Place That Tune

This Battleship is going down and we travel to Beirut for the latest on the port explosion.

It's easy to get your mind blown in The Carolinas. Especially if you are not nude on the beach. Fun James Taylor would want you to listen to this podcast.

As the tear gas continues to fall like rain in the Rose City, top DHS cop Chad Wolf makes it Everclear where his baked good loyalties lie.

We love L.A., but not enough to go there right now. Plus, Randy Newman lives up to his first name.

We say farewell to Seattle's short-lived CHOP and hello to the thousands of souls that used to be in the band Butt Trumpet.

6 became 8 became who knows how many and the Great Pumpkin encouraged us all to bury our heads in the Tulsa sand. We're all feeling Haggard lately.

Whoa Nelly! Atlanta is burning and for good reason.

Lucinda Williams had a love affair with Minneapolis and we are washing the sheets. Nazi punks need not apply.

Paul "Bear" Vasquez has left Mariposa, CA and followed his double rainbow into the sky and we talk to Tarrek from Peach Tree Rascals about their song Mariposa.

The surf and lyrics are always high in Huntington Beach. Just don't dig in the sand around the pier or close down the non-essential businesses.

Jay and Erik have found their London Calling, yet Clash over the river of death and Underground etiquette.

mackin and Erik revisit China and the height of David Bowie's shoulders in the mid-1980's.

mackin and new cohost Erik McLaren unmask PTT season 2 with a frank discussion about the Brothers Doobie and China. The country, not the dinnerware.

A Flock of Seagulls and their hair take center stage as mackin and Kody travel to the Empire formerly known as The Persian. RIP Neil Peart.

Zion is placed while Kody and Jay debate the merits of Matisyahu's Happy Hanukkah. Happy Holidays, wherever you may be.

Is Mele Kalikimaka the anti-White Christmas anthem? Bonus fun: take a drink every time Kody mispronounces "Bing Crosby."

Take a break from all of your retail therapy as mackin and Kody travel to many towns named Snow and find out which actor was excluded from the cast of the movie White Christmas because he got too friendly with a talking mule.

We take Adam Sandler's hand and journey to the southeastern corner of Europe. mackin and Kody get stuffed with information and Thanksgivingness.

Genders bend and blood is spilled as Jay and Kody trans-port you to the distant land of Transylvania and Sweet Transvestite from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Elton John may have phoned it in on this one, but we didn't. mackin and Kody make a quick Brexit and debate just how sticky the Queen's back may or may not be.

mackin is heading to Boston next week and needs some background info on Beantown. Click in and drink up some Dirty Water with The Standells.

You can't impeach the rich history of Ukraine as Jay and Kody fly Back to the USSR.

The Boss turned 70 this week so Jay and Kody traveled to Springsteen's old stomping grounds to review one of his earliest works.

mackin and Kody travel to the tiny backwards burg of Johnstown, PA. JT is mackin's birthplace and the memories come flooding in as "When You're Gone," by Trevy is Famous, is reviewed.

The B-52's are where it's at. How much is that sovereign country in the window?

If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. We are making you a podcast that you can't refuse.

On this inaugural episode of Place That Tune, we learn about hosts mackin and Kody, and the song Portland, Oregon by Jack White and Loretta Lynn.