The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway

The first day of summer is this Saturday, but it's hot all year long on The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! Van Dyke Parks--"Come to the Sunshine"  The Plugz--"Mindless Contentment" The Automatics--"Don't Wanna Work" Nightmen--"Beach Party" The Quintette Plus--"Summertime" The Wedgwoods--"Summer Love" The Walker Brothers--"Pretty Girls Everywhere" The Donnas--"I Don't Wanna Go to School" Blue Chee...

The second of two bonus episodes of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway this week, this is an all-surf music show I did for the Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban stream (RIP) on April 26, 2020! The Phantom Surfers--"Stop That, Cedric" The Phantom Surfers and Dick Dale (Crown, 1996) Music behind DJ: The Lively Ones--"Bustin' Surfboards" Surf Drums (Del-Fi, 1963) Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet--"Bennett Cerf" L...

One of two bonus episodes of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway this week, this is an all-surf music show I did for the Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban stream (RIP) on January 13, 2019! Satan's Pilgrims--"Petty-43" At Home With (Estrus, 1994) 0:00:00 Music behind DJ: The Lively Ones--"Bustin' Surfboards" Surf Drums (Del-Fi, 1963) PJ and the Galaxies--"Tally Ho" American Surf Treasures, Vol. 1 (Gee-Dee, 2000...

The inmates are running this episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! The Calico Wall--"I'm a Living Sickness" The Consumers--"Your Problem" Devo--"Wiggly World" The Marked Men--"That Kid" The Dave Clark Five--"Lost in His Dreams" Eclectic Method--"Crazy" Jay Reatard--"Can't Do It Anymore"  NoFX--"Linoleum" The Mind Controls--"Mind Control" Digital Leather--"Stay in Bed" Circle Jerks--"World...

It's a punk rock revolution on this week's The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! Donate to ActBlue here: secure.actblue.com/donate/ab_mn and I will make you a mixtape but I will NOT send nudes (In lieu of donations, you may body-shame the cop of your choice). Quincy Punx--"My America" The Crucifucks--"Democracy Spawns Bad Taste"  Propaghandi--"Middle Finger Response" The Consumers--"Media Ogre" The...

Might be a little on-the-nose to do a death episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway during a pandemic, but then again, on-the-nose has never exactly been beneath me. This one goes out to Richard Bain, I hope you're okay now, man. La Peste--"Better Off Dead" The Spits--"Die Die Die"  The Infections--"Smash Your Face" Supercharger--"Sooprize Package for Mr. Mineo" The Mummies--"Die!" The Quinc...

Get out your boardshorts and pretend like you can go to the beach with another all-surf episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! It's pitted, so pitted! Jon and the Nightriders--"Grommet" Takeshi Terauchi and The Bunnys--"Kanjicho" Los Pinche Pinches--"Nokie Is Dead" Urban Surf Kings--"7 Veils A Go Go" Martin Cilia--"Point Danger" Jim Messina and His Jesters--"Raunchy"  The Apemen--"Arabian...

G'day, guys, and welcome to the bleedin' Australian episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway, ya geeza! Aborted Tortoise--"Violent Consumers" The Church--"She Never Said" The Sunsets--"I Want Love" GOD--"My Pal" The Creatures--"Ugly Thing" The Atlantics--"Come On" Radio Birdman--"Aloha Steve and Danno" The D-Coys--"Bad Times"  Ausmuteants--"Bad Day"  The Easybeats--"Sorry" The Chats--"The Cla...

Hello and welcome to this bonus mini-sode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway paying tribute to the memory of the Architect of Rock 'n' Roll, Richard Wayne Penniman, known to us heathens as Little Richard. All around the world, rock 'n' roll is here to stay. Little Richard--"All Around the World" The Five Americans--"Slippin' and Slidin'" MC5--"Tutti Frutti" The Sonics--"Keep A-Knockin'" Little...

This week on The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway, it's a spotlight on the best band in the world, the Dwarves! Dwarves--"Lick It" Dwarves--"I'm a Liar" Dwarves--"13 Stories High" Dwarves--"Don't Love Me" Dwarves--"College Town" Dwarves--"Nothing" Dwarves--"Eat You to Survive" Dwarves--"Nobody Likes Me" Dwarves--"Lesbian Nun" Dwarves--"I Wanna Kill Your Boyfriend" Dwarves--"It's Your Party (Die If Y...

This week on The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway, it's all bands from the great state of Michigan! Detroit rock city, you soft boys! MC5--"Kick Out the Jams" Sonic's Rendezvous Band--"City Slang" The Dogs--"Slash Your Face" The Bob Seger System--"Lucifer" (Be sure to check out Brad Wenzel's podcast, Pod Seger!) Alice Cooper--"I'm Eighteen"  The Ramrods--"Nothin' To Do in Detroit" The Romantics--"Wh...

Hi, I wasn't drunk, but I still managed to call Reggie Watts "Reggie White" two times on this week's The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! Sean and the Brandywines--"She Ain't No Good"  Transplants--"Tall Cans in the Air" John Bunyan's Progressive Pilgrims--"Apricot Brandy" Public Enemy--"1 Million Bottlebags"  Tex and the Horseheads--"I'll Quit Tomorrow" Drennon Davis--"I Drink Beer Like a Baby Dee...

