10 SONGS: 10/10/2025

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 # 1305.

STEVE STOECKEL: I Wanna Be A Vampire

It's important to have goals. Be the vampire you wish to be!

My book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) includes a chapter about "The Transylvania Twist," a terrific 1963 single credited to Baron Daemon and the Vampires. Baron Daemon (played by the late, great Mike Price) was Syracuse's local TV vampire when I was a kid in the '60s. As I wrote in the book: To any kid living in Syracuse at that time, Baron Daemon was as big as the Beatles.

Friend of TIRnRR Steve Stoeckel is best-known as singer/songwriter/bassist with North Carolina's phenomenal pop combo the Spongetones. Our Steve was not a Syracuse kid in the 1960s, and any familiarity he might have with Baron Daemon probably came from, y'know, reading my book (a book that also contains a chapter about the Spongetones). But Steve effectively channels the Dracula Beat on "I Wanna Be A Vampire," his contribution to Big Stir Records' epic new Halloween compilation Chilling, Thrilling Hooks And Haunted Harmonies.

The music of the night! And a vampire song that does not suck. We'll switch from vampires to witches for a spin of another track from Chilling, Thrilling Hooks And Haunted Harmonies on our next show.

THE RAMONES: I Don't Want To Grow Up

Grow up...?! As if.

(But speaking of the Ramones--the American Beatles, the greatest American rock 'n' roll band of all time--lemme take this opportunity to thank my friends at Rare Bird Books, the publisher of my 2023 book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones. The book was featured in this week's edition of Rare Bird's newsletter The Bird's Eye View, and I am very grateful for the mention.

Grateful. Still not grown up, mind you, but grateful.)

THE WEEKLINGS: Diamond Dogs

From the wonderful current compilation Jem Records Celebrates David Bowie, here's the Weeklings' cool take on Bowie's "Diamond Dogs." We offer it here as a dedication to the coaching staff (plus Higgins) of UFC Richmond. Hey guys! Looking forward to seeing you again this summer.

THE KENNEDYS: Walking Through The Park

From her secret origin as Maura Boudreau in North Syracuse, Maura Kennedy has always been one of us, a native daughter made good. Her husband Pete Kennedy isn't from around here, but he is likewise one of us, and Central New Yorkers proudly consider Maura and Pete's internationally-renowned coffeehouse pop combo the Kennedys to be local heroes, their downstate base of operations notwithstanding. It's a legit homecoming whenever the Kennedys play in Syracuse, and their latest homecoming occurs this Saturday, October 11th, at The 443 Social Club & Lounge. Tickets for the show? Glad you asked! Grab 'em with delirious glee right here.

Adding to the homecoming vibe, the Kennedys recently participated in Big Stir Records' various-artists blockbuster Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes, recording a sublimely aching cover of the Flashcubes' lovely "Walking Through The Park." Here's hopin' the Kennedys' homecoming includes a live performance of "Walking Through The Park" at the 443 on Saturday.

VEGAS WITH RANDOLPH: She's An Intellectual

Calling all intellectuals! Long-time TIRnRR Fave Raves Vegas With Randolph have released Drops Of Gold: The Best Of Vegas With Randolph, an absolutely primo retrospective set that oughta be an automatic purchase for all of us who adore music of the rockin' pop persuasion. And the lads of VWR are promoting Drops Of Gold with an absolutely primo new video for their past TIRnRR Pick T' Click "She's An Intellectual." Even better, it's an animated video inspired by the style of classic DC Comics cartoons. HEY! They're playing directly to MY demographic! And they're playing to win. It's Vegas, baby.

SLYBOOTS: Silent Storm

New single from Slyboots! Their 2024 single "If We Could Let Go" was my # 1 favorite new track last year, and "Silent Storm" continues that world-weary but determined sense of reaching for a better world. 

And I think we could all use a better world at this point.

TINA TURNER: The Acid Queen

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

THE SUPREMES: All I Want

Like the rest of the group's post-Diana Ross output, the Supremes' 1972 cover of Joni Mitchell's "All I Want" is woefully, criminally underrated. It's too much of a hot take to say the Supremes records after Ross left are a better group o' tunes than the familiar hits with Ross, but I admit the hyperbole is tempting. Not true, I guess. But tempting. 

