10 SONGS: 12/13/2025

10 Songs is a weekly list of ten songs that happen to be on my mind at the moment. The lists are usually dominated by songs played on the previous Sunday night's edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. The idea was inspired by Don Valentine of the essential blog I Don't Hear A Single.

This week's edition of 10 Songs draws exclusively from the playlist for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1314

MICHAEL SIMMONS: Switchboard Susan

The rant accompanying this week's posted playlist waxed rhapsodically anna half about Fun Where You Can Find It, the splendid new covers album by rockin' pop whirlwind Michael Simmons. To wit:

"...On Fun Where You Can Find It, the original source material saluted by Simmons is varied and delightful, as our Michael meets 'n' greets the diverse likes of the Grass Roots, the Beach Boys, Squeeze. Steely Dan, World Party, Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Lowe, Fountains of Wayne, Genesis, Phil Collins and Phillip Bailey, and Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint, looks 'em each in the eye without flinching, smiles, and buys 'em all the drinks of their choice. Whether we're imbibing bourbon or Yoo-hoo, we're havin' a party.

"And here's the party's soundtrack: A Top Ten plus one, going up to eleven with taste, accomplishment, and an overriding belief that the song's the thing, the music matters, and love of music can help turn doldrums into gold. Like Midas. Like Brian Wilson. Like this. True treasure. Anyone who loves pop music should treasure Michael Simmons. 

"We sure do...."

We opened this week's irresistible extravaganza with Michael's ace take on "Switchboard Susan," a Mickey Jupp tune made essential by Nick Lowe. The Searchers also cut of very nice version, and Michael does not disappoint in his own effort to bring a smile to your dial. We'll hear Michael's take on a Steely Dan in our next show.

THE FLASHCUBES: Reminisce

Accept no substitutes: The Flashcubes' "Reminisce" is my favorite new track of 2025. And (with apologies to the Velvelettes), that is really sayin' somethin'. Amidst this year's considerable real-world faults, we have seen a veritable treasure trove of utterly fantastic new music. There has been music to inspire us, music to comfort us, music to challenge us, music to nurture us, music to cheer us, music to marshal the power of righteous anger, music to transcend, music to look ahead...

...and music to reminisce.

I'm biased--proudly so--but I do believe that a project I curated--the various-artists blockbuster Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes--can stand among the year's best. Each of the album's 24 tracks is compelling in its own right, and damned near nonpareil in context, gathering 21 great acts executing great covers of great songs written by members of the Flashcubes, and we set the ol' needle firmly into ragin', ravin' red by inviting the Flashcubes to contribute three new original recordings as well. 

The Flashcubes rise to the occasion of enhancing their own tribute album, and all three of the new 'Cubes classics--"Reminisce," "In These Hands," and "The Sweet Spot"--are bright-lights brilliant, all worthy contenders for anyone's Tops of '25 list. 

"Reminisce" was Make Something Happen!'s first advance single. It's the album's lead-off track. Rumor suggests it may soon be getting another renewed push as a single. And each and every spin of "Reminisce" compels me to raise my friggin' fist in accord and sheer exultation. The buzz is eternal, self-renewing, and endlessly invigorating. The path forward is built from the experiences that brought us this far. The mantra supplied by the Ramones and reaffirmed by the Flashcubes remains steadfast and true:

Hey-ho. Let's go.

SWEET: The Ballroom Blitz

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

PERILOUS: Glass Of Something

The mighty Perilous have a new EP called SOS, which collects all of their previous 2025 digital singles plus a remix of their remake of "Band Aid," a song originally done by drummer Paul Doherty's former group the Trend. Perilous have been TIRnRR Fave Raves from the get-go, they allowed us to use their incredible "Rock 'n' Roll Kiss" on our 2022 compilation This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5, AND they played at the release party for my 2023 book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones. Say it with me: WE'RE FANS!! And that's worth a toast with a glass of something. We'll have a brand-new Perilous holiday track on our next program.

GAME THEORY: Linus And Lucy

Sure, it's Game Theory covering a much-loved perennial first heard 60 years on the inaugural broadcast of the 1965 TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas. But it's NOT a Christmas tune! Not really! It's too soon for Christmas music! It's not time yet! It's...we...but...

