The Beat Surrender Radio Show

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The Beat Surrender is a radio program broadcast on WBRU-LP 101.1 FM, Brown Student and Community Radio, in Providence, Rhode Island. Your host, Dan Memmolo, seeks to bring you the best in classic punk, post-punk, proto-punk, cow-punk, power pop, alt-country, garage rock and new wave with a healthy dose of new music stirred in for good measure.

  1. 12/31/2025

    Enough Is Enough - Show 140 (S8, E15)

    Some favorite new music from 2025. Classic jams from The Jam, Elvis Costello, Pogues, and more. Plus the latest edition of This Week in Punk Rock History. Originally broadcast on December 31, 2025 at 101.1 FM WBRU-LP Providence.   The Jam - Beat Surrender (1982) The Hives - Enough Is Enough (2025)    Patti Smith - People Have the Power (1988)  Black Flag - Rise Above (1981)   Brinsley Schwarz - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding (1974)  The Minus 5 - Death the Bludgeoner (2025)     R.E.M. - Life and How to Live It (1985)    Billy Bragg - Life with the Lions (1988)    The Clash - Death or Glory (1979)   THIS WEEK IN PUNK ROCK HISTORY The Jam - In the City (1982)   Pogues - White City (1989)    The Replacements - Raised in the City (1981)   The Jesus and Mary Chain - Kill Surf City (1988)   The Waterboys - Hopper's on Top (Genius) (2025)    Bob Mould - Your Side (2025)  Big Star - I'm in Love with a Girl (1974)   Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Peace in Our Time (1984)

    1h 9m

  2. 12/05/2025

    Let Your Yeah Be Yeah - Show 139 (S8, E14)

    New music from The Hives and classic jams from The Clash, The Stone Roses, Jason & the Scorchers, and more. Plus the latest edition of This Week in Punk Rock History. Originally broadcast on December 5, 2025 at 101.1 FM WBRU-LP Providence.   The Jam - Beat Surrender (1982) The Replacements - Hold My Life (1985)   Hüsker Dü- Makes No Sense At All (1985)     The Waterboys - Medicine Bow (1985)   Beat Rodeo - Just Friends (1985)    The Hives - Legalize Living (2025)   Hunters & Collectors - Living Daylight (1987)    Fear - I Love Livin' In The City (1982)    Son Volt - Live Free (1995)    THIS WEEK IN PUNK ROCK HISTORY The Clash - I'm Not Down (1979)   The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down (1985)   The Connells - Upside Down (1989)    Flamin' Groovies - You Tore Me Down (1976)    Jimmy Cliff - Let Your Yeah Be Yeah (1975)    The Stone Roses - Mersey Paradise (1989)   Jason & the Scorchers - Blanket of Sorrow (1985)

    1h 3m

  3. 11/14/2025

    Birdbrain - Show 138 (S8, E13)

    New music from The Raveonettes and classic jams from The Police, Buzzcocks, The Damned, and more. Plus the latest edition of This Week in Punk Rock History. Originally broadcast on November 14, 2025 at 101.1 FM WBRU-LP Providence.     The Jam - Beat Surrender (1982) Buffalo Tom - Birdbrain (1990)   They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul (1990)  R.E.M. - Swan Swan H (1986)     Dreams So Real - Birds of a Feather (1986)  The Raveonettes - Blackest (2025)   The Jayhawks - Real Light (1995)    A Flock of Seagulls - Telecommunication (1982)  Radio Birdman - Aloha Steve & Danno (1977)  THIS WEEK IN PUNK ROCK HISTORY Ramones - Surfin' Bird (1977)    The Police - Canary in a Coalmine (1980)   The Bongos - Numbers With Wings (1983)    The Knitters - Silver Wings (1985)   The Damned - Turkey Song (1979)     Fetchin' Bones - Chicken Truck (1987)    Neko Case - Maybe Sparrow (2006)   Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind (1978)

    1h 4m

  4. 10/10/2025

    Game of Pricks - Show 137 (S8, E12)

    New music from Jeff Tweedy and classic jams from Violent Femmes, The B-52's, Matthew Sweet, and more. Plus the latest edition of This Week in Punk Rock History. Originally broadcast on October 10, 2025 at 101.1 FM WBRU-LP Providence.   The Jam - Beat Surrender (1982) The B-52's - Devil in My Car (1980)    Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Sleeping with Your Devil Mask (1988)   The Dream Syndicate - My Old Haunts (1988)   The Jam - Ghosts (Live) (1982)   Jeff Tweedy - Lou Reed Was My Babysitter (2025)    Jonathan Richman - Velvet Underground (1992)   Pixies - I've Been Tired (1987)   Lou Reed - Rock and Roll (Live) (1984)    THIS WEEK IN PUNK ROCK HISTORY Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless (1980)    Violent Femmes - Breakin' Hearts (1986)    The BoDeans - What It Feels Like (1987)    The Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon (2004)    Matthew Sweet - Devil with the Green Eyes (1993)    Guided by Voices - Game of Pricks (1995)    Violent Femmes - I Hear the Rain (1984)

