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Alright, back to your regularly scheduled programming. Hope you had a good holiday. Tough summer to celebrate America. Anyway, here's some tunes... Track List

Happy 4th of July! Fuck Trump, his entire administration, and anyone who voted for him! 250 years down the drain. "Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it."   - Evel Knievel "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - t...

Hey, this ain't my first rodeo, dude!... It's my fourth, technically. Welcome back to DBR's special series. The outlaw country, folk, bluegrass, Americana, rockabilly, round up. This first one's for the modern country artists, the "stomp n' holler" artists, the indie folk crew out there keepin' the music true. Track List

"Have you ever had one of those days where nothing all that monumental happens, but by the end of it, you have no idea who you are or what the hell you’re doing with your life?”  - Robin Scherbatsky (HIMYM) Here's like two hours of random shit. Not sure how it happened, but we're gonna roll with it. Cheers. Track List

"Reggae is vile."   - Morrissey "Went to a Madness gig in Finsbury Park. Morrissey was a support act. He came on and sang ‘The National Front Disco’, then ran away in a hail of piss bottles. That was a great gig".   - Sarah ESCQEdin Track List

Season 8 Finale! Thanks for listening. We hope you kinda had fun. Not too much fun, but some.  We end our time traveling journey in 1980. There was some cool shit... The Empire Strikes Back and Friday The 13th hit the theaters, Pac-Man is released by Namco, the "Miracle on Ice", and the World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated. ...and there was some bad shit... Start of the...

Crawling along, now. Are you still with us? It's 1979. Rocky II , Honey Nut Cheerios, McEnroe loses his shit, Disco Demolition Night, The Iranian Revolution... Oh, and plenty of punk rock. Track List

Let's take a look at 1978... Space Invaders released, the Sony Walkman hits the stores, Grease and Superman playing in the theaters, Laverne & Shirley at the top of their game, and the Jonestown Massacre. What a time to be alive! Track List

Moving right along in our journey through time. Let's get into 1977.  Star Wars: A New Hope , the death of Elvis Presley, the opening of Studio 54, and the New York City Blackout.  Rock n' Roll is dead. Long live PUNK!! Track List

D-Beat Radio will now take you on a journey through the early years of punk rock. Parts 76 through 80 will focus on 1976 through 1980. Easy enough to follow. So let's get started! The year is 1976, America's Bicentennial. The VHS debuted, changing home entertainment. Rocky and Taxi Driver hit the big screens. NASA unveils its first space shuttle, the Enterprise. The first outbreak of Leg...

Another Friday the 13th?! Let's burn this place to the fuckin’' ground!! Track List

When was the last time you counted to 74?! Huh?! What?!... I'm fine!! Jeez. Track List

"Punk is often now seen as a mere genre of music and type of dress, but in reality it goes beyond that. It is a powerful and empowering counter culture that can be used to free oneself from unhealthy, unrealistic, and binding societal pressures and expectations. Punk is a political tool and ethos that many can gain inspiration from when addressing injustices on both a personal and systemic le...

This is long overdue. Skateboarding and punk. Punk and skateboarding. A match made in hell ;) So let's fuckin’ do this! SKATE! OR! DIIIIIIEEEE!! Track List

Season 8 Premiere! Welcome back!  Get ready to fuck shit up. Let's start this shit off on the wrong foot.  Happy Friday The 13th! Track List

On D-Beat Radio's 5 Year Anniversary, we honor the late, great Jimmy Cliff. As many legends throughout history do, the whole story starts during a devastating storm… In the Somerton District of St. James, Jamaica, a mother gives birth to a child, wraps him in a sheet, and takes him to shelter at a neighbor’s home as a hurricane blows her house away. However, everybody agrees, “There’s somethi...

..."The archetypal western hero is a complicated figure, and the world he inhabits is a place of flux and contradiction. At the end, the stranger rides off into the wilderness, since the civilization he has helped to save holds no permanent place for him. His departure is also a promise of return, both for the star who plays him — John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Clint Eastwood — and, more profoun...

"What’s the good of being a ghost if you can’t frighten people away?"  - Barbara (Beetlejuice 1988) Happy Halloween! Track List

I'm just looking for A way to break on through these walls and I'm just looking for A place that I can call my home and Does anybody out there got a soul 'Cause I'm just looking for the girl The girl with a heart of gold Corazon De Oro - Rancid Track List

If you don't like creepy shit, get the fuck out! Back to one, everybody! Let's run it again! Track List

Have you ever heard the wind go “Yooooo”? ‘T is a pitiful sound to hear! It seems to chill you through and through With a strange and speechless fear. ‘T is the voice of the night that broods outside When folk should be asleep, And many and many ‘s the time I ‘ve cried To the darkness brooding far and wide Over the land and the deep: “Whom do you want, O lonely night, That you wail the long hours...

Hey! Y'all came back! I guess ya heard. Well, this may not be our first rodeo, but given that it's the grand ol' month of October, this particular song n' dance is gonna take a path less chosen. A dark, possibly haunted path, I reckon.  So enjoy this ray of sunshine while ye can, cuz the sun is settin'. And there be demons in these woods. Abandon all hope, ye who enter her...

No, he didn't die. Tom Waits is fine, as far as I know or at least at the time this episode is being produced. I've had this episode on the back burner for a long time because Tom Waits is my favorite.  Favorite what? Favorite everything. He's a fuckin’ legend.  And, to be honest, I was holding on to it to release if or rather when he died, but fuck that. It's the Fourth of Jul...

...(sigh)  My head hurts. Track List

Zoot Suit Riots (1943) Watts Riots (1965) Sunset Strip Curfew Riots (1966) Los Angeles Riots (1992) George Floyd Protests (2020) I.C.E. Protests (2025) Track List