The Razor and Die Show

12/14/2025

Thomas Comerford Music
As heard on The Razor and Die Show

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Save the date, Chicago FB'ers. My rock n roll/r n b/garage rock group Glimmerwire -- featuring Matthew Cummings, Greg Hamilton and Erik Sowa -- will play the Montrose Saloon on 1/30, opening for local heroes Tijuana Hercules and Dorian Taj. 's gonna rock ... Glimmerwire also plans finally to record some tunes this winter ... to 8-track cassette! XOXO, T

12/13/2025

FYI
this is the proper song. I misidentified "Similar" as being the song about Louie. My apologies. Watch the video.

Chicago indie pop-rockers Push Puppets return with one of their most heartfelt tracks to date,…

12/12/2025

Playlist 12 /12 /2025
* local

The Stupids Rocknroll - Bring Me Down - The Stupids Rocknroll - 2007

Shake Some - So What - 2021 single

Thomas Comerford Music
*Thomas Comerford - The Kid - Reliquary EP - 2025 ep

The Spongetones
The Spongetones - Christmas Boy - The Very Best of Hi-Fi Christmas Party - 2024 various artists

The Jerrys
*The Jerrys - Kentucky Girl - 2025 single

*Gina Barcal - Whiskey Don't Fail Me Now - Midwest 'til The End - 2025

Numbers - Dancer - Numerology 1979-1982 - 2007 collection

The Charms - Gimme That Shot - Pussycat - 2005

Nervous Twitch
Nervous Twitch - Rolling With The Punches - The Day Job Gets In The Way - 2025

The Strawberry Alarm Clock
The Strawberry Alarm Clock - Blow Your Mind - 2025 single (upcoming album)

Shake Some Action!
Shake Some Action - I Don't Know Where She Goes - Chase The Light - 2024

PrettyBoy Chance - Dance With Me - Chasing The Sun - 2024

UniBoys - Down To The City - Buy This Now! - 2023

Groovie Ghoulies - The Lizard King - Monster Club - 2003

Paul Coady & The Edsel Brothers
*Paul Coady & The Edsel Brothers - Hey Baby Now - There Comes a Time - 2025

Expo '76
*Expo '76 - Music To Watch Girls By - Hot In the Dark - 2025 (The Bob Crewe Generation)

The Simple Carnival - Cocktails - Girls Aliens Food - 2008

Mike Skill - We Got Your Rock 'n' Roll - Skill... Mike Skill - 2021

Sour Ops
Sour Ops - Be My Secret - 2025 single

The Peppermint Kicks
The Peppermint Kicks - Gigantor - Pop Rocks In My Chewing Gum - 2025

The Jellybricks
The Jellybricks - Dreaming In Stereo - Dreaming In Stereo - 2025

Bur
*Bur - Hospital Popsicle - Snowy Chloe - 2025

Nick Frater Music
Nick Frater - My Heart's In Stereo - Oh Contraire! - 2025

*Elvis Brothers - Rock-a-Billy Christmas - The Very Best of Hi-Fi Christmas Party - 2024 various artists

Push Puppets
*Push Puppets - Similar - Tethered Together - 2025

The Beat From Palookaville - Burnt Toast and Black Coffee - Come Get Ur Lovin' - 2017

The Needmores
*The Needmores - Lookin' - Side X Side - 2025 ep (Detroit)

The Modbeats
The Modbeats - Rocking Chair - Ballad of a Starving Artist - 2025

The Grip Weeds
The Grip Weeds - Spinning the Wheel - Soul Bender - 2025

The Gold Needles
The Gold Needles - I'll Take My Chances - Mood Elevator - 2025

The Legal Matters
The Legal Matters - Everybody Knows - 2025 single

*Sketch Middle - Turtlenecks and Eggnog - The Very Best of Hi-Fi Christmas Party - 2024 various artists

Fat Dog - Peace Song - 2024 single

The Stripp - If You Want Me - 2025 single

The JAC - Summer Forever - 2025 single

The Hepburns
The Hepburns - Come The Warmer Months - Thing of Joy - 2025

The Webstirs
*The Webstirs - Reached An Understanding - High Up In The Trees - 2025

Autocamper - Dogsitting - What Do You Do All Day? - 2025

Librarians With Hickeys
Librarians With Hickeys - Gone Too Far - Make Something Happen: Tribute to The Flashcubes - 2025 various artists

Andrea Perry - Fat Aunt Bette - The Very Best of Hi-Fi Christmas Party - 2024 various artists

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12/06/2025

Campus Radio Rocks!

College Radio Keeps Its Cool

Against the odds, campus broadcasts remain a space of discovery, for students and listeners alike. Especially at KXLU in Los Angeles.

12/06/2025

Playlist 5 December 2025 Extended
*local

Steve Cropper - Thanks for the music!

