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• The Desperate Hour #4

  by Alex Piandes March 14, 2010
  Alex presents the 4th episode of The Desperate Hour featuring a Standells B-side, a forgotten Del Shannon Top-Tenner, downloads from The Coachwhips and The Beatdowns and he pays tribute to his New England homes with The Black Clouds, Fabulous Itchies, and Kenne Highland. DOWNLOAD

• The Desperate Hour #5

  by Alex Piandes March 14, 2010
  April Love Gone Bad! Spring has sprung and the 5th episode of The Desperate Hour celebrates April Love Gone Bad—not just love that's gone horribly wrong but love that is, well, bad. It'll feature a couple more forgotten 70's Top-Tenners of the latin and soul persuasion as well as some easy listenin...

• The Desperate Hour #6

  by Alex Piandes March 14, 2010
  The 6th episode of The Desperate Hour features all killah and no fillah and no themes, either. It'll be featuring yet another forgotten Top Tenner from a time when novelty tunes could actually make an apperance in the Hot 100, plus tunes from Question Mark & The Mysterians with info on the fire ...

• The Desperate Hour #7

  by Alex Piandes March 14, 2010
  Alex throws more slop & schlock than you could possibly handle in 59 minutes. Featured artists include The Wildebeests, The Kaisers, DMZ, The Seeds, and Connie Francis. DOWNLOAD

• The Desperate Hour #8

  by Alex Piandes March 14, 2010
  For the 8th episode of The Desperate Hour, Alex pays tribute to Joe Meek- even though he doesn't actually articulate the tribute-and plays 80's garage nuggets from The Tryfles, The Beguiled, The Lee Harvey Oswald Band and Lyres as well as the usual 60's inspired slop and schlock. DOWNLOAD

• The Desperate Hour #9

  by Alex Piandes March 14, 2010
  What do The Sonics, Tampoffs, Black Clouds, Time Beings, Drusalee & The Dead, and Bobby Day & The Satellites have in common? Absolutely nothing, except that they're featured in the 9th episode of The Desperate Hour. Alex throws together a motley mix of garage, punk, garage/punk, R & B, n...

• The Desperate Hour #10

  by Alex Piandes March 14, 2010
  In the 10th episode Alex explores love and the resulting infidelity and pain that it often brings which is 99.999999% of what garage rock and R & B explores in the first place. The stories will be told through the warblings of Billy Childish, The Runaways, Wally Tax, The Alarm Clocks, and Three ...

• The Desperate Hour #11

  by Alex Piandes March 14, 2010
  The 11th episode of The Desperate Hour features tracks from The Cynics, The Hatebombs, Holly Golightly, and The Modern Lovers DOWNLOAD

• The Desperate Hour #12

  by Alex Piandes March 14, 2010
  More bland crap for the elderly... DOWNLOAD

• The Desperate Hour #13

  by Alex Piandes March 14, 2010
  Theme: Slow & Sad In keeping with the spirit of the holiday season, Alex plays 18 of the most depressing or menacing tracks that he could think of off of the top of his head and cobble together in a few hours and throws in 2 happier Christmas tracks to appease those whose spirit can't be deflat...