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Welcome to Chasing the Essential, where we live for finding the greatest music there is, whether that means dusting off an album on your shelf or downloading a hot off the presses song on your phone. Great music is out there and it is our goal to find...

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Welcome to Chasing the Essential, where we live for finding the greatest music there is, whether that means dusting off an album on your shelf or downloading a hot off the presses song on your phone. Great music is out there and it is our goal to find it and share it with you.

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English


Episodes
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Episode 296: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 534 (Waste)

3/6/2026
"Excess ain't rebellion. You're drinkin' what they're selling," - CAKE Buzzcocks Queen Of The Scene Green Circles Dirty Taste Bleached Black I Was in Your Life Joe Jackson Precious Time The Tines Ozone Radish Falling And Leaving SERGIO CECCANTI WAITING FOR YOU IN A LONELY TOWN The Honeydogs Righteous Came the Stranger The Rentals Friends of P. Soul Coughing Circles CAKE Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle Homie feat. Rivers Cuomo American Girls Adele & The Chandeliers Treasure The Overtures YOU'VE BEEN GONE Jay Byham Just Keep Breathing 54-40 One Day in Your Life Gunbunnies My Favorite Waste of Time Marshall Crenshaw You’re My Favorite Waste of Time Nick Heyward Perfect Sunday Sun Nick Piunti Darken My Days

Duration:01:09:36

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Episode 295: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 533 (Cool)

2/28/2026
"Time waits for no one, then don't wait for me" - Magic Eight Ball The Weeklings 3 Spoon The Hardest Cut Velocity Girl Sorry Again The Tisburys The Anniversaries The Corner Laughers Dusking Superchunk Care Less The Glad Machine Baby It's You The Scruffs Rock 'N' Roll Heads The Stranglers 96 Tears KURT BAKER My Brave Face Splitsville Southern Hospitality Strange Witch Assholes Die Too The Gaslight Anthem Miles Davis & The Cool The Soundtrack Of Our Lives Blow My Cool Squeeze Cool For Cats The Go-Go's Cool Jerk John Doe Painting the Town Blue Spygenius Get Over Yourself The Real Numbers Sorry for the Mess Magic Eight Ball Russian Ballet (Русский балет) (Acoustic Session)

Duration:01:09:15

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Episode 294: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 532 (Tell)

2/21/2026
"Next time I see those troubled signs, I'll reach for your heart to get better" - 54-40 Chuck Prophet Tell Me Anything(Turn to Gold) Starbelly Yes, I Love Her Again Deathray Check It Over 54•40 Time Will Tell Potty Mouth Smash Hit The Bangles Tell Me Hayley and the Crushers Water On Glass The Beths Dying to Believe Pretenders Night In My Veins Hans Rotenberry & Brad Jones It Would Not Be Uncool The Throes Tell Joe Jackson Friday Odds Someone Who's Cool The Legal Matters It Doesn't Matter Tamar Berk Better off Meditating Cage The Elephant Trouble Matthew Sweet I Wanted To Tell You Winter Hours Tell Me Today Nada Surf Just Wait Kathleen Edwards Say Goodbye, Tell No One

Duration:01:12:59

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Episode 293: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 531 (Hooray)

2/14/2026
"They stood there laughing ... They're not laughing anymore" - The Call The Shazam Hooray for Me Joyce Manor I Used to Go to This Bar Green Circles Said It Would The Linda Lindas California Sun The Call The Walls Came Down (featuring Todd Rundgren) He's Dead Jim Everybody's Little Sister 54•40 Takes A Lot The Hives Hooray Hooray Hooray R.E.M. Cuyahoga Kathleen Edwards When The Truth Comes Out Djo Gap Tooth Smile The Junior League Until You Get It Right Art Brut Hooray! DOM MARIANI Just Can't Wait The Jack Rubies Boat Rocker Icecream Hands The Party Fade Out Todd Thibaud What May Come Ratboys Anywhere The Forty-Fives Never Gonna Leave Here Talking Heads I'm Not In Love

Duration:01:08:03

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Episode 292: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 530 (Gift)

2/6/2026
"Now you look at the clock, beg it to stop" - Ratboys Adam Schmitt Illiterature Todd Thibaud Your Little Pals Future Clouds and Radar The Copy Cat The Format Depressed Ratboys The World, So Madly The Humbugs Be Careful What You Wish For Maureens Doing Fine Oasis Hello Big Star When My Baby's Beside Me The Knack She Likes the Beat Freddy And The Fourgone Conclusions Little Purple Bird The Remains Don't Tell Me the Truth Gang Of Four Return The Gift Omni Common Mistakes Strange Witch Punched Out Lock KURT BAKER Undertow Afterglow The Jam Happy Together Parthenon Huxley Thank You Bethesda The Legal Matters Stuck With Me

