This week it's all Bomp! Records, start to finish. Greg and Suzy Shaw started one of the last truly independent labels, put out Flamin' Groovies' first single back in 1974 and went on to launch The Romantics, Stiv Bators, The Plimsouls, and Iggy Pop's long-lost Kill City sessions. Power pop as we know it doesn't exist without them.

Greg's gone now, but Suzy's still running the label, still doing exactly what she titled her own book after: saving the world, one record at a time.

👉 Bomp Records

Today's Tracks:

Flamin' Groovies - You Tore Me Down

20/20 - Giving It All

The Romantics - Tell It To Carrie

Shoes - Tomorrow Night

Zeros (1977) - Don't Push Me Around

Stiv Bators - It's Cold Outside

The Poppees - If She Cries

Nikki & The Corvettes - You Make Me Crazy

The Boyfriends - I Don't Want Nobody

The Last - Looking At You

The Jumpers - You'll Know Better When I'm Gone

Iggy Pop & James Williamson - Consolation Prizes

Taxi Boys - She

Pete Holly and The Looks - Baby, Please Believe Me

Josie Cotton - Johnny, Are You Queer?

The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away

This week on Pop Rocks Radio — The Boys are our featured artist. London punk's most underrated band, and yes, we know about the Christmas records.

New music from Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Woolworthy, Doghouse Rose, and Lex Bauman, plus classics from Vibeke Saugestad, The Undertones, and Sugarbomb. Doghouse Rose even has a track called "The Boys," which we did not plan but absolutely take credit for.

Movie of the Week: Slade in Flame (1975). Slade play a fictional band called Flame, and the whole thing is a bleak, cynical, warts-and-all takedown of the music business. It confused everybody in 1975 but was later referred to as the Citizen Kane of British pop movies. We're ok with that.

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Today's tracks:

The Speedways- Now That I Know How

The Boys- walk my dog (feat. Boys)

Roger Joseph Manning Jr.- Modern Dance (The After School Specials)

Librarians With Hickeys- 1972 (Single Version)

The Undertones- Jimmy Jimmy

Susanna Hoffs- Casablanca

Woolworthy- Can't Press Rewind

Vibeke Saugestad- Velvet revolution

Hotel Saturn- Saving Grace

Lex Bauman- What Kinda Love

The Boys- Classified Susie

The Boys- Terminal Love

The Boys- Poor Little Rich Girl

Doghouse Rose- The Boys

The Darling Buds- Oh No You Don't

Growing Pains- Swimming

Sugarbomb- Hello

The Boys- Punk Rock Girl

This week on Pop Rocks Radio, we're featuring the music of Emitt Rhodes, a man who recorded his solo albums entirely by himself, in his home, before anyone knew what that meant. Dubbed the secret alter ego of Paul McCartney. Sued by his own label. Holed up for decades. And absolutely worth your time.

Also, great new music from The Rallies, Julez and the Rollerz, and 2nd Grade, plus classics from The Jam and The Keys — and The Merry-Go-Round, Emitt's band before he went solo.

Movie of the Week: The One Man Beatles (2009). An Italian director crosses the ocean to find a forgotten American genius. What he finds is complicated, heartbreaking, and completely fascinating.

Today's Tracks:

The Morning Line- Anhedonia

The Merry-Go-Round- Gonna Leave You Alone

2nd Grade- Cellophane Girls

Joel Cusumano- Buying Time

Bleu- I Won't Go Hollywood

Julez and the Rollerz- Time

The Rallies- Comes And Goes

Urge Overkill- Take Me

Tokyo Rose- Phoenician Fire

Telejet- Here Come the Faeries

Emitt Rhodes- With My Face on the Floor

Emitt Rhodes- Really Wanted You

Emitt Rhodes- Live Till You Die

Trash Man- Cool Until It's Not

Gooey Cookie- Gimme The Goo

Grass Show- Alice

Space Jaguar- Unstack In Static

The Jam- All Around the World

The Keys- I Don't Wanna Cry

Emitt Rhodes- Dog On A Chain