Chasing the Essential
250 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 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 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...
Episode 62: Chasing the Essential - Episode 298 (Decoder)
July 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.3 MB"You may as well say whatever your like 'cause you know you were always strange" - The Contrast Pete Donnelly Giving in to the Flow The Lazy Lies What We've Done The Connells Really Great The MANICS Wicked Night The Planes Decoder Ring Richard X. Heyman The Greater Good Muck and the Mires Hey Sunshine The Chickenbackers By Your Side High Back Chairs Dream of a Day The Lyres Don't Give It Up Now The Grip Weeds You're so Good to Me The Rosenbergs Department Store Girl The Springfields Bicycl...
Episode 61: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 287 (Middle)
June 25, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 77.7 MB"Stumbling in to happiness, you're on the outside looking in." - The Shellye Valauskas Experience Underwater Sunshine It's You Deco Auto Hanging on the Telephone The Peppermint Kicks Hey Fanzine! Richard X. Heyman Sink or Swim Josh Rouse His Majesty Rides The Brothers Steve She Phil Yates & The Affiliates Burn It Down, Bernadette Los Lobos Will the Wolf Survive? The Supahip With The Radio On Richie Mayer Dangerous Rhythm Anton Barbeau Salt Lick Tom Curless & the 46% Middle Ground T...
Episode 60: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 296 (Reputation)
June 18, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 83.4 MB"Cause if you're hating then you sure ain't living ... Give me some peace, love, happiness!" - G.Love and Special Sauce Marcy Playground Poppies Hayley and the Crushers Cul De Sac The Greenberry Woods #37 (Feels So Strange) Tamar Berk socrates & me The Madd War or Hands of Time Kevin Robertson Silicone Sun Sex 66 Pennies Army Navy Spinning On the Record Greg Pope Reason With You Flesh for Lulu Postcards from Paradise Guadalcanal Diary Lonely Street Bad Reputation x 3 The Candyskin...
Episode 59: Chasing the Essential - Episode #295 (Mind)
June 11, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 79 MB"Too many guns in this damn town, at the supermarket, you gotta duck down" - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros Fountains Of Wayne It Must Be Summer Richie Mayer She's Taking It Too Well Death By Unga Bunga Make up Your Mind [Explicit] Kelly Jones Subway Song Johnathan Pushkar Can't Get You out of My Mind Hoodoo Gurus Out That Door Gas Giants Tonight Won't Let Me Wonder The Madd Her Big Man Army Navy Dark As Days The Jessica Fletchers How Unlucky (Can You Possibly Get)? Lisa Mychol...
Episode 58: Chasing the Essential - Episode #294 (Truth)
June 04, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.7 MB"... but I don't feel afraid. As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise" - The Kinks The Dandy Warhols Down Like Disco Kevin Robertson Sundown's End The High Dials My Heart Is Black Lisa Mychols Back To The Truth Jim Trainor Truth Nick Frater California Waits Ted Leo Anthems of None Hayley and the Crushers Water On Glass The Cudas Autorama Sunshine Boys Joe Hill Rich Arithmetic In Our Time (Ode to the E Types) The E Types Put The Clock Back On The Wall Mansfield Saf...
Episode 57: Chasing the Essential - Episode 293 (40 Years)
May 28, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 78 MB"Decide yourself if radio's gonna stay. Reason it could polish up the gray" - REM Heaven Descending Jim Trainor Lost All Our Sundays Nelson Bragg Better in the Dark Gretchen's Wheel Daddy Rolling Stone The Forty-Fives Loving Man Chains There Is A Reason The Above Echo Beach Martha & The Muffins In Another Life TUNS Paris 1919 The Armoires Me, Me, Me Middle Brother Sucked Out Superdrag New Town, Different Day Plasticsoul Stranger (Renting Space In My Head) Star Collector Lost Time ...
