I'm going to keep the list of artists in this week's show a secret so as not to ruin the surprise of hearing who the artists are. These are artists never before played on Suburban Underground. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm Friday *** *** 10am Sunday *** *** 8pm Monday *** Stream live at http://209.95.50.189:8178/stream Stream on-dema…

This is an interesting one. Steve picked a bunch of short songs which separate a few long songs. While some ask, "why?", Steve asks, "Why not?". Artists in this show: The Damned, Carbonas, Wings, Arctic Monkeys, Porcupine Tree, Wire, Todd Rundgren, Splitsville, The Who, My Morning Jacket, T. Rex, The Boys (UK), Adult Mom, Queen, Genesis, Conor Ober…

In this week's installment of Suburban Underground, Steve picked a set of Mars songs. You will hear the artists: Spoon, Monaco, Imperial State Electric, T. Rex, The Undertones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Greg Kihn Band, Electric Light Orchestra, The Korgis, The Rakes, The Moss, Ducks Ltd., Nick Gilder, The Reducers, Nada Surf, Big Audio Dynamite II…

In this week's episode of Suburban Underground, Steve brings you an hour of songs about cars and driving. You will hear the artists: Gin Blossoms, Paramore, The Wombats, Adam & The Ants, Audioslave, Possum Dixon, Stan Ridgway, Garbage, Holly Humberstone, Kitchens Of Distinction, Echo & The Bunnymen, Depeche Mode, Buzzcocks, U.K. Subs, Sparks. On th…

Among this hour of typically interesting tunes is a handful of London songs. You will hear the artists: Rational Youth, XTC, Big Audio Dynamite, The Jam, The Vibrators, Van Go, The Godfathers, Half Moon Run, The Hunna, Rialto, The Charlatans, Tsar, Kaiser Chiefs, M83, Suki Waterhouse. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm Friday *** *** 10am…

This week, Steve picked two big sets of songs about doctors. Artists you will hear are: Bloc Party, Tame Impala, Yard Act, Kiss, The Damned, Palaye Royale, Simple Minds, Jordan Rakei, The Black Keys, Devo, Split Enz, Ray Charles, Springhouse, The Replacements and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm Friday …

This week Steve picked 6 songs amid this hour of exceptional tunes that are non-rock covers of rock songs. You will hear these acts: ESG, Mother Mother, The Presidents of The United States Of America, Taken By Trees, The Beautiful South, Simple Minds, Fountains of Wayne, Gang Of Youths, The Drums, Lucky Uke, The Raveonettes, The Bird And The Bee, L…

This week, Steve picked an hour of songs about photography, taking pictures, cameras, etc. You'll hear the artists: A Flock Of Seagulls, Berlin, Death Cab For Cutie, Depeche Mode, Filter, The Verve Pipe, Weezer, The Boomtown Rats, Rush, Rock Kills Kid, Stereophonics, Mindless Self Indulgence, Bill Lloyd & Tommy Womack, Sam Phillips, The Shamus Twin…

This week, Steve picked an hour of songs with titles that end with word "thing". Why? Who knows? These artist are in this show: DM3, The Mowgli's, Tears For Fears, Brian Setzer, Arctic Monkeys, Gin Blossoms, Agent Orange, The Silos, Supergrass, U2, The Rifles, The Soup Dragons, Yaz, 999, Grant-Lee Philips and Luscious Jackson. On the Air on Bedford…

This week, Steve picked another Then & Now set and it is with Depeche Mode this time around. Additionally, you will hear songs from these artists: Greg Garing, Cage The Elephant, The Subways, Wire Train, The Shins, Slowdive, Kissing The Pink, Marvelous 3, Tennis, Sleeper, Autopilot, Cannons and Tubeway Army. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio ***…

This week, Steve picked an hour of songs about criminals, to counter the law enforcement songs that he picked several weeks back. In this show you will hear: Damone, The Raveonettes, Kings of Leon, Metro, The Pale Fountains, Krooked Kings, Bram Tchaikovsky, The Interrupters, The Rifles, The Exploding Hearts, Green Day, The Smiths, Muse, Sparks and …

This week's Suburban Underground show has a set of songs about units of time. The full list of artists are: The National, Camera Obscura, Blur, The Pretenders, R.E.M., Ocean Colour Scene, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Hives, Chairlift, Roaring Boys, The Housemartins, Bully, Moonlight Breakfast, The Neighbourhood, Primitons, Vinyl Kings. On the Air on B…

