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The Beer Show

1st Tuesday of each Month 7:30pm et Once a month, our own Frank Critelli & G. Gone visit a local Connecticut Brewery and sample their beers. Armed with growlers of their favorites, they return to the CygnusRadio.com studios and record a show about their experience. Crack a cold one & tune in. There are a

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The Metal Dad

Thursdays 7:00pm et Re-Broadcast Fridays 9:00pm et w/ Chip McCabe Lover of Heavy Metal and his children (not necessarily in that order). Chip’s been a metalhead for over 30 years, and a parent for over 20. He has stories to share about both and then some. One part parenting, one part music, welcome to The

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This Year’s Model 1956 – Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo

http://cygnusradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/This-Years-Model-1956.mp3From here, and for the rest of the 50s, there are plenty of all-time classics each week. This year, we had “I Walk the Line,” “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Twenty Flight Rock,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” and “Let The Good Times Roll” to name a few, and that’s ignoring the debut of Buddy Holly, a version of “Fever”

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The Saturday Album

The Saturday Album Sat: 11:00am & 11:00pm Starting April 4, 2015 Each week The Saturday Album will feature one album played in its entirety without interruption. Cygnus Radio knows that the album is really the highest art form of popular musical expression. However, the album seems to have been reduced to a footnote in this

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This Year’s Model 1955 – Rock ‘n’ Roll Call

http://cygnusradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/This-Years-Model-1955.mp3 So much much for 1955. Obviously, I’m biased, but I’ve been really delighted at the series so far, and how much great music I’ve been able to squeeze in. This is one of those weeks where I’ll listen to this as a playlist throughout the year. When Dave Brubeck and the Everly Brothers are

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This Year’s Model 1954 – Too Hot to Handle

http://cygnusradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/This-Years-Model-1954-20150211.mp3 Harry Belafonte unlocks the spiritual lurking in the folk tune “John Henry” and Thelonious Monk unlocks something great in “Just A Gigolo.” A couple more timeless doo-wop records and 1954 takes shape as a fascinating, eclectic year. With Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock,” we’re fast running out of reasons to call this the

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This Year’s Model 1953 – Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (& Loud, Loud Music)

http://cygnusradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/This-Years-Model-1953.mp3 After a week’s delay for computer issues, 1953 did not disappoint. There were a ton of great tunes from relatively obscure stuff to all time classics like “Sh-Boom,” “Mess Around” and “Your Cheatin’ Heart.” Once again, we have a ton of bonus material in the archive that didn’t make the proper set. A sign

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