Archived Shows from 2003

12.28.03 Episode 91: New Years!
It’s that time again so get out the champagne glasses and the funny hats, and turn the radio up to 10 for the Underground Garage Year End Dance Party.
The Renegade Nation staff voted on their Coolest Song In The World This Year and we’ll be revealing the winner of that very high honor along with the usual assortment of Byrds, Turtles, Beatles, Buzzcocks, Animals, and Woggles.
Start the New Year off right with the coolest rock and roll records ever made here in Underground Garageville!!
Don’t forget to vote for your Coolest Song In The World This Year – the polls close January 7

12.21.03 Episode 90: Happy Holidays from Little Steven’s Underground Garage!
This weekend you'll hear two hours of holiday music Underground Garage style. We've got some great tales about the origins of the candy cane and other holiday traditions.
Along with some Garage Rock Christmas Classics, we've also got festive contemporary tunes from Dr. Detroit and the Wayouts, the Swingin' Neckbreakers, the Kaisers, the Butties, the Raveonettes, the Darkness, the Paperbacks, the White Stripes, and Jet.
So gather 'round the hearth, crank up the radio, and settle in with your mug of hot chocolate or spiked eggnog. Itza Rock and Roll Christmas Dance Party!

12.14.03 Episode 89: All Shook Up
This week on The Underground Garage Rock and Roll Dance Party we're paying tribute to Alan Freed and Keith Richards in honor of their December birthdays.
There was a time about fifty years ago when Rock and Roll was just short of illegal. Alan Freed was instrumental in putting the genre on the map, getting it on the radio, and redefining and popularizing the term Rock and Roll.
As for Keef . . . what can you say? The Godfather of Garage Rock, The Skull-Ring Studded Pirate. He doesn't get older, he gets scarier. Let's revisit how he joined the Stones and in fact how he almost didn't join the Stones. The Stones without Keith Richards doesn't bear thinking about.
We got some cool sounds this week from The Dirtbombs, The Strokes, The Cocktail Slippers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Preachers Kids, The Singles, The Reigning Sound, The Shazam, The Woggles, The Chesterfield Kings, and The Dictators. And our Coolest Song In The World This Week is from some southern folks we've all been familiar with quite a while now.

Well bless my soul, what's wrong with me?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree
My friends say I'm actin' wild as a bug
I'm in love, I'm all shook up
- Elvis Presley and Otis Blackwell -

12.07.03 Episode 88: Dance Party
This week we celebrate the birthdays of Frank Sinatra and John Cassavetes with our Underground Garage Rock Dance Party.
We're also planning a little interlude to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Playboy magazine this week.
The pop culture bebop bus also makes a stop at the first motel in the world and what a cool story that is.
Get down on it with new music from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Iggy Pop, and David Bowie and others along with cool contemporary garage sounds from Jet, the Fondas, the Preachers Kids, the Reigning Sound, the Boss Martians, the Rubber City Rebels, the Swingin' Neckbreakers, the Dirtbombs, the Model Rockets, the Star Spangles, and the Hentchmen.
Grab the hot chocolate and peppermint schnapps (if you're over 18 that is) and get your groove on with Frank and John.
Itza don't miss . . . . . . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11.30.03 Episode 87: Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving season we're gonna count some of the reasons we have to be thankful. Contemporary garage and new music from the Chesterfield Kings, the Boss Martians, the Dirtbombs, the Flaming Sideburns, Ko and the Knockouts, the Strokes, David Bowie, the Fondas, Cotton Mather, Iggy Pop, the Romantics, and the Preacher's Kids. And the great music that came before them all.
We're also gonna explore the backstory behind Thanksgiving . . . Why does the children's rhyme "mary had a little lamb" have anything to do with it? And some pop culture historical musical and culinary notes as well.
Make a date with your radio this weekend or pull up a chair to your computer and celebrate Thanksgiving with little Steven's Underground Garage !!!

11.23.03 Episode 86: Cleveland (and Ohio)
As we all know, Cleveland rocks, and this week we're gonna prove it to you by doing a show about Cleveland and the great state of Ohio to welcome WNCX 98.5 in Cleveland to our growing family of station affiliates.
We're going to get into the rich musical history of the state, from garage rock classicists the McCoys, the Choir, the Outsiders, and the Raspberries, to godfathers of punk rock like Devo and the Dead Boys to contemporary garage music from Guided by Voices, the Soledad Brothers, Cobra Verde, the New Bomb Turks, the Greenhornes, and the Rubber City Rebels.
We're also getting into the rich radio tradition of Cleveland starting with of course Alan Freed, the greatest dj of all time, to "Mad Daddy" Meyers, on through to Kid Leo who used to rule the airwaves in the 70's.
But wait, there's so much more . . . Swingo's Hotel, no longer downtown but still in operation and thriving . . . The Cleveland Agora . . . The Belkin Brothers . . . The Beachland Ballroom . . . America's polka king, Frankie Yankovic . . . Jane Scott's Rock and Roll column in the plain dealer . . . Coconut Cream Pie at sokolowski's . . . The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum . . . And, naturally, Cleveland international records.
Hang on Sloopy . . . Sloopy hang on!

