Anything, Anything with Rich Russo

Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles calls into Anything Anything

Jim James of My Morning Jacket calls into Anything Anything..

TOMMY RAMONE TRIBUTE PODCAST

Dan Fogler, writer, director, star of Don Peyote, stops in the studio…    

Jonny Two Bags was in studio discussing his new release “Salvation Town” and all sorts of other stuff, enjoy it all here:    

The Anything Anything free form revolution rolls on and we’ve made it up to Western MA! Lazer 99.3 (WLZX-FM in Springfield began airing the show on 3/16, Here’s their first playlist and I’ve made the opening 30 Minutes available as a podcast as that was special for the Springfield Market. Enjoy This is Anything Anything Springfield Kent Brockman and Bill Murray Springfield Springfield Bart and Milhouse Anything, Anything Dramarama Springfield Girls are Good at Basketball The MA Love Song Warriors Holyoke Girls (Playing Volleyball, Climbing Mt. Tom…) The MA Love Song Warriors Rex Bob Lowenstein Mark Germino And The Sluggers Lenny Diana Michael Jackson and Penny Marshall I’ve Done Everything for You Rick Springfield I Only Want To Be With You Dusty Springfield Rock & Roll Woman Buffalo Springfield for what it’s worth Girl In A Coma What Can I Do For You ? Joan Jett St Patrick’s Day Parade Bing Crosby The Gang’s All Here Dropkick Murphys Bury Me In Ireland The Dollyrots girlwatchin the Sultans of ping (cork ireland) Irish Blood, English Heart [Live] Morrissey Porno (radio) Arcade Fire Wrecking Ball (miley cyrus cover) Ron Jeremy (happy bday Ron) Wrecking Ball The So So Glos Burn Harvard Burn The Front Bottoms Which One Of The Two Of Us Is Gonna Burn This House Down? The Star Spangles Burn Your Life Down Tegan & Sara Straight On Heart (happy bday Nancy Wilson) I’ll Never Grow Up Now!  Twisted Sister (happy bday Dee Snider) We Used to Be Friends (dandy warhols cover) Alejandro Escovedo I Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely Husker Du (happy bday Grant Hart) If Only You Were Lonely The Replacements Heaven Help The Lonely Willie Nile I Wanna Get Better Bleachers Jack Antonoff from Bleachers calls in Downtown Train Tom Waits

Jack Antonoff calls into Anything Anything to discuss his new project Bleachers:  

The first 38 Minutes of the show was a tribute to Harold Ramis, here’s the Podcast of it.. playlist of the entire show is below THE PEAK, THE RAT, WDHA Anything, Anything Dramarama Harold Ramis with David Letterman (RIP Harold) Holiday Road (from Vacation) Lindsay Buckingham Weatherman (from Groundhog Day) Delbert McClinton (song co-written Harold Ramis) Da Do Ron Ron (from Stripes) Harold Ramis Not Homosexual by Willing to Learn (from Stripes) Harold Ramis/Bill Murray Do Wah Diddy Diddy (from Stripes) Harold Ramis/Bill Murray Stripes Main Theme Elmer Bernstein Are you Ready for the Summer (from Meatballs) Camp North Star Kids Print is Dead, Collect Mold Spores & Fungus (from Ghostbusters) Harold Ramis Ghostbusters Ray Parker Jr Deltas on Trial(From Animal House) Tim Matheson & John Vernon Animal House Stephen Bishop I’m Alright (Theme from Caddyshack) Kenny Loggins Harold Ramis talks about Caddyshack Anyway You Want it (from Caddyshack) Journey No More Lies Jan Hammer/Neal Schon (happy bday Neal) Lies CHVRCHES One Of My Lies Green Day I Can Tell (When You’re Telling Lies) John Wesley Harding Some Of My Lies Are True (Sooner Or Later) Huey Lewis & The News True Love Waits For Me Fairmont Just Can’t Wait J. Geils Band I Wanna Get Better Bleachers I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better Tom Petty Life Gets Better Graham Parker & The Rumour An Anthem for the Broken Matthew Ryan No Matter What You’re Told Broken Bells Free Rock and Roll The Alarm (happy bday Mike Peters) Quinn the Eskimo Manfred Mann (happy bday Mike D’abo) Great Unknown MikelParis Image of a Surfer Lloyd Thaxton (happy bday Laird Hamilton) injured in the game of love Donnie Iris (happy bday Donnie) girls girls girls made to love Eddie Hodges (Happy bday Eddie) Love Potion No. 9 The Searchers (happy bday Mike Pender) Billy Get Your Guns Jon Bon Jovi (happy bday Jon) Don’t Let Me Sleep Too Long Dennis Diken (happy bday Dennis)

