Rock Garden Tour

Rock Garden Tour 32: Good Night East River Bias! Good Night!

 

This week's rock and roll gardening podcast features a few bits and peaches from our debut episode on South Dakota Public Broadcasting. It's packed full of parody, irony, wise cracks about Sisseton, a tune about Meckling (hay capital of the universe) and more. If you're new to the show feel free to drop us a line. If you want to ask a question about gardening by all means go ahead, can't guarantee that we'll know the answer, can guarantee that we'll take a stab at it though. If you're old to the show, enjoy this week's Rock Garden Tour podcast and as always, keep it rural.

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Jeff Stewart Meets Wakonda - Book Meets Road

 

Last I heard, Jeff Stewart's Book Meets Road Tour was stalled out 60 miles outside of Davenport Iowa. Bad alternator. Lucky for us, as of last week his van was parked in Wakonda, SD. We caught up with him for some witty banter about double entendres, beets, and Mini Kiss. Learn more about his latest novel here. Learn more about his publishing company here. Learn more about Mini Kiss here. And make sure you listen in on our interview with Jeff Stewart next Sunday night during the Rock Garden Tour on South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Keep it rural.

This Week's Category: Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! That's the day, the big day, the day we've been waiting for, planning for, dreaming about. This Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! night (July 5), our humble rock and roll gardening show debuts on South Dakota Public Broadcasting from 10-11pm (Central). It's bonafide. We're hoping that our run on SDPB lasts for longer than a single week, but you never know, which is why we're going to spend the rest of this week celebrating, a round of slug repellent for the entire crew. In other news, we're not going to post this week's podcast until next Monday. We are going to post the show playlist though, right now.

M. Ward - Here Comes The Sun Again

Scott H. Biram - Draggin' Down The Line

Rock Plaza Central - We Are Full Of Light

Dinosaur Jr. - Over It

The Tallest Man On Earth - The Gardener

Cursive - Caveman

Foreign Born - That Old Sun

The National - Fake Empire

Abner Jay - I Wanna Job

Limes - Uptown

Passion Pit - Moth's Wings

Woods - Get Back

Pavement - Date w/IKEA

We All Have Hooks For Hands - The Man Trying To Outfox Us All

The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer

Johnny Cash - Country Trash

The Mountain Goats - The Only Thing I Know

Horse Feathers - Curs In The Weeds

Tonic - Flowerman

Join the Rock Garden Tour at this year's Sioux River Folk Fest!

 

We love goats. We love banjos. We love the Sioux River Folk Fest. Have a look at this year's line-up, not to mention the most righteous poster design by Eva Hofer (Senior Art Director with the corp. sponsor) and Liz Heeren (you know her as LeTwan over in Pest Control).

Rock Garden Tour 31: Angels and Dandelions

This week in the Rock Garden Tour podcast, it takes us a little time to find our topic, dabbling in bad rabbits, slug control, beer, we finally landed on Taraxacum officinale. Boom! Enjoy this week's podcast and as always, keep it rural.

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This Week's Category: Which Came First - Hakuna Matata Or Arrivederci?

We pulled out all of the stops last night on the original rock and roll garden show. We talked about the circle of life. We interviewed some band camp kids that just happened to walk by the studio. And we decided once and for all if the dandelion is gardener friend or gardener foe. Stay tuned for the podcast. 

The show also featured some most righteous tracks from the likes of Cursive, Abner Jay and The Georgia Pot Lickers. Take a look at the playlist and keep it rural.

They Might Be Giants - Hello Radio

Coconut Records - Mama

They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng

Rock Plaza Central - We Are Full Of Light (At The Moment Of Our Most Needing)

Cursive - Caveman

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Family Band - Them Old Days Are Gone

The Georgia Pot Lickers - Up Jumped The Rabbit

The Thermals - My World

Phoenix - Lisztomania

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Fractions & Feelings

Abner Jay - I Wanna Job

Beirut - My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille

Drive-By Truckers - Let There Be Rock

Pink Mountaintops - Execution

Hezekiah Jones - Postpone

Woods - Get Back

The Dutchess And The Duke - Living This Lofe

Frank Black - If Your Poison Gets You

The Mountain Goats - The Mess Inside

Colt Cockers - Silver Scapes

Tonic - Flowerman

Rock Garden Tour 30: Appetite For Asparagus

This week's rock and roll gardening podcast enearths truths about asparagus, and growing asparagus, and stealing asparagus, and werewolves. The podcast also features an interview with regional artist Mary Groth, and Afternoon Records rock and roll band We All Have Hooks For Hands. Keep it rural.

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This Week's Category: Bio-Mass Murderer!

Listening back to last night's Rock Garden Tour, I'm not exactly sure how we jumped from asapragus growing to asparagus stealing to crossing werewolves with wiener dogs, but that's how it goes. The instudio audience seemed to enjoy it just fine, hopefully the out of studio audience did the same. Stay tuned for the podcast.

Last night's show featured plenty-o new music from the likes of Phoenix, The Pink Mountaintops, and more. Take a look at the playlist and keep it rural. 

Phoenix - Love Like A Sunset Part II

Pink Mountaintops - Execution

Elvis Costello - The Crooked Line

Coconut Records - Microphone

Los Campesinos! - It's Never That Easy Though, Is It?

Soulcrate/Hooks For Hands - Reflections

Phoenix - Lisztomania

Art Brut - The Passenger

Donays - Devil In His Heart

Old Crow Medicine Show - Lonesome Road Blues

Chin Up Chin Up - The Architect Has A Gun

Silkworm - Couldn't You Wait

The Magnetic Fields - Strange Powers

Fanfarlo - Harold T. Wilkins

Elk City - My Type Of Criminal

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Rush Apart

The Mountain Goats - Orange Ball Of Hate

Tonic - Flowerman

Rock Garden Tour 29: I PITY THE FU!BARB!

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This week's Rock Garden Tour podcast features less talk and more witty banter about everything except for this one vegetable that I'd rather not talk about. Actually its not that I'd rather not talk about it, it's that I'd rather can't talk about it. Maybe you should just listen to the podcast. This one features a most righteous track by John Vanderslice, by the way.

Thanks for visiting. Keep it rural.

This Week's Category: Brassica, Where The West Begins

Still trying to process what happened last night during the Rock Garden Tour. I'm going to run the tape back and see how it sounds. I'm hoping it sounds a lot different than I remember it, all except that bit about the hover fly, that one went pretty smooth. Last night's show featured some pumping tunes from the likes of Soulcrate/We All Have Hooks For Hands (combo deal), Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard, Tullycraft and more. Take a look at the playlist and keep it rural.

Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - Whistle Past The Graveyard

Elvis Costello - The Crooked Line

Carolyn Mark - Chantal And Leeroy

Todd Snider - Thin Wild Mercury

The Thermals - My World

War On Drugs - Buenos Aires Beach

Ra Ra Riot - Oh, La

Field Music - You're So Pretty

The Hold Steady - You Can Make Him Like You

Tullycraft - The Lonely Life Of A UFO Researcher

Soulcrate/We All Have Hooks For Hands - Reflections *I could have the wrong title here

Prescott Curlywolf - Gold In The Mud

John Vanderslice - Romanian Names

The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail

Johnny And The Moon - We played track #4 off of their debut release - I don't know the title to this one either.

Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - Bugs & Flowers

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Rush Apart

The Mountain Goats - Star Dusting

Jason Ringenberg - Last Of The Neon Cowboys

Tonic - Flowerman