Program Notes

Episode 1300 celebrates Bob Dylan’s 83rd birthday with a lineup that hits hard—Dylan, Springsteen, Rage, and more. It’s protest, poetry, and purpose all in one show.

This episode traces U2’s early ascent — starting with Boy and October, rising into War, and ending with pieces of Rattle and Hum. It’s a look at the band before superstardom, when the hunger, heart, and urgency were still raw and loud in every track.

Full albums. No filler. This week we dive headfirst into Even In Arcadia, Darkest Days, and In Absentia — a sonic therapy session disguised as a radio show.

We’re tipping our hat to Willie Nelson on the heels of his 92nd birthday with a special episode built around his Classic & Unreleased Collection—plus a few iconic collaborations with Johnny Cash to close it out.

Take a full-album trip through Talking Heads’ weird, brilliant evolution from 1978 to 1983 — no singles, no skip buttons, just pure arc.

It all started with a blog post. Earlier this week, I asked Alexa to play “Roxanne” by The Police—and just like that, I was back at the Memorial Union in Madison, Wisconsin, hearing it for the first time. That post turned into a deep dive on how one song can anchor a memory, reshape a … Read more

This week’s Rolling with Scissors is a vibe shift in motion. We open with SABLE, fABLE, the newest release from Bon Iver. It’s textured, experimental, and hard to pin down—in the best way. Bon Iver (aka Justin Vernon) hails from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and this record feels like a snowstorm of sound—swirling, layered, sometimes haunting, … Read more

Tonight’s show pulls no punches—literally. The entire playlist is built around some of the heaviest, loudest, most iconic albums to come out of 1992. It was a year that gave us some absolute monsters, and this setlist is nothing short of a sonic gut punch in the best way possible. We kicked things off with … Read more

It’s Monday. I’m in the studio recording tonight’s Rolling with Scissors — and it just so happens to be Christopher Walken’s birthday. Which somehow feels fitting. There’s something about his strange rhythm, his unpredictability, that matches the emotional shape of this week’s lineup: a little wild, a little eerie, and full of tension and release. … Read more

This week’s Rolling with Scissors comes to you from a brand-new studio space—because, as life tends to do, it threw me a curveball. Last Wednesday, I found out my lease wasn’t being renewed. By Saturday, the new studio was rebuilt and (mostly) functional. Let me repeat that: full teardown, move, and rebuild in three days. … Read more