The Marvin Hamster Music Emporium is a weekly two hour radio show featuring alternate music from the 80s and 90s broadcast on stations Worldwide. The show is normally in six sets of roughly twenty minutes each. Put on your raspberry beret, pull your tri-color rat-tail to the side, and light up a cl…
The show won't go on. Well, here anyway.
The show won't go on. Well, here anyway.
Starting the show with some pounding good songs from 311, House Of Pain, Dropkick Murphys, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More.
Keeping it uptempo with bouncy songs from Garbage, Lecture On Nothing, The The, Big Audio Dynamite and The Clash.
Going synth in this set with New Order, OMD, Human League and Thompson Twins.
Starting out fast, but slowing it down in this set with songs from Thomas Dolby, MC 900ft Jesus, XTC and The Cure.
All Jazz/Rap fun in this set with O.M.U., Us3, and United Future Organization.
Slowing it down to end the show with some shadowy music from Chroma Key, DJ Shadow and Thievery Corporation.
Starting off the show with some driving, upbeat, songs from The Cure, Romeo Void, Killing Joke, Barbie And The Kens and The B-52s.
More upbeat fun with Claude Pate, Replacements, Hoodoo Gurus, O Positive and Not Shakespeare.
You can have your Cake and Jesus, too, in this set with odd lyric ditties from Beastie Boys, MC 900ft Jesus, Beck, Cake and They Might Be Giants.
All the songs in this set seem to have a marching band style drum corps rhythm. Talking Heads, Martha And The Muffins, IMPI and Cop Shoot Cop round out the line up.
Swinging jazzy pop fun in this set with Swing Out Sister, Pizzicato Five, Eye To Eye, and Jamiroquai.
Ending the show with a bit of slow from Area, Garbage (with Massive Attack), Povi and Cocteau Twins.
Starting the show with some upbeat, uptempo, synth and techno with songs from Devo, Cars, Q Feel and Flock of Seagulls.
Keeping it upbeat with more of a dance synth style featuring songs from Visage, Yaz, Blancmange, Heaven 17 and ABC.
More 80s dance fun with Fashion, INXS, Human League and New Order.
Changing speeds and styles in this set with Squeeze, World Party, XTC and Split Enz.
Got have a slappy bass set once in a while and this one is it. Tunes from Bootsauce, Red Hot Chili Peppers, MC 900ft Jesus and Thomas Dolby.
Ending the show with something slow. Only two songs, but they are both long. Some Cinematic Orchestra and Seal round out the show.
Starting the show with some uptempo fun from Martha And The Muffins, Ramones, The Call, Pretenders and The Clash.
Keeping it upbeat and odd with selections from XTC, David Bowie, Talking Heads and Adam Ant.
Going from guns to bombs in this set where every song has Bomb in it somewhere. Echo And The Bunneymen, Police, Rancid, The The and Heaven 17 fill out the set.
Changing styles completely in this set with more dancey, synth, ditties from Peter Godwin, Go West, Peter Brown and Chaz Jankel.
A beautiful set of music with U2, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears and Level 42
Ending the show with the Princely Sum set, as in a small summation of projects Prince had a hand in.
Starting off the show with some upbeat and bouncy songs from Oingo Boingo, Devo, Berlin, Yaz and ABC.
Keeping it fast paced with songs from INXS, Spandau Ballet, Adam Ant and Suburbs.
Slightly different tempo with a tight sounding set from Echo And The Bunneymen, Stranglers, Psychedelic Furs and Simple Minds.
Synth and Techno fun from APB, Kissing The Pink, Human League, Blancmange and Heaven 17.
A slower set with tunes from Camper Van Beethoven, Moonpools And Caterpillars, Pell Mell and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Ending the show with some alt-jazz fun from Mr.Scruff, Us3 and United Future Organization.
Starting the 250th episode with some pulsing pop from Producers, Police, Squeeze, and Pretenders.
Getting all talkative with a high word-per-song set. Ditties from DNA and Suzanne Vega, Primitive Radio Gods, REM and The Jim Carrol Band.
Burbly synth pieces from Chameleons, Ministry, New Order and Modern English in this set.
It doesn't rain in LA in the Summer, but it does in this set with songs from The Beloved, Wang Chung, Blue Nile and Simple Minds.
Getting all mental and odd in this set with interesting selections from The Eels, Flying Lizards and Bauhaus.
Ending the show with some ambient style tidbits from The Orb, William Orbit and Amon Tobin.
Starting the show with some fast tempo, upbeat, fun, with Killing Joke, Bow Wow Wow, Tones on Tail and Spandau Ballet.
Still keeping it uptempo, but a slightly different style with songs from Boom Crash Opera, Smashing Pumpkins, Concrete Blonde, Juliana Hatfield and The Lemonheads.
Changing styles once again with tunes from XTC, English Beat, Robert Palmer, David Bowie and Buggles.
Happy Christmas! I got a Killing Jar. We also have some ditties from Haircut 100, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Moonpools And Caterpillars, Christmas and Altered Images.
Slowing it down with some emo-like songs done before emo was a phrase, with Nik Kershaw, The Cure, Tears For Fears and The Smiths.
Ending the show with some Lounge music. Grab a martini, put on your smoking jacket, and enjoy! Songs from Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme, Jaywalkers, Pizzicato Five, King Kooba and Combustable Edison.
Starting the show with something you (probably) know, with songs from Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, INXS and Psychedelic Furs.
What is missing in this set? It is what is in it, meaning two songs have Missing in them somewhere. Thomas Dolby, Simple Minds, Missing Persons and Split Enz are in this set.
Some upbeat techno fun in this set, or I might be lying. Songs from Kissing The Pink, B-52s, Thompson Twins and Heaven 17.
Going dark in this set, kind of, with Flock Of Seagulls, OMD, Blancmange and New Order.
On the road in our hotrod with a musical travelog, with Bishop Allen, Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, Sugarplastic, Figurines, and Wall Of Voodoo.
Ending the show with a Paisley Park pickem. Prince, Wendy And Lisa, Sheila E, and The Family.
Starting the show with some music for cool cats from Joe Jackson, XTC, Violent Femmes, Cue and Squeeze.