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  • The Hook in the Hurt: Pop Rocks Radio Ep. 55

    The Hook in the Hurt: Pop Rocks Radio Ep. 55
    Sep 10 2025

    This week, Pop Rocks Radio takes it to Times Square — our Movie of the Week. Allan Moyle’s 1980 cult classic follows two girls who find their voices in the grit and chaos of New York. It’s messy, uneven, and unforgettable — just the way we like it!

    We’re also featuring the brilliant Tamar Berk, tracing her journey from the Starball days through her solo work, and closing with a brand-new track from her latest album, OCD. Tamar’s music is equal parts jagged poetry and irresistible hooks.

    🔗 Links:

    https://tamarberkmusic.com/

    https://tamarberk.bandcamp.com/

    https://indivisible.org/

    https://substack.com/@swlauden

    Playlist:

    The Chelsea Curve - Never Come Down

    Fastbacks - My Letters

    Smokey Brights - All in Who You Know

    Shannon & The Clams - The Moon Is In The Wrong Place

    PONY - Somebody Kill Me Please

    PONY - Chokecherry

    Starball - Say About Me

    Tamar Berk - Over and Done

    Tamar Berk - Better off Meditating

    Tamar Berk - Dandelions in My Flowerbed

    Tamar Berk - Chicago

    Tamar Berk - i'm in the day after

    The Cords - Fabulist

    Radhika - Future Me

    The Anti Groupies - Not My Problem

    The Hellflowers - Spanish Bombs

    Hunx & His Punx - Wild Boys

    Momma - I Want You (Fever)

    The Shivvers - Remember Tonight

    👉 Listen now: listen.poprocksradio.com

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    1 h et 13 min
  • We Don’t Put Out (We Do Turn Up)

    We Don’t Put Out (We Do Turn Up)
    Aug 27 2025

    This week we dive into Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains—teen fury, image vs. message, and why "well-behaved" women watch while "misbehaving" women lead. Straight from the film, we have our featured artist, The Professionals (Steve Jones & Paul Cook): post-Pistols bite, big hooks, zero nostalgia naps.

    Thanks for listening!

    🔗 Links:

    https://bompstore.com

    Dom Mariani: Never Done

    Today's Tracks:

    • The Wellingtons – She Still Loves Me
    • Dharma Bums – Jet Pilot
    • Hard-ons – You Disappointed Me
    • Paul Collins – Hang On to Yourself
    • Eddie Money – Think I’m In Love
    • The Goods – Hear Me
    • Beta Trip – On My Mind
    • The Pandoras – In and Out of My Life (In a Day)
    • The Professionals – The Magnificent
    • The Professionals – Kick Down the Doors
    • The Professionals – Payola
    • The Professionals – Going Going Gone
    • The Riff Randells – When You Go
    • Lunison – Name 3 Songs
    • Hormones – If I Was Your Girl
    • Carmen Toth – Pretty Dresses
    • Andy Lampert – Another Song About a Train
    • The 1981 – Soft Goodbye
    • Absolute Losers – At The Same Time
    • McCormick – The Girl I Knew Before
    • Sugarbomb – Hello

    🎧 Full episodes + extras: listen.poprocksradio.com

    🎬 Pop Rocks Radio on YouTube

    “Be good. Be weird.”
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    1 h et 20 min
  • Shimmer, Jangle, Repeat: The Paisley Underground

    Shimmer, Jangle, Repeat: The Paisley Underground
    Aug 20 2025
    Lace up your Beatle boots and follow the fuzzed-out trail back to one of music’s strangest, most beautiful dead ends...This week we slip sideways into The Paisley Underground — the dreamlike LA scene where ’60s psychedelia collided with ’80s attitude, creating some of the most shimmering, jangled, and criminally overlooked sounds in underground rock.Movie of the Week: The ‘Burbs (1989)Dim the lights. Some neighborhoods were never meant to feel safe...Links:Bomp! RecordsGirls Rock Camp AllianceThe Numbers by Mathew StreetTodays Tracks:Tommy Keene- Carrie AnneYoung Fresh Fellows- Two LivesThe Numbers- She Is EverythingThe Peppermint Kicks- Too Sweet (Oh Yeah!)The Barracudas- Somewhere OutsideThe Jimmy C- Start All OverThe Gypsy Moths- And You Know I DoEric Barlow- BurnThe Three O'Clock- Stupid EinsteinRain Parade- What's She Done To Your MindThe Bangles- Talking in My SleepOpal- Fell From The SunThe Long Ryders- Lights of DowntownThe Dream Syndicate- Drinking ProblemGreen On Red- That's What DreamsTime Thieves- Stare at the SunEdward Sillinsky Implosion- A Dream Ain't Perfect65MPH- Didn't You Know?The Scientists- Frantic RomanticSeventh Saint- I'd Do Anything to See You Once AgainDrugs In Sport- Gravitational CrushThe Sugar Beats- Beat To My HeartThe Martial Arts- Empty out Here (Single Version)Dan Murphy & High on Stress- TetheredDennis Schocket & Cliff Hillis- Violet Blue
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    1 h et 37 min
  • Fuzz, Feels, and the Return of Pop Rocks Radio