Either way, if you can find it, a two-disc Supremes compilation called The '70s Anthology is well worth seeking and acquiring. Will it be all the Supremes you want? No, probably not. Will it be worthwhile in its own right? Damned right it will.

SHOES: Tomorrow Night

From The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1):

In the late '70s, power pop was a niche genre that did not wish to be a niche genre. It wanted fame, fortune. It wanted action. It for damned sure wanted the girl, right now. If not tonight, then tomorrow night...

...Shoes was one of the most notable (and durable) among '70s power pop groups, an exquisite four-man band from Zion, Illinois. Shoes took their first step with an album that was literally homemade, recorded in guitarist Jeff Murphy’s living room and released on the group’s own Black Vinyl label in 1977.  

That album, Black Vinyl Shoes, was an instant pop classic, bursting with understated gems, songs simultaneously Beatlesque yet not strictly derivative of anything. Black Vinyl Shoes brought the group to the attention of Bomp Records/Bomp! magazine visionary Greg Shaw. Bomp released a non-LP 45 of  “Tomorrow Night”/”Okay,” which still ranks as the best 1-2 punch of Shoes’ always-distinguished recording career. 

"Tomorrow Night" is nearly textbook power pop, a pretty ditty that combines yearning and lust, its façade suggesting an equal measure of the two, but really looking for a steamy tomorrow-night stand. What the track lacks in explosiveness á la the Who or Raspberries is more than compensated by its confidence and posture, the music leaning forward with single-minded precision. It's catchy and aggressive, its dreamy, breathy vocals piloting a rockin' sound with one Beatle boot perched in the British Invasion and one ragged Converse stepping on a back-breaking crack in the New Wave of post-punk rock 'n' roll....

THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Shout (Part 1)

The perils of prerecording a radio show: On Sunday night, my back-announcement of spinning the Isley Brothers' "Shout (Part 1)" was accompanied by my prerequisite cry of Let's GO, Buffalo! That moment aired shortly after the previously-unbeaten Buffalo Bills had been defeated by themselv...er, by the Patriots. Nonetheless: Let's GO, Buffalo! I retain my hope of seeing Bad Bunny perform a Halftime show during a Bills game on TV this February.

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I compiled a various-artists tribute album called Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes, and it's pretty damned good; you can read about it here and order it here. My new book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) is now available, and you can order an autographed copy here. You can still get my previous book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones from publisher Rare Bird Books, OR an autographed copy here. If you like the books, please consider leaving a rating and/or review at the usual online resources.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. You can read about our history here.

10 SONGS: 1/31/2025

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 # 1270

STEVE CONTE: Shoot Out The Stars

Guitarist Steve Conte first entered TIRnRR's sovereign airspace as a member of the latter-day incarnation of the New York Dolls, and again when he augmented our power pop heroes the Flashcubes on their invigmoratin' 2022 cover of the Slade classic "Gudbuy T' Jane." Rock AND roll!

Now, Steve has a new album called The Concrete Jungle, and of course we're playing it. Hell, we played the advance single "Fourth Of July" in August of 2023, and we played "Motor City Love Machine" on last week's show. When I was previewing the album, "Shoot Out The Stars" struck me as a track constructed from the same essential rockin' pop DNA as this little mutant radio show. We have the stars in our crosshairs. Ready, aim.... 

SORROWS: Out Of My Head

Second week in a row TIRnRR airplay for "Out Of My Head," the teaser single for Sorrows' forthcoming album Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow. Recorded in 1981, unreleased until right about NOW!, Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow is immediately, jaw-droppingly irresistible. We'll move on to another one of the album's tracks Sunday night, and the damned thing deserves--and gets--our highest recommendation. The single is great; the album as a whole is even greater.

THE WELL WISHERS: All My Friends

The Well Wishers (and Jeff Shelton's other gotta-play-this dbas) are perennial picks t' click on our show. So it was a given that we would immediately start programming tracks from the Well Wishers' new all-covers collection Covered 2. Fortune favors the bold, but fans often favor the familiar, and I confess we were orginally set to play the Covered 2 version of Fleetwood Mac's "Second Hand News," a song I've loved since I was a senior in high school (contemporary to the reign of Rumours).

Upon further review, I was drawn instead to the Well Wishers' Covered 2 interpretation of "All My Friends," a song previously done by the Primitons. I had no previous awareness of the Primitons' original--nor, in fact, any real previous awareness of the Primitons themselves--but I do know a radio-ready record when I hear it. And we'll hear the Well Wishers' "All My Friends" again next week.

