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I Call Her Name Host: Alex Piandes The Desperate Hour turns 20 - episodes, that is. This episode features tunes from the Woggles, the Honkeys, Thee Headcoatees, the Hipshakes and more scrap from the...

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I Call Her Name Host: Alex Piandes On the 19th episode of The Desperate Hour, Alex cleans house with a whole heap of unlabeled MP3s that he found in the music files of his PC. It’s all mixed in...

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I Call Her Name Host: Alex Piandes The 18th episode of The Desperate Hour features all tunes with girls’ names in the titles. Mary, Lorna, and a boatload of Lindas. Featuring tunes from the...

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More Host: Alex Piandes In the 17th episode of The Desperate Hour, Alex brings you more–no, not just tunes with “more” in the title, but more tunes about love gone bad, drugs and...

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Triple Thick - Live in Somerville, MA (September 24, 2004) This one comes courtesy of Alex Piandes of The Desperate Hour podcast! Boston’s legendary TRiPLE THiCK is captured live at the Abbey...

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By the Numbers Host: Alex Piandes For the sixteenth episode of The Desperate Hour, Alex does it by the numbers - all songs with numbers in the title. Counting up, counting down - all the tuneage that...

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All About You Host: Alex Piandes The 15th episode of The Desperate Hour is all about you. Yeah, you. And yours. All tunes with “You” in the title. Music with you in mind. Featuring...

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Slow and Sad, Pt. II (Slower, Sadder) Host: Alex Piandes Alex follows up the last episode of The Desperate Hour with 15 more slow and sorry slabs to aggravate your post-holiday depression. A perfect...

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Theme: Slow and Sad Host: Alex Piandes Welcome to the 13th Desperate Hour! In keeping with the spirit of the holiday season, Alex plays 18 of the most depressing or menacing tracks that he could...

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Host: Alex Piandes Once again Alex spans the ages and squeezes out another 57 minutes of soothing sounds for the demented featuring the likes of The Defectors, The Woggles, The Shimmys, and Boston...

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Host: Alex Piandes Alex kicks off the 11th episode of The Desperate Hour with something actually recorded and released in the current century, then serves up a helping of more recent stuff from the...

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Host: Alex Piandes In the 10th episode, Alex explores love and the resulting infidelity and pain that it often brings which is 99.999999% of what garage rock and R&B explores in the first place....

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Host: Alex Piandes What do The Sonics, Tampoffs, Black Clouds, Time Beings, Drusalee & The Dead, and Bobby Day & The Satellites have in common? Absolutely nothing, except that they’re...

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Host: Alex Piandes For the 8th episode of The Desperate Hour, Alex pays tribute to Joe Meek—even though he doesn’t actually articulate the tribute—and plays ’80s garage nuggets from The...

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Host: Alex Piandes Alex throws more slop & schlock than you could possibly handle in 59 minutes. Featured artists include The Wildebeests, The Kaisers, DMZ, The Seeds, and Connie Francis. Happy...

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Host: Alex Piandes The 6th episode of The Desperate Hour features all killah and no fillah, and no themes, either. It’ll be featuring yet another forgotten Top Tenner from a time when novelty...

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April Love Gone Bad! Host: Alex Piandes Spring has sprung and the 5th episode of The Desperate Hour celebrates April Love Gone Badnot just love that’s gone horribly wrong but love that is,...

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Host: Alex Piandes Alex presents the 4th episode of The Desperate Hour featuring a Standells B-side, a forgotten Del Shannon Top-Tenner, downloads from The Coachwhips and The Beatdowns and he pays...

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Host: Alex Piandes Hey Brian here. Yeah, so Alex throws together a bunch of tunes this mont’. No theme or nothin’ and all killah, no fillah he sez, includin’ some from places I...

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Host: Alex Piandes In episode #2 of The Desperate Hour, Alex explores crime and punishment with a dash of frustration, suicide, gang wars, plus a catfight thrown in for good measure. He runs the...

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