Lightnin' Licks Radio

About Lightnin' Licks Radio

A podcast for music enthusiasts by music enthusiasts featuring two passionate fellas (and occasional guests of all genders) who are obsessed with collecting vinyl records; old to current, new and used. All eras of many genres. Lightnin' Licks Vinyl Preservation Society founding members Jay and Deon discuss the records that they've fallen in love with, taking deep dives into the stories behind their beloved LPs and 45s. Each episode is produced in supersonic stereo as a mixtape within a mixtape featuring sounds from your next favorite artist just waiting to be discovered. Tune in and rock out!

Publisher

LLVPS

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 Nov 2019

Latest episode

9 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

107 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Jun 2026

   Bonus #29 - Hemlocke Springs, The Police

   Summer is unofficially upon us. Hot boy summer, some say.Two hot boys and one hot girlie summer, even. Lickers Jay & Deon check in with Super-Secret-Special-Friend Jess to see (and hear) what she has been f#@%ing with, sonically speaking. It’s good clean fun in the sun, ya dang bums! Check out Jess’s production of Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play (https://www.hmtbc.org/event-details-registration/mr-burns-a-post-electric-play) Sonic contributions to this bonus episode twenty-nine of Lightnin’ Licks Radio were made by: Rashan Roland Kirk, L.L. Cool J, Prince Paul, De La Soul, Brothers Johnson, Zack Braff, Natilie Portman, POSPOTUS. R.E.M., Jay Dilla, The Pharcyde, Vince Guaraldi. The 45 King, DJ Kool, Kool & the Gang, Newcleus, Kevin McCaffrey. Space. Jewel, Mackeeper. Hole, Coutney Love, Melissa Auf De Mor, Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins, Yoko Ono, David Porter, Puff and Big, Blind Melon, Young Marvel Giants. Helado Negro. Peaches and Herb, Charles Fox, Jessica McQuarter, AnneWashburn, Michael Friedman, Bernard Herrmann & Elmer Bernstein. Halsey, Lido. Hemlocke Springs, Doechii, Ian James, Joey Hamhock, Banser. Starship, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick, Elvin Bishop. Some spacey smooth Japanese psych loops courtesy of Portal Records, XTC, Exile. National Wake, N.W.A., Wilson Picket, Funkadelic, The Winstons, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Aldo Nova, Elvis Costello, Deon’s wife Shannon, Jan Hammer. The Police. NAS, Large Professor, 3rd Bass, MC Search, N.O.R.E., Pete Rock, DJPremier, James Brown. More Japanese psych loops, Sting, The Isley Brothers, Ice Cube, DJ Pooh. Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Staple Singers, Parliament, LBJ, good brother Abraham (Jefferson), and AI Steve Inskeep. Hear the uninterrupted mixtape here. Stream the playlist onSpotify here. Get your vinyl records and vintage wares here. Freedom. Know it while you have it. Get involved (https://www.eac.gov/help-america-vote). SPOTIFY PLAYLIST OF FEATURED ARTISTS (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0HVMVnA0q98VGTmyRNHdKR?si=7e5685f7e55c4479) HEAR THE FULL MIXTAPE ON SOUNDCLOUD (https://soundcloud.com/m-m-knapps/llr-bonus-mixtape-29/s-rIY4Mc0Q136?si=7a1e5637833e422fb3e168ab1508620b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)

2. 

   29 May 2026

   Bonus #29 - Hemlocke Springs, The Police, etc.

