NEW PODCAST - SHOW 60 - POT LUCK OF MUSIC show We've got a real Pot Luck of Music for you on this podcast! This podcast we talk about album anniversaries coming up for the month of MAY .. 1974 / 1984 and 1994! Plus Segments : Give It A Listen - we start out the show with NY singer/songwriter (who we've interviewed a few years ago) FIONA SILVER with her new single "Vertigo" and we end the show with Chris Kasper's new single "Shuffle on Through".. in between we talk about new music that's out and ...
Apr 13, 2024•2 hr 48 min•Season 6Ep. 60
On show #59 Jeremy and Rob review Dave Grohl's biography THE STORYTELLER : Tales of Life and Music We go through each chapter of Dave's book and pull out the stories that stood out and were worth noting. Dave's journey from geeky (injury prone) kid to legendary drummer. ************* In this episode: Find out what Rock God Dave built an alter to when he was a teen Find out what he has to tell the Australian authorities every time he enters Australia What legendary singer/songwriter sat down and ...
Mar 23, 2024•2 hr 48 min•Season 6Ep. 59
We've got a real Pot Luck of Music for you on this podcast! This podcast we talk about album anniversaries coming up for the month of April .. 1964 / 1974 / 1984 and 1994! Plus Segments : Give It A Listen (featuring new songs from Cris Jacobs and Imogen Clark, What's In Rob's Vinyl Pile, New Music Book Releases, New Album Releases for April, Music News Stories and more! ARTISTS MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST ARE: THE BEATLES THE ROLLING STONES REM KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND DAVE SWIFT (audio from Dav...
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 58
Matt and Rob sit down with ISMAY to talk about their new album Desert Pavement. We go into other topics like the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (in which their grandfather founded and their family still runs), the documentary Finding Lucinda (about the great singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams), Ismay's time working on a ranch with they're mother, the Stranger in the Barn video (and the puppet!) and much more! We had such a great time talking to ISMAY. They are such a down to earth beautiful ...
Mar 08, 2024•58 min
The movie Footloose celebrated it's 40th anniversary on February 17th so we felt we had to give the soundtrack a good listen and the movie a good watch along with the 2011 remake. On today's podcast we talk about: ODD MUSIC LAWS TWO NEW MUSIC TV SHOWS TOP 10 FROM THE WEEK ENDING FEB 18 1984 FOOTLOOSE SOUNDTRACK (1984) FOOTLOOSE THE MOVIE (1984) FOOTLOOSE THE MOVIE (2011) ********* KNOW GOOD MUSIC can be found on Podbean (host site), Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Iheart Radio, Pandora and almost anywh...
Feb 23, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 57
SHOW 56 - NEW MUSIC / ALBUM ANNIVERSARIES FOR MARCH 1974 / 1984 / 1994 / ARTIST SPOTLIGHT ON LAUFEY / GIVE IT A LISTEN This podcast we talk about album anniversaries coming up for RUSH / PINK FLOYD / ELVIS / BECK & others for March 74 / 84 / 94 Plus Segments : Artist Spotlight and Listen to This along with some music news and new album releases for March. Our newest segment "Give It A Listen" features two musicians this month. First one is Paul Collins (from the Germs/The Beat) and Singer/So...
Feb 16, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 56
BUDDY HOLLY NOTE: This podcast has been edited down from a previous podcast (from February 2023) Today we go back into our archives and re-upload this podcast as today marks the 65th anniversary of Buddy Holly's passing, along with Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson BUDDY HOLLY - His Life, Music & Legacy - FROM THE ARCHIVES 2-25-23 BUDDY HOLLY TOPICS we cover: The Crickets The Recordings The Winter Dance Party Tour The Glasses Pat DiNizio's Lost Reel to Reel The lost 54 ...
