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This American Punk and Hardcore Show Totally Rocks the 4th of July

This Show Rocks · September 21, 2018

So in honour of my former nation’s national day, this week’s show is all Yank music, mostly of the early American Hardcore variety. Things kick off with The Circle Jerks, Angry Samoans, Agent Orange, The Adolescents, The Freeze, DI and The Vandals, before taking a break from the 70’s and 80’s for The Gits, …

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This Show Totally Rocks 27th October

This Show Rocks · October 27, 2016October 27, 2016

New week, new show, all rock, let’s go!!! Tune in for: Snuff Dealing with Damage Gordon Gano’s Army The Arrivals Sass Dragons Bad Sports The Novice The Flys Radiators from Space Naked Raygun DOA The Saints Tongan Death Grip Minutemen Cosmonauts Thee Oh Sees Thee Spivs Against Me! Leatherface Husker Du Harvester That’s your lot. …

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This Show Totally Rocks 4th August

This Show Rocks · August 4, 2016August 4, 2016

New week, new show, new Descendents let’s go!! This week’s show is all about short, fast punk tunes. If that sounds like something you’d like, tune in for: Night Birds Descendents Career Suicide Tongan Death Grip Dry Heaves Dancing French Liberals of ’48 Frontalni Udar DOA Black Flag Circle Jerks Brutal Knights Dwarves Fleshies Fucked …

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This Show Totally Rocks 19th May

This Show Rocks · May 19, 2016May 19, 2016

New week, new show, loadsa tunes, Let’s Go!!! Tune in for: Futuro Terror FIDLAR Tongan Death Grip Sedatives Psyched to Die The Briefs Something Fierce Marked Men High Tension Wires Ty Segall Wand Ty Segall King Tuff (click for psychedelic video) The Nightmarchers Howlies Mean Jeans Red Dons Autistic Youth Leatherface The Authorities (click for …

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This Show Totally Rocks 28th April

This Show Rocks · April 28, 2016April 28, 2016

Another week, another show, loads of tunes, let’s go!! Ramones Mean Jeans Low Culture Arrivals Gordon Gano’s Army High Tension Wires The Spits Hex Dispensers Legendary Wings Men Without Pants Against Me! Clorox Girls The White Wires The Marked Men Autistic Youth Bad Sports Big Air The Dickies Las Nurses Zulu As Cono Leatherface Night …

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This Show Totally Rocks 25th February

This Show Rocks · February 25, 2016February 25, 2016

New Week! New Show! Loadsa tunes! Let’s Go!! Tune in for: Nightbirds Absolutely Not Sass Dragons Cerebral Balzy AC4 Cloak/Dagger Ex-Cult Cococoma Occult Detective Club Social Distortion Autistic Youth Dean Dirg FM Bats FIDLAR JEFF the Brotherhood Punks on Mars Bad Sports Bob Burns and the Breakups Beat Beat Beat Tongan Death Grip Fag Enablerz …

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This Show Totally Rocks 143 16th July

This Show Rocks · July 16, 2015July 16, 2015

This week we are back to shorts songs and plenty of them. I decided to go fairly poppy punk this week, so if that is your bag, this is your show. If you need convincing of the merits of punk with a pop flavour, tune in for: Mean Jeans Occult Detective Club Teenage Bottle …

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This First New Totally Rocks Show of 2015 Totally Rocks 8th January

This Show Rocks · January 8, 2015January 8, 2015

New Year, New Show, New Tunes, Let’s go!!! Things kick off with a bit of The Cows before we head to San Diego to have a look at some new tunes I got in the post for Xmas. So we get a bit of The Widows, Shark Blood, The Lumps and Shake Before Us. We …

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This Birthday Totally Rocks 13th November

This Show Rocks · November 13, 2014November 13, 2014

This week’s show is dedicated to my brother because it is his Birthday today. All of this week’s bands have some spurious connection to him, whether we went to see them together, he gave me their albums as presents or he was simply with me when I bought them. First up its FIDLAR who …

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This Robot DJ Totally Rocks 14th August

This Show Rocks · August 14, 2014August 14, 2014

This week I had a guest take over the mic for the between song banter because it is the middle of the summer and my free time and my microphone aren’t always in the same place at the same time. Luckily DJ Adult American Male #1 was kind enough to come in spin a …

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This Show Totally Rocks 79 3rd March

This Show Rocks · April 3, 2014April 3, 2014

Tonight’s show kicks off as too many shows have already kicked off in 2014, with a song from a recently deceased punk rocker. Tonight it is Dave Gregg’s DOA. Next it’s the Night Birds, Tongan Death Grip, Sonido Alfredo and The Spits. Nirvana are next owing to their scandalous induction to the Hall of Fame and …

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West Cork with my Bro Last Xmas Totally Rocked #70 30th January

This Show Rocks · January 30, 2014January 28, 2014

This week I have been pulled back to America on Family business where I will be hanging out with my folks and my brother. So this week’s show is an old show I did the last time my brother was in Ireland. It was a good laugh and is presented here for your listening pleasure. …

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This 6 Degrees of Rocket From the Crypt Show Totally Rocks 5th December

This Show Rocks · December 5, 2013December 5, 2013

Rocket from the Crypt are steaming back in to town this Saturday and so there is no better time to do a 6 degrees of RFTC show. All bands on tonight’s show are connected (sometimes somewhat spuriously) to the lads. Most links tonight are Wikipedia links to help you keep track of the connections. …

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This Show TOTALLY Rocks 59 7th November

This Show Rocks · November 7, 2013November 7, 2013

This week’s show kicks off with a song which sums up the show’s ethos –Faster and Louder – from The Dictators. Next it’s a quick fire blast of short sharp punk tunes from Tongan Death Grip (free download), The Night Birds, 7 Seconds, Autistic Youth and Defect Defect. In the now prolonged run up to …