Starting out with one of the catchiest songs ever, this podcast is the usual eclectic mix of crunchy and smooth, sweet and bitter, pretty and ugly. All compiled for your appreciative ears. 1. Cars Can Be Blue – Sun blows up 2. Impulse International – Saturday Suzie 3. Davila 666 – El Lobo 4. Stevie Stiletto – Let’s Blow This Taco Stand 5. Grabbag – Hipster 6. Hold Steady – Constructive Summer 7. Statues – Still, There are the Ones 8. Monikers – Information 9. Real McKenzies – My Mangy Hound 10. Gallows – Staring at the Rude Boys 11. Skarpretter – Naziscum 12. Off with their heads – I am You 13. 50 Foot Wave – Vena Cava 14. Undertones – Smarter than U As for the documentary “My Life is Great: The Stevie Stiletto Story,” here is the link to the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMvMvw1am5E.

It is time for another covers show and I got a smokin’ one here. You know, I never use the term “smokin’”. Ever. That’s weird that I just used it. Anyway, this covers podcast is a kick arse mix of classic rock, classic punk, and a few oddballs thrown in for good measure. 1. Some Chinese punk band – Pretty Vacant 2. Alkaline Trio – Rooftops 3. He Who Corrupts – Welcome to the Jungle 4. Get Up Kids – Suffragette City 5. Crowd – Your Generation 6. Stiff Little Fingers – No Sleep Til Belfast 7. Diabolical Exploits – Science of Myth 8. Lockjaw – The Young Ones 9. Dishes – Action Woman 10. Local H – I Just Want Something to Do 11. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – Country Roads 12. Love Spit Love – How Soon is Now 13. Camper van Beethoven – Kingston Advice

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. It’s like a punk rock bouillabaisse. Good for you and oh so yummy! 1. Lillingtons – Black Hole in My Mind 2. Arrivals – Juvenile Delinquent 3. Fall – Rollin’ Danny 4. Dopamines – Navigation Point 5. Telenovela – You Own the Neighborhood 6. Minutemen – Two Beads at the End 7. Guided By Voices – Motor Away 8. Moral Crux – Bomb for the Mainstream 9. Rancid – Harry Bridges 10. Vitamin X – Yes Sir, No Sir 11. Within Range – When Peace is War 12. Quicksand – Omission 13. Full of Fancy – Girls Don’t Cry 14. Mill A H-Uile Rud – Crath D’Thon 15. ICH – Smells Like Community Spirit 16. Dillinger Four – File Under “Adult Urban Contemporary” 17. Minor Threat – Minor Threat

This is seriously a kick-ass podcast. Seriously. I even went slightly over my usual 45 minute time limit. Check it out: 1. Ergs! – Very Pretty Song for a Very Special Young Lady Part 2 2. Roxy Epoxy – New Way 3. Tristess – Stockholm City 4. Star Fucking Hipsters – Two Cups of tea 5. La Grecia – Hey Medic 6. Thermals – When I die 7. Touchers – Galveston Giant 8. Nobunny – Not that good 9. Lillingtons – Don’t Trust the Humanoids 10. Tranzmitors – Bigger Houses, Broken Homes 11. Monikers – Mirror Images 12. Iron Chic – In One Ear 13. Ninja Gun – Eight Miles Out 14. 50 Foot Wave – Animal 15. Youth Brigade – It’s Not Like That Anymore. That’s some good rockin’ right there.

Hoo boy, 14 songs to get your blood flowing and feet moving. Including one song about Michael Jackson, one song about patriarchy in the hardcore scene, and one song about eating shit and enjoying it. And one song in Spanish that could be about how stinky my feet are, for all I know. 1. Grabass Charlestons – Un-American 2. NoName – Smash Everything 3. Saints – This Perfect Day 4. New York Dolls – Jet Boy 5. Down and Away – Black & White 6. Coathangers – Shake shake 7. Beauty Pill – You, Yes You 8. Calimoxte – Pensamos Diferente 9. ICH – Another Song About Eating Shit and Enjoying It 10. Stressface – Wash the Blade 11. Latterman – The Biggest Sausage party Ever 12. Thee Headcoatees – Punk Girl 13. Stevie Stiletto – Greyhound Station 14. Rakes – Retreat. Crank it.