Episode 56: Chasing the Essential - Episode #292 (Freckle)
May 21, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 76.5 MB"I remember why I'm here, only browsing for the perfect life" - Pottymouth Cheap Trick Here's Looking At You Adam Schmitt Everything Turned Blue Go Dog Go Party Parade The Dukes Of Stratosphear Vanishing Girl Potty Mouth Plastic Paradise Chuck Prophet Freckle The Junior League Someday The Regrettes California Friends The Reducers Let's Go The Mighty Mighty Bosstones M O V E Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Berlin Sugar Your Favorite Thing Let's Active Blue Line Material Issue Chance Of ...
Episode 55: Chasing the Essential - Episode 291 (OSFR)
May 14, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.8 MB"No wonder everybody's strung up tighter than a God damn piano wire" - Concrete Blonde This week we pair some great new tunes with some Old School Female Rockers for your enjoyment! Caddy Don't Wait Till Tomorrow David Woodard Ghosts The Geezers New Day Caper Clowns Pineapple Songs Chrissie Hynde You're The One The Rifles Romeo & Julie The Telepathic Butterflies Angry Young Man The Ember Glows New Wave Drive_ Dany Laj and The Looks Don't Keep Me Guessin Foxhall Stacks Turntable Ex...
Episode 54: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 290 (Abdicate)
May 07, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.1 MB"Sharing it with anyone, who has the time ... I wish I had the time" - Caper Clowns This week we celebrate the long awaited release of Abdicate the Throne, the 3rd full length release by the Caper Clowns and much more! Caper Clowns Be There (The Ever-Changing Tone) The Figgs The Trench Myracle Brah Umbrella Girl Bill Lloyd Mistakes Were Made (2021 Remix) Charles Jenkins And The Zhivagos High Above the River The Gold Needles Susie Is Sorted (She Doesn't Care) Tamar Berk in the wild...
Episode 53: Chasing the Essential - Episode #289 (City)
May 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 76.8 MB"It's only when someone asks me, that I'm reminded of your silly face and the stack of vinyl records you left at my place" - Tamar Berk This week: Bedtime Story David Mead The Ghost Inbetween Us Plasticsoul Where I Find My Heaven Gigolo Aunts Give Up The Ghost Star Collector The World Turning Round Sunshine Boys Heavy Metal Kids Watts Heart of the City Tommy And The Rockets Angelyne Hayley And The Crushers SugarPop Pylon skipping the cracks Tamar Berk Why Say Anything? Ro...
Episode 52: Chasing the Essential - Episode #288 (Pledge)
April 23, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.3 MB"Hey now, don't forget that change will save you" - R.E.M. This week ... Cotton Mather The Cotton Mather Pledge Tamar Berk Red Ball The Shang Hi Los Stay Caper Clowns CAPS LOCK ON The Shazam Always Tomorrow Nervous Twitch Oh So Keen Kara's Flowers Soap Disco Rooney Holdin' On Joe Strummer Love Kills Spoon The Way We Get By Kevin Robertson Love's Blue Yonder The boys with the perpetual nervousness Rose Tinted Glass The Railway Children Somewhere South The Legal Matters Don't Read B...
Episode 51: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 287 (Drive)
April 16, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 80 MBThis week, in addition the very cool tracks listed below, I have included six Essential Classics from six different decades ... I removed them from the track listing so you can try and guess them.... The Pillbugs Life as It Happens Lannie Flowers I Didn't Know Star Collector Rip It Off Jim Trainor Truth The Forty Nineteens It's The Worse Thing I Could Do The Damnwells She Goes Around GREG POPE Jump Back From The Light Future Clouds & Radar Back Seat Silver Jet Sighter Southern Cult...
