Chasing the Essential
249 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Chasing the Essential, where we live for finding the greatest music there is, whether that means dusting off an album on your shelf or downloading a hot off the presses song on your phone. Great music is out there and it is our goal to find it and share it with you.
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Episodes
Episode 111: Chasing the Essential - Episode #347 (CTE is Totally F%$#ed)
June 10, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.9 MB"I had the blankest year. I saw life turn into a tv show." - Nada Surf Nada Surf Blankest Year The Mighty Mighty Bosstones I DON'T BELIEVE IN ANYTHING The Vines Ride Potty Mouth Starry Eyes The Pretenders Precious (2018 Remaster) Erik Voeks and The Ghosters Suck It Up, Buttercup Cracker Don't Fuck Me Up (With Peace And Love) Liz Phair Fuck And Run David Mead No One Roxx This Town No More Gin Blossoms The Devil's Daughter The Legal Matters Short Term Memory Joan Jett ...
Episode 110: Chasing the Essential - Episode #346 (Cotton)
June 03, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 73.4 MB"You're a little bit less than yourself when you're a payday for somebody else" - Cotton Mather Cotton Mather 40 Watt Solution Jim Basnight Stop the Words Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Slave to It Ryan Adams Take It Back Belle & Sebastian Young And Stupid Spygenius Son Of The Morning, Go Man Go! Cotton Mather Never Be It The Linda Lindas Oh! Wall Of Voodoo Spy World The Juliana Hatfield Three My Sister In Deed Don't Kill The Babe Cotton Mather Payday Cotton Mather The Cotton Ma...
Episode 109: Chasing the Essential - Episode #345 (Magic)
May 27, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.8 MB"Listen to the magic and watch the record go round" - Ryan Adams Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men My Mind (Plays Tricks on Me) Rooni Indigo Kevin Robertson Tough Times (Feel Like That) Belle & Sebastian Unnecessary Drama The Figgs Cataracts Cage The Elephant Mess Around Bob Mould The Silence Between Us Phil Yates and The Affiliates I Can't Wait Love and Rockets Ball of Confusion (Single Version) Natalie Sweet He's So Strange The So So Glos Island Ridin' Deadlights Pretend To Pret...
Episode 108: Chasing the Essential - Episode #344 (Ladies 6)
May 20, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 95.8 MB"You cannot fight me. You don't have to like me. You don't even know me yet. Don't try to break me, you can't take me ... cos baby I'm a suffragette." - Nina Gordon Tamar Berk dandelions in my flowerbed Jade Bird Uh Huh The Bangles How Is the Air up There? The Beths Out of Sight Broken Baby Get the Piss Up The Both (Aimee Mann And Ted Leo) BEDTIME STORIES The Shang Hi Los Sway Little Player The Pretenders Maybe Love Is In NYC Pat Benatar Heartbreaker Potty Mouth 22 Siouxsie & Th...
Episode 107: Chasing the Essential - Episode #343 (Rock & Roll)
May 14, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.5 MB"We need change, we need it fast, before rock's just part of the past. 'Cause lately it all sounds the same to me." - Ramones Ramones Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio? Flippin' Kick Outs Bad Timing The OhNos Waving From Hades INDIANOLA How Did I Get So Rock N' Roll Broken Baby He Likes Me Ross Rice Another Time Hoodoo Gurus Hang With The Girls The Both (Aimee Mann And Ted Leo) PAY FOR IT L7 Pretend We're Dead Phil Yates & The Affiliates Green Eyes Band Of Horses Lights Superchu...
Episode 106: Chasing the Essential - Episode #342 (Road/Street)
May 06, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.1 MB"And in between the stops at the Cracker Barrel, forty movies with Will Ferrell, I need some way to occupy my time". - Fountains of Wayne Joe Jackson Beat Crazy The Regrettes Monday Ryan Hamilton Shots Fired The Grapes of Wrath Good to See You Extra Arms Falling In To Place A Rueful Noise Hold On Hope Hayley and the Crushers Click and Act Now Tommy James & The Shondells Draggin' The Line Split Enz I Got You Drool Brothers Yesterday's Future Now Elvis Costello & The Imposters Farew...
