Let It Roll

"Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.

Technoroll 10: Afrika Bambaataa Distils Electro and Hip-Hop Matures in the Recording Studio
Jun 2, 2025 – 45:54
Technoroll 9: Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, & Afrika Bambaataa Invent Hip-Hop
May 26, 2025 – 48:40
Technoroll 8: Before Hip-Hop Disco DJ's Like Grandmaster Flowers & DJ Hollywood Set the Stage
May 19, 2025 – 46:14
Technoroll 7: Hi-NRG Kept the Dance Going In the Early 80's
May 12, 2025 – 43:42
Technoroll 5: Disco Begins In New York
May 12, 2025 – 42:30
Technoroll 6: Disco Blows Up in the Late 70's
May 6, 2025 – 43:42
Led Zeppelin flew their folk flag high
Apr 21, 2025 – 42:36
Technoroll 4: Jamaica's Sound System Culture Birthed Ska, Reggae, Dub
Apr 14, 2025 – 42:20
Fairport Convention and Pentangle led the UK folk-rock movement
Apr 7, 2025 – 57:40
Recast Technoroll 3: UK DJ Culture Develops With Northern Soul
Mar 31, 2025 – 36:22
Paul Simon dived into the UK folk scene at a key time
Mar 24, 2025 – 49:37
Recast Technoroll 2: The First DJs On the Radio and In the Clubs
Mar 17, 2025 – 43:01
Bob Dylan Made the US Folk Boom and Then Bust
Mar 10, 2025 – 45:29
Technoroll 1 Recast: The History of DJ-Based Music - Reggae, Disco, Hip-Hop, House, Techno, EDM and Beyond
Mar 3, 2025 – 45:05
Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Tom Rush led the pre-Dylan American Folk Boom
Feb 24, 2025 – 45:20
Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Josh White & Jean Ritchie and the first Folk Revival
Feb 10, 2025 – 43:49
The Carter Family popularized the Child Ballads and Burl Ives built a new tradition
Jan 27, 2025 – 45:48
The President's Daughter Recorded A Child Ballad
Jan 13, 2025 – 55:15
Sir Walter Scott, Pepys, and Charles Dickens: The Literary Roots of The Ballad Tradition
Dec 30, 2024 – 54:20
Let It Folk: The Ancient Repertoire the Genre Built On
Dec 16, 2024 – 45:51
Brian Jones' Bitter End
Dec 2, 2024 – 45:33
The Cops Killed Brian Jones, Not Mick & Keith
Nov 18, 2024 – 45:20
Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg dazzled the pop world in 1966
Nov 4, 2024 – 46:34
Brian Jones had no songwriting partner in The Rolling Stones
Oct 21, 2024 – 50:38
New Brian Jones documentary reveals some truths, obscures others Part 1
Oct 7, 2024 – 47:27
Brian Jones was Anita Pallenberg's entre into the Rolling Stones orbit
Sep 23, 2024 – 52:15
We're Back: Bill Wyman was The Quiet Rolling Stone
Sep 9, 2024 – 46:23
Farewell episode
Jan 29, 2024 – 50:58
Nine Inch Nails channeled the nightmare into music
Jan 25, 2024 – 01:03:00
Mamas and the Papa John Phillips' old evil spirit
Jan 22, 2024 – 50:11
Gram Parsons lived a nightmare on purpose
Jan 18, 2024 – 01:02:21
Nirvana's biographer looks back at Kurt Cobain and his band after 30 years
Jan 15, 2024 – 01:09:51
Rock 'n' Roll's first and worst nightmare
Jan 11, 2024 – 01:21:41
Brian Jones came to a bad end after the Rolling Stones fired him
Jan 8, 2024 – 01:07:40
Hardcore punk was a nightmare for 80s corporate America
Jan 4, 2024 – 01:11:16
The awful enigma of Brian Jones and the Rolling Stones
Jan 1, 2024 – 52:39
Jim Morrison lived out the rock 'n' roll nightmare with The Doors
Dec 22, 2023 – 01:04:42
Why was Brian Jones so wrong for the Rolling Stones?
Dec 18, 2023 – 01:00:21
Little Willie John's dreams turned to nightmares
Dec 14, 2023 – 01:06:29
Mick Jagger on Brian Jones and forming the Rolling Stones
Dec 11, 2023 – 52:19
The Grateful Dead were the pied pipers of psychedelics
Dec 7, 2023 – 01:08:49
In the end the Rolling Stones chewed up and spat out Andrew Loog Oldham
Dec 4, 2023 – 53:22
Grandmaster Flash brought turntablism to Hip-Hop
Nov 30, 2023 – 01:04:17
Andrew Loog Oldham broke The Rolling Stones in the USA
Nov 27, 2023 – 01:00:12
Phil Spector's rise and fall was a rock 'n' roll nightmare
Nov 20, 2023 – 02:03:32
Andrew Loog Oldham made The Rolling Stones the band Britain loved to hate
Nov 16, 2023 – 58:54
Why Altamont went so wrong for the Rolling Stones and everyone else
Nov 13, 2023 – 01:07:40
Marianne Faithfull got too close to the fire with the Rolling Stones
Nov 9, 2023 – 49:42
The Rolling Stones' journey to Altamont
Nov 6, 2023 – 56:07
Marianne Faithfull abandoned her pop career to be Mick Jagger's muse
Nov 2, 2023 – 56:41