Generation X Offender

On August 25, 1955, the El Paso Times reported the death of painter Alvin Krolik under the headline "Story Of Person Who Walked Lonely Street". Krolik himself had penned the line in his unpublished autobiography prior to being shot and killed by local police during an attempted robbery in El Paso, Texas. And so a legend was born... Join us this week in the GXO Podcast as The Generation X Offender...

The Continuing Story of Rock N Roll: The First 70 Years 1956-2026   Elvis: The Sun Years (53-54)   Join us as we retrace the footsteps of a boy who would be King: The Developmental Years   From obscurity to regional recognition and everything in between. Missed opportunities, rejection, misdirection, augmentation, trial, error and crispy bacon, peanut butter and mashed banana sandwiches!  .    All...

Welcome Listeners! We have FINALLY arrived! Our Desired Destination! Nineteen Hundred And Fifty Six...the Dawning of the Age of Rock N Roll Join us as we SPLASH DOWN DEEP into 1956, a year so chalk full of instant classics we had to break it down into multiple parts. 1956: PART ONE  All the hits fit to print that DIDN'T make it to Billboard's Top 50 Songs of 1956 Chart *THE MUSIC 1951 Drown In My...

Our tale begins in the mid to late 40s... The 1940s Post War America The Great Cities of the East are full of electricity and light And music... Swing beat is DEAD daddio Bebop and Blues rule! Jump Swing Shout Blues   ...but this new thing, as yet, remains undefined   Founded in 1894 (solely sheet music back then kids!) Billboard Magazine didn't know what to do with it or what to call it either......

...the road goes on forever and the party never ENDS! Rock N Roll - Celebrating 70 YEARS of Maximun Rock N Roll (1956-2026)   ...in this episode the party CONTINUES with the JUMP BLUES and R&B SWING and SHOUT BLUES of the mid 1940s through to 1953 MAKE NO MISTAKE - this sh*ts ROCK N ROLL!  Louis Jordan T-Bone Walker (first ROCK N ROLL lead guitarist) BIG Joe Williams The Flamboyantly outrageou...

In this Episode we continue to CELEBRATE 70 Years of Rock N Roll! 1956 - 2026 ...from the very first HIT BLUES song ever in 1920 on the deep down low through the murky waters of the Mississippi Delta onto Robert Johnson, FOUNDING MEMBER of the 27 Club, through his TWO HISTORIC Texas Recording Sessions (1936 & 1937), Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, T...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROCK N ROLL! 1956 - 2026 70 Years of Maximum Rock N Roll!   Years in the making, Rock N Roll officially became part of the cultural zeitgeist in 1956, the first year this perpetually evolving NEW MUSIC produced the most popular song of the year, Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley. Fellow Rock N Rollers Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Frankie Lymon And The Tee...

...and so we conclude at the Conclusion of our multi episodic Three Part Dissemination exploring the Three Main Ingredients of what 20th Century British Psychedelic Poet Laureate Robyn Hitchcock once famously described as, "the great Civilizing Force of the 20th Century, Rock N Roll"   DRUGS SEX (parts 1 & 2) ROCK N ROLL   SEX, humanity's ORIGINAL DRUG, gets a Subsection B, of course. It is wh...

In the immortal words of 70's disco singer and pornographic actress Andrea True, "More, more, more. How do you like it? How do you like it?" Why? Because more is, MORE! Right? Why choose when you can have more? Why chose when you can have both?   "This is what you want, this is what you get" - John Lydon   MORE SEX please! (no, we're not British)   Back by popular demand, we've extended the Sex se...

WARNING! Proceed With Caution Today's Podcast contains EXPLICIT CONTENT   NSFW   Listener Discretion is STRONGLY advised due to the ADULT nature of today's show. Contains explicit language and sexually suggestive content    In this week's episode of The GXO we continue with our three part series exploring the three primary ingredients of what British psychedelic poet laureate Robyn Hitchcock once...

In this week's episode of The GXO we begin a three part series exploring the three primary ingredients of what British psychedelic poet laureate Robyn Hitchcock once described  as, "the great civilizing force of the 20th Century". Rock N Roll Part One: DRUGS "Religion is the opium of the masses" - Karl Marx "Tune in. Turn on. Drop out" - Dr. Timothy Leary "I can't be held accountable for all the d...

Yup. You read that right. FU*K Valentines Day! Right where the sun don't shine. Angry? Bitter? Spiteful? Nah!!!!!! We're just not buying into the corporate driven cash orgy of spending that tells us all our love isn't valid unless we SPEND! SPEND! SPEND! on February the 14th of  every year. VALENTINES DAY! Yuck! The biggest crock since... As always, this one is inclusive and, for EVERYONE (that in...