Episode 105: Chasing the Essential - Episode #341 (Mouth)
April 29, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.2 MB"So sing a broken melody. Bring your troubles home to me" - Chuck Prophet The Bongos Numbers With Wings The Overtures SHE BELONGS TO YESTERDAY Freddy And The Fourgone Conclusions Stranded Broken Baby Meaniac Tom Curless & The 46% My Valuable Hunting Knife The On and Ons Stupid Girl The Figgs Breaking Through These Gates Ed Ryan Biggest Fan The Flaming Lips She Don't Use Jelly Chuck Prophet Tell Me Anything (Turn to Gold) The Darts (US) Underground The Madd The Days Mind the Time Po...
Episode 104: Chasing the Essential - Episode #340 (Disgrace)
April 22, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.9 MB"Living on a thin line, tell me now, what are we supposed to do?" - The Kinks The Kinks Give The People What They Want Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Trying Too Hard Josh Rouse Hollow Moon Michael Carpenter and The Cuban Heels One Of These Days I'm Gonna Get Myself Right The Kinks You Can't Stop The Music The Darts (US) Sh*t Show Superchunk Set It Aside Sunshine Boys The Serpent in Spring The Dead Milkmen Punk Rock Girl The Kinks I'm in Disgrace Parthenon Huxley Thank You Bethes...
Episode 103: Chesing the Essential - Episode 339 (Devil)
April 15, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBThis week includes Tamar Berk, Flippin Kick Outs, Bye Bye Blackbirds, Chris Church, Vapour Trails, Thrift Store Halo, The Knack, Buddy Holly, Michael Penn, Pernice Brothers Action City and Spoon. Enjoy
Episode 102: Chasing the Essential - Episode #338 (Imaginary)
April 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 83 MB"And as the screaming fire engine siren filled the air, the evidence had vanished from my charred and smoking chair" - They Might Be Giants Emperor Penguin Let Me Take You On Holiday Richie Mayer Dangerous Rhythm The Rosenbergs Pushing up Daisies Golden Richards Shake Your Hair Shake Some HEY MAJESTY Superchunk Endless Summer Tamar Berk tragic endings Spoon Rainy Taxi They Might Be Giants The Statue Got Me High The Smithereens Now And Then Dave Caruso I Won't Wait for You The Mayfl...
Episode 101: Chasing the Essential - Episode #336 (California)
April 01, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.7 MB"Find a place fit to laugh, lock the doors and latch the room". - REM Superchunk Wild Loneliness The Singles No Wasting Time Amoeba Teen Barlight Crawl The Bangles What A Life Anton Barbeau Power Pop Shazam, The Gettin' Higher Nick Piunti Ghost Town Shocking Blue Venus Nine Days Absolutely (Story of a Girl) The Damnwells Sell the Lie Love Nut Everchanging World Grace Potter & The Nocturnals Roulette Parthenon Huxley California Phantom Planet California Dreams So Real California Cot...
Episode 100: Chasing the Essential - Episode #336 (Dig)
March 26, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.2 MB"There's no one left that I even want to imitate" - Jim Carroll Hoodoo Gurus World Of Pain Band Of Horses Crutch The Incurables Stop the World Shellye Valauskas Experience Over The Top John Doe Never Coming Back Tom Curless Pick up the Pace Vince Taylor & His Playboys Brand New Cadillac The Barracudas I Can't Pretend Timbuk 3 The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades The Jim Carroll Band It's Too Late dig Possibilities Parthenon Huxley This Isn't Yesterday Ice Cream Hands Shake a...
Episode 99: Chasing the Essential - Episode #335 (Everybody)
March 18, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.8 MB"Oh look at my face ... my name is :Might-Have-Been", my name is " Never Was", my name's forgotten" - Hole Hayley and the Crushers Lust To Love pete donnelly Less Inclined The Armoires Satellite Business The Kinks Pressure The Shang Hi Los Billy Emperor Penguin On The Motorway Elephant Stone La fusée du chagrin Spoon Feels Alright Dexys Midnight Runners & Kevin Rowland Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) Jim Trainor After All Joan Jett & The Blackhearts Light of Day N...
