Episode #13: We discuss Butterflies and Hurricanes from Muse's 2003 album, Absolution. We'll discuss how this song showcases all of the band's talents--especially front man Matt Bellamy and his incredible writing, arranging, and performing skills. This will be the first episode in which Todd and Mitch are both huge fans of the band we're discussing. We'll give you our Top 5 Muse songs and moments. We'll head all the way to Eastern Europe to talk to a super fan from Latvia who was at the group's legendary "by request" shows in London and Paris and we'll debate the band's set list choices as they travel the world.

Episode #12: Mitch tries a new approach to choose his song and comes up with the TV on the Radio classic, Wolf Like Me. The two hosts are joined by Robert Weller and the three of them discuss the career of the band, this dark and pulsing hit, and explore many aspects of the term, Indie Rock.

Episode #11: Todd introduces Mitch to a couple of dozen Volbeat songs, including their hit, Lola Montez. They also discuss Metallica, Michael Poulsen's story-telling, how Todd got injured at a Volbeat concert, and the multi-album story which culminated in Mary Ann's Place.

Episode #10: Mitch & Todd delve into Television's 70s classic, Marquee Moon. They discuss the title track, the history of the band, the legacy of the album, and possible meanings in the lyrics.

Episode #9: Todd and Mitch are joined by SoCal TV Sportscaster and AC/DC fan Kyle Kraska to talk about the often overlooked song Overdose. Hear his theory on why the band has never before played this song in concert. Mitch responds to an angry listener.

In Episode 8 of Song Voyage, we are talking Bruce Springsteen and the final song off of his legendary album, Born To Run--Jungleland. We'll take a close look at the album as a whole, discuss the music and lyrics, and try to explain what appears to be a sad and tragic ending to the song. We'll also talk about Clarence Clemons legacy, his amazing two minute and ten second sax solo, and how Bruce continues to honor him to this day. Plus, find out which musician Todd absolutely has a man-crush on.

On Episode 7 of Song Voyage, we’ve got not one, but two songs for you. We’ll be discussing the heavy metal giants, Metallica. But not the band you may be familiar with. Instead of the thrashing sounds of Fight Fire with Fire, the epic Master of Puppets, or the jaw-dropping super speed of Battery, we’ll be tackling two songs off the controversial album that typically splits Metallica’s fan base in two--Load’s The Outlaw Torn and Bleeding Me. In the next hour we’ll debate which is better, the studio versions or the live performances from the legendary S&M concert. We’ll talk about the heavy influences that classical music has had on the metal genre. And you’ll hear why legendary bassist Cliff Burton is absolutely responsible for Metallica’s evolution into Load and Re-Load.

In 1987, Prince was a world-wide superstar. After disbanding his backing group, The Revolution, he set out to create a triple-album masterpiece. The result of which was the 16-song, pared down double-album classic, Sign o' the Times. The fourth song on the album, The Ballad of Dorothy Parker, is the simple and complex story of a man flirting with a waitress in a coffee shop. Coming up in the next hour, we'll break down the music and debate the meaning of the lyrics of this very creative song, discuss the classic album track by track, and delve into some of its obvious influences and the music that it would later influence. Todd is listening to this music for the very first time. Can Mitch guess the three songs that Todd, a Hard Rock and Heavy Metal junkie, really liked?

In the mid-1980s, Queensrÿche was one of the most creative Heavy Metal bands in the world. In 1988, they released Operation: Mindcrime--a concept album that follows the rise and fall of a young drug user, Nikki, who gets caught up in revolution and political assassination, all while falling in love during the process. But his rise is very short-lived and the story comes to a crescendo in the song Suite Sister Mary as it all starts to fall apart for Nikki. We're gonna talk about this ten-minute epic and discuss some of the deeper hidden meanings of the lyrics. Also, why the political and psychological message of Operation: Mindcrime could still fit into the American political discussion almost 30 years later, the wild story of what happened to the band in the years that followed the album, and will this be the first episode where we have a strong disagreement over a song?

Many artists in the 1960s were using music to forward the fight for social justice and nobody was doing it better than Curtis Mayfield. By the time he released this song in 1970, he was already a civil rights icon. We are going to discuss this scathing commentary on life in the projects and Mayfield's place in American history.