Enjoy Jake Clemons on Anything Anything, click the player to hear it or listen via itunes, playlist below Anything, Anything Dramarama It’s a really big show tonight (anything version) The Kirby Stone Four with Ed Sullivan Another Girl Another Planet The Only Ones you must fight to live on the planet of the apes Peter Buck (happy bday Pete) making your mind up Bucks Fizz (happy bday Mike Nolan) You Must Be Crazy Jake Clemons Jake Clemons Interview Badlands (live Harlem Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Tribute to Bruce Springsteen (Born in the Usa) Chief Kooffreh Jake Clemons Interview Song For Hope Jake Clemons Two Ryan Adams Drive all night Glen Hansard with Eddie Vedder & Jake Clemons Jake Clemons Interview The Kids Are Alright [live] Pearl Jam Why Independent Record Stores Fail Marah Jake Clemons Interview Scarborough Fair and Gin and Juice Paul Simon, Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan Local Hero (Leeds 07 24 13) Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band Jake Clemons Interview Without Jake Clemons I won’t go hunting with you Jake (but I’ll go Chasin’ Wimmin) Jimmy Dean

We did a special Tribute hour for Lou Reed on the Peak, if you missed it you can listen to it below, the playlist is there as well as is the opening monologue. Rest in Peace, Lou. Sweet Jane LOU REED with SOUL ASYLUM Leave Her For Me THE JADES (1958, written by Lou, he sang back up) Merry Go Round LEWIS REED (1962. Written by Lou, first lead singing) The Ostrich THE PRIMITIVES (First Lou Reed/John Cale Collaboration) Here She Comes Now THE VELVET UNDERGROUND There She Goes Again (live) R.E.M. Femme Fatale GIRL IN A COMA I’ll Be Your Mirror THE RAINY DAY (Susanna Hoffs on Vocals) I Love you Suzanne LOU REED Satellite of Love LOU REED with U2 1972 RCA RECORDS Lou Reed Transformer Radio Spot Vicious LOU REED Dirty Boulevard (acoustic version) LOU REED This Magic Moment LOU REED Lou Reed Holiday Liner No Money Down LOU REED Street Hassle LOU REED with BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Opening Monologue: I’m rich russo and this is a special one hour tribute to Lou Reed who passed away this morning in the Hamptons due to complications from his recent liver transplant. No artist of huge influence could ever have a perfect body of work, perhaps maybe the Beatles and Buddy Holly’s body of work approaches perfection, but that’s probably it, Dylan has given us some clunkers, as have the Stones, and Zeppelin, and Springsteen and U2 and so on. And Lou Reed too, like those aforementioned artists the influence well outweighs the volume of product the record labels put out to capitialize on it, those endless compilations, live albums and boxed sets. Lou Reed’s influence on generations of misfits and outcasts who found salvation via a white light at the end of the tunnel, has given us some of the best rock and roll ever. Lou’s gritty New York City depictions of drugs, prostitution, shock therapy, bisexuality, anger, rebellion and even indifference was numbing and eye opening at the time. Lou wasn’t going for shock value, he was telling it like it was. He wasn’t an artist seeking shock value as publicity stunts such as the artists of today, then again you could argue that Andy Warhol himself was one big publicity stunt. Regardless Lou Reed was an artist, an innovator, a experimenter, a contrarian, who embodied a part of New York that is now gone forever, he will be missed. Over the next hour we’ll try to cover as much of Lou and his legacy as we can. We began with what I feel is the definitive live version of Sweet Jane, from the 1995 Rock hall of fame concert with Soul Asylum as his backing band.. And now we’ll go back the beginning of Lou’s musical journey with something recorded when he was a sixteen year old from Long Island, with his doo wop band the Jades in 1958, this is one of the first songs Lou had written that was published and recorded, he sings back up as well.. This is the Jades with Leave her for Me…

On 10/6/13 we launched on the RAT, our 3rd NYC area station, and another different format! We are very excited. We did a special show for the RAT including an opening that was beyond special! if you missed it or would like to hear it again, you can do so below!  