Episode 50: Chasing the Essential - Episode 286 (...goes on)
April 09, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.2 MB"While preparing his soul for a perilous slide into crime, he had decided that he would err on this side of divine" - A.C. Newman Nothing to be afraid of here, just 70 minutes of great music. The Armoires Great Distances A.C. Newman Miracle Drug The Legal Matters Please Make a Sound Best Coast When Will I Change The Anderson Council Strawberry Smell The Lodger Black And White The Dollyrots Stay (I Missed You) Ed Ryan Words To Say The Weeks Ike TUNS We Stand United The Overtures Th...
Episode 49: Chasing the Essential - Episode #285 (Fools)
April 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.4 MB"I like to go out beyond the white breakers, where a man can still be free, or a woman if you are one" - Colin Hay No fools here ... but we have some great music about fools including; Caper Clowns April Fool Hayley And The Crushers Kiss Me So I Can The Dials watch her walk away The Weeklings April's Fool The Lodger Dual Lives Andy Bopp Lowe The Sails I'm Only Bleeding Adele & The Chandeliers 1234 The Contrast Unfair Game Dave Caruso XTC Chris Price Algebra In the Sky Joey Wilso...
Episode 48: Chasing the Essential - Episode #284 (Rex)
March 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBIn addition to our usual ultra cool playlist, we celebrate Rex Bloom's Birthday with a selection of from very cool Big Stir Records Artists. The Thrills Big Sur Beebe Gallini My Way Of Thinking Brad Marino Even the Score The On And Ons Mystic Eyes Starbelly Antidote Extra Arms Honey Brown Nick Piunti Headphones Bread & Butter Nanaimo Caroline Rose Bikini The Magic Numbers Long Legs Suburban Hi-Fi Saturday Evening Clothes The Three O'Clock In My Own Time Spygenius If You Go A-Roving...
Episode 47: Chasing the Essential - Episode 283 (Sinner)
March 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.7 MB"I can hear your words as they pass me by. I can hear your songs as they're sung in time." - Elephant Stone This week.... Hayley and the Crushers Water on Glass The boys with the perpetual nervousness I Don't Mind Brian Bringelson Broken Bells Heatwaves Nothing Lasts Forever The Shang Hi Los Sway Little Player The Gunboat Diplomats Crazy About You Icecream Hands No Weapon But Love Loner Chic Be A Burnout Bhopal's Flowers When The Sinner Becomes A Saint (Then The Devil Bleeds) Mar...
Episode 46: Chasing the Essential - Episode #282 (Comfort)
March 12, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.7 MB"Thank you for the days, those endless days, those sacred days you gave me. I'm thinking of the days, I won't forget a single day, believe me." - The Kinks We're back and this we check out some some new tunes and explore some of our favorite 60's tracks; Divinyls Bless My Soul (It's Rock-N-Roll) Caper Clowns I'd Be Me The Figgs Brain Be Gone The Bangles The Rain Song Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Boring Fountain Matthew Sweet Stars Explode Dave Caruso A Piece of the Acti...
Episode 45: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 83 Replay
March 06, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBWe will back next week with a whole new show, meanwhile enjoy a replay of episode 83 which features tracks by; Myracle Brah; Cotton Mather; The Stems; Bill Lloyd; Marauders; Tuns; Myracle Brah; Kurt Baker; The Three O'Clock; Rob Clarke and The Wooltones; The Hangabouts; Gretchen's Wheel; The Chevelles; Cherry Twister; Phenomenal Cat; Dot Dash; and Nick Piunti Peace
Episode 44: Chasing the Essential - Episode #82
February 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBCTE is on a two week hiatus but in the meantime check out what we were spinning 200 episodes ago. The show includes; THE SUNFLOWERS, The Tattle tales, Searching For Sylvia, Second Saturday, Phenomenal Cat, Orbis Max,Baz Francis, The Hangabouts (feat Molly Felder), Magic Eight Ball and The Gunboat Diplomats to name a few. Enjoy!
