On this week's show, we pay homage to the late, great Eddie Van Halen, spend quality time with the superlative new Replacements box set, and check out the latest grooves from Daptone Records. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief...
Oct 10, 2020•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 19
On this week's show, we spend quality time with the surprise new Drive-By Truckers record, some covers from the sprawling blink-and-you'll-miss-it Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2, the loud & awesome new IDLES album, and the less loud yet equally awesome new release from Dawes. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI),...
Oct 03, 2020•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 18
On this week's show, we spend quality time with the first new record from Lydia Loveless in 4 years, spin brand new tracks from Bruce Springsteen , Pixies & Yo La Tengo, and tap into the restorative healing power of the n'yow. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radi...
Sep 26, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 17
On this week's show, we've got so much to celebrate: the beginning of autumn Rosh Hashanah the 35th anniversary of a The Waterboys ' Celtic rock masterpiece, This is the Sea the birthdays of three giants of American song - Ray Charles , John Coltrane & Bruce Springsteen All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC...
Sep 19, 2020•2 hr 34 min•Ep. 16
On this week's show, we... spin the first new song from Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band in 6 years & the first new New Order song in 5 years nerd out over some of 2020's best music documentaries bear witness to the sprawling "now you see it, now you don't" 40-track compilation plus... Mike Doughty is haunted by the Ghost of Vroom Waxahatchee & Hurray for the Riff-Raff team up with Bedouine to turn it up to thirteen All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is ...
Sep 12, 2020•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 15
Because we're gluttons for punishment, we're taking a break from work this Labor Day weekend with songs about the last thing you want to think about this weekend - work. Haunting melodies for the long, dark night shift of the soul. Anthems to shout when the whistle blows. Laments for when the job blows. Tunes to whistle while you work. plus some new songs that have nothing to do with work. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica...
Sep 05, 2020•2 hr 50 min•Ep. 14
In an alternate reality version of 2020, we might have spent damn near the entire episode celebrating the 45th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen 's Born To Run. Unfortunately, the 2020 we did get continues to kick us in the collective 'nards, then laugh as we gasp for breath. This week alone, marked by senseless acts of police brutality & vigilante violence in Kenosha, and the RNC's funhouse mirror spin on reality, was nothing short of horrifically surreal. The cherry atop the sundae of suck ...
Aug 29, 2020•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 13
On this week's show, we've got brand new music from Old 97's & The Waterboys , Television being revolutionized by Luna , and the improvisational summit of Mac McCaughan & Mary Lattimore . All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a b...
Aug 22, 2020•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 12
This week's show boasts tracks from Orville Peck 's major label debut, new music from Grammy-winning blues rocker Fantastic Negrito , a bumper crop of outstanding under-the-radar alt.country & a visit from some family & friends. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Communit...
Aug 15, 2020•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 11
On this week's show, we do our part to keep a legendary NC music venue open. If you'd like to help, please check out Cover Charge: NC Artists Go Under Cover to Benefit Cat's Cradle . We also give it up for a couple of records we dig that not only turn 10 years old this week, they topped our 2010 Top 10 list. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), mo...
Aug 08, 2020•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 10
On this week's show, we treat you to a preview of the new Lemon Twigs record, offer an overview of the sorely underrated Los Lobos side hustle known as Latin Playboys , whet your musical appetite with a sampling of PJ Harvey 's Dry demos, and chill with a trio called Muzz . All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC...
Aug 01, 2020•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 9
As a young man of few dollars & even fewer means, my friends & I would sometimes pool our meager resources together when things looked bleak. What we managed to scrape together would result in a surprisingly festive feast, an impromptu party, or some other damn magical celebration of surviving another day of being young & broke. That's kindasorta how I felt when putting together this week's show. There were no new releases this week so I felt compelled to explore, and I drew a total ...
Jul 25, 2020•2 hr 9 min•Ep. 8
On this week's show, we proudly present an extended preview of The Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me Deluxe Edition box set, dig into the new record from Detroit's post-punk powerhouse Protomartyr , dig some hypnotic new grooves from the second collaborative summit of Ethio-jazz godfather Mulatu Astatke & Australian Ethio-jazz-hip-hop-funk octet Black Jesus Experience, and make good on our long-standing threat to play a 20-minute song from one of our favorite paisley underground bands. All th...
Jul 18, 2020•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 7
On this week's show, we pour one out for the late, great Ennio Morricone , bear witness to Margo Price tapping into her inner Stevie Nicks , and pop open a 6-pack of tracks each from a couple of world-class badass digital compilations - Pandemophenia from Chicago's Bloodshot Records & Father/Daughter Records ' Adam Schlesinger tribute album, Saving for a Custom Van . All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stor...
Jul 11, 2020•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 6
Enjoy an extended set of summer jams , sandwiched between some night music from the official unofficial house band of summer , and some other pretty chill grooves . All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, ...
Jul 03, 2020•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 5
Year-end Top 10 contenders? Quite possibly! Here are some of the albums we dug from the first half of 2020, plus we spend quality time with new records from HAIM & Khruangbin . All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLF...
Jun 26, 2020•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 4
99.9% of the music in this episode is new (or at least it was at the time of recording). We spend quality time with brand new records from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever & Steve Earle & The Dukes , as well as sprawling epics from The Waterboys & Bob Dylan. We bear witness to the triumphant return of Kathleen Edwards & Orville Peck's leap from indie to major label. Plus, we get a glimpse of how 1975 could have been a very different year for Neil Young . All this & much, much ...
Jun 20, 2020•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 3
The world's been turned upside down by the Thanos-snap of COVID-19 , the president continues to defy logic & good sense at every turn, and the horrific & inexcusable death of George Floyd reverberates throughout the world with a louder-than-ever dialogue about police brutality , police reform & systemic racism that will hopefully bring about some long overdue change. It's gonna be a long walk home from all of this, but nobody has to go it alone. With that in mind, we spin songs of pr...
Jun 12, 2020•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 2
This episode found us spending quality time with new records from Chicano Batman & Damien Jurado , as well as the first record in 13 years from Devil Doll . PLUS.... We gave away mad prizes. All this & much, much less! The episode was scheduled to air on 5/2/20, but tech issues at our previous radio home ( Plaza Midwood Community Radio - a Charlotte-based grassroots internet radio station) prevented us from doing so. Unfortunately, the station shut down less than a week later. Aside from...
Jun 04, 2020•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 1
