Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMusicians Battling Disease Part 1
Season 1 Episode 365
The human body is a wonderful thing, a marvel of evolution, biology, chemistry, and more than a few bits—like consciousness—we don’t understand...and…
3 years, 7 months ago
Driven By Her: Women of the 21st Century
Season 1 Episode 364
There’s no way to sugarcoat it: the music industry has a reputation of being unkind to women...it has been a struggle from the beginning...and even a…
3 years, 8 months ago
The History of Distortion and Feedback
Season 1 Episode 365
Once upon a time not that long ago, all music was expected to sound clean and clear. Pure, accurate, right in tune. And lo, it was…fine.
But with the…
3 years, 8 months ago
Rock Explainer 2
Season 1 Episode 363
There’s the La Tomatina festival that happens on the last Wednesday in August in Spain...this is the largest public tomato fight in the world...first…
3 years, 8 months ago
Rock's Greatest Disasters
Season 1 Episode 361
Humanity has always been set by disasters, whether they’ve been acts of god or something we somehow brought on ourselves...war, disease, earthquakes,…
3 years, 8 months ago
Hidden Tracks and Other Sundry
Season 1 Episode 360
This is a program about the hidden audio that lurks in your music collection. You don’t know about it…you didn’t ask for it…you maybe didn’t even wan…
3 years, 8 months ago
Driven By Her: Guitar Heroes
Season 1 Episode 360
Once upon a time, musical instruments were divided into two groups: those appropriate for women to play and everything else...
That first group was v…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Roots of the 90s CanRock Explosion
Season 1 Episode 359
There was a time in this country when Canadians didn’t really care about Canadian music...no, wait...let’s start over...
There was a time in this coun…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Long Strange Trip of John Frusciante Part 2
Season 1 Episode 358
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years dealing with musicians, there are artists and then there are artistes...here’s how I tell them apar…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Long Strange Trip of John Frusciante Part 1
Season 1 Episode 357
And if I’m sitting with my taxonomy flowchart, this is where I write the name “John Frusciante,” the occasional guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Pepper…
3 years, 9 months ago