# rocknroll (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover rocknroll. Page: Feed: --- ## [Martin Simpson’s 60 years on the folk circuit ‘making people cry for a living’](https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear) _2026-08-19 · Word In Your Ear_ Martin Simpson got backstage when he was 15 and met Jimmy Reed and Big Joe Williams and it changed his life forever. He’s been on the folk circuit ever since, still at the top of his game and with the wealth of knowledge and experience reflected in this extremely entertaining podcast. His ‘Some Kind Of Jubilee’ album celebrates 50 years since his first record and he’s on tour in September. And… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a85857ba835875d3796f160/media.mp3) ## [The Shadows and the chequered tale of the first British rock’n’roll band](https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear) _2026-08-18 · Word In Your Ear_ The Shadows were the strongest brand in British pop, adored and widely imitated. When they went out of fashion, no-one wanted them to change. Bob Stanley salutes their enormous influence and creation of the guitar hero and unravels their rapid post-Beatles decline in his superb new book, ‘The Shadows: the Definitive Story’. And talks to us here about … … Hank and Bruce arriving in London aged 15… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a8496c19cb9faa61af072bc/media.mp3) ## [Stiff Records’ 50th birthday! – the farcical magnificent record label and why we adored it](https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear) _2026-08-16 · Word In Your Ear_ Stuff, nonsense, the white heat of debate and yesterday’s news today! Which this week involves … … which of these didn’t host a TV chat show – Ian Botham, Charlotte Church, Lily Allen or Harold Wilson? … if you’d paid £102 to see two-thirds of the Fugees show up an hour late, wouldn’t you SCREAM for a refund? … Britain’s most rock’n’roll hotel and why the idea of “excess” seems purely American …… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a81a10103af5e222ab4766b/media.mp3) ## [Elliott Smith, his life, his afterlife and the friends who believed in him](https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear) _2026-08-14 · Word In Your Ear_ A sense of melancholy hangs over the music of songwriters whose lives were tragically short – Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Eva Cassidy, Judee Sill - and we’re left knowing very little about them. Jamie Fisher, writer and New York Times researcher, discovered Elliott Smith 12 years after he’d died and contacted 40 of his friends and fellow musicians to build a picture of him for her memoir Nobody… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a7f03a4f8e81c4395e07ee0/media.mp3) ## [How Kylie became the whole world’s sweetheart](https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear) _2026-08-12 · Word In Your Ear_ Michael Cragg’s devotion to all things Kylie once led him to Melbourne in search of the actual carousel horse she rode in a pop video. He got a tattoo a day later. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head is a funny and fondly detailed personal account of the risk-taking variety of her records, the mystery of her private life and the irresistible nature of her appeal, a girl who, were there a war on, would be… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a7c4dfd7d85cbdf9675d8d7/media.mp3) ## [Sandy Denny’s life and luminous talent celebrated by Linda Thompson](https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear) _2026-08-11 · Word In Your Ear_ ‘Sandy Denny: A People’s History’ has just been published, memories from fellow musicians, old friends, producers, writers, fans and admirers. Linda Thompson met her when they were both 16 and was devoted to her ‘til she died in 1978 – “she’s still with me, I talk to her all the time”. She looks back here at their lives in Soho bars, folk clubs and studios, the world they inhabited and the… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a7b2bce6003752573180557/media.mp3) ## [The Abbey Road photo miracle, Glen Hansard and TV we’d pay to watch](https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear) _2026-08-10 · Word In Your Ear_ The news slapped on the conversational barbecue and served with a side of old hokum. This week’s mixed grill includes … … our favourite story in the whole of popular