Feb 03, 2024•47 min•Season 6Ep. 1
SHOW 55 We begin the podcast by talking about New Music Books, The top 10 selling vinyl albums of 2023 and we compare the top 10 albums of 2023 from Paste, Pitchfork & Rolling Stone Then we go into our main topic. Rob & Jeremy's top 10 albums of 2023 We talk about albums from: GRETA VAN FLEET FOO FIGHTERS U2 KELLY CLARKSON QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE MILEY CYRUS MEG MYERS MAMMOTH WVH PETER GABRIEL BOY GENIUS HAMISH HAWK BLINK 182 PARAMORE ALICE COOPER NEIL YOUNG JOE BONAMASSA JEFF COFFIN ***...
Jan 26, 2024•2 hr 46 min•Season 6Ep. 55
Rob INTERVIEWs Singer, Songwriter, Master of the Mouth Harp, Bluesman and Rapper - Philly's one and only G LOVE of G LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE! Today Rob talks to G. Love (Garrett Dutton) about the 30th anniversary of G LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE'S monumental 1994 self-titled debut album! Find out how G Love (Garrett) got his name, his street performing days in Boston, his love for Basketball, what inspired his early love of music and making music and much more! Garrett's dad Gary joins Rob and G a...
Jan 20, 2024•49 min
First new Podcast of 2024! SHOW 54 - ALBUM ROULETTE - Albums of 2023 What we do every year now is a random pick from a list of 50 greatest albums of 2023. This list is from Paste Magazine. Rob and Jeremy both review and critique (and boy do we) 3 albums each! Before we go into the random albums we talk about albums turning 50 / 40 and 30 years old in February! Some of the albums we talk about are the debut of KISS' self-titled album (turning 50) / THOMPSON TWINS - Into the Gap (turning 40) and G...
Jan 13, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 6Ep. 54
THE HOLIDAY PODCAST is here! Our podcast starts off with a special Holiday message from Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America Jeremy and Rob start off the podcast with a year in review of the shows we did along with Matt in 2023. Then we go into our regular subject of albums turning 50/40/30 followed by NEW ARTISTS (Alex Vile / Destroy Boys) and NEW CHRISTMAS MUSIC (Cher / Jimmy Fallon). **** Then there's a special message from RICHARD BARONE from the BONGOS talking abou...
Dec 16, 2023•2 hr 43 min•Season 5Ep. 53
I grew up watching MTV as a teen (and beyond) and one band that stood out for me were THE HOOTERS (A Philadelphia PA band that looked fun and lyrically different with lines and melodies you'd remember for a long time). Who can forget the songs "And We Danced", "All You Zombies", "Day by Day" and "Hanging on a Heartbeat" ? It was a great honor to finally talk to Eric Bazilian! The Hooters just got off a tour with Rick Springfield & Tommy TuTone. ********* Matt and I (rob) talk to Eric about: ...
Dec 09, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Today we start the podcast talking about New Music from the Rolling Stones & Green Day and newer artists like Holly Humberstone and Fenne Lily. We also give you a sample of a new song called GIFT from musician BILLY MAGERISON. Billy gave us permission to play part of his new song! Before our main subject we cover (like always) albums turning 50/40/30 (in December) OUR MAIN SUBJECT: Matt and Rob have been to hundreds and hundreds of concerts over our lifetime and today we pick 5 concerts each...
Nov 25, 2023•2 hr 8 min•Season 5Ep. 52
Dave Swift may not be a household name but he's shared the stage with legendary musicians such as Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Cher, Joss Stone, Eric Clapton, Roger Daughtry, Paul Simon ... and those are just a few. He's been a member of Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra since 1991 and also a with the house band on Later with Jools Holland (one of the top tv shows in the UK) He's been called by Bass Guitar magazine as "one of UK's top bassists" We had a great conversation with Dave and...
