Dr. J
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Radio DJ since 1983. #YTAA Tuesday 3-6pm on WUDR since 2004 He/Him #BecauseMusic http://yourtuesdayafternoonalternative.com http://Listen.streamon.fm/wudr Support Local Music! #YTAA20
No YTAA this week as Mrs and Dr. J celebrate 25 years together. The Love Built in Ordinary Days yourtuesdayafternoonalternative.com/2026/08/03/t...
The Love Built in Ordinary Days
I’ll be taking a little break from the airwaves this week to celebrate something pretty special: 25 years of marriage to my favorite person. Twenty-five years. It’s a simple number, but it carries …
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The Replacements’ “Valentine” is heartbreak with the safety mechanisms ripped out. Paul Westerberg turns romantic damage into three-and-a-half minutes of beautiful, ragged desperation—the kind of song that makes you want to call somebody you absolutely shouldn’t. www.youtube.com/watch?v=69vV...
Valentine (2008 Remaster)
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"Fly Or Die" is not exactly subtle, and thank God for that. Sometimes rock music needs to stop contemplating its navel and yell at the sky. Trash Kickers sound like they understand hesitation is useful for crossing the street but terrible for rock and roll. www.youtube.com/watch?v=32U-...
Fly or Die
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Ratboys - "Anywhere" - Yes, we play your requests #YTAA #YesWePlayYourRequets youtu.be/KYUMoL9FrIA?...
Ratboys - "Anywhere" [Official Music Video]
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There are few phrases more desperate and hopeful than hear me out. It means: I know this sounds crazy, but give me three minutes before you walk away. Olive Vox understands the oldest bargain in music—give us your attention, and maybe we’ll give you something worth it www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9-G...
Olive Vox - Hear Me Out (Official Music Video)
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“Life You Didn’t Know” by Matt Derda and the High Watts is the kind of song that grabs you without making a big damn fuss about it—smart, warm, melodic, and impossible not to settle into because you are bouncing off the walls. This is why we listen to music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXOB...
'Life You Didn't Know' Music Video - Matt Derda & the High Watts
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If I Could is built around those words that have probably wrecked more lives than any four-letter obscenity: if I could. The fantasy of another version of yourself, another road, another chance. Son Volt understands sometimes the road behind you is louder than others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqBu...
If I Could
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Okay, ok, how many of us were singing along... come on. Be honest. The fantastic songwriter, Mr. Matt Moran - Tequila or Me youtu.be/KDU5uvRoXv8?...
Tequila or Me
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Wishful thinking gets a bad rap. Sometimes it’s denial. Sometimes it’s delusion. And sometimes it’s the only thing standing between you and the cold, hard fact that reality is boring. Laura Cantrell knows how to make longing sound like a reasonable place to live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i86R...
Wishful Thinking (2026 Remastered Version)
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We are playing 'Lose My Head' featuring Emily Wolfe - Lips Speak Louder Means Exactly What It Says yourtuesdayafternoonalternative.com/2026/07/28/l...
Lips Speak Louder Means Exactly What It Says
The Minneapolis rock duo Lips Speak Louder brings unapologetic energy, powerful songwriting, and a captivating sound that refuses to back down. In this interview, we discuss their album Consolation…
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Teenage Fanclub can make sunshine sound slightly melancholy, which is one of the great tricks of pop music. Happiness is never completely innocent once you’ve lived long enough to know it doesn’t last. Day In The Sun grabs a good moment anyway. Damn right. youtu.be/D6d_Fh91X5Y?...
Teenage Fanclub - Day In The Sun (Official Music Video)
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The Bankes Brothers understand the fundamental deal: if you want something real, sooner or later you have to risk something. “Risk It All.” #NewMusic #YourTuesdayAfternoonAlternative youtu.be/uMoPohFAxvE?...
The Bankes Brothers - Risk It All (Official Music Video)
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Every song that says “I’m Not Afraid” has to prove it. Fruition doesn’t just make the declaration—they give it some dirt under its fingernails. This is music about standing up while your knees are still shaking. Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s pressing play anyway. youtu.be/EB8PbY4CROM?...
Fruition - I’m Not Afraid (Super 8 Official Music Video)
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How are you doing today, Music Friends? I hope you're alright. As Mr. Farrar said: "May the wind take your troubles away."
Impossible Truth is one of those phrases that sounds like it should be carved into the side of a monument to human confusion. Truth is already difficult enough without making it impossible, but that’s the trick: the best songs don’t resolve contradiction. youtu.be/Zv1aJpTGu8U?...
Renny Conti - Impossible Truth (Official Music Video)
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Prisoner’s “La femme qui s’était faite toute seule” arrives with mystery intact. No translation necessary for the feeling—just surrender to the song. #FrenchMusic #YourTuesdayAfternoonAlternative www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqIl...
"La femme qui s’était faite toute seule" PRISONER (Official Music Video)
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The great thing about a song called “Understand” is that it immediately raises the possibility that understanding may be completely impossible. Soft Science leans into that beautiful contradiction. Sometimes music communicates precisely because the words—or the world—refuse. youtu.be/FpPFaSgA-2w?...
Understand
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Let’s Be Models sounds like somebody took the whole modern obsession with image, identity, and presentation and shook it until the loose change fell out. Brennan Wedl isn’t asking us to become perfect objects. She’s playing with the absurdity, which is much more interesting. youtu.be/hImlNAq9efE?...
Brennan Wedl - "Let's Be Models" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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Pete Yorn has always had a knack for making emotional complications sound deceptively simple. “Never Said No” carries that particular tension between wanting something and wondering whether wanting it was a terrible idea. Which, of course, is where most good songs live. youtu.be/R2eqOIjQSjY?...
Never Said No
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There’s something freeing about the idea of slow unlearning. We spend half our lives being taught what to want, what to fear, what to call beautiful, what to call noise—and then music comes along and says, “Forget all that.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXN6...
A Slow Unlearning
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Nobody does beautifully strange melancholy quite like Robyn Hitchcock. “Yesterday’s Rain” sounds like memory itself: familiar, slippery, slightly absurd, and impossible to hold onto. Hitchcock has spent decades proving sadness doesn’t have to sit quietly in a corner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rjS...
Robyn Hitchcock - Yesterday's Rain (Official Video)
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Jay Farrar has always understood that American music sounds best when somebody has kicked a hole in the floorboards and let the ghosts come crawling through. “Skeleton at the Feast” has that Son Volt thing: weathered, restless, road-worn, but never content to simply admire its own melancholy. Great!
Lemon Peel is the kind of title that makes me suspicious and then, five seconds into the song, makes me glad I was suspicious. There’s something tactile about it, like you can actually feel it. Megasound understands that music doesn’t need to announce its importance www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA4T...
Megasound - "Lemon Peel" (Official Music Video)
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