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Playlist by James Hawthorne

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Elvis Costello

Television

Bruce Springsteen

Happy Birthday, Joan Jett

Porcupine Tree

The Who

I never get tired of this record.

Hall and Oates

A cut off a solid album that doesn't seem to get as much love as some of the others.

Blue Oyster Cult

The Police

Andrew Gold

A great musician and songwriter.

Steely Dan

Steve Earle

The Black Crowes

Joni Mitchell

Film School

New music off their album "Field".

The Rolling Stones

Brand spanking new music!

Thin Lizzy

I will always remember this song came out right around the time I returned home from my first year of college. Just seemed so right.

Presto Ballet

Be Your Own Pet

Funny band name, high energy tune.

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North Atlantic Oscillation

Bob Mould

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

They Might Be Giants

Drab Majesty

A track off their forthcoming record.

The Stone Roses

The Babys

Ben Folds

My wife and I really enjoyed seeing him and his band perform in Seattle last night.

Rebecca Pidgeon Does The Beatles

Stevie Nicks

Boy, this is truly a classic 80's video!

Raspberries

I always thought this was a clever, well produced song.

Chicago

The Edgar Winter Group

Genesis

Talking Heads

Zebra

Motorpsycho

Todd Rundgren

A "cocktail lounge" version of the much loved Utopia song.

Jane's Addiction

The Darkness

Foghat

KISS

Robin Taylor Zander

The son of Cheap Trick's front man has a new debut record.

Patti Smith Group

Kate Bush

Joan Jett

Ambrosia

Loved this band back in the day!

John Lennon

The Kinks

REM

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Hall and Oates

Greta Van Fleet

New album out today (7-21-23).

Brian May

The theme song for a childen's show back in the 80's.

Type O Negative

A darker take on the classic Seals and Crofts tune.

ELO

I remember listening to this album on a hot summer night 50 years ago.

West Indian Girl

Steve Hackett

SH performing a classic Genesis cut.

Happy Birthday, Linda Ronstadt

The supremely talented, very sexy singer turns 77 today.

Bee Gees

A really interesting older track. Kind of spooky, maybe even Goth sounding in places.

The Cowboy Junkies Cover Gram Parsons

The Dandy Warhols

Steely Dan

A song that seemed really subversive in 1973.

XTC

Aurora Covers Nick Drake

A track off a recently released tribute album.

Carly Simon

A song about having a hard time staying away from somebody you know is always ultimately going to let you down.

Spoon

Cheap Trick

Bruce Hornsby and The Range

Thomas Price

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Lucinda Williams

New album out today (6-30-23).

Blur

New music from the Britpopsters.

M83

Wings

Pink Floyd

All Them Witches

This is one of those long tracks you can just hang out with for a while.

Transatlantic Covers Yes

Paul Rodgers

New music from the Free/Bad Company singer.

Small Faces

Ben Folds

A track off his new album. My wife and I are going to see him play in Seattle 8/20/23.

Dwight Yoakam

A blistering version of that old tune you might remember from the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

The Church

The Band

My favorite song of theirs.

The Psychedlic Furs

Todd Rundgren

The first song of his I ever heard. And I still love it.

ELO

Alice Cooper

New music from A.C.

Traffic

So, so groovy.

Eagles

Susanna Hoffs Does Bad Company

Peter Frampton

I always felt this should have been a hit for PF.

John Lennon

Peter Koppes

He is a former member of the Australian band The Churh.

Be Bop Deluxe

Crown Lands

An epic Rushian type tune.

Jane's Addiction

The Flaming Lips

I've always found this to be a very poignant tune.

Chris Rea

This was the first song of his I heard. But there are lots of other good ones as well.

Jeff Beck

Eyelids

Saw this band in Portland last night. They were so great.

Rival Sons

David Bowie

REO Speedwagon

Boston

A track off a 2013 album. Pretty good record, I think I like it as much their second one.

Focus

Sparks

Foo Fighters

A track off their new album due out 6-2-23.

Teenage Fanclub

New music off an album due later this year.

Sugar

Austin Lounge Lizards

Pretenders

A song off their new album due out in September.

Happy Birthday, Pete Townshend

The rock god turns 78 on 5-19-23.

Iggy Pop

Joe Walsh

Wow, this album is now 45 years old.

Van Halen

Some good stuff on this record.

Def Leppard

Chuck Prophet

I love the guitar on this song, very 70s.

Cheap Trick

Zager and Evans

Fountains of Wayne

The Lemon Twigs

Now, this is one serious self-pity song.

Queen

The Clientele

The Barnestormers

Don Henley Does Randy Newman

A track off Randy's sadly unappeciated rock opera.

Rod Stewart

This song and video are SO 80's.

