Dan's Bike Rides: Recent Episodes
Dan Urlick
The Bike Rides Radio Show is a weekly, one hour, locally produced variety program that airs on KMSU independent public radio in Mankato, Minnesota. Bike Rides is at times whimsical and other times sharp, featuring music and conversation that flows together nicely like a summer bicycle ride through the countryside.
Dan tries to bring the BikeRides Show into relevancy by playing 30 minutes of new music, then follows that up with another irrelevant half-hour of music - baby steps, right? Included: The Sugar Cubes; Courtney Barnett x 2; Kevin Morby x 2; Allison Russell x2; Jorma Kaukonen; Bleachers; Glen Hansard; Gary Hansard
s RAGBRA 2026! Team Strange Brew is the Bike Rides programmer for the day, and did these wild and hearty riders ever pick an amazing soundtrack for the occasion. Included: Waylon Jennings; Waylon Jennings (again); Greg Brown; David Allen Coe; Johnny Jenkins; AC/DC; Luna Chicks; Cream; Kana Jambe; Pogues; Django Reinhardt; Jesus Lizard; Suzuki; George McGill
in the title, lyrics and/or as artist, and a surprisingly good mix comes out of it all. Included: The Bicycles; The Black Crows (shhhhhhh.......it); Bamboo; Robert Palmer; Tessa Belifante; George Michael; Etta James; Charley Pride; The Ramones; The Answer; Burton Cummings; The Goo Goo Dolls with Elmo
Brian Stoner; Bob Dylan; Timothy Gurshin; David Wright; The Guy Who Sings Songs About Cities; Bob Dylan (again); Pat Ventura; Tinder Box; Sioux Falls (the band); Midnite Express; Brian Stoner (again) w/Verdell Primeaux
s Spring Pledge Drive and the guys go live in what turns out to be a bit of a bumpy ride, technically speaking. But (spoiler alert) everything works out in the end when a matching grant from Key City Bikes is met and then surpassed. Included: Prince; Bee Balm Fields; The Belfast Cowboys; Sting Ray; Carrallee; Leo Kottke; Bob Dylan; Ben Scruggs; Mark Olson/Gary Louris.
s ride that uses the whole trail and occasionally leaves it. Included: The Grateful Cat; Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies; Kevin Ayers; Kasey Chambers; Gorillas (featuring The Sparks); Charlie Chaplin Featuring Bob Dylan; White Stripes; Jonathon Richman; The Ruen Borothers; The Sparks (again)
the Guantanamo School of Medicine; Doug MacLeod; Grant Lee Buffalo; Emmy Lou Harris; Marianne Faithful; Jonathon Richman; Sunny Bill Glover; Crooked Fingers; Sparks; Amanda Shires w/ Rod Picott
Waddy Wachtel; Dead Man Winter; Brandi Carlile; Penny Pearce; Rusty Cage; Charlie Parr; Blind Melon; Taylor Goyette; Carol Channing; Screaming Queens Entertainment; Apple Sisters
ve ever heard! Hang on to your handlebars folks, this ride quickly leaves the comfort of the paved trail for the weeds and stays bumpy the rest of the way. Despite Dan making a critical and regrettable audio engineering mistake (Hank had to execute a wellness check on his distraught co-host after he went dark for a few days following the revelation), Charlie still sounds amazing!