...damn.

THE JAC: Summer Forever

THE HALF/CUBES: Feels Like Summer

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Hot Fun In The Summertime

THE RAMONES: Rockaway Beach

Willful denial. Technically, we're not even up to winter yet, but who are we kidding? This is Syracuse! OF COURSE it's been snowing! I say thee Duh! The release of the superswell new single "Summer Forever" by the JAC provided sufficient excuse for me to slip a frolicsome foursome of fun-in-the-sun frivolity into this week's closing set (mingling with abandon alongside Dana's spins of Amy Rigby, XTC, the Pretenders, and Her Majesty's Ramones the Beatles).

I was not at all familiar with Tim Wheeler's "Feels Like Summer"--I'm listening to it for the very first time as I write this--but I was immediately in favor of programming  the Half/Cubes' exuberant cover, as heard on their current album Found Pearls. Wheeler's original is likewise pretty cool (even in summer), and it feels like ya can't go wrong either way.

I have previously written that Sly and the Family Stone's "Hot Fun In The Summertime" is "as inviting and idyllic as any June-July-August embrace ever committed to wax, a comforting groove that shines in the daytime and sways with the shadows of twilight." I later added, "If memory serves, a poll of Trouser Press magazine readers in the early '80s named 'Hot Fun In The Summertime' as the # 1 choice for the title of all-time top summer song. Surpassing the Beach Boys in that category would seem a daunting task. But if anyone could do it, it would have to be Sly."

And the Ramones' "Rockaway Beach" speaks for itself. Even though the Beatles will always be my all-time favorite group, the Ramones inspire a specific resonance and reverence within me. No other band's music can match the Ramones' ability to improve my moods at their darkest moments. Church of Ramones. Testify, brudders. The summer promised in "Rockaway Beach" currently is far and hard to reach...but we'll hitch a ride and get there when we get there.

THE SPONGETONES: Carol Of The Guitars

And so the calendar grows thin. The Spongetones herald (as in "Hark...!") the tentative beginning of TIRnRR's short Christmas season. We rarely play Yuletunes before mid-December, but we've gotta admit it's about that time. We'll dip a stocking into that pool on our next show, with new seasonal sides from Perilous, Jamie Hoover, and the Krayolas, plus two Christmas Stax classics in memory of our Featured Performer Steve Cropper. We'll follow up the following week, December 21st, with The 27th Annual THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO Christmas Show.

Eggnog all around!! I'll join you as soon as I've cleared my driveway.

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10 SONGS: 10/13/2023

10 Songs is a weekly list of ten songs that happen to be on my mind at the moment. The lists are usually dominated by songs played on the previous Sunday night's edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. The idea was inspired by Don Valentine of the essential blog I Don't Hear A Single.

This week's edition of 10 Songs draws exclusively from the playlist for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1202. This show is available as a podcast.

THE OHMS: License To Kill

Much of this week's show was offered as a tribute to the late Ducky Carlisle. Before his GRAMMYs and his well-earned acclaim as a music producer and engineer, fans here in Syracuse first knew Ducky as a drummer. That started for us in the late '70s, when Ducky was in the Ohms.

The Ohms were a great, GREAT group, an invincible rock 'n' roll trio fronted by guitarist/singer/songwriter Zenny Caucasian with Rick Suburban on bass (later replaced by Keith Korvair) and the Duckster hisself poundin' them Pagan skins. I curse the cruel timing that only allowed me to witness 'em in person once--ONCE!!--but I know most folks didn't even get a chance to do that much. I wish we'd all seen the Ohms multiple times over a span of years, of decades...but that ain't what happened. Like Del Paxton told us: You can't keep a band together. The Ohms were no exception. 

The group's 1979 single "Teenage Alcoholic"/"Chain Letter" remains the only Ohms music to ever see release, and those two tracks have been out of print since the Carter Administration. They recorded more fantastic stuff--"Hollywood Baby," "Boppin' At The USO," "High-Top Sneakers," "You're So Surreal," and my favorite, "License To Kill"--but none of it has ever seen legit release. This looks like a job for Kool Kat Musik, Big Stir, Propeller, Futureman, Jem Records...somebody!

