Episodes
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
ROUGH SUNDAYS — VOL. LXXVI (The Japanese Chapters)
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
A traveling show this week—one from the park, the ferry, the tent and the hotel—but it doesn't stop us from digging up some of the goodness from a 1960s-80s Japan. Funk + soul kicks it off, some near-electro, then to country + folk, then summer + blue and finally with some sexy + robot. Is that too many "+" for you? Then may we suggest a smooth jazz show. This is Rough Sundays, live from Northern Japan!
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
ROUGH SUNDAYS VOL. LXXV— (The Japanese Chapters)
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
The colors might be starting to change here in Hokkaido, but the purpose of the show isn't—to wake you up nicely on your Sunday Morning, courtesy of music from wherever we are. And what a where we be! The magic, mysterious and mayhem-ic Japan. With tracks this week ranging from the 1960s-80s, featuring funk, soul, jazz, "city pop" and what one artist referred to as, simply, experimentalism.
So sit back and let us—and more importantly, the good stuff coming from this archipelago—handle your next half an hour.
Rough Sundays, the Japanese Chapters. Yes, really!
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
ROUGH SUNDAYS — VOL LXXIV (The Japanese Chapters)
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
From a farm outside of Hokkaido, it's the first of what we hope are many shows from Japan. We kick it off with some Tokyo soul from the early 70s, then move from pop-princess turned disco queen, to sultry swing, funk from the early 80s and a whole lot more.
Rough Sundays, totally from Japan, you guys! Hit play.
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
ROUGH SUNDAYS VOL. LXXIII
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
From a tiny island south of South Korea, it's probably the best Sunday Morning wake-me-up show featuring old gospel, jazz, funk and blues coming to you from a tiny island south of South Korea. Some Pacific religion, feel-good Doris Day, songs about rain, Algerian gems from the 50s, a big baby talkin' bout struggle and much more. So sit back, sip back and let us handle this for the next 20 or so minutes. Rough Sundays, you heard!
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Rough Sundays—Vol. LXXII
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
High above the Mekong in the gorgeous old town of Luang Prabang, Laos comes 25 minutes of a proper Sunday morning wake-me-up, featuring not one, but two Queens of New Orleans, gay black British poets, some gospel from 1917, a recently lost voice and much, much more. So sit back and let us handle things for the next half-an-hour, would'ya?
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Rough Sundays — Vol. LXXI
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Coming to you from high atop the Pokhara Mountains, Nepal, it's totally Rough Sundays, you guys! We dive into much goodness—including France's last great troubadour, the lady who made Bob Dylan, old Trinidadian Calypso by way of a 1940s Harlem, as well as the Queen of Havana, the two deaths of Sam Cooke, outlaw country and much, much more.
So sit back. Sip black. Hit play. And let us start your Sunday morning off the way it should be... by you doing absolutely nothing.
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Rough Sundays — Vol. LXX
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Coming to you from the famed Apostle Studios in Pokhara, Nepal, it’s your hopefully favorite Sunday Morning wake-me-up show! We start with some new Haitian, go back 102 years to New Orleans, a track you only know from the sample, a little ticklin’ from Taj, plus the late great Cameroonian doing his own voodoo… plus much more. It’s Rough Sundays! You’re in the right place! Huzzah!
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Rough Sundays — Vol. LXIX
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Hardly a show to set your clock to—our first in five months and second in the past year—but still probably the best Sunday Morning wake-me-up coming to you from the Northern suburbs of Kathmandu.
We start with a bit of French influenced pop from a sunny 1960s California, diving into some Nepalese Afrofunk, a visit from the inimitable Dasha who introduced us to the Ukrainian LELÉKA, some boogaloo from Queens, as well as some sounds from an Everest Base Camp trek...
Plus a whole lot more.
So sit. Coffee. Press play. And enjoy. Because who knows when the next show will be?
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Rough Sundays: Vol LXVIII
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
What was thought to have been 4 months since the last show has actually been 7—the last episode coming from Namibia—and who knows why it started back up again this morning… but here we are. A newer track to kick things off, a bit of half-French pop, some Irish melancholy, Brazil’s Queen, some New Jersey collab, New Orleans gospel and much more.
It’s the 68th chapter of your favorite (albeit, unpredictable) show, Rough Sundays!
Available in Spotify, Amazon, Google Podcasts and more.
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Rough Sundays—Vol. LXVII
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
From a theres-a-mamba-on-the-loose campsite in a tiny strip of land that borders five countries, it’s a proper (African) wake-me-up, featuring 1960’s Guinean orchestras, Senegalese serenades, one of Ethiopia’s best performing live in Paris, a politically-charged Zimbabwe track and a style of music that was illegal up until the 1980s in a tiny island off the coast of Madagascar… plus a whole lot more. So pour that coffee. Find somewhere comfortable. And let us handle the next half-hour or so. Rough Sundays, hooray!