s Dan and Hank navigating through a myriad of interesting genres and eras that make for a flowey ride this week. Included: Bill Callahan; Geese; Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; Magnolia Electric Company/Scout Niblett; Big Thief; Greg Brown; Carol King; Jade Bird; Tracy Chapman with The Muppets
Minneapolis loves bike rides and Bike Rides loves Minneapolis. Hank and Dan serve up a proper salute to the hearty city and shining state following one of the most difficult weeks in their collective histories. Included: Northern Lights; Greg Bikowski; Marc Skjervem; Wren; Chad Elliot; Billy Bragg; Tom MacDonald; Mick Flannery/Anais Mitchell; The Midnight Republic; Ben Grossup; Bruce Springsteen
s a difference) all hour. Included: Tino Drima; Alec Sullivan; Janelle; Troldhaugen; Bright Eyes; Tenacious D; Rush; Gary Numan; Flaming Lips; France Gall; Flight of the Conchords; Pink Floyd
Johnny; James McMurtry; Fiona Apple; Prank Williams; Joe Bonamassa; Ferron; Renee Christian; Joe Ely/Jimmy Dale Gilmore/Butch Hancock; Mike Munson; Allison Russell
s show as the guys parlay a darker playlist that reflects their golden expectations for 2026. Included: Small Hoop; Mary Chapin Carpenter; Joe Purdy; Onety-One; Ricki Lee Jones; Otis Redding; Carla Thomas; Scrawl; Ray Wily Hubbard; Counting Crows; Bad Moves; Dan Fogelberg; George Bailey
s the 2025 Christmas Ride from Hank and Dan. Included: Bobo; Diamond Rugs Aimee Man; Louden Wainwright III; Kevin Morby; Mountain of Joy; Dolly Parton; Noah Kahn; Kacey Musgraves; Grace J. Wall/Los Chicos Muertos; Ron Arsenault/Billy Steiner/Dave Pengra; Linus VanPelt. Not Included: Mariah Carey
This annual 4th of July in December ride always confuses the unfamiliar listeners. Tough $-h-*-T. Included; Joni Mitchell; Joe Purdy; Joe Purdy (again); Jeff Tweedy; Boy Genius; Iron and Wine; Elvis Costello; Attila Domos; Joni Mitchell (again)
Popes; The Felice Brothers; Patti Smith; Counting Crows; Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra; HOUR TWO; Catie Curtis; Elton John; John Batdorf; Allison Russell; Kevin Morby; HOUR THREE: An entire hour of Todd Snider; HOUR FOUR: An entire hour of John Mellencamp; HOUR FIVE: Elton John, Jordan Patterson; Steely Dan; Charlie Parr; John Prine/Iris DeMent; Heartless Bastards; The Shape of Walter
s got dog problems so Dan had to fill the void, even playing one song twice just to make it happen. I wonder if there are any messages in the music. Included: Paul McCartney; Counting Crows; Margo Clicker; Palmyra; Amanda Shires; Dutch Interior; Charlie Parr; Lucinda Williams; Drew Peterson; Talking Heads; Counting Crows (again).
n Awake; Siouxsie and the Banshees; Misfits; Kids on Bikes; Ryan Adams; Rosalie Cunningham; Ween; Rush; Fleetwood Mac
Dan's back from his solo vacation for another solo ride this week, as he describes a solo ride he took at Cuyuna Lakes, buy himself. Included: Ron Gallo; George Winston; Rush; Mark Knopfler; Neko Case; Frike; Tom Waits; The Silos; Courtney Barnett
It's a very special ride this week as the audience of AMPERS sister station KAXE joins the KMSU riders and listeners to celebrate the music of Grand Rapids Riverfest, on September 6th. Included: Alan Sparhawk,; Trampled by Turtles; Charlie Parr, Emily Parr; Jeremie Albino; Margo Price; Billy Strings; Low; Courtney Barnett
What starts as an innocent ride finds the guys stripped to the skivvies by the end; listen and find out how it got there. Included: Brett Horton; Wilco; Joe Purdy; Mildred Bailey; Renaissance; Noah Cyrus, ft. Bill Callahan; Steve Miller Band; Soccer Mommy; Wilco (again); The Brambel Patch; Jezus Wizard Spatula (you need to hear the last one)
Hank and Dan present another wide array of genre bending music, only fit for consumption by the deepest musical palette, even when that palette shows up in the form of a frog at the studio window. Included: Bicycle; David Bromberg; Black Rebel; Big Thief; Angel Olsen; Lucinda Williams; Charley Crockett; Los Chico Muertos; Zavior Rudd; The Backseat Lovers; Dead Man Winter