THE FOUR TOPS: If I Were A Carpenter

I consider the Four Tops' interpretation of "If I Were A Carpenter" definitive. Its spin this week gave me an opportunity to re-visit my own alternate-lyrics take. With apologies to the late Tim Hardin, I present "If I Were The Carpenters:"

If I were the Carpenters
And you were Pink Lady
Would Chuck Berry play anyway?
Or would we have the Babys?

If I think of Rain Parade

Would Cowsills find me?

"Carrie Annie," the Hollies brayed

How ELO reminds me

Shave Mike Love for orneriness

Replace Mike Love with Sorrows

Mike gave Beach Boys severance checks

Wondermints, tomorrow!

If I were Steve Miller

With Detroit Wheels grinding

Would you miss the Orgone Box

And Yusef's shrewd whining?

If I were a band, Roy Wood

Would Move still shun me?

If I could join Yes, I would

What would U2 think of me?

If I were the Carpenters

And you were Pink Lady

Would Chuck Berry play anyway?

Or would we have the Babys?

Would Chuck Berry play anyway?

Or would we have the Babys?

The late Tim Hardin looks on in stunned, horrified silence

THE PLIMSOULS: A Million Miles Away

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THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Shout (Part 1)

Well, given that Buffalo Bills fans always play a slight rewrite of the classic "Shout"--The Bills make wanna SHOUT!--whenever the Bills score a touchdown, I was really hoping this week's spin of the Isley Brothers' original would play in a happier context. It was not to be. But let's go, Buffalo--we'll get 'em next year.

(And I say we start by tackling the razzafrazzin' refs.)

THE SPONGETONES: Nothing Really Matters When You're Young

THE KENNEDYS: Walking Through The Park

POP CO-OP: Wait Til Next Week

sparkle*jets u.k.: Make Something Happening

Four as-yet-unreleased tracks, each a cover of a song written by one or another member of Syracuse's own power pop powerhouse the Flashcubes, and all four of them created for a forthcoming project we've been referring to as [REDACTED].

Yeah, one needn't be a rocket surgeon to figure what the [REDACTED] project has gotta be, especially if it brings together these specific ace recordings by the SpongeTones, the Kennedys, Pop Co-Op, and sparkle*jets u.k. We will remain coy about it for just a few more days.

On this coming Sunday night's show, we will finally reveal the actual title of [REDACTED]. And we'll do so with a spin of a [REDACTED] track we ain't played yet: A brand new original recording by the Flashcubes themselves. Brighter lights await. Stay tuned.

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My new book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) is now available, and you can order an autographed copy here. You can still get my previous book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones from publisher Rare Bird Books, OR an autographed copy here. If you like the books, please consider leaving a rating and/or review at the usual online resources.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. Recent shows are archived at Westcott Radio. You can read about our history here.

10 SONGS: 11/15/2024

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 # 1259.

THE BINGS: Hold On

"Hold on?" Good advice, and I'm happy to take it out of context right now.

This week's show was programmed before the election results came in, when our sense of nauseous optimism deluded us into believing there was no way American voters could...well, do exactly what American voters wound up doing. The show was recorded in the aftermath of that awful mourning in America, but nearly all of the original song selections remained in place.

So we hold on, hope for the best, prepare for the worst. We'll play some music to comfort our battered, broken hearts. The Bings were an obscure but fantastic early '80s SoCal pop band, and their great stuff is gathered on a cool collection bearing the appropriate title Power Pop Planet (The Lost Tapes).

The Bings' "Hold On" has nothing to do with our current goal of trying to figure out ways to hold on. We will accept its advice nonetheless.

THE KENNEDYS: Waging Peace

A few days after the election, many from our local community of Syracuse music fans got together at The 443 Social Club & Lounge for an evening of companionship and commiseration. The Kennedys are an internationally-renowned coffeehouse pop duo, and while they're not headquartered in Syracuse, we regard them as a native daughter and native son. Maura Kennedy actually is from the 315 originally, a North Syracuse girl who came of age in the Syracuse music scene, but we likewise embrace Northern Virginia boy Pete Kennedy fully and wholeheartedly as one of us. No matter where the Kennedys go, they belong. When they're in Syracuse, though, we like to think that the Kennedys are home.