11.16.03 Episode 85: SCORSESE III
Welcome to the Underground Garage re-celebration of Martin Scorsese on the occasion of his birthday November 17.
We're featuring songs from his 43 years of filmmaking. We think he is the most musical director ever as well as the first director to use Rock and Roll music in film. Two to three songs in each set this week are dedicated to his movies.
The underground garage spotlights new music from the Fondas, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Star Spangles, Iggy Pop with Sum 41, the Boss Martians, and the Dirtbombs this week.
Come on down and join the party!

11.09.03 Episode 84: Louie, Louie
"It is the best of songs, it is the worst of songs. A rock'n'roll song, a calypso song, a sea chanty, a filthy, dirty, obscene song, the story of rock'n'roll in a nutshell, the most ridiculous piece of junk in the history of damnation. A stupid song, a brilliant song, an R&B oldie, a punk rock classic, a wine cooler commercial, an urban legend, a sacred text, a song with roots, a glimpose of the future, the song that defines our purpose, the very voice of barbarism. A song that casts a spell, a song that ought to have been forgotten and many times has been - and for all that, a song that roots into the brain until there's no erasing it. Barely a song at all - three chords and a cloud of dust; the song that really does remain the same - no matter the misinterpretations it suffers. An old story, an untold story."
- Dave Marsh, Louie Louie, hyperion books
(soon to be university of Michigan books)
40 years ago this week "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen first entered the national charts. That record not only gave birth to garage rock but popularized its kissing cousin frat rock as well. We're featuring a few of the hundreds of cover versions of the song in this week's show and telling some of what has to be one of the most incredible stories in the history of rock and roll.
You'll be hearing some contemporary frat garage from the Woggles, the Fleshtones, the Donnas, the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Boss Martians, the Fondas, and the Killer Barbies . . . Alongside some frat classics.
So get ready for a tribute to the song that encouraged a thousand toga parties, and gave birth to a million garage bands, most of whom are in this show!

11.02.03 Episode 83: Halloween II
It’s Halloween and we’re celebrating this week with a Very Special Guest reading from a tantalizing tome that you’ll be able to purchase at every book store starting October 31st.
The Celts believed that life and death came together at this time and that all laws of time and space were suspended, allowing the spirit world to interact with the living.
No tricks, but plenty of treats this week with some ghoulish Classic Garage along with a spate of Contemporary Garage from the Fuzztones, the Strokes, Andy G. and the Roller Kings, the Redeemers, the Boss Martians, and (of course) Creatures of the Golden Dawn.
And to quote Steven, we will continue bringing Rock and Roll back from the dead so it can put on a hockey mask or a sweater and hunt down and dismember all the pretty pop people in their cars on lovers lane.



10.26.03 Episode 82: San Francisco
This weekend the Underground Garage makes its debut in San Francisco on KSAN the bone 107.7.
To honor our foray into the city by the bay, we offer a salute to the city's rich musical heritage by spinning some very cool tunes by the likes of Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, Blue Cheer, the Grateful Dead, the Charlatans, Big Brother & the Holding Company, the Rubinoos, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Flamin' Groovies, Green Day, and the Chocolate Watch Band.
Naturally we are also playing music from contemporary garagers the Chesterfield Kings, the Fondas, and the bay area's own Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Big Midnight.
We have a frisco-themed freak of the week, coolest song in the world, and brief history of SF by a very special guest.
Tune in, turn on, and drop by!

10.19.03 Episode 81: Heeere's Johnny (and Stiv)
We're celebrating the birthdays this week of two guys who couldn't be more different - Johnny Carson and Stiv Bators. But both made their name as great entertainers. And both of them are greatly admired by those of us here at little Steven's Underground Garage.
In addition to telling their stories, we've got some sonic wonderment on the agenda as usual. Talk about eclectic! We've got Johnny Cash and the Beach Boys, Chan Romero and the Byrds, reaching down to the roots of rock and roll and forward into the future. New music from the star spangles, the Raveonettes, the Strokes, Jet, the High Dials, the Caesars, the Fondas, and the Singles.
Not to mention - new Iggy! New Bowie! It's like Berlin in the fertile late 70's!
Take it away . .

