The Broken Cassette Player

Send us Fan Mail Episode 104 (you know like the former FM radio station I used to work at) is on the steps of your internet for you to plug into those hearing appendages you call ears, hosted by 1-time, former 20-year part time dj and 13-year local music director at WBCN , Shred has 5 new songs to foray into that open space in your life, looking for some meaning to configure. So, you receive songs...

Send us Fan Mail episode 103 of the weekly new music podcast, The Broken Cassette Player has been released for your ears to hear. 5 songs by FLIPTURN, FRANZ FERDINAND, PISTOLS AT DAWN, SLOW JOY and THE KOOKS will all charge your hearing monitors. Only 17:35 of your time to put on something good.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail episode 102 of the new music podcast, hosted by your one and only Shred from WBCN fame and WERS college building steps, The Broken Cassette Player is upon us for you to take 20 minutes of your precious moments to listen to some new music we so know you will love. This week new tunes by AVALON EMERSON, CIRCA WAVES, DEXTER & THE MOONROCKS, GIOVANNIE & THE HIRED GUNS and GIRL...

Send us Fan Mail We at episode 101 are still the great so far as of yet found purveyor of new music that mostly goes unlistened, but is there whenever ears are available to put on the new music weekly podcast we do. I am Shred . I was on WBCN for a good 20-years having a good amount of fun, getting to be on the radio and entertain folks and now much later we have arrived here at our new media. Thi...

Send us Fan Mail It has arrived: episode 100 of the weekly, since August 2023 new music podcast, The Broken Cassette Player , hosted by former 20-year WBCN dj Shred and delivering 5 of the best bands for you to hear on a weekly basis. This week though, because it is a landmark episode we have unearthed 5 bands that were mostly championed by us at WERS , college radio on the Niteklub show we hosted...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 99 of the weekly new music podcast, The Broken Cassette Player hosted by former WBCN 20-year dj Shred in his spare time away from college or junior hockey games, records 5 songs with narrative for you to hear on a weekly basis since August 2023. We work hard for your ears to stay uncrusted with old boringness. This week feast upon new tunes by Bon Iver, New Translations, V...

Send us Fan Mail We are creeping close to 100 episodes of this weekly recorded since August 2023 new music podcast called The Broken Cassette Player , hosted by dj Shred , who spent 20 years of his life on-air at WBCN and 4 doing college radio at WERS . So we have had some fun and it continues here online for under 20 minutes of your running time, so as to not really bother what you do, but more t...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 97 is in yours ears if you let it. Former WBCN dj Shred gives you 5 new tunes to hear each week and this week we have some good ones, as always: AWOLNATION, THE BACKFIRES, BIIG PIIG, KADAVER and PAPA ROACH all have amazing songs.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail It's episode 96 of the weekly new music podcast, hosted by former 20-year WBCN dj Shred and always features 5 new tunes for you to hear and add to your collection. This week we have CLOVER COUNTY, GOOD NEIGHBORS, HARDY, TWENTY-ONE PILOTS and YAM HAUS for you to put your ears on. 18:17 minutes of your time.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Episode 95 of the WBCN 20-year dj Shred podcast, The Broken Cassette Player is upon you to listen a for a good 19:23 of 5 great tunes by bands you may not be familiar with, but should be: VUNDABAR, LITTLE IMAGE, HOUSEWIFE, KESTRELS and WARGASM all have the new music adrenaline you need.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail You'd think folks might listen to a podcast that 20-year WBCN radio vet Shred does, but you'd be mistaken. Facebook culture cares not. They go about their business, sometimes post little quips, but far too busy with the business that is life to look outside it. All good, we are here to entertain and do so well. We have 5 amazing tunes for you to add to your list this wee...

Send us Fan Mail It took us a little time with the college hockey schedule in full gear, but we are off with episode 93 of The Broken Cassette Player , the new music podcast former WBCN dj Shred hosts mostly each and every week for folks to tune into some new bands and sounds to hear. This week we have RAYE, BALANCE AND COMPOSURE, MILKY CHANCE, LOLA YOUNG  and SOCCER MOMMY to take up some new spac...

Send us Fan Mail We have reached episode 92 and are reverting back to our previous moniker of The Broken Cassette Player for the 20-year WBCN dj Shred produced podcast from here on in; and have 5 new bands with amazing songs for you to hear: POINT NORTH, MOD SUN, GLASS ANIMALS, ROD WAVE and JACK KAYS all produced great tunes for you to listen to 100% free on this podcast on Amazon Music.  Support...