Nov 12, 2023•2 hr 43 min
Today Rob & Matt talk with DAVE HILL Not Dave Hill from Slade, Not the actor Dave Hill, Not the golfer Dave Hill but the world-renowned comedian, guitar shredder, author from showbiz DAVE HILL. That Dave Hill! This is the same Dave Hill who just got off an explosive 6 date tour with Tenacious D (Jack Black's band, of course), he was so good he was asked back to open for them next year with 5 Sold Out shows in the UK and one not so sold out show in Ireland. ****** This interview would of been...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 12 min
This is our 3rd and final Halloween/Horror Podcasts! Our first was our Interview with Sara Karloff (Boris Karloff's daughter), 2nd was Part 1 of our Universal Monster Movie Reviews (we covered The Wolfman, The Creature from the Black Lagoon & The Mummy. Today we continue ranking the movies - basically when we match a movie on our list of 6 we talk about it. So we have Dracula, Frankenstein & The Invisible Man left to review. We go into the making of each movie and also the entire movie i...
Oct 21, 2023•2 hr 39 min•Season 5Ep. 51
UNIVERSAL MONSTERS - Part 1 (of 2) - SHOW 50 This is our 2nd in a series of 3 Halloween/Horror Podcasts! Our first was our Interview with Sara Karloff (Boris Karloff's daughter). Today our main topic is the UNIVERSAL MONSTER FILMS. Namely Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Wolfman, The Invisible Man, The Mummy & Frankenstein. We go into the making of each movie and also the entire movie itself as we review our thoughts on each one and even go into the music from the movies (of cour...
Oct 15, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Season 5Ep. 50
This is the 1st (of 3) in our series of HALLOWEEN / HORROR podcasts for the month of October Today we talk with SARA KARLOFF about her wonderful father and legendary actor BORIS KARLOFF who starred in over 160 films & tv shows. We find out what Boris Karloff was really like! We also talk about the chiller theatre convention (in NJ), the website (karloff.com) and we even ask Sara some music questions. ************** ABOUT SARA: Sara Karloff was born on her father’s 51st birthday, November 23,...
Oct 07, 2023•48 min
Today our main subject is all 4 of the KISS Solo Albums we review, rank and also read what someone (who obviously hates kiss) wrote in 1978 about the albums. Jeremy listened to these albums for the first time so it's great hearing what his first impression was. Rob is much older so he bought these when they came out on September 18, 1978 (oh my) Before we go into the kiss albums we talk about: 1) Albums turning 50 / 40 and 30 years old in October 2) New Releases / New Music including a new favor...
Sep 30, 2023•2 hr 39 min•Season 5Ep. 49
Today I talk to Philip and Truett from the Austin, Texas band BRISCOE. We talk about their recent show where they got to open for The Dave Matthews Band, the making of the new album WEST OF IT ALL, a couple of the songs off the new album and more! ABOUT BRISCOE: Briscoe is Truett Heintzelman and Philip Lupton. To record West of It All, the duo was joined by producer Brad Cook on bass, drummer Matt McCaughan (Bon Iver), and multi-instrumentalist Phil Cook (Megafaun, Hiss Golden Messenger). Signed...
Sep 16, 2023•31 min
Today we talk to Paul Wexler about his Legendary Father: Jerry Wexler, Paul's work with Van Morrison and the Go Gos, his association with Stone Temple Pilots, we talk about Led Zeppelin (a band his father helped discover) and of course Paul's own band WexWax and their debut album "Swept Away"! Rob met Paul many years ago when he walked into his print shop in Clinton, New Jersey (to get sheet music copied) .. they've recently re-connected through facebook. It was such a pleasure to talk to Paul a...
Aug 26, 2023•55 min
INTERVIEW WITH KURT REIL from the band THE GRIPWEEDS! Kurt talks to Know Good Music (Rob) about the new album JEM RECORDS presents a tribute to RAY DAVIES in which the Gripweeds have recorded two great cover versions : "See My Friends" and "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" We also talk about what it takes to make a cover song great and a comparison between CDs and Vinyl Records. Great interview *********** KNOW GOOD MUSIC can be found on Podbean (host site), Apple Podcasts, Iheart Radio, Pand...
