"PURE Faves, 2025"

"PURE Faves, 2025" (broadcast 12/19/25)

Julee Cruise: Up In Flames
Mark Bingham: I Know Nothing
Robert Plant: I Never Will Marry
Chrissie Hynde: Love Letters (feat. Shirley Manson)
Waylon Jennings: Wrong Road Again
Gene Casey: It’s True
Hollie Cook: Take Me In Your Arms
Lola Young: Spiders
Lola Young: Messy
Emma Swift: The Resurrection Game
Tom Verlaine: Breakin’ In My Heart
Mickey Newbury: San Francisco Mabel Joy
Ashley Monroe: Bitter Swisher Sweet (w/Brittney Spencer)
Alison Krauss & Union Station: North Side Gal
Getdown Services: Dog Dribble
The Red Propellers: Can’t Un-Pull A Trigger
Harvey Mandel: Freak of Dawn
World Party: Ship Of Fools
Garbage: The Day That I Met God
Mozart Estate: Listening To Marmalade
Pictish Trail: Another Way
Marianne Nowottny: The Last Beat Of My Heart
Lera Lynn: Cherry Tree
David Bowie: Rebel Never Gets Old (Radio Mix)
Dub Pistols & Freestylers: Ska Train (feat. JA-13 & Derrick Morgan) 
Eek A Mouse: Roots Rock Reggae
The Rolling Stones: Shame, Shame, Shame
the Courettes: Christmas (I Can Hardly Wait) (2025 mix)
The Flashcubes: Reminisce
The Primevals Prairie Chain
James Hunter Six: Ain’t That A Trip (feat. Van Morrison)
So Good: I Rewrote The Fucking Bible
Motӧrhead & The Damned: Neat Neat Neat
Lagwagon: Rock 'N' Roll

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howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present

howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous people

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, the Star Spangles, the Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe and th’ Faith Healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President