Ok, so all the Grammy hype has quieted down. But does anyone really care anymore? Really? Does anyone really care about the darlings and celebrities of Billboard's Top 200? Do you care? We don't. And the majority of the artists in music today who we care about don't care about it either. What we do care about is Rock N Roll, which is all but completely unrepresented in popular media today, ESPECIA...

Tanner Burns Is Bringing Crooning Back! But what, might you ask, is Crooning? Crooning is a smooth, intimate style of singing that originated in the 1920s. The crooning style was made possible by widespread access to electricity and improvements made to microphones that picked up quieter sounds and a wider range of frequencies than ever before. This dominant popular vocal style coincided with the...

Remembering DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. on his Official Celebration Day  Monday, January 19, 2026   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   "I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead but it really doesn't matter with me now Because I have been to the mountaintop.  I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a lo...

This week you're in for a special treat kids! Join us as The GXO goes Parking at an undisclosed location, our very first CAR INTERVIEW! (steamed up windows and all!) with non other than our very own IN HOUSE rap dude The One The Only! J-DDDog!! (triple D my friends! triple Ds!) In this episode, our first in an ongoing segment exploring Hip Hop and it's cultural currency and predominance over most...

This past Fall, John Lennon & Yoko Ono's only son, Sean Ono Lennon, released the exhaustive Power To The People 12 disc expanded version of his parent's criminally ignored 1972 radical feminist, agitprop, street wise, cutting edge, urban soul, ghetto funk rock masterpiece Some Time In New York City, With the exception of ONE SONG The one song that has become the ELEPHNANT'S MEMORY BAND in the...

Ring in the New Year with John, Paul, George & Ringo AND US! The GXO Along with special guests Dhani Harrison, Zak Starkey and the Lennon boys Julian & Sean and, in the words of George Harrison... RING OUT THE OLD! RING IN THE NEW! Ding Dong Ding Dong and remember kids... WAR IS OVER! (if you want it) THE MUSIC: One Arm Santa https://music.apple.com/ca/album/one-arm-santa/1594790611?i=1594...

Headline caught your attention? Not to worry, this is not click bait Listen as well reveal how John Lennon's crafty song nicking skills got him in trouble, once again! But this time 'round it's not the LSD toting Dr. Timothy Leary he's pissed off. Or Chuck Berry.  But wait! The FUN doesn't stop there... Join us in this episode as we shed some light on circumstances surrounding America's racist con...

Hallelujah! There's no swearing in this one!  Join us in welcoming J-Dawg and first time contributor The Brodster for our first ever GXO Non-Denominational Christmas Xtravaganza! This week we introduce you to A True Unicorn: The Boy In A Non-Secular Music Bubble! Brodie "The Brodster" Broadcaster had to up and leave home at the age of 20 just to hear his first Rock N Roll... sorta How is this poss...

#CarryTheSky Hashtag it. Carry The Sky by Vancouver's Bruce Wilson of the band Sunday Morning Like it. Share it. Comment on it. Follow it - Vancouver based Sunday Morning and their NEW HIT SONG Carry The Sky Available on all streaming platforms everywhere. Amazon Music Bandcamp Spotify iTunes Apple Music Carry The Sky by BC based synthpop sensation Sunday Morning is the FEEL GOOD story for the hol...

Warren Zevon began life the son of "Stumpy" Zevon, a Jewish immigrant born William Zivotofsky in the Ukraine before changing it to Zevon. To feed his family Zevon worked as a bookie handling volume bets and dice games for notorious Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen. Zevon ended up working for years in Cohen's gang and was best man at Cohen's wedding. Stumpy's son Warren, once student to the legenda...

BTW... Todd Snider is not ok. Todd Snider is dead. Todd Snider (1966-2025) At the tender young age of just 59 short, well lived years, master tunesmith, storyteller, folksinger, barefoot hippie Todd Daniel Snider passed away at his home in East Nashville, Tennessee, of an undiagnosed case of walking pneumonia aggravated by injuries sustained during an assault on his person in Utah. Snider's medica...

Is Rock N Roll Crooning an Oxymoron? What is Rock N Roll Crooning? When did it start? Who started it? And who are you calling a moron?   Join us as we unravel the mystery behind all the ties that bind the crooners of Rock N Roll Elvis Frank Sinatra Jim Morrison Patti Smith Gord Downie Nick Cave Tom Waits    The original Rock N Roll chameleon himself, Scott Walker and his 17 year old pimply faced p...

Is Todd Snider ok? BTW... Who the frig is Todd Snider? And why should you care? All these questions and MORE answered in the latest episode of The GXO, your trusted, insider source for everything music and beyond! Just one show into a 13 date tour to promote his latest album, legendary East Nashville based Americana storyteller Todd Snider is “allegedly” mugged and beaten up in South Salt Lake, Ut...