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Total Tobias

Sep 5, 2025 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

With John Tobias

Total Tobias is mostly newish indie rock in many of its’ forms while genre hopping, decade hopping and language hopping sometimes all in one song

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Sitting in for Dana K tonight.

Total Tobias
8:03 PM
The Cords - Fabulist
The Cords Fabulist N
The Cords Skep Wax Records 2025
8:05 PM
The Detroit Cobras - Bad Girl
The Detroit Cobras Bad Girl
Mink, Rat or Rabbit Third Man Records 1998

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8:08 PM
Hurry - When I'm With You
Hurry When I'm With You L
Guided Meditation Lame-O Records 2016
8:10 PM
Tuscadero - Mt. Pleasant
Tuscadero Mt. Pleasant
The Pink Album Rhino/Elektra 1993
8:16 PM
The Hives - Roll Out The Red Carpet
The Hives Roll Out The Red Carpet N
The Hives Forever Forever The Hives Play It Again Sam 2025
Yeah, it’s that easy.
8:18 PM
Spoon - Chateau Blues
Spoon Chateau Blues N
Chateau Blues - Single 2025
8:21 PM
Star Feminine Band - Mom'lo si waju
Star Feminine Band Mom'lo si waju N
Mom'lo si waju - Single 2025

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8:23 PM
Geese - 100 Horses
Geese 100 Horses N
Getting Killed Partisan / Play It Again Sam 2025
8:29 PM
Lava La Rue - easy come, easy go
Lava La Rue easy come, easy go N
easy come, easy go - Single BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 2025

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8:32 PM
The Paladins - Let's Buzz
The Paladins Let's Buzz
Let's Buzz! Alligator Records 1990
8:35 PM
Forth Wanderers - To Know Me/To Love Me
Forth Wanderers To Know Me/To Love Me N
The Longer This Goes On Sub Pop Records 2025

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8:38 PM
The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie
The Beths Straight Line Was a Lie N
Straight Line Was a Lie Anti/Epitaph 2025
8:44 PM
Pianosaurus - Love Is A Two-Way Street
Pianosaurus Love Is A Two-Way Street
Groovy Neighborhood Rounder 1987
8:46 PM
Cash Langdon - Magic Again
Cash Langdon Magic Again
Dogs Well Kept Secret 2025
8:49 PM
Lathe of Heaven - Exodus
Lathe of Heaven Exodus N
Aurora Sacred Bones Records 2025

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8:53 PM
Paper Jam - Polka Dot Girl
Paper Jam Polka Dot Girl N
This and That 7820967 Records DK2 2025
8:54 PM
Pickle Darling - Congratulations Champion
Pickle Darling Congratulations Champion N
Bots Father/Daughter Records 2025

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8:55 PM
Johnny Maraca & The Marockers - Bad Girl
Johnny Maraca & The Marockers Bad Girl
Little Heart Perennial / K Records 2025
9:01 PM
Andrew W.K. - Party Hard
Andrew W.K. Party Hard
I Get Wet Island Records 2001
9:04 PM
Lambrini Girls - Love
Lambrini Girls Love
Who Let The Dogs Out City Slang 2025
9:08 PM
2nd Grade - I Wanna Be On Your Mind
2nd Grade I Wanna Be On Your Mind L
Scheduled Explosions Double Double Whammy 2024
9:10 PM
English Teacher - Nearly Daffodils
English Teacher Nearly Daffodils
This Could Be Texas Universal-Island Records Ltd. 2024
9:16 PM
Wisp - Serpentine
Wisp Serpentine N
If Not Winter Music Soup/Interscope Records 2025

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9:19 PM
Novulent - soul ties
Novulent soul ties
VOL. 2 3828847 Records DK2 2024

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9:22 PM
Hannah Jadagu - Doing Now
Hannah Jadagu Doing Now N
Describe 2025
9:25 PM
The Molotovs - Today's Gonna Be Our Day
The Molotovs Today's Gonna Be Our Day N
Wasted on Youth Marshall Records 2026

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9:31 PM
Oasis - Headshrinker
Oasis Headshrinker
Some Might Say - EP Big Brother Recordings Ltd 1995

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9:36 PM
Wetsuit - Midwest Dream
Wetsuit Midwest Dream N
Midwest Dream - Single Substitute Scene Records 2025
9:39 PM
Westside Cowboy - Alright Alright Alright
Westside Cowboy Alright Alright Alright N
This Better Be Something Great - EP Heist or Hit x Nice Swan 2025
9:41 PM
Panic Shack - Personal Best
Panic Shack Personal Best N
Panic Shack Brace Yourself Records 2025

