Dan's Bike Rides

Dan's Bike Rides

The Bike Rides Radio Show is a weekly, one hour, locally produced variety program that airs on KMSU independent public radio in Mankato, Minnesota. Bike Rides is at times whimsical and other times sharp, featuring music and conversation that flows together nicely like a summer bicycle ride through the countryside.

Episodes

September 18, 2025
Dan's back from his solo vacation for another solo ride this week, as he describes a solo ride he took at Cuyuna Lakes, buy himself. Included: Ron Gallo; George Winston; Rush; Mark Knopfler; Neko Case; Frike; Tom Waits; The Silos; Courtney Barnett
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It's a very special ride this week as the audience of AMPERS sister station KAXE joins the KMSU riders and listeners to celebrate the music of Grand Rapids Riverfest, on September 6th. Included: Alan Sparhawk,; Trampled by Turtles; Charlie Parr, Emily Parr; Jeremie Albino; Margo Price; Billy Strings; Low; Courtney Barnett
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August 25, 2025
What starts as an innocent ride finds the guys stripped to the skivvies by the end; listen and find out how it got there. Included: Brett Horton; Wilco; Joe Purdy; Mildred Bailey; Renaissance; Noah Cyrus, ft. Bill Callahan; Steve Miller Band; Soccer Mommy; Wilco (again); The Brambel Patch; Jezus Wizard Spatula (you need to hear the last one)
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August 12, 2025
Hank and Dan present another wide array of genre bending music, only fit for consumption by the deepest musical palette, even when that palette shows up in the form of a frog at the studio window. Included: Bicycle; David Bromberg; Black Rebel; Big Thief; Angel Olsen; Lucinda Williams; Charley Crockett; Los Chico Muertos; Zavior Rudd; The Backseat Lovers; Dead Man Winter
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If you're one of those nocturnal freaks who doesn't finish a bike ride when the sun goes down, but begins one, this NIGHT-ride is for you. Featured: Front Street Remix; Dolly Pardon ft. Chris Stapleton; Charlie Crockett; Lucinda Williams; Ricky Lee Jones; Amos Lee; Some Nights Live on Forever; Tom Waits; J. Micheal Henderson; Allison Russell
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Nothing funny about this week's ride, as the guys give voice to the victims of sexual assault. Featured: Kids on a Bike; Alanis Morissette; Taylor Swift; Lady Gaga; Ani Difranco; Fletcher; James McMurtry; HELL YEAH; Motorhead; Billy Morrison
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Hank joins Dan for a tandem summer ride and they share a story about a bike crash Hank and his wife had recently. Included: Runner; Felice Brothers; Peter Mulvey; James McMurtry; Lana Del Ray, Feat Faher John Misty; Tegan and Sara; Bill Callahan with a host of others; Bright Eyes; Jack Savoriti; Drew Peterson; Allison Russell
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It's Hank's birthday show and for some reason he felt the need to take his shirt off when he received Dan's present in his driveway. Hank picks almost all the songs this week and claims there may be a pattern to them, but Dan doesn't get it - or is he just LYING again?? Included: Sir Arthur Sullivan; Caravan; Allison Krause/Shawn Colvin/Jerry Douglas; The Room Full of Blues; James McMurtry; The Brads; Bugger Burns; Peter Frampton; ...
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We're going loco for local this week on the ride. Included: Charlie Roth; Nate Boots; Mal Murphy; Watermelon Slush; Jeff Reinartz; Good Morning Bedlam; Mary Clare Stroh; Ben Scruggs; Nate Boots (again); Nate Boots (again!); Nate Boots (that's right, AGAIN!!)
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Steppenwolf; Counting Crow; David Gray; Fotheringay; Emily Linge; Van Morrison
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It's the second official NO KINGS DAY in the good ol' US of A (the first originally called The Boston Tea Party) as the guys serve up a solid playlist for your protest ride. Included: Rock-A-Teens; Freddie McGregor; Elton John; Lucinda Williams; U2; Pat Benatar; Randy Newman; Beatles; ELO; Kings of Leon; Marillion; Tom Petty; Mary Gauthier
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Another hodgepodge of misfits and rebel thinkers, some you know, some you don't on this week's ride. Included: Ilker Taaskin (told you, you wouldn't know them all); Bruce Springsteen; Taylor Swift (told you, you'd know some); Jeffry Foucault; Oasis; Kasey Chambers (again, you won't know them all); Jeff Buckley; Billy Joel (AGAIN, you'll know some!)
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The ride finishes with a solemn Memorial Day set and begins with rather silly hosts being annoying, followed by another wide array of songs that finds Dan taking a step closer to playing country music. Included: Delyn Christian; Father John Misty (FJM); Valerie June; Peter Mulvey; Greg Brown; Kevin Morby; Sara Morris & Emily Haavik; Brett Horten; The Silver Jews; The United States Army Band; Brett Horton (NO! not THAT Brett Horton ...
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Dan's lying his arse off while Hank piles on to the sizzling protest heap of songs and the both call Putin out on this week's random ride - this may be the last broadcast before the entire Bike Rides operation gets moved to El Salvador. John Prine; Pussy Riot; NOFX; Steve Earle & The Dukes; Grace J'Will; Lumineti Suns; Luminati Suns (again) w/Walk of the Earth; Janice Joplin; Bill Amesbury; Bright Eyes; Karmen
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Hank and Dan play weird music and tell dumb bike riding stories, blah, blah B L A H, won't these two ever grow up?? Included: Bombedils; Roxy Music; Kevin Morby, Kevin Morby (again); Joe Purdy; Alabama Shakes; Felice Brothers
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Dan rides solo and leads us to depths of his parents basement in 1980 while we hiss, pop and crackle to the ALL vinyl sounds of Pink Floyd; Rush; Toto; John Cougar; Joe Jackson; Styx; Police and Pink Floyd (again).
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It's pledge drive 2025 and the guys are in perfect begging form, if not perfect radio form. Included: Boomtown Rats; Sparks; The Runaways; Joan Jett; a lot of discussion centered around Hank's colonoscopy just yesterday.
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The guys serve up a veritable plethora of songs to choose from for this week's after-lunch ride. Included: Come Ride With Me; Nick Cave; Tom Waits; Rosa Lee Cunningham; Tom Rosenthal & Edith Whiskers; Chip Taylor; Drew Peterson; Lars Lillo and Loudon Wainwright III; Chappell Roan; Sass Jordan; Lucinda Williams
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The boys are courting Canada to claim Minnesota as the 11th province, playing very ride-worthy deep Canadian tracks from names you've never heard. Included: Bif Naked; Tire Pump; Hemingway Corner; July Talk; Long John Baldry; Junkhouse; The Pursuit of Happiness; Spirit of the West; Bif Naked (again); Emma Albani; Amanda Marshall; Tom Green
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It's the Charlie Parr playlist show! Hear what Charlie's been listening to lately straight from his own collection. Included: Mike Gangloff; J.R. Bohannon: Ava Mendoza: Richard Dawson; Dead Pioneers; Rob Cantor; Nate Boots; Jeff Parker ft. Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose & Josh Johnson; Kelby Clark; The Daily Norm
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