Suburban Underground

This time, Steve picked an entire show of jungle songs.  (And none of the songs played in the jungle song sets 2 years ago are repeated in this show.)  In this show you will hear the artists Girls Downstairs, New York Dolls, The Vines, The Weirdos, A Popular History Of Signs, Reverend Horton Heat, The Cramps, The Special AKA, Love And Rockets, Echo & The Bunnymen, No Doubt, Sparks, Kool &...

This week, Steve picked a show of songs by bands that have the word "beach" in their name and also songs from bands that have the word "pale" in their name.  In this show you will hear: Pale Honey, Beach Weather, Palehound, The Beach Boys, Pale Lips, Beach Bunny, Pale Saints, The Beaches, Pale Waves, Beach Fossils, The Pale Fountains, Beach House, Figures On A Beach. On most podcast platforms. Fac...

This time around, Steve brings you an alternative version of The Beatles' Abbey Road medley (i.e., those songs performed by other artists).  In this show you will hear the artists: Glenn Tilbrook with Nine Below Zero, Bee Gees, Booker T & The MGs, Cornershop, Los Lonely Boys, Cheap Trick, Greg Bissonette, Frank DiMino with Steve Hillage, Chumbawamba.   On most podcast platforms. Facebook: Subu...

This week, Steve picked an hour of songs recorded live in the studio, such as the BBC or WFUV (Fordham University).  You will hear great songs from these artists: Sunflower Bean, The Kinks, Genesis, Paul Weller, Sylvan Esso, The Cure, The Smiths, Oasis, The Alarm, The Sound, The Arcs, Mondo Cozmo, and New Order. On most podcast platforms. Facebook: SuburbanUndergroundRadio     Instagram: SuburbanU...

This week, Steve puts out an alternate version of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.  Alternate version, meaning, these are all covers of the songs on that album.  In this show you will hear Easy Star All-Stars w/ Junior Jazz, The Beach Boys, Cheap Trick, The Wedding Present, Helium Kids, Big Daddy, K.Flay, Oasis, Claudine Longet, Roy Wood, The Lolas, Stereophonics, The Fall.   On...

To follow up the international capitol show from about a month ago, this is a London-centric show. Every song mentions London. In this show you'll hear artists: T. Rex, Joe Jackson, The Faint, The Jam, Aztec Camera, Ray Davies (of The Kinks) and many more!     On most podcast platforms. Facebook: SuburbanUndergroundRadio     Instagram: SuburbanUnderground     #newwave #altrock #alternativerock #pu...

Another installment of 80s new wave extended remixes, suitable for listening to while trimming shrubs, reading Li'l Abner in the funny papers and dancing in a club in 1986.  In this show you will hear the artists New Order, After The Fire, Talk Talk, OMD, Duran Duran, ABC, The B-52's, Berlin, The Psychedelic Furs, Big Country, Yaz, Yello and Big Audio Dynamite.   On most podcast platforms. Faceboo...

In this show, Steve puts out an hour of International Capital Songs.  Songs about capitol cities.  In this show you will hear these artists: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Simple Minds, OMD, Passengers, Michael Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Morrissey, The Style Council, The Ramones, Alex Chilton, The Clash, Muse, Ultravox, Stiff Little Fingers, Sammy and Dean Martin.   On most podcast platforms. Facebook:...

This show is filled with artists that end in "ettes".  If you don't know what I mean, see the artist list below.  Be forewarned, this episode is front-loaded with 50 and 60s girl groups, so, if that is not your jam, you can skip to 42:58 and that will take you to late 70s new wave/punk songs by artists that end in "ettes".  In this show you will hear the artists: The Chordettes, The Starlettes, Th...

In this show, we'll hear an hour's worth of dream songs with some dream artists mixed in.  You'll hear these artists: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Robert Palmer, The Dream Academy, Beabadoobee w/ The Marias, Gary Numan, Love And Rockets, Business Of Dreams, Dreamcar, The Dream Syndicate. On most podcast platforms. Facebook: SuburbanUndergroundRadio     Instagram: SuburbanUnderground     #new...

This week's show is full of songs about horses...or related to horses...or tangentially connected in some way to horses.  In this show you will hear Modern English, Wolf Alice, The Beatles, Marc Bolan & T. Rex, Electric Six, Jet, Echo & The Bunnymen, Slothrust, Fleetwood Mac, The Dead Weather, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Ian McCulloch, The Shins, The Trash Can Sinatras, Bat F...

This time, Steve is putting out the 3rd installment of power pop music.  The first two being bonus solo podcast-only shows back during COVID.  This one centers on late 70s and early 80s power pop.  Here are the bands played: Blitz, The Innocents, The Cryers, Nikki And The Corvettes, Stiv Bators, April South & The Pennies, Phil Seymour, Pinkees, Quincy, The Undertones, Bleeding Hearts, Kidda Ba...