This week, we played both sides of that 45 from 1979. And we opened the show with the unreleased "License To Kill." We raised a glass, and we raised a fist. Gotta keep movin' you can't sit still. Here's to ya, Ducky.

1.4.5.: Let's Groove

Hey, we're 1.4.5.!

And I'm Paul!

I'm Dave!

I'm Duck!

LET'S GROOVE!

Ducky was also a founding member of 1.4.5., with bassist Dave Anderson and guitarist Paul Armstrong. They debuted live in 1980, and released their first EP Pink Invasion in 1981 (still available as part of the 1.4.5. anthology 3 Chords & A Cloud Of Dust). Given my deathless devotion to PA's once and future group the Flashcubes, it was natural for me to become a big 1.4.5. fan. Still am! 1.4.5. went through a number of varying line-ups; Paul's the only original player still with the group (which now includes guitarist Bob Cat, bassist Tommy O'Riley, and drummer Judd Williams). Nonetheless, they friggin' rock. It's what they do!

NEW MATH: Die Trying

Over to our west in Rochester, commencing in the same approximate time frame as the Syracuse Bright Lights scene that gave us the Ohms, the Flashcubes, and 1.4.5., there was another fabulous combo called New Math. New Math survived into the '80s, and I was able to see them a few times, in Syracuse (at the Firebarn), in Brockport (in the ballroom on my former college campus), and in Rochester (at the legendary Scorgie's). New Math eventually morphed into the Jet Black Berries, but that's another thread for another day.

Back to New Math. This year saw the long overdue release of a New Math CD anthology, Die Trying & Other Hot Sounds (1979-1983), courtesy of Propeller Sound Recordings. A current version of New Math has been playing a handful of shows, culminating in a farewell show this Saturday, October 14th, at Abilene Bar and Lounge in Rochester. Billed as The Final Nail In The Coffin Show!, New Math's sayonara show also includes the Presstones (who played with New Math [and the Cliches] on that Brockport bill I just mentioned) and the mighty 1.4.5. (who played the release party for my Ramones book, and whom I've seen a ton of times--but never enough times).

I'm goin' to this show. If not, man, I'll at least die trying.

(I'm also looking to catch 1.4.5. again in Syracuse near the end of this month. On October 27th, Syracuse's home for rock 'n' roll The Lost Horizon will welcome the Grip Weeds for their first-ever Syracuse show, with 1.4.5., Preacher, and Keene Highland Airforce. Be there or be missing.)

MICHAEL OLIVER AND THE SACRED BAND FEATURING DAVE MERRITT: You Won't Do

Ducky Carlisle had significant impact on our own 2017 compilation This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 4. Ducky played on the magnificent 1.4.5. track "Your Own World," which went on to be TIRnRR's single most-played track in 2017 (in memory of its late lead singer Norm Mattice). Ducky also applied the considerable magic of his considerable studio mojo to clean up the four-track demo of the Flashcubes' "No Promise." All Ducky, all of the time!

And Ducky likewise lent his above-cited magical mojo to "You Won't Do," a track by Michael Oliver and the Sacred Band featuring Dave Merritt. In the extended supplemental liner notes for this compilation, I recalled contacting Michael to secure his contribution:

"[Michael] replied that yeah, he did have a couple of tracks he was working on, and he could get us something within a few weeks.

"He sent us a song the next day.

"He sent us a song the next day, and it was produced by Ducky Carlisle.

"Lemme give you a baseball analogy: I felt like a major league pitcher, with a batting average of .006, stepping to the plate in the bottom of the ninth and hitting a grand slam. Rounding third he was headin' for home, he was a brown-eyed handsome man.

"Ducky Carlisle is The Mark Of Quality to us, from his days as drummer for local heroes the Ohms, through his sterling work as producer and occasional deputy member of the Flashcubes, and his ongoing mastery of studio wizardry on roughly a gazillion fine pop albums. This song came with a pedigree! An unexpected pedigree, even.