10.12.03 Episode 80: A Tale of Two Lennys
This week we celebrate the release in 1972 of the most influential compilation record of all time in our not very humble opinion - Nuggets: original artyfacts from the first psychedelic era 1965-1968.
Compiled by a team of truly deranged diehards ably led by Lenny Kaye and Gary Stewart, nothing has influenced this radio show as much as the Nuggets album. Nuggets chronicles the moment in the 60's, says Steven, when pop became rock.
Naturally we're playing lots of Nuggets tracks in this show (more than usual!) And we are also featuring seven new bands with new music. Check 'em out and dig their sounds: the High Dials, Jet, the Gore Gore Girls, the Killer Barbies, the Singles, the Fondas, and the Star Spangles!! And new releases from Iggy Pop and the Fuzztones!!
And listen to the show to find out who the other Lenny is!

10.5.03 Episode 79: New Netherland mornings
This week's show revisits the great teeming metropolis of New York city with some New Jersey thrown in . . . Hence the title 'New Netherland mornings' which refers to both areas and is the original name the Dutch settlers gave when they wrested the land from the Indians who lived there.
Jazz in midtown and Harlem, Bohemia and Dadaism in Greenwich village, punk rock on the lower east side, the Brill building, Ed Sullivan, and more . . . Manhattan both filthy and gorgeous is feted by the Underground Garage.
Tune in to hear new Netherlands's finest both old and new - from the New York Dolls to the Chiffons, from Dion to the Velvet Underground, from Blondie to the Four Seasons, and more.
Hear new music from cool contemporary garage bands like the Strokes, Mooney Suzuki, the Star Spangles, and the Fuzztones among others.
Join us this weekend for a big juicy bite of the big apple!

9.28.03 Episode 78: School of Rock
School of rock star Jack Black co-hosts 'Little Steven's Underground Garage' - Black is first-ever 'Underground Garage' co-host.
Before school of rock star Jack Black appears in theaters as an out-of-work rocker masquerading as an elementary school teacher, he'll be a DJ on this episode of the underground garage.
Actor, comedian, and lead vocalist of rock duo Tenacious D, Black will spin classics from the Ramones and the Who, as well as a couple of his original songs, all of which are featured in school of rock.
Little Steven commented on his unprecedented microphone-sharing experience: "It's an honor because Tenacious D was a big influence on me growing up."
Don't miss this one.

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9.21.03 Episode 77: 77 sunset strip
Welcome to the underground garage homage to TV show detectives, a genre which started way back in 1949.
Quoth Steven: more than any other genre, the detective TV show has endured, providing us with the fictional reassurance that no crime goes undetected, no criminal unpunished, no lollipop unsucked.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. We're going to attempt to cover some of them in this week's episode.
We're investigating the Yardbirds, Elvis Costello, the High Numbers, and Dusty Springfield (among others) . . .
Along with instant contemporary classics from the Raveonettes, the Chesterfield Kings, the Singles, the Strokes, Cocktail Slippers, the Woggles, Freddy and the Fourgone Conclusions, Jet, the Fuzztones, and the Vines.
The stories you will hear on this show are all true. The names have been changed to help promote showbiz careers.
Just one more thing . . .
- Columbo -
And you can take that to the bank.
- Baretta -
Ciao baby
- Kojak -

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9.14.03 Episode 76: shindig!
It's time to swing with Shindig! If you're 6 or 96, you'll get big kicks on shindig!
The underground garage tributes the landmark rock and roll TV show created by producer jack good, shindig. Hard to believe but it only was on the air 16 months back in the mid 60's but that was long enough to influence scores of rock and roll TV shows of the day and even, much later, MTV.
Our freak of the week is a true scenester who was involved in so many scenes and genres that it makes your head spin - and we mean that in a good way. That's all the hint we're gonna give you. Listen and learn.
We also have some new Fuzztones, romantics, and chesterfield kings. There are so many great new records out now it's hard to keep up! But we're making a valiant attempt believe you me.
So in addition to classic garage, 50's and girl group and punk roots of garage, some British invasion, and a slightly psychedelic set . . . We bring you contemporary garage instant classics from the High Dials, Outrageous Cherry, the Contrast, the Caesars, the Killer Barbies, and the Cocktail Slippers.
Keep Shindiggin'!!

