Blues Traveler made a big splash in the mid-90s with their bluesy, folk-rock harmonica driven sound (and larger than life front man, John Popper). They had a string of hits that started with “Run-Around“, a whimsical and upbeat pop song […]

One of the finest albums of the 1980s (in the opinion of Wes), Songs from the Big Chair spawned a number of hits, including the iconic “Shout“. Tears for Fears is an almost perfect amalgam of the decade: big hair, […]

If you’ve got a pretty generic band with a pretty generic song, the only solution might be to spend $35 and shoot yourself one helluva music video. Queensryche is a modestly influential metal band from the 1980s, but what they […]

Change my pitch up, smack my bitch up. That’s the entirety of lyrics for this song, so you know that the video is going to have to do some heavy lifting. The Prodigy are the 90s electronic band that Wes […]

This week, Wes and Clay discuss the musical stylings of the inimitable Meat Loaf! Meat Loaf became famous due to his Bat Out of Hell trilogy, and his biggest hit during that stretch of albums was the Grammy-winning I’d Do […]

In the premiere episode of The Radio Star Murders, Wes and Clay go for something to get the kids interested: the bombastic overconfidence of “Thunder” by Imagine Dragons. Imagine Dragons has dominated the charts over the past few years, and […]

In the 1980s, a crime wave rocked the music world. A new kind of technology enabled the systematic murder of hundreds of musicians, artist’s whose only crime was having a face for radio. In this podcast, internet sleuths Wes and […]