2025 Year In Review

With help from listeners, Danny and Jon recount the musical year the was. Part one focuses on the albums that made a lasting impression on us in 2025.

We are joined by Jim McGuinn, the program director of the Philly-based radio station WXPN, to play through some incredible covers of Bruce Springsteen's "I'm On Fire". More importantly, we discuss the upcoming 885 Greatest Cover Songs countdown that launches this week on XPN, and the fascinating reason our song this week relates to their list.

The Nirvana original helped define a genre and ushered in a new era of mainstream rock music. Listen and find out what other artists have done with it in the three decades since its release.

It's our 100th episode! Maybe! To help us celebrate, we've invited back a favorite guest, author Ian Rogers! He helps us take on U2 for a second time.

Despite forming in 1995 (and having no prior releases), Me First and the Gimme Gimmes put out their first album since 1984 in the summer of 1997. That album was called Have A Ball, and it's fittingly the first in our series of Me First album reviews. We listen to their sped-up takes of 60s and 70s classics (and Uptown Girl) and find out exactly why this album is one Danny will never forget.

Jon and Danny, with a lot of help from their guest Josue Sanchez, play through a list of amazing covers of the Natalia Lafourcade megahit "Hasta la Raíz".

Danny and Jon play some of the hardest-driving covers ever heard on this show, all in honor of the DEVO classic.

Danny and Jon take a stellar trip through the covers of The Only Ones hit "Another Girl Another Planet"

The title of this week's song abbreviates to I DAN. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Danny is going solo this time since Jon's studio is under the weather.

This week's song stretches back so far through the history of music that it's in the public domain. The result is so many great versions of the song! Listen with us as we bend genres to the whim of this classic.