Booker T. & the MG's - Hip Hug-Her - Hip Hug-Her - 1967 (request!) (with Steve Cropper)

Aretha Frankiin - See Saw - 1968 single
(with Steve Cropper)

Otis Redding - Groovin' Time - Love Man -1969 (with Steve Cropper)

Eddie Floyd - Yum Yum (I Want Some) - 1972 single (with Steve Cropper)

The Mar-Keys - Pop-Eye Stroll - Do The Pop-Eye - 1962 (with Steve Cropper)

The Gold Needles
The Gold Needles - Turns To Gold - Mood Elevator - 2025

The Webstirs
*The Webstirs - The Guy For You - High Up in the Trees - 2025

Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes- Rattlesnakes - 1984

Summer Cannibals - Go Home - Full Of It - 2016

The Jack Rubies
The Jack Rubies - Dead Man - Visions in the Bowling Alley - 2026

Manfred Mann - Just Like a Woman - 1966 single (request) (Bob Dylan)

John Fred And His Pl***oy Band - We Played Games - Permanently Stated - 1968

The Strangeloves - New Orleans - I Want Candy - 1965

NO TEARS
No Tears - Dreaming - Heart Shaped Eyes - 2023

Don Arbor - Lost - Hope Is Hard To Kill - 2025

The Successful Failures
The Successful Failures - Shooting Craps With Uncle Richie - Sun Studio Session - 2025 ep

The Gas House Gorillas - All She Wants To Do Is Rock - Five Gorillas Walk Into a Bar - 2008

Kim Lenz and the Jaguars - If You Don't Like My Peaches (Don't Shake My Tree) - The One and Only - 1999

Johnny Powers - Long Blonde Hair - Long Blonde Hair - 1992 collection on Norton Records

*The Shifties - Secrets- Take It All Back - 2025

Kerosene Stars
*Kerosene Stars - Ants In the Bathroom - 2024

Paws - Jellyfish - Cokefloat! - 2012

Farewell Captain
*Farewell Captain - Customary Charms - Amends - 2022

Black Cat Heart Attack
*Black Cat Heart Attack - Terminal Unease - A Rough Tongue - 2024

*Danimal Farm - Crawl - Perseverance Hotel - 2025

Su***de Romeo - Su***de Romeo - 1980

Phantom, Rocker & Slick - Hollywood Distractions -Phantom, Rocker & Slick - 1985

Remembering Justin Baren - thanks for the music!
*The Redwalls - Love Her - De Nova - 2005
*The Redwalls - Summer Romance - The Redwalls - 2007

45 Souls
*45 Souls - Lose - Scrapbook - 2025

SplitsvilleUSA
Splitsville - Southern Hospitality - Mobtown - 2025

*Dalek/Engam:The Blackstones - She Tells Me With Her Eyes - A Blast From The Cellar! (Lost Gems From the 60's Chicago Garage Rock Explosion) - 2025 various artists

Ohio Express - Come On Down Maryann - Mercy - 1969

Gnome Music
The Gnomes - I Like It - The Gnomes - 2025

Autoclave - Dr. Seuss - Teenbeat Fifty - 1993 various artists

Nervous Twitch
Nervous Twitch - The Man With His Head In the Sand - The Day Job Gets In the Way - 2025

The JAC - Summer Forever - 2025 single

Spooky Tooth - It's All About A Roundabout - To***co Road - 1971

John Baldry - Rock Me When He's Gone - It Ain't Easy - 1971 (Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

Rod Stewart - Stone Cold Sober - Atlantic Crossing - 1975 (with Steve Cropper)

Johnnie Taylor - Who's Making Love - Who's Making Love - 1968 (with Steve Cropper)

Wesley Hanna
Wesley Hanna - Behind The Pine Curtain - Magnolia - 2025

The Music Explosion - One Potato Two - Little Bit O'Soul - 1967

Good Rats - Fred Upstairs & Ginger Snappers - Tasty - 1978

Dubinski
Dubinski - Homesick - What Is Your Definition of Happiness? - 2025

Tom Kenny & The Hi-Seas - Welcome To The Working Class - Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes - various artists 2025

The Spongetones
The Spongetones - Help Me Janie Help! - The 40th Anniversary Concert...and Beyond - 2025

The Feelies - What Goes On - Only Life - 1988 - (Lou Reed/Velvet Underground)

Go Time
*Go Time! - No More Friends - Pop Aid 3: A Pop Compilaton To Benefit Those Affected by the California Wildfires - 2025 various artists

The OhNos
The OhNos - Desert Dreams - Waving From Hades - 2022

Strung Out - Solitaire - Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues - 1996

The James Hunter Six
The James Hunter Six - Here And Now - 2025 single

Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour - In the Midnight Hour - 1965 (with Steve Cropper)

JD McPherson
JD McPherson - Hey Skinny Santa! - Socks - 2018

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12/05/2025

Tomorrow's show is extended one hour so that's 4 to SEVEN! Spread the news!