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9:46 PM
Coach Party - Do It For Love
Coach Party Do It For Love N
Do It For Love - Single Chess Club Records 2025
9:49 PM
Frankie & The Witch Fingers - Futurephobic
Frankie & The Witch Fingers Futurephobic
Data Doom RAS / Greenway 2023
9:53 PM
The Rondelles - Boy I Know
The Rondelles Boy I Know
In Your Face Teen-Beat 2008
9:54 PM
The Mysterines - Stray
The Mysterines Stray
Afraid of Tomorrows Virgin Music Central – Fiction Records 2024
9:58 PM
Teengenerate - Mess Me Up
Teengenerate Mess Me Up
Get Action! Crypt Records 1994
10:02 PM
Secret Postcards - Sunny
Secret Postcards Sunny
The Way Back - EP 5001124 Records DK 2024
10:05 PM
Jz Barrell - Girls In Raincoats
Jz Barrell Girls In Raincoats N
Don't Give Away Your Magic Hyperspace Records/Dupert Niles Music, BMI 2025
10:07 PM
Spiritual Cramp - Young Offenders
Spiritual Cramp Young Offenders N
RUDE Blue Grape Music Inc. 2025
10:09 PM
End It - Could You Love Me?
End It Could You Love Me? N
Wrong Side of Heaven Flatspot Records 2025