Episode 98: Chasing the Essential - Episode #334 (Fallen)
March 11, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.7 MB"We live on a knife" - Spoon The Connells Get A Gun Love Nut Love Found You The Bye Bye Blackbirds Mechanics Spoon The Hardest Cut The Library Outpatient Care Action City The Lines You Blur Soul Asylum Into The Light (breaking horses) Tears For Fears My Demons Screaming Trees Nearly Lost You Anton Barbeau Julian Cope The Flashcubes featuring Shoes Tomorrow Night The Rave-Ups How Old Am I? Lolas, The If I Don't Do It (It Won't Get Done) Rich Williams She Looks Familiar Swag Please D...
Episode 97: Chasing the Essential - Episode #333 (Title Tracks)
March 04, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 87.3 MB"Well I wonder which song they're gonna play when we go. I hope it's something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow" - The Gaslight Anthem he Bangles Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution) The Figgs Follow Jean Through the Sea The Contrast Wireless Days The Beths Jump Rope Gazers The Kinks State Of Confusion Nada Surf You Know Who You Are Richard X. Heyman Incognito The Connells Steadman's Wake Dreams So Real Gloryline Modern English After The Snow Matthew Sweet Girlfri...
Episode 96: Chasing the Essential - Episode #332 (Aester)
February 25, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.4 MB"You can be any way that you want to be, but how I'll be, that's up to me" - Marcy Playground Spoon On The Radio Elephant Stone M. Lonely Scott Robertson Hours Feel Like Minutes Ryan Allen To Be A Journalist Caper Clowns Lifeline Lannie Flowers About You Catie Curtis My Shirt Looks Good On You Arvidson and Butterflies Blank Season Butthole Surfers Pepper DM3 Just Like Nancy (2015 Remaster) Cooper La Señal CAKE Pretty Pink Ribbon The Format Tie The Rope Bleachers How Dare You Want M...
Episode 95: Chasing the Essential - Episode #331 (2 Min Hero 2)
February 18, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 79 MB" I don't want to change the world, I'm just looking for a New England" - Billy Bragg Elvis Costello No Action Icecream Hands The Way She Drives Freddy And The Fourgone Conclusions Why Can't It Be Me The Music Machine Talk Talk (Stereo) The Caesars You're My Favourite Greg Pope Reason With You Starbelly This Time Fountains Of Wayne You Curse At Girls The Smiths Girlfriend In A Coma The Lemonheads Bit Part Ramones Havana Affair The Fleshtones Alright Erik Voeks Dark Angel of Delmar ...
Episode 94: Chasing the Essential - Episode #330 (Ditty)
February 12, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.9 MB:Here they come again, whispers in my head. Same old sad refrain, wished I'd never said" - Echo and the Bunnymen Cheap Star Holding On The Bye Bye Blackbirds Want Show As Young The Stars Explode Here And Now The Split Squad Hey DJ Ryan Allen Count With Me Tom Curless Take my Hand Suburban Hi-Fi The Year In Pictures Timothy Monger State Park Knight Errand Nada Surf Popular (Rerecorded) The Remains Diddy Wah Diddy Elvis Costello & The Imposters The Difference Tony Valentino Barracud...
Episode 93: Chasing the Essential - Episode #329 (Death)
February 04, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.1 MB" You wanna teach but not be taught, and I wanna sell but not be bought" - Death Cab for Cutie Lannie Flowers Don't Make Me Wait Broken Baby Manic Panic John Wesley Harding Calling off the Experiment The Dave Clark Five Catch Us If You Can The Flashcubes Alone In My Room Lolas, The Pain In My Heart Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Everlyn Dwight Twilley Don't You Love Her American Hi-Fi The Art of Losing Librarians With Hickeys That Time Is Now The Dandy Warhols Shakin' Founta...