This week, Steve picked an hour of songs about phones. Yes, back in 2020, Drew picked a single set about phones. But fear not, none of those songs are repeated this week. You will hear from: The Jam, Walter Clevenger & The Dairy Kings, World Party, Head Automatica, Dayglow, Jeffrey Foskett, The Style Council, Beck, Modern English, Cock Sparrer, The…

This week, Steve picked another Then & Now set and this time its about Duran Duran. The full list of artists in this show are: Fischer-Z, Love And Rockets, Blur, Carolina Liar, The Crying Spell, Jacuzzi Boys, Duran Duran, The Blakes (NJ), Gothic Tropic, ActionReaction, CHVRCHES, Ocean Colour Scene, Midge Ure with Mick Karn and Frank Sinatra with El…

This week's Suburban Underground episode contains a couple of sets about adult beverages, as well as other great songs that are not about adult beverages. These are the artists in this week's show: Ash, Mom Rock, Autopilot, The Who, The Button Down Brass, Reel Big Fish, Reverend Horton Heat, The Damned, Stereophonics, Fountains Of Wayne, Cast, Roya…

This week, Steve has a show full of 2023 songs he didn't get to play last year. He needed to get that backlogged stack of songs down to a reasonable number. You will hear: Arlo Parks, Bleachers, Garbage, M83, Plain White T's, The Kills, Passion Pit, Hello Lucky, Metric, The Ramona Flowers w/ Nile Rodgers, The National, Romy, TRiDENT, Nation of Lang…

In Steve's first episode of 2024, it includes another Then & Now set and this time its with New Order. The full list of artists in this set: Cage The Elephant, RA, Jacuzzi Boys, Simple Minds, Beach House, The Zutons, New Order, Nothing But Thieves, Hippo Campus, Descartes a Kant, Slade, Heaven 17 and Blur. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5…

In this 400th episode of Suburban Underground, Steve is taking a look back at musicians we lost in 2023. It's impossible to fit all of the artists that he wanted to, but this is a good mix. In this show: The Associates (Alan Rankine) Jeff Beck [with Rosie Bones] Pulp (Steve Mackey) Ryuichi Sakamoto [with David Sylvian] The Smiths (Andy Rourke) Ike …

In this last pre-Christmas episode of 2023, Steve stubbornly serves up another Christmas music-free hour of music. Included in this show, two big sets of "family member" songs. Songs about fathers, sons, mothers, daughters, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, etc. Artists in this show: Devo, Phoenix w/ Clairo, De Lux, Fishbone, This Perfect Day, The …

This week, Steve picked an hour of songs about (or that mention) angels and songs about devils. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm Friday *** *** 10am Sunday *** *** 8pm Monday *** Stream live at http://209.95.50.189:8178/stream Stream on-demand most recent episodes at https://wbnh1051.podbean.com/category/suburban-underground/ And availa…

This week Steve picked a Then & Now set with Simple Minds. Also, fantastic songs from these artists: Alabama 3, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Hippo Campus, XTC, Beach Weather w/ Pale Waves, Better Than Ezra, The Jam, Tame Impala, Snarls, Beck, Nil Lara, Modern English, Johnny & The Self-Abusers. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm Friday *** …

I was going to call this episode "Police songs" but people will thing it is about the Sting-led trio. It is a show of cop songs, fuzz tunes, the heat, the shield...Anyway, you will hear songs from Radiohead, Duran Duran, The Model Rockets, Thompson Twins, Falco, Alpinestars, Get Back Guinozzi, Supergrass, The Donnas, The Shadows, Rhythm Heritage, B…

We pay tribute this week to the legendary UK rivalry of The Mods and The Rockers via a couple of sets of tunes. You will hear artists Gold Motel, Local Natives, Slow Pulp, Material Issue, The Arcs, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Lambrettas, Purple Hearts, The Jam, Primal Scream, Citizens!, Beabadoobee, The Rockers, Red Rockers, Phantom Rocker & Slick and Cla…

This week, Steve picked an hour of songs mostly about gods, but it includes some goddesses songs. You'll hear the artists: New Order, Mercury Rev, Ocean Colour Scene, The Hollow Men, Ware River Club, Midge Ure, World Party, Chantal Kreviazuk, Paramore, Doug Powell, Beauty School Dropout, Johnny Marr, Bryan Ferry, Gary Numan and Hot Hot Heat. On the…

This week, Steve has another installment of Then & Now. This time its about The Psychedelic Furs. You will also hear and enjoy Mom Rock, Millicent Friendly, Kenna, Stan Ridgway, Space, Redd Kross, The Rolling Stones, Jellyfish, Guster, The Producers, Fishbone, Bootlbacks and Dev Lemons. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm Friday *** *** 10…