    Fuzz, Feels, and the Return of Pop Rocks Radio
    Aug 13 2025
    We’re back with Episode 51! Season 2 kicks off with a full tank of fuzzed-out guitars, melodic hooks, and cult movie mayhem.This week’s featured artist is Dom Mariani—power pop icon and garage-rock lifer behind The Stems, DM3, Datura4, and more. We trace his musical trail from Perth, spinning tracks across decades and projects.Our Movie of the Week is Garage Days (2002)—a messy, heartfelt ode to underdog bands chasing the dream one grimy gig at a time.Plus: brand-new jams from Sharkeologist, Beta Trip, and Hotel Saturn, classic cuts from The Friggs and Artful Dodger, and a few weird gems you’ll be humming for days.Be good. Be weird. And welcome back to Pop Rocks Radio!🔗 Links:Bomp! RecordsRazor CakeRemember the LightningBig Stir RecordsToday's Tracks:Lolas- Underneath the WavesSharkeologist- Forget About ItAcapulco Lips- Slowly DisappearingThe Spongetones- Help Me JanieJosephine Network- Static WallsColor TV- Anybody's GirlThe Stems- The OthersideThe Someloves- Know You NowDM3- Second Floor (Jeff Murphy Mix)Dom Mariani- At Full SpeedDatura4- Get OutThe Stems- Get So BadDom Mariani- Apple Of LifeThe Kowalskis- Oh Dee DeeThe Friggs- ShakeHotel Saturn- Can't Be Wrong This Time (IPO Vol. 25 mix)Monogroove- Hello EveryoneBeauty- DaisyBeta Trip- JulietNahuel Pisano- Birds In the NightThe Memos- Born AgainDeadlights- Running WildArtful Dodger- Remember
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    1 h et 27 min
  • Dom Mariani: Never Done

    Dom Mariani: Never Done
    Aug 22 2025

    This week on Pop Rocks Radio, Bijan sits down with Dom Mariani—the Australian songwriter behind The Stems, DM3, Datura4, and a string of acclaimed solo releases. For nearly four decades, Dom has been delivering some of the most infectious power pop and garage rock hooks ever put to tape.

    From the jangly brilliance of The Stems to the cult following of DM3, the heavy grooves of Datura4, and his melodic solo work, Dom shares stories from his journey, reflects on what keeps him writing, and talks about why he’s far from done.

    🔗 Explore more:

    • Official site: dommariani.com
    • Alive Naturalsound Records: alive-records.com
    • Purchase Dom’s music: bompstore.com

    ✨ Support the Show + Stay Connected:

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    If you liked this episode, please leave a review, share it with a friend, and help keep our weird little mixtape alive. 🎶

    Thanks to Dave Brockwell for the cool Dom art!

    💛 Support what you love!

    If you dig what we’re doing, you can support the show directly at buymeacoffee.com/poprocksradio. Every bit helps us share more music from the margins.
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    1 h et 3 min
  • Gabba Gabba Hey! Punks, Pinheads, and Pop Rocks Radio