Episode 92: Chasing the Essential - Episode #328 (Friends)
January 28, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.4 MB"Don't forget the last details, accept no parcels in the mail" - Pretenders Tom Curless Call Time Lannie Flowers The One Elvis Costello & The Imposters Mistook Me For A Friend Bob Mould City Lights (Days Go By) Culture Abuse So Busted The Clash Hitsville UK The Lazy Lies Everything Is Going Around Eels Mr. E's Beautiful Blues The Rentals Friends of P. Caper Clowns Me For a Friend Myracle Brah Best Friend Nada Surf Imaginary Friends Broken Baby My Head's A Television Stupidity featu...
Episode 91: Chasing the Essential - Episode #327 (Magnificent)
January 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.1 MB"Who gets passed to head of the line ...who get water & who gets wine?" - X Star Collector Green Eyes Suburban Hi-Fi Vinyl On the Radio Shake Some DO BABY DO The Rallies If You Do David Mead She Walks Like a Grown Woman Jason Berk Strangers Reno Bo Even A Stone Erik Voeks What It Feels Like Ned's Atomic Dustbin Grey Cell Green UV-TV Overcast Forever Hawaii Mud Bombers Suzuki Samurai X Water & Wine Elephant Stone Bombs Bomb Away Shanda & The Howlers Miles and Miles The Belltowers Er...
Episode 91: Chasing the Essential - Episode #326 (Magnificent)
January 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.1 MB"Who gets passed to head of the line ...who get water & who gets wine?" - X Star Collector Green Eyes Suburban Hi-Fi Vinyl On the Radio Shake Some DO BABY DO The Rallies If You Do David Mead She Walks Like a Grown Woman Jason Berk Strangers Reno Bo Even A Stone Erik Voeks What It Feels Like Ned's Atomic Dustbin Grey Cell Green UV-TV Overcast Forever Hawaii Mud Bombers Suzuki Samurai X Water & Wine Elephant Stone Bombs Bomb Away Shanda & The Howlers Miles and Miles The Belltowers Erase Any ...
Episode 90: Chasing the Essential - Episode #326 (Ladder)
January 14, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.2 MB"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah-Yeah-Yeah-Yeah-Yeah-Yeah ..Yeah!" - Devo We welcome 2022 with the world premier of Thrift Store Halo's new song! UV-TV Super Abound Suburban Hi-Fi In Her Reverie Suburban Lawns Flavor Crystals Thrift Store Halo World Behind The Anderson Council We're Like the Sun Deadeye Dick New Age Girl Reigning Sound Can't Hold On Searching For Sylvia The Ladder Starbelly Lay Low Broken Baby Get the Piss Up Rooftop Screamer The Ladder (Featuring Rob Daiker) Tommy P...
Episode 89: Chasing the Essential - Episode #325 (Best of 2021 Vol 2)
January 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 98.6 MB"I just saw it sitting there, was priced too high I didn't care, bought the lamp" - Phil Angotti Phil Angotti The Lamp Andy Bopp I Am a Jetfighter The Cudas Autorama The On And Ons Get Your Kicks The Brothers Steve Next Aquarius The Lodger Black And White The Glad Machine Slow Motion July Star Collector Rip It Off The Legal Matters Light Up the Sky Jim Basnight and the Moberlys Tonight Ed Ryan Anytown The Armoires Great Distances Nick Piunti Heart Inside Your Head Nelson Bragg Lost...
Episode 88: Chasing the Essential - Episode #324 (Best of 2021 Vol 1)
December 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 97.9 MB"Points upon a map and thoughts that turn to scrap. The things that rust away. What to say, what to say" - The Connells The Connells Rusted Fields Caper Clowns Be There (The Ever-Changing Tone) The Shang Hi Los Sway Little Player Tamar Berk in the wild The Stan Laurels This is Your Life The boys with the perpetual nervousness Rose Tinted Glass Jim Trainor Heaven Descending The Amplifier Heads The House Of Young Dolls Dolph Chaney Now I Am A Man The Hi End (Rumbar) Actions Speak L...