9.07.03 EPISODE 75: High School Confidential
School is a powerful experience that lasts throughout one's life. Not so much what one learns in school as much as the repetitive day after dayness of it and the interactivity with friends and foe that sets us up for relationships for the rest of our lives; the very powerlessness of the whole experience.
It's the law. You can't get out of it.
And maybe this is why at the beginning of September every year - whether you are 6 or 60 - you can still hear that bell ring telling you that you're late for class and you're unprepared for that test in third period.
In this episode The Underground Garage examines back to school week and the cult of the teenager which came to fruition in the 50's.
Pulp Fiction and B-Movies capitalized on the rebels and juvenile delinquents.
In the 60's after the advent of Beatlemania, Madison Avenue began to realize the buying potential of the teenager and learned to exploit it. A policy which now drives global advertising as this market has turned out to be the most lucrative and desirable.
A lot of former teenage truants make up this show as we honor the misfits, outcasts, and freaks that stood out in high school. Every member of the Underground Garage team can relate and so can many of our listeners. But we don't mind if you were or are a football player or cheerleader. Come one, come all!!
Join the Bobby Fuller Four, the Ramones, the MC5, the Rocky Fellers, the Beach Boys, the Stooges, Jerry Lee Lewis and more as we toast days gone by in the sickly green halls of ed-you-kay-shun
. . . and join more recent juvies like the Donnas, the Crybabies, the Paybacks, the Caesars, Jet, the Raveonettes, the Singles, and the Killer Barbies at the High School Hop.

Open up honey its your lover boy me that's a knockin' You better listen to me sugar all the cats are at the High School rockin' Honey get your boppin' shoes Before the juke box blows a fuse Got everbody hoppin' everybody boppin' Boppin' at the High School Hop Shakin' at the High School Hop I've rollin' at the High School Hop I've been movin' at the High School Hop I've been groovin' at the High School Hop -Jerry Lee Lewis-

8.31.03 Episode 74: Labor Daze
Welcome to the Underground Garage labor day Swingin' Soiree. We're going to celebrate the working man and woman in this week's show. One last long summer weekend before autumn digs in. We'll always find an excuse for a party so get ready for the last beach blanket bingo of the year, those of you who don't live in Florida or California that is.
The movie "yellow submarine" was pretty amazing back in its day and even more so now. The story behind it is even more outrageously colorful than the film itself. Check out this week's show for more details.
As usual we got the coolest music mix going . . . A little British invasion (animals, Beatles, Yarbirds, Hollies, Dave Clark Five) . . . A little 70's punk (Lou Reed, Sex Pistols, Joan Jett) . . . A little blues roots of garage (muddy waters) . . . Some classic garage (Knickerbockers, Richard and the Young Lions) . . . And of course the wildest contemporary garage going today from the Chesterfield Kings, the Romantics, the Reigning Sound, the Caesars, the Shazam, White Stripes, the Singles, and Ko and the Knockouts.
The revolution will be moving from the beach to the tanning beds so enjoy it while it lasts!!!
Who is the hippie that´s happenin´ all over our town?
Tearin´ up chicks with the message that he lays down
who is the coolest guy, what is, what am?
That´s fast-talkin’-slow walkin’-good-lookin´ Mohair Sam.
(Charlie Rich)

8.24.03 EPISODE: 73 - Mohair Sam
This week the underground garage celebrates one of the most important moments in rock and roll history. August 27, 1965, Elvis Presley meets the Beatles en masse for the first and only time. Exactly what transpired? Tune in this weekend to find out.
Our freak of the week in this episode is someone you all know and love. He’s lean, he’s mean, and he wears black jeans. His life would make an incredible best-selling novel. You’ll have to listen to the show to find out who it is.
Speaking of best-selling novels, “the godfather” hit number one on the charts this week in 1969. The story of how Mario Puzo came to write it is amazing and you’ll hear it on the show.
In addition, way cool contemporary garage sounds from the likes of the Flaming Sideburns, the Chesterfield Kings, the Killer Barbies, the Caesars, the Raveonettes, the Grip Weeds, and more!
Not to mention of course the usual sizzling mix of British invasion, punk, power pop, and American rock and roll.
And lastly, we’re celebrating the release of a brand new CD from our favorite Mexican wrestlers, Los Straitjackets, on yep roc records, supersonic guitars in 3-d. Enter the contest to win a Dipinto guitar!!!!

8.17.03 Episode 72: Summer
Welcome to the underground garage alright already it's summer show. Belly up to the bar with one of those funny looking drinks you only have in the summertime, the kind that's a weird color and has a toy umbrella floating in it, and enjoy the beach sights and sounds. If you're not on the beach we guarantee this show will simulate it for you.
Amongst other summer lore, we're going to reveal the story behind the invention of the bikini and how it got it's name. It's crazy, it's wacky, it's wild.
Also in this week's show, we reveal everything you never knew about the swinging blue jeans and their place in british invasion history.
Add to that a sizzling summer mix of garage roots, classic garage, and contemporary garage from the romantics, the swingin' neckbreakers, the chesterfield kings, the high dials, cotton mather, and the killer barbies.
Surf city, here we come . . .

