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 24, 2025 • 65 mins
Nate Wilcox and Ed Ward continue their discussion of Ed's "History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963 " with a look at what Ed calls the “Miracle Year” of rock and roll. The year when Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, and others were at the peak of their powers and dominated the charts.
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November 21, 2025 • 31 mins
Nate Wilcox and Ed Ward continue their discussion of Ed's "History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963 " with a look at rock and roll in 1956, focusing on the rocky yet productive relationships between African-American recording artists and the Jewish entrepreneurs who brought their work to market. We discuss the relationship between James Brown and Syd Nathan of King Records, the tragic relationship between the gifted 13-year-old Fran...
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November 19, 2025 • 47 mins
Nate Wilcox and Ed Ward continue their discussion of Ed's History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963 with a look at 1955 and 1956.
These are the years when the “American Prometheus” brought forth Elvis Presley, when Chuck Berry culturally appropriated Western Swing for his first hit and Hollywood shocked the masses with the first rock and roll movies. As always we’ll touch on the non-musical factors that made all this possible -- chang...
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November 17, 2025 • 45 mins
Nate Wilcox and Ed Ward continue their discussion of Ed's History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963 with a look at the period when Rock and Roll really got started.
We’ll hear about the woman who discovered Elvis Presley, a pair of Jewish music fans who become legit R&B legends, how a Turkish record mogul wrote Ray Charles’ first hit, when country music discovered cheating songs and a whole lot about dirty, dirty, naughty rhythm and blu...
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November 14, 2025 • 47 mins
Nate Wilcox and Ed Ward continue their discussion of Ed's History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963 with a look at the legendary song “Good Rockin’ Tonight” and the two simultaneous hit versions that came out in 1949 plus the early work of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Ruth Brown, and the late, great Johnny Ace.
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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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