Phantom power takes on a whole new meaning as an aspiring podcast host is visited by a poltergeist of sonic proportions -- his Shure SM58 microphone is possessed by malignant spirits who have unfinished business in the terrestrial realm. Will our valiant host and his rag-tag team of ghost hunters (a voluptuous vixen, a wise-cracking elder, and a talking dachshund) be able to entrap the ghost and save Halloween before trick-or-treaters knock on the door? Find out in this week's episode! TRACKLIST: Job's Daughters, Prophecy Of Daniel & John The Divine Blue Oyster Cult, Career of Evil The Monochrome Set, Love Zombie Roky Erikson, Two Headed Dog The Fall, I'm a Mummy Skeletonbreath            , Louise Hawkwind, Motorhead Goblin Daycare, Coup De Grace! Buck Owens, (It's a) Monster's Holiday Jimmy Friis & Valiants, Serpents & Spiders The Cramps, The Natives Are Restless The Seeds, Evil Hoodoo Grateful Dead, Werewolves of London

Barbenheimer! It's what all the kids are talking about. Does this episode have anything to do with the major-movie marketing event of the summer? No. But I'm trying to game the algorithm so just roll with it. TRACKLIST: The dBs, Big Brown Eyes The Anemic Boyfriends, Fake ID Brian Eno, Cindy Tells Me Washer, Afraid to Care Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, New England Silver Jews, People TV Star, Trigger Itch Travelling Wilburys, Handle With Care Felt, Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow Guided By Voices, Girls of Wild Strawberries @, Letters Shell of a Shell, My Wildfire Pardoner, Broadway Tom T. Hall, That's How I Got to Memphis Shop Assistants, All Day Long The Bevis Frond, Drowned Cream, Deserted Cities of the Heart

I love taking the bus -- who doesn't? Here's a bunch of songs about the bus that rock as much as riding the bus does! TRACKLIST The Guess Who, Bus Rider The Replacements, Kiss Me On the Bus The Fatima Mansions, Only Losers Take the Bus The Hollies, Bus Stop Thundercat, Bus These Streets Lou Reed, Busload of Faith The Count Five, Double Decker Bus Bruce Springsteen, Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street? Tin Machine, Bus Stop Pipe, The Metal Bus Secret Hate, Get on the Bus Tee Vee Repairmen, Bus Stop The Chats, Bus Money 18th Dye, Label Skeeter Davis, Bus Fare to Kentucky Casino Ashtrays, Bus to Vegas The Moldy Peaches, Greyhound Bus Lee Hazelwood and Ann-Margret, Greyhound Bus Depot Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Greyhound Bus The Who, Magic Bus

Bow to your sensei... you've entered the dojo of dueling guitar duets. An exercise in discipline, strength, fortitude. Do YOU have what it takes to shred with the masters? TRACKS: Lou Reed, Sweet Jane Mesh, Company Jeep Gary Numan, M.E. Naked Spot Dance, Secrets Maps and Atlases, Ted Zancha Thin Lizzy, Cowboy Song Circle Jerks, 86'd (Good as Gone) International Submarine Band, I Must Be Somebody Else You've Known Art Garfunkel, Down in the Willow Garden X-Ray Spex, Warrior at Woolworths The Handsome Family,Winnebago Skeletons John Berberian and The Rock East Ensemble, The Oud & the Fuzz (4/4) Love Tractor, Cutting Corners (Cultural

Show of hands: who here is excited for today’s episode of SFR? Don’t be show! I see you there in the back, don’t hold back raise your arm nice and high so we can all see! Wow so many of you are excited! Well, here you go! TRACKLIST: Mainly Spaniards, That's What Friends Are For The Mods, Spring Dance Strapping Fieldhands, Boo Hoo Hoo Wild Carnation, Dodger Blue Fuses, Sex Crimes Vomit Launch, Kill The Bouncer Polyrock, This Song Spelling Mistakes, Feels So Good Dos, Number Four Neil Young, For The Turnstiles Dinosaur Jr, Repulsion Pavement, Rain Ammunition Los Straightjackets, Crime Scene Dump, Superpowerless