Duration:01:05:40

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Episode 291: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 529 (Essential Classics "D")

1/31/2026
"But no one seems to hear the music, 'cause no one listens to the band anymore" - The Damnwells The Damnwells No One Listens to the Band Anymore The Dandy Warhols Bohemian Like You Deer Tick The Dream's In The Ditch The Donnas Take It Off Dreams So Real California The dB's Living a Lie Devo Uncontrollable Urge DM3 One times, Two Times Devastated Deadeye Dick New Age Girl (2021 Edition) Death By Unga Bunga Make up Your Mind [Explicit] Duran Duran Girls On Film (2010 Remastered Version) Dead Kennedys California Über Alles Divinyls Boys In Town The Decemberists Down By The Water Del Amitri Roll To Me Dada Dim The Del Fuegos Don't Run Wild The Dead Milkmen Punk Rock Girl Dramarama Work For Food The Dentists Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime)

Duration:01:10:10

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Episode 290: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 528 (Black & White)

1/24/2026
"We don't find each other hear now do we? - Janove Ottesen He's Dead Jim Living In Harmony The Lambrettas Cortina otter petter Toes Yeah Yeah Yeahs Sheena Is A Punk Rocker The Junior League Sunset Park The Ocean Blue Bitter Luxury Liners If I Cry Sugar If I Can't Change Your Mind The Waitresses Square Pegs Dramarama Scenario The Lovely Basement Small Fleas The Corner Laughers Rainbow Cardigan Jim Basnight See It In Your Eyes Mansfield Let's Stop Pretending Kris Santalla Uh Huh The Lodger Black And White Elvis Costello & The Attractions Black and White World The dB's Black and White Janove Ottesen Black and White Movie The Kinks Moving Pictures

Duration:01:05:16

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Episode 289: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 527 (Paper)

1/16/2026
"And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?" - Talking Heads Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime red skylark Sweat Off Your Soul The Honeydogs Irish Goodbye Hoodoo Gurus In The Wild Counting Crows Daylight Fading Seth Timbs You Don't Want To Go To The Dance Greg Freeman Gone (Can Mean A Lot of Things) The Shirts Boys Will Be Boys [Live] Joan Jett & The Blackhearts Be Straight The Clarks Better Off Without You Geese Cowboy Nudes The Jack Rubies Boat Rocker Men Without Hats In Glorious Days The Glad Machine Gravity Sunshine The Format Shot In The Dark The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound Real Estate Paper Dolls Marcy Playground Paper Dolls The Rosenbergs Paper And Plastic Tommy Keene Paper Words and Lies

Duration:01:07:00

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Episode 288: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 526 (Stuff 2025 B)

1/7/2026
"Can’t you see it’s getting late? My head’s on fire and it’s all ending" - The Tisbury's The Vapors Hit The Ground Running Splitsville I Hate Going to Hutzler's The Planes Tear the World Apart (MFLB Version) Chris Church I'm A Machine The Beths Straight Line Was A Lie DOM MARIANI World On Its Head The Jellybricks Dreaming In Stereo Push Puppets Shake It Like You Mean It Star Collector Everything Must Go! The Hives Roll Out The Red Carpet Franz Ferdinand Audacious Superchunk Stuck in a Dream Sloan Dream Destroyer The Autumn Hearts Distracted The Bablers Here I Come The Lemonheads Love Chant The Tisburys Water In The Clouds Jim Trainor Nothing The Peppermint Kicks Number One Record Ben Kweller Optimystic David Byrne Feat. Ghost Train Orchestra Everybody Laughs

Duration:01:11:26

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Episode 287: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 525 (Stuff 2025 A)

12/31/2025
"This is the part where it all works out, when you got no doubt who's your lucky number" - David Mead Caper Clowns Take A Number (Join The Line) The Glad Machine Back To You Liquid Mike Instantly Wasted Dropkick Primary Colours Icecream Hands Do Ya Feel It The Flashcubes and Mike Gent Reminisce Portugal. The Man Tanana GREG POPE Fallen Star Michigander Emotional David Mead Confidence Man Crossword Smiles Counting By Fives Fine China Television Set Bob Mould Here We Go Crazy The Backfires Matador Tamar Berk indiesleaze 2005 The Cords Fabulist Ryan Allen After I’m Dead Armchair Oracles Sudden Rain 20/20 Lucky Heart John Larson And The Silver Fields The Hits Keep Coming The Gypsy Moths Tell Me She's Alright