   Summer is unofficially upon us. Hot boy summer, some may say. Two hot boys and one hot girlie summer, even. Lightning Lickers Jay & Deon check in with Super-Special-Secret-Friend Jess to see (and hear) what she has been f#@%ing with, sonically speaking. It’s good clean fun in the sun, ya dang bums! Check out Jess’s production of Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play (https://www.hmtbc.org/event-details-registration/mr-burns-a-post-electric-play) Sonic contributions to bonus episode number twenty-nine of Lightnin’ Licks Radio podcast were made by: Prince Paul, De La Soul, Brothers Johnson, Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, POSPOTUS. (https://www.oakpark.com/2016/06/07/meet-baby-trump-the-reality-doll/)R.E.M., Jay Dilla, The Pharcyde, Vince Guaraldi. The 45 King, DJ Kool, Kool & the Gang, Newcleus, Kevin McCaffrey. Space. Jewel, Mackeeper. Hole, Coutney Love, Melissa Auf Dee Mor and Billy Corgan on The Magnificent Others podcast (https://youtu.be/v6sbBhrpH3w?si=HDhiX9MjBiPgQOoN), Smashing Pumpkins, Yoko Ono, David Porter, Puff & Big, Blind Melon, Young Marvel Giants. Helado Negro. Peaches & Herb, Charles Fox, Jessica McQuarter, Anne Washburn, Michael Friedman, Bernard Herrmann & Elmer Bernstein. Halsey, Lido. Hemlocke Springs, Doechii, Ian James, Joey Hamhock, Banser. Starship, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick, Elvin Bishop. Some spacey smooth Japanese psych loops courtesy of Portal Records, XTC, Exile. National Wake, N.W.A., Wilson Picket, Funkadelic, The Winstons, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Aldo Nova, Elvis Costello, Deon’s wife Shannon, Jan Hammer. The Police. NAS, Large Professor, 3rd Bass, MC Search and N.O.R.E. on Drink Champs podcast (https://youtu.be/TnBJpOzhZ6U?si=OUVxZ3ORHHXnCsEG), Pete Rock, DJ Premier. James Brown, more Japanese psych loops, Sting, The Isley Brothers, Ice Cube, DJ Pooh. Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Staple Singers, Parliament, Cheech & Chong, Rakim, Aphex Twin, LBJ & good brother Abraham (Jefferson) (https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=820077973/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/). You can't make then share mixtapes anymore. It's totally cool that artificial intellegence has been fed all music ever recorded to train itself to suck the life out of all art everwhere. Sharing mixtapes, though...very bad. Very, very bad. Hear the uninterrupted Jay-curated mixtape here (https://soundcloud.com/m-m-knapps/llr-bonus-mixtape-29/s-rIY4Mc0Q136?si=fbd5308e58e243f2a3f4ed47c69070c1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing). Stream a playlist of featured artists on Spotify here (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0HVMVnA0q98VGTmyRNHdKR?si=7ac824dad6c5489c). Get your vinyl records and vintage wares here (https://www.facebook.com/ElectricKitsch/). Freedom. Know it while you have it. Get involved. (https://www.eac.gov/help-america-vote) JAY is f#@%ing with Space (https://youtu.be/70EcpUXdf4k?si=uGu6I1CBvV88vXxg), Hole (https://youtu.be/4HeT1dUq70o?si=-ASgfIaViKN_nEli), XTC (https://youtu.be/J8jIgugHaiU?si=Av3MqM9MVDtrm7oR), and The Police (https://youtu.be/YVgWQyGOTvk?si=qBxGkEX0lOKgX9i2). DEON has been into Mackeeper (https://smackeeper.bandcamp.com/album/rock-candy-ep), Helado Negro (https://heladonegro.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-how-you-smile), National Wake (https://shiftyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/international-news), and Nas (https://music.apple.com/us/album/halftime-ep/1207113055). JESS has Halsey (https://www.iamhalsey.com/), Hemlocke Springs (https://hemlockesprings.bandcamp.com/album/the-apple-tree-under-the-sea), and Jefferson Starship (https://www.jeffersonstarship.com/history) in heavy rotation.

3. 

   8 Apr 2026

   #47 - N's

   In the early 1970s, legendary collaborator and self-proclaimed non-musician Brian Eno famously designed a deck of 115 cards containing elliptical imperatives to spark in the user creative connections unobtainable through regular modes of work. He called his creation "Oblique Strategies." For the past six decades, artists the world over in every artistic medium have used Eno's strategy while attempting to overcome a lull in creative output. In 2026, two nihilistic, nerdy nincompoops and self-proclaimed Lightnin' Lickers Jay and Deon found themselves uninspired when contemplating the potential theme of their upcoming forty-seventh episode. Together, they decided... to default back to the alphabet. Because they have a reasonably solid grasp of the alphabet and how it works. They had previously utilized the letters A thru M; so naturally, they went with N. Sonic contributions to the forty-seventh installment of Lightnin’ Licks Radio podcast include: Gravediggaz. Prince Paul, John Ussey, Brothers Johnson, James Todd Smith. Cindy Lee’. Pete Jolly, Ace Frehley, Delroy Lindo, Greg Gutfeld. Nazz, Todd Rundgren, The Temptations, Cheap Trick. Aaron Neville, George Davis, Warren Parker, Linda Rondstat, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Tom Snow. The Meters, The Neville Brothers, Carole King, Arthur Hamilton, David Gates and Bread. Tricky, The Presidents of the United States. The Naked and Famous. Nada Surf, Weezer, America. The Natural Four, Curtis Mayfield, Leroy Houston. Capone and Noreaga as CNN. Drink Champs Podcast, DJ E.F.N., Havoc. The Neptunes. N.E.R.D., Britney Spears, Clipse. Nice Strong Arm, Dinosaur Jr., Swans. Heatmiser, Elliott Smith, No. 2., LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Robert Tepper. Benny Mardones, Gang of Four. The Natural History, The Nonce, Freestyle Fellowship, Aceyalone. Kwest the Madd Ladd, Okonski, DJT, Jim Carey, Tim Robinson, The Jerky Boys, and The Clockers. We’ll be back with another bonus episode in two to three weeks. If we’re not back after that... just wait longer. Happy Spring! Listen to the full mix on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/m-m-knapps/lightnin-licks-radio-ns/s-4Qdm01Ahaob?si=fad1a715aa9e4d258391d11e93559ce0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) or check out the Spotify playlist. (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2UjWIVfyTVIwHNyjA5F2q9?si=e43e6bc1e63e47e1) C'mon, Stewk!

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

16 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

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