The Blue Island Radio Podcast is primarily a music & interview podcast from Blue Island, Illinois featuring a wide range of musical styles. Our host, Brandon Z. also conducts interviews with locals musicians and artists.
Bubblegum Music was a short lived musical phenomenon that never went away. Today's episode mostly focuses on the hey day from around 1968 - 1974. Initially marketed to kids (the Saturday Morning Cart…
The Blue Island Radio Podcast gang gets together for the first meeting of the Blue Island Radio Podcast Book Club! On this episode they discuss the book Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan…
On this, the first episode of the year, Brandon & Tim discuss some nonsense including what we'd like to see less of in 2019, and Timmy's failed attempt to watch The Last Tango in Paris. This episode …
On this week’s episode of the podcast Brandon gets together with the Blue Island Radio Podcast Players to record what is arguably the best episode of the last two months. Recorded in August, the cre…
Hey everybody, if you're ready for some Xmas music that doesn't suck then you've come to the right place. On this years holiday episode you will hear music from Billy Childish, James Brown, El Vez…
On today's episode of the podcast Brandon & Tim are joined in the studio by Blue Island's own Alex Francois & Stephanie Meehan.
On this episode of the podcast Brandon and Tim sit down and talk about Halloween. An in-depth conversation about candy, costumes, and Halloween in Blue Island. Thanks for listening!
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Blue Island Radio Podcast - Episode 73
On today's episode Brandon plays music from his favorite holiday, Halloween! You will hear songs from the Crystals, Roy Clark, Arthur Brown, The Rattles and m…
HUEY “PIANO” SMITH -NEW ORLEANS - ROCKIN PNUMONIA & THE BOOGIE WOOGIE FLU - 1957
FROM LAKE CHARLES LOUISIANA - CHARLES “MAD DOG” SHEFFIELD - I GOT FEVER - EARLY 60S
TOMMY ROE - DIZZY - 1969
TH…
BOBBY FULLER FOUR - Our Favorite Martian - 1964
BILLY RILEY & HIS LITTLE GREEN MEN (The House Band for Sun Records) - FLYING SAUCERS ROCK N ROLL - Sun Records - 1976
PHOENIX - YOU ARE THE MOON, THE …
On today's episode Brandon & Tim are joined in the studio by everyone's 3rd favorite Rock Island Public House bartender, Scott Armstrong. And yes, there is a new sound collage!
1) JERRY COLE & His SPACEMEN - MIDNIGHT SURFER - 1963
2) BEACH PARTY TONIGHT 1963 ANNETTE FOONICHELLO
3) BEACHCOMBERS - FARMER JOHN
4) THE TRIUMPHS - SURFSIDE DATE - 1964
5) THE PANDORAS - HAUNTED …
Brandon and Tim sit down with car enthusiast and friend of the show Mike Tucker. We take phone calls and Brandon plays a new sound collage. And as usual please address all complaints to Mr. Tim Sidle…
On today's episode of the podcast Brandon continues with Blue Island bootleg series as he brings you live recordings from this year's Canned Beer Festival. Enjoy live recordings from Nightcap, The…
Brandon is joined in the studio by Dave Brown, Randy Korwin, and Father Connor Danstrom. Together they work through an often divisive topic: Religion. Topics of discussion include Atheism, Faith, Ex…
On today's episode of the podcast everything is about cars! They talk about their first cars, they take requests from callers and of course, they play songs about cars.
On today's episode Brandon offers up a second collection of "Odd Numbers" - novelty songs, slightly weird songs, or just songs that just don't fit easily in one any particular genre. Featuring son…
Today Brandon and Tim are joined in the studio by musician and co-founder of the Blue Island Beer Company, Alan Cromwell.
Today's featured artist is Jonathan Richman! This picture was taken on March 14, 2018 in Evanston, IL in a room of about 250 people. With a career that has sen it's share of ups and downs, it was gre…
On this episode of The Blue Island Radio Podcast Brandon & Tim are joined by Colleen & Jenna from the all-female Misfits cover band Hymen Moments.Thanks for listening.