Duration:01:08:47

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Episode 286: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 524 (Christmas 25)

12/21/2025
" Though the years we all will be together, if the faits allow" - Ralph Blane Nick Piunti and the Complicated Men Christmas Morning Sunshine Boys I Love Christmastime Marcy Playground Keegan's Christmas The Hangabouts Colors of Christmas The Mighty Mighty Bosstones This Time Of Year The Boss Martians 3 Ghosts (A Modern Christmas Carol) Maple Mars Christmastime In the City Dance Hall Crashers I Did It For The Toys Frickin'A Merry Merry Merry Frickin' Christmas The Dollyrots Fairytale of New York The Kinks Father Christmas Old 97's Rudolph Was BluePayolas Christmas Is Coming Tommy And The Rockets Merry Christmas Matt Nathanson Donde Esta Santa Claus The Mavericks Christmas Time Is (Coming 'Round Again) The Cocktail Slippers Santa's Coming Home Sammy Rae Last Christmas Blaine Campbell and the California Sound Electroclaus Low Just Like Christmas Catie Cuirtis 2000 Miles Cliff Hillis Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Duration:01:09:36

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Episode 285: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 523 (Absolutely)

12/19/2025
"I Broke Into The Roller Rink, with My Jar Of India Ink" - Future Clouds and Radar The Format Holy Roller The Gold Needles I'll Take My Chances Future Clouds and Radar Brass Tacks Echo & The Bunnymen Bring On the Dancing Horses The Legal Matters Everybody Knows Jennifer Foster F*cking up the Friendship Go Dog Go I Don't Wanna The Connells Hats Off Jason & The Scorchers Absolutely Sweet Marie (Fervor / Lost & Found Version) John Larson And The Silver Fields Let's Get Lost (In a Carnival of Sorts) DOM MARIANI World On Its Head Strawberry Alarm Clock Blow Your Mind Andy Bopp The Taste of Her Tears The Jack Rubies Greedy Star Collector Queen Bed The Call Day or Night (Remastered) DM3 Too Late Owsley Got a Lot on My Head The Bangles Jet Fighter - (The Three O'Clock) Reno Bo Almost Alright (Single)

Duration:01:12:52

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Episode 284: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 522 (1982)

12/13/2025
"Dawn comes soon enough for the working class" - X R.E.M. Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars) XTC Ball And Chain X The Have Nots Adam Ant Friend Or Foe Translator When I Am With You The Jim Carroll Band Jealous Twin Lords of the New Church Russian Roulette Wall Of Voodoo Spy World The Jam Running On The Spot Human Sexual Response Marone Offering The Psychedelic Furs Run And Run Romeo Void Never Say Never Modern English Hands Across the Sea Haircut 100 Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) The Motels Art Fails The Church Almost With You The Go-Go's Beatnik Beach Marshall Crenshaw Rockin' Around In N.Y.C. The B-52's Nip It In The Bud The English Beat Save It For Later Ric Ocasek Jimmy Jimmy

Duration:01:18:52

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Episode 283: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 521 (Before and After)

12/5/2025
As the years go by, they take their toll on you. Think of all the things we wanted to do. - Bob Mould The Vapors Nothing Can Stop Us Now / Trains Elvis Costello Lip Service / Magnificent Hurt 20/20 Remember The Lightning / King Of The Whole Wide World Toad The Wet Sprocket Game Day / All I Want Nick Lowe Heart Of The City / Went to a Party Bob Mould When Your Heart Is Broken / See A Little Light The Connells Burden / Universal Glue The Chesterfield Kings She Told Me Lies / We're Still All The Same Modern English Crazy Lovers / Someone's Calling Crowded House Something So Strong /The Howl

Duration:01:06:03

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Episode 282: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 520 (HYPE)

11/28/2025
"Shining through the hollow today. Thinking maybe heavens away" - New Pornographers Future Clouds and Radar The Hype The Gold Needles Eleven Eleven GREG POPE Immovable Feast Hoodoo Gurus Miss Freelove '69 The New Pornographers Twin Cinema Ratboys Anywhere Dinosaur Jr Take A Run At The Sun The Cars Stranger Eyes Big Country Angle Park Bob Mould Star Machine COOPER Provisional The Replacements Waitress In The Sky The Stan Laurels Sanity Teenage Fanclub Ain't That Enough Ross Rice Another Time Icecream Hands Taxi Cab Kevin Robertson Silicone Sun Push Puppets Probably The Church Myrrh Ray Davies Thanksgiving Day