"But Ducky's participation wasn't the best part. My jaw dropped the first time I listened to this new song called 'You Won't Do.' Oh. My. God! As great as Michael's previous work had been, 'You Won't Do' reached a whole new level of sheer pop transcendence. This was a hit single. If no else ever heard it, it would be a crime, but it would still sound like a big hit single. I contacted Dana and Kool Kat Musik's Ray Gianchetti and effectively said, Fellas, we just received a track that single-handedly justifies the existence of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 4.

"I was not exaggerating. I meant every syllable, and I still do."

THE FLASHCUBES: All Over The World

The Flashcubes will always, always be one of my all-time favorite groups. Beatles, Ramones, Flashcubes. Paul Armstrong, drummer Tommy Allen, bassist Gary Frenay, and guitarist Arty Lenin. The original 'Cubes splintered in 1979, and finally retired the Cubic billing in 1980. Other than maybe some reunion gigs, there was no reason to believe they would ever be the Flashcubes again.

That began to change in the early '90s. The reunion shows became more fully-realized, and there was talk of new Flashcubes recordings. Talk was followed by action. At some point, we stopped calling it a reunion. The Flashcubes were back. Their current Big Stir Records release Pop Masters is my album of the year for 2023. I can call that race early. Nothing else is gonna compete.

Tommy was unavailable to participate in some of the Flashcubes' live shows, so Ducky stepped in on more than a few occasions. Ducky's studio prowess was, of course, directly employed for many/most of the new 'Cubes recordings as well.

And for the Flashcubes' first couple of new tracks--covers of the Paul Collins Beat's "All Over The World" and the Raspberries' "Don't Want To Say Goodbye"--logistics prevented Tommy from providin' prerequisite Cubic pounding. Oh, DUCKY...! The esteemed Mr. Carlisle kept the beat in Tommy's stead. Deputy Flashcube to the rescue. The Flashcubes' studio resurgence was on its way, with Tommy in his proper percussive place from "It's You Tonight" on.

GAME THEORY: She'll Be A Verb

THE SUPREMES: Stop! In The Name Of Love

Simple sequence here: Game Theory tell us that she'll be a verb (whoever she is); the Supremes supply that verb. STOP!! In the name of love...!

GRAHAM PARKER AND THE GOLDTOPS: Wicked Wit

At my first Flashcubes show in January of 1978, I was less than two weeks past my eighteenth birthday. Lack of a crystal ball didn't prevent me from immediately seeing a brightly-lit future as a Flashcubes fan, but I couldn't foresee the Flashcubes someday being on the same record label as Graham Parker. In addition to the 'Cubes' Pop Masters and a slew of other fantastic releases this year, Big Stir is the label of record for Parker's current album Last Chance To Learn The Twist. The Flashcubes! Graham Parker and the Goldtops! If it ain't Big Stir it ain't worth a...never mind.

And in 1978, I certainly didn't foresee Graham Parker recording a bumper ID for a radio show co-hosted by the meager likes of me. This is Graham Parker. You're listening to This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl on SPARK Syracuse!

I...what? Yeah. Even with a crystal ball, I wouldn'ta seen that one comin'.

JOAN JETT: Bad Reputation

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

Congratulations, Meghan and Austin!

THE MOST: Take A Chance

In 1979, when the Ohms were still together, Ducky and Zenny joined forces with the one 'n' only PA to record a single backing Dian Zain. That single, "Take A Chance"/"Do The Jumping Jack," was originally to be credited to Dian as a solo artist, amended to her new group the Most by the time of its release. 

There were three distinct live versions of the Most, all fronted by Dian and Paul. Their first edition of the Most included current 1.4.5.-ers Tommy O'Riley and Judd Williams, plus guitarist Derek Knott. When Tommy, Judd, and Derek opted to move on, the Ohms themselves--Ducky, Zenny, and Keith--completed an interim Most, performing an opening set as the Ohms and then joining Dian and PA as the Most. The final versions of the Most found Dian and Paul playing with Dave Anderson and drummer Dick Hummer; when Hummer split to become Machine + Hummer, Ducky returned to the drum kit for the last days of the Most. Then Dian left, and Paul, Dave, and Duck began groovin' as 1.4.5.