    Gabba Gabba Hey! Punks, Pinheads, and Pop Rocks Radio
    Jul 16 2025
    We made it to Episode 50 — so of course we blew up the school. For our season finale, we’re celebrating Rock ’n’ Roll High School — the 1979 cult classic where teenage rebellion comes with blow-up dolls, exploding mice, and the Ramones..We also have tracks from The Coolies, Sharkeologist, HAIM, and so much more. Plus: a shoutout to Kim Shattuck, a track from Joey Ramone’s solo album, a nod to the Paley Brothers, and one final burst of noise before we close the book on Season One.Blow off your homework and join us. Gabba Gabba Hey. 🎓💥🔗 Links:Bomp! RecordsWicked Cool RecordsFind Your Local Record Store!🎧 Today's Tracks:The Dogmatics- You’ve Got What I WantRon Flynt- 3rd Street Girl Sharkeologist- Told You SoThe Blusterfields- Be Your ManSloan- You Don't Need Excuses to Be GoodJoey Ramone- Maria BartiromoNick Lowe- Raging EyesPaley Brothers- EcstasyEddie & The Hot Rods- Quit This TownSoraia- Alright OKThe Replacements- Shiftless When IdleBikini Kill- Rebel GirlHAIM- Take me backGreg Pope- FanboyThe Coolies- Bad Bad BoySharp Pins- Every Time I HearNo Tears- Echo In My HeadThe Beths- Dying to BelieveTombstones in Their Eyes- I Am ColdErik Voeks & The Ghosters- Hazy MazeAdam Schmitt- Looking for Fate
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    1 h et 29 min
  • Mall Music & Dive Bar Dreams

    Mall Music & Dive Bar Dreams
    Jul 9 2025

    Love in the food court. Heartbreak on the Sunset Strip. This week, we honor Valley Girl (1983)—the film, the myth, the neon-drenched fever dream—and the bands that made it shimmer.

    We’ve got Josie Cotton, The Plimsouls, Sparks, Bonnie Hayes, and some present-day weirdos keeping the eyeliner spirit alive.

    Come for the mall music. Stay for the dive bar dreams. And maybe cry a little in the parking lot.

    🔗. Links:

    Bomp! Records

    Big Stir Records

    S.W. Lauden on Substack

    Austin Pets Alive!

    World Central Kitchen

    🎧 Today's Tracks:

    The Jive- Heart O' Gold

    Steve Allen- In + Out of the Light

    The Cle Elum- Something In The Water

    Earth Quake- Fever Dream

    Powerslide- Primadonna

    Josie Cotton- Everything Is Oh Yeah

    Sparks- Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is

    Bonnie Hayes- Still Wild

    The Plimsouls- 12 O'Clock Midnight

    The Chelsea Curve- Kindawanna

    Beauty- Acid Baby Girl

    Popsicko- No Better Time

    Hobsons Bay Coast Guard- Monsoon

    THE ROOKS- Maybe

    Peter Holsapple- Fireflies

    The Beths- No Joy

    The Meanies- Zamboni

    The Callbirds- Love Leftover (Radio Mix)

    The Airport 77s- Don't Let Go
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    1 h et 20 min
  • What Would Stiv Bators Do? Tales from the Swanky Modesverse

    What Would Stiv Bators Do? Tales from the Swanky Modesverse
    Jul 2 2025

    This week, we’re going full VHS cult chaos with a tribute to the 1988 film Tapeheads—a weird, wonderful satire about two misfit video-makers on a mission to resurrect their favorite forgotten soul duo, the Swanky Modes. If you’ve ever fallen in love with a band no one else seems to remember, this movie (and this episode) is for you.

    Also featuring music from Bacci Pouch, Tamar Berk, Geoff Palmer, Yee Loi, our featured artist, Stiv Bators, and more—and of course, no episode would be complete without a song by my favorite band, 20/20.

    🔗 Links:

    Bomp Records

    Big Stir Records

    Today's Tracks:

    bacci pouch- Running Around

    20/20- When The Sun Goes Down

    Yee Loi- Poor Girl

    Geoff Palmer- BYE BYE BABY

    Sloan- Live Forever

    Hard-Ons- What Would Stiv Bators Do

    Dead Boys- Flame Thrower Love

    Stiv Bators- It's Cold Outside

    Lords of the New Church- Livin' On Livin'

    Stiv Bators- Not That Way Anymore

    Barracudas- Middle Class Blues

    Nearly Skulls- Only In America

    The Possibilities- You Don't Mean It

    Marshall Crenshaw- Television Light

    Splitsville- A Glorious Lie

    The dB's- Amplifier (2024 Remaster)

    Cosmo Topper- For... The Time Being

    Myracle Brah- Action Reaction

    Tamar Berk- Tragic Endings

    The Rallies- Love
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    1 h et 21 min