Duration:01:12:01

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Episode 281: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 519 (Essential Classics "T")

11/14/2025
"Looking at my watch and I'm half-past caring" - Trashcan Sinatras The Tubes Talk To Ya Later Ted Leo & The Pharmacists The Mighty Sparrow Tegan & Sara Speak Slow They Might Be Giants Your Racist Friend Tears For Fears Mad World Teenage Fanclub What You Do To Me The Three O'Clock I Go Wild Tripping Daisy I Got A Girl Toad The Wet Sprocket All I Want The Thrills Big Sur The Tragically Hip Poets Television See No Evil Translator UnAlone Too Much Joy Crush Story Tuns Mixed Messages Tinted Windows Kind Of A Girl Three Hour Tour Prancing Horse Farms The Telepathic Butterflies Sickly And The Awkward Gene Trashcan Sinatras Obscurity Knocks 'Til Tuesday Coming Up Close Talking Heads This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

Duration:01:15:53

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Episode 280: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 518 (Heart)

11/7/2025
"Funny thing about money for sex, you might get rich but you'll die by it" - Rilo Kiley Michigander Socialite The Glad Machine Back To You The Lemonheads Cell Phone Blues The Beat Feat. Ranking Roger Public Confidential Icecream Hands Leaving Nobody Out The Make Three Under My Skin GREG POPE Hours, Days and Years Robin Lane & The Chartbusters What The People Are Doing Midnight Oil Dream World The Peppermint Kicks Out Of The Trashcan Into Your Heart Aerial Cartoon Eyes, Cartoon Heart The Shang Hi Los Aces Eights and Heartbreaks Cretonix Lose Control Color Me Gone Lose Control The Sonny Wilsons Summer Rain Ryan Adams Summer Rain Hoodoo Gurus I Don't Mind Splitsville Fallsway Shoes Head Vs. Heart Rilo Kiley Close Call

Duration:01:08:24

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Episode 279: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 517 (Devil)

10/31/2025
"I heard it's modern to be stupid, you don't need to talk to look good" - Matt Pond PA The Rallies I Believe (promo) The Backfires Matador 999 Me and My Desire matt pond PA Halloween GREG POPE Worthy Son The Chevelles Over The Hold Steady Barely Breathing The Primitives Sick of It Shawn Mullins Beautiful Wreck The Throes All The Flowers Growing In Your Mother's Eyes The Gypsy Moths And You Know I Do Fine China Fraught With Danger Star Collector Shining Example Martha & The Muffins Paint By Number Heart @TheHalfCubes Go Back King's Road/Michael Carpenter Walk On The Romantics Devil In Me Three Hour Tour Devil You Know INXS Devil Inside Crossword Smiles Crossword Smiles - Black Cats & Broken Mirrors

Duration:01:16:51

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Episode 278: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 516 (Autumn )

10/24/2025
"Sit and try for the big kill, a waste of time sitting still" - REM GREG POPE Fallen Star The Planes Tear the World Apart (MFLB Version) The Autumn Hearts Mesmerise The Kinks Autumn Almanac Sloan Congratulations The Lemon Drop Gang Something Real Superchunk Some Green Kelly Jones Subway Song The B-52's 6060-842 The Peppermint Kicks Shangri La Flogging Molly The Days We've Yet To Meet Todd Thibaud What They Say Icecream Hands Do Ya Feel It The Lucky Shots For Tonight Pleasure Center Know When to Walk Away Oingo Boingo Who Do You Want To Be The Cords Rather Not Stay David Byrne Feat. Ghost Train Orchestra Don't Be Like That R.E.M. Sitting Still [Original Hib-Tone Single Version] Portugal. The Man Tanana

Duration:01:06:55

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Episode 277: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 515 (We're ...)

10/18/2025
"We're having much more fun, you don't know where we've gone" - X David Byrne Feat. Ghost Train Orchestra Everybody Laughs Armchair Oracles Sudden Rain Ben Kweller Commerce, TX The Format Tie The Rope Icecream Hands Here And Now The Wellingtons End of the World The Housemartins Get Up Off Our Knees The Glad Machine Caroline Meat Puppets Backwater Sloan Capitol Cooler Ben Kweller Optimystic The Format The Compromise Jim Trainor You Say You Dolph Chaney Girl From Germany Au Pairs Come Again The Beths Straight Line Was A Lie X We're Having Much More Fun The Anderson Council We're Like the Sun Matthew Sweet We're The Same Mark Mulcahy We're Not In Charleston Anymore

Duration:01:12:07