The Most recorded some cool demos, which remain unreleased. They contributed a track ("Rockerfeller") to a compilation called From The City That Brought You...Absolutely Nothing. Otherwise? The Most left us just this one 45. Dian, Paul, Zenny, and Ducky. "Take A Chance" opens with PA asking that musical question:

HEY! Ya goin' to the dance tonight?

And Dian immediately provides the only acceptable answer:

Yeah! What else is there?

What else? Indeed. What else?

Screen capture from a video taken by Dana Bonn

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10 SONGS: 5/20/2023

10 Songs is a weekly list of ten songs that happen to be on my mind at the moment. The lists are usually dominated by songs played on the previous Sunday night's edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. The idea was inspired by Don Valentine of the essential blog I Don't Hear A Single.

This week's edition of 10 Songs draws exclusively from the playlist for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1181. This show is available as a podcast.

THE RAMONES: Blitzkrieg Bop/Teenage Lobotomy/California Sun/Pinhead/She's The One [live]

We begin Part 2 of our three-week salute to THE RAMONES AT THE MOVIES with the eleven-minute five-song live medley from their 1979 film Rock 'n' Roll High School. Well, it's referred to as a medley, and it's all a single track on LP, CD, digital download, or streaming, but each individual song is complete. Because the Ramones could do five songs in eleven minutes. Obviously. The laws of physics do not apply to the Ramones.

Also obvious: eleven minutes of live Ramones music is a great way to open a rock 'n' roll radio show. Hey-ho!

Following a 45 B-side in 1977 and the fantastic It's Alive album (released earlier in '79 but recorded in '77 with original drummer Tommy Ramone), this was the third live Ramones performance to see legit issue. And it was the first with Tommy's replacement Marky Ramone, who had joined your Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, and Dee Dee Ramone in time for the 1978 studio album Road To Ruin. 

Drumming for the Ramones is a challenge. Marky Ramone rose to that challenge.

THE MIDNIGHT CALLERS: Baby Let Me Be

Man, we love the Midnight Callers. Hell, we've been fans of the group since their earlier incarnation as Chris Paine and the Lettertrain, and even before that we followed Paine and fellow MCer Julien Budrino in their previous combo London Egg. The Midnight Callers' 2020 debut album Red Letter Glow gave us the TIRnRR Fave Rave "41 Miles To Roscoe," and we've playlist-programmed the group's ace contributions to Jem Recordings' John Lennon, Brian Wilson, and Pete Townshend tributes. "Baby Let Me Be"--the first single off their forthcoming album Rattled Humming Heart--is very likely to follow suit. We played it this week. We're playing it again next week. We call it a hit, at any time of day.

POPSICKO: No Better Time

Popsicko's "No Better Time" (from their excellent archival set Off To A Bad Start) has been in my brain a lot lately, for no other reason than because it's insanely catchy and irresistible. There can be no better reason. And no better time.

GAME THEORY: Linus And Lucy

And that's what This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio is all about, Charlie Brown.

THE RAMONES: Do You Wanna Dance

As much as we associate Rock 'n' Roll High School with the Ramones, actress P. J. Soles was the film's actual star, playing Riff Randell, teen rock 'n' roller. But the Ramones are at the heart of it all, and I can't imagine how the movie would have played with its previous intended band Cheap Trick (or director Allan Arkush's teen fantasy of a making a movie with the Yardbirds), nor how producer Roger Corman's original concept of Disco High could have succeeded on any aesthetic level. The essential nature of the Ramones' involvement here reminds me of what Roger Ebert said about the Beatles' first movie: if A Hard Day's Night had been shot in color, but was otherwise identical, frame by frame, it would not have been the same classic (and classic feeling) film as it is in black and white. The iconic black and white images of the Beatles are an essential part of A Hard Day's Night, just as the Ramones are central to Rock 'n' Roll High School.

Ramones music plays throughout the film, mixed with treats by Chuck Berry, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Devo, MC5, Alice Cooper, Brownsville Station, the Velvet Underground, and more. Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and Marky have brief "acting" bits, and five on-screen musical appearances. When we first see them, they lip-sync "I Just Want To Have Something To Do," and they show up in a dream sequence in Riff's bedroom--nice work if you can get it--serenading her with "I Want You Around." We played both of those tracks on last week's show. Then comes the in-concert sequence mentioned up top. 