If you're one of those nocturnal freaks who doesn't finish a bike ride when the sun goes down, but begins one, this NIGHT-ride is for you. Featured: Front Street Remix; Dolly Pardon ft. Chris Stapleton; Charlie Crockett; Lucinda Williams; Ricky Lee Jones; Amos Lee; Some Nights Live on Forever; Tom Waits; J. Micheal Henderson; Allison Russell
Nothing funny about this week's ride, as the guys give voice to the victims of sexual assault. Featured: Kids on a Bike; Alanis Morissette; Taylor Swift; Lady Gaga; Ani Difranco; Fletcher; James McMurtry; HELL YEAH; Motorhead; Billy Morrison
Hank joins Dan for a tandem summer ride and they share a story about a bike crash Hank and his wife had recently. Included: Runner; Felice Brothers; Peter Mulvey; James McMurtry; Lana Del Ray, Feat Faher John Misty; Tegan and Sara; Bill Callahan with a host of others; Bright Eyes; Jack Savoriti; Drew Peterson; Allison Russell
It's Hank's birthday show and for some reason he felt the need to take his shirt off when he received Dan's present in his driveway. Hank picks almost all the songs this week and claims there may be a pattern to them, but Dan doesn't get it - or is he just LYING again?? Included: Sir Arthur Sullivan; Caravan; Allison Krause/Shawn Colvin/Jerry Douglas; The Room Full of Blues; James McMurtry; The Brads; Bugger Burns; Peter Frampton; Andrea Gibson; Jimmy Stewart
We're going loco for local this week on the ride. Included: Charlie Roth; Nate Boots; Mal Murphy; Watermelon Slush; Jeff Reinartz; Good Morning Bedlam; Mary Clare Stroh; Ben Scruggs; Nate Boots (again); Nate Boots (again!); Nate Boots (that's right, AGAIN!!)
It's the second official NO KINGS DAY in the good ol' US of A (the first originally called The Boston Tea Party) as the guys serve up a solid playlist for your protest ride. Included: Rock-A-Teens; Freddie McGregor; Elton John; Lucinda Williams; U2; Pat Benatar; Randy Newman; Beatles; ELO; Kings of Leon; Marillion; Tom Petty; Mary Gauthier
Another hodgepodge of misfits and rebel thinkers, some you know, some you don't on this week's ride. Included: Ilker Taaskin (told you, you wouldn't know them all); Bruce Springsteen; Taylor Swift (told you, you'd know some); Jeffry Foucault; Oasis; Kasey Chambers (again, you won't know them all); Jeff Buckley; Billy Joel (AGAIN, you'll know some!)
The ride finishes with a solemn Memorial Day set and begins with rather silly hosts being annoying, followed by another wide array of songs that finds Dan taking a step closer to playing country music. Included: Delyn Christian; Father John Misty (FJM); Valerie June; Peter Mulvey; Greg Brown; Kevin Morby; Sara Morris & Emily Haavik; Brett Horten; The Silver Jews; The United States Army Band; Brett Horton (NO! not THAT Brett Horton –– Hell no!)
Dan's lying his arse off while Hank piles on to the sizzling protest heap of songs and the both call Putin out on this week's random ride - this may be the last broadcast before the entire Bike Rides operation gets moved to El Salvador. John Prine; Pussy Riot; NOFX; Steve Earle & The Dukes; Grace J'Will; Lumineti Suns; Luminati Suns (again) w/Walk of the Earth; Janice Joplin; Bill Amesbury; Bright Eyes; Karmen
Hank and Dan play weird music and tell dumb bike riding stories, blah, blah B L A H, won't these two ever grow up?? Included: Bombedils; Roxy Music; Kevin Morby, Kevin Morby (again); Joe Purdy; Alabama Shakes; Felice Brothers
Dan rides solo and leads us to depths of his parents basement in 1980 while we hiss, pop and crackle to the ALL vinyl sounds of Pink Floyd; Rush; Toto; John Cougar; Joe Jackson; Styx; Police and Pink Floyd (again).
It's pledge drive 2025 and the guys are in perfect begging form, if not perfect radio form. Included: Boomtown Rats; Sparks; The Runaways; Joan Jett; a lot of discussion centered around Hank's colonoscopy just yesterday.