Episode 43: Chasing the Essential - Episode #281 (Sway)
February 20, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBThis week: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Sink/Let It Sway Mansfield Come Along Heatwaves Don't Talk About My Boyfriend The Legal Matters Light Up the Sky Arctic Lights King of America Ben Kweller Starz (radio edit) Material Issue Renee Remains The Same Caper Clowns Bonsai Tree (2021) The Shang Hi Los Sway Little Player The Ceramic Age Ohma, Bring Your Light Into This Brian Fallon Among Other Foolish Things Emperor Penguin Maserati Ruth Ruth Uninvited The Wave Pictures We Co...
Episode 42: Chasing the Essential - Episode #280 (Sun)
February 12, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 77.7 MB"Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant" - Fountains of Wayne Mansfield A Place in the Sun The boys with the perpetual nervousness Waking Up In The Sunshine The Stan Laurels Tomorrow Steven Wright-Mark Runaway, Baby The Pretenders Didn't Want To Be This Lonely Dada Dizz Knee Land Fountains Of Wayne Peace And Love The Hangabouts Taking You To Leave Me San Saba County Could You Please Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Gonna be Good H...
Episode 41: Chasing the Essential - Episode #279 (Winter)
February 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.1 MB"They're at it again next door, this whole floor, I swear they're out to drive me crazy" - Concrete Blonde Baby, it truly is cold outside these days so pour yourself a cup of hot coco and settle in for a great bunch of music: The Cheap Cassettes Only Lovers The Shang Hi Los Funeral Home Mint The Empty Hearts The Best That I Can Bread & Butter Gotta Get Away The Rewinds New Shade of Red The Weeklings 3 Muck & The Mires The_Way_It_Was_Before Yanks Country Darlin' Ken Stringfellow C...
Episode 40: Chasing the Essential - Episode #278 (Buttercup)
January 29, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.7 MB"... grab yourself a cheeseburger, at the little gem diner ... off the six niner. Diner my shiny shiny love" - Martin Sexton Heatwaves My Baby Has Gone The Overtures STILL ON MY MIND Adam Daniel Her Shake Phil Angotti The Lamp Tuns My Memories Lannie Flowers Doin' Fine David Woodard Featuring Lisa Mychols May the Road Rise Up Caper Clowns Me For a Friend The Bishops Daredevil Stunt Club X Play Erik Voeks and The Ghosters Suck It Up, Buttercup Mark Mulcahy Poison Candy Heart Phil Y...
Episode 39: Chasing the Essential - Episode #277 (Rum Bar)
January 23, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.2 MB"You say that you can't decide. I wonder how you sleep at night" - Pottymouth Some very cool releases from Rum Bar Records and a whole lot more. The Gold Needles What's Tomorrow Ever Done For You? The Brother Kite Dream To Me Matthew Sweet Challenge The Gods The Vapour Trails Underneath Tomorrow The Shang Hi Los Stay The Bopp Power My Pop Adele & The Chandeliers German On My Mind Hayley and the Crushers Church of Flag Potty Mouth Fencewalker Ben Kweller Carelesss Jody Porter and...
Episode 38: Chasing the Essential - Episode #276 (Flipside)
January 16, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.3 MB"I guess someday my kids will ask me 'bout the old days. I guess that I'll tell them that there ain't much to tell" - Joe Jackson This week we include: Hate For Sale The Pretenders I Know The Madd American Cigarettes Ben Kweller This is Your Life The Stan Laurels the wonder The Seven and Six Sideways The Posies Richest Man Brendan Benson Flipside The Soundtrack Of Our Lives Out Of My League Ryan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts Prancing Horse Farms Three Hour Tour Soulfire Gone Re...
Episode 37: Chasing the Essential - Episode #275 (Stuff 2020 Part B) )
January 09, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBThis week is the second part of our end of the year special ... 25 more of our favorite track of 2020. Caper Clowns Space And Time Reno Bo Even A Stone The Pretenders The Buzz The Shang Hi Los Sway Little Player The Overtures Maybe Tomorrow (Rain Grey Town) Tom Curless & the 46% House on Fire Gretchen's Wheel you should know The Weeklings 3 GREG POPE Blue Skies Above The Vapors Sundown River Old 97's The Dropouts Adele & The...
