In this excerpt from the 2011 Soundwaves Christmas Countdown show, Dennis Willis and Joe McCaffrey preview the big show, which premieres Sunday, December 11th at 5:00pm PST.

Dennis Willis and Steven Kirk announce the musical acts and special guest of the 22nd annual edition of Soundwaves Christmas. The annual music-themed fundraiser premieres December 11, 2011 on five Bay Area stations, bringing the show into 400,000 homes. The goal: to raise food, clothing, toys and money for local non-profit organizations, from Daly City  [ Read More ]

Happy Halloween from Soundwaves! Check out this blistering performance of the classic “Witch Doctor” as deliriously imagined by Johnny Legend and his band, The Chuckleberries. Technically part of the shoot for the 22nd annual Soundwaves Christmas show (which will air 12/11/11), we saw no need to hold back on a great version of such a  [ Read More ]

Long considered to be one of the seminal stoner video experiences, here is the complete synced mash-up that has become legendary! But first, a little history… In August 1995, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette published the first mainstream media article about the “synchronicity”, citing the Usenet discussion group alt.music.pink-floyd. Soon afterward, several fans began creating  [ Read More ]

It’s interesting how our resilient brains cope with unspeakable things. Oddly, people tend to juxtapose world-shaking tragedy with something grounded and optimistic.   How many times, upon hearing about a death, do we say “I just talked to him yesterday!”  As if one thing had to do with the other.  And how many people recalled the  [ Read More ]

“Tempted” was the second single released from Squeeze’s fourth album, East Side Story. Though it failed to crack the Top 40 in any country it was released (UK #41, Canada #45, US #49, Australia #90), over the years “Tempted” has become one of Squeeze’s most well known songs, especially in North America, thanks to its  [ Read More ]

Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known as Elvis Costello, is an English  singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London’s pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello’s lyrics is broader than that of most  [ Read More ]

  Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by the Midway division of Bally. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is  [ Read More ]

Here’s another guaranteed time-waster, from your friends at Soundwaves! Asteroids is a video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Inc. It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Asteroids uses a vector display and a two-dimensional view that wraps around in both screen axes. The  [ Read More ]

Rick Springfield is an Australian-born singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He had a No. 1 hit with “Jessie’s Girl” in 1981 in both Australia and the US. He received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for “Jessie’s Girl”. He followed with four more top 10 US hits, “I’ve Done Everything for You”, “Don’t  [ Read More ]