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10:13 PM
Chubby and the Gang - To be young
Chubby and the Gang To be young
And Then There Was... Flatspot Records 2024
10:17 PM
fanclubwallet - New Distraction
fanclubwallet New Distraction N
Living While Dying 2025
10:20 PM
Midlake - The Ghouls
Midlake The Ghouls N
A Bridge To Far 2025
10:24 PM
Cate Le Bon - About Time
Cate Le Bon About Time N
Michelangelo Dying Mexican Summer 2025
10:27 PM
The Homeless Gospel Choir - Tender Hearted Jellyfish Alien Boyfriend
The Homeless Gospel Choir Tender Hearted Jellyfish Alien Boyfriend
Fourth Dimension Intervention Don Giovanni Records 2022
10:31 PM
Bonny Doon - Long Wave
Bonny Doon Long Wave
Longwave Woodsist 2018
10:36 PM
Maura Weaver - Museum Glass
Maura Weaver Museum Glass N
Strange Devotion Feel It Records 2025
10:40 PM
The Besnard Lakes - Albatross
The Besnard Lakes Albatross
The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night (Bonus Track Version) Jagjaguwar 2010
10:47 PM
The Pooh Sticks - I'm In You
The Pooh Sticks I'm In You
The Great White Wonder Sympathy For The Record Industry 1990
Never learn not to love
Chat is archived.
John Tobias (host) 7:58:51 PM
Totla Tobias sitting in for Don't Back the Front tonight.
Alan Parsec 8:01:52 PM
Hello DJ John Tobias!
John Tobias (host) 8:02:29 PM
Hello Alan and the global masses.
Alan Parsec 8:02:52 PM
Bring on the Venn Diagram!!
Alan Parsec 8:03:42 PM
(and I'm OK with "Improper Sets" s well LOL)
John Tobias (host) 8:04:20 PM
check in later on that one
Alan Parsec 8:04:45 PM
Great way to start...!! The Cords!!
John Tobias (host) 8:05:20 PM
thanks, this sound will reappear throughout the night.
Alan Parsec 8:06:36 PM
:)))
Rob from Maryland 🦀 8:13:33 PM
Mt. Pleasant is nice. The neighborhood is great too!
Marcus Haupt 8:14:00 PM
Pinky Tuscadero: biker chick
Rob from Maryland 🦀 8:14:53 PM
Wasn't Suzi Quatro Leather Tuscadero?
Marcus Haupt 8:15:33 PM
Yes, Suzi was "Leather"
Rob from Maryland 🦀 8:15:41 PM
From Suzi Quatro's wiki "Following a recurring role as bass player Leather Tuscadero on the popular American sitcom Happy Days"
John Tobias (host) 8:15:44 PM
thanks, mentioned on air
Marcus Haupt 8:15:48 PM
Watch out for the Malachi Crunch!
Rob from Maryland 🦀 8:16:00 PM
Hi Marcus! Hi John!
Rob from Maryland 🦀 8:16:19 PM
And hi Alan
Marcus Haupt 8:16:22 PM
What up, Rob!
John Tobias (host) 8:17:10 PM
Malachi Crunch shoulda been a grunge band name
Marcus Haupt 8:17:41 PM
Hello John!
Rob from Maryland 🦀 8:17:41 PM
or an ice cream flavor?
John Tobias (host) 8:17:53 PM
true
Marcus Haupt 8:18:10 PM
OK, John, your show is making me think of "Bowling with Bedrock Barney" by the Dickies
John Tobias (host) 8:20:24 PM
Didn't see that coming, but I'll take it.
Alan Parsec 8:21:40 PM
Hey Rob! Hi !! Bird news here is that I haven't seen a wren all year...until two days ago, one at the back door, wouldn't leave...Weird!!!
Alan Parsec 8:22:11 PM
(Rob is a fellow birder)
John Tobias (host) 8:22:57 PM
So i gathered.
Rob from Maryland 🦀 8:25:15 PM
Alan, very cool! Good thing it didn't come inside
John Tobias (host) 8:37:59 PM
A bit Teenage Riot - am I, right?
Alan Parsec 8:42:44 PM
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Marcus Haupt 8:54:10 PM
I see they finally released the companion to "Polka Dot" (1982) by Bam-Bam
John Tobias (host) 8:54:47 PM
It's about time.
Marcus Haupt 9:00:15 PM
It's The Young Ones
Marcus Haupt 9:01:04 PM
BBC TV 1982, you called it John
John Tobias (host) 9:02:40 PM
wow, I'll do some googling when I go home.
Alan Parsec 9:06:50 PM
LG !! :))
David Shortell 9:12:51 PM
Suzi Quatro’s “Happy Days” character is in fact the subject of another track off that Tuscadero album: “Leather Idol”.
Marcus Haupt 9:14:29 PM
The album "This Could be Texas" reminds me of Big Black "Texas" (This is Texas)
John Tobias (host) 9:17:15 PM
DS, I'll have to check the lyrics
John Tobias (host) 9:17:29 PM
MH - I'll check that out, too.
David Shortell 9:17:47 PM
A band named themselves after that Ursula K. Le Guin novel? I never read it; only saw the 1980 PBS movie.
Marcus Haupt 9:18:53 PM
John, the only lyrics to "Texas" are "This is Texas" so they could be making a reference.
John Tobias (host) 9:19:15 PM
probably, MH
John Tobias (host) 9:19:33 PM
DS, that's going down a serious rabbit hole
TAndy 9:33:26 PM
Hey there
John Tobias (host) 9:34:51 PM
Hi, TAndy
David Shortell 9:35:27 PM
I remember one of the times I saw the Detroit Cobras, Greg Cartwright was playing guitar with them. The Hypos were scheduled to play Asbury Park’s Bond Street Basement last fall, until Hurricane Helene hit Greg’s hometown. They’ll be at Gonerfest in 3 weeks though.
TAndy 9:36:07 PM
Been tuned in since the start, loved the Geese and Novulent.
John Tobias (host) 9:36:46 PM
Your gig list puts me to shame. Lucky you.
John Tobias (host) 9:37:04 PM
Thanks TAndy.
John Tobias (host) 9:37:46 PM
Detroit Cobras have quite the live rep.
jimbooooo 9:43:23 PM
This is hawwwwwwwwwtttttt
John Tobias (host) 9:45:52 PM
Agreed
Colin 10:15:49 PM
this has been a ripper of a show!
John Tobias (host) 10:16:54 PM
thanks, mentioned on air
Rob from Maryland 🦀 10:29:04 PM
This Cate Le Bon song was good, and the perfect song to say good night to. We have enjoyed you show tonight, John, ty
John Tobias (host) 10:29:19 PM
Thanks Rob
Marcus Haupt 10:31:18 PM
A Bridge too Far is a great war movie (1977)
John Tobias (host) 10:31:52 PM
Yes, I remember it.
Greg Daley 10:35:32 PM
Great to hear Cate Le Bon. She is coming to Phila - union transfer - Jan 2026!!!!!
Bernadette Donohue 10:36:12 PM
glad u called out Midlake's "to" in a subtle way. Unless they meant "To 'Far'- which is not too far
John Tobias (host) 10:36:20 PM
I'll mentioned it on air. thanks
John Tobias (host) 10:37:32 PM
I probably pronounced it with a "too" , they went with "to."
Bernadette Donohue 10:38:15 PM
lol
John Tobias (host) 10:47:00 PM
Thanks for all the comments tonight everyone.
Marcus Haupt 10:48:28 PM
Thanks John!
John Tobias (host) 10:51:18 PM
Yup
TAndy 10:57:45 PM
Thanks for the show, John!
Alan Parsec 10:58:03 PM
Thank you John! Take care!
John Tobias (host) 11:07:06 PM
Thanks for listening as always. Had a fun time.