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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May 03, 2022 1357: What Was First: Slash Records
It's two-fer Tuesday as we deliver a second straight edition of the "bite-size history lesson" series What Was First, which explores the first release on iconic record labels.

Today, on a second-straight suggestion from listener David Leedy, Patrick takes a look at the first record released on Slash Records, a highly influential label born out of the Los Angeles punk boom.

The label, which evolved from Slash Magazine, put out their very first record in May of 1978: a 7" EP by the Germs titled "Lexicon Devil."

Hit play and get your Tuesday dose of record label history.

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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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16min
May 02, 2022 1356: What Was First: I.R.S. Records
It's another edition of the "bite-size history lesson" series What Was First, where we explore the first release on iconic record labels.

Today, on a suggestion from listener David Leedy, Patrick takes a look at the first record released on the I.R.S. label: the album "Singles Going Steady" by the Buzzcocks.

Hit play and learn (and rock)!

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Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

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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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17min
April 29, 2022 1355: March New Music: Shooter Jennings & Yelawolf, Arcade Fire, HAIM, Sharon Van Etten
Friday is here and we bring the curtain down on another glorious week of new music picks.

Jason Goebel surprises the heck out of us with one of his choices, while Scot Isom gives us some sweet symmetry with his closing picks: What begins in Scotland ends with Scot.

Hit play and let the weekend begin.

Subscribe to 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 Twitter, 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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24min
April 28, 2022 1354: March New Music: Fortune Child, Ceramic Animal, Bodega
It's Thursday and the new music picks just keep on coming. Today, Sunny Varney and Kevin Porter are in your ears — and so are some great-sounding electric guitars.

We start off by heading to Jacksonville, Florida, make a stop in Doylestown, PA and finish up in Brooklyn. Let's Rock!

Subscribe to 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]

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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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18min
April 27, 2022 1353: March New Music: Dream Widow, Father John Misty, Scott Hardware
We clear the decks for Adam Coop and Urb Fernandez to do their new music thing.

Tracks from Dream Widow, Scott Hardware and Father John Misty have caught their ear. And we take a moment to hope that Taylor Hawkins is resting in power.

Hit play and let your ears be filled with all things that are good.

Subscribe to 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]

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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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21min
April 26, 2022 1352: March New Music: Beachheads, Jesper Lindell, Tropical F*ck Storm/King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Bakers Eddy, Sam Jr.
On the second day of March New Music, the listeners spoke and Niklas Nygårds, Liam McIndoe and Charlie Mack proclaimed that new songs were good.

Those songs were from Beachheads, Jesper Lindell, Tropical F*ck Storm/King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Bakers Eddy, Sam Jr.

Hit play and hear the gospel truth, listeners.

Subscribe to 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]

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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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27min
April 25, 2022 1351: March New Music: Ian Noe, Pure Reason Revolution, Fatherson, Mondo Cozmo
Hey Happy Monday y'all it's New Music Week. We're shaking down March 2022 and Steven Routledge, Roger Grace and Gerald Chyzenski have the inside info.

Hit play and find a favorite song.

Subscribe to 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]

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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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29min
April 22, 2022 1350: What Was First: Touch & Go Records
Tough & Go is a classic midwestern label, known for its roots in the early hardcore scene, and one that would evolve into one of America's most influential indie labels.

Touch & Go Records evolved from a fanzine of the same name started in 1979 by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson, two punk rock fans from East Lansing, Michigan.

In 1981, they put out their first record, a 7" EP by a band from Maumee, Ohio: The Necros. The four-song "Sex Drive" got the catalog number tgr001 and only 100 copies were pressed. It remains a highly sought-after piece of punk rock history.

Hit play and get the whole story.

Subscribe to 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 Twitter, 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
April 21, 2022 1349: What Was First: Stiff Records
Patrick delivers a bite-size history lesson by exploring the very first release on iconic record labels. Today, Stiff Records is under the spotlight.

The label was formed by Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera in 1976 and in August of that year "So It Goes" with "Heart Of The City" on the b-side became the first Stiff record. It was given the catalogue number BUY 1.

Hit play and find out how it all came to pass.

Subscribe to 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 Twitter, 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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15min
April 20, 2022 1348: Exploring the Church, Part Two
We bring you the second half of our Church conversation with Kevin Goff and Nick Scalera. In this episode, we examine the later part of the band's career and the lineup changes that took place.

If you didn't listen to yesterday's show (episode 1348), make sure to go back and catch up on the early Church.

Subscribe to 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 Twitter, 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
46min

FAQs about Rockin' the Suburbs:

How many episodes does Rockin' the Suburbs have?

The podcast currently has 2,547 episodes available.

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