Rock N Roll Archaeology

02/21/2025

Episode #26 is out and available. And it stars the guy who wrote this song...

02/15/2025

Coming Tuesday! And it's a good one!

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02/06/2025

Lately, we're just playing this one on repeat

“Idiot Wind" by Bob DylanListen to Bob Dylan: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the Bob Dylan YouTube channel: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/_subscribeY...

02/03/2025

Robert Hilburn, "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman" (2024, 544 pp.)

01/15/2025

Patreon supporters get it AD FREE, so if you fit that description, get on over there! Link in the first comment.

Or: have a Spotify Playlist! It includes the latest RNRA Short, and some assorted Bob Dylan and Timothée Chalamet goodness. That link will be in the second comment.

Main Show Update: Episode 26 is an hour-and-a-half epic covering David Bowie and 70s Glam Rock. We've already cleared the first draft, expect that one soon!

01/14/2025

This week, to celebrate the 100th episode of My Weekly Mixtape, I am creating “The Ultimate Mixtape” along with 65 guest curators, all of which were either previous My Weekly Mixtape guests, friends of the show or one of the amazing Patreon Mixtapers.

And, because I simply couldn’t celebrate 100 episodes in one sitting, this week will consist of THREE brand-new episodes!

Now, to create this Ultimate Mixtape, I started by asking everyone the same question: If you had to choose one song for the ultimate mixtape (any song / any genre), that would be locked away in a time capsule for others to discover years or decades for now…which song would you choose and why?

Now, I’m not lost on the fact that the question is just a spin on the “desert island song” question that a lot of my guests have been asked countless times. The twist for the next few episodes is: I am taking those 65 song choices (all of which are from various bands, artists, decades, genres and tempos), and curating them into what I hope will be a properly sequenced playlist from a musical perspective!

At the very least? This was a fun & unique twist on a question as old as interviews themselves. But at its best? Congratulations, you’re listening to The Ultimate Mixtape!!

This ep. Includes the first 20 song choices! Stay tuned for Volume’s 2 & 3 later this week, to get the full experience!

Guests appearing in Vol. 1 (in no particular order):

Robin Wilson of Gin Blossoms, Jim Loughlin Music of moe., Drew Copeland of Sister Hazel, Don Jamieson of RockStrap & VH1’s That Metal Show, Coco Kinnon of Winona Fighter, Bryan W. Scott of THE UNION UNDERGROUND Official, Britt Lightning of V***n, Sandy MacKinnon of Royal Tusk, Christian Swain of Rock N Roll Archaeology & Pantheon Podcasts, Joe Milliken, Author of Let's Go: Benjamin Orr and The Cars, DT Carel of Space Castle, Ed Cunard of Fawkes & Friends, Steve of Something for Nothing: A RUSH Fancast, Zack Derby of The Neatcast, Ben Montgomery of Records Revisited Podcast, Matt Kennedy of XRadioX, Tony G. of Podioslave Podcast, Miles Schuman of Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp: The Podcast, and last (but certainly not least!) two of the incredible Patreon Mixtapers: Seeker & Tom Hutchinson.

Listen now via the link in my comments!

12/26/2024

First off, happy holidays from all of us to all of you!

Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger, and the Newport Folk Festival.

Characters and setting for a pretty good story!

opened everywhere on Christmas Day, and being Cinephiles (Christian Swain) and Dylanologists (Richard) of course we went.

We don't want to brag (not true, we actually kinda like bragging), but we told this story too! Way back In Episode Five of RNRA on Pantheon Podcasts. Hit the Spotify link here, or go to our website.

We *are* proud of this one. We feel Chapter Five was the RNRA episode where we hit our full stride; found the secret sauce recipe. The right mix of storytelling, musicology, and commentary that brings Rock N Roll history to life in a way that's fun and compelling.

Check it out, see what you think! It's a good companion to the movie. And keep an eye out for more content coming right after the New Year!

Cheers everybody!
Christian, Jerry, & Richard

12/11/2024

Holiday songs that aren't cringey (yes, there are a few), Part Two. Here's Herbie Hancock and Corrine Bailey Rae doing Joni Mitchell's "River."

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupRiver · Herbie Hancock · Corinne Bailey RaeRiver: The Joni Letters℗ A Verve Records release; ℗ 2007 UMG Recording...

12/06/2024

What is your favorite Christmas song, and why is Fairytale of New York by The Pogues the one correct answer? Discuss.

Official video for Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacCollStream The Pogues greatest hits here ▶ https://RhinoUK.lnk.to/ThePoguesSubscri...

12/05/2024

11/21/2024

The three hour-plus Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band performance rocked, enchanted and transfixed the 35,000 who were on the Asbury Park beach.

11/20/2024

https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Awe-Seventies-Twenty-first-Century/dp/0062279807/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GseLnklcqFIwDYsjpwWywu8EpesAPZ9Hp1cXnyIPRgDdvUbQf2ustZn19RELmgWt80KQAlvF35D0iNfwF5rGeWrcXK3L78EwBOTA2O_F26U.xwtzpcntHvE03AL8xUaFvIlviCwkrTVK5AE1S7Hd1TM&dib_tag=se&hvadid=598729489595&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9032535&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=12012038873230256097&hvtargid=kwd-250612212532&hydadcr=22568_13531199&keywords=simon+reynolds+shock+and+awe&qid=1732134787&sr=8-1

I usually enjoy the reading I do as research for this or that episode or RNRA Short. Sometimes, it's a bit of a chore. Once in a while, I run across a book that just sends me; really entertains and teaches at the same time. Here's one of those. Strongly recommend.

Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century

11/19/2024

Got a new Short out, check it!
On our website, or the usual podcast feeds!

11/16/2024

A foreign body and a foreign mind
Never welcome in the land of the blind

Provided to YouTube by YouTube CSV2DDEXNot One Of Us · Peter GabrielPeter Gabriel 3: Melt (Remastered)℗ 2009 Peter Gabriel Ltd.Released on: 1980-05-23Auto-ge...

11/15/2024

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11/14/2024