Just Because

Just Because. The Hub Radio Show for Monday August 27, 2018. View the completely capricious playlist for 8-27-18 (CLICK HERE)

Death Cab For Cutie, Yuno, tunng, Trevor Powers, Connor Youngblood

The day should be celebrated using a "just because" mindset. You should be doing things just because. Don't do random things because it is Just Because Day, do them just because! Look for other holidays and celebrate them just because. Sing in your car or in the shower. Run and skip, go to a new restaurant, buy something randomly, go fishing, get your haircut, drive to a place you've never been, hike in a forest, spend the day reading a book.

Radio Day

Radio Day. The Hub Radio Show for Monday August 20, 2018. View the completely audio playlist for 8-20-18 (CLICK HERE)

Aretha Franklin, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Little Richard

First becoming mainstream in the early 1930s, radio dominated American culture from the ’30s through the early’60s, before being eclipsed by television. From New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia reading the Sunday “funnies” (comics) on air, to ground-breaking genre shows including The Shadow, Suspense, Fibber McGee and Molly, Amos and Andy, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, and the like, families across the nation gathered in front of old vacuum-tube radio sets every evening for decades. Radio was the proving ground for modern mass media and comedy, with Edward Murrow reporting from wartime London and Jack Benny and Fred Allen, among others, creating new comedy styles that would soon migrate to the small screen.

Left-Handers

Left-Handers. The Hub Radio Show for Monday August 13, 2018. View the completely backwards playlist for 8-13-18 (CLICK HERE)

Nothing, Alkaline Trio, Rolling Blackouts CF, Lucero, Dirty Projectors

Of the ten percent of people who are left-handed, more are men than women. Many recent presidents have also been left-handed, including Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. Those who are left-handed haven't always risen to such heights of power. Throughout history, left-handed people were considered inferior and were often associated with witchcraft. In Christianity, left is associated with evil, and at the last Judgement, those who are sent to the left are damned. Even a left-handed compliment has a negative connotation, as it is an unflattering compliment.

Psychedelic Radio

Psychedelic Radio. The Hippie Hub Radio Show Monday August 6, 2018. View the completely hip playlist for 8-6-18 (CLICK HERE)

Spirit, Harvey Mandel, Traffic, Fleetwood Mac, Spooky Tooth

Progressive rock is a radio station programming format that emerged in the late 1960s, in which disc jockeys are given wide latitude in what they may play, similar to the free-form format but with the proviso that some kind of rock music is almost always played. It enjoyed the height of its popularity in the late 1960s and 1970s. The name for the format began being used circa 1968, when serious disc jockeys were playing "progressive 'music for the head'" and discussing social issues in between records. During the late 1960s, as long playing records began to supplant the single in popularity with rock audiences, progressive rock stations placed more emphasis on album tracks than their AM counterparts.