My God, we all needed this night of music. The Kennedys played and sang their songs of hope and harmony, of love and justice, of better days to keep us safe until tomorrow. Music can help us heal. And maybe it can help us wage some peace in these embattled times.

SLYBOOTS: If We Could Let Go

I'm trying. Honest, I'm trying.

Like the Bings' "Hold On," the title of Slyboots' luscious current single "If We Could Let Go" is only coincidentally related to my emotional miasma. Such a good track in any context, and "If We Could Let Go" returns to the TIRnRR airwaves on our next show.

LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS: Brand New Boyfriend

The new Librarians With Hickeys album How To Make Friends By Telephone is one of several 2024 releases from the esteemed Big Stir Records label that I would consider among this year's very best. This has been a great, great year for new rockin' pop music. The dichotomy between this lousy year and its invigorating soundtrack is off-putting. I wish 2024 could have been as good as the music it produced.

THE SMITHEREENS: Face The World With Pride

Face the world with PRIDE! We...tried that. Didn't seem to help. But the effort will continue.

THE DICKIES: Banana Splits

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

THE BANDWAGON: People Got To Be Free

This cover of the Rascals' "People Got To Be Free," recorded by underrated '60s/'70s soul group the Bandwagon (aka Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon), is even better than the original, and that (to quote the Velvelettes) is really sayin' somethin'. The Bandwagon should have been huge.

ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?

Other than the show-concluding Irene Peña track listed below, Elvis Costello and the Attractions' "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding" is the only selection we added to the playlist after learning that the country had chosen pain and hatred and misery over peace, love, and understanding. 

I fail to see anything funny in that.

WONDERBOY: Girl Songs

A championing of giddy delight can be among our most effective coping mechanisms. Comfort foods. A hand held. A popcorn flick. An escapist paperback novel. Trash TV.

Girl songs.

Robbie Rist understands that appeal and delivers on it. Robbie wrote "Girl Songs" back in the '90s, recorded it with his ace then-combo Wonderboy, and it's buoyed many a TIRnRR  playlist since we belatedly discovered the damned thing earlier this year. Giddy delight means a lot to me.

IRENE PEÑA: I Won't Back Down

We won't back down. Not now. Not ever. It's our country, too.

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My new book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) is now available, and you can order an autographed copy here. You can still get my previous book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones from publisher Rare Bird Books, OR an autographed copy here. If you like the books, please consider leaving a rating and/or review at the usual online resources.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. Recent shows are archived at Westcott Radio. You can read about our history here.This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. Recent shows are archived at Westcott Radio. You can read about our history here.

10 SONGS: 9/14/2024

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 # 1250.

sparkle*jets u.k.: Make Something Happen

POP CO-OP: Wait Til Next Week

THE KENNEDYS: Walking Through The Park

Three as-yet-unreleased tracks from a compilation album coming from Big Stir Records in 2025. We have little more to say about this at the moment, except to note that each of these tracks is stellar, and that one of them will be the album's de facto title tune. 

Beyond that?

Well. Wouldn't YOU like to know.....

THE HALF/CUBES: My Girl

Oh, this is splendid. Splendid AND sublime! The Half/Cubes, of course, are two of the Flashcubes--bassist Gary Frenay and drummer Tommy Allen--working with Randy Klawon and a legion of super guest-stars to remake a few ace rockin' pop tunes from the past. Some you know. Some you don't know. Hell, some I don't know. The result is their debut album Pop Treasures, one of this year's best records and the best covers album since the Flashcubes' own Pop Masters.

For their Pop Treasures rendition of Eric Carmen's "My Girl," the Half/Cubes enlist the aid of Darian Sahanaja (of Wondermints and Brian Wilson's band) to apply just the right balance of shine and oomph. Gorgeous! And I tell ya: I would love to hear the Half/Cubes take on the Flashcubes' 1978 debut single "Christi Girl," written by Arty Lenin. Bright lights illuminate pop treasures of their own.

(And keep an eye out for an upcoming This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio special, casting its spotlight on some of the individual tracks that so influenced the Flashcubes and the Half/Cubes. Brilliant!)

WAR: Why Can't We Be Friends?

