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.
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
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.
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...
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 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...
Electric kool aid tangerine dream cuts, Obscure European dance floor bangers, Chinese choppers, Film score interludes, Brian James tribute, and KRAFTWERK.
Lonely planet boys Destructo & Dada celebrate their 40th episode with a trip through the dusty southwest and beyond, records from the death valley and baja california, scratchy mexicano crooners, crazy cumbia, spaghetti n meatball westerns, unhinged angeleno rockers, mardi gras strollers, and the first known recording of Tequila! Kicking it all off with music from the dearly departed David Johansen & his Dolls, and ending up with the most american song ever written -- This Land Is Your Land as sung by Trini Lopez.
Our TRASHIEST episode ever::: DJ DADA goes full K-TEL mode with cheap novelty records that will have you crawling out of your skin and halfway up the walls, while DESTRUCTO brings the 50's gooners, 60's slop, and 70's punkers all on vinyl! We hear from Nervous Norvus, Tony Matola, Dee Dee Sharp, Duke Galaxy, Tiny Tim, and a cast of other characters you may never hear together in the same hour on any show except for the Rock & Roll Lounge all vinyl all the time and only on WAYO0O
Electric future shock therapy & post dance party decadence, one quarter of the way through the 21st century and still there aint no cure for love. This week's show takes a European detour by way of Nina Hagan in Berlin before the wall came down, Ivan Cattaneo after the fascists left Italy, Souxie & her notorious Banshees, Switzerlands mad scientists Yello, French synthpunk anarchists La Femme, and the sultry mediterranean sounds of Saada Bonaire. Back stateside you'll hear west coast pop-lockers ZAPP, David Byrne spinning his Catherine Wheel, and of course Lewis Reed.
The many moods of R&R Lounge -- songs of love & longing, lonesome towns and heartbreak hotels. Don't forget the French connection - from the late chanteuse Francoise Hardy to modern times with La Femme. Music sweet and strange from Robbie Basho and Joao Gilberto. Records to sit and watch as tears go by, and when they're all over you wonder to yourself, is that all there is?
