
A mix tape I made for a friend a few years ago with the liner notes I sent.
SONG NOTES (A)
1. Bullet From a Gun/Teddy Morgan & the Pistolas. BBQ rock.
2. Sara Smile/Hall and Oates. Classic.
3. We Just Disagree/Dave Mason. Makes the purchase of Dave Mason’s Super Hits worth it.
4. Dizzy Road/Run Westy Run. ’80s indie rock from the Minneapolis scene.
5. Surf City/Ramones. From an alternate universe.
Posted on March 15, 2010
Psychedelic Velveeta
By Don Jacobson
Randy and Al are two self-described “cheesy DJs” from Fargo having a great ol’ time spinning psychedelic tunes on non-commercial KNDS-FM up on the cold and forlorn NoDak prairie.
On the their show, Psychedelic Velveeta, Randy is more of the “straight” man, if one can use that term in connection with a program whose stated goal is to take listeners “on a musical experience of neo-interplanetary space, in a groovy 3-Dimensional popcycle sort of way.” He’s the musician and record-geeky guy who seems to enjoy providing the nuts and bolts kind of info.
Al, meanwhile, is a little harder to describe. His voice reminds me of those kind of Minnesota-Wisconsin-Dakotas guys who are good-natured but whose idea of fun is disappearing into the woods with a case of Leinies and a rifle. You wonder if he’s had a few too many when he makes these off-the-wall jokes whose punch lines seem to make sense only to him, followed by raucous laughter. Then he comes back and reels off a few dozen rock factoids that only a true scholar of the form would know.
One of the things I really like about Psychedelic Velveeta is that Randy and Al aren’t afraid to mix in new psych bands along with the trippers of yesteryear, something that’s absolutely vital for the survival of the species.
Here’s a playlist of their Feb. 10, 2010 show:
Posted on February 23, 2010
The Rolling Stones: Love & Theft
By Drew Adamek
My musical tastes have never been that varied. I’ve occupied the white trash “space” for most of my life. First, there was white trash rock: Motley Crue, Metallica, Black Sabbath; then there was white trash rap: Beastie Boys, House of Pain, Cypress Hill.
It didn’t go much further than that for me over the last 30 years until I really started listening – really, really listening – to the Rolling Stones’ classics Exile on Main Street and Sticky Fingers. Those albums are, to me, a blueprint of where rock-n-roll started and where it was headed.
I started running through the Stones catalog and found not-so-subtle bits and pieces of all sorts of other artists. I wanted to find the Stones’ influences for myself, and expand my own musical exposure.
Here, then, are the artists and albums I discovered because of the Rolling Stones:
Posted on February 16, 2010
Don’s Latest
By Don Jacobson
Since I embrace the ethos that no bootlegs shall pass, and because I’m poor, I don’t actually come into possession of a lot of major label music anymore. Only occasionally will I charge up the credit card for an MP3 track of a “big” band these days, and even then it’s usually when I’m reminded of some exceeding great music from years past – from the days when the majors were taking chances with real artists.
So, after many months of making these rare purchases off of iTunes, I found that 15 of them had accumulated on the hard drive – enough for a decent mix CD. After burning it, I looked it over and thought this was actually a dang-ol’ cool collection (and really, don’t we all think that, even when we put in those Styx tracks?) And because my mind’s a blank, I call it The Latest (with a please-don’t-sue-me nod to Cheap Trick).
Posted on November 2, 2009