There was a time when listening to an entire album from beginning to end was a thing that people did. We liked it. We loved it! Dadgummit! The artist often put care into the ordering of the tracks on an album, including the song that ended the album. In this episode, a stack of songs that close albums. Steve has judged these songs to be exceptional…

This week, our spectacular 8th annual Halloween show. You'll hear such artists as Cheap Trick, Electric Guitars ,Elvis Costello, Positive Noise, Citizens!, Kiwi Jr, The Posies, Radiohead, Fences, New Order, Subway Sect, The Forty Nineteens, Duran Duran, The Psychedelic Furs, Stryper, Lydia Lunch, The Ramones. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio **…

This week, Steve brings the second Then & Now episode. This time it features Aussies The Church. In addition you will hear the artists: The Supernaturals, Army Navy, Arctic Monkeys, Hoodoo Gurus, Tommy Keene, The Real People, Filter, U2, Matt Pond PA, The Arcs, Ash, The Hives and Icehouse. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm Friday *** ***…

This week, Suburban Underground is filled with all "B" artists. Believe it or not, there is no David Bowie this week. These are the bands and artists you will hear and enjoy: Blondie, Blackout 101, Big Quiet, The Bangles, Bleach, The Brothers Martin, The Bird And The Bee, Big Troubles, Biters, BORNS, Blood Sound, The Beths, Blinker The Star, Band O…

Better late than never. This week's Suburban Underground includes a set of two songs that make up the first time the Then & Now feature appears. Artists who are still putting out new music 40 or 50 years after their first releases. And this inaugural Then & Now episode is about Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. We'll hear a "then" song and a "now"…

In this week's show which contains songs ONLY from 1986, you will hear such artists as The Smiths , Modern English, The Bangles, The Blow Monkeys, Pete Shelley, Lonely Boys, The Lucy Show, a-ha, The Smithereens , World Party, R.E.M., The Three Johns, Depeche Mode, Eurythmics. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm Friday *** *** 10am Sunday *…

This week's Suburban Underground episode which is all songs about the North, the South, the East and the West. This week you will hear such artists as: The Academic, Everclear, Green Day, Hoodoo Gurus, The Wild Swans, Thin Lizzy, Simple Minds, Ronnie Hudson & The Street People, As Tall As Lions, The Wolfgang Press, The Stranglers, Ian Hunter, Kaise…

Instead of starting fights with actual humans, why not let off some steam listening to fighting songs? In this show you'll hear songs about beatings, punching, kicking, boxing, fighting and Kung Fu! The artists within this show are Easterhouse, Ash, Patti Rothberg, Eels, The Gaslight Anthem, Carbon Leaf, Thin Lizzy, Star Collector, Garbage, The Cha…

In this show, Steve picked an hour of moon songs and sun songs and maybe even a song about the sun AND the moon. Whaaaaat?! In this show these artists will tickle your eardrums: Madness, Better Than Ezra, Dinosaur Jr, Dude York, The Dirty Royals, Beck, Judas Priest (believe it), Book Of Love, Simple Minds, Echo & The Bunnymen, Sunflower Bean, Belly…

In this exciting installment of Suburban Underground, Steve picked a few songs about a coming flood. The artists included this week are Teenage Fanclub, The Kooks, Men I Trust, Peter Gabriel, The Alarm, Michael Carpenter, The Armoury Show, The Hollowbodies, Electric Six, Love And Rockets, The Cure, We Are Scientists, Paramore, Oingo Boingo, Lone Ju…

This week Steve picked a set of really interesting cover songs. Well, I'll be the judge of that... says you. In this show you will hear the artists: Olivia Jean, The Academic, SYML, The Fixx, Morrissey, Alvvays, Paul Weller, Grace Jones, Azar Swan, Nouvelle Vague, Cleaners From Venus, Dramarama, The Zutons, Simple Minds, Death Cab For Cutie, Flop. …

This week, Steve concludes his series of shows with sets of days of the week shows with a set of Saturday songs! You will hear such artists as The Blue Aeroplanes, Joe Jackson, Dives, Guadacanal Diary, Noisettes, Go Betty Go, Stereophonics, Blancmange, Human Tetris, Sports Team, The Mission UK, Young The Giant, The Jellybricks, Outtacontroller, The…

