Suburban Underground

Suburban Underground

Your alternative mixtape show. Playing music commercial radio won’t and songs you haven’t heard in a long time.

Episodes

July 4, 2025 60 mins

Happy Independence Day!  This week, Steve picked two sets of independence and freedom songs.  Artists played in this week's show are: The Kinks, The Shins, M83, The Comsat Angels, Lloyd Cole, Oasis, The Rolling Stones, The Bangles, Old 97's, Roxy Music, The New Pornographers, The Horrors, Go-Go's, Tears For Fears.

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This week, Steve picked a couple of sets of "good" songs, in contrast to the "bad" and "evil" songs from the previous show.  In this show you will hear the artists, Duran Duran, Imperial Teen, The Raveonettes, Sloan, Tift Merritt, Tommy Pluta, The Chameleons UK, Collective Soul, Feargal Sharkey, Starsailor, Royel Otis, Pulp, Electronic, Anti-Flag, Frank Sinatra.

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June 20, 2025 60 mins

This week, Steve picked two sets of songs about being "bad" or "evil".  In this show you will hear the following artists: Face To Face, Ian Brown, The Bogmen, The Yardbirds, Star Collector, Franz Ferdinand, Kate Pierson, Madness, Fireking, Then Comes Silence, Sam Fender, The Sharks, Eytan Mirsky, Arctic Monkeys, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions.

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June 13, 2025 60 mins
This week's Suburban Underground is an hour of poker-related songs. Or, if they are not directly related to poker or card playing, they at least mention terms used in poker. (A cheat, I know.)    In this show you will hear artists Electric Light Orchestra, Dave Edmunds, Killing Joke, The Clash, Link Wray, Sonichrome, Pale Lips, Modest Mouse, Tsar, The Vaccines, Iron Maiden, Everclear, Reverend Horton Heat, Toad The Wet Sprocket, J...

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June 6, 2025 61 mins

This week, Steve picked a set of "wheels" songs.  In this show you will hear artists: Yachts, The Flashcubes, Kaiser Chiefs, Simple Minds, Rush, The Damned, Spacehog, Matt Pond PA, Hippo Campus, Stereophonics, Johnny Marr+The Healers, The Reflectors, The Struts, Foster The People, Siouxsie And The Banshees.

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May 30, 2025 61 mins

This week, Steve picked a set of "invisible" songs.  In this show you will hear the artists: The Amber Squad, Smith Westerns, Lazy, Alison Moyet, Viola, U2, The Boys, The Damned, Bartees Strange, Alabama 3, Sharon Van Etten, The Pale Fountains, The Field Mice, Cage The Elephant, Ginger.

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May 23, 2025 60 mins

This week, Steve picked all 1998 songs.  In this show you will hear these artists: Garbage, Imperial Teen, Remy Zero, R.E.M., Semisonic, The Smashing Pumpkins, Soul Asylum, Hole, Splitsville, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Econoline Crush, The Cardigans, Caesars, Sonichrome, Liz Phair.

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May 16, 2025 61 mins

This week, Steve picked a set of doll songs and another set of puppet songs.  Here are the artists played in this show: The Cryers, The Call, Creosote, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Hole, Jesse Jo Stark, Fig, En Attendant Ana, The Kooks, Echo And The Bunnymen, 10000 Maniacs, Wondermints, Missing Persons, Travoltas, Sunflower Bean, The Sherbs.

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May 9, 2025 60 mins

This week's Suburban Underground has a set of virtual love songs.  In this show you will hear the artists: The First Time, Frankie Rose, Guster, The A's, Adam & The Ants, The Real Numbers, The Hives, Pixies, Rubblebucket, Cheap Trick, Martha And The Muffins, The Charlatans, Yaz, Frank Black, The Drams, The Sundays.

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May 2, 2025 59 mins

This week, Steve picked two sets of "talking" songs. Not songs with Lou Reed-Leonard Cohen-Art Brut talk style vocal stylings, songs that reference talking.  These artists are in this show: The A's, The Pretenders, Fontaines D.C., Fad Gadget, Caesars, The Struts, Cheap Trick, The Cure, The Hives, The Hellacopters, Dear Boy, British Sea Power, The Cardigans, Blancmange, Citizens!, Fast Eddy, Morrissey.