music! … Lisa Marie Presley & Michael Jackson, Neil Young & Daryl Hannah and other weird celebrity weddings … how Glen Hansard got hired for the Commitments … “Everybody has a plan ‘til they’re punched in the face” … Linda Thompson… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a79aece5a90490c34d169e5/media.mp3) ## [Bowie, the Cure, Neil Young and the golden age of the video shoot](https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear) _2026-08-06 · Word In Your Ear_ Tim Pope caught the video wave in 1981 and made hundreds of promotional clips, often three or four a week, edited at night and on-air days later. You’ll have seen them, singles for the Style Council, The The, Iggy Pop, Hall & Oates and many others. For 15 years he was the man to call – inventive, caffeinated, risk-loving, clubbable – and “nothing was too mad or stupid”. He celebrates that magic… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a7444c1aa557e62dc019f76/media.mp3) ## [Pauline Black of the Selecter, the girl who invented the Rude Girl](https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear) _2026-08-05 · Word In Your Ear_ Pauline Black was seen singing Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell songs in Coventry folk clubs and recruited by a local reggae band. Then converted to ska and joined the Selecter - back on tour this summer and with a box-set of live recordings, ‘The Selecter at the BBC’. She looks back here at … … their first gig with Madness for 47 years in Brighton – “very red fezzy!” … her Sliding Doors moment… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a730325f75191d0fae44410/media.mp3) ## [Tony Fletcher - teenage label boss! – remembers the Jam, the Tube and the ‘80s pop explosion](https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear) _2026-08-04 · Word In Your Ear_ Tony Fletcher launched Jamming! when he was 13, wrote for the Face at 16, ran a label with Paul Weller at 17 and a year later was presenting the Tube. And was in a band signed to EMI. If anyone did more as a teenager, we want to meet them. It’s all in his coming-of-age memoir ‘Pow! When UK Punk Went Pop 1980-84’ - discussed here - which touches on … …the speed, the possibilities and the riches of… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a7234b967f03d99be26458b/media.mp3) ## [Build with the cheapest GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3wu6BakNsAUx) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Deployed a live API in minutes; one user spent under $10. ## [Is AI wrecking rock history? – plus festivals in heatwaves and Kate Bush dancing](https://shows.acast.com/word-in-your-ear-2/episodes/word-podcast-944) _2026-08-03 · Word In Your Ear_ Testing the temperature of this week’s news to see what trips the fire-alarm, which includes … … does having a Number One still matter? … Pauline Black’s sliding doors moment … rock stars you can’t imagine dancing … heatwaves, fire, rain, dust and thunderstorms: how extreme weather’s changing the festival circuit … when Jarvis Cocker was a fishmonger and Bryan Ferry taught pottery … is AI erasing… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a70b1142031aa1a28e51c31/media.mp3) ## [COREandCO radio S13E11](https://www.studiozef.fr/emissions/coreandco-radio/coreandco-radio-s13e11/) _2026-06-30 · Pidji · COREandCO radio_ Dernière COREandCO radio de la saison ! Cette émission ne dérogera pas à notre crédo Metal, Hardcore, rock et leurs dérives, puisqu’encore une fois, on fera des grands écarts stylistiques, entre postrock, melodeath, blackmetal, hardcore, rock psyché, etc. Notre groupe du mois est français : Verdun. Et pas de titre oldie pour cette dernière. Bonne écoute [Listen](https://www.studiozef.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/COREandCO_radio-S13E11.mp3) ## [COREandCO radio S13E10](https://www.studiozef.fr/emissions/coreandco-radio/coreandco-radio-s13e10/) _2026-06-03 · Pidji · COREandCO radio_ On se retrouve pour cette 10e COREandCO radio de la saison,mettez le son au max, pour profiter des morceaux du jour, entre screamo, mathrock, brutal death, noise, hardcore, etc. Notre groupe du mois nous vient de Finlande : Rats Will feast Pas de titre oldie pour cette fois ! Bonne écoute ! [Listen](https://www.studiozef.