Stevie Wonder

A great jazz-rock-fusion track.

The Besnard Lakes

This guy's voice is amazing.

The Black Keys

Leon Russell

Hindu Love Gods

Foo Fighters

A cut off their new album, due out in June.

Steve Earle

A track off a new compilation that features country performers doing Rolling Stones songs.

Elton John

Fruit Bats

Ben Folds

New music from BF.

Smashing Pumpkins

A track off the new album due out 5-5-23.

Blue Oyster Cult

Some tasty pop metal from the mighty BOC.

Rush

Crown Lands

A cut off their new album released 3-31-23.

Beck

Fleetwood Mac

A beautiful track from the era before Lindsey and Stevie joined the crew.

Randy Newman

A track off the album that first turned me into a Randy fan.

Pete Townshend

New solo music from the Who guitarist and songwriter.

The Keene Brothers

Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices fame teamed up with power pop legend Tommy Keene to do this record. I like it a lot.

REM

I always think of this as an "athletic" sounding song.

The Faces

What an awesome, wonderfully ragged rock 'n roll song. Sad these guys didn't stay together longer.

Rolling Stones

David Bowie

Be Bop Deluxe

Porcupine Tree

Linda Ronstadt

She tackles a Warren Zevon tune.

Kate Bush

Tame Impala

Rush

Boston

I remember buying this record because I liked the cover. Eventually I heard it at every party I went to...

The Nude Party

A cut off new album released today (March 10th).

Yes

A track off their new album due out in May.

The War on Drugs

Pete Townshend

Neil Young

Happy Birthday, David Gilmour

The guitar hero turns 77 today.

Donald Fagen

A soundtrack cut.

Sparks

The title track off an album that will be released in May. By the way, I also highly recommend the documentary "The Sparks Brothers" (currently available on Netflix). Lots of fun.

Stories

A track off one of the great overlooked albums of the Seventies, in my humble opinion.

Happy Birthday, Roger Daltrey

The rocker turns 79 today.

Cheap Trick

Courtney Barnett

Death Valley Girls

A track off the new album released 3-24-23.

Led Zeppelin

Crown Lands

A track off their new album due out 3-31-23.

Utopia

The first version of the group.

School of Seven Bells

The Church

A track off their new album due out 2-24-23.

Inhaler

Shoes

The Police

Tom Petty

A track off Full Moon Fever.

Bruce Hornsby

A cut off an album he released in 2022.

Happy Birthday, Peter Gabriel

He turns 73 today.

Cream

Matthew Sweet

One of the best power pop artists, in my opinion.

Yo La Tengo

Rest in Peace, Burt Bacharach

A lesser known tune.

The Byrds

Joe Guido Welsh

The sax is so great on this tune.

The Who

Uriah Heep

Happy Birthday, Alice Cooper

He turns 75 today.

The Wallflowers

Pretenders

Amazingly sharp video considering it came out like forty years ago.

Rick Derringer

Magic Castles

Some nice modern day psychedelia.

Happy Birthday, Phil Collins

Simon and Garfunkel

Rest in Peace, Tom Verlaine

Another death that really stings for me. He was the lead guitarist and singer for one of the most interesting American punk/New Wave bands.

Guided by Voices

A cut off their new album. Surprisingly pretty.

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

An updated version of the Marvin Gaye classic.

New York Dolls

I think this album has aged pretty well over the decades.

Warren Zevon

Warren was born on this day in 1947.

Journey

David Gilmour

A track off my favorite album of the 80's.

Ty Tabor

Ty is the lead guitarist and co-lead singer for King's X.

Rest in Peace, David Crosby

He was a very important figure in the history of American rock and roll.

The Three O'Clock

High energy New Wave from the early 80's.

Styx

The Cramps

Jefferson Starship

Grandaddy

Jackson Browne

Rest in Peace, Robbie Bachman

He passed yesterday at the age of 69.

Rest in Peace, Jeff Beck

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Alvaays

Interesting title...Tom Verlaine was the lead singer and guitarist for the band Television back in the 70's.

Happy Birthday, Rod Stewart

Rod the Mod turns 78 on 1-10-23.

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Page

Spock's Beard

A very talented American prog rock band.

Alissia

Some mighty fine funk, y'all.

World Party

Spoon

A track off their recent album "Lucifer on the Sofa". I like pretty much every song on there.

Linda Ronstadt

Iggy Pop

A track off the new album due out 1-6-23.

Utopia

Foghat

One band decided in 1976 we'd all spent enough time in the country.

The Pretenders

Chrissie Hynde is always funny and kind of scrappy live.

Mamas Gun

Some brand new sweet soul sounds.

Beck

A cover version of a tune originally done by the Korgis.