MonkeyBeat 70: RAPTURE!!!

Only a few days left to "get right" with the lord. So why not do so while listening to new music from Urge Overkill, Bill Cosby & His White Puddin Pops, Robert Pollard, Pangea, Kid Congo, John Paul Keith, Fucked Up and Barrence Whitfield & The Savages. Plus a rare track from...
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MonkeyBeat 69: You Can't Solve All The World's Problems With A Shotgun

Tons of new music from the likes of Dennis Coffey, The Original Sins, Night Marchers, The Masonics, The People's Temple, Cheeseburger & more. Plus live recordings from Scott McCaughey's recent series of solo gigs in Portland. ...
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MonkeyBeat 68: Finger Banger

80 minutes of killer tracks including new tunes from Kurt Baker, The Db's, Peter Case, Apache & Roger Alan Wade. Plus rare tracks from The 5,6,7,8's with Jack White & Leave It To Beaver star Jerry Mathers. Also a live song by The Ugly Beats from this year's SxSW. ...
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MonkeyBeat 67: Out Of My Tree

Today I pay tribute to one of the greatest vocalist is rock, Kent Morrill of The Wailers, who passed away on April 15th, 2011. I also play Record Store Day releases from Ty Segall, Fucked Up with Danko Jones, Jill Sobule & John Doe. Plus new music from The Cynics, Cute Lepers,...
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MonkeyBeat 66: Everyone Old Is New Again

New music from old artists is the theme of the show. Plus I talk about seeing a 65 year old man fake his death, the 10th anniversary of Joey Ramone's passing, the new site design of MonkeyBeatCity, podcasters begging for dough and making myself square looking so I can beg for a ...
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MonkeyBeat 65: Please Don't Sue Me

No description is provided for this episode for fear of incrimination & prosecution...
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Video highlights from the MusicFog Marathon at SxSW 2011

Since I am not able to post original content today, as I intended, I will instead regurgitate share some clips I found from this years MusicFog Marathon at SxSW. You can find all 46 performances at their Ustream channel, but here are the ones I thought would be of particular interest...
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MonkeyBeat 64: We're Doin' It Live!

Due to time constraints I opt to do a live show & surprisingly it's not a total train wreck! I even manage to have somewhat lucid rambling about the Power Pop-A-Licious music festival, Ben Weasel's SxSW fight & my friend's new podcast "SLEW"...
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MonkeyBeat 63: The Working Man Is Pissed!

I drop the news on what's been going on in my life, ask why there aren't unions for tech workers & try to to bum-out about it...
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MonkeyBeat 62: Go Johnny Volume!

I blast right out of the gate with a rant over an audio comment left by a listener. That's followed by a recap of this last week's Bender, and how I got called out this week for being a major flake...
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MonkeyBeat 61: I'm All Out Of Words

For those of you who think I talk too much and hate my rambling, this is the episode for you, because I ain't got much to say...
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Video: Little Steven's International Underground Garage Festival 2004

I'm sure anyone coming to this site has at least a passing idea of the existence of Little Steven's Underground Garage, so I won't go into great detail here. Well in 2004 when Sirius was launching the Underground Garage channel, Van Zandt talked them into putting on a huge one day music festival to demonstrate...
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MonkeyBeat 60: Underappreciated, Good Tunes & Megatouch

As I state at the top of this show, I had a bummer day. Maybe I rant a bit too much about it, how last years was a good year for music and my dream of playing Megatouch with Lemmy. If so just skip past my jibber-jab and enjoy all the great music...
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MonkeyBeat 59: There's No Escaping Toilet Paper

I can't describe how good the music is on this show. Just listen to it...
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MonkeyBeat 58: Sonic Sounds

Starting the new year off with the longest show I've ever done, because I have a back log of great tunes left over from the long break...
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