The guys serve up a veritable plethora of songs to choose from for this week's after-lunch ride. Included: Come Ride With Me; Nick Cave; Tom Waits; Rosa Lee Cunningham; Tom Rosenthal & Edith Whiskers; Chip Taylor; Drew Peterson; Lars Lillo and Loudon Wainwright III; Chappell Roan; Sass Jordan; Lucinda Williams
The boys are courting Canada to claim Minnesota as the 11th province, playing very ride-worthy deep Canadian tracks from names you've never heard. Included: Bif Naked; Tire Pump; Hemingway Corner; July Talk; Long John Baldry; Junkhouse; The Pursuit of Happiness; Spirit of the West; Bif Naked (again); Emma Albani; Amanda Marshall; Tom Green
It's the Charlie Parr playlist show! Hear what Charlie's been listening to lately straight from his own collection. Included: Mike Gangloff; J.R. Bohannon: Ava Mendoza: Richard Dawson; Dead Pioneers; Rob Cantor; Nate Boots; Jeff Parker ft. Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose & Josh Johnson; Kelby Clark; The Daily Norm
Another week, another bike ride with music and the boy's silly musings. Included: Rosalie Cunningham; The Felice Brothers; Tail Light Rebellion; D.D. Lang; Dear Tic; Longhorn Slim; Van Morrison; Blitzen Trapper; Kevin Morby; Andy Kaufman; Tony Clifton
After a series of speciality shows, the boys get back to their deep melodic roots with this enchanting musical journey, and also rehash Hank's worst bike crash ever. Featured: Loudon wainwright III; Skull Kid; Nathaniel Rateliff feat. Kevin Morby; Aretha Franklin; Courtney Barnett; Cary Morin; Will Sheff; Okkervile River feat. Brdget St. John and Tommy Mchugh; Vic Chestnutt; John Prine; Mason Jennings
Hank again indulges Dan's spectrumy obsession with lions, as the boys volley big cat tracks back and for the whole ride. Included: Pedro The Yellow Lion; K'naan; Skip Marley; Kate Bush; Neko Case; Magnolia Electric Company; Kevin Morby; Camille Saint-Saëns; The Tallest Man on Earth; The Bee Gees; Charlie Parr
THE CONFORMITY SHOW! Hank and Dan are disciplined by the FCC and have to make many programming concessions to stay on the air and out of jail. All songs on this ride have been filtered through the new FCC watchdog team and meet the new standards declared on day ONE. Sneaking one past the gate: Bright Eyes; Bruce Springsteen; Nick Cave; Mary Chapin Carpenter; Pink with the Indigo Girls; John Mellencamp; Louden Wainwright III; Little Steven; Crys Matthews; The XY People
As the CD age of music media technology winds down, and the BR studio now only hosts a single player that works most of the time, and another that fails most of the time, Dan feels compelled to lay down some tracks from his personal disc collection before it's too late. Included: Faces (feat. Rod the Bod); Sheryl (Urlick) Crow; Eagles (yeah, I know, but trust us on this one); Allison (Dan's new crush) Russell; Nick (you've never heard of him) Robberson; Elton (Gershwin Prize winning) John; Joe (it's NOT country I swear!) South; John (DON"T call me Cougar, PUNK!) Mellencamp
Happy BLUE Year! It's all songs that contain a reference to the color blue as the guys think perhaps the new administration might not live up to their supporters expectations. Inbluedes.. I mean INCLUDES tracks from Thelma Plum; Lucinda Williams; Joni Mitchell; First Aid Kit; Van Morrison; Ideal; Charlie Parr; Ella Fitz Gerald & Louis Armstrong; David Bromberg; The Rolling Stones; Magnolia Electric Company and David Gilmore.
It's the BikeRides annual Christmas Show with vague or direct references to the Taylor Swift of holidays sprinkled throughout the ride like tiny little red and green candies on a Christmas cookie. Included: Christine Kane; Felice Bros; There Will be Fireworks; Joan Baez; Dawes; Ricki Lee Jones; Ian Anderson; Nick Cave; Silver Jews (Hanks idea); Paul Simon; Kevin Bloody Wilson
Happy 4th of July in December! It's BikeRides annual twisted take on their favorite holiday. Obscure mentions of the summer holiday explode in beautiful songs throughout the ride like a fountain of colorful, brilliant fire in your ears. Included: Mae Simpson; Steve Earle; Laura Jane Grace; Fallout Boy; Roger Daltrey; Fire/Works; John Mellencamp; Gary Cleghorn; Michael Stanely; Cold Play; John Prine
Execute your warm-up stretches and pack a turkey sandwich, it's the annual Black Friday Longest Ride of the Year. Hank and Dan warm things up with a slew of deep tracks, then they review the entire classic Pink Floyd's Wall, the demo cuts; Under Construction. Later, Mark Conway and Jay Kiser join in studio to review their old band Homespun's basement tape recorded live at Austin's Loading Dock Lounge around 1982.
