Music Raygun

This week, Kirk and Paul discuss Rick James’ early career, rank all the songs on the “Purple Rain” soundtrack, and Kirk tries to extend his candy streak in the music trivia quiz.

This week, Kirk and Paul talk about New Romantic, the early-80s London club/fashion/music scene pioneered by Steve Strange, Rusty Egan and the Blitz Kids. What does and doesn’t count as New Romantic is up for debate, so don’t expect any hard answers but do expect some great music.

This week, Kirk and Paul talk about Don Lennon, Kirk challenges Paul to a laser round, and Kirk attempts to earn candy with a third consecutive win in the music trivia quiz.

This week, Kirk and Paul talk about all things Scottish in the world of music. The bands and artists in this episode all share Scottish origins in common (including several of Paul’s favorite acts of all time). This episode isn’t wee. It isn’t even not so wee. It’s friggin’ huge.

This week, Kirk and Paul talk recommendations and revelations, “Trading Card Corner” returns, and Kirk tries to extend his streak in the music trivia quiz.

This week, Kirk and Paul wrap of season seven of “Music Raygun” with B-side clips for the episodes “Dance V,” “College Rock,” “Music Videos 1979-81,” “Saxophone II,” “Off-Brand Picks II,” “Child Stars,” “Funk II,” “Julian Temple,” “Rebel Girls III” and “Neo Soul.”

This week, Kirk corrects himself for, like, the first time ever; Kirk's kids are cooler than Kirk (or Paul); Paul challenges Kirk to a laser round; and the never-ending music trivia quiz contest continues.

This week, Kirk and Paul serve up the first grab bag episode of “Music Raygun” since before the pandemic. That means there’s no theme this time, just 10 gracious videos that fit into no particular category other than that they’re wicked fun, and so is this episode.

This week, Kirks says some fun facts, then Paul corrects stupid things he said, shares a couple of hot takes and attempts to win his sixth consecutive round of the music trivia quiz.

This week, Kirk takes over and picks all the clips for an episode about Neo Soul from the ‘90s and early ‘00s. This is where Kirk lives, so get ready to dive deep.

This week, Kirk and Paul each rank all nine songs on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album, then Paul tries to stretch his music trivia quiz winning streak to an unprecedented six rounds in a row.

This week, Kirk and Paul revisit the “rebel girls” topic from the early days of the podcast, conceived originally to celebrate Liz Phair’s 50th birthday and named after Bikini Kill’s signature riot grrrl anthem, the theme and this episode are all about badass rock chicks and punk rock girls of the past 45 years or so. This one starts with Suzi “Leather Tuscadero” Quatro on “Happy Days” and ends with another visit from the recently viral tween neo riot grrrls The Linda Lindas, and there are plenty of other rebel girls between.

This week, Kirk and Paul are talking about the drummer documentary “Count Me In” on Netflix, Kirk tests Paul with a new game of “Laser Round,” and Paul goes for five wins in a row in the music trivia quiz.

This week, Kirk and Paul are talking about one of the great music video directors of the 1980s: Julien Temple, he who got started filming the Sex Pistols and went on to direct films such as “Absolute Beginners” and “Earth Girls Are Easy” made videos for ABC, Judas Priest, David Bowie, Jean-Michel Jarre, Sade, the Kinks, Janet Jackson, Johnny Gill, the English Beat and many more.

This week, Kirk and Paul are joined for the miniepisode by last week’s guest, Katie Willert. A fresh pack of 1991 ProSet Supersters MusiCards opens for the “Trading Card Corner” segment, then there’s a three-way contest in an expo mission of the music trivia quiz.

This week, Kirk and Paul are joined by Katie Willert to talk some more about funk music for the show’s second funk episode. This episode features funk and R&B from the ’70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and 2020s. There are TikTok trends and a drum lesson. Do you smell that? It’s this episode of “Music Raygun.”

This week, Kirk and Paul talk about being cool, Madonna song lengths, bowling alley music, "Behind the Music" and more.

This week, Kirk and Paul talk about music’s child stars. From toddlers to teens, from the 1950s to the present day, these are (some of) the kids who made great music, or at least made history with their music.

This week, Kirk and Paul talk about “Summer of Soul,” “This Is Pop,” John Mayer’s “Sob Rock” album, absolute pitch, Frankie Laine, Candy Dulfer, Kings X, UB40 and more. In the music trivia quiz, Paul tries to score his third consecutive win to earn him the big prize.

This week, Kirk and Paul talk about music people might be surprised to know they like in this sequel to the first “Off-Brand Picks” episode. For Kirk, that means music with guitars. For Paul, it means Indonesian folk music with guitars. Plus some other stuff too.