434 - Big Star - #1 Record - Ronnie Barnett

Comedian and actor Esther Povitsky fantasizes about living in the era of doo-wop, when Motown queens Diana Ross and the Supremes ruled the charts with all the hits catalogued in their career retrospec...

29 Apr 20201h 20min

Comedian Greg Fitzsimmons indulges his inner Bruce Springsteen fanboy by taking a heartfelt plunge into the dark, yet uplifting heartland rock of The Boss's 2002 release The Rising. Check out Greg's p...

22 Apr 20201h 20min

Comedian, actor, director and musician Tommy Chong peers back through time to an era when rock went country, of which there is no more perfect example than Gram Parson’s final studio album: 1974’s Gri...

15 Apr 20201h 22min

Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum embodies the raw rock n' roll power of Cheap Trick's unparalleled 1978 live album At Budokan.  Pre-order Matt's autobiography Double Talking Jive. ...

8 Apr 20201h 8min

Comedian Bill Burr makes his return to the show by looking back on the career arc of J. Geils Band front man Peter Wolf as he evolved into the mature rock sounds of his sixth studio album, 2002’s Slee...

1 Apr 20201h 12min

Actor and comedian Matt Braunger praises the perfectly precise songcraft and roasts the ridiculous melodrama of new wave reggae-rockers The Police’s 1978 debut Outlandos d’Amour. For guest playlists, ...

25 Mars 20201h 14min

DEVO founding member Gerald Casale traverses the eerily beautiful soundscapes of ambient music pioneer Brian Eno’s 1975 album Another Green World. For guest playlists, new music influenced by this alb...

18 Mars 20201h 13min

Comedian Rosebud Baker reminisces about life in New York in the early 2000s, an era of whimsy and still only minor gentrification in which Baroque pop band Vampire Weekend released their self-titled d...

11 Mars 20201h 13min