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SHOW 67 -  A HARD DAY'S NIGHT MOVIE & SOUNDTRACK REVIEW Today we (Matt & Rob) review the Beatle's great movie and soundtracks for A HARD DAY'S NIGHT which will celebrate the 60 Year Anniversary (of the US release) on August 11th. The movie captures the band at the height of their career!  Not many bands can say they have it all on film exactly what they were going through. We start off wit...

Know Good Music Podcast Magazine for JULY 2024 We cover a lot of ground on today's podcast as always.     We start with "give it a listen" with a new song by the band, Airport 77s with their cover of the Stones song "too loose" ... think of the Cars doing a Stones song (love it!) ... then we go right into Album Anniversaries for August 64, 74, 84 & 94!!! , New albums that came out recently tha...

FORGOTTEN BANDS (4th installment) Once again we talk about those bands who were popular at one time or another but have now somehow faded into the past. Matt and Rob took a list of 65 (mainly 70s bands) and each picked 3 bands to cover. The bands we talk about on today's podcast are: THE PRETTY THINGS SLAPP HAPPY / HENRY COW SWEET (or THE SWEET) STEPPENWOLF UTOPIA THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS    Fi...

Know Good Music Podcast Magazine for JUNE 2024 We cover a lot of ground on today's podcast.  We start with "give it a listen" with a new song by the UK band VIOLENT HEARTS "Johnny I'm only Speeding" ... think the Primitives meet the Clash... then we go right into our Music News Brief, Album Anniversaries, New Releases, What's in Rob's Pile, New Music Vidoes and much more!  We end the podcast with...

Jeremy joins Rob today for another great interview. You may know Elliott Fullam from the movie TERRIFIER 2 (one of mine and Jeremy's favorite movies) where he played one of the main characters "Jonathan" but he is also an accomplished songwriter and  has released 3 albums in the last couple of years. Jeremy and I had a great time talking MUSIC and HORROR in this cross-over interview (which will al...

60 YEARS AGO!  On May 20th 1964 two icons came together.  One was an established singer/actor, the other an up and coming singer/actress.  The world would never be the same once everyone saw ELVIS and ANN MARGARET steam up the screens. This is our 3rd Elvis movie (out of 33) that Rob and Jeremy are reviewing.  Did we like the movie?  Is it our favorite out of the 3 ?   Listen to find out and find...

New PODCAST RELEASE - INTERVIEW with Australian Singer / Songwriter (and now resident of Nashville) IMOGEN CLARK! Rob and Matt had a great fun conversation with the greatly talented Imogen Clark.   We had a ton of laughs (which is always a good thing). Besides bringing up Springsteen, Colin Hay, Sheena Easton and Sheryl Crow we talk about her big move to Nashville, the inspiration behind her newes...

Pot Luck of Music Monthly Edition   On today's podcast we have a couple of monumental album anniversaries we cover which are Bruce Springsteen's BORN IN THE U.S.A. and Price PURPLE RAIN along with some other not so monumental releases.   We start out with our segment : Give It A Listen with NY singer/songwriter LESLIE MENDELSON and her new single "The Good Life" and we end the show with Oliver Woo...

Set sail with Matt and Rob as they take you on a journey from Thunder Island to Baker Street. So it had to happen sooner or later.  On today's podcast Matt and Rob talk about Yacht Rock. Many years ago we just called it "cheesy 70s music".  Rob always had a love for those "cheesy" love ballads. Matt and I go through the history of yacht rock and when and who came up with the term.  What defines ya...

Matt and Rob sit down with the legendary progressive rock guitarist, Steve Hackett formerly of GENESIS and GTR Steve talks about his current tour (recently winding down) called FOXTROT AT FIFTY, what the term progressive means, what John Lennon said about Genesis, his incredible new album "The Circus and the Nightwhale" and more. We had 30 minutes to talk to Steve which in itself is incredible sin...

NEW PODCAST - SHOW 60 - POT LUCK OF MUSIC show We've got a real Pot Luck of Music for you on this podcast! This podcast we talk about album anniversaries coming up for the month of MAY .. 1974 / 1984 and 1994! Plus Segments : Give It A Listen - we start out the show with NY singer/songwriter (who we've interviewed a few years ago) FIONA SILVER with her new single "Vertigo" and we end the show with...

On show #59 Jeremy and Rob review Dave Grohl's biography THE STORYTELLER : Tales of Life and Music We go through each chapter of Dave's book and pull out the stories that stood out and were worth noting.  Dave's journey from geeky (injury prone) kid to legendary drummer.   ************* In this episode: Find out what Rock God Dave built an alter to when he was a teen Find out what he has to tell t...

We've got a real Pot Luck of Music for you on this podcast! This podcast we talk about album anniversaries coming up for the month of April .. 1964 / 1974 / 1984 and 1994! Plus Segments : Give It A Listen (featuring new songs from Cris Jacobs and Imogen Clark, What's In Rob's Vinyl Pile, New Music Book Releases, New Album Releases for April, Music News Stories and more! ARTISTS MENTIONED IN THIS P...