Episode 87: Chasing the Essential - Episode #323 (Synthaphobia)
December 24, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 97.4 MB"...waiting for your warm embrace in the Connecticut cold." - Maple Mars I Was Born (A Unicorn) The Unicorns Thumbelina The Pretenders Drug Of Choice The Rosenbergs A Very Merry Christmas Lisa Mychols & Super 8 General Wear And Tear Icecream Hands Colors of Christmas The Hangabouts Girls On Film (2010 Remastered Version) Duran Duran Christmas Time Is (Coming 'Round Again) The Mavericks Magic Touch The Plimsouls Elizabeth Einstein Adam Schmitt Believe Whatever The Weeks Christmastim...
Episode 86: Chasing the Essential - Episode #322 (Trains)
December 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.4 MB" Protest is futile, nothing seems to get through. What's to become of our world? Who knows what to do?" - The Police The Police Driven To Tears Portugal. The Man Got It All (This Can't Be Living Now) They Might Be Giants All Time What Vista Blue Dreaming of the Right Christmas Tom Curless & the 46% Always in Between The Kinks Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains Caper Clowns A Tale of Romance & Magnetic Trains The Vapors Trains v. Spy v. Spy Don't Tear It Down Heyrocco Jake Miller's ...
Episode 85: Chasing the Essential - Episode #321 (Curless)
December 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 83.6 MB"I never knew a day could go so fast, make a moment and take it while it lasts." - Tom Curless Your Gracious Host Boomerang Charles Jenkins Maypril Potty Mouth Not Going Anywhere Ryan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts Feat. Kay Hanley Oh No The Lemonheads It's About Time Tinted Windows Nothing To Me Heyrocco Santa Fe (Stupid Lovesong) Tom Curless & the 46% Fall like Dominos Big Audio Dynamite The Bottom Line Havana 3 A.M. The Hardest Game Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros Coma Girl Chris...
Episode 84: Chasing the Essential - Episode #320 (Essential Classics V1)
December 03, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.7 MB"Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new, A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view" = The Strawberry Alarm Clock Pylon Feast On My Heart The Icicle Works Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) [Single Version] XTC Making Plans For Nigel Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense And Peppermints Wire Train Chamber of Hellos Myracle Brah Big Mistake The BoDeans Fadeaway Lene Lovich New Toy Guadalcanal Diary Litany (Life Goes On) Brad Jones The Blunderbuss The Figgs Regional Hits Blondie Sunday Girl G...
Episode 83: Chasing the Essential - Episode #319 (Hair)
November 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.9 MB"Body working, but your brain is shot, all good times are the first forgot" - The Beths Potty Mouth Got You John Larson And The Silver Fields I Don't Want To Hear Their Names Anymore The Thrills Saturday Night Adam & The Ants Antmusic The Armoires Walking Distance New Mystery Girl Crawl Through Your Hair Two Hours Traffic Magic The Go-Betweens Bye Bye Pride Goo Goo Dolls Naked Chris Richards and the Subtractions I Do Declare The Laissez Fairs Sensation Cracker Let's Go For A Ride ...
Episode 82: Chasing the Essential - Episode #318 (Heaven)
November 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.3 MB"So good, so far. Slow down, ha ha. Movie stars, and ads and radio define romance. Don't turn it on, I don't want to dance". - Psychedelic Furs The Psychedelic Furs Mr Jones Andy Bopp Neverwas Mansfield Come Along The Yum Yums Let's Go Crazy Shoes Heaven Help Me Spygenius For Pete's Sake Gigolo Aunts Cope The Planes Sea of You Best Coast Heaven Sent Stupidity feat Keith Streng Waking Up The Band The Connells Stone Cold Yesterday David Brookings Mania at the Talent Show Nick Heyward...
Episode 81: Chasing the Essential - Episode #317 (Fall Classic)
November 12, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 85 MB"It's not the fall that hurts, it's when you hit the ground" - The Caesars The Cars Ta Ta Wayo Wayo The Contrast Catch the Spark Wendi Dunlap Buildings Brian Fallon If Your Prayers Don't Get To Heaven The Stan Laurels Tomorrow The Model Rockets He Didn't Think It Was Real Hurry It's Dangerous Potty Mouth Contessa Barefoot The Shang Hi Los Plymouth Rock Peppermint Kicks Strawberry Girls Lannie Flowers Turn Up Your Radio Tamar Berk Better off Meditating The Caesars It's Not The Fall ...
