Episodes
This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot are sharing talking baby songs and reviewing new music from Taylor Swift.
Published 05/03/24
Published 05/03/24
In this bonus episode, Jim adds "one of the greatest songs of all time" to the Desert Island Jukebox. He was inspired by finally stumbling across "Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me" on Netflix.
Published 05/01/24
Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk all-things college radio and also review the latest records from Alejandro Escovedo and Vampire Weekend.
Published 04/26/24
In this bonus episode, we share producer Andrew Gill's side project, "Rock That Doesn't Roll." Their second season launches this week, so we're sharing an episode they did last season with David Bazan of Pedro The Lion.
Published 04/24/24
Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, the eclectic garage-rock duo who recently released their twelfth studio album and also review new records from Shabaka and Hurray for the Riff Raff.
Published 04/19/24
In this bonus episode, Greg adds a song to the Desert Island Jukebox from an artist was grouped in with neo-soul, but never really fit into that scene comfortably.
Published 04/17/24
Host Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot interview producer and composer JLIN and also review "Cowboy Carter" by Beyoncé.
Published 04/12/24
In this bonus episode, Jim adds a song to the Desert Island Jukebox from a musician who joined Talking Heads for Stop Making Sense and made many great solo records himself.
Published 04/10/24
Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with author Bob Spitz about the myths, music and misdeeds of Led Zeppelin, plus they also review new records from Waxahatchee and SiR.
Published 04/05/24
In this bonus episode we pay tribute to the late leaders of World Party and The Raspberries.
Published 04/03/24
This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some new music that’s flying underneath the mainstream radar - buried treasures, plus they pay tribute to Karl Wallinger and Eric Carmen.
Published 03/29/24
In this bonus episode, Greg adds a song to the Desert Island Jukebox in honor of Bob Marley and Lee "Scratch" Perry's bass player, Aston "Family Man" Barrett.
Published 03/27/24
Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot analyze Brian Eno's 1974 album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) and revisit an excerpt of their 2011 interview with Eno himself.
Published 03/22/24
In this bonus episode, Jim adds a Brian Eno-affiliated song made of found sounds to the Desert Island Jukebox.
Published 03/20/24
This week hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot interview Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter of The Roots about his memoir and they also review the new album from Das Racist rapper Heems.
Published 03/15/24
In this bonus episode, Greg adds two versions of a surprising song to the Desert Island Jukebox. It was the first rock & roll song to chart in Japan and a later version involved members of The Clash.
Published 03/13/24
This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some of their favorite karaoke tracks, review new music from Grandaddy and bid farewell to the late rockabilly musician Dexter Romweber.
Published 03/08/24
In this bonus episode, Jim adds a song to the Desert Island Jukebox that can make a solid claim to being from the first "heavy metal" band.
Published 03/06/24
Host Jim DeRogatis talks with Chicago alt-rock legend, Louise Post, a guitarist, singer, and cofounder of the band Veruca Salt, plus they review new albums from post-punk Brits IDLES and guitar master Mary Timony.
Published 03/01/24
In this bonus episode, we pay tribute to Damo Suzuki of Can, who died February 9 at age 74.
Published 02/28/24
This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot pay tribute to the late singer, songwriter and guitarist Wayne Kramer of the MC5 and review the new record from Brittany Howard.
Published 02/23/24
In this bonus episode we pay tribute to Mojo Nixon (Neill Kirby McMillan Jr.), a consummate showman with a love for the working class, who died February 7.
Published 02/22/24
The beat goes on as Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot focus on the contributions of drummers to rock music with drummer Joe Wong, plus an interview with Bernard Purdie.
Published 02/16/24
In this bonus episode we pay tribute to Mary Weiss, the leader of the Shangri-Las, who died in January.
Published 02/14/24