Send us Fan Mail It's the annual Christmastime podcast we now do as part of what we do: 5, actually 6 amazing songs from our holiday past to play for you to hear as part of your festive par-takings: TRAVIS, COBIE CAILLAT, BLACK KETTLE, CHRIS TRAPPER, RAMONES and THE DARKNESS all offer up their holiday best, as obviously chosen by us. Happy Christmas 2024!  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 90 of our weekly new music podcast, hosted by 20-year WBCN dj and 4-years WERS in college radio, Shred. It's always 5 new tunes and this week we hear from BEARTOOTH, ODD MARSHALL, WONK UNIT, PARTY NAILS and LILIES ON MARS & STEFANO GUZZETTI in the span of just 19 minutes playing time. Please listen, hopefully for your own enjoyment.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Monday seems to be our new day to drop new episodes of the BCN Shred Podcast on and here we have episode 89 for your ears to hear. 5 songs per usual, all great, this time: SAM FENDER, NEW TRANSLATIONS featuring MICHIGANDER, CAPITAL CITIES, THE KOOKS with LOVELYTHEBAND and BEACH WEATHER. All in a very succinct 20:08 playing time to put on in the background as you are doing other st...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 88 of the weekly podcast for 20-year WBCN dj (the longest standing part-timer at the station ever) Shred hosts each week in his namesake WBCN Shred Podcast is here for your ears to hear. 5 new tunes with 2 bands you've definitely heard before, but new songs by: EKOH featuring LO SPIRIT, HONESTAV & MOD SUN, TWENTY-ONE PILOTS, SMASHING PUMPKINS and WALLICE . All goo...

Send us Fan Mail 87 is here with 5 new tunes for you to hear by 5 bands you rightly may have never heard of before (and that's why we're here). This week we have Mercury, Jenna Raine, Lara Ruggles, Amble and Robbietheused to make those ears a little happier than they were before you heard these songs. Don't you feel better? 20:09 for you to use wisely.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail 86 is here for your ears to listen to 5 new songs by bands you likely haven't been exposed to before. We have new songs by Japandroids, Meteor Police, Latvian Radio, Hataalii and Madi Diaz. We can't possibly encourage you enough. 17:41 of listening time you would put to much worse use.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Episode 85 is ready to roll out and have basically no one listen to 5 bands that you should be putting your ears on, but are far too busy with all that other important stuff you need to do for yourself to not be able to give us 16 minutes to hear the likes of Girlfriend with Baby Swag, The Dare, Vienna Vienna, Twenty-One Pilots and Katastro featuring The Maine. But you're too...

Send us Fan Mail We are pushing this thing out each week to small returns, which is a true shame, considering how all over the map new music travels these days to arrive at ears to hear good songs. We try to go for 5 good songs you should hear each week, but no one apparently cares about listening to anything that isn't smacking them in the face. All good. We carry on. 5 songs/bands you shoul...

Send us Fan Mail It is here: episode 83 of the BCN Shred Podcast, 5 new songs (all by girls this week) for you to stuff into those crusting up ears of yours: Biig Piig, Bishop Briggs, Caroline Kingsbury, St. Vincent and Saya Gray are all super worthy of you hearing.  This podcast is hosted by 20-year WBCN and 4-year WERS "Niteklub" dj Shred in his down time for you to experience somethin...

Send us Fan Mail episode 82 of BCN Shred Podcast is upon you, enabling you to hear 5 new bands your ears wouldn't likely fall upon, but you'll be glad they did, as these are some of the best who make music currently and deserve your attention. We are Shred, we did radio for some 20 years at WBCN and was local music director there for 13 of those years, but fool followers miss it. We hope...

Send us Fan Mail Look where we are and what most of you are not listening to: us. We are the former 20-year WBCN part-time dj and WERS music director/Niteklub show host Shred podcast featuring 5 of the best new songs for you to plug into those ears of yours to give you some good sounds to listen to. On deck this week for your head: October Drift, The Greeting Committee, Queen Cult, Talker and Rose...

Send us Fan Mail We have retitled this thing we do from The Broken Cassette Player, which may have been too esoteric to garner a large listenership to stating the obvious as to what is going on here with the new name of it as BCN Shred Podcast and we have reached episode 80 in our weekly digression of 5 amazing songs we find for you to pop into your head and know them for yourselves as well, so yo...