Rock & Roll Lounge

All-vinyl music hour selected fresh each week from the collections of DJ El Destructo & DJ Dada. Loosely orbiting the planet of rock & roll from all decades and locales, primitive or polished, underground or overgrown, crackles, pops, scratches and all.

Past Episodes

  • Rock & Roll Lounge 05.06.25 Aired: Tuesday, May 6, 2025

    Episode 49 -- we're following the footprints backward to CLEVO and the late great David Thomas. We'll hear from Rocket From the Tombs/Peter Laughner/Dead Boys/DEVO/and lots of Pere Ubu. 60 minutes over rust belt skies -- we have the records, you have the technology. Sonic reducers, shrivel up!

  • Rock & Roll Lounge 04.29.25 Aired: Tuesday, April 29, 2025

    Electra glide in blue, grab bag swag and crystal crunk records to get down to -- Padlock, Parliament and thee Ohio Players. Bootsy, Bohannon and Wuf Ticket -- Dada & Destructo dig deep for the stickiest numbers that somehow still don't skip. Magik/obscure but irresistible grooves -*- cant get enough

  • Rock & Roll Lounge 04.29.2025 Aired: Tuesday, April 29, 2025

    Electra glide in blue, grab bag swag and crystal crunk records to get down to -- Padlock, Parliament and thee Ohio Players. Bootsy, Bohannon and Wuf Ticket -- Dada & Destructo dig deep for the stickiest numbers that somehow still don't skip. Magik/obscure but irresistible grooves -*- cant get enough

  • Rock & Roll Lounge 04.22.25 Aired: Tuesday, April 22, 2025

    Do you remember Rock & Roll Radio? It's every Tuesday night on WAYO. The gods must have been crazy giving us Iggy Pop and John Waters on the same day--but we play birthday tributes to both and more... Jump in and roll around with us for an hour of sick records from years past as well as future classics. RNR royalty from Queen Bitch to Little Miss Queen of the Darkness, the Kingsmen and The Pharaos! Stuck in an elevator on the 13th Floor and hollering for more more more

  • Rock & Roll Lounge 04.16.25 Aired: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

    We're 45 episodes in and busting out an hour of 45rpm records to celebrate. You'll hear from Rochester rockers past and present, international unknowns, scuffed up singles, Blondie goes reggae, garage/soul/gospel AND more music to make your heart spin a little faster...
    Pictured is the legendary disc jockey Wink Martindale, who passed away yesterday at the age of 91

  • Rock & Roll Lounge 04.08.25 Aired: Tuesday, April 8, 2025

    Wreckless crazy music on this weeks show -- in the spirit of the recently real gone Clem Burke let's all plan to stay wild and free. Bang your gong along with Blondie/Iggy/Bohannon/DAF & more. Obscure sounds always worm their way onto the show, this time it's the freak king Bill Laswell, mysterious meditations from SPIRIT, and let's see what Clint Eastwood & General Saint have up their greensleeves.

  • Rock & Roll Lounge 04.01.25 Aired: Tuesday, April 1, 2025

    April Fools 2025 A.D. This week we hear early rock & roll, sweet rhythm and blues, jazzed out mood music and funky soul-fried classics. Party on to the drum beat of Sandy Nelson, do the dog with Rufus Thomas, take a slow boat to china with Fats Domino and shake it with Wanda Jackson. Turn on your love light and turn up you radio...

  • Rock & Roll Lounge 03.25.25 Aired: Tuesday, March 25, 2025

    DJ Dada demolition derby week -- digging into his Trashcan in Reel Time to play records by rochester punks from yrs past the Quitters and the Narcs.... debut appearances on the show from the Fugees and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.... and saving the last 17:30 for the masterpiece known as SISTER RAY. Whip it on me Jim it's the Rock & Roll Lounge []-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]

  • Rock & Roll Lounge 03.18.25 Aired: Tuesday, March 18, 2025

    Rock & Roll Lounge jets away on a spring break tour of The Bahamas with King Eric & His Big Bamboo Knights, Jamaica with Bryron Lee & The Dragonaires, & Trinidad with the steel drum sounds of the Desperadoes. Then on to farther flung exotica locales with Martin Denny, The Kilama Hawaiians, Claudio Villa, Aris San, Astrid Gilberto, and much more. Take a vacation from your hectic grind and let these tunes transport you to some enchanted isle...

  • Rock & Roll Lounge 03.11.25 Aired: Tuesday, March 11, 2025

    Electric kool aid tangerine dream cuts, Obscure European dance floor bangers, Chinese choppers, Film score interludes, Brian James tribute, and KRAFTWERK.

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