Join Steve this week as he continues his quest to play sets about all seven of the days of the week. This week, he tackles Thursday and Friday. You will hear such artists as No Vacation, Royal Republic, The Warning, Knapsack, David Bowie, The Philtres, Bash & Pop, Paul Weller, Silent Running, The Cure, Beabadoobee, Nik Kershaw, We Are Scientists, P…

This week on Suburban Underground, Steve picked a set of Tuesday songs and a set of Wednesday songs. You will hear the artists: Alvvays, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Michigander, The Malarians, The Smithereens, Cloud Eleven, The Shazam, The Undertones, Inspiral Carpets, The Caulfields, Curtis Harding, Fontaines D.C., The Daily Howl, Doves, XTC and Badfin…

This week, Steve picked a set of Sunday songs and a set of Monday songs. You will hear such artists as Glass Torpedoes, Silver Sun, Crocodile Tears, The Damned, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Rialto, Ocean Colour Scene, The Regrettes, The Saints, Crowded House, Difford & Tilbrook, Starcrawler, The Japanese Popstars with Robert Smith, Richard Cheese & L…

This week, Steve picked an hour of songs by artists with an animal in their name. These are the artists you will hear: The Field Mice, Echo & The Bunnymen, Amy Shark, Eels, Crocodile Tears, Band Of Horses, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, The Blow Monkeys, Cage The Elephant, Pony, Snowdogs, Porcupine Tree, Catfish & The Bottlemen, Wolf Alice, Go…

This week, two sets of "plastic" songs. Plus, all of these great artists: The Academic, The Hives, Paramore, The Cure, The Rosenbergs, Geoff Byrd, The Buggles, The Charlatans, The Call, The Kooks, The Airborne Toxic Event, Ian McCulloch, Menswear, Tubeway Army, Fischer-Z, Green Day and The Kinks! On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm Friday …

In this week's show of rain songs you will hear such artists as The Apples In Stereo, Cannons, Caroline Rose, The Comsat Angels, The Cult, Echo & The Bunnymen, Freezepop, Go-Go's, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Living Things, Longwave, Manic Street Preachers, The Mynabirds, Passion Pit, Violent Femmes, 20/20. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm F…

This week, there are 2 sets of FREEDOM songs. Why? Because its almost America's Independence Day. These artists are in this episode: The Warning, Talking Heads, The Lightning Seeds, The Clash, Curtis Harding, The Kinks, XTC, Clan Of Xymox, The Stone Roses, The Finn Brothers, The Zutons, Must, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, The Vitamin String Qu…

Steve picked a set of covers that comprise an alternative version of David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' album. The rest of the show is made up of great NEW songs. Here is the artist lineup: Old 97's, Marti Jones, Boy Hits Car, Golden Smog, Graham Bonnet, Rhett Miller, Cuff The Duke, Gilby Clarke, Bauhaus, Rose Of Victory, Black Box Recorder, The Academ…

This week, Steve picked a mystery set. See if you can figure out what the mini-theme is of those 3 songs before he lets you know (after the set plays). In this show you will hear the artists: The Warning, The Cribs, Sunny Day Real Estate, New Musik, New Order, Menswear, FM, Porcupine Tree, Genesis, Silent Running, The Raveonettes, Inhaler, Wilco, T…

This week, Steve brings you songs about money, from the artists: The Boys, Alice Cooper, All, The Thamesmen, ABC, Neneh Cherry, Skids, New England, The Pretenders, Shift, The Warning, Damone, Supergrass, Bleachers, The Struts, Fountains Of Wayne. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm Friday *** *** 10am Sunday *** *** 8pm Monday *** Stream l…

In this episode of Suburban Underground, Steve picked a set of songs that sample older songs. And Steve plays a clip of the original for reference. You will hear the artists: Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, Catherine Wheel, Jimmy Eat World, Oasis, Beck, Big Audio Dynamite, The Invaders, Dodgy, Swag, The White Wires, The Warning, The Posies, Gay Da…

This week, Steve picked all artists that are available on the web site Bandcamp.com. Why? Because it is a great place to find new music and support rock and roll! In this episode you will hear: Crocodile Tears, Dentist, Black Nite Crash, The Dollyrots, Dude York, Dazy, Weird Nightmare, Pujol, The Ancient Order of Froth Blowers, Olivia Jean, Slow Pu…

Steve picked a set of songs with nonsense lyrics and a nonsense title. You will hear that interesting trio of songs along with these artists: INXS, Beck, Queen, Cruel Summer, Terry Hall, Ash, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Freur, The World, The Sweet, Gran Bel Fisher, Regina Spektor, Muse, New Order. On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio *** 5pm Friday *** *** 10…