Episode 36: Chasing the Essential - Episode #274 (Stuff 2020 part A))
January 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBThis week is the first part of our year end special ... 50 of or favorite tune from 2020 (no specific order). Here are the first 25 .... Spygenius In A Garden BAD MOVES Local Radio Ryan Allen Hope and Control Red Skylark Two Shades of Fine Icecream Hands General Wear And Tear Searching For Sylvia Play That Song (On The Radio) The On And Ons Dont Wanna Talk About It Jason Berk Strangers The Beths Dying to Believe Dave Caruso The Drop Push Puppets Speak My Mind Ed Ryan Even Time ...
Episode 35: Chasing the Essential - Episode #273 (World)
December 26, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 76.9 MB" Your rhapsody is blowing my cool-ool. Your fantasies, there written for fools" - The Cars This week; The Shang Hi Los, Little Roger, The Stan Laurels, The Anderson Council, The Homewreckers, The Empty Hearts, The Pengwins, Shoes, The Lyres, John Wesley Harding, The Jessica Fletchers, Salem 66, Let's Active, Tuns, Hawaii Mud Bombers, Cliff Hillis and much more . These essentials should not be alone in this holiday season!
Episode 34: Chasing the Essential - Christmas Special 2020
December 19, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 139 MB2 hours of uninterrupted Christmas music ... Chasing the Essential style! Wishing you all the best the Holiday season!
Episode 33: Chasing the Essential - Episode #272 (Futureman))
December 18, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.1 MB"You'd better cover your face tonight, someone might take it away." - Richard Barrone Today we spotlight tracks from the new Futureman Records release; Action Now: 20/20 Re-Envisioned and more including: The Armoires, Eugene Edwards, King Mixer, Joe Normal, Ballzy Tomorrow, Strawberry Generation, Drool Brothers, Supercrush, The Blue Herons, Exploding Flowers, The Hangabouts, Classic Ruins, and Chris Church. Join us, these essentials never chase themselves,
Episode 32: Chasing the Essential - Episode #271 (Dave)
December 11, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBThis week we have a powerpop smorgasbord featuring the essential album of the week, Radiophonic Supersonic by Dave Caruso plus great tracks by; Brad Jones, Michael Pink, Semisonic, Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men, The Shazam, Greenberry Woods, The Lazy Lies, Red Skylark, Chris Pope & The Chords UK, Myracle Brah, Supercrush,Go Dog Go, and Freedy Johnston. Join us, won't you? Chasing these essentials is more fun with friends!
Episode 31: Chasing the Essential - Episode #270 (Florida)
December 05, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBThis week; The Stan Laurels, Fountains Of Wayne, Lannie Flowers, Cheap Star, The Everyday Things, Caper Clowns, Reno Bo, Pylon, The Quarter After, Riff Doctors, The Rhinos, Spygenius and Adam Schmitt. Help wanted: This essentials will not chase themselves, no matter how nice we ask them to.
Episode 30: Chasing the Essential - Episode #269 (Count)
November 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 78 MB"Could it be that one small voice doesn't count in the room?" - REM This week we spend a little time with; Cliff Hillis, The Junior League, Danny Wilkerson and Lannie Flowers w/ Orbis Max, Matt Pond, The Anderson Council, Marshall Holland, Eugene Edwards, Billy Bragg, Dutch Criminal Record, Brian Bringelson, The Rosenbergs, ANC4, Real Estate, Hans Rotenberry & Brad Jones, and Nick Piunti and the Complicated Men. Thank you to all the essential listeners!