8.10.03 EPISODE 71 - OZ
This week's show includes a salute to the great Davie Allan, who has a brand new album coming out in the very near future. One of the elements which gives underground garage its texture is the highly varied selection of instrumental music used for musical beds. Of course Davie Allan's blues theme is our signature outro every week. But we've also featured other great instrumentals by bands such as the Waistcoats, the Krontjong Devils, Link Wray, the Ventures, Duane Eddy, the Atlantics, Ben Vaughn, and Laika and the Cosmonauts. The musical bed information is included in each week's playlist posted on the website every Sunday night at 10pm est.
We're also saluting the wizard of oz, released 64 years ago this week. Talk about being before your time. That movie was a trip in every sense of the word. Little Steven reveals some of the oodles of strange trivia about the film. We can't get to all of the oddities in oz - there are books written on this subject - but it might very well inspire you to march off to the video store and check out that amazing film one more time. And that is not a bad thing.
And if that's not enough, we're also celebrating the incredible career of producer Shel Talmy. His birthday is this week. Shel worked with the Easybeats, David Bowie, the Kinks, Creation, Pentangle, the Fuzztones, and the Who, among others.
Add to that our freak of the week and a buncha cool stuff from new and old garagers and you've got another splendid installment of little Steven's underground garage.
To quote Steven . . . Uncle Sam wants you baby. Only you can save rock and roll.

8.03.03 EPISODE 70 - Film Noir
This week we celebrate the film genre known as film noir, that is to say Dames and Guns and Booze and Venetian Blinds. We're also celebrating the storied life and brilliant career of John Huston. Houston's first directing job was on a movie you might recall, The Maltese Falcon, also believed to be the film that kicked off the genre of noir.
According to Steven, "Defining Film Noir is like defining Garage Rock. It's impossible but you know it when you see it or hear it."
We're featuring a virtual plethora of Contemporary Garage this week from the Crybabies, the High Dials, the Woggles, the Raveonettes, the White Stripes, the Monochords, and the Cynics.
And always remember…. Crime Does Not Pay!

7.27.03 EPISODE 69 - Kookie/Scandinavia
This week's show is a Very Special Birthday Tribute to Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, who played Gerald Kookson III, AKA Kookie, the suave 'n' swingin' parking lot attendant at Dino's Restaurant on 77 Sunset Strip. 77 Sunset Strip is
the cool rockin' grandaddy of all the private detective TV shows. All of which is to say that this week's show is even ginchier and more hep than usual, which is saying something!
We're also focusing on the Outstanding Garage Rock that has come out of the Scandinavian countries recently, on this the last stop of our European Tour that began with Show #61. We're showcasing a grand total of 8 bands from
Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark in this week's show.
And speaking of Scandinavia, we're going to give you some background on a communal nation founded by hippies tucked away in one of the Scandinavian countries. It's a fascinating story - don't miss it.
We also have not one but TWO world premieres in the show, one of which is the Coolest Song in the World so you'll have to listen to find out what it is. The other one is from a seminal 80's garage band that hasn't had a
studio recording in many years. Both worth waiting for!
So get the party hats out and raise a glass to Kookie!

7.20.03 EPISODE 68 - GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!
Get yourself a tall cold one and stretch out on your lawn chair. We're deep in the overheated, sweaty heart of July and this week's show is a special Updated Repeat of our Girls of Summer Special from last year. Oh, the crazed excitement that goes with 80 degree temperatures and convertibles cruising the strip with their tops down and hot dogs and french fries and under the boardwalk and up on the roof.
Every song in the show this week (except for the Coolest Song In The World) is about a girl, some girls, all girls. There's Donna, and there's Maria, and Irene, and there's Janie, and there's Valleri, and Rosalyn, and Prudence, and there's Angelina, and there's Cynthia, and on and on and on.
Pass the suntan oil, baby. . . We're on fire here. It's just too easy to get burned so get that SPF up to 30.
So take your swizzle stick and mix Blondie and Aerosmith and Tommy Roe and the MC5 among others up with Contemporary Garage from the Lyres, Fuzztones, Chevelles, Insomniacs, and Woggles. And the Underground Garage toasts the Girls of Summer now and forevermore.

