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This is an episode that nostalgic Brainwaves listeners are going to love while other listeners are going to hate. But Brainwaves doesn’t mind being polarizing, at least not when the music is so infectious. 

It’s the first ever Bubblegum Pop episode of Brainwaves – two hours of sticky sweet top 40 hits from the 1960s and 70s from bands you know – and some you may have forgotten: The Partridge Family, the Archies, the Cowsills, the Cufflinks, the DiFranco Family, the Jackson Five, the Monkees, the Fifth Dimension, the BeeGees, the Marmalade, and much more. (Maybe this should be called the “the” show since so many of the bands start that way!)

Independence Day in Israel this year has been kind of subdued – understandably so. But Brainwaves still wants to mark the day – through music. Two hours of eclectic alternative indie and prog from the Holy Land. You’ll hear artists including Ethnix, Yehuda Poliker, ForesTT, Idan Rachel, Nathan Goshen, Nik Kaikov, Red Meadow, Avraham Tal, Kaveret, Avtipus, Karolina and much more. No matter where you stand on the cultural divide, great music should be beyond politics. Tune in!

Amidst all the insanity of war, here’s a band that builds bridges. Israeli heavy metal band Orphaned Land is popular in Turkey and Iran. Can music heal our fractured world? Let’s try. In addition to Orphaned Land, this week’s episode has music from New Order, the Bellyachers, Stars, Starflower, Starcastle, the Lumineers, Seagull Strange, the Buzzcocks, MissFlag, Shoes, Keane and much more. Show your support for coexistence – listen to Brainwaves!

Do you recognize this episode of Brainwaves? It was the very first show Brian ever produced. Now it’s been updated with a better microphone and a brand new voice-over. The music is still some of our favorite ever. With Maya Isacowitz, Alan’s Morissette, Tori Amos, Joan Osborne, Minus the Bear, Moby, Spock’s Beard, Semisonic, Zapp and Roger, Modern English and even the Archies. Throwback Tuesday or Modern Rock Monday? Brainwaves brings it this week. Tune in!

It’s time for Brainwaves’ annual Passover episode. Songs relating to all aspects of the Passover Seder: Egypt, Pharaohs, blood, snakes, princes, frogs, bread and Moses, too. From artists including Sufjan Stevens, Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, Pharaoh’s Daughter, Desmond Dekker, Porcupine Tree, TV21, Jim Stafford, Editors, the Cure and much more. This is definitely a show you don’t want to pass over!

Brainwaves celebrates the art of giving…taxes. For many around the world (especially in the U.S.) this week is the deadline for filing taxes. Brainwaves does its part by playing some taxing music from Leisure Process, David Crosby & Graham Nash, the Steve Miller Band, the Stranglers, the Buzzcocks, Deaf School and Taxi Taxi (that’s close to “taxes,” right?) It’s all coming up on this special money-oriented episode of Brainwaves.

It’s time travel day – let’s travel back to the very first episode of Brainwaves, here re-recorded with a proper microphone – something Brian didn’t have 11 years ago! Music from Maya Isacowitz, Human Sexual Response, Greg Kihn, Lemonheads, Devon, the Buzzcocks, the Flamin’ Groves, Richard Baron, Ben Folds and much more! Take a trip down memory lane with Brainwaves.

“Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya”…so sing the Grass Roots and it’s a good message for all Brainwaves listeners. Plus some more “sooner” songs from Mat Kearney and Matt Nathanson. And music from the Flaming Lips, Keane, Lily Allen, New Order, R.E.M., Neko Case, Rilo Kiley, the Left Banke and much more. Come and get your love this week on Brainwaves.

Brainwaves is going to the dollhouse, with a set of “doll” songs to open the show this week – from Wreckless Eric, Robyn Hitchcock, the Magnetic Fields, Laura Marling and the Goo Goo Dolls. Julian Cope wants to “Try.” Jewel is stuck “In the Backseat.” The Jam ask “Just who is the 5 O’Clock Hero?” And Trash wants us to carry The Beatles; weight. It’s all coming up on this week’s Brainwaves.