Episode 29: Chasing the Essential - Episode #268 (Irregular)
November 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.7 MB"She's a seven day weekend, she don't pretend, when she's dancin' wild and free" - Jesse Malin This week; The Brothers Steve, The Vapors,Fruit & Flowers,Myracle Brah, The Bongos, Eugene Edwards, Tom Curless & the 46%, Icecream Hands, Searching For Sylvia, Cliff Hillis, BAD MOVES, Coke Belda Jesse Malin, and Chris Richards And The Subtractions. Some great music and we put it together all in one place for you ... you're welcome!
Chasing the Essential - Episode #267 (Dandy)
November 13, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.2 MB"Yeah, you look so groovy, and the chicks all scream. It's like a 60's movie, you know the one I mean" - The Brian Jonestown Massacre This week: Allyson Seconds and Anton Barbeau, Jon Auer, Adele & The Chandeliers The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Beths, The High Dials, ORBIS MAX w Emperor Penguin, David Brookings And The Average Lookings, Adam Schmitt, The Creachies, Dave Caruso, The Vapour Trails, Richard X. Heyman, and Your Gracious Host. Join us ... as you know, these essentials aren't...
Chasing the Essential - Episode #266 (Terry and Julie))
November 06, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MB"Screaming out loud in a crowd if it fits her mood." - Nick Piunti This week: The Overtures Tommy Keene The On and Ons Reno Bo Muck & The Mires Joe Giddings The Ravines Nick Piunti Elvyn Rob Laufer Jon Auer The Knack Three Hour Tour Nada Surf ... and more! Thank you essential listeners!
Chasing the Essential - Episode #265 (Ghost)
October 30, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.6 MB"Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town? - The Specials This week hauntingly new music by: The Creachies The Vapors Caper Clowns Semisonic Adele & The Chandeliers Breaking The Well Wishers Danny McDonald Vista Blue Old 97's Gretchen's Wheel The Weeks Contrast Orgone Box The Effection Boo!
Chasing the Essential - Episode #264 (Mother)
October 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.4 MB"I'm thinking of leaving this rain grey town, if I could find me a bike or a bus to borrow ... maybe tomorrow" - The Overtures This week we spend time with: The E Types, The Shelters, Old 97's, Quilt, The Corner Laughers, Velvet Crush, Elephant Stone, The Overtures, Winter Hours, Spygenius, Ed Ryan, Coke Belda and Tom Curless Join us in our chase, before these essentials get away.
Chasing the Essential - Episode #263 (Pumpkin)
October 16, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.4 MB"Look all around, there's nothing but blue skies. Look straight ahead, there's nothing but blue skies'" - Johnny Nash Today we have Nada Surf, Cotton Mather, Elvyn, The Shang Hi Los, Rick Hromadka, Army Navy, Librarians With Hickeys, Greg Pope, Leslie Pereira & The Lazy Heroes, The Beths, Yum Yums, The Regrettes, Elephant Stone and more of course. Do a little chasing with us!
Chasing the Essential - Episode #262 (Do You)
October 09, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.3 MB"All I own is borrowed from my children. I'll leave this world more bright than when I came in. So starting with the next breath, I'll dig a little deeper, live a little kinder and love a little sweeter" - Toad the Wet Sprocket This week our playlist includes: Rick Hromadka, The Shellye Valauskas Experience, Steven Wright-Mark, Icecream Hands, Jared Lekite, Wire Train, Bobbleheads, Toad the Wet Sprocket,The Figgs, Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men, Sunshine Boys, Superdrag, The Damnwells, C...
Chasing the Essential - Episode #261 (Yesterday)
October 03, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.8 MBThis week we have tons of new music including : The Posies, Icecream Hands, Jared Lekites, Steven Wright-Mark, Marshall Holland, The Rallies, The Bookends, The Campbell Apartment, Dolph Chaney, Gretchen's Wheel, Greg Pope, The Overtures, Cupid's Carnival, The Singles and Marshall Holland(again). Join us ... as these essentials aren't going to chase themselves!
