by pod | Dec 15, 2025 | Program Notes
This week’s episode started out with a plan — and then immediately ignored it. The original idea was a deep dive into early pop music and its long arc: the era when pop wasn’t just disposable radio filler, but a cultural force that shaped everything around it. That...
by pod | Dec 8, 2025 | Program Notes
This week on Rolling with Scissors, we’re returning to one of the most intense and important pieces of punk history ever put on tape: Get in the Van, Henry Rollins’ raw, unfiltered account of life inside Black Flag during the early years of American hardcore. This...
by pod | Dec 1, 2025 | Program Notes
For tonight, we surrender the full three-hour late-night broadcast to Frank Zappa — no commentary, no interviews, no interruptions. It has been too long since his music owned the studio, and this felt like the right night to let it happen. This week’s episode also...
by pod | Nov 24, 2025 | Program Notes
This week we’re continuing our look at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, and this is the second half of the deep dive we started last week. On paper, this one was supposed to include Chubby Checker as well — but in true Rolling with Scissors fashion, my...
by pod | Nov 17, 2025 | Program Notes
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced the 2025 class, and for once, a good chunk of the lineup actually makes sense. Here’s the full list: Outkast, Soundgarden, The White Stripes, Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Cyndi Lauper, Joe Cocker, Salt-N-Pepa, and Warren...
by pod | Nov 10, 2025 | Program Notes
Sometimes a random song is all it takes to send you down a rabbit hole. That’s exactly what happened this week — I was just jamming through some tunes when a Fleetwood Mac track came on and stopped me in my tracks. It hit me that we hadn’t taken a proper deep dive...