Rich sits down with legendary roots rocker Joe Grushecky, discussing his career and his most recent album Somewhere East of Eden

On April 21, 2013, the Anything Anything program began airing on the Gamut. For the debut show it was completely different than those that ran on the Peak and WDHA…The Gamut doesn’t stream, so if you don’t live in the range of the signal, you can’t get it, very old school! the playlist is below as well as the entire show for you to enjoy, and there’s nothing wrong with your speakers, this show is in mono! THE GAMUT Anything, Anything Dramarama Fair and Free Elections Thomas Jefferson 1800 Campaign Song Mr DJ Van McCoy (from Washington DC) Rex Bob Lowenstein Mark Germino And The Sluggers across the tracks Nils Lofgren (from Garrett Park, MD) Like A Fox Manassas (for 107.7 FM) Washington Bullets The Clash (for 103.5 FM) Frederick Patti Smith Group (for 820 AM) Because the night Garbage/Screaming Females Southern Nights Glen Campbell (happy dday Glen) Hold Me Closer Tony Danza  Scott and Zander (happy bday Tony Danza) Closer Tegan & Sara I love you London Lee I Love You A Lot Hues Corporation (happy bday St. Claire Lee) I Love You Period Dan Baird We Love You Carol And Alison Game Theory (RIP Scott Miller) Carol Chuck Berry Alison (Live) Elvis Costello & The Attractions She’s A Mystery To Me Roy Orbison (happy bday Roy) Building A Mystery Sarah McLachlan Go All The Way Trip Shakespeare (happy bday William Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet The Killers new romeo Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes New Traditions Suedehead Tv Theme Fall Guy Lee Majors (happy bday Lee) Fallin’ Wanda Jackson Real Wild Child Iggy Pop (happy bday Iggy Pop) Wild Child The Untouchables (happy bday Eliot Ness) The Night Chicago Died Paper Lace Bloodbuzz Ohio (Live) The National (happy bday Aaron and Bryce) Arlandria Foo Fighters (Springfield Va) On The Good Ship Lollipop Shirley Temple (happy bday Shirley)

you can also enjoy some outtakes from the interview, including spirited discussions about PRINCE, Justin Bieber, Rolling Stone Mag, Pink and Kayne West here:

Hollis Brown are one of the best bands to come out of NYC in years, their new album, Ride on the Train, will surely be on many best of lists (including mine), vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Mike Montali and Drummer Mike Graves of the band, hung at my house and on-air as we talked about the band, and even heard some live songs, Gypsy Black Cat, Hey Baby, and It’s Raining Men, yes It’s Raining Men plus a version of Nightfall that was done only for this podcast…Enjoy! make sure you catch the band live at the mercury lounge on sat 3/30 get tix here hollis pod 128

Enjoy this podcast of Dr Demento’s complete appearance on my show on 2/3/13 as well as additional content where the Doctor discusses Weird Al, Tom Lehrer, Devo Spice and Jonathan Coulton…please note the bonus material includes explicit language. Please visit www.drdemento.com and www.thefump.com for all of your novelty needs. The New York Funny Songs Festival is May 16-18, visit www.nyfunnysongs.com for info on that Dr Demento Podcast

For the first in the history of my radio show, my birthday fell on a Sunday, and considering I play whatever I want all of the time, i thought maybe i’d do an unbirthday thing and play things i hate, fortunately that didn’t last long, here’s the opening of the show as it falls off the rails. enjoy!   podcast unbday

Lucero, in my mind, is currently America’s best band, their album Women and Work was named the top album of 2012 on my yearend list, i was fortunate enough to sit down with Ben and Brian and discuss the album, as well as the origin of their name, how they write and everything else… Enjoy this podcast of my interview with them, including some segments that were not on the air and are exclusive to this podcast only. lucero podcast

