The Broken Cassette Player

Send us Fan Mail Monday seems to be our new day to drop new episodes of the BCN Shred Podcast on and here we have episode 89 for your ears to hear. 5 songs per usual, all great, this time: SAM FENDER, NEW TRANSLATIONS featuring MICHIGANDER, CAPITAL CITIES, THE KOOKS with LOVELYTHEBAND and BEACH WEATHER. All in a very succinct 20:08 playing time to put on in the background as you are doing other st...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 88 of the weekly podcast for 20-year WBCN dj (the longest standing part-timer at the station ever) Shred hosts each week in his namesake WBCN Shred Podcast is here for your ears to hear. 5 new tunes with 2 bands you've definitely heard before, but new songs by: EKOH featuring LO SPIRIT, HONESTAV & MOD SUN, TWENTY-ONE PILOTS, SMASHING PUMPKINS and WALLICE . All goo...

Send us Fan Mail 87 is here with 5 new tunes for you to hear by 5 bands you rightly may have never heard of before (and that's why we're here). This week we have Mercury, Jenna Raine, Lara Ruggles, Amble and Robbietheused to make those ears a little happier than they were before you heard these songs. Don't you feel better? 20:09 for you to use wisely.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail 86 is here for your ears to listen to 5 new songs by bands you likely haven't been exposed to before. We have new songs by Japandroids, Meteor Police, Latvian Radio, Hataalii and Madi Diaz. We can't possibly encourage you enough. 17:41 of listening time you would put to much worse use.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Episode 85 is ready to roll out and have basically no one listen to 5 bands that you should be putting your ears on, but are far too busy with all that other important stuff you need to do for yourself to not be able to give us 16 minutes to hear the likes of Girlfriend with Baby Swag, The Dare, Vienna Vienna, Twenty-One Pilots and Katastro featuring The Maine. But you're too...

Send us Fan Mail We are pushing this thing out each week to small returns, which is a true shame, considering how all over the map new music travels these days to arrive at ears to hear good songs. We try to go for 5 good songs you should hear each week, but no one apparently cares about listening to anything that isn't smacking them in the face. All good. We carry on. 5 songs/bands you shoul...

Send us Fan Mail It is here: episode 83 of the BCN Shred Podcast, 5 new songs (all by girls this week) for you to stuff into those crusting up ears of yours: Biig Piig, Bishop Briggs, Caroline Kingsbury, St. Vincent and Saya Gray are all super worthy of you hearing.  This podcast is hosted by 20-year WBCN and 4-year WERS "Niteklub" dj Shred in his down time for you to experience somethin...

Send us Fan Mail episode 82 of BCN Shred Podcast is upon you, enabling you to hear 5 new bands your ears wouldn't likely fall upon, but you'll be glad they did, as these are some of the best who make music currently and deserve your attention. We are Shred, we did radio for some 20 years at WBCN and was local music director there for 13 of those years, but fool followers miss it. We hope...

Send us Fan Mail Look where we are and what most of you are not listening to: us. We are the former 20-year WBCN part-time dj and WERS music director/Niteklub show host Shred podcast featuring 5 of the best new songs for you to plug into those ears of yours to give you some good sounds to listen to. On deck this week for your head: October Drift, The Greeting Committee, Queen Cult, Talker and Rose...

Send us Fan Mail We have retitled this thing we do from The Broken Cassette Player, which may have been too esoteric to garner a large listenership to stating the obvious as to what is going on here with the new name of it as BCN Shred Podcast and we have reached episode 80 in our weekly digression of 5 amazing songs we find for you to pop into your head and know them for yourselves as well, so yo...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 79 of the WBCN Shred -produced podcast is with you. 17:11 minutes of your precious background time is requested to hear 5 amazing new tunes to stuff into those ears of yours each week. Give your time to Kit Major, Penny Bored, Poppy, Suki Waterhouse and The Dreaded Laramie , because they are all good. We didn't plan for it, but this is 5 "new" bands with 5 f...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 78 of the weekly podcast of 5 amazing new tunes you should be listening to is here, hosted by 20-year WBCN and 4-year WERS dj Shred. Hear tunes you should be listening to by Death Lens, Franz Ferdinand, Japandroids, Housewife and Two Friends, featuring Alexander Stewart. You will be glad you did in a nicely condensed 17:10 format for you to enjoy  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail It's 77, episode 77 unleashed for anyone possible to hear. Still looking for our audience. We should be a tastemaker with how good the material we come up with each week is for everyone to hear. Put your ears on 5 amazing tunes: Beeef, Bike Routes, Benny Noon, Calling Hours and Christian Lee Hutson are all worth just under 20 minutes of your time. I'm Shred. I did colleg...