Oh, how I wish I could tell you this is an episode about snails… but alas, sometimes even the divine music research skills that I have been endowed with (humbly and by god’s grace) fall short. Instead, this is almost a snail-themed episode, expanded with excellent tunes about the city of Philadelphia, playing the piano, domestic disagreements, potato heads, and the constrictiveness of the body. Please enjoy. TRACKLIST Atom and his Package , Philadelphia Green River, Ozzie Versing, Body Chamber Wares, Surrender Into Waiting Arms World of Pooh, Playing One's Own Piano Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Andy The Centurians, Latinia Silkworm, Cotton Girl Lee Hazelwood, I'm Glad I Never… Snail Mail, Pristine Robert Pollard and Doug Gillard, Slick as Snails Azalia Snail, St. Nowhere The Smashing Pumpkins, Snail Bjork, Crying

A musical spelling bee! Songs with spelling are just plain fun – using the elements of language as musical building blocks, both deconstructing syntax and phonemes while reconstructing sonic meaning. Or, you know, just having fun. TRACKLIST: Aretha Franklin, Respect Monochrome Set, B-I-D Spells Bid The Belles, Melvin Soursob, Gizmo The Modern Lovers, Girlfriend Pinch Points, Spelt Out Squire, B-A-B-Y Baby Love Stephen Malkmus, Troubbble Spowder, Spowder The Magnetic Fields, Washington D.C. Pixies, Velouria Eric's Trip, Cloudy Ween, Zoloft Idles, Danny Nedelko Cheekface, The Fringe The Coathangers, Wreckless Boy Helmet , Baby's Going Underground Bo Diddley, I'm A Man

Experience the flight of the mind to the lofty city in the clouds. Enjoy the view from the pristine ivory tower of noetic contemplation. Today’s episode of SFR is a modus tolens of philosophical tunes, from being-in-the-world to Plato’s cave through the labor theory of value to epistemic epoche. My worlds collide as I prove I am a jack of all trades – a middling radio host and a mediocre historian of philosophy. TRACKLIST Crack Cloud, The Philosopher's Calling The Jean Paul Sartre Experience, Flex The Scene Is Now, Sartre's Acid Trip The Cure, Killing An Arab L’Etranger, Today's Paper Chris Weisman, Socrates Marnie Stern, Plato's Fucked Up Cave The Mountain Goats, When Olympius Returns Socrates Drank the Conium, Distruction Rosa Luxemburg, Zai Chugokuteki Shonen Young Hegelians, House Kal Marks, Heads Been Ringing Trotsky Icepick, The Gaslight Angels of Epistemology, The Charm Lou Reed, Dime Store Mystery Parquet Courts , One Man No City Monty Python, Bruce’s Philosophers Song

Does ‘leisure’ rhyme with ‘pleasure’ or ‘seizure’? Does ‘cleave’ mean ‘to grab on’ or ‘to lop off’? Is language just a faint, futile facsimile of thought, imposing spurious structures on the inarticulable essence of being itself? Answers to these questions and more in this week’s episode of Stone Fruit Radio!   TRACKLIST Thin White Rope, Moonhead Cate Le Bon, Are You With Me Now? The Bards, Never Too Much Love My Dad Is Dead, Five Minutes wished bone, reasons The Verlaines, Take Good Care of It The Gories, There But for the Grace of God Go I Men I Trust, Lauren Slovenly, Muddy Puddle The Feelies, Sooner or Later Warehouse, Arbitrarium V The Waitresses, Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful Francis Bebey, The Coffee Cola Song Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Don't Bother Me

Remember Napoleon Dynamite? What a picture! This episode is inspired by that amazing film, starring Jon Heder (RIP). TRACKLIST: Foyer Red, Etc Double Happys, Anyone Else Would Elvis Presley, Help Me Make It Through the Night Television Personalities, Part Time Punks The White Stripes, Black Math David Crosby, What Are Their Names Phoebe Snow, All Over Aldous Harding, Zoo Eyes Beauty Pill, Lifeguard in Wintertime True West, Steps to the Door George McCrae, You Can Have It All Let's Active, Every Word Means No Ibex Clone, Hollow Tubes From Heaven 95 Bulls, Loud Mouth Dinosaur Jr, Pieces