Let It Roll
"Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.
Episodes
November 12, 2025 • 46 mins
Nate Wilcox and Ed Ward kick off their discussion of Ed's History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963 with a look at some of the factors that made the first five years after World War II so critical to the evolution of Rock and Roll.
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November 10, 2025 • 41 mins
An interview with Michaelangelo Matos author of “The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America.” Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness ask Michaelangelo Matos the questions raised over the course of TechnoRoll series 3
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November 7, 2025 • 42 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at EDM's Animal Farm moment when the genre and its practitioners were finally accepted by the American music industry.
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at EDMs commercial triumphs in the early 2010s, epitomized by Electric Daisy Carnival's move from LA to Las Vegas, the rise of Skrillex and brostep, and the cross-over success of David Guetta and others.
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November 3, 2025 • 42 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the book's treatment of EDM's breakthrough moment when Daft Punk played Coachella 2006 and blew away Madonna and Kanye West.
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October 31, 2025 • 44 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Matos' treatment of electroclash, mashups and the impact of 9/11 on the electronic dance music scene in America.
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October 29, 2025 • 43 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Disco Donnie, the DEA and the rave bust that brought the first era of rave to an end.
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October 27, 2025 • 42 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the 2000 Detroit Electronic Music Festival which finally brought the Techno pioneers a measure of popular acclaim in their home city.
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October 24, 2025 • 45 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the US music industry's continuing efforts to make "electronica" the next big thing, culminating in Moby and Fatboy Slim's appearances at the rave tent of Woodstock '99, an infamous debacle that epitomized the worst of late 1990's bro culture.
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October 22, 2025 • 44 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the continuing efforts of the American music business to promote the genre they now called "electronica" via live events and CD releases.
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October 20, 2025 • 45 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the Even Further event and Daft Punk's American debut.
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October 17, 2025 • 42 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Richie Hawtin's transition to minimal techno and his boom and bust as a US rave promoter. Other Detroit area producer/DJs like Carl Craig and Robert Hood are discussed as is the relationship between Berlin and Detroit.
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October 15, 2025 • 39 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Rave America and the rise and fall of indie rave in Los Angeles in 1991 and 1992.
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October 13, 2025 • 44 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Rave America and the rise and fall of indie rave in Los Angeles in 1991 and 1992.
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October 10, 2025 • 41 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Storm Raves and their various downtown rivals, club kids and others involved in the first wave of rave on the US East coast.
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness take a break from "The Underground is Massive" to discuss the emergence of Tribal House on the international gay party circuit and its rise to the top of the charts.
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October 6, 2025 • 42 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their conversations about Michaelangelo Matos' "The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America" with a look at Matos' treatment of Rave's expansion into the upper midwest from its initial bases in Chicago and Detroit.
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October 3, 2025 • 43 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their conversations about Michaelangelo Matos' "The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America" with a look at the early days of Rave culture in Northern California in the early 1990s.
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Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their conversations about Michaelangelo Matos' "The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America." This episode focuses on the domestic failure of Madchester and HipHouse and the slow build of rave culture in the USA in the 1990s.
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TechnoRoll 3.2: Detroit Techno or, George Clinton, & Kraftwerk Stuck in an Elevator With a Sequencer
September 29, 2025 • 43 mins
Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness mull the second chapter of "The Underground Is Massive" by Michaelangelo Matos which tells of the emergence of the first wave of Detroit Techno, led by the Belleville Three: Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson.
As May said, "The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company."
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