The Ramones return for two more songs at the film's climax. The first of the two is "Do You Wanna Dance," a cover of the familiar rock 'n' roll classic. For a very, very long time I regarded this as my all-time favorite cover of anything by anybody. And while I've kinda shifted my allegiance to the Ramones' cover of Tom Waits' "I Don't Want To Grow Up," I still wanna dance.

Don't you?

THE MYNAH BIRDS: I Got You (In My Soul)

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

THE RAMONES: Rock 'n' Roll High School

Like Riff Randell says in the movie, Hit it, MARKY! The Ramones play the title tune that Riff wrote for them, the school blows up, and authority is soundly defeated. A happy ending all around.

THE FLASHCUBES: Got No Mind/Dizzy Miss Lizzy

Presenting Big Stir Records recording artists the Flashcubes in their natural habitat, recorded live at The Firebarn in Syracuse, May 1979. I was (and remain) a huge, huge fan of the 'Cubes, who occupy a point in my rock 'n' roll trinity alongside the Beatles and the Ramones. Anecdotal evidence suggests that I was not in attendance at this particular Firebarn show, but I had seen the 'Cubes many times before that and many more times going forward. And I saw them a little over a month after that Firebarn gig, July 6th of 1979, playing on a bill with the Ramones at the first Central New York screening of Rock 'n' Roll High School.

The Flashcubes have a new album, Pop Masters, due in August. It's beyond great, and I can't wait for you to hear it. Meanwhile, knowing that 'Cubes guitarist Paul Armstrong was bringing his other group 1.4.5. to Syracuse to play at last Saturday's release party for my new book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones--the party raging on before this week's show aired but after it was recorded--I wanted to include the single most Ramones-influenced song the Flashcubes ever created. 

That would be Paul's "Got No Mind," carrying the DNA of "Teenage Lobotomy" and "Rockaway Beach" and applying shock treatment as needed. The live version is best, that Firebarn performance preserved on the album Flashcubes On Fire, segued perfectly into the 'Cubes covering Larry Williams via the Beatles. The Beatles, the Ramones, and the Flashcubes. 

My trinity.

I did not expect 1.4.5. to perform "Got No Mind" at my book release party. Happy surprise! We'll hear a track from Pop Masters on our next show.

THE RAMONES: I Believe In Miracles

Part 2 of our salute to THE RAMONES AT THE MOVIES concludes with the defiant and chillingly determined (if unexpected) optimism of "I Believe In Miracles." The Ramones lip-synced the song in the otherwise-horrible 1994 feature film remake of Car 54, Where Are You? Outside of Rock 'n' Roll High School, I'm pretty sure this was the Ramones' only on-screen appearance in a non-documentary motion picture.

With the Ramones' appearances in Rock 'n' Roll High School and Car 54, Where Are You? now addressed, THE RAMONES AT THE MOVIES will conclude next week with four Ramones tracks heard in non-Ramones films. That starts with a little something from a 1979 flick called That Summer! Chewin' out a rhythm on our bubblegum, this Sunday night on TIRnRR.

No, not that rendition of the chewin'-on-my-bubblegum thing. C.C. Ramone has retired from the stage.

PERILOUS: Rock & Roll Kiss

Drummer Paul Doherty was an early cheerleader for my Ramones book. This status goes back a couple of years, when the book was still a secret known only to a few people. Given that, there was no freakin' way I was gonna attempt a book release party without enlisting the services of Paul's group Perilous.

Both Perilous and 1.4.5. rocked the 443 last Saturday, as I knew they would. It was my first opportunity to witness Perilous in concert, and man, did they ever deliver! We played their 2022 TIRnRR Pick Hit "Rock & Roll Kiss" on this week's show. We'll play their brand new single next week, as well as music from 1.4.5. and a track apiece from two of Perilous' seed groups, the Trend and Pauline and the Perils. 

Ya wanna get loud? Okay, we can get loud. It's as simple as 1-2-3-4!

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