Suburban Underground
Your alternative mixtape show. Playing music commercial radio won’t and songs you haven’t heard in a long time.
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This week's show is full of songs about horses...or related to horses...or tangentially connected in some way to horses. In this show you will hear Modern English, Wolf Alice, The Beatles, Marc Bolan & T. Rex, Electric Six, Jet, Echo & The Bunnymen, Slothrust, Fleetwood Mac, The Dead Weather, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Ian McCulloch, The Shins, The Trash Can Sinatras, Bat For Lashes, Genesis Owusu.
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This time, Steve is putting out the 3rd installment of power pop music. The first two being bonus solo podcast-only shows back during COVID. This one centers on late 70s and early 80s power pop. Here are the bands played:
Blitz, The Innocents, The Cryers, Nikki And The Corvettes, Stiv Bators, April South & The Pennies, Phil Seymour, Pinkees, Quincy, The Undertones, Bleeding Hearts, Kidda Band, Blue Shoes, Fotomaker, Bram Tch...
This is the 2nd of two installments of songs that Steve played on his college radio show but never played on Suburban Underground...but probably should have. In this show you will hear Simple Minds, Goanna, Hanoi Rocks, New Musik, Robert Ellis Orrall, The Bangles, The Sherbs, Blondie, Alphaville, Australian Crawl, Billy Bragg, Hoodoo Gurus, Peter Godwin, Bow Wow Wow and The Call.
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This week, Steve pulled from out of the archives of his 80s college radio show, songs that he played on the air in college and probably SHOULD HAVE played on the air during Suburban Underground's run, but never did. In this show you will hear some familiar artists and some unfamiliar: Eighth Route Army, Mission Of Burma, O Positive, This Mortal Coil, The Things, Miracle Legion, Simple Minds, Ministry, Cabaret Voltaire, Siouxsie &a...
This week, Steve is putting out an uninterrupted 80s New Wave Dance Party. Sorry that its a little long. Listen to it on a road trip or while painting or something. Steve puts his dance mix skills to work. (Spoiler: he's not a pro at that but he has his moments.)
You will hear artist: OMD, Peter Gabriel, Depeche Mode, Billy Idol, The Cure, Alphaville, Simple Minds, Ministry, INXS, Fiction Factory, New Order, Tears For Fears, Tin Ti...
This week, Steve picked songs connected in some way with the genre of film known as "westerns". Either they directly reference the west such as being a cowboy, or they use samples from famous western films...or they use familiar cinematic western film score tropes that were introduced by such composers as Ennio Morricone.
In this show you will hear Thin Lizzy, Hoodoo Gurus, Eighth Route Army, The Shadows, Big Audio Dynamite, Richar...
This week, Steve picked an hour's worth of songs that highlight the best of David Bowie in the 1990s. You will hear from such albums of his as 'Black Tie, White Noise', 'Outside', 'Earthling' and 'Hours...'.
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In this second installment of collaborations, Steve picked the following artists: The Brian Setzer Orchestra w/ Gwen Stefani, Blondie w/ Duran Duran, Time Zone [Afrika Bambaataa/John Lydon], Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto, The Thorns [Shawn Mullins, Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge], Sharpe + Numan [Bill Sharpe and Gary Numan], Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey, FFS [Franz Ferdinand + Sparks], Electronic [Bernard Sumner and Johnny Ma...
This week Steve gives you a beyond the airwaves episode of Suburban Underground that is about collaborations. There will be a part 2 coming in a few weeks. Here is part 1's full list of artists: Brian Eno & David Byrne, Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown, Ric Ocasek (with Billy Corgan), The I Don't Cares (Paul Westerberg & Juliana Hatfield), Squackett (Chris Squire & Steve Hackett), Ian Hunter & Mick Ronson, Carbon/...
This week, Steve brings you the 2nd half of the 2025 in memoria show. We will hear these artists who we sadly lost last year: Black Sabbath (Ozzy Osbourne), Golden Earring (George Kooymans), Terry Reid, The Simpsons (Alf Clausen), T. Rex (Mark Volman aka Flo of Flo & Eddie), The Yardbirds (Chris Dreja), Stray Cats (for Sonny Curtis), Blancmange (Stephen Luscombe), Kiss (Ace Frehley), The Moody Blues (John Lodge), Squeeze (Gils...
In this 2018 interview with OMD, during their tour promoting their album The Punishment Of Luxury, conducted by the WBNH program director Harry Kozlowski, Steve interweaves songs from throughout the band's career.
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This week is the penultimate broadcast episode of Suburban Underground. It is a countdown show of the top 15 years from which songs were played in the history of the show. These artists are played in this episode The Accidentals, The Black Keys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Two Door Cinema Club, Florence + the Machine, U2, The Wombats, The Smiths, The Damned, Red Rockers, The A's, 4 Out of 5 Doctors, Original Mirrors, The National, Hippo Camp...
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This week, Steve picked a set of imagination songs. Here are the artists you will hear this week: Elvis Costello And The Attractions, She Wants Revenge, The Happy Fits, Cheap Trick, Nada Surf, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, Radiohead, The Shazam, The Damned, Rilo Kiley, The Tories, The Help Desk, Siouxsie And The Banshees.
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This week, check out the tenth and final Suburban Underground Halloween episode. In this show you will hear scary songs from such artists as The Sound, The Wild Swans, Radiohead, Alice Phoebe Lou, Best Coast, The Cure, Matthew Sweet, Caesars, Rich Kids, Robert Finley, Orianthi, Howlin' Wolf, The Blow Monkeys, The Warning, The Pretty Reckless, Walter Etc.
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This week, we have a set of blade songs. Here is the full list of artists played this week: The Jam, The Bluebells, The Charlatans, The Boys, Louise Aubrie, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Killers, The Rifles, Mondo Cozmo, The Raconteurs, The Kooks, Sloan, Paul Weller, Suede, Dear Boy, The Organ Beats.
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In this week, Steve picked one set of "losing" songs and another set of "lost" songs. In this show, one of the last broadcast episodes of Suburban Underground, you will hear the artists: ABC, The Riptides, Rush, Depeche Mode, American Hi-Fi, Richard Ashcroft, Army Navy, Wet Leg, Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra, Metric, Concrete Blonde, Nation of Language, Stephen Wilson Jr., Eddie Floyd.
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