7.13.03 EPISODE 67 - PSYCHEDELPHIA / 1967
This week's episode takes as its theme the tumultuous and wondrous year of 1967, wherein lay the Summer of Love. This was the year that pushed those of us lucky enough to be there over the edge into full-fledged psychedelia. We came in colors everywhere. So to speak.
To quote Steven, "Never in history, before or since, has such a substantial portion of the public, worldwide, been so emotionally synchronized with an art form. Rock Music became the all encompassing, inspiring, motivating,
educating medium of a generation."
Among the many reasons this year was remarkable was the release of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band on June 1. This was the start of the album as an entity, not as a collection of single releases. Eventually this would
change radio forever. Our Freak of the Week would also change radioforever - tune in for more info on that.
We're also going to delve into some '67 lore like the Monterey Pop Festival, the Human Be-In, and the famous Rolling Stones bust at Redlands. Who Breaks A Butterfly On A Wheel, indeed.
We're playing All Psychedelic Stuff this week and, along with the classics, feature Contemporary Psychedelic Garage from the Warlocks out of San Francisco, the Contrast from England, New Jersey's Anderson Council, Detroit 's Outrageous Cherry, the High Dials from Montreal, Mr. Brown from Australia, and Nashville's The Shazam. So turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream . . . .

7.06.03 EPISODE 66 - Hamburg/1966
This week we continue our roadtrip throughout the globe and touch down in Hamburg, Germany which can arguably be called the real birthplace of the British Invasion. This is where the Beatles really honed those stage chops
which eventually helped them to conquer the world. Which reminds us, this week is Ringo's birthday so we're celebrating that too. You know us, any excuse for a party!
Since this is Show 66 we are also doing a little historical perspective on that penultimate year for Garage Rock classics, the final year, as Steven says, before Rock and Pop went their separate ways. "There was a feeling
that anything could happen and usually did."
Our Freak of the Week is a 12th century German Benedictine nun! When you hear about her, you will know why.
This week we're featuring new music from Contemporary Garage Bands like the Hives, Cotton Mather, Jet, the Donnas, the Monochords, the Chains, and the Soundtrack Of Our Lives. Who will be crowned The Most Cool? Listen and find out!!
So who in the world is Bruno Koshmider and what does he have to do with the Future of Rock and Roll? How did the Troggs get discovered? The answer to this and other questions shall be revealed during our two hour Bavarian Beer Fest. Auf Wiedersehen!

6.29.03Episode 65: Florence/1965
From Florence, Italy, the birthplace of Western Art, we continue our roadtrip through Europe this week. Noted Italian rock journalist Paolo Zaccagnini is our very special guest helping set the theme for us.
We're going to touch on the year 1965 historically as it is our 65th show as well as immerse ourselves in Italian culture this week. Pass the olive oil, baby.
Our Freak of the Week is Pier Paolo Pasolini, noted film director, poet, essayist, screenwriter, novelist, painter, and critic. His personal story rivals that of his films for drama, intrigue, sex, and violence.
In keeping with our Italian theme, we're also going to talk about Giuseppe Garibaldi, a close runner up for the Freak of the Week. He was an Italian patriot and soldier back in the early 1800's and his story is quite amazing.
We're instituting a new feature, Coolest Request of the Week, in honor of our production interns who literally discovered a band who ended up playing this week's Coolest Song in the World! (Listen to find out what it is) So write to us at undergroundgarage@littlesteven.com with your requests and we'll track them down. Please remember that we can't play demos or unreleased material and that Garage Rock is our beat, baby.
Also we bring you Contemporary Garage from Creatures of the Golden Dawn, The Shazam, The Greenhornes, the Apers, Apples In Stereo, Reigning Sound, Freddy & The Four Gone Conclusions, the Buzzcocks, and the Fleshtones!
We're in Italy so mangia, mangia, mangia.

6.22.03 Episode 64: London/1964
In this show we fete the British Invasion of 1964 which changed all life as we know it forevermore. You'll hear a plethora of seminal British Invasion bands including the Searchers, Beatles, Dave Clark Five, Kinks, Rolling Stones, Small Faces, Manfred Mann, Hollies, and The Who.
The Underground Garage also features the work of Mickie Most, one of the dozen or so vitally important record producers of the 60's, who we tragically lost very recently. He had hits with the Animals, Hermans Hermits, Donovan, the Yardbirds, the Jeff Beck Group, and many more.
We also bestow our highest honor on Ronan O'Rahilly, the Father of Radio Caroline, Freak of the Week. You won't believe his story. And he's still out there, going strong. We haven't heard the last of him.
In our 64th Episode of this Rock and Roll Dance Party, you will also find Contemporary Garage gems from Scotland's Kaisers, England's Libertines and The Contrast, the Gore Gore Girls from Pittsburgh, Finland's Flaming Sideburns, and Australia's Jet. Plus brand new music from England's Buzzcocks!
It's a global revolution.