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/COREandCO_radio-S13E10.mp3) ## [COREandCO radio S13E09](https://www.studiozef.fr/emissions/coreandco-radio/coreandco-radio-s13e09/) _2026-04-24 · Pidji · COREandCO radio_ Nouvelle session de COREandCO radio, pleine de musiques diverses et variées, toujours dans les styles metal, hardcore, rock et leurs dérives, qui est le credo de COREandCO depuis plus de 20 ans maintenant ! Notre artiste du mois, c’est Rob Zombie ! Pour le titre oldie qui n’en est pas vraiment un, ce sera un \[…\] [Listen](https://www.studiozef.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/COREandCO_radio-S13E09.mp3) ## [COREandCO radio S13E08](https://www.studiozef.fr/emissions/coreandco-radio/coreandco-radio-s13e08/) _2026-03-30 · Pidji · COREandCO radio_ Pour cette 8ème émission de la saison, vous allez écouter du sludge, du rock, du black, du rap metal, de l’electro hardcore, et d’autres joyeusetés ! Notre groupe du mois en lien avec le webzine COREandCO se nomme KRAV BOCA ! Et pour le titre oldie, retour en 2010 pour s’écouter un titre de Harvey Milk. \[…\] [Listen](https://www.studiozef.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/COREandCO_radio-S13E08.mp3) ## [COREandCO radio S13E07](https://www.studiozef.fr/emissions/coreandco-radio/coreandco-radio-s13e07/) _2026-03-01 · Pidji · COREandCO radio_ C’est reparti pour une 7e session de COREandCO radio, dans laquelle vous allez pouvoir entendre des titres toujours aussi divers et variés, en lien avec tout le contenu du webzine COREandCO. Bonne écoute ! [Listen](https://www.studiozef.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/COREandCO_radio-S13E07.mp3) ## [COREandCO radio S13E06](https://www.studiozef.fr/emissions/coreandco-radio/coreandco-radio-s13e06/) _2026-02-03 · Pidji · COREandCO radio_ Pour cette sixième COREandCO radio de la saison et première de 2026, vous allez avoir le droit à une playlist aux petits oignons, qui va partir dans pas mal de contrées différentes, que ce soit du swedeath, du black, du rock’n’roll, du hardcore, et même de la funk ! Notre groupe du mois est français \[…\] [Listen](https://www.studiozef.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/COREandCO_radio-S13E06.mp3) ## [COREandCO radio S13E05](https://www.studiozef.fr/emissions/coreandco-radio/coreandco-radio-s13e05/) _2026-01-14 · Pidji · COREandCO radio_ Dans les 60 minutes ce cette 5e émission de la saison, vous allez encore entendre tout un tas de styles différents ; et cette émission est particulièrement eclectique puisqu’on aura entre autres du thrash punk, du black, de la dark pop dronesque, du rock metal, du death metal, et encore d’autres suprises ! Notre groupe \[…\] [Listen](https://www.studiozef.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/COREandCO_radio-S13E05.mp3) ## [COREandCO radio S13E04](https://www.studiozef.fr/emissions/coreandco-radio/coreandco-radio-s13e04/) _2025-12-08 · Pidji · COREandCO radio_ Cette 4e COREandCO radio de la saison arrive plus vite que d’habitude, afin de vous diffuser au plus vite la 2e partie de l’interview de Sport. Un titre oldie cloturera cette émission : DIAL-7 et son album Never Enough Time sorti en 1998. Bonne écoute ! [Listen](https://www.studiozef.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/COREandCO_radio-S13E04.mp3) ## [COREandCO radio S13E03](https://www.studiozef.fr/emissions/coreandco-radio/coreandco-radio-s13e03/) _2025-11-19 · Pidji · COREandCO radio_ Dans cette émission, encore bien chargée, vous pourrez entendre des titres très variés musicalement, et vous pourrez écouter également la première partie de l’interview du groupe SPORT que j’ai réalisé il y a peu. Notre groupe du mois est français : Split. Bonne écoute ! [Listen](https://www.studiozef.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/COREandCO_radio-S13E03.mp3) ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XKjuCyY8Tpop) _2025-11-19 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [COREandCO radio S13E02](https://www.studiozef.fr/emissions/coreandco-radio/coreandco-radio-s13e02/) _2025-10-17 · Pidji · COREandCO radio_ Le programme de ces 60 minutes va être chargé, tant cette année musicale 2025 est tout simplement énorme. En vrac, vous allez entendre du thrash, du postrock, du Black, du metalcore, de la noise, du mathcore, etc… Notre groupe du mois est suisse : CORONER ! Et retour d’un titre oldie pour clôturer l’émission, avec \[…\] [Listen](https://www.studiozef.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/COREandCO_radio-S13E02.mp3)