I wrote this in 2020. Still applies:

"We can be friends. But politics do matter. What happens in politics affects all of us, as we determine the way our society should function on a day-to-day basis. Friends care about what happens to friends, about what happens to friends of friends. Friends don't vote with the specific shallow goal of making liberals cry again. Friends don't delight in the notion of progressive heads going all Scanners if America's Biggest Mistake somehow wins a second term. And friends, on the right or the left, don't gloat when the other side loses. That's crass and insensitive. We go high. That's what friends do. That's what everyone ought to do.

"Man, we don't have to agree on everything. We don't even have to agree on all that much. Why can't we be friends? At the end of all of this: Why the hell can't we be friends?"

2024 update: With that said....

None of the above should be misread as willingness to compromise my values. If our values don't mesh in some way, then maybe we shouldn't have been friends to begin with.

OASIS: Digsy's Dinner

Well, this would have been an eensy bit more of a statement if we'd had time to play "Rock 'n' Roll Star" or even "The Hindu Times," but you go to the airwaves with the playlist that fits into a three-hour time slot, not the playlist you wish fit into a three-hour time slot. I've never been much of an Oasis fan, but I've been taken aback by the backlash against recent news of their upcoming reunion shows. Jeez, man, dig what you dig. This reunion means a lot to legions of Oasis faithful, and I'm delighted on their behalf.

This is the only previous thing I've ever had to say about Oasis on this blog:

"In the mid '90s, a coworker named Bob Ketcham was hooked on the first Oasis album, Definitely Maybe, and he shared his enthusiasm with me. Or maybe it was the second album, (What's The Story) Morning Glory? I don't remember, because Oasis just left me cold at the time. My friend Chuck Higbie in Key West also tried to recruit me into the Oasis Army, but I was a resister, I was. The Flashcubes opened a late '90s live show with an ace cover of Oasis' 'Rock 'n' Roll Star,' and that was a bit of all right, awright. 

"One evening in 2002, my daughter and I were watching Top Of The Pops on BBC America, and I fell in helpless thrall to the then-new Oasis single 'The Hindu Times.' I didn't even mind when Oasis themselves turned up on a subsequent TOTP, and were introduced as 'The greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world!' Nonetheless, my favorite Oasis-related track is 'Birth Of An Accidental Hipster,' the fab song co-written by Noel Gallagher of Oasis with the Jam's Paul Weller for the Monkees' 2016 album Good Times!"

And yeah, for this week's Oasis spin, I wanted to say, "Tonight, I'm a rock 'n' roll star," but time restraints forced us to sub in the much shorter track "Digsy's Dinner." Guess we'll settle for saying, "Eat it, haters."

THE BUZZCOCKS: I Don't Mind

I'LL MIND IF I DAMNED WELL WANNA MIND...!!

ROY CRANK: Don't Kill That World I'm Living In

I wasn't familiar with Ukrainian performer Roy Crank prior to the current release of his ace number "Don't Kill That World I'm Living In." That track is paired with the Armoires' "Snake Island Thirteen" as Songs For Ukrainian Independence Day. And while this show is obviously gonna play TIRnRR Fave Raves the Armoires (see below), Crank's track is also good, really good. "Don't Kill This World I'm Living In" reminds me of Queen at their best, and I think a lot of other pop music addicts will likewise appreciate it. I'm gonna need to take a deeper dive in Roy Crank's body of work. Time to thrill that world we're living in.

THE BAY CITY ROLLERS: Yesterday's Hero

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

THE ARMOIRES: You Oughta Be Cut In Half

Pop music as manifesto. The Armoires' Octoberland is nothing short of breathtaking, a firm planting of feet and raising of banner on behalf of values and virtues that are even larger than the music itself. The album opens with "We Absolutely Mean It," closes with "Music & Animals," and threads the sentiments together with nine more tracks of resolute sincerity, empathy, and accomplishment. It is a whole-album experience, as all of the superb advance singles somehow sound even better in context. The influences, whether deliberate or God-given, unite pop, rock, folk, Americana, Europa, Broadway (no, really!), rural soul, California sun, and--to quote an older Armoires song title--Appalachukrania, blended to form a unique and sublime tapestry. The production just sounds amazing, so inviting and warm, enhancing hooks and melodies unwilling to shy away from deeper meaning, hummable tunes unafraid to embrace their own essential kickass identity. The Armoires absolutely mean it. 

I'm convinced.

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This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. Recent shows are archived at Westcott Radio. You can read about our history here.