Modern Musicology

As we close out our fourth year and enter into our FIFTH, we want to take a look back at our history and share with you our Top 10 episodes ever! These are our most-listened-to shows from our very beginning (our first episode is still very highly ranked) to the end of 2025. In case you have missed any of these episodes, links to listen are below:

Our Top 10 (okay, 11) episodes of 2025! Listen to any of these on our website (linked below) or on any podcast platform!

#179 – The Music of 1996
November 1, 2026
This week we hop in our DeLorean and head back 30 years to 1996 to relive some of the great albums, songs and movements of that year! Our discussion begins with one of the biggest revolutions that happened that year — the advent of The Spice Girls! From there we move into rock, prog, metal, […]
#178 – Bad Cover Songs
October 18, 2026
Everyone loves a good cover! But not all covers are good! This week Rob and Alan talk about what turns them off about some covers. Is it the band doing the covering? Does it stray too far from the original? Or is the song transformed into a new genre that simply doesn't work? Or does it have […]
#177 – Burning Man Documentary
October 4, 2026
Left to their own devices, Rob and Alan take a trip to the Nevada desert for BURNING MAN! Well, we watched the new documentary about it, anyway! The Man Will Burn is a new docuseries from HBO Films that came out in July. The film series explores the origins and development of the festival as […]
#176 – One Album Wonders
September 20, 2026
One Album Wonders There are some really obvious examples of bands or artists that only made one studio album — The Sex Pistols, Jeff Buckley, and Lauryn Hill immediately come to mind. But how many others are there? Surprisingly, quite a few! We talk about those as well as other single-album artists like The La's, The New Radicals, […]
#175 – DOLLY
September 5, 2026
The heart of the world was broken on August 25, 2026 when the news came out that legendary singer, musician, songwriter, actor, businesswoman and philanthropist Dolly Parton passed away. Dolly was as close to a universally-loved artist as you'll ever find. We are joined in the studio this week by Emmy Award-winning Good Day Atlanta feature […]

Modern Musicology covers topics on rock and pop ranging mostly from 70s, 80s and 90s (with occasional excursions into 60s and 00s). Anything is fair game — classic rock, R&B, folk, punk, prog, rap, metal, and more. Hosted by DJ and author Rob Levy, solo artist and former Aquanettas drummer Stephanie Seymour, drummer and author R. Alan Siler, and guy from London Anthony Williams.

We have interviewed rock stars, journalists, and authors like:

Gina Schock of the Go-Go’s
Tony Levin of King Crimson and Peter Gabriel’s band
Steve Fossen and Michael DeRosier of Heart
Tommy Stinson of the Replacements
Ricky Byrd of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Ira Elliott of Nada Surf
Evan Sult and Paige Brubeck of Sleepy Kitty
Film composer Gary Clark (Flora and Son, Sing Street)
John Robb of Louder Than War
Punk rock photographer Theresa Kereakes
Katherine Yeske Taylor (author of She’s a Bad Ass: Women Shaping Feminism in Rock)
Richard Evans (author of Listening to the Music the Machines Make)
Tom Beaujoir (author of Nothing But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the ’80s Hard Rock Explosion)