It's a therapeutic, Facebook Friend generated playlist this week on the ride after that thingy that happened on Tuesday. Included: George Harrison; Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood and Jeff Lyne together in one super band; Small Faces; Yusuf; Sam Cooke; Nick Drake; Pink Moon; Willie Dunn; The Shackletons; Frank Ocean; The Head & The Heart; The Beach Boys
It's the last day of Pledge Drive at KMSU so Hank and Dan go easy on the pressure to make a pledge and focus heavily on just playing the stupid music. Included: England Swings; Delany and Bonnie; John Batdorf; Loudon Wainwright III; Fleetwood Mac; Bob Dylan; Little Feat; Van Morrison; Amanda Shires
It's Fall Pledge Drive and you know what that means, Hank and Dan are begging, threatening, and promising anything to get some pledges for KMSU, the greatest little radio station in the area. PLUS, Halloweeny songs from Pancake Manor; 40 Watt Bulb; Nick Cave; Robbie See Hag Mangano; The Specials; and finally someone you've heard of, Jimmy Buffet.
Anyone who suggests this week's ride has an underlying message is simply reading their own agenda into it. Included: Taylor Swift (yeah, you heard me right); The Killers (just in time for halloween); Dan (the) Mangan, Eric (heavy) Burdon and the (heavier) Animals; Gossip (shhhhh...quiet karen!); Pete Seger (and the silver bullet band...jk!); Kyle (arts and) Craft; (susan b) Anthony D'amto; (don't you dare call them dixie...) Chicks
Hold on to the handlebars there's lot's of sharp turns in this week's random bike ride. Kimay Dawson; Kit Kildahl; City Mouse; Watermelon Slush; Silver Jews; Buffy Sainte Marie; Jesse Welles; Steppenwolf; Femina; Charlie Roth
It's a real $h1t $h0vv this week as the boys power their way through some technical difficulties in the last half of the ride that may be a little distracting to the unfamiliar listener. Anyway, the music is good at least. Included: Beach Boys; the Felice Brothers; Yes; Pete Townsend; Middle Brother; Nathaniel Rateliff; Jethro Tull; Marianne Faithful; Jesse Welles; John Hiatt; Miley Cyrus
The guys dish salacious details about the hot 70s era relationship between Tom Waits and Bette Midler. Also: Rosali Cunningham; Felice Brothers; Connor Oberst; Forty Watt Bulb (x2); The Dead Weather; Venessa Carlton
- Secure the scene 2. Call an ambulance 3. Assess the injuries It's time to put your First Aid training to the test as Dan and Hank discuss their recent, worst double bike crash ever in BikeRides history. Bike Crash related tracks forthcoming from La Lucura; Alasondro Alegre; Sun Room; Declan Murry Brown; Gracie Addison; The Coronets; John Linnell; The Tennessee Mafie Jug Band; Keith Cameron; Primitives.
A lot of sharp turns this week with some connections at the start of this whimsical, late summer ride. Included: Pravesh Sunker; Nick Cave; Robert Johnson; Miley Cyrus; Anna Tival; Elton John; Skull Kid; Willie Nelson.
ARTWORKS FESTIVAL! This week we sample a little taste of the music lineup for Artworks Festival 2024 this weekend in Austin. Included: Drew Peterson; Ben Scruggs; Whalen and the Willows; Nate Boots; The Shape of Walter.
It's the bicycle chain of songs this week; every song will somehow be related to the last until we tie the chain together at the end. Included: Modern Lovers; Amy Winehouse; Donny Hathaway; Ray Charles; Willie Nelson; Sheryl Crow; Aldus Huxley; Bernard Harris; Stevie Nicks; Car Seat Headrest; and back to Amy Winehouse again. See if you've got the musical chops to follow the chain.
Dan "plays from where he's at" on the ride this week, which is watching a Twins Game and dodging tornados. Included: Peter Wolf, Little Big Town, Dread Zeppelin, Captain Beefheart and more.
