Rhythm on the Rocks

Join us for another celebration! This time we are celebrating some of the best music from Italian-American culture...and David Lee Roth. We each choose an Italian beverage and some killer crooner songs. 

This week, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with pours and songs from this vibrant and amazing culture! 

Today we conclude Bourbon Heritage Month with a very special guest, Owen Martin, the Master Distiller/Whiskey Maker for Angel's Envy. Join us as Owen talks us through the two new special releases by Angel's Envy, his unique take on innovation within the bourbon world, his atypical journey to master distiller, and so much more. 

This week, Frizz and Bob celebrate Bourbon Heritage Month with their first-ever Rhythm on the Rocks Spirits Awards . After a heartfelt tribute to Dolly Parton and a quick look at bourbon's history, they hand out completely unofficial but extremely important honors for everything from Best Bourbon Under $40 and Weirdest Pour to Best Bottle Design, Worst Thing Poured in Our Mouth, and Spirit of the...

Today, we are joined by Andrew Virgin of Bespoken Spirits. Together, we talk about Bespoken and what makes them special, sample some of their product lineup, and dive into an absolutely amazing album - Mastodon's Crack the Skye. So join us as we tackle one hell of a story about loss, grief, Rasputin, and astral projection, all alongside a new friend of the show. 

Today we learn how to swim AND learn who we were as we learn a lot about livin' and a little 'bout love. Yes, that sentence was a lot, but Alan Jackson taught us many a fine thing, including the importance of a parenthetical. So, grab a cold one, grab a float, grab a guitar, and join us way down yonder on the Chattahoochee.

Today, Frizz and Bob sit down with an iced coffee for a very special episode. For the first time on RotR, we bring you TWO TOMS. My Morning Jacket's Tom Blankenship and Howling Giant's Tom Polzine join us for a chat about a life in music. We talk about the tour grind, writing, recording, silos, hearses, lore and general Tomfoolery. 

Summer may be winding down, but that doesn't mean the breezy vibes are going away as today, Frizz and Bob set sail and dive into Steely Dan's amazing Aja. And, to help celebrate, Frizz enjoys a classy canned cocktail, and Bob gets JACKED on a cheap canned cocktail. 

Come join us on a happy sad journey as we tell the story of one of the best music movies ever, Sing Street. Learn a little about the making of the movie, the plot, and most importantly, examine the music that makes the films an all time great. 

This week, Frizz finally gets her birthday wish as she and Bob raise a glass to the one and only Selena. Frizz is sipping Abasolo Mexican Whisky while Bob pours a Wilderness Trail Bourbon as they cumbia their way through Selena's incredible legacy- from doo-wop and disco to cumbia, cow print, and becoming a bona fide fashion icon. They climb aboard Big Bertha to celebrate the trailblazing artist w...

So there is definitely quite a few things the ol' USA is getting wrong these days. But, the international fans of the World Cup have reminded us that there are also some really great things here, like ranch, free refills, and good tunes. So today, Frizz and Bob share the music and stories behind some of the songs that truly represent some of the best of America. Cheers and happy 4th of July. 

Frizz and Bob celebrate Pride Month with The Runaways, the teenage girls who grabbed rock and roll by the balls and changed it forever. Frizz pours Kurayoshi, Bob cracks open Yamazaki, and together they dive into glam rock, punk rebellion, Beatlemania-level fame in Japan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, and the complicated and fearless legacy of one of rock's fiercest and most important bands.

Today we honor a true great, Sonny Rollins, who passed away in late May. In his 95 years on Earth, Sonny earned the nickname of the Saxophone Colossus, and was considered by many to be jazz's greatest improviser. Join us as we dive into a few of his most important recordings and talk about the importance of some quality time spent on a bridge. Rest in Peace, Sonny. 

It's EUROVISION TIME! Join us as Frizz has vodka (gross) and Bob has Bowmore 15 Year Old (classy) and together we talk about the 2026 version of the Eurovision Song Contest. We'll give you a run down of some of the controversies facing this year's edition as well as our favorites from the competition. 

