Hosted by Steve Nelson & Keith Nottonson · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 122 episodes
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Two college radio DJs during the 90s, hosts Keith and Steve helped expose bands like Nirvana, Pavement and PJ Harvey. They went to shows, interviewed musicians and reviewed albums for various zines and papers. They worked security at concerts and once, even did load-in for Phish. Now they’re dads. Whether you want to explore lesser-known music or take a trip down memory lane, tune in to The New Dad Rock. Join hosts Keith and Steve as they navigate the ages together, sharing their love of music across various eras and genres. Always well intentioned, often well informed, seldom boring, The New Dad Rock will expand your mind.
Steve Nelson & Keith Nottonson hosts The New Dad Rock, a music show with 122 episodes published.
What if the next Led Zeppelin album isn't made by Led Zeppelin? This week, Steve and Keith tackle a question that sounds ridiculous today and inevitable tomorrow. From the first time Cleveland listeners heard Rush's "Wor
What happens when your favorite musician is... you? This week on The New Dad Rock, Keith reveals a startling discovery: he's become the world's biggest fan of an artist who doesn't actually exist. Thanks to AI music gene
On this episode of The New Dad Rock Podcast, we ask the question every aging music fan eventually faces: when is a band too old to keep going — and are we too old to care? Using the 2026 class of the Rock and Roll Hall o
Episode 111 finds Steve and Keith riding the chairlift straight into the soul of music discovery. Inspired by that eternal mountain question — what is the liftie listening to right now? — the dads talk skiing, snow cultu
Steve goes up into the attic to sort through his CDs, what he finds will change the course of The New Dad Rock. Tune in to reminisce about spending $20 on imported CD singles that had two crappy songs on them. Settle the
The dads are back—and this time, the list is real. After months of listening, debating, reshuffling, and second-guessing, Steve & Keith finally unveil their definitive Top 25 Albums of 2025 . But in classic New Dad Rock
Steve & Keith return to The New Dad Rock with their annual year-end ritual: sorting the chaos, controversy, and unexpected brilliance of 2025 into a definitive Top 25. Consider this episode your backstage pass to how the
🎙️ The New Dad Rock – Episode 107: TNDR Radio (Return of the College DJs) This week, Steve and Keith spin the dial all the way back to their roots—college radio, where the knobs were dusty, the playlists were handwritte
This week on The New Dad Rock, we’re diving headfirst into the messy, thrilling, and utterly unpredictable world of new music. From the FOMIES , the garage-fuzz band obsessed with obscure, badly recorded records in weird
Join us for a retelling of one of HP Lovecraft's most enduring tales of horror, The Music of Erich Zann. I have examined maps of the city with the greatest care, yet have never again found the Rue d’Auseil. These maps ha
🎧 Episode 104: The Three Ds — Death Cab, Deerhunter & The Decemberists It’s Q4, and while the rest of the world is deep in annual planning, Steve and Keith are focused on a different kind of alignment — the Three Ds: De
Buckle up. This week, Steve and Keith are in the cockpit, trying to figure out: does it really take 21 pilots to fly a plane? Or is that just too many guys with matching hoodies? We check in on Twenty One Pilots’ Clancy
A Love Letter to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Is King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard the best band in the world… or are they just really good at making us buy concert tickets? This week, Keith and Steve swap war stori
For the first time ever, Steve and Keith sit down face-to-face, live and in person, to record an episode of The New Dad Rock. The occasion? A thought experiment that turns into a full-on festival fantasy. Imagine this: w
The New Dad Rock presents a field-recorded farewell. This wasn’t the episode we planned—but it’s the one we had to make. Episode 100 is a requiem for Rubén, Keith’s dear friend and one of the few true guerilla contributo
On July 3, 1999 Mark Sandman, frontman and two-string slide bassist of Morphine collapsed and died while performing onstage in Palestrina, Italy. Ironically a few years earlier he wrote aa song in which he sang about hop
🎙️ Episode 98: Montauk Mix and UFO Flix Strap in for a cosmic ride back to the Summer of '98—when alternative rock was maturing, Montauk was still weird and wonderful, and UFOs might have been hovering just offshore. St
🎙️ Episode 1997: Desert Island Classics – The Year That Was Everything What if you could only bring one year of music to your desert island? For The New Dad Rock, that year just might be 1997. In this special “Desert Is
1996 was a wild, weird, and wonderful year for music. Alternative rock was shifting in unexpected ways, techno was taking over clubs and airwaves , and Gen X was riding the high of a pre-Y2K world —blissfully unaware of
Step into 1995—a time when five-disc CD changers ruled the bedroom, cassette Walkmans were essential for the commute, and a record player still held a place of honor in the living room. Not a single MP3 in sight. This wa
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The New Dad Rock is hosted by Steve Nelson & Keith Nottonson. The show is categorised under music (commentary) and has published 122 episodes.
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