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.

Available where you get your podcasts. Unless you get them from Spotify.

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

This week on Pop Rocks Radio — Letters to Cleo is our featured artist, and yes, Kay Hanley is the voice behind Josie and the Pussycats. Connect the dots.

New music from The Goods, The Tubs, and Slamdinistas, plus classics from Tommy Keene, The Candy Skins, The Bangles, and so much more.

Movie of the Week: Josie and the Pussycats (2001). Sharper than you remember. Funnier than it had any right to be. And the soundtrack is genuinely great.

Available on your favorite podcast platform. Unless Spotify is your favorite.

Today's Tracks:

The Goods- Summer's Almost Gone

Letters to Cleo- Little Rosa

The Chelsea Curve- I Can't Help It

Golden Richards- I Want to Be Like Jeff Goldblum

The Diodes- Tired of Waking Up Tired

Teenage Fanclub- Day In The Sun

The Tubs- Stoop to Me

The Bangles- Where Were You When I Needed You

64 Funnycars- Flat World

Danny Ayala- I Don't Like Her

Tommy Keene- Run Now

Letters to Cleo- Mellie's Comin Over

Letters to Cleo- Sparklegirl

Letters to Cleo- Come On

Slamdinistas- Weather the Storm

The Suns- Hey Carla

The Candy Skins- Never Will Forget You

Letters to Cleo- Bad Man

Be good. Be weird.

This week on Pop Rocks Radio — We've got new music from Hayley and the Crushers, Robbie Rist, and The Chutes, plus classics from Linus of Hollywood and Owsley, along with our featured artist of the week: Knoxville's own, Superdrag.

Movie of the Week: Bandwagon (1996). Four misfits form a band called Circus Monkey and proceed to learn everything the hard way. Directed by John Schultz — the original drummer for The Connells — it's the most honest movie about being in a band that nobody's ever seen.

Available on your favorite podcast platform. Unless Spotify is your favorite.

Today's tracks:

Hayley and the Crushers- Cringeworthy

Superdrag- Destination Ursa Major

Robbie Rist- I Want To Make It Up To You

Wishy- All The Rage

Descendents- Good Good Things

Katie May- Strange Times

Scott Gagner- Sugar Rush

That Dog.- Never Say Never

Doghouse Rose- It Gets Worse

The Chutes- Nowhere in Particular

Radio Birdman- Murder City Nights

Superdrag- Pine Away

Superdrag- True Believer

Superdrag- Extra-Sensory

The Rallies- Not So Much Anymore

Linus of Hollywood- Do You Know What I'm Thinking?

Will Owsley- Upside Down

Superdrag- I Only Want a Place I Can Stay

This week on Pop Rocks Radio, we go deep on Jeff and Steve McDonald — in and out of Redd Kross.

New music from The chrisVandalay Project, Log Flume, The High Frequencies, a classic from Shoes, and a whole lot more.

Our Movie of the Week is Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story (2024). Directed by Andrew Reich. The McDonald brothers' nearly fifty-year story — from playing their first show when Steven was 11 to influencing everyone from Nirvana to The Linda Lindas. One of the greatest rock and roll documentaries about one of the greatest bands in America.

Available on your favorite podcast platform. Unless Spotify is your favorite.

Today's Tracks:

The High Frequencies- Subterranean Homesick Blues

Redd Kross- Moon Sun (No Limit)

Bleka Dödens Minut- Bleka Dödens Minut

Johnny Marr- Spin

Death By Unga Bunga- I Wanna Go Wild

The Blusterfields- Mr. Secretary

The chrisVandalay Project- How Will You Know?

Jody and the Jerms- Bare

Gene Champagne- She's An Atom Bomb

The Spongetones- Lifetimeline

Kung Fu Girls- Self-Confidence

Redd Kross- Fighting

Ze Malibu Kids- Your Bed

The Steven McDonald Group- Motorboat

Revolution 409- Crazy Horses

Sharp Pins- Saturday Sun

Shoes- Not Me

Log Flume- Necessary Evil

Redd Kross- I Don't Know How to Be Your Friend

This week's episode is a full send — Taxi Girls, Jr. Juggernaut, Hurry, and one of the greatest bands in America, Redd Kross. Plus Supergrass. A lot of Supergrass. No apologies.

Movie of the Week: Straight to Hell (1987). Alex Cox directs Joe Strummer, The Pogues, and Elvis Costello in a spaghetti western that has absolutely no business existing and is better for it. Our third installment in the rock and roll films not about rock and roll series.

Women Who Rock: https://womenwhorock.info/

Available on your favorite podcast platform. Unless Spotify is your favorite.

Today’s Tracks:

Taxi Girls- Auto Hysterics

Divinyls- Boys In Town

Jr. Juggernaut- Firecracker (4th of July)

Styrofoam Winos- Pearls

Redd Kross- One Chord Progression

Hurry- The Dumbest Person You've Ever Seen

Joyce Manor- I Used to Go to This Bar

Superdrag- Goin' Out

Sugar- Keep Looping

Radio Days- One Heart One Love

The Nines- Virginia

Supergrass- Tonight

Supergrass- Seen the Light

Supergrass- Ghost of a Friend

Supergrass- Rush Hour Soul

Supergrass- Alright

The Numbers- Love and Doubt

Weird Nightmare- Where I Belong

The Chutes- Scraping the Last Bits of Light

Stereo Silence- Old Pair of Shoes

We're back and we brought snacks.

This week: Paul Collins covers Bob Dylan. The Muffs cover Kim Wilde. Julez and the Rollerz just dropped their debut album and it's fantastic. Plus The Tubs, The Dahlmanns, Guided By Voices, Sparks, Gigolo Aunts, and a whole lot more.

Movie of the Week: Reckless (1984). Aidan Quinn. Daryl Hannah. A motorcycle. Very little regard for consequences.

Featured Artist: The Muffs. Because obviously.

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Today's Tracks:

The Tubs- Who's Gonna Love You Now?

The Wonder Stuff- The Size of a Cow

Julez and the Rollerz- Time

The Dahlmanns- Sandalwood

Stomachmouths- Dr. Syn

Paul Collins- Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

Guided By Voices- Lost In The Sun

The Shazam- Sunshine Tonight

the pillows- Happy Go Ducky!

Gigolo Aunts- Lemon Peeler

Twin Bloom- Summer's Gone

The Muffs- Big Mouth

The Muffs- Kids In America

The Muffs- Really Really Happy

Wishy- Lovesick

Sparks- Everybody's Stupid

Barry Walsh- Star Ride

The Hanging Stars- Let It Slide