    1h 4m

  5. 09/12/2025

    Let's Go - Show 136 (S8, E11)

    New music from Bob Mould and classic jams from The Replacements, The Ramones, The Feelies, and more. Plus the latest edition of This Week in Punk Rock History. Originally broadcast on September 12, 2025 at 101.1 FM WBRU-LP Providence.   The Jam - Beat Surrender (1982) Ramones - Let's Go (1980)   The Cars - Let's Go (1979)   The Feelies - Let's Go (1986)   Paul Weller - Come On/Let's Go (2005)    Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy (2025)    David Byrne - Loco De Amor (1989)    Alejandro Escovedo - Chelsea Hotel '78 (2008)    Belly - Super-Connected (1995)   THIS WEEK IN PUNK ROCK HISTORY The Specials - Rat Race (1980)    The Kinks - Rats (1970)    Television - See No Evil (1977)    The Del Fuegos - I Still Want You (1985)    Lucero - Watch It Burn (2005)    The Replacements - Skyway (1987)    Sebadoh - Prince-S (1996)

    1h 4m

  6. 08/08/2025

    Freak Scene - Show 135 (S8, E10)

    New music from Craig Finn and classic jams from Billy Bragg, Soul Asylum, Sugar, and more. Plus the latest edition of This Week in Punk Rock History. Originally broadcast on August 8, 2025 at 101.1 FM WBRU-LP Providence.     The Jam - Beat Surrender (1982) Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene (1988)   Soul Asylum - Standing in the Doorway (1988)    Camper Van Beethoven - One of These Days (1988)    Billy Bragg - She's Got A New Spell (1988)   Craig Finn - People of Substance (2025)    The Mountain Goats - Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome (2022)    The Clash - English Civil War (1978)   The Alarm - Marching On (1983)   THIS WEEK IN PUNK ROCK HISTORY The Replacements - Shiftless When Idle (1981)  Sugar - Helpless (1992)    The Lemonheads - Rudderless (1992)   The Mekons - Blow Your Tuneless Trumpet (1989)    Pixies - Bone Machine (1988)    Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick (1988)   Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - Chinese Bones (1988)

    1h 5m

  7. 07/18/2025

    Nothing Is True - Show 134 (S8, E9)

    New music from The Minus 5 and classic jams from X, Echo & The Bunnymen, Talking Heads, and more. Plus the latest edition of This Week in Punk Rock History. Originally broadcast on July 18, 2025 at 101.1 FM WBRU-LP Providence.   The Jam - Beat Surrender (1982) Devo - Gates of Steel (1980)    The Jam - That's Entertainment (1980)    XTC - Towers of London (1980)   Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Secondary Modern (1980)  The Minus 5 - Words & Birds (2025)   R.E.M. - Disturbance at the Heron House (1987)   The Bangles - Going Down to Liverpool (1984)   Alejandro Escovedo - Heartbeat Smile (2016)    THIS WEEK IN PUNK ROCK HISTORY Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles (1980)   Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes (1984)   X - The Hungry Wolf (1982)   Descendents - I Wanna Be A Bear (1982)    The Young Fresh Fellows - Teenage Dogs in Trouble (1984)    Mark Mulcahy - She Makes the World Turn Backwards (2013)    Talking Heads - Houses in Motion (1980)  The Jim Carroll Band - Nothing Is True (1980)

    1h 10m

  8. 06/20/2025

    Summertime Thing - Show 133 (S8, E8)

    New music from Pulp and classic jams from The Specials, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Superchunk, and more. Plus the latest edition of This Week in Punk Rock History. Originally broadcast on June 20, 2025 at 101.1 FM WBRU-LP Providence.   The Jam - Beat Surrender (1982) Ramones - Rockaway Beach (1977)   Meat Puppets - Swimming Ground (1985)   Patti Smith - Summer Cannibals (1996)    The Specials - Too Hot (1979)   Pulp - Spike Island (2025)   The Kinks - I'm on an Island (1965)   The Undertones - Here Comes the Summer (1979)   Chuck Prophet - Summertime Thing (2002)    THIS WEEK IN PUNK ROCK HISTORY Blondie - In the Sun (1976)   The Jesus and Mary Chain - Surfin' USA (1988)   The Clash - Charlie Don't Surf (1980)   Superchunk - Learned to Surf (2010)   Game Theory - Crash into June (1986)   The Decemberists - July, July! (2002)   X - 4th of July (1987)   Buffalo Tom - In the Summertime (2024)

    1h 11m
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The Beat Surrender is a radio program broadcast on WBRU-LP 101.1 FM, Brown Student and Community Radio, in Providence, Rhode Island. Your host, Dan Memmolo, seeks to bring you the best in classic punk, post-punk, proto-punk, cow-punk, power pop, alt-country, garage rock and new wave with a healthy dose of new music stirred in for good measure.

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  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
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