6.15.03 EPISODE 63: Paris/1963
This week we will be celebrating the great American folk-rock band, the Byrds. The Byrds’ "Mr. Tambourine Man" was one of the seven records that changed the world.
Can you name the others? Well, if you can’t we are gonna tell you in this show.
This week we are also in the very cool city of Paris, land of Revolution, Bohemians, and striking workers. Here we will introduce our new feature, our "Freak of the Week." And let me tell you, you have to be real cool, and a real freak, to be the Freak of the Week.So in addition to some Byrds, we also will be playing the Yardbirds, Foo Fighters, New York Dolls, Model Rockets, Kinks, Outrageous Cherry, the Contrast, and a host of other rockin’ stuff.
So tune in and "a’biento’t," that's French for see you soon in the Underground Garage.

6.08.03 EPISODE 62: Barcelona/1962
We are in Barcelona this week as we travel the world seeking answers to the cosmic questions such as Do You Swing? And I Think, Yes, But Therefore Do I Rock & Roll?
This week’s show examines the breathtaking city of Barcelona sparkling on the Mediterranean. We delve into the outrageous, twisted, profane, divine, incredible world of architect Antoni Gaudi – most of his works can be found in Barcelona.
We also talk a little bit about the year 1962 since it is our 62nd show. There was the Cuban Missile Crisis.. and the Ealing Jazz Club… and Marshall McLuhan’s Gutenberg Galaxy… and “Palisades Park” by Chuck Barris… it was a heavy year, mi amigo.
In this week’s show you’ll hear the usual trippy mix of old and new. First Generation Garage, Classic Garage, and Roots of Garage from The Saints, The Stems, Spencer Davis Group, the Crystals, the Ramones, Pretty Things, Jefferson Airplane, Traffic, Them, The Who, The Clash – and more!
Contemporary Garage featured from the Crybabies from Worcester, Mass., Brooklyn’s Fleshtones, Australia’s Jet, Finland’s Flaming Sideburns, Detroit’s White Stripes and Freddy and the Four Gone Conclusions, and Denmark’s Raveonettes.
Welcome to the Casa De Locos that is the Underground Garage!

6.01.03 EPISODE 61: Amsterdam/1961
This week the Underground Garage broadcasts from the beautiful city of Amsterdam.
Also since it is our 61st episode we riff a little bit about the year of 1961, the political and cultural atmosphere of the way things were back then, which in fact is as remote from today's as 1861 would be.
What do Bob Dylan and Roger Maris have in common?
Why do Dutch people prefer their country to be called the Netherlands rather than Holland?
What did Golden Earring do before they were Golden Earring?
Who really got Brian Epstein down to the Cavern to see the Beatles for the first time?
What does Allen Ginsberg have to do with all this?
Yes, these answers and more, as well as a groove-laden mix from the Nazz, Howlin' Wolf, the Kinks, David Johansen, the Sonics, the Yardbirds, the Searchers, Irma Thomas, the Ramones, Q 65, the Pretty Things, and more!
Featuring music from Contemporary Garage bands the Paybacks, the Hives, the Libertines, Creatures of the Golden Dawn, the Apers, the Reigning Sound, and the Boss Martians.

5.25.03 EPISODE: 1960
It’s Party Time! Memorial Day Weekend! The unofficial start of summer!!! And Little Steven’s Underground Garage is gonna plug you in to the coolest rock and roll songs ever recorded – from Howlin’ Wolf to Howlin’ Pelle Almquist. Sit back, relax, and get into that summer starting groove.
This is also our 60th show and so we will take a look at the year 1960. The first televised presidential debates! The last Howdy Doody Show! The Twist dance craze and the beginning of the sexual revolution!
And of course the usual heady mix of classic Garage-y delights from the Creation, the Knickerbockers, the Marmalade, the Dave Clark Five, the Hollies, the Bobby Fuller Four, Moby Grape, among others – and new material from Australia’s Jet, the Donnas, Outrageous Cherry, Ko and the Knockouts, the Fleshtones, Freddy and the Four Gone Conclusions. Add to that Elvis Costello, the Clash, the Ronettes, Big Star, the Sex Pistols, and youhave another fine edition of the Underground Garage.

5.18.03 EPISODE 59: DYLAN
This week the Underground Garage celebrates Bob Dylan on the occasion of his birthday May 24th. . . a gentleman, scholar, and groundbreaking rock poet who once played a high school sock hop in Minnesota with his band and had the plug pulled by the principal because the music was too loud.

