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As the weather heats up, it’s time for the Brainwaves annual summer show – two hours of hot summer songs to cool you off. Music from Blitzen Trapper, Blackfield, Bowling for Soup, the Gin Blossoms, Wiretrain, Regina Spektor, Meatloaf, Seals & Crofts, the Wallflowers, Sounds Under Radio and Alice Cooper (of course) since school’s out for summer! Keep cool, listen to Brainwaves this week!

This week’s Brainwaves both starts and ends with songs from the great eclectic alternative prog rockers Aperco. Plus music on this week’s show from Camel, the Feelies, Joan Jett, Steven Wilson, They Might be Giants, Toni Basel, Stereolab, Fortis, Weird Al Yankovic, the Cranberries and much more. Get your rock sandwich here on Brainwaves.

It’s time to blast into space with this week’s Brainwaves. Space music from Michael & Shimrit Greilsammer, Avocado Club, the Tubes, Smashing Pumpkins, John Williams, Camera Obscura, A Flock of Seagulls, David Bowie and Steven Wilson. Plus two punk covers of our favorite songs from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and Ruth’s Hat.

We never say never at Brainwaves – indeed, this week, we go so far as to present a long “never” set. “Never” songs from Leonard Cohen, Rilo Kiley, Coldplay, Echo and the Bunnymen, General Public, Wire Train, Mat Kearney, Avril Lavigne, Suzanne Vega, Blue Swede, the Arkells, the Feeling, and much, much more. Say “never” to…missing a week of Brainwaves!

Do you care? Juliana Hatfield and Paul Westerberg teamed up a few years ago to form “The I Don’t Cares.” But we do care – and that’s how this episode of Brainwaves is starting off, with two songs from the band – “Just a Phase” and “Kissing Break.” Plus music from Juliana solo and Paul as part of his pop punk band the Replacements. Plus a long sunshine set with music from Pompamoose, Sparklehorse, Chicago, Mojave 3, Kenny Rogers, the Naomi Star, Cloud Cult and K.C. and the Sunshine Band.  Tune in, take care and get sunny, this week on Brainwaves.

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!