Slightly delayed, it is podcast #41. Featuring a number of bands from around the world, including Japan, China, N. Ireland, Finland, Denmark, and South Africa. Check out the line-up: 1. Dopamines – Satisfaction of physical retraction from a chemical reaction 2. Skarpretter – fuck you, system 3. Strikeforce Diablo – Sharp tongue, no teeth 4. Rudi – I spy 5. ? chinese punk band - ??? 6. Ex-Girl – Pretty You Ugly 7. Fokofpolisiekar – Priotiseer 8. Kansalaistottelemattomuus – Anti-Fash 9. Suicide Machines – Did You Ever Get the Feeling of Dread? 10. Mezingers – Lesson in the abuse of information technology 11. I.C.H. – Ooooooh Gorgeous 12. Juliana Hatfield – Why do I care 13. Jaguar Love – Humans Evolve into Skyscrapers 14. Defiance, Ohio – the List Dig in!

A special podcast, based entirely from my friend Ian's CD collection. Heavy on the rockabilly, with lots of classic songs: 1. Gene Vincent – Who Slapped John? 2. Meteors – Mutant Rock 3. Fractured – Girl on the Corner 4. Eddie Cochran – Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie 5. Warren Smith – Ubangi Stomp 6. Torment – Funeral Party 7. Randy Alvey and the Green Fuzz – Green Fuzz 8. Cramps – New Kind of Kick 9. Skids – Into the Valley 10. Morrissey – Irish Blood, English Heart 11. Robert Gordon – Flyin’ Saucers Rock’n’Roll 12. Conflict – This is not enough 13. Havana 3 a.m. – Joy Ride 14. Lonnie Donegan – Frankie and Johnny

KPunk! #39, featuring a bloc of recent UK DIY punk songs that I’ve picked up while in Scotland. Plus some great old stuff as well. A yummy mix of goodness. 1. Dishes – Use Your Arms 2. Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet 3. ICH – My First Political Song 4. Global Parasite – Prejudice 5. Just Panic – Crime 6. Oi Polloi – Americans Out 7. Mill A H-Huile Rud – Oran Sabaid Sabhal Mor Ostaig 8. Gin Goblins – I Just Has a Thought 9. Johnny Thunders – Chinese Rocks 10. Fall – Mr Pharmacist 11. X-Ray Specs – Oh Bondage Up Yours! 12. Dead Boys – Sonic Reducer 13. Methadones – Getting Older/Losing Touch

KPunk! #38: An early podcast because I’ve been obsessed with Death lately. 1. Damned – Neat neat neat 2. Death – Freakin Out 3. Full of Fancy – 30 Days 4. Thumbs – Presidential Street Station 5. Turtlehead – Medication Time 6. Alternative TV – Love Lies Limp 7. Spits – Tuff News 8. Bananas – Gentrification for Dummies 9. Mugwumps – Pass Out 10. Sonics – Strychnine 11. Measure (SA) – Just Go 12. Stevie Stiletto – Walk/Pest 13. Dear Landlord – Lake Ontario 14. Venus Cures All – Heaven and Earth 15. Estranged – Static Thoughts 16. Death – Politicians in my Eyes

KPunk! #37. Some chunky, chewy goodness to get you through your day. Ingredients: 1. Lillingtons – I need some brain damage 2. Tilt – Viewers like you 3. Tilt Wheel – 2:07 am 4. Veterans – I think it’s so cool 5. Ramones – Commando 6. Narcoleptic Youth – Barbi in bondage 7. Big Drill Car – Friend of mine 8. Statues – Electric Fences 9. Epoxies – Synthesized 10. Rakes – 22 grand job 11. Touchers – History of strange fruit 12. Mclusky – Alan is a cowboy killer 13. Meteors – Wreckin’s crew 14. Monikers – Holiday 15. Nation of Ulysses – Comment on ritual. Great for your high-protein, low-carb diet.