11/29/2025

I hate that F@acebook limits how many bands I can tag at one time (in my Playlist posting)
So if your band doesn't get tagged right away... now you know!

11/28/2025

Playlist: 28 November 2025 (extended)
*local
FB won't let me tag everyone

The Fab Mods
The Fab Mods - The Paper Girl - The Girl Next Door - 2022

The Phobics
The Phobics - Get Your Act Together - Burnt Rubber - 2019

Fuzztones - Brand New Man - Buried Treasures - 2025 collection

THE JACKETS
The Jackets - Coco Loco - Intuition - 2024

The Headcoatees - Man Trap (Kyra vocal) - Man-Trap - 2025

Tom Russell - I Grew Up on Western Movies - Mount Olive - 2025

Dan Whitaker
*Dan Whitaker - Good Times Gone From the Past - Pullin' Up Stakes - 2025

45 Souls
*45 Souls - The Truth - Scrapbook - 2025

The Successful Failures
The Successful Failures - William D. Quinn - Sun Studio Session - 2025 ep

West Texas Exiles - Wind's Gonna Blow - 8000 Days - 2025

The Gold Needles
The Gold Needles - Eleven Eleven - Mood Elevator - 2025

The Satelliters - Hide Your Time - Where Do We Go? - 2007

The Monkees - Auntie's Municipal Court - The Birds, The Bees, & The Monkees - 1968

The Subsonics - Subway Pink - Subsonics - 2023

The Gruesomes
The Gruesomes - Lying And Crying - The Dimension of Fear - 2025

The Saints - Gasoline - 2025 single

The Rolling Stones - Back Street Girl - Flowers - 1967

The Chesterfield Kings - Live Life - Loose Ends: 1989-2004 - 2025 collection

Oblivians - Pinball King - Desperation - 2013

The Cowboys - Sugar In Your Shoe - Captain Easy's Downfall - 2025

The Len Price 3 - The Luckiest Guy Alive - Misty Medway Magick - 2025

The Legal Matters
*The Legal Matters - Everybody Knows - 2025 single (Michigan)

The Lemon Twigs
The Lemon Twigs - I've Got a Broken Heart - 2025 single

Mike Hollon Music
Mike Hollon - 1000 Days - Irving Park - 2025

Expo '76
*Expo '76 - A Certain Girl - Hot In The Dark - 2025 (Ernie K. Doe)

Golden Richards - The Band
*Golden Richards - Jenny On the Run - 2025 single

The Cleaners From Venus - Neverland For Now - Neverland For Now - 2025 ep

Onesie - Boys Keep Swinging - Sound & Vision: The Songs Of David Bowie - 2025 Various Artists Compilation (David Bowie)

The Jack Rubies
The Jack Rubies - Greedy - Visions In the Bowling Alley - 2026

Sour Ops
Sour Ops - All That Matters Now - 2025 single

Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps - 1980 single

Nervous Twitch
Nervous Twitch - The Day Job Gets In The Way - The Day Job Gets In The Way - 2025

Extra Arms
Ryan Allen And His Extra Arms - Time Stealer - One Week Off - 2025

Jeremy and The Harlequins
Jeremy & The Harlequins - More Than This - 2025 single

Wesley Hanna
Wesley Hanna - Timothy B. O'Hara - Magnolia - 2025

The Peppermint Kicks
The Peppermint Kicks - Number One Record - Pop Rocks In My Chewing Gum - 2025

McLuhan
*Neal Rosner/McLuhan - The Biker At The Park - 2025 single

Scott Collins - Silver Bullet - 2025 single

The Webstirs
*The Webstirs - Dancing In The Sky - High Up In The Trees - 2025

Wreckless Eric - Land Of The Faint At Heart - England Screaming - 2025

*The Artist Formally Known As Vince Band - Laser Beam Precision - On Display - 2011

The Artist Formally Known As Vince Band
Tonight at Live Wire

The Volcanics - Bingo - Bingo - 2025 ep

Joel Cusumano - Death-Wax Girl - Wax World - 2025

The Modbeats
The Modbeats - Hold Me Roll Me - Ballad Of a Starving Artist - 2025

The Dream Machine - Fort Porch Rock - Fort Porch Rock - 2025 ep

Smash Palace
Smash Palace - I'll Be There - 87 - 2025

Iggy Pop - Funhouse - The Idiot - 1977

The Dirty Turkeys - Soul Sugar - 2025 single

Balzy Tomorrow - Five Personalities - Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes - 2025 various artist compilation

The Nerves - When You Find Out - One Way Ticket - 2008 collection

Wyld Gooms - Thinkin' 'Bout You - 2023 single

Gnome Music
The Gnomes - You Won't Fool Me - The Gnomes - 2025

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11/28/2025

Just in! Today's show begins at 3pm!