It's another break-up songs episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway AIN'T IT THE SHITS Sonics Inc.--"Nobody to Love" The Wind--"Don't Take Your Love Away"  The Cure--"Boys Don't Cry" The Jury--"Who Dat?" Mickey & Sylvia--"No Good Lover" The Morticians--"It's Gonna Take a While" Jo Ann Campbell--"I Changed My Mind, Jack"  Sin City--"Drunk and Broken-Hearted Man"  Buck Owens--"There Goes My Lo...

It's another love songs episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway AIN'T IT GRAND Ramones--"Somebody to Love" Matthew Sweet--"Girlfriend" The Makers--"The Mystery" Me First and the Gimme Gimmes--"Uptown Girl" The Four Seasons--"Working My Way Back to You" We the People--"She Does Everything for Me" The King Khan and BBQ Show--"Hold Me Tight" Archie and the Bunkers--"You're My Pacemaker" Movemen...

Hey, it's another one of those episodes where I play the originals and then the covers on The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! The Hysterics--"That's All She Wrote" Ramones--"Beat on the Brat" The Monkees--"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" The Adverts--"We Who Wait" The Yardbirds--"I'm Not Talking"  The Rumblers--"I Don't Need You No More" The Gentrys--"Brown Paper Sack" Duran Duran--"Hungry Like the...

In honor of Joey Vindictive's birthday, it's the Vindictives episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! Ramones--"Swallow My Pride" Buddy Holly--"Heartbeat" The Go-Go's--"How Much More" The Bangles--"If She Knew What She Wants" Elvis Costello and the Attractions--"Radio, Radio" MC5--"High School" Sex Pistols--"No Feelings" Billy Joel--"You May Be Right" Harry Nilsson--"Spaceman" Sweet--"Little...

Welp, now's as good a time as any to explore a sub-genre I don't really know much about on The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! The Twilighters--"Scratchin'" The Intentions--"I'm in Love with a Go-Go Girl" Leon & the Dreamers--"Haircut" The Kings--"Come On, Little Baby" The Adventurers--"Rock and Roll Uprising" The Enchords--"Zoom Zoom Zoom" The Varnells--"Day in Court"  The Tokens--"A-B-C, 1-2-3" ...

Down at The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway, we only rock the fuck out on days that end in 'y' join us won't you thank you won't you thank you The Last Knights--"Twenty-Four Hours a Day" Muck and the Mires--"Saturday Let Me Down Again" The Undertones--"Wednesday Week" The Rubber Band--"Forever Friday" The Easybeats--"Saturday Night" Sunday Funnies--"A Pindaric Ode" Mary Monday--"Popgun" The Tuesday...

Never talk on the phone, never rat out your friends, and always listen to The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway!  The Bobby Fuller Four--"I Fought the Law" The Drags--"My Girlfriend's in the FBI" The Dead Milkmen--"If I Had a Gun" 10cc--"Rubber Bullets" Cypress Hill--"Hand on the Pump" The Spits--"Life of Crime" Dwarves--"Runaway No. 2"  The Sloppy Seconds--"Blackmail" Schlong--"Pillage" Riverdales--...

Suffering succotash, set yourself for another searing series of soul smokers on The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! Billy Clark & The Maskman--"Soul Party" Doris Troy--"Whatcha Gonna Do About It" E.T. White & the Great Potential Band--"Funky Soul Shake" Jimmy Mamou--"Funky Love"  Wayne Cochran--"You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover" Davy Jr. and the Guess Who--"Kool & the Gang" The Soul Lifters--"H...

WE DID IT! One hundred goddamn episodes and still counting! I'd like to thank Geri McIntyre, head of the The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway fan club of Oshkosh, and of course my lovely wife Taryn, and our beautiful children, Liviandra and Jack. Lyn Collins--"Think (About It)"  Children of Darkness--"She's Mine" Man or Astro-Man?--"Put Your Finger in the Socket" Devo--"Wiggly World" The Belles--"Co...

Holy poop, it's the hundredth episode that is so big, it also includes the 99th episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! The Monkees--"You Just May Be the One" The Vindictives--"Apt. #2" The Beat Boys--"Third Time Lucky" Dillinger Four--"Shiny Things Is Good." The Five Counts--"Going Away from You" Ronnie Burns--"Exit Stage Right" KMD--"Soulflexin'" The Neatbeats--"Rumors of a Man" The Maker...

Hi, how are you, another animals episode blah blah The Worm Turns with Blah Blah The Turtles--"Buzz Saw" (Why, yes, this was sampled by D-Nice for his single "Call Me D-Nice" which I played on the hip-hop episode a few weeks ago, good call!) The Damned--"Fish" The Automatics--"Do the Fish" Davie Jones with the King Bees--"Liza Jane" The Dwarves--"Insect Whore" The Sunlights--"Do the Dog" Dead Kenn...

Hey, kindly go fuck yourself on this week's The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway, ya buncha fuckin' assholes! The Niteriders--"With Friends Like You Who Needs Friends" The Dwarves--"Anybody But Me" Digital Leather--"Ruining Everything" W.O.R.M.--"Don't Give a Fuck" Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz--"I Don't Give a Fuck" GG Allin--"You Hate Me and I Hate You" The Trashies--"I H8 U Motherfuckers" Screechi...

Get your scissors out because it's time to cut a damn rug on this week's dance party episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! The Shadows of Knight--"Shake" The Sonics--"Do You Love Me" The Hi-Liters--"Dance Me To Death"  The Rock-A-Teens--"Woo-Hoo" Carl Holmes & The Commanders--"Mashed Potatoes"  Judy Carne--"Sock It to Me" Carrie Grant & The Grandeurs--"Mish Mash" The Invictas--"The Hump"...