Listen Up, Nerds: The Week of 9/1/2023

Hey, so what are the top 20 songs that you love? What are the top 20 songs that spark joy in your heart as soon you hear the first notes? I think the

Listen Up, Nerds 41: Growing Plants

Punk and its subsidiaries are all about being “real,” or they were, once. Whether it meant you were tougher than another guy or poorer or struggled more or hustled harder, it mattered that you suffered for your art in one way or another. We no longer value that. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing.

Listen Up, Nerds 40: We're The Oldheads Now

“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me. And

Listen Up, Nerds Playlist 7: The Living's Easy

My tribute to terrestrial radio. This is what I’d play for a metro area of over 1,000,000 potential listeners if I got an hour of drive-time radio with no Spotify or Apple Music or Tidal or Pandora or podcasts.