Listen now:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG – The Bloodmobile
Tim & the Space Cadets in-studio

Segment 2
Kimya Dawson – Little Monster Babies
ID/prep to ROCKTOBER
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
Roger Day – Monster Face
Hit Em Hard bumper
Half Japanese – Inky and Winky
CandyBand – Monsters
ID
Justin Roberts – Trick or Treat
Moo bumper

Segment 3
Recess Monkey – Boogie Monster (in-studio)
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – Purple People Eater
ID
Wee Scary Beasties – Monster’s Disco
Mike Doughty – Monster Man
Not Unusual Bumper
Uncle Rock – Picnic in the Graveyard
ID
TMBG – Experimental Film
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Congrats to the winners of the Fids & Kamily Awards!  Read more about them here and listen now:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG – Science is Real
ID
Fids & Kamily:
13. Lloyd H. Miller – Seventeen Years (SS Brooklyn)
12. Lucky Diaz y la Familia Musica – A Bailar (Fantastico)
ID
11. Lori Henriques – Everlovin’ Water (The World is a Curious Place to Live)
10. Justin Roberts – Polar Bear (Lullaby)
ID

Segment 2
Esquivel – Surfboard
ID/prep to ROCKTOBER
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
9. Key Wilde & Mr Clarke – Bigga Bagga (Pleased to Meet You)
8. Dean Jones – Snail Mail (When the World was New)
ID
7. The Not-Its! – Full Tilt (Kidquake!)
6. Recess Monkey – Walkie Talkies (Deep Sea Diver)
ID

Segment 3
ID
5. Shine & the Moonbeams – High Five (Shine and the Moonbeams)
4. Elizabeth Mitchell & Dan Zanes – Coney Island Avenue (Turn Turn Turn)
ID
3. Alastair Moock – Hard Travelin’ (Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World’s Bravest Kids)
2. Frances England – Move Like Saturday Night (Blink of An Eye)
ID
1. Justin Roberts – Check Me Out, I’m At the Checkout (Recess)
ID
TMBG – Triops Has Three Eyes
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Listen now:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG – I Am Not Your Broom
Play Date in-studio
Segment 2
You and Me and the Rain – For Halloween This Year
ID/prep to ROCKTOBER
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
Edukator Jr. – Monsters
Candy Band – Simon Says
Loud Sounds bumper
Jr. Madness – Liza Jane (new)’
The Clash – Lost in the Supermarket
ID

Segment 3
Charlie Hope – Goodnight Little Arlo
ID
Danny Lion – Sneaker Shoe Man (new)
Chic – Le Freak
ID
the Zing Zangs – Mustaches (new)
Fountains of Wayne – Trucks (new)
ID
TMBG – Robot Parade
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Listen now!  It is ROCKTOBER, people.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG – Istanbul (not Constantinople)
Caspar Babypants – Shortnin Bread (feat. Fysah Thomas)
The Pastels – Speeding Motorcycle
ID
Mister G – Hola Amigos (new)
Red Yarn – Rattlesnake (new)
ID

Segment 2
The Watson Twins – Circle (new)
ID/prep to ROCKTOBER
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
ID
Moona Luna – H2O
Jr. Madness – Jim-A-Long Josie (new)
Tim & the Space Cadets – Superhero
Loud Sounds bumper
Todd McHatton & Mista Cookie Jar – All These Magical Things (new)
Mike Doughty – Super Bon Bon (new)
ID

Segment 3
ACL underwriting
Jellydots in-studio
ID
TMBG – Apartment Four
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Listen on demand at PRX.org!

Thanks to Joanie Leeds for guest DJing — you can see her at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA, on Saturday morning at 11!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG – Electric Car
Elizabeth Mitchell – John the Rabbit (live in-studio)
ID
Red Yarn & Friends – Bob the Rabbit (new)
Cloud Cult – Help
Psapp – Everybody Wants to be a Cat
ID
Joanie Leeds Guest DJ set

Segment 2
Jonathan Coulton – The Princess Who Saved Herself (live in-studio)
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
ID
Peelander-Z – Taco Taco Tacos
Sippy Cups – Seven is the New Fourteen
1977 Bumper
Superchunk – FOH (new)
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke Don Mario’s Song
ID

Segment 3
ACL underwriting
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison – Born to Roll
The Bright Siders – Forever Friends (new)
ID
Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
Slavic Soul Party – Never Gonna Let You Go
ID
TMBG – Four of Two
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Listen on demand at our page at PRX.org!

We had a ton of fun with Trout Fishing in America coming by.  Check out this video of them performing “Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers” in our studio:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG – Zeros
Trout Fishing in America in-studio

Segment 2
Elizabeth Mitchell – You Are My Sunshine
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
ID
Paul Westerberg – Love You in the Fall
ScribbleJim ID
ScribbleMonster – All Ready to Go!
ID

Segment 3
Fatboy Slim – Rockafeller Skank
Alastair Moock guest DJ set
ID (mention Joanie at Carle 9/28)
TMBG – Letter/Not a Letter
TMBG – Spare the Rock