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April 25, 2025 63 mins

In this 9th anniversary episode of Suburban Underground, Steve picked an hour of "supergroup" songs.  Unsure exactly what a supergroup is?  Well, tune in, friend, and it will all be revealed to you.  In this show you will hear the artists: Golden Smog, SuperHeavy, The Dead Weather, Temple Of The Dog, Electronic, Zwan, The Lords Of The New Church, The Last Shadow Puppets, Tinted Windows, Audioslave, The Good The Bad And The Queen, A...

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April 18, 2025 60 mins

This week, Steve picked an hour of live songs by the artists: David Bowie, Tears For Fears, Texas,  Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Talking Heads, The National, Rancid, Wilco, Deco, The Warning, Fountains Of Wayne, Marshall Crenshaw, Pixies, The Rolling Stones, Talk Talk.

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April 11, 2025 59 mins

This week, Steve picked two sets of songs about years.  In this show you will hear songs from the artists: Howard Jones, Nushu, Cults, New Order, Joey Ramone, Phoenix, April Wine, The Krispies, Inhaler, David Bowie, Arctic Monkeys, Imperial Drag, Caesars, Cast, The Black Keys, The Primitives.

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This week, Steve picked an hour of songs about bombs and explosions.  You will hear the artists: Electrafixion, Ash, Michael Monroe, Devo, Old 97's, Bully, The Clash, The Cardigans, The Hives, Blur, Vinyl Kings, 12 Rods, Monster Magnet, Son Volt, The Freeze, Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine.

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March 28, 2025 61 mins

In this episode of Suburban Underground, Steve picked a set of gold songs and a set of silver songs.  Here is the rundown on the artists played this week: The Clash, Research Turtles, The Warning, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Pleasure, Rilo Kiley, The Donnas, The Rosenbergs, Razorlight, Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, Echobelly, The Cure, Possum Dixon, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Depeche Mode.

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March 21, 2025 60 mins

In this show there are a couple of sets about personal injuries.  Here are the artists you'll hear in this episode: The New Pornographers, Gorillaz, Brigitte Calls Me Baby, AC/DC, The Cardigans, Dead Poet Society w/ The Warning, The Exploding Hearts, Fluffy, CHVRCHES, Rockpile, Teaze, The Replacements, The Dandy Warhols, De La Soul, The Fratellis, Dean Martin.

 

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March 14, 2025 61 mins

This week, Steve put together an hour of songs about running.  Artists included in this show are: The B-52's, New Order, Cage The Elephant, Beck, BZZZ w/Jay Buchanan & Doll Knight, Youngblood Hawke, Paramore, The Blakes, Midget, Foals, B-Movie, Caesars, Marmozets, The Soup Dragons, No Doubt, Iron Maiden, Dean Martin.

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March 7, 2025 61 mins

This week, Steve included a set of "Hollywood" songs as well as a bunch of other great tunes.  Artists this week include: Joywave, U2, The Dead 60s, Big Audio Dynamite, Jet, Suede, Menswear, Garland Jeffreys, Sons Of Elvis, Band-Maid with The Warning, Positive Noise, Pavement, Telephantom, The Rosenbergs, La Luz, Franz Ferdinand.

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February 28, 2025 61 mins

This week, Steve picked a few songs about hammers, plus a lot of great songs from these artists: The Hives, Fireking, Lights, Utopia, Queen, Kula Shaker, The JTG Implosion, Dives, Wishy, Bryan Ferry, Nirvana, British Sea Power, Barking Poets, Then Comes Silence, U2.

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On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio      *** 5pm Friday ***      *** 10am Sunday ***      *** 8pm Monday ***

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This week's Suburban Underground playlist which features songs from the 1970s covered in the 1980s and songs from the 80s covered in the 90s.  Artists in this week's show are: The Cars (with an Iggy Pop cover), Iron Maiden (with a Montrose cover), David Bowie/Tina Turner (with an Iggy Pop cover), Redd Kross (with a Kiss cover), The Bangles (with a Big Star cover), Michael Monroe (with a Flamin' Groovies cover), R.E.M. (with a Wire...
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