Frizz and Bob grab very different 10-year-old whiskies and jump into a perfect ten of a debut album, Pearl Jam's  Ten . Join us as we talk about the turbulent start of this band, songwriting while surfing, Pearl's peyote-laced jam, and fair warning... you'll hear a lot of bad Vedder impressions.                        

Frizz and Bob pull into Nazarth, feelin' bout half past dead - but then, the amazing debut album, Music from Big Pink , picks us right back up! Join us as Bob drinks Jack Daniel's and Frizz has Rhubarb York Gin while we learn about the long history of names for The Band , their groundbreaking time with Bob Dylan, the legacy of The Last Waltz, cocaine boogers, and what made them one of the most inf...

Frizz and Bob take on one of the greatest debut albums in rock history, Heart's  Dreamboat Annie . Frizz cracks open a Corona and lime and Bob pours E.H. Taylor Small Batch as we tell a tale of love, surviving the draft, finding your freedom, selling albums out of a car's trunk, and then making it BIG. Join us as we reveal the identity of the real Magic Mike, Frizz practices her German, we get a l...

Today, Frizz and Bob talk about one of the most underrated figures in music history - "the Lady Who Swings the Band" - Mary Lou Williams. Join us as Bob cracks open a Fat Pug and Frizz cracks open a bottle of 19 Crimes Malbec while we tell you about THE real matriarch of jazz, the light and darkness of the jazz world, her party house, the way she changed the world around her, and how she walked th...

Continuing Jazz Appreciation Month, Frizz and Bob go all in on one of the most important and complicated figures in music history - Charlie Parker , aka Bird. Bob pours a single barrel of EJ Curley and Frizz sips Glen Moray's Phoenix Rising as they unpack the genius and the chaos of the man who changed jazz forever and rewrote its language entirely. We get into Diz and Miles, contrafacts, the big...

For Bob's birthday, we're kicking off Jazz Appreciation Month with Frizz and Bob celebrating one of jazz's boldest, richest, and most emotionally alive albums: Charles Mingus' Mingus Ah Um . Frizz sips on Heaven's Door Bourbon , and Bob pours some Old Louisville Whiskey Company as they dig into Mingus' genius, temper, humor, protest, and obsession. From tributes to the Duke, more songs about more...

Frizz and Bob head back to the chaos of the 90s when hip hop was in the middle of its golden era. Frizz sips on gin and juice , Bob keeps guzzling rum , and together they unpack Tupac Shakur's All Eyez on Me - the first double rap album, a Death Row blockbuster, and a record made by a man fresh out of prison, feeling betrayed, hunted, untouchable, and louder than ever. Along the way they get into...

The rum guzzlin' continues as Frizz and Bob tackle one of the greatest musical accidents ever, the Buena Vista Social Club. Join us for a tale about how passport issues led to Ry Cooder finding some of the greatest musicians from the golden age of Cuban music, and together recorded an album that is a brilliant time capsule of that country. We talk about a ton of traditional Cuban musical styles an...

Today we celebrate a belated Valentine's Day by diving into our favorite singles with a theme of love. Join Frizz and Bob as they chat about Factory Records, the Titanic, friend of the show Seal, the Skatt Bros, and more! 

Today we bring you a comeback album for the ages: 1984's Private Dancer by Tina Turner. Join Frizz and Bob to hear the story of how a daughter of a sharecropper from Nutbush (heh) became one of the world's biggest stars in her 40s. Along the way, learn about Bob's habit of rum guzzlin', Frizz's secret love of Michael Bolton, and both of our love of Tim Capello.

This week, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life. Frizz and Bob take on Prince's Purple Rain. Join us as we tell the tale of a kid from Minneapolis who made it big. We talk about his musician parents, early mentors and projects, and then tell the tale of one of the biggest albums of the 80s. In addition, we talk about Tipper Gore, parental advisory labels, basketball pla...