Episode 80: Chasing the Essential - Episode #316 (Walter)
November 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.8 MB"II don't need your love ... I just need my records." - The Nude Party Shake Some So What David Brookings One of Us Is Crazy (The Other One is Me) Jesse Malin Before You Go Spygenius Is That Love Greg Pope Burden Phil Angotti The Lamp Too Much Joy Stay At Home Rooni Rock Paper Scissors Nick Piunti One Hit Wonder The Damnwells Let's Be Civilized The Nude Party Records Nada Surf Looking Through pseudonym Before The Monsters Came The Connells Hello Walter The Kinks Do You Remember Wal...
Episode 79: Chasing the Essential - Episode #315 (Dusted)
October 29, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.2 MBTruth is the light, the light is the way. The less folk know, the more they've got to say! - THe Remains The Amplifier Heads The House Of Young Dolls ANC4 Lucky Me, Lucky You Nick Frater Buggin' Out David Brookings Get off (My Mind) Jade Bird Uh Huh David Mead Hallelujah, I Was Wrong It's Karma It's Cool She Slept With The Radio On. (Radio Edit) The Remains Don't Look Back The Bell Towers Dusted Belly Dusted Tommy and the Rockets Gonna Be Alright The Fantastic Fellinis Ultrasonic S...
Episode 78: Chasing the Essential - Episode #314 (Wrath)
October 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.3 MB"I don't think I want to think about it, how the fall is coming down. The light is leaving and it's hard to breathe, buried in a pile of leaves" - Matt Pond PA The Connells Fading In (Hardy) The Grapes of Wrath Good to See You Even Stupid Dream Jim Trainor After All The On And Ons Get Your Kicks The Jessica Fletchers How Unlucky (Can You Possibly Get)? The Wonder Stuff Tricks Of The Trade Lazy Susan Find Me A Way Back Into Your Heart Squeeze Heaven Andy Bopp Uncommon Disaster Ryan Adams Po...
Episode 77: Chasing the Essential - Episode #313 (Ladies 5)
October 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 99.8 MB"Your ignorance is far from bliss, not everyone is born with it" - Potty Mouth Kid Gulliver I Wanna Be A Popstar Blondie Union City Blue Potty Mouth Fencewalker Tegan & Sara I Bet It Stung Lush Ladykillers Divinyls Make Out Alright Strawberry Generation Coffee The Chelsea Curve 7000 Hours Pretenders The Buzz Hayley And The Crushers Kiss Me So I Can Gretchen's Wheel interloper astroPuppees The Tube The Regrettes Dress Up The Beths Not Running X Water & Wine Heatwaves You Don't Love Me No Mo...
Episode 76: Chasing the Essential - Episode #312 (Vanishing)
October 08, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MB"If you don’t bruise, then I might amuse, so dig me, dig me, dig me now" - The Connells The On And Ons Vanishing Act The Sun Sawed in 1/2 Dried Cherry Blossoms The Brothers Steve Griffith Obervatory Andy Bopp Paper Planes The Star Spangles Which One Of The Two Of Us Is Gonna Burn This House Down? Freeloader Under The Influence Of You The Shake She's My Girl The Overtures Maybe Tomorrow (Rain Grey Town) The Connells Burial Art Ken Sharp Hellcat Gentle Hen Somebody Else's Problem The Figgs...
Episode 75: Chasing the Essential - Episode #311 (Chelsea)
October 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.6 MB"You're so confused and you're so complex." - Garland Jeffreys The Brothers Steve Next Aquarius The Connells Universal Glue Toad The Wet Sprocket Truth Star Collector The Silent Type Rooftop Screamer Buckle Up (Featuring Tim Smith) Steven Wright-Mark Underground The Weeks Sevens The Bye Bye Blackbirds Waiting For The Drums Big Country Fields Of Fire Big Country I Get Hurt Tommy Keene Back to Zero Now The Chelsea Curve INCONCEIVABLE The Fratellis Chelsea Dagger Peppermint Kicks I Don't Hear...
