500 episodes

Patrick Foster and Jim Lenahan have a new podcast! Come join two (not so) ordinary family guys in the basement (or on the deck) as they talk about their lifelong obsessions with music. Now ... 5 days a week!

Rockin' the Suburbs Rockin' the Suburbs

    • Music
    • 4.9 • 137 Ratings

Patrick Foster and Jim Lenahan have a new podcast! Come join two (not so) ordinary family guys in the basement (or on the deck) as they talk about their lifelong obsessions with music. Now ... 5 days a week!

    Perfect Pop: Pixies 'Gigantic'

    Perfect Pop: Pixies 'Gigantic'

    Kevin Clement and Adam Coop recently recorded a series of perfect pop episodes. Here is the first, focusing on one of Coop's all-time favorites, Pixies. 

    Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

    Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

    Email Jim & Patrick at rock@suburbspod.com

    Follow us on the Twitter, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

    If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

    Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.

    • 9 min
    Woodmoorstock Rocks the Suburbs

    Woodmoorstock Rocks the Suburbs

    We talk with Brad Brown and Rob Runyan, organizers of the Woodmoorstock porch festival in Silver Spring MD. Fifty-five bands will be playing for free on June 10 (rain date: June 11). ... AND Jim and Patrick will do some live podcast recording at the event. Come on out and say Hi!

    More info about Woodmoorstock: facebook.com/woodmoorstock or @woodmoorstock on Instagram.

    Listen every day to Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

    Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

    Email Jim & Patrick at rock@suburbspod.com

    Follow us on the Twitter, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

    If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

    Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.

    • 31 min
    Harry Smith at 100: Revisiting the Anthology of American Folk Music

    Harry Smith at 100: Revisiting the Anthology of American Folk Music

    Legendary artist and collector Harry Smith would have been 100 years old on May 29. We explore his most important musical statement, the Anthology of American Folk Music. 

    Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

    Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

    Email Jim & Patrick at rock@suburbspod.com

    Follow us on the Twitter, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

    If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

    Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.

    • 32 min
    The Young Ones: Ep. 2 Oil

    The Young Ones: Ep. 2 Oil

    We continue our special Friday series on Rockin' the Suburbs. Jim is joined by friends Will Pfeifer and Steven Routledge to discuss the beloved 1980s British sitcom "The Young Ones." Put on your Doctor Martens boots, because today they break down episode 2 - "Oil."

    Listen every day to Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

    Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

    Email Jim & Patrick at rock@suburbspod.com

    Follow us on the Twitter, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

    If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

    Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.

    • 44 min
    Rest in Power Tina Turner

    Rest in Power Tina Turner

    The pioneering artist Tina Turner passed today at age 83. We recount her career, listen to key songs and hope she is resting in power. 

    Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or   other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

    Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

    Email Jim & Patrick at rock@suburbspod.com

    Follow us on the Twitter, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

    If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

    Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.

    • 25 min
    Perfect Pop: INXS "Don't Change"

    Perfect Pop: INXS "Don't Change"

    We hear from an old friend (who's in West Virginia now, not Hong Kong), who has been meaning to get in touch with a perfect pop pick. We are glad he did! 

    Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or   other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends.

    Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com

    Email Jim & Patrick at rock@suburbspod.com

    Follow us on the Twitter, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod

    If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984.

    Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.

    • 7 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
137 Ratings

137 Ratings

Benjie Ignacio ,

great no nonsense podcast about rock n roll

Longtime listener since its inception, and of its predecessor podcast, Dad Rock. Thoughtful, spirited conversation, often revelatory and always lighthearted (except when they do an RIP episode, which sadly happens now again). Like cracking a beer at a picnic table with a couple of your music fan friends.

WillRams ,

Loved the Tom Petty Wildflowers and all the Rest conversation.

An update regarding availability of the song “Something Could Happen” (one of quite a few previously unreleased gems): Apple Music has had it available for online streaming as part of the 70 song Super Deluxe version since Friday’s release for its subscribers/trial memberships.

Thanks to this informative podcast. Have a few of the other questions up for future listens. These guys are thoughtful in their discussion and obviously avid listeners of music.

Tdc126 ,

I have enjoyed this podcast but it has taken a turn for the worse

I have listened to this podcast every day for two years. While there were a few episodes that I bailed on, for the most part, I enjoyed the podcast. Over the last several months, the quality has declined significantly. The word community is used far too frequently. The guys have become self absorbed and uncreative. Recent episodes have been so arcane that only a diehard could possibly make it through them. The infatuation with Echo Park Jimmy is simply unfathomable. He is a blow hard that nver has anything interesting to say. I unsubscribed today.

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