Snap, Crackle, POP! with Alec Cumming

This was the last of my series of late-summer 2025 fill-ins for Steve DiCostanzo's Radio Base Camp shows; he would shortly return the favor in November 2025 by filling in for several of the new 7-9 AM...

16 Sep 20251h 56min

If you're an avid listener of the show*, you'd know that a big fave "genre" of mine to play on Snap Crackle POP! is (are?) backing tracks... that is, the sound of a finished track minus the vocals, so...

13 Sep 20252h 54min

This show is an unashamedly gooey look at a wonderful if greatly underrated genre of music - BUBBLEGUM. That is, the stuff you heard from the mid-60s through the early '70s.Bubble Gum Music – The Rock...

9 Sep 20251h 55min

I had to pre-record this episode, because on September 2nd I was actually in London on a wonderful honeymoon (which had been delayed for 9 months!). I rarely pre-record shows these days - it takes me ...

2 Sep 20251h 55min

Occasionally I do shows like this, and it's both an honor and something quite sad when I do. My buddy from Syracuse University, Jim Van Norstrand, passed away a few days before this broadcast, so I di...

26 Aug 20252h 18min

I'm not sure what to write about shows like this... this is just me putting together a set on the fly. Some new stuff, some old stuff, a small Joni tribute at the top, a Cornershop two-fer later. It w...

19 Aug 20251h 54min

This is a fave recent episode of mine. For the first half of the show, my dear friend Dawn Eden Goldstein (who now resides in Milford and whom I would love to hear on the air at WPKN, and I'll do what...

18 Jul 20252h 54min

At some point in the earty aughts, when I was going through a divorce and saw my daughter mainly on the weekends, I discovered a Saturday morning show on the classic freeform station WFMU called "Grea...

13 Jul 20242h 54min