Episode 74: Chasing the Essential - Episode #310 (Wait)
September 24, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.2 MB"All we have is each other and the songs we share" - Toad the Wet Sprocket Miracle Legion Sooner The Hi End Actions Speak Louder Than Words ANC4 Was It Just A Dream Toad The Wet Sprocket Hold On Fountains Of Wayne Revolving Dora Diamond Hands The Magazine The Semantics Sticks and Stones The Junior League The Sunshine Saves Everyone Bow Wow Wow Baby, Oh No (7" Version) Richie Mayer You Don't Get Me High Anymore Kelly's Heels And Then I Saw Her Lying Elastica Car Song Violent Femmes Heartha...
Episode 73: Chasing the Essential - Episode #309 (Covers 5)
September 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBIt's Covers ... enjoy! Luka Lemonheads Hang on to Your Ego Nick Piunti Earn Enough For Us (XTC) Rob Bonfiglio Super Tuesday Michael Carpenter Sitting Still Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs Gimme Some Truth Lennon) Cheap Trick Pictures of Matchstick Men (Status Quo) The Decibels Walking On Sunshine The Dollyrots Little Bit O' Soul Ramones Are Friends Electric? The Dentists Best Thing I Ever Did Caddy always love Gretchen's Wheel Remember the Lightning Chris Church Don't Come Close Tommy And Th...
Episode 72: Chasing the Essential - Episode #308 (Onomatopoeia)
September 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 77.6 MB"What do you call that noise, that you put on? This is pop ... yeah, yeah!" - XTC The On and Ons Before Our Eyes The Toms It Doesn't Matter to Me Natalie Sweet Video Phone The Primitives Crash Freddy And The Fourgone Conclusions Stand Up Starbelly Yes, I Love Her Again Marcy Playground Bang Bang Bang Kurt Baker Don't Steal My Heart Away The Peppermint Kicks Johnny D's (Play It Again) Potty Mouth Smash Hit Bill Lloyd You Got Me The Popravinas Do The Creep Ups and Downs Alarming Situations ...
Episode 71: Chasing the Essential - Episode #307 (Charlie)
September 03, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.3 MB"This town's full of money grabbers, go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots" - The Stones Being Nice ANC4 Silver Buttons Charlie Mars in the wild Tamar Berk Shattered The Rolling Stones Roll It Back Icecream Hands Run On Red Skylark In A Garden Spygenius Maybe Love Is In NYC The Pretenders I Got You Babe UB40 and Chrissie Hynde Doomsday Mephiskapheles Ranking Full Stop The English Beat BRUISED The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Elizabeth Parker Dave Caruso One of the Boyz Nick Piun...
Episode 70: Chasing the Essential - Episode #306 (Storm)
August 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 83.8 MB"Up to par and Katie bar the kitchen signs but not me in. Sit and try for the big kill, a waste of time sitting still." - REM Nick Piunti Heart Inside Your Head Richard Turgeon Be Who You Really Want To Be The Orange Humble Band Down In Your Dreams Ed Ryan Everyone Wonders Richie Mayer Sunshine Blues Adele & The Chandeliers Looking For Something The Connells Bust matt pond PA A Million Middle Fingers Sugar Stems We Only Come Out At Night The Baby Breaks Dopamine Minor Alps I Don't Know Wha...
Episode 69: Chasing the Essential - Episode #305 (Maryanne)
August 20, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 77.1 MB"... I don't care what others say, they say we don't listen anyway. Time has come today!" - The Chamber Brothers Heaven Descending Jim Trainor C'Mon C'Mon (The Makeout Song) Golden Richards Real Life Satyr Robert Harrison Take Me Anywhere Tegan & Sara Name For You The Shins I Can't Stop Thinking About You Librarians With Hickeys I'll Do it Anyway The Producers Busted Greenberry Woods Janitor Suburban Lawns Be There (The Ever-Changing Tone) Caper Clowns My Ever Changing Moods (Single Edit) ...
