Dan's Bike Rides

It's a very special ride this week as the audience of AMPERS sister station KAXE joins the KMSU riders and listeners to celebrate the music of Grand Rapids Riverfest, on September 6th. Included: Alan Sparhawk,; Trampled by Turtles; Charlie Parr, Emily Parr; Jeremie Albino; Margo Price; Billy Strings; Low; Courtney Barnett

What starts as an innocent ride finds the guys stripped to the skivvies by the end; listen and find out how it got there. Included: Brett Horton; Wilco; Joe Purdy; Mildred Bailey; Renaissance; Noah Cyrus, ft. Bill Callahan; Steve Miller Band; Soccer Mommy; Wilco (again); The Brambel Patch; Jezus Wizard Spatula (you need to hear the last one)

Hank and Dan present another wide array of genre bending music, only fit for consumption by the deepest musical palette, even when that palette shows up in the form of a frog at the studio window. Included: Bicycle; David Bromberg; Black Rebel; Big Thief; Angel Olsen; Lucinda Williams; Charley Crockett; Los Chico Muertos; Zavior Rudd; The Backseat Lovers; Dead Man Winter

If you're one of those nocturnal freaks who doesn't finish a bike ride when the sun goes down, but begins one, this NIGHT-ride is for you. Featured: Front Street Remix; Dolly Pardon ft. Chris Stapleton; Charlie Crockett; Lucinda Williams; Ricky Lee Jones; Amos Lee; Some Nights Live on Forever; Tom Waits; J. Micheal Henderson; Allison Russell

Nothing funny about this week's ride, as the guys give voice to the victims of sexual assault. Featured: Kids on a Bike; Alanis Morissette; Taylor Swift; Lady Gaga; Ani Difranco; Fletcher; James McMurtry; HELL YEAH; Motorhead; Billy Morrison

Hank joins Dan for a tandem summer ride and they share a story about a bike crash Hank and his wife had recently. Included: Runner; Felice Brothers; Peter Mulvey; James McMurtry; Lana Del Ray, Feat Faher John Misty; Tegan and Sara; Bill Callahan with a host of others; Bright Eyes; Jack Savoriti; Drew Peterson; Allison Russell

It's Hank's birthday show and for some reason he felt the need to take his shirt off when he received Dan's present in his driveway. Hank picks almost all the songs this week and claims there may be a pattern to them, but Dan doesn't get it - or is he just LYING again?? Included: Sir Arthur Sullivan; Caravan; Allison Krause/Shawn Colvin/Jerry Douglas; The Room Full of Blues; James McMurtry; The Brads; Bugger Burns; Peter Frampton; Andrea Gibson; Jimmy Stewart

We're going loco for local this week on the ride. Included: Charlie Roth; Nate Boots; Mal Murphy; Watermelon Slush; Jeff Reinartz; Good Morning Bedlam; Mary Clare Stroh; Ben Scruggs; Nate Boots (again); Nate Boots (again!); Nate Boots (that's right, AGAIN!!)

Steppenwolf; Counting Crow; David Gray; Fotheringay; Emily Linge; Van Morrison

It's the second official NO KINGS DAY in the good ol' US of A (the first originally called The Boston Tea Party) as the guys serve up a solid playlist for your protest ride. Included: Rock-A-Teens; Freddie McGregor; Elton John; Lucinda Williams; U2; Pat Benatar; Randy Newman; Beatles; ELO; Kings of Leon; Marillion; Tom Petty; Mary Gauthier

Another hodgepodge of misfits and rebel thinkers, some you know, some you don't on this week's ride. Included: Ilker Taaskin (told you, you wouldn't know them all); Bruce Springsteen; Taylor Swift (told you, you'd know some); Jeffry Foucault; Oasis; Kasey Chambers (again, you won't know them all); Jeff Buckley; Billy Joel (AGAIN, you'll know some!)

The ride finishes with a solemn Memorial Day set and begins with rather silly hosts being annoying, followed by another wide array of songs that finds Dan taking a step closer to playing country music. Included: Delyn Christian; Father John Misty (FJM); Valerie June; Peter Mulvey; Greg Brown; Kevin Morby; Sara Morris & Emily Haavik; Brett Horten; The Silver Jews; The United States Army Band; Brett Horton (NO! not THAT Brett Horton –– Hell no!)

