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This week it's all Bomp! Records, start to finish. Greg and Suzy Shaw started one of the last truly independent labels, put out Flamin' Groovies' first single back in 1974 and went on to launch The Romantics, Stiv Bators, The Plimsouls, and Iggy Pop's long-lost Kill City sessions. Power pop as we know it doesn't exist without them.
Greg's gone now, but Suzy's still running the label, still doing exactly what she titled her own book after: saving the world, one record at a time.
👉 Bomp Records (https://bompstore.com)
Today's Tracks:
Flamin' Groovies - You Tore Me Down
20/20 - Giving It All
The Romantics - Tell It To Carrie
Shoes - Tomorrow Night
Zeros (1977) - Don't Push Me Around
Stiv Bators - It's Cold Outside
The Poppees - If She Cries
Nikki & The Corvettes - You Make Me Crazy
The Boyfriends - I Don't Want Nobody
The Last - Looking At You
The Jumpers - You'll Know Better When I'm Gone
Iggy Pop & James Williamson - Consolation Prizes
Taxi Boys - She
Pete Holly and The Looks - Baby, Please Believe Me
Josie Cotton - Johnny, Are You Queer?
The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
13 Aug 2026
The Boys, Slade, and the Citizen Kane of British Pop Movies.
This week on Pop Rocks Radio — The Boys are our featured artist. London punk's most underrated band, and yes, we know about the Christmas records.
New music from Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Woolworthy, Doghouse Rose, and Lex Bauman, plus classics from Vibeke Saugestad, The Undertones, and Sugarbomb. Doghouse Rose even has a track called "The Boys," which we did not plan but absolutely take credit for.
Movie of the Week: Slade in Flame (1975). Slade play a fictional band called Flame, and the whole thing is a bleak, cynical, warts-and-all takedown of the music business. It confused everybody in 1975 but was later referred to as the Citizen Kane of British pop movies. We're ok with that.
Available where you get your podcasts. Unless you get them from Spotify.
Today's tracks:
The Speedways (https://thespeedways.bandcamp.com/)- Now That I Know How
The Boys (https://www.theboys.co.uk/)- walk my dog (feat. Boys)
Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (https://omnivorerecordings.com/roger-joseph-manning-jr/)- Modern Dance (The After School Specials)
Librarians With Hickeys (https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/)- 1972 (Single Version)
The Undertones (https://www.theundertones.com/)- Jimmy Jimmy
Susanna Hoffs (https://www.susannahoffs.com/)- Casablanca
Woolworthy (https://woolworthy.com/)- Can't Press Rewind
Vibeke Saugestad (https://vibeke.rocks/)- Velvet revolution
Hotel Saturn (https://hotelsaturn.bandcamp.com/)- Saving Grace
Lex Bauman (https://lexbauman.com/)- What Kinda Love
The Boys- Classified Susie
The Boys- Terminal Love
The Boys- Poor Little Rich Girl
Doghouse Rose (https://doghouserose.bandcamp.com/)- The Boys
The Darling Buds (https://thedarlingbuds.bandcamp.com/)- Oh No You Don't
Growing Pains (https://growingpainspdx.bandcamp.com/)- Swimming
Sugarbomb (https://www.discogs.com/artist/1786733-Sugarbomb)- Hello
The Boys- Punk Rock Girl
6 Aug 2026
They Called Him the One Man Beatles. He Was Just Emitt Rhodes.
This week on Pop Rocks Radio, we're featuring the music of Emitt Rhodes, a man who recorded his solo albums entirely by himself, in his home, before anyone knew what that meant. Dubbed the secret alter ego of Paul McCartney. Sued by his own label. Holed up for decades. And absolutely worth your time.
Also, great new music from The Rallies, Julez and the Rollerz, and 2nd Grade, plus classics from The Jam and The Keys — and The Merry-Go-Round, Emitt's band before he went solo.
Movie of the Week: The One Man Beatles (2009). An Italian director crosses the ocean to find a forgotten American genius. What he finds is complicated, heartbreaking, and completely fascinating.
Today's Tracks:
The Morning Line (https://themorningline.bandcamp.com/)- Anhedonia
The Merry-Go-Round (https://www.discogs.com/artist/252502-The-Merry-Go-Round)- Gonna Leave You Alone
2nd Grade (https://2ndgrade.bandcamp.com/)- Cellophane Girls
Joel Cusumano (https://dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/appendix)- Buying Time
Bleu (https://bleu.bandcamp.com/)- I Won't Go Hollywood
Julez and the Rollerz (https://julezandtherollerz.bandcamp.com/)- Time
The Rallies (https://therallies.bandcamp.com/)- Comes And Goes
Urge Overkill (https://urgeoverkill.bandcamp.com/)- Take Me
Tokyo Rose (https://www.manickatrecords.com/tokyo-rose/)- Phoenician Fire
Telejet (https://telejet.bandcamp.com/)- Here Come the Faeries
Emitt Rhodes (https://www.discogs.com/artist/281385-Emitt-Rhodes)- With My Face on the Floor
Emitt Rhodes- Really Wanted You
Emitt Rhodes- Live Till You Die
Trash Man (https://tr4shm4n.bandcamp.com/)- Cool Until It's Not
Gooey Cookie (https://gooeycookie.bandcamp.com/)- Gimme The Goo
Grass Show (https://www.discogs.com/artist/448583-Grass-Show)- Alice
Space Jaguar (https://spacejaguar.bandcamp.com/)- Unstack In Static
The Jam (https://www.thejamofficial.com/)- All Around the World
The Keys (https://www.discogs.com/artist/1169560-The-Keys-2)- I Don't Wanna Cry
Emitt Rhodes- Dog On A Chain
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