Capital Radio 10-27-25: Demolition Horror Show
Tributes for Jack DeJohnette, who died Sunday at 83, and Dave Ball, the other half of Soft Cell, who died last week at 66, began this week’s capital Radio. …
Capital Radio 10-20-25: Song of the Werewolf
The Halloween focus for this show was on that hairy subset, the werewolves. And there were a lot of them, in a 21-song salute that included everybody from the Cramps…
Capital Radio 10-13-25: Paul Simon’s Birthday
It was Columbus Day in some of the country and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in other parts, including mine. And we had the songs to enable them to duke it out…
Capital Radio 10-6-25: Tunes from Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson, who died 133 years ago today, didn’t live long enough to hear any of his poems turned to music. But the longest-serving British poet laureate inspired a…
Capital Radio 9-29-25: Walking Through Italy
A recent hike through Italy inspired half of this week’s Capital Radio, with songs about walking, Italians, pilgrims and the treasures of Rome. It included pop songs sung in Italian…
Capital Radio 9-22-25: Autumn Comes A’Knockin’
The autumnal equinox occurred in the middle of the Sept. 22 Capital Radio, so naturally there were songs about the end of summer, the coming of fall, and the thing…
Capital Radio 9-15-25: Who Put the Bomp?
Asking the musical question “Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)” this week (preceded by its musical answer decades later from Chuck Prophet) led to all manner of…
Capital Radio 9-8-25: You Know What I Mean
The death of Mark Volman Friday at 78 brought an hour of his music on Capital Radio this week, with The Turtles, Flo & Eddie, Frank Zappa, T. Rex, the…
Capital Radio 9-1-25: Work, Workers and Wigs
Labor Day brought songs of work, unions and workers on a holiday Capital Radio. But there was also a set about wigs — flipping, tightening and falling off. Among birthday…
Capital Radio 8-25-25: EC Turns 71; Tweedy 58
Yes, Elvis Costello turned 71; Jeff Tweedy was 58. So there were was big birthday tributes to both. We also had salutations for jazz man Wayne Shorter, Belle and Sebastian…