Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum embodies and elucidates the raw rock n' roll power of Cheap Trick's unparalleled 1978 live album Cheap Trick at Budakon.
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Comedian Bill Burrs makes his return to the show by looking back on the career arc of forgotten front man Peter Wolf as he evolved into the mature rock sounds of his sixth studio album, 2002’s Sleepless.
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Actor and comedian Matt Braunger praises the perfectly precise songcraft and roasts the ridiculous melodrama of new wave reggae-rockers The Police’s 1978 debut Outlandos d’Amour.
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Devo founding member Gerald Casale traverses the eerily beautiful soundscapes of ambient music pioneer Brian Eno’s 1975 album Another Green World.
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Comedian Rosebud Baker reminisces about life in New York in the early 2000s, an era of whimsy and still only minor gentrification in which Baroque pop band Vampire Weekend released their self-titled debut album.
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Actor and comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub pays respect to the gorgeously dark alt rock of PJ Harvey’s 2000 album Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea for shaping the woman she is today.
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Jane's Addiction & Porno For Pyros frontman Perry Farrell idolizes the groundbreaking art pop of Brian Eno's 1974 debut album Here Come The Warm Jets.
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Record producer & Beatles chronologer Peter Asher provides a firsthand account of what is was like to witness some of the most incredible songwriting in history, including the godly folk rock of George Harrison's debut solo record: 1970's All Things Must Pass.
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The Muffs bassist Ronnie Barnett shares memories from his wide-eyed youth as well as his life as a touring musician inspired by the power pop of Big Star's 1972 debut album #1 Record.
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Comedian Jeff Dye's boundless joy both contrasts and compliments the raging darkness of grunge superstars Nirvana's third and final album: 1993's In Utero.
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Comedian and musician Nick Thune bares his soul and finds salvation in the dreamy folk rock of American singer-songwriter Beck's crushingly beautiful 2002 break up album Sea Change.
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Comedian & actor Chris D'Elia discusses baller moves and internet beefs to the beat of rapper Lil Wayne's 2008 release Tha Carter III.
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Comedian Margaret Cho dusts off her velvet suits and busts out her darkest eyeliner to embrace the inner goth of her youth and her undying love for The Cure's 1980 post-punk compilation album Boys Don't Cry.
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson blows the minds of everyone who has ever thought of Sam Cooke as just another crooner, using the soul singer's second live album, Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, to unravel the mysteries of the universe.
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The Pogues' legendary accordion-player James Fearnley regales with the tales of how the Irish folk punk band began and, in some ways, ended using their second album, 1985's Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, as a guide through the back-alleys and barrooms of music history.
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