Dan's lying his arse off while Hank piles on to the sizzling protest heap of songs and the both call Putin out on this week's random ride - this may be the last broadcast before the entire Bike Rides operation gets moved to El Salvador. John Prine; Pussy Riot; NOFX; Steve Earle & The Dukes; Grace J'Will; Lumineti Suns; Luminati Suns (again) w/Walk of the Earth; Janice Joplin; Bill Amesbury; Bright Eyes; Karmen

Hank and Dan play weird music and tell dumb bike riding stories, blah, blah B L A H, won't these two ever grow up?? Included: Bombedils; Roxy Music; Kevin Morby, Kevin Morby (again); Joe Purdy; Alabama Shakes; Felice Brothers

Dan rides solo and leads us to depths of his parents basement in 1980 while we hiss, pop and crackle to the ALL vinyl sounds of Pink Floyd; Rush; Toto; John Cougar; Joe Jackson; Styx; Police and Pink Floyd (again).

It's pledge drive 2025 and the guys are in perfect begging form, if not perfect radio form. Included: Boomtown Rats; Sparks; The Runaways; Joan Jett; a lot of discussion centered around Hank's colonoscopy just yesterday.

The guys serve up a veritable plethora of songs to choose from for this week's after-lunch ride. Included: Come Ride With Me; Nick Cave; Tom Waits; Rosa Lee Cunningham; Tom Rosenthal & Edith Whiskers; Chip Taylor; Drew Peterson; Lars Lillo and Loudon Wainwright III; Chappell Roan; Sass Jordan; Lucinda Williams

The boys are courting Canada to claim Minnesota as the 11th province, playing very ride-worthy deep Canadian tracks from names you've never heard. Included: Bif Naked; Tire Pump; Hemingway Corner; July Talk; Long John Baldry; Junkhouse; The Pursuit of Happiness; Spirit of the West; Bif Naked (again); Emma Albani; Amanda Marshall; Tom Green

It's the Charlie Parr playlist show! Hear what Charlie's been listening to lately straight from his own collection. Included: Mike Gangloff; J.R. Bohannon: Ava Mendoza: Richard Dawson; Dead Pioneers; Rob Cantor; Nate Boots; Jeff Parker ft. Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose & Josh Johnson; Kelby Clark; The Daily Norm

Another week, another bike ride with music and the boy's silly musings. Included: Rosalie Cunningham; The Felice Brothers; Tail Light Rebellion; D.D. Lang; Dear Tic; Longhorn Slim; Van Morrison; Blitzen Trapper; Kevin Morby; Andy Kaufman; Tony Clifton

After a series of speciality shows, the boys get back to their deep melodic roots with this enchanting musical journey, and also rehash Hank's worst bike crash ever. Featured: Loudon wainwright III; Skull Kid; Nathaniel Rateliff feat. Kevin Morby; Aretha Franklin; Courtney Barnett; Cary Morin; Will Sheff; Okkervile River feat. Brdget St. John and Tommy Mchugh; Vic Chestnutt; John Prine; Mason Jennings

Hank again indulges Dan's spectrumy obsession with lions, as the boys volley big cat tracks back and for the whole ride. Included: Pedro The Yellow Lion; K'naan; Skip Marley; Kate Bush; Neko Case; Magnolia Electric Company; Kevin Morby; Camille Saint-Saëns; The Tallest Man on Earth; The Bee Gees; Charlie Parr

THE CONFORMITY SHOW! Hank and Dan are disciplined by the FCC and have to make many programming concessions to stay on the air and out of jail. All songs on this ride have been filtered through the new FCC watchdog team and meet the new standards declared on day ONE. Sneaking one past the gate: Bright Eyes; Bruce Springsteen; Nick Cave; Mary Chapin Carpenter; Pink with the Indigo Girls; John Mellencamp; Louden Wainwright III; Little Steven; Crys Matthews; The XY People

As the CD age of music media technology winds down, and the BR studio now only hosts a single player that works most of the time, and another that fails most of the time, Dan feels compelled to lay down some tracks from his personal disc collection before it's too late. Included: Faces (feat. Rod the Bod); Sheryl (Urlick) Crow; Eagles (yeah, I know, but trust us on this one); Allison (Dan's new crush) Russell; Nick (you've never heard of him) Robberson; Elton (Gershwin Prize winning) John; Joe (it's NOT country I swear!) South; John (DON"T call me Cougar, PUNK!) Mellencamp

Happy BLUE Year! It's all songs that contain a reference to the color blue as the guys think perhaps the new administration might not live up to their supporters expectations. Inbluedes.. I mean INCLUDES tracks from Thelma Plum; Lucinda Williams; Joni Mitchell; First Aid Kit; Van Morrison; Ideal; Charlie Parr; Ella Fitz Gerald & Louis Armstrong; David Bromberg; The Rolling Stones; Magnolia Electric Company and David Gilmore.