Covers are such an important part of all artists repertoire, think of how rock was born, as covers of blues and country songs, look at Elvis early songs, look at the early Beatles and Stones albums, dominated by covers, Led Zeppelin were big on covers as is Joan Jett too and Springsteen’s live shows have always had a healthy dose of covers.. It’s important that all up and coming bands learn cover songs, it will help their live show, it will help their songwriting too.. So i’ve picked out some very nice covers for your enjoyment…and the podcast will have some clips of all of the songs, seek them out and buy the complete versions! covers 2012 and these are all versions the public would have had access to, not live performances at a random show…. so let’s go… Number 12: Cherie Currie Roxy Roller  Cherie’s new album is due out in 2013 and we were given a sampler of 4 tracks, featuring backing from Slash, Matt Sorum, Duff Mckagan, Billy Corgan and others, i really dug this version of the long forgotten Sweeney Todd song, which featured Nick Gilder on Vocals, later covered by Suzy Quatro… but i’m liking Cherie’s New version the best of all three… Number 11: Giovanni Hendriksen My Kind of Town  Steven Van Zandt in character as a mobster in the witness protection program, singing Sinatra and changing the lyrics from “Chicago is” to “Lillehammer is”  works for me and it will work for you too. Number 10: Gaslight Anthem You Got Lucky Brian Fallon and the crew have all done some cool covers, including a Bon Iver cover that came out last month, but i like this one of the Petty song best, but it does leave me both frustrated and hopeful. Frustrated that of all the Petty songs that this band can really nail, they chose this one, but hopeful that maybe they’ll go back to this same Petty album and try to tackle Change of Heart, or Deliver Me, or The Same Old You or Straight into Darkness, yeah, Gaslight could really nail all of those. Let’s hope they try. Number 9: The Civil Wars Billie Jean Joy Williams and John Paul White really kick ass on the harmonies of this song that is slowed down considerably compared to the Michael Jackson version, with a very cool guitar riff that if sped up could almost be reggae. No version could ever top the original, right? Then again, perhaps maybe this might. Number 8: Wendy James It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding I’ll admit these two things, i was in a record store in the late 80’s and there was a 12inch single with a smoking hot half naked girl on the cover, i bought it only because of the picture (it was $1.99), the record was better than the picture, and i then would buy every album and single by Transvision Vamp and Wendy James and loved them all. The second thing I’ll admit is that i rolled my eyes when this 7 minute cover of the Bob Dylan classic crossed my desk. Ok, yes she has done great versions of Holly and the Italians and even Elvis Costello songs, but Dylan? and of all the Dylan songs this one? But you know what, it delivers, it’s different than this song has ever been done and when you take all that politically is still polarizing our world, the lyrics and sentiment of this masterpiece still hits home. Number 7: Superchunk Cruel Summer  How cool is it when a rock band covers a pop hit and gives it some juice. Superchunk does that here and even Bananarama would be impressed, i think? now hopefully someone will punk up Robert Deniro’s Waiting next. Number 6: Amanda Palmer Polly  There are not enough adjectives to describe Amanda Palmer, but if you forced to come up with two, i’d go with Enjoyable Insanity, because you think it’s crazy, and it probably it is, but it’s so much fun. The most popular skit on SNL this year was the girl you don’t want to get stuck at a party with, Amanda is the opposite, she’s the one, you want to talk to, and maybe she’ll break into a Nirvana cover. Number 5: Shannon and the Clams White Rabbit Kinda Cool when an Oakland band crosses the bay literally and musically to cover one of the most important songs of the Haight-Ashbury movement. This is a stellar take on the Jefferson Airplane classic. Number 4: Mike Doughty Southern Girls Mike Doughty released a covers album this year called The Flip is Another Honey, and i’m torn between this Cheap Trick cover or the John Denver cover that features Roseanne Cash, so they both make the list…  Number 3: Mike Doughty Take Me Home Country Roads  Number 2:  Girl in a Coma Heatwave Girl in a Coma are no strangers to fantastic covers, and when JCPenney commissioned them to do this song for a commercial, they learned it in an hour and recorded it in one take and the result was glorious. Number 1: The Twylight Zones Ride on, Baby Here’s a recipe for spectacular: a little known Jagger-Richards gem, played by Jersey shore guitar slinger Bobby Bandiera, with the rhythm section of the E Street Band: Garry Tallent on Bass and Max Weinberg on Drums, plus Steven Van Zandt on guitar and producing and arranging, with John Magaro on vocals, from the soundtrack of Not Fade Away. This will blow you away and will have you seeking out the Stones version (it’s on the album Flowers) click on the link, not the player to listen… covers 2012