It's a Duets Special this week for Mothers Day weekend as Dan selects sets from mother/daughter or mother/son combos all hour. Included: The Judds, Lynda Carter and her daughter Jessica Altmun, plus Liza Minelli and Judy Garland along with a few no-names from the web.
Spring Pledge Drive brings the usual rider/listener targeted guilt trip from Hank and Dan, plus a salute to the late Revered Dan, legendary KMSU DJ from We Want the Air Waves, lost recently to cancer. John Prine, Jewels and the Polar Bears, Home Spun, Ian Hunter, Bob Seeger, and Sun Valley Gun Club all included. PLEASE MAKE A PLEDGE!
The ride begins with the latest hot, Praire Clamor release followed by an Americana set from Dan including fresh tracks from Charley Crockett, Amythyst Kiah and a beauty from a beauty; Allison Russell with 'Night Flyer.' Hank goes a little more traditional with deeper Tom Petty and John Prine. The ride winds down with the latest from Pink Floyd and Andriy Khlyvnyuk.
There's something v e r y peculiar about this week's ride. Other than that, it's a diverse playlist purge between Hank and Dan including such greats as Ron Arsenault, John Swift, Joni Mitchell, Anna Kendrick among others.
A dark, solo ride this week, custom made for 2 lonely empaths like me and you. Included: David (my name says it all) Gray, Jackson (not to be out-darked) Browne, Mary (my name doesn't sound anything like it's spelled) Gauthier, Tom (I died waaaay too young) Petty and David (I will dominate this show) Gray, again.
This 420th BikeRides Radio Show starts whacky but ends reflective. Included: The 14 year-old Linda Lindas, 70 year-old Lynda Carter, a dang near psychedelia track from Ruen Brothers, and a classic from Judy Collins.
Felice Brothers, Laura Marling, Bob Dylan, Rakateens, Dolly Pardon, Linda Ronstadt, Emmy Lou Harris, Snake the Crown and David HankFel... er... I mean HAKFELT make up this gentle night ride with few sharp turns.
Hank's back by popular demand and co-pilots a really diverse, for-pro-riders-only hour of music that includes deep bike tracks from Mark Langen, Louden W. III, Neko Case, and Hound Mouth, among other freaked out musicians that may throw you off your bike.
It's rider participation week on the BR show as Dan serves up obscure songs from artists you heard before but singing out of their genre or even their career path completely and it's up to the riders and listeners to figure out who they are. Get your pen and paper ready! Score 8 out of 8 and you'll be in the chosen company of the universes most elite rock Gods.
Take a soul melting ride on the coldest night of the winter with friends of the show Charlie Parr and Erik Koskinen, live, in studio, for some collaborative musical magic and more. This nearly 2 hour web version contains tons of extra dialogue not heard on the radio, and that always seems to be where the best stories emulate and incubate from. It's a special ride like no other, don't miss this one!
Take a soul melting ride on the coldest night of the winter with friends of the show Charlie Parr and Erik Koskinen, live, in studio for some collaborative musical magic and more. This nearly 2 hour web version contains tons of extra dialogue not heard on the radio, and that always seems to be where the best stories emulate and incubate from. It's a special ride like no other, don't miss this one!
Nothing to see here but your average January BikeRide on the the Radio. This week: Texas indie sounds from Joy Oladokun, a deeper classic from Ray Charles, a BR standard from Neko Case and an all out show stopper from Okkervil River that's literally about famous tracheotomies.
Cold Arse temps got you down? Flannel-up and enjoy a heart-warmin', January BikeRide on the Radio. A Ray Wylie Hubbard, in-your-facer starts things off followed by a rare, raw and rowdy, deep-ender from Riki Lee Jones, an obscure, instant BR classic from a true southern gentleman named Bishop Bullwinkle, and a sweet musical summons from the law firm of Dillard Hartford and Dillard.
A Lou Reed/Velvet Underground sandwich opens and closes the ride this week with a lot of diverse, juicy ingredients in between including a track from 70's English folkster, Sandy Denny, one from the all flannel sport'n indie band, Middle Brother Portland, and two slices of the ever tragically talented, Magnolia Electric Company.