It's the BikeRides annual Christmas Show with vague or direct references to the Taylor Swift of holidays sprinkled throughout the ride like tiny little red and green candies on a Christmas cookie. Included: Christine Kane; Felice Bros; There Will be Fireworks; Joan Baez; Dawes; Ricki Lee Jones; Ian Anderson; Nick Cave; Silver Jews (Hanks idea); Paul Simon; Kevin Bloody Wilson

Happy 4th of July in December! It's BikeRides annual twisted take on their favorite holiday. Obscure mentions of the summer holiday explode in beautiful songs throughout the ride like a fountain of colorful, brilliant fire in your ears. Included: Mae Simpson; Steve Earle; Laura Jane Grace; Fallout Boy; Roger Daltrey; Fire/Works; John Mellencamp; Gary Cleghorn; Michael Stanely; Cold Play; John Prine

Execute your warm-up stretches and pack a turkey sandwich, it's the annual Black Friday Longest Ride of the Year. Hank and Dan warm things up with a slew of deep tracks, then they review the entire classic Pink Floyd's Wall, the demo cuts; Under Construction. Later, Mark Conway and Jay Kiser join in studio to review their old band Homespun's basement tape recorded live at Austin's Loading Dock Lounge around 1982.

It's a therapeutic, Facebook Friend generated playlist this week on the ride after that thingy that happened on Tuesday. Included: George Harrison; Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood and Jeff Lyne together in one super band; Small Faces; Yusuf; Sam Cooke; Nick Drake; Pink Moon; Willie Dunn; The Shackletons; Frank Ocean; The Head & The Heart; The Beach Boys

It's the last day of Pledge Drive at KMSU so Hank and Dan go easy on the pressure to make a pledge and focus heavily on just playing the stupid music. Included: England Swings; Delany and Bonnie; John Batdorf; Loudon Wainwright III; Fleetwood Mac; Bob Dylan; Little Feat; Van Morrison; Amanda Shires

It's Fall Pledge Drive and you know what that means, Hank and Dan are begging, threatening, and promising anything to get some pledges for KMSU, the greatest little radio station in the area. PLUS, Halloweeny songs from Pancake Manor; 40 Watt Bulb; Nick Cave; Robbie See Hag Mangano; The Specials; and finally someone you've heard of, Jimmy Buffet.

Anyone who suggests this week's ride has an underlying message is simply reading their own agenda into it. Included: Taylor Swift (yeah, you heard me right); The Killers (just in time for halloween); Dan (the) Mangan, Eric (heavy) Burdon and the (heavier) Animals; Gossip (shhhhh...quiet karen!); Pete Seger (and the silver bullet band...jk!); Kyle (arts and) Craft; (susan b) Anthony D'amto; (don't you dare call them dixie...) Chicks

Hold on to the handlebars there's lot's of sharp turns in this week's random bike ride. Kimay Dawson; Kit Kildahl; City Mouse; Watermelon Slush; Silver Jews; Buffy Sainte Marie; Jesse Welles; Steppenwolf; Femina; Charlie Roth

It's a real $h1t $h0vv this week as the boys power their way through some technical difficulties in the last half of the ride that may be a little distracting to the unfamiliar listener. Anyway, the music is good at least. Included: Beach Boys; the Felice Brothers; Yes; Pete Townsend; Middle Brother; Nathaniel Rateliff; Jethro Tull; Marianne Faithful; Jesse Welles; John Hiatt; Miley Cyrus

The guys dish salacious details about the hot 70s era relationship between Tom Waits and Bette Midler. Also: Rosali Cunningham; Felice Brothers; Connor Oberst; Forty Watt Bulb (x2); The Dead Weather; Venessa Carlton

1. Secure the scene 2. Call an ambulance 3. Assess the injuries It's time to put your First Aid training to the test as Dan and Hank discuss their recent, worst double bike crash ever in BikeRides history. Bike Crash related tracks forthcoming from La Lucura; Alasondro Alegre; Sun Room; Declan Murry Brown; Gracie Addison; The Coronets; John Linnell; The Tennessee Mafie Jug Band; Keith Cameron; Primitives.

