Rockin' the Suburbs

By Rockin' the Suburbs

Patrick Foster and Jim Lenahan have a new podcast! Come join two (not so) ordinary family guys in the basement (or on the deck) as they talk about their lifelong obsessions with music. Now ... 5 da

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The podcast currently has 2,426 episodes available.

Rockin' the Suburbs episodes:

November 20, 2024 1996: Rocktober New Music 3: Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Brower, Abstract Crimewave, Isak Benjamin
The Rocktober 2024 New Music Train is on a long distance journey today, chugging from Wisconsin to Sweden. Bob Peterson and Niklas Nygards are in control and they are talking up new tunes from Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Brower, Abstract Crimewave and Isak Benjamin.

Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

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If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.
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14min
November 19, 2024 1995: Rocktober New Music 2: Dream Theater, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Body Metta, Christina Mantis
All aboard the Rocktober 2024 New Music Train! We throw the horns up and crank it to 11 with Steven Routledge and Paul Hayden and new tunes from Dream Theater, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Body Metta and Christina Mantis.

Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

Email Jim & Patrick at [email protected]

Follow us on the Threads, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.
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18min
November 18, 2024 1994: October New Music - Superchunk, Baseball Project, Bartees Strange, Kathleen Edwards
Jim kicks off the October New Music series with choice cuts by Superchunk, the Baseball Project and Bartees Strange. Plus, a Tom Petty cover from Kathleen Edwards.

Get with Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, like audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com.

Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

Email Jim & Patrick at [email protected]

Follow us on the Threads, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com
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16min
November 15, 2024 1993: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 4: Progressive Bluegrass AKA Newgrass
It’s time to crack the final can of our Bluegrass 4-Pack! It contains the history of progressive bluegrass, when younger musicians began to expand and enhance the traditional sounds of Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs.

Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

Email Jim & Patrick at [email protected]

Follow us on the Threads, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.
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25min
November 14, 2024 1992: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 3: The Festival Movement
We’re onto part three of the Bluegrass 4-Pack today, in which we take a look at the birth of the bluegrass festival movement, which began with two seminal events in Virginia in the 1960s.

Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

Email Jim & Patrick at [email protected]

Follow us on the Threads, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.
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20min
November 13, 2024 1991: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 2: Flatt and Scruggs
We open another can from the Bluegrass 4-Pack today, as Patrick outlines the remarkable career of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. They left Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in 1948 and went on to take the music to a whole new audience and level of popularity.

Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

Email Jim & Patrick at [email protected]

Follow us on the Threads, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.
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19min
November 12, 2024 1990: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 1: Genre and History with Bill Monroe
It’s time to crack into the Bluegrass 4-Pack! Patrick takes a trip back in musical history to the formation of the band that led to the genre of music known as Bluegrass. That trip begins with Bill Monroe and his brother Charlie in the mid-1930s and continues until Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs arrive in 1946.

Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

Email Jim & Patrick at [email protected]

Follow us on the Threads, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.
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30min
November 11, 2024 1989: Quincy Jones - Rest in Power
We pay tribute to Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024, at age 91. The man was a legend in music and beyond. Edward Bowser of soulinstereo.com joins the conversation.

Get with Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, like audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com.

Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

Email Jim & Patrick at [email protected]

Follow us on the Threads, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com
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45min
November 08, 2024 1988: Perfect Pop: AC Newman, The Breeders, The Cure
We wrap up the week with a triple dose of Perfect Pop! Tim Hoffman picks AC Newman’s “Miracle Drug,” Mark Neese carefully considers “Cannonball” by the Breeders and Kevin Clement selects The Cure’s “A Forest.”

Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

Email Jim & Patrick at [email protected]

Follow us on the Threads, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.
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19min
November 07, 2024 1987: Perfect Pop: Fairground Attraction, Todd Rundgren, Billy Bragg
Belly up to the bar for another round of Perfect Pop! Today, Jay Igancio and Kurt Gallagher induct songs into the Perfect Pop pantheon, specifically Fairground Attraction’s “Perfect,” Todd Rundgren’s “Hello It’s Me” and Billy Bragg’s “The Saturday Boy.”

Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

Email Jim & Patrick at [email protected]

Follow us on the Threads, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.
...more
13min

FAQs about Rockin' the Suburbs:

How many episodes does Rockin' the Suburbs have?

The podcast currently has 2,426 episodes available.

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