By the Numbers

Host: Alex Piandes

For the sixteenth episode of The Desperate Hour, Alex does it by the numbers – all songs with numbers in the title. Counting up, counting down – all the tuneage that counts, featuring DM Bob & The Deficits, The Pretty Things, The Hentchmen, Question Mark & The Mysterians, The Konks, Ann-Margaret, and more.

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All About You

Host: Alex Piandes

The 15th episode of The Desperate Hour is all about you. Yeah, you. And yours. All tunes with “You” in the title. Music with you in mind. Featuring tuneage you’ll like from The Miracle Workers, The Cripplers, Dead Moon, Triple Thick, The Konks, and The Methadones, amongst others.

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Slow and Sad, Pt. 2 (Slower, Sadder)

Host: Alex Piandes

Alex follows up the last episode of The Desperate Hour with 15 more slow and sorry slabs to aggravate your post-holiday depression. A perfect episode for those shut in and alone on a raw January day. Featuring tracks from The Modern Lovers, The 5.6.7.8′s, The Fabulous Wailers, The Lost, James Brown and more.

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Slow and Sad, Pt. 1

Host: Alex Piandes

Welcome to the 13th Desperate Hour! 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 deflated. Featuring tracks from The Satelliters, Dogmatics, Real Kids, ’68 Comeback, Lyres, and Cher, amongst others…

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Host: Alex Piandes

Once again Alex spans the ages and squeezes out another 57 minutes of soothing sounds for the demented featuring the likes of The Defectors, The Woggles, The Shimmys, and Boston rock & roll heroes Triple Thick, Prime Movers, and Illegals.

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Host: Alex Piandes

Alex kicks off the 11th episode of The Desperate Hour with something actually recorded and released in the current century, then serves up a helping of more recent stuff from the ’90s and then washes it all down with the same old shit from 40 years ago. Featuring new stuff from the Cynics, recent stuff from The Royal Pendletons, Holly Golightly and The Hate Bombs, and for the oldsters, The Modern Lovers and Blues Magoos.

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Host: Alex Piandes

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 Dog Night. Yes, Three Dog Night…

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Host: Alex Piandes

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 all featured in the 9th episode of The Desperate Hour. Alex throws together a motley mix of garage, punk, garage punk, R&B, novelty tunes, and cheesy pop from MP3s, compilations and crusty old 45s for your listening displeasure.

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Host: Alex Piandes

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 ’80s garage nuggets from The Tryfles, The Beguiled, The Lee Harvey Oswald Band and Lyres as well as the usual ’60s-centric slop and schlock.

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Host: Alex Piandes

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. Happy Friday!

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Host: Alex Piandes

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 benefit, The Calico Wall, The Easybeats, and Barry & The Remains.

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April Love Gone Bad!

Host: Alex Piandes

Spring has sprung and the 5th episode of The Desperate Hour celebrates April Love Gone Badnot 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 listening favorites from the Oblivians, Gonn, The Torquays, and Thee Mighty Caesars. Alex wishes to thank Killed By Porn‘s Duke Eastwood for the assist on the sound effects.

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Host: Alex Piandes

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.

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Host: Alex Piandes

Hey Brian here. Yeah, so Alex throws together a bunch of tunes this mont’. No theme or nothin’ and all killah, no fillah he sez, includin’ some from places I never heard of let alone been to. It sounds real good, but I wish he’d play more stuff we knew. But don’t take it from me, check it out for yourself.

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Host: Alex Piandes

In episode #2 of The Desperate Hour, Alex explores crime and punishment with a dash of frustration, suicide, gang wars, plus a catfight thrown in for good measure. He runs the gamut from ’60s garage to R&B to rockabilly to C&W to soul to ’90s punk to girl groups and it takes him nearly an entire hour to tell this story of violence. Well, he never was one for brevity…

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NEW SHOW!

Host: Alex Piandes

Alex, the former host of WMFO‘s Coffee ‘n’ Smokes, returns to broadcasting (well, “podcasting”) with The Desperate Hour on GaragePunk.com. This first episode includes sets featuring female artists, Boston-area artists (including a recording of a live performance from WMFO’s legendary Studio Dee), and anything else that he could cobble together on a week’s notice. The experience is, as has been described by another podcaster, akin to a 12-year-old with his first tape recorder—only better… Enjoy!

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