Episode 68: Chasing the Essential - Episode #304 (Bad)
August 13, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.1 MB"Cause I been hurt, I been stung, by the good name of love, 'til I threw my own heart in the sea..." - Brian Fallon Robert Harrison A Face in the Crowd Mansfield Come Along Brian Fallon Among Other Foolish Things Lannie Flowers It's All Over The Stems You Can't Turn The Clock Back Army Navy Dumb Luck Searching For Sylvia The Realist The Lunar Laugh Allegiance BAD MOVES Same Bad Friends Answering Machine Hollywood Smog The Cyrkle Red Rubber Ball The Shazam Fallin' All Around Me Gretchen's W...
Episode 67: Chasing the Essential - Episode #303 (Old-New-Borrowed-Blue)
August 06, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MB"They say overrated, educated, I suppose a little jaded, when I get off this I think I'm gonna have to be sedated" - Cracker The Kinks Misery Richie Mayer Don't Say Nothing Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Gonna be Good Old 97's Diamonds On Neptune Elvyn Those Were The Days Star Collector Cayenne & Caramel Jets Overhead Blue Is Red Sloan Have Faith Phil Angotti & The Idea The Only Reason Rooney Sorry Sorry Cracker Sweet Potato The Figgs Cheap Cassettes The Cheap Cassettes Lil' Bit Everyda...
Episode 66: Chasing the Essential - Episode #302 (Fake)
July 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 83.6 MB"If ever again, a greeting I send to you, short and sweet, to the soul I intend" - The Dandy Warhols Andy Bopp Camera Peppermint Kicks I Don't Hear A Single The Lazy Lies Who's That Sally? Danny Wilkerson Enough for Somebody Janove Ottesen This City Kills The Flashcubes with Mimi Betinis Baby It's Cold Outside New Radicals Technicolor Lover Cloud Eleven Leave The Camera Rolling Kerosene Stars Where Have You Been? Ed Ryan Maybe I'm Dreaming Sorrows Love Too Late David Brookings And The Aver...
Episode 65: Chasing the Essential - Episode #301 (Lives)
July 23, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 77.8 MB"Do you like American music?" - Violent Femmes This weeks episode includes: Ed Ryan Anytown The Glad Machine Baby It's You The Contrast Adversity Hurry Slogging Through The Summer White Reaper You Deserve Love Orbis Max You Sold Tomorrow The Bablers Psychadilly Circus Stephens Run Runaround The Anderson Council Camden Town In Deed According to You Low Cut Connie Private Lives The Fleshtones Alex Trebek Nada Surf Weightless Peppermint Kicks Roxetta Jones And much more ... chase responsibl...
Episode 64: Chasing the Essential - Episode 300 (Massachusetts)
July 16, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 135 MBThis week we celebrate our 300th episode with all artists from Massachusetts .From the 60s underground, The Remains, to today's Western Massachusetts rising stars, The Glad Machine and other songs we listen to while driving past the Stop and Shop with the radio on. A wicked good time indeed. The show includes; The Rings Too Much of Nothin' The Glad Machine Homecoming Papas Fritas Way You Walk Potty Mouth Massachusetts Muck & The Mires The_Way_It_Was_Before The Shang Hi Los Sway Little Pla...
Episode 63: Chasing the Essential - Episode 299 (Halftime 20-21)
July 09, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBHere are some of our favorite tunes of 2021 so far. Caper Clowns I'd Be Me The boys with the perpetual nervousness Rose Tinted Glass Jim Trainor Truth Heatwaves Don't Talk About My Boyfriend The Legal Matters Light Up the Sky Star Collector Rip It Off Kevin Robertson Love's Blue Yonder Tamar Berk heavy & abusive The Armoires Great Distances Richie Mayer She's Taking It Too Well Dolph Chaney Now I Am A Man The Shang Hi Los Stay The Stan Laurels This is Your Life Richard X. Heyman Tell Me Wh...