Tracks you love & some you most definitely hate.

Forty-six tracks opening with Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You" — French touch as the entryway. Sisters of Mercy covering the Stones' "Gimme Shelter" is a fever dream. A three-track hip-hop pocket (Madvillain, Pharoahe Monch, Digable Planets) sits back-to-back mid-show. And yes, there's a Progressive Insurance jingle in there, unironically, because why wouldn't there be. Closes into a full Britpop stretch — Cornershop, Happy Mondays, Black Grape, The Cure, Kula Shaker, London Suede — with The Charlatans' "Weirdo" landing like the show's title card.

Forty-five tracks. The Elvis section is unhinged — El Vez's "Mexican Radio" into Clownvis's "Trafficula" into Mojo Nixon's "Elvis Is Everywhere" — three Elvis interpreters, three completely different lanes of chaos. Deep into the show a five-band riot grrrl stretch (L7, Lunachicks, The Donnas, Elastica, Le Tigre) hits like a rally. The Art of Noise + Tom Jones covering Prince's "Kiss" is early on for the WTF factor, and The Specials' "Ghost Town" anchors the mood — the sound of an entire radio landscape emptying out. Which is kind of the point.

Forty-nine tracks with a full psychobilly stretch nested in the middle — The Cramps into Twin Temple into Screaming Lord Sutch into The Meteors, four in a row nobody else is programming. CAKE turns Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" into something they own, Ritchie Valens meets Bo Diddley for a rock-and-roll history moment, and the Olivia Rodrigo / Robert Smith collab lands next to Morrissey's "Rebels Without Applause" — which is really what this whole thing is.

Forty-four tracks kicking off with the most audacious opener possible: Enya's "Orinoco Flow" straight into Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand." The Kylie/New Order "Blue Monday" mashup earns its moment early, then actual New Order's "Age of Consent" shows up later like it's finishing the joke. Sex Bob-Omb makes a Scott Pilgrim cameo, Pulp's "Common People" anchors the back half, and The Stone Roses' "I Wanna Be Adored" takes the whole thing home.

Forty-six tracks with a Replacements gravity well early on — Westerberg solo, Bash & Pop, and Smoking Popes' "Need You Around" as a spiritual proxy. Middle dips into pure darkwave (Boy Harsher, Soft Kill, Twin Tribes, Sisters of Mercy back-to-back). Then Type O Negative bleeds into Urge Overkill's Pulp Fiction cut, Weezer's "Tired of Sex," and Smashing Pumpkins' "1979" — before Vicente Fernández's "El Rey" walks in and closes it out like nothing else could.

World Cup 2026 continues — Team USA vs Turkey in a heart-attack of a match, ending 3-2 to Turkey. Close, brutal, and full-anxiety-mode from start to finish. Forty-eight tracks stretch from Garbage's "#1 Crush" opener through Sonic Youth, Deftones, and Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life" as the closer. Placebo's "The Bitter End" captures the aftertaste, and They Might Be Giants' "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" feels less like a coincidence and more like foreshadowing.

World Cup 2026 special edition — broadcast alongside Mexico dispatching South Korea. VAMOS EL TRI! New Order's "World in Motion" and White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" both get their proper soccer-anthem due, and The Wookies bring in the Mexican rock representation. Forty-seven tracks stretch from Enigma's trance opener through Iceage, Björk, and Jane's Addiction to a closing Eurythmics-into-Prince run.

Three hours, 45 tracks, with the wife joining mid-broadcast for the good half. Biggie and Tribe open the night, an industrial stretch in the middle (Godflesh, Youth Code, Front 242, Boy Harsher), Johnny Cash's "Personal Jesus" cover slides in alongside the original, and Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" closes it out — yes, the full Exorcist theme — drifting the show into ambient prog territory you wouldn't see coming.

Forty-five tracks, three hours, zero apologies. Smashing Pumpkins drifting into D.R.I. into Anthrax-meets-Chuck-D thrash, a Beastie Boys double-shot, Goodbye Horses for the goths, a Refused / Coalesce hardcore bridge, and Hedwig closing the night with a wig in a box. Hum's "Step Into You" sneaks in near the end and quietly steals the show.

Fifty-one tracks across three hours, with one hostile takeover. DJ Tlalli knocked Joaquin out cold mid-show to slip Chappell Roan, Conan Gray, and Olivia Rodrigo into the mix before order was (barely) restored. Otherwise: Rob Base into Pearl Jam into Kraftwerk into Bikini Kill into Doves. Standard.

Two-hour special edition. The Corporate Machine tried to move the time slot — we just doubled down and did an earlier 2 hour show. Adapt, Evolve and Overcome! From Cap'n Jazz to The Knife to Tom Waits closing it out at four sheets to the wind.