Rockin' the Suburbs

As part of the season of giving, Jim and Patrick are sharing a FREE holiday album with music that is sure to get you in the spirit. Today… holiday creations from The Ogres and The Lone Canary.  Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com . Please rate/review...

Jim and Patrick are giving a gift to the Rockin' the Suburbs community: a free 30-track holiday album. Today on the pod, we present track 14 ("Sasquatch Surfs With Santa" by Quartjar) and track 15 ("Christmas Lost Today" by Hecojeni). The full Rockin' the Holidays free album download is now available at phonophorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/rockin-the-holidays Bandcamp tip: Click on "Buy Digital Al...

As part of the season of giving, Jim and Patrick are sharing a FREE holiday album with music that is sure to get you in the spirit. Today… we bring you tracks from two DC-area bands, The Magmatics and Shallow Planet.  Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.c...

Jim and Patrick are giving a gift to the Rockin' the Suburbs community: a free 30-track holiday album. Today on the pod, we present track 10 ["Hearts (Love Letter to Mrs. Claus)] and track 11 ["Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by My Forever DJ]. The full Rockin' the Holidays free album download is now available at phonophorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/rockin-the-holidays Bandcamp tip: Click on "B...

As part of the season of giving, Jim and Patrick are sharing a FREE holiday album with music that is sure to get you in the spirit. Today… we play tracks EIGHT & NINE in full. Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com . Please rate/review the show on Ap...

Jim and Patrick are giving a gift to the Rockin' the Suburbs community: a free 30-track holiday album. Today on the pod, we present track 6 ("It's Christmas Day" by Billy Coulter) and track 7 ("Wonders" by Emily Hurd). The full Rockin' the Holidays free album download is now available at phonophorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/rockin-the-holidays Bandcamp tip: Click on "Buy Digital Album," then enter...

As part of the season of giving, Jim and Patrick are sharing a FREE holiday album with music that is sure to get you in the spirit. Today… we play tracks FOUR & FIVE in full. Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com . Please rate/review the show on App...

Jim and Patrick are giving a gift to the Rockin' the Suburbs community: a free 30-track holiday album. Today on the pod, we present track 2 ("Christmas Spirits" by Frank Muffin) and track 3 ("Christmas in Limbo" by the Excuses). The full Rockin' the Holidays free album download is now available at phonophorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/rockin-the-holidays Bandcamp tip: Click on "Buy Digital Album,"...

It's our 2,000th episode! And so Jim and Patrick are giving a gift to the Rockin' the Suburbs community: a free holiday album. Wingtip Sloat kicks off the compilation with a new holiday classic, "Christmas at 7-11." Rockin' the Holidays drops on Friday, Nov. 29. It will be available for download at phonophorerecords.bandcamp.com/music Get with Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other...

The Rocktober 2024 New Music Train is making one more trip and it’s a long one. On this episode, Urb Fernandez, Scot Isom, Harris King and Sunny Varney all make new music picks. We’ll hear about new songs from Tinariwen, Tucker Zimmerman, Black Pus, Blood Incantation, Motrik, Starcrazy, Ian Blurton's Future Now and Certain Death. Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platfo...

It is standing room only on the Rocktober 2024 New Music Train today, with four listeners delivering their picks for new music. Get ready for Eric Lohrenz on Field Music and Porridge Radio, Kevin Porter discussing Waxahatchee and Tunde Adebimpe, Kurt Gallagher on a new live album from They Might Be Giants and Roger Grace chiming in with new songs from Massive Wagons, Manors and one of his favorite...

It’s time for another multi-country journey for the Rocktober 2024 New Music Train, as it travels from Dublin to New York City. Liam McIndoe and Jason Goebel are at the controls and the duo discuss new music from Nadia Reid, Christy Moore, Billy Strings, Porridge Radio and Panda Bear. Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podc...

The Rocktober 2024 New Music Train is on a long distance journey today, chugging from Wisconsin to Sweden. Bob Peterson and Niklas Nygards are in control and they are talking up new tunes from Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Brower, Abstract Crimewave and Isak Benjamin. Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iH...

All aboard the Rocktober 2024 New Music Train! We throw the horns up and crank it to 11 with Steven Routledge and Paul Hayden and new tunes from Dream Theater, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Body Metta and Christina Mantis. Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and Tu...

Jim kicks off the October New Music series with choice cuts by Superchunk, the Baseball Project and Bartees Strange. Plus, a Tom Petty cover from Kathleen Edwards. Get with Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, like audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com . Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts...

It’s time to crack the final can of our Bluegrass 4-Pack! It contains the history of progressive bluegrass, when younger musicians began to expand and enhance the traditional sounds of Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs.   Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsP...

We’re onto part three of the  Bluegrass 4-Pack today, in which we take a look at the birth of the bluegrass festival movement, which began with two seminal events in Virginia in the 1960s.   Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com . Please rate/review the...

We open another can from the Bluegrass 4-Pack today, as Patrick outlines the remarkable career of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. They left Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in 1948 and went on to take the music to a whole new audience and level of popularity.  Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitche...

It’s time to crack into the Bluegrass 4-Pack! Patrick takes a trip back in musical history to the formation of the band that led to the genre of music known as Bluegrass. That trip begins with Bill Monroe and his brother Charlie in the mid-1930s and continues until Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs arrive in 1946.  Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audi...

We pay tribute to Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024, at age 91. The man was a legend in music and beyond. Edward Bowser of soulinstereo.com joins the conversation. Get with Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, like audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com . Please rate/review the show on Apple Pod...

We wrap up the week with a triple dose of Perfect Pop! Tim Hoffman picks AC Newman’s “Miracle Drug,” Mark Neese carefully considers “Cannonball” by the Breeders and Kevin Clement selects The Cure’s “A Forest.”  Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com . Pl...

Belly up to the bar for another round of Perfect Pop! Today, Jay Igancio and Kurt Gallagher induct songs into the Perfect Pop pantheon, specifically Fairground Attraction’s “Perfect,” Todd Rundgren’s “Hello It’s Me” and Billy Bragg’s “The Saturday Boy.”  Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher...

We’re serving up a helping of Perfect Pop this week and we continue today with selections from Peter Nordgren and Steven Routledge. They induct BoDeans’ “Back Then” and The Cure’s “Lullaby” into the Perfect Pop pantheon.  Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsP...

Perfect Pop Week continues! Jim talks about a vital Wilco track (with a thrilling music video): 1996's "Outtasite (Outta Mind)." Dig it. Get with Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, like audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com . Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your fri...

We need Perfect Pop this week! And so Jim kicks things off with a most excellent 1990 track by Canadian band Blue Rodeo: "Til I Am Myself Again." Dig it. Get with Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, like audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com . Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share...