A lot of sharp turns this week with some connections at the start of this whimsical, late summer ride. Included: Pravesh Sunker; Nick Cave; Robert Johnson; Miley Cyrus; Anna Tival; Elton John; Skull Kid; Willie Nelson.

ARTWORKS FESTIVAL! This week we sample a little taste of the music lineup for Artworks Festival 2024 this weekend in Austin. Included: Drew Peterson; Ben Scruggs; Whalen and the Willows; Nate Boots; The Shape of Walter.

It's the bicycle chain of songs this week; every song will somehow be related to the last until we tie the chain together at the end. Included: Modern Lovers; Amy Winehouse; Donny Hathaway; Ray Charles; Willie Nelson; Sheryl Crow; Aldus Huxley; Bernard Harris; Stevie Nicks; Car Seat Headrest; and back to Amy Winehouse again. See if you've got the musical chops to follow the chain.

It's County Fair season and you know what that means; Demolition Derbies! Big hit songs in demo form only this week on the ride includes chart busters from Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen Led Zeppelin, Spirit and Household Objects Project. Wait, what was that last one?? Tune in, find out!

Hank crawls across the finish line in the race to 60 years-old with a special birthday edition of Bike Rides and takes a super deep dive into the late David Berman's two main bands, The Silver Jews, and Purple Mountains

The Foreign Exchange; Kelley Stoltz; Rickie Lee Jones; John Hiatt; Amos Lee; Bee Balm Fields; Ben Skruggs; Chris Bertrand; Andrea Von Kampen; Pousette - Dart Band; and Mary Guatheir make up this typical summer bike ride.

Nothing to see here but 2 heterosexual men secure enough in their own skin to produce a full hour of LGBTQ related music in solidarity with PRIDE month, so beat them up if you must. Included: Jayne County, Crys Matthews; Rod Stewart; The Wet Spots; The Who; The Hawk in Paris; Kriste Moore; The Magnetic Fields; Mary Gauthier; Boy George

It's BikeRides 5 0 0 t h show! After a long period of intense study, silent meditation and recall, out of 4,500 songs played over the last 13 years, Hank and Dan narrow the list down to the best five tracks each, the result is the most delicious and satisfying frothy beverage you've enjoyed yet this summer. By the way, you owe us $45,000.

Elliot Park, Dawes, Drew Peterson, Maren Morris, Ron Geesin/Roger Waters, Keb Mo', Connie Smith, Little Feat/Bonnie Raitt, Gas Light Anthem, Willie Nelson/Orville Peck make up this random bike ride any cowboy would be fond of.

Spring Pledge Drive is upon us so Dan and Hank begin to explore alternative sources of income in case the drive doesn't go well for them. PLUS it's almost BikeRides 500th show, so get ready from a bunch of "500" related deep bike tracks. Included: Jimmie Rogers, Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash, John Denver, Willie Nelson, Stuck with Green, Against Me, Stevie Wonder, Sleeping at Last and some healthy lifestyle advice from John Wayne, and the Flintstones.

The whole ride this week is dedicated to the music of MOWER COUNTY HOME GROWN MUSIC FEST at the Historic Paramount Theater in Austin This Saturday. Part Time Ex's, Prairie Clamor, Six Mile Grove, Whalen and the Willows and Charlie Freaking Parr, each get at least two tracks today as they prepare to rock Austin this weekend like only the locals can!

Magnolia Electric Company bookends the show this week with chapters from Red Rockers, Velvet Underground, Nico, Iris Dement, Kitten Forever and a snippet or two from Elmo making up the rest of your afternoon read.. I mean RIDE.

A spring theme leads to a slew of tracks on this week's ride that have never been played before on the show. The Flaming Lips, Billie Holiday, Carly Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, The Captain and Tennille and much more included.

Dan makes a Bob Dylan bread sandwich for your lunch on the ride today. The meat: Katy Kirby, Twain, Caroline Rose, Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle and Twain (NOT Shania - you're welcome). Careful eating and riding, it makes it difficult to text!

Austin Texas America artist Mary Gauthier played on the MSU campus this week so we bookend the show with two of our favorite classic MG tracks plus a BIG SURPRISE from Mary herself at the end of the ride. Magnolia Electric Company, Don McLean, new Charlie Parr, The Pretenders, Allison Russell, Sonny Bill Glover and The Hold Steady make up the heart of your afternoon bike ride sandwich.