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In The Mix: New Wave Friday Pt 2
October 9, 2026 · 59 minWhen MTV switched on in America on 1 August 1981, it had a problem nobody had thought through: a channel that played music videos around the clock needed a lot of music videos, and most American acts hadn’t made any. British bands had…
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Musical Musings: Five of the Best - Pat Metheny
October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 49 minThis week on Musical Musings: Five of the Best I’m joined by Jim Bricker, and we’re spending the afternoon with Pat Metheny. He’s a guitarist from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, who has spent fifty years making jazz that people who don’t think…
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Musical Musings: 2015 Songs Top 20
October 7, 2026 · 2 hr 3 minJarrett McCall has been on Musical Musings six times now, with 1970s America, Stereolab, the best of 2026 and the first half of the 2020s. For his seventh visit he’s brought a whole year, and it takes two hours. Over on X, Jarrett played…
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Musical Musings: ABBA Essentials Pt 1
October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minArmando Venditti has sat in the Musical Musings chair for Saga, Rush, Pink Floyd and The Tea Party, so when the host of The Music Den announced that his next subject was ABBA, a few eyebrows went up. They shouldn't have. Prog and classic…
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In the Mix: Power Pop Friday Vol 4
October 2, 2026 · 57 minNobody has ever managed to define power pop, and John Borack, who has written a book about it, says nobody ever will — with one exception: KISS isn’t it. He wrote a great column on the Remember The Lightning blog (well worth supporting)…
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Musical Musings: U2 Essentials Pt 2
September 28, 2026 · 46 minPart two of U2 Essentials does the whole thing again. Ken Cheshire’s ten songs split neatly into two halves that run in parallel rather than end to end — the same three albums, Boy, October and War, in the same order — and where the first…
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In The Mix: New Wave Friday Pt 1
September 25, 2026 · 59 minNobody set out to invent a genre called new wave. The phrase was already thirty years old and had belonged to two other things first: a 1957 survey of French teenagers in the magazine L’Express, and then the young film directors who came…
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Musical Musings: Top 30 Albums of the 1990s Pt 3
September 25, 2026 · 1 hr 50 minThe finale. Three weeks ago a fake “Rolling Stone top albums of the 90s” graphic went round on X with Alice in Chains at number one, my guest Sughosh dismissed it in a word — “Meh” — and I asked for his own thirty instead, chronological…