Chasing the Essential - Episode #260 (5 Years)
September 24, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 111 MB"Here's wishing you the bluest sky and hoping something better comes tomorrow. Hoping all the verses rhyme, and the very best of choruses, too." - The Kinks On our 5 year anniversary show we have the The World Premier of the Caper Clowns new track, Pineapple Songs, plus lots of cool artists we love, including: The Rosenbergs, Jason Berk, Searching For Sylvia, Old 97's, Melissa Ferrick, The Hangabouts, Dave Caruso, The Armoires, Spygenius, Adam Schmitt, Lannie Flowers, Bill Lloyd, Danny Wil...
Chasing the Essential - Episode #259 (Big Stir Catch Up))
September 19, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 81.6 MB"You say it's not your fight. Sooner or later you'll pay the price" - Pottymouth This week tons of cool stuff, including; The Tearaways, Greg Pope, The Viewers, Gretchen's Wheel, The Bookends, The Orange Humble Band, Starbelly, Sloan, Armchair Oracles, Potty Mouth, Blake Jones, The Regrettes, The Coathangers, Chris Church, Mike Daly & The Planets, The Persian Leaps, and the Caper Clowns! As always, please join us, as these essentials aren't going to chase themselves.
Chasing the Essential - Episode #258 (Covers 5)
September 11, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBThis week is a cover set for all to enjoy. In addition to some classic covers, we have some covers by our CTE favorites like Lannie Flowers, The Decibels, The Weeklings, Plasticsoul, Bill Lloyd, Michael Carpenter, Jason Berk, The Popdudes, Chris Richard and the Subtractions and Agony Aunts. Join us ... These essential covers, aren't going to chase themselves.
Chasing the Essential - Episode #257 (Girlfriend)
September 04, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 83.5 MB"She's got jacuzzi jazz eyes, she's got yacht ambitions." - Blake Jones and the Trike Shop This week: Michael Pink, Old 97's, BAD MOVES, Icecream Hands, Spygenius, Potty Mouth, Lisa Mychols & Super 8, The Beths, Elvyn, Nick Frater, Liam Lynch, Blake Jones & The Trike Shop and Cotton Mather. Join us! These essentials aren't going to chase themselves!
Chasing the Essential - Episode #256 (Mid-Summer)
August 28, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.3 MBThis week new stuff by Old 97's, Nick Frater, Sunshine Boys, Jason Berk, Icecream Hands, Librarians With Hickeys, BAD MOVES, Leslie Pereira & The Lazy Heroes, EZ Tiger, The Successful Failures, Bob Cox and much more ... give a little listen!
Chasing the Essential - Episode #255 (Crush)
August 22, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBThis week cool tracks by The Reed Brothers, Erk, Too Much Joy, The Gunboat Diplomats, Plasticsoul, Caper Clowns, Logan's Close The Beths ... all this plus the Essential Dig, Essential Rewind and the Essential Classic. Join us, won't you?
Chasing the Essential - Episode #254 (Stutter)
August 14, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.3 MB"We take from one another and never stop to wonder how it feels from the other side." - Iggy Pop This week new tracks; The On And Ons, Vegas With Randolph, Gretchen's Wheel, Bad Moves, Bugs, Yum Yums and Nick Pipitone, plus new tracks from 80's favorites The Go-Go's, The Psychedelic Furs and Pretenders. Join us, won't you? ... because these essentials aren't going to chase themselves.
Chasing the Essential - Episode #253 (Intentions)
August 08, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MB" ... and when all has been drained He wrestles with the feeling of an unfelt refrain that he knew too well" - The Connells This week we feature new music from Tom Curless and the 46%, Searching for Sylvia, The Beths, Nick Piunti and the Complicated Men, The Speedways, Ed Ryan and more. All this and some bands I haven't played in awhile. Listen ... Love ... Share!