We celebrate his work and his life with at least two Dylan songs in every set of the show this week. Quoth Steven, “You combine that dedication to authenticity, a complete immersion in folk tradition, an ear for language, beat poetry imagery, a political antenna, and build all that around a rock and roll heart and you’ve got a dangerous guy.”

Amen to that. Check out our birthday tribute to Bob with the likes of The Ramones, The Byrds, The Animals, The Small Faces, The Turtles, Jason and the Scorchers, Manfred Mann . . . and Contemporary Garage Gems from the Chains, The Libertines, The White Stripes, Ko and the Knockouts, Sahara Hotnights, the Cynics, and the Fuzztones!!

Tune in to find out how journalist Al Aronowitz changed the world and why Muddy Waters was the meeting place of two very powerful and really opposite musical forces. Not to mention – who gets the title of Coolest Song in the World This Week???!!!

5.11.03 EPISODE: 1958
Little Steven's Underground Garage examines the musical and cultural influences that marked the year of 1958. Quoting Steven, "1958 was the beginning of the end. And within a year it would be all over . . . <this music> represented freedom in a way the American constitution only implied, in a way the declaration of independence could only suggest, in a way the bill of rights could only promise. For 200 years politicians stood around talking about it. . . Rock and Roll delivered the goods."

In this show Steven reveals the crux of the Underground Garage's whole ethos . . . You will have to listen to find out what it is. Hint: Queens, New York figures in the equation.

From Elvis Costello to Transvision Vamp, from the Count Five to the Dave Clark Five, from Johnny Thunders to the Move, from the Yardbirds to the Who, from the Birds to Dusty Springfield, from the Rich Kids to the Ramones, from the Strawberry Alarm Clock to the Rolling Stones, this is one dance party you will not want to miss.

Also new music from Detroit's outrageous Cherry, Gore Gore Girls, and White Stripes, Memphis' Reigning Sound, New York's Fleshtones, Atlanta's Woggles and Forty-Fives, England's the Contrast, Worcester's Crybabies, and the redoubtable Ringo Starr from his new album.

To quote the Ramones…………… LET'S DANCE.

5.04.03 EPISODE: SURF'S UP!
This week the Underground Garage pays tribute to the great continent of Australia and its island neighbor New Zealand. Almost all of the music in this show is from one of these two very cool garage meccas.
Starting with 1960’s Classic Garage from Australia’s Easybeats right up until Contemporary grooves from New Zealand’s D4 and beyond, these two countries are hotbeds of seething musical excitement.
Peter Garrett puts it this way in his Australia Day speech earlier this year: “We are a literate, creative nation, remarkably free of enemies. Importantly, to my mind. Australia is not bound up by ancient tribal or religious enmities that have scarred the Old World, nor do we necessarily have to be beholden in the future to any one power or ideology.”
Giving them more time for rock and roll.
So check out old and new sounds from the Easybeats, the Chevelles, the Hekawis, the Simple Image, the Purple Hearts, the Stems, the Vines, the La De Da’s, the Saints, the Bee Gees, the Scientists, the Easybeats, Midnight Oil, the Lime Spiders, Mr. Brown, Radio Birdman, the D4, Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts, and Miss Toni McCann.
Surf’s Up!

4.20.03 EPISODE 55: NEW NETHERLAND NIGHTS
This week's show takes as its theme the great teeming metropolis of new york city . . . With some new jersey thrown in . . . Hence the title 'New Netherland Nights' which refers to both areas and is the original name the dutch settlers gave when they wrested the land from the indians who lived there. Jazz in midtown and harlem, bohemia and dadaism in greenwich village, punk rock on the lower east side, the brill building, ed sullivan, and more . . . Manhattan both filthy and gorgeous is feted by the underground garage. We have a first on this week's show - not one but two coolest songs in the world !!! Both by new york bands. Tune in for details. And tune in to hear new netherland's finest both old and new - from the new york dolls to the chiffons, from dion to the velvet underground, from patti smith to the four seasons, and more. Hear new music from cool contemporary garage bands like the mockers, mooney suzuki, the swingin' neckbreakers, and the grip weeds among others.

4.13.03 EPISODE 54: Not Fade Away
In the immortal words of Andrew Loog Oldham, “The Rolling Stones are more than just a group – they are a way of life.” This week the Underground Garage salutes the April 1964 release of
the very first Rolling Stones album. Along with several selections from the aforementioned album, you’ll hear our usual eclectic Garagey mix of delectables from The Standells, The Pretty Things, Transvision Vamp, Humble Pie, The Ramones, The Hollies, The Clash and more.
Also Contemporary Garage from The Cynics, The Datson Four,
Soundtrack of Our Lives, and Creatures of the Golden Dawn in
addition to this week’s Coolest Song In The World!