Aug 17, 2023•32 min
SHOW 48 - THE HISTORY of the Music Video and MTV / Movie Review of TAPEHEADS & More Rob & Jeremy start off with a look at the a Top 10 list from 1981 (where we go over each song in some detail), Albums turning 50 / 40 / 30 for September, A Brief History of the Music Video & A Review of the 1988 film TAPEHEADS starring John Cusack & Tim Robbins. *********** KNOW GOOD MUSIC can be found on Podbean (host site), Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Iheart Radio, Pandora and almost anywhere you l...
Aug 12, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 5Ep. 48
A Tribute to SINEAD OCONNOR - Special Edition Podcast We (Rob & Matt) recorded a special podcast today where we talk about Sinead O'Connor who passed away on July 26, 2023 in Herne Hill London UK. Sinead struggled throughout life despite being an incredible singer songwriter and finding fame (which most times doesn't matter at all). We all hoped Sinead would win against her demons but in the end they won. We were looking forward to her touring again and a new album. We were big fans of Sinea...
Jul 29, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Today on KNOW GOOD MUSIC we talk with singer/songwriter : JESSE DANIEL EDWARDS We talk to Jesse while he is relaxing poolside about his new incredible album "VIOLENSIA", growing up in a small California town milking goats, his time as tour manager with Morrissey and some details on one of his new songs "What Ever Happened To" Jesse's voice is mesmerizing. Think Morrissey meets Freddie Mercury meets Jeff Buckley! ******** A little bit about JESSE DANIEL EDWARDS : Jesse Daniel Edwards is an altern...
Jul 22, 2023•37 min
FORGOTTEN BANDS vol. 3 Today Rob and Matt talk about 6 bands who you may not have heard of or maybe completely forgot about from the 1960s / 1970s. We like to do this once a year so this is our 3rd podcast talking about Forgotten Bands! We tell you all about: WISHBONE ASH APRIL WINE ELLEN MCLLEWAINE THIN LIZZY NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND HUMBLE PIE ******** We begin the podcast with Albums that are turning 50 and 40 years old in August and we talk about some new albums coming out soon. ******** KNOW ...
Jul 15, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Season 5Ep. 47
Rob and Matt talk with legendary singer / songwriter MELANIE! We talk to Melanie about her experience at the original woodstock as one of only 3 solo performers. Melanie goes into great detail about her experience; Starting with the moment she first heard of woodstock, flying for the first time in a helicopter and taking the stage in front of a massive audience (unlike anything she ever experienced). We also talk about: Her #1 song (in 1970) BRAND NEW KEY and how she came up with the idea for th...
Jul 08, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Today we review of the ELVIS movie IT HAPPENED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR Today we talk about the 1963 film IT HAPPENED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR starring ELVIS, Gary Lockwood, Kurt Russell (his film debut), Yvonne Craig (batgirl) & Joan O'Brien! We start the show with a some new albums that were released and some new albums coming out soon. We get into some new music books, the 1982 world's fair (in Knoxville, TN) that Rob attended.. and then of course the movie and the movie soundtrack. We tell you what we...
Jun 24, 2023•37 min•Season 5Ep. 46
Today we talk about the 1958 film KING CREOLE starring ELVIS, Walter Matthau, Carolyn Jones, Dolores Hart & Vic Morrow. We start the show with a TOP TEN from July of 1958 and then go into albums turning 50 years old and 40 years old. We tell you what we thought of King Creole (It's the first Elvis movie Jeremy has ever seen) and we go into the movie soundtrack. Another great show! ************ KNOW GOOD MUSIC can be found on Podbean (host site), Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Iheart Radio, Pandora and...
Jun 10, 2023•49 min•Season 5Ep. 45
Today on KNOW GOOD MUSIC we talk with singer/songwriter/author : RICHARD BARONE from the 80s band THE BONGOS. Richard is quite the music historian! We talk about Richard's early days in music as the littlest DJ, promoting bands at 16, forming the Bongos, touring, moving to Greenwich village on the advise of Tiny Tim (who became one his good friends) and Richard's great new book all about Greenwich Village in the 60s called MUSIC + REVOLUTION! You will learn alot after listening to this interview...
May 27, 2023•1 hr 14 min
