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 that features ferocious harp playing and borderline nonsensical lyrics. The video is a play on […]

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, big teeth, big clothes, and great songwriting. It’s frequently considered to be an “emo” song, […]

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 lacked in musical panache they more than made up for with their music video for […]

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 remembers the most, and he remembers this video being “too disturbing” for MTV to air […]

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 Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That). It’s a Michael Bay directed masterpiece: a […]

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 at the same time have come under heavy criticism for their production values and advertiser […]

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 Clay review hundreds of case files in an effort to solve a mystery that has […]