This is the 2nd of two installments of songs that Steve played on his college radio show but never played on Suburban Underground...but probably should have.  In this show you will hear Simple Minds, Goanna, Hanoi Rocks, New Musik, Robert Ellis Orrall, The Bangles, The Sherbs, Blondie, Alphaville, Australian Crawl, Billy Bragg, Hoodoo Gurus, Peter Godwin, Bow Wow Wow and The Call. On most podcast...

This week, Steve pulled from out of the archives of his 80s college radio show, songs that he played on the air in college and probably SHOULD HAVE played on the air during Suburban Underground's run, but never did.  In this show you will hear some familiar artists and some unfamiliar: Eighth Route Army, Mission Of Burma, O Positive, This Mortal Coil, The Things, Miracle Legion, Simple Minds, Mini...

This week, Steve is putting out an uninterrupted 80s New Wave Dance Party. Sorry that its a little long. Listen to it on a road trip or while painting or something. Steve puts his dance mix skills to work. (Spoiler: he's not a pro at that but he has his moments.) You will hear artist: OMD, Peter Gabriel, Depeche Mode, Billy Idol, The Cure, Alphaville, Simple Minds, Ministry, INXS, Fiction Factory,...

This week, Steve picked songs connected in some way with the genre of film known as "westerns". Either they directly reference the west such as being a cowboy, or they use samples from famous western films...or they use familiar cinematic western film score tropes that were introduced by such composers as Ennio Morricone. In this show you will hear Thin Lizzy, Hoodoo Gurus, Eighth Route Army, The...

This week, Steve picked an hour's worth of songs that highlight the best of David Bowie in the 1990s. You will hear from such albums of his as 'Black Tie, White Noise', 'Outside', 'Earthling' and 'Hours...'.   On most podcast platforms. AI-free since 2016! Facebook: SuburbanUndergroundRadio     Instagram: SuburbanUnderground     #newwave #altrock #alternativerock #punkrock #indierock

In this second installment of collaborations, Steve picked the following artists: The Brian Setzer Orchestra w/ Gwen Stefani, Blondie w/ Duran Duran, Time Zone [Afrika Bambaataa/John Lydon], Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto, The Thorns [Shawn Mullins, Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge], Sharpe + Numan [Bill Sharpe and Gary Numan], Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey, FFS [Franz Ferdinand + Sparks], Elect...

This week Steve gives you a beyond the airwaves episode of Suburban Underground that is about collaborations. There will be a part 2 coming in a few weeks. Here is part 1's full list of artists: Brian Eno & David Byrne, Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown, Ric Ocasek (with Billy Corgan), The I Don't Cares (Paul Westerberg & Juliana Hatfield), Squackett (Chris Squire & Steve Hackett), Ia...

This week, Steve brings a new and improved version of a previously unreleased late 70s/early 80s punk rock episode of Suburban Underground, which was created during the pandemic but put on a shelf.  These artists are in this show: The Clash, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Dead Milkmen, Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers, Dead Kennedys, Descendents, G.B.H., Hüsker Dü, Dead Boys, Channel 3, Eighth Route...

This week, Steve brings you the 2nd half of the 2025 in memoria show.  We will hear these artists who we sadly lost last year: Black Sabbath (Ozzy Osbourne), Golden Earring (George Kooymans), Terry Reid, The Simpsons (Alf Clausen), T. Rex (Mark Volman aka Flo of Flo & Eddie), The Yardbirds (Chris Dreja), Stray Cats (for Sonny Curtis), Blancmange (Stephen Luscombe), Kiss (Ace Frehley), The Mood...

Happy Holidays, everybody! This week, Steve puts out part 1 of a 2-episode year-end "in memoria" tribute to artists who passed away in 2025.    This week, we will hear songs from artists who passed away from January through June of this year. Artists included are: The Osmonds (Wayne Osmond), Brenton Wood, Sam & Dave (Sam Moore, Steve Cropper), The Jam (Rick Buckler), Arling & Cameron (Gerr...

In this 2018 interview with OMD, during their tour promoting their album The Punishment Of Luxury, conducted by the WBNH program director Harry Kozlowski, Steve interweaves songs from throughout the band's career. AI-free since 2016! Facebook: SuburbanUndergroundRadio   ***    Instagram: SuburbanUnderground   ***    #newwave #altrock #alternativerock #punkrock #indierock

This represents the last regularly scheduled Suburban Underground episode.  In this episode of all "goodbye" songs you will hear Kitchens Of Distinction, OK Go, Future Islands, Thomas Dolby, Blur, Silver Scooter, Tommy Keene, Midge Ure, Tears For Fears, Styx, Tony Molina, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode and Nada Surf.  Plus some special in-studio guests!   But, do not unsubscribe because there will be occ...

This week is the penultimate broadcast episode of Suburban Underground. It is a countdown show of the top 15 years from which songs were played in the history of the show.  These artists are played in this episode The Accidentals, The Black Keys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Two Door Cinema Club, Florence + the Machine, U2, The Wombats, The Smiths, The Damned, Red Rockers, The A's, 4 Out of 5 Doctors, Origina...