Rock Garden Radio
Rock Garden Radio explores new independent music from global up-and-comers while celebrating Rock Garden Records artists' latest projects, releases, and performances. Boston-area DJ and music aficionado, Mike Newman, anchors the weekly-on-Friday mainstay episodes with Rock Garden Records co-founder, Todd Erickson. Guests join Mike and Todd with their "Five Faves" and share musical insights, anecdotes, and tales from the trenches. Special episodes hosted by Boston-area music biz veterans will also celebrate and honor indie-label heroes, their legacies, and culture they built.
Episodes
Todd digs into Robin's Five Fave songs and gets dirt on Robin's creative process, if you can call it that!
Experience "Out Of The Ashes", Robin's poignant and prescient new/old track, featuring the volcanic guitar work of one of Boston's brightest, Adam Steinberg.
Hear Rock Garden Records artists Holy Smoke, Little Billy Lost, Jennifer Tefft & The Strange, and Smitt E. Smitty & The Fezztones!
Mike + Destiny get insight on Bad Marriage singer Jon Paquin's Five Fave songs and why they made him the singer and performer he has become.
Visit https://rockgardenrecords.com
This week on Rock Garden Radio Mike and Destiny welcome the mighty Linda Bean Pardee of Orbit, The Chelsea Curve, and Smitt E. Smitty & The Fezztones. Linda's a massive inspiration to so many and is not only a killer bassist, singer and songwriter, but a really rad human as well! Linda dishes her Fave Five and much more with Destiny & Mike this week on Rock Garden Radio!
Bumblebee Radio host and WBZ Boston's helicopter traffic reporter, Kristen Eck, joins Mike & Destiny with her current "Five Fave" songs!
Conversation, music and FUN!
Your hosts Mike Newman and Destiny Costa dig into new, rare, and cool indie music and a couple of not-so-indie tracks, too!
Rock Garden Records artists are featured alongside Mike's and Destiny's favorite artists from around the globe.
FMI - rockgardenrecords.com
New England radio personalities Mike Newman and Destiny Costa launch their debut as Rock Garden Radio's co-host team!
Enjoy their rockin' romp through Rock Garden releases and the best indie, classic, and legendary music anywhere!
Facebook: Rock Garden Radio
From the Freeform WBCN archives!
Freeform WBCN and Mark Skin Radio DJ personality, Destiny Costa hosts her debut episode of "Freeform WBCN" with WBCN-FM legend, Tami Heide!
These two lady-legends whip up a feminine frenzy with music from AC/DC to Led Zeppelin with the ladies of 'til Tuesday Grace Jones, Garbage, and Girls' School showing the boys how to rock!!
This is the first in a series of bonus episodes cele...
Infamous Boston rock-show-goer, legendary local band-fan, and WMFO DJ, Skybar Lusardi, brings his Five Faves and dishes all the glory + stories that go with them!
Rock Garden artists Jennifer Teft & The Strange, Adam Sherman, Satch Kerans, Mutual Admiration Society, Little Billy Lost, Bentmen, and Holy Smoke finish off this banger!
FMI + news: https://rockgardenrecords.com
Boston's broadcasting blossom, Destiny Costa returns to the airwaves, plants herself in the Garden with Mike + Todd, shares her Five Faves, and explores the concept of, and need for, "home" in the first hour.
Hour two features releases from Rock Garden Records available at https://rockgardenrecords.bandcamp.com
Fred Pineau of The Atlantics and Little Billy Lost chats with Todd & Mike about tour life with The Atlantics, his fave five and why, and plans for new music coming out on Rock Garden Records!
Boston songwriter and singer extraordinaire, Adam Sherman, debuts his first single, "If You Think", on Rock Garden Records and gets us thinking about his musical roots with his Five Faves.
This is a re-release of Ep. 7, which is SO good, we are sharing it again, split into two individual interviews.
Rock Garden Records' artists Tim + Judith Sprague of Crow Follow dig in the dirt on five favorite songs, what makes them SOO damn groovy, and we debut their perfectly titled new single, "Dig It".
Special guests and Jem Records artists Cyndi Dawson + Henry Seiz of The Cynz dig into their formative years in NJ, their new record, and community connections with Boston and NY/NJ.
DIG IT!
Todd & Mike flip the script and dig into Mike's long radio history and how he end's up playing in the Rock Garden.
From Mike's earliest radio memories to an unbelievable story involving Elton John's stage jacket, you'll get a peek into the mind of one of Boston and indie music's biggest supporters.
Mike + Todd get the story from our very own Detroit Madman and Rock Garden Records' recording artist, Smitt E Smitty. Todd goes all in on rebranding Motor City Smitty.
2 hours of new, legendary, and independent music from Boston and BEYOND!
Mike + Todd interview Des + Kathy Desmond of Boston's legendary Bentmen and debut the recently "unearthed" Bentmen song, "Babes In Candyland", featuring the incomparable Reeves Gabrels and "Crazy Eddie" Nowick on guitars, with Todd adding bass and "Toddification" for release on Rock Garden Records.
2 fantastic hours of music and conversation!
Mike Newman hosts a 2-hour extravaganza of music from Boston and beyond!
PLUS an interview with Todd Erickson (Rock Garden Records) and Dave Harrison (The False Positives)
Contact: rockgardenradio@gmail.com
Producers: Mike Newman, Lisa Erickson, Todd Erickson
Editing, engineering and mastering: Todd Erickson
Esteemed Boston-area DJ and music aficionado Mike Newman hosts the inaugural episode of Rock Garden Radio.
Mike brings his vast knowledge of and unquenchable thirst for learning about independent music to Rock Garden Radio.
You'll hear:
- New Noise from artists you know and some you don't!
- Indie Bites from Boston-area artists who performed at Revolution
- An in-depth interview with Rock Garden Records founders, Todd + ...
Popular Podcasts
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Listen to 'The Bobby Bones Show' by downloading the daily full replay.
Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S. centering Latino stories, hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Maria Hinojosa Every week, the Peabody winning team brings you revealing, in-depth stories about what’s in the hearts and minds of Latinos and their impact on the world. Want to support our independent journalism? Join Futuro+ for exclusive episodes, sneak peaks and behind-the-scenes chisme on Latino USA and all our podcasts. www.futuromediagroup.org/joinplus