Send us Fan Mail Ok, now we are into over 1 year of bringing our new music podcast, The Broken Cassette Player  hosted by 20-year WBCN vet and 4-year WERS learning to ski dj,  Shred to your set of drums on a weekly basis and still have far too few folks following what we do. For episode 76, we have unearthed this week's 5 songs you need to hear for yourself: Box Elder, Militarie Gun, Palaye R...

Send us Fan Mail Here it is: episode 75 of our weekly new music podcast, The Broken Cassette Player has reached a benchmark. 5 new amazing songs for you to put into those ears and experience something new for yourself, as you should. This week we have to listen to: Caroline Kingsbury, Beabadobee, That Band Honey, The National Parks and Something Corporate-Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness. 18 minut...

Send us Fan Mail We are here at episode #74 of our weekly new music podcast that this week is actually our 1-year anniversary show from starting to host it on this sort of timeframe for you, our very limited audience. Thank you. Without you, there would only be me and that's lonely. haha. We have 5 more amazing tunes that you should hear, but most of our public misses, although folks do hear...

Send us Fan Mail We have reached episode 73 of our new music podcast that we basically are credited for just hearing it ourselves when we publish it and maybe a few random types float in to hear what's happening, but our glory for doing this is very limited. That is sad. It is media and should be heard. We plug away. Thanks for putting them ears on this. It's a bit of a more high brow ef...

Send us Fan Mail It's here upon us, episode 72 of the new music podcast, hosted by 20-year WBCN & 4-year WERS dj, Shred. Each and every week it's the 5 best songs the internet has to offer us to hear, we find them and play 'em. This week we have BBY, Bring The Horizon, Imagine Dragons, Elderbrook and Palaye Royale your ears should want to grip. 19:21 of your time You waste more...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 71 is here of the new music podcast called The Broken Cassette Player that former 20-year WBCN and 4-year WERS dj Shred pulls off each and every week to find 5 amazing songs to play, so you don't put garbage into that head of yours that you've already heard far too many times. Be available for new experiences. I know you are old. Everyone is. Be daring. 16:30 min...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 70 of the weekly new music podcast called The Broken Cassette Player (who even has one of these anymore?) is upon us with 5 of the best new songs this week in music has produced and we have found to play for you. Included for your ears are: Bright Eyes (yes, those guys), Coral Moons, Little Image, Sports Team and Dru Cutler. It's a worthy listen, timing in at just 19:...

Send us Fan Mail Hello, folks, we have achieved episode 69 of our new music podcast, featuring 5 of the best new songs that are out there each week, hosted by 1-time 20-year WBCN dj, Shred for you to plug into those mostly deaf ears of yours and create some fun and excitement for yourself: listening to new music. Cut it out. I never do that anymore. I like Kansas and that's my band. I don&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Here it is, episode 68 of our new music podcast, The Broken Cassette Player, hosted by former 20-year WBCN dj Shred in his spare time to offer new music to any ears that will open up enough to hear what we have for them (and not many do).  This week we have Clairo, Toro y Moi, Jack Kays, Pretty Sick and Starving Wolves sharing their amazing new tunes with you. There are other thin...

Send us Fan Mail We have reached episode 67 of our weekly new music podcast called The Broken Cassette Player that looks to be very often shared at facebook, but according to stats from Buzzsprout is listened to in sparing fashion. We will always do our best to expose good new songs for you to turn your ears onto something almost arousing to hear. Your 5 samples this week come from the likes of Co...

Send us Fan Mail The Broken Cassette Player podcast, hosted by 20-year WBCN dj Shred is up to episode 66 of this weekly new music event and more for you to invest a small amount of time, like 19:31 to hear 5 new bands you should be listening to, instead of the other drek you've been subjected to: Hayes Noble, Dexter And The Moonrocks, Coral Moons, The Japanese House and Andrew McMahon In The...

Send us Fan Mail episode 65 of The Broken Cassette Player, new music podcast hosted by former 20-year WBCN radio vet, Shred, drops, featuring 5 of the best new tunes you are to plug into those ear sockets of yours: Sum 41, CloZure, Bleachers (Jesse Malin), Bear Hands and Pale Waves. Listen for free, 19:25 playing time on Amazon music is what we say.   Support the show