It's that "time" of the year again; time for another New Year's ride!. Timely deep tracks from 80's 'B' lister, Joe Jackson, 'A 'lister Queen, the late-local Folkster Jerry Rau, Austin's own Gear Daddies and other cleverly selected songs from artists you may or may not know, referring to the concept of 'time.'
Join Dan and Hank as they curate carefully selected songs with a Christmas theme, no matter how vague the reference. Included: John Prine, Amos Lee, Yogi Yorgesson, Her, Tom Waits, and more.
Dan rides solo this week with on the trail less traveled with tracks from Chastity Brown, Ron Arsenault, Abba, Tom Petty and more.
Get your random ride on this week with a strange old Modern Lovers track, two from Courtney Barnett, Rod Cantore and more.
It's the annual 4th of July in December ride, with an extra weird twist that makes it unique to any other heretofore. Contributing artists include: Killers, The Accidentals, Grateful Dead and Van William. Wait, Van who??
BikeRides is LIVE for the annual Black Friday/Longest Ride (5 hour!) of the year! Join Hank and Dan for special programming which includes a rebroadcast of the FIRST ever episode of BikeRides ( 10 years ago, cringe!). Plus, a musical salute to Captain (Braylon Rayman) Ron and his passion for ships and boats.
It's a Tribute to the late, great KMSU Blues DJ, Mark (Marconi M. Milquetoast) Halverson as well as Neil Young day sponsor tip of the the hat set, with a poignant finish from Don McClean.
It's a whacky, big FATTY of a thank you this week as we celebrate a successful fall Pledge Drive while the host goes a little off the ship rails (do they even have rails?). Included: Recent Youtube '1,000 views club' inductee, Alec (tag 'm if you know 'm) Sullivan, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Merle Haggard, Bob (explains a lot) Marley, John Prine, Iris Dement and so much more because we 'can't stop the music.' Literally.
It's the annual tradition of Halloween/Pledge Drive, featuring some seriously messed up songs from Alice Cooper, T-Bone Burnett, The Cranberries, David Bowie and more. Thanks for your support!
It's the 2021 Fall Pledge Drive special two hour ride!! Join Hank and Dan as they first schmooze the listeners with charm, then try threatening, and finally resort to good old fashioned, dignity-defying begging for pledges of support toward KMSU, plus music and some wacked out commercials.
Join the ride this week as we start local and end international. Included: City Mouse, Nate Boots, Bee Balm Fields, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp and Johnny Cougar.
Adia Victoria, Neil Young, John Prine, The Felice Brothers, Hound Mouth, Amanda Shires and the High Women all join for an early fall ride.
It's all about milestones this week as Hank and Dan recount the last 400 episodes of BikeRides, on the show's 10th anniversary. Celebrating with us; Warren Zevon, Okkerville River, Amanda Shires, Loudon Wainwright III and more.
It's a REALLY different ride this week, as Tennessee native and rapid rising star EmiSunshine and her Manager join Dan and Hank for a leisurely ride, exploring the trails of Austin, Minnesota (SpamTown USA!) while describing her magical approach to making music, and offers us a glimpse of what life is like as a seasoned performer at the young age of just 17. After the ride, Emi joins in studio for a powerful personal performance, featuring her enchanting voice and custom ukulele, and of course all the riders and listeners get to tag along for this one-of-a-kind, captivating, BikeRides BIKEumentary! BONUS out-takes included for web listeners only!!
Dan's Mom posthumously co-hosts the Bike Rides Radio Show (yes, you read that correctly)
It's a special musical salute to Hank's grandson, Braylon (Captain Ron) and his passion for ships and boats. Included: Pete Seger, Tom Waits, Al Stewart, Bryan Ferry and of course the big freighter standard from old gray whiskers and heavy winter sweater wearing, Canadian Folk God himself, Gordon Lightfoot and the wreck of the EFG.
Dan guest hosts KMSU's Folk Scene Etc. program in honor of late host Bruce Davis; whom we recently lost to cancer. This is a two hour program that delves deep into Bruce's own material as a key contributor to many Folk bands over the decades, and the musical youtube posts created over the last year of his life..Every Bruce Davis/Folk Music friend or fan should enjoy this therapeutic presentation.