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Last show of the year! Thabks so much for listening to BBBSG all year. This last topic is Angels and Demons: songs that have to do with the heavenly and the hellish. Enjoy! Songs Played: God Shuffled His Feet – Crash Test Dummies Raise it Up – Florence + the Machine Bodhisattva – Steely Dan [...]

Regina Spektor, Anyone? Today’s show is all music by the lovely songstress who moved to New York with her family from Moscow at the age of nine. Though Spektor does the lyrcs for all her songs, she rarely ever writes them down. Though she never aspired to be a songwriter, music came naturally to Spektor. [...]

Have you ever heard a band name that totally misled you about the type of music they play? Well if you haven’t, this week you will on BBBSG! Mumford and Sons isn’t actually a family band and the Barenaked Ladies don’t have any ladies in the band… You’ll hear many more this show, so stay [...]

This week on BBBSG, you’ll hear a portion of my top 25 most played songs playlist. You’ll get to learn more about your favorite DJ and get some great tunes while that happens! Out of 3462 songs in my iTunes, there are 25 that put themselves above the rest as my most played. Stick around [...]

Almost a week ago, music lost one of its greatest influences. Earl Scruggs was the man who made the banjo popular and in his honor today’s “Bears. Beats. Battlestar Galactica.” is all about the banjo. Though sometimes used in modern country music, the banjo has been (pardon the pun) instrumental in making bluegrass music what [...]

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but this week’s Bears. BEATS. Battlestar Galactica. is all about given names. All of this week’s songs will mention names in them. So tell all the Kates, Amies, Janes, and Samsons that their song is on and relax with us for the next hour and [...]

This week’s Bears. BEATS. Battlestar Galactica. is looking at the silver screen! All our songs will be from movies, written for movies, or on the topic of movies. We’ll be playing songs from the Hunger Games, P.S. I Love You, Garden State, and more! Next Week’s Topic: “What’s your name again?” All of Next week’s [...]

There’s so much music in our world that we’re taking a world tour with 90 minutes of exclusively non-American artists. We’ll travel from France to Japan to New Zealand and make some other stops along the way. Next Show: “The Silver Screen.” Music in movies is a huge part of why we feel for the [...]

Air, Water, Earth, and Fire. We see them on a nearly daily basis and they are the elements that have shaped our world. So sit down and relax with music about the “four natural elements” for the next 90 minutes. “Bears. Beats. Battlestar Galactica.” promises you variety! Next week’s topic: “Around the World in 18 [...]

We’re all only human, so let’s acknowledge that on today’s Bears. Beats. Battlestar Galactica. The human condition is probably something we’ve all heard about, but not necessarily sung about, so we’re highlighting songs about being human. Stay tuned for tunes from The Pretenders, Goldfrapp, Jack Johnson, and many more. Next Week’s Topic: The “Four Natural [...]