Matt and Rob sit down with ISMAY to talk about their new album Desert Pavement.   We go into other topics like the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (in which their grandfather founded and their family still runs), the documentary Finding Lucinda (about the great singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams), Ismay's time working on a ranch with they're mother, the Stranger in the Barn video (and the puppe...

The movie Footloose celebrated it's 40th anniversary on February 17th so we felt we had to give the soundtrack a good listen and the movie a good watch along with the 2011 remake.   On today's podcast we talk about: ODD MUSIC LAWS TWO NEW MUSIC TV SHOWS TOP 10 FROM THE WEEK ENDING FEB 18 1984 FOOTLOOSE SOUNDTRACK (1984) FOOTLOOSE THE MOVIE (1984) FOOTLOOSE THE MOVIE (2011) ********* KNOW GOOD MUSI...

SHOW 56 - NEW MUSIC / ALBUM ANNIVERSARIES FOR MARCH 1974 / 1984 / 1994 / ARTIST SPOTLIGHT ON LAUFEY / GIVE IT A LISTEN This podcast we talk about album anniversaries coming up for RUSH / PINK FLOYD / ELVIS / BECK & others for March 74 / 84 / 94 Plus Segments : Artist Spotlight and Listen to This along with some music news and new album releases for March. Our newest segment "Give It A Listen"...

BUDDY HOLLY NOTE: This podcast has been edited down from a previous podcast (from February 2023) Today we go back into our archives and re-upload this podcast as today marks the 65th anniversary of Buddy Holly's passing, along with Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson BUDDY HOLLY - His Life, Music & Legacy - FROM THE ARCHIVES 2-25-23 BUDDY HOLLY TOPICS we cover: The Crickets...

SHOW 55 We begin the podcast by talking about New Music Books, The top 10 selling vinyl albums of 2023 and we compare the top 10 albums of 2023 from Paste, Pitchfork & Rolling Stone Then we go into our main topic.  Rob  & Jeremy's top 10 albums of 2023 We talk about albums from: GRETA VAN FLEET FOO FIGHTERS U2  KELLY CLARKSON QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE MILEY CYRUS MEG MYERS MAMMOTH WVH PETER...

Rob INTERVIEWs Singer, Songwriter, Master of the Mouth Harp, Bluesman and Rapper - Philly's one and only G LOVE of G LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE! Today Rob talks to G. Love (Garrett Dutton) about the 30th anniversary of G LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE'S monumental 1994 self-titled debut album! Find out how G Love (Garrett) got his name, his street performing days in Boston, his love for Basketball, what i...

First new Podcast of 2024! SHOW 54 - ALBUM ROULETTE - Albums of 2023 What we do every year now is a random pick from a list of 50 greatest albums of 2023.  This list is from Paste Magazine.  Rob and Jeremy both review and critique (and boy do we) 3 albums each! Before we go into the random albums we talk about albums turning 50 / 40 and 30 years old in February!   Some of the albums we talk about...

THE HOLIDAY PODCAST is here!   Our podcast starts off with a special Holiday message from Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America Jeremy and Rob start off the podcast with a year in review of the shows we did along with Matt in 2023. Then we go into our regular subject of albums turning 50/40/30 followed by NEW ARTISTS (Alex Vile / Destroy Boys) and NEW CHRISTMAS MUSIC (Cher...

I grew up watching MTV as a teen (and beyond) and one band that stood out for me were THE HOOTERS (A Philadelphia PA band that looked fun and lyrically different with lines and melodies you'd remember for a long time).   Who can forget the songs "And We Danced", "All You Zombies", "Day by Day" and "Hanging on a Heartbeat" ? It was a great honor to finally talk to Eric Bazilian! The Hooters just go...

Today we start the podcast talking about New Music from the Rolling Stones & Green Day and newer artists like Holly Humberstone and Fenne Lily. We also give you a sample of a new song called GIFT from musician BILLY MAGERISON.  Billy gave us permission to play part of his new song! Before our main subject we cover (like always) albums turning 50/40/30 (in December) OUR MAIN SUBJECT: Matt and R...

Dave Swift may not be a household name but he's shared the stage with legendary musicians such as Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Cher, Joss Stone, Eric Clapton, Roger Daughtry, Paul Simon ... and those are just a few.  He's been a member of Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra since 1991 and also a with the house band on Later with Jools Holland (one of the top tv shows in the UK) He's been c...

Today Rob & Matt talk with DAVE HILL   Not Dave Hill from Slade, Not the actor Dave Hill, Not the golfer Dave Hill but the world-renowned comedian, guitar shredder, author from showbiz DAVE HILL.  That Dave Hill! This is the same Dave Hill who just got off an explosive 6 date tour with Tenacious D (Jack Black's band, of course), he was so good he was asked back to open for them next year with...