Welcome to the Show Archive! This page is home to past episodes of The Rock Mine.
Below you can find the first two seasons of The Rock Mine radio show. Happy listening!
Season 2 Episode 8
About The Show - A completely unplanned episode for WHRW's annual Vinyl Week! All music playyed was from Nic James' personal CD collection (as well as a loaned copy of DLR's Skyscraper). Listeners chose their requests based off of an Instagram photo of CD's.
Season 2 Episode 7
About The Show - Features many requests for classic and new rock and metal, as well as tons of new rock and metal! Some classic bands played include Yngwie Malmsteen, Tangier, Kix, and Malice.
Headlamp Highlights - Lionheart - Air Raid | Back To The Rhythm - H.E.A.T. | Line of Danger - Blazing Rust | Manic Man - Venator | Headbang 'Til Death - Midnight Spell
Season 2 Episode 6
About The Show - Features an awesome caller request for Helloween! Includes tracks by bands including Motorhead, Twisted Sister, Dio, Lizzy Borden, and more.
Headlamp Highlights - Into The Fire - ASOMVEL | This is For You - Classless Act | Had Enough - Heavens Edge | Uppercut Shazam - Wig Wam
Season 2 Episode 5
About The Show - An hour and a half of rare tunes by some of the biggest bands of the 80s, and of course some rare to the radio gems by bands like Hericane Alice, U.D.O., Armored Saint, and Riot
Headlamp Highlights - Bet on Death - Archangel A.D. | Unbreakable - First Signal | All That We Are - Classless Act | Mary Leigh - Eclipse | Hellfire Thunderbolt - KK's Priest | Top of the Mountain - Raven
Season 2 Episode 4
About The Show - A talk about genre labels and their negative impact on the broader Rock and Metal Community. Highlighting bands such as Firehouse, Bon Jovi, Saxon, The Rods, Lynch Mob.
Headlamp Highlights - Metal Daze - Ronnie Romero | Give It To Me - Classless Act | Tainted Blood - H.E.A.T | Striker - Head First | Bullethead - Van Halen
Season 2 Episode 3
About The Show - As always, TRM features rare gems including tracks by Cheap Trick, Zebra, Primal Fear, Hittman, Crazy Lixx, and Saraya. Features requests from some loyal listeners.
Headlamp Highlights - Witch Doctor - Mindstorm | Break Out - Crazy Lixx | Locked and Loaded - Heroes and Monsters | Mosh In The Hall - ThrashWall
Season 2 Episode 2
About The Show - Features a range of hard rock, classic rock, and metal - including Scorpions, Vicious Rumors, Helix, UFO, Warlock, April Wine, AC/DC, Kik Tracee and The Police.
Headlamp Highlights - Never Say Die - Wig Wam | Celebutante - Megadeth | Stand or Fall - Riot Act | Mirror Mirror - Scream Maker | Get The Wild Out - Steve Whiteman | Let's Ride It - Heroes and Monsters
Season 2 Episode 1
About The Show - The first episode of Season Two features many underrated bands from the 1980s such as Giant, Icon, Guardian, Leatherwolf, and Stage Dolls mixed in with some more popular bands.
Headlamp Highlights - Inner Mounting Flame - Talas | Master of the Universe - Palace | High Roller - Wicked
Season One
The first season of The Rock Mine contains fourteen episodes aired weekly between 9/13/22 and 12/12/22. During this time, The Rock Mine began to develop and refine its structure, sound, and mission of unearthing the rock and metal gems of the 80s and beyond.
To get an idea of what was played during each show, five bands played during the episode are listed next to each episode numbered below. Please Note: Episodes 5, 7, and 8 are listed below, but do not have audio recordings attached to them as a result of a technological failure.
Simply click an episode from the list below to be brought directly to the corresponding audio recordings!
Season 1 Episode 14
About The Show - Aired Live 12/12/22. Holiday Special and Season One Finale. Features a number of awesome requests from fans across the USA, including Veteran of The Psychic Wars by BOC, Devil's Stomp by Badlands, and Nothin For Nothin by Cinderella.
Headlamp Highlights - Renegades of Love - Wildness
Season 1 Episode 13
About The Show - Aired Live 12/5/22. Features rare tracks from bands like Hardline, Wildside, Malice, Giant, and more. Three hours jam packed with largely forgotten tunes and rare gems!
Headlamp Highlights - Anthem for America - Crazy Lixx
Season 1 Episode 12
About The Show - Aired Live 11/29/22. Three-hour shows are back! Lots of two-for-Tuesdays (on a Monday), played gems from Vinny Vincent Invasion, Pretty Maids, Yngwie Malmsteen, and more!
Headlamp Highlights - Lux Aeterna - Metallica and Closer To The Flame - Riot Act
Season 1 Episode 11
About The Show - Aired Live 11/22/22. Brought back the weekly Headlamp Highlight, played tunes by Dare, TNT, Dirty Looks, and many more!
Headlamp Highlights - When The Lights Come On - Skid Row and Gods of Tomorrow - Victory
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Season 1 Episode 10
About The Show - Aired Live 11/15/22. Showed some love to the 80s unmasked Kiss era, played a Vince Neil song off of Exposed, and some Steve Stevens solo material, along with a ton of other gems!
Season 1 Episode 9
About The Show - Aired Live 11/8/22. Played some rockin songs by bands like Tangier, Helix, and Tesla, unearthed a rare Y&T track, and ended the show with two live Kiss songs.
Season 1 Episode 8
About The Show - Aired Live 10/31/22. Halloween Special Episode. The Rock Mine plays the most sinister, spine-chilling rock and metal tunes of the 80s and beyond! No recording exists for this show due to a technological failure.
Season 1 Episode 7
About The Show - Aired Live 10/25/22. No recording exists for this show due to a technological failure.
Season 1 Episode 6
About The Show - Aired Live 10/18/22. Classic 80s Rock and Metal is aired, including tunes from Motley Crue, Tora Tora, Whitesnake, Krokus, and Kix.
Season 1 Episode 5
About The Show - Aired Live 10/11/22. The Rock Mine digs up gems from the WHRW record library. No recording exists for this show due to a technological failure!
Season 1 Episode 4
About The Show - Aired Live 10/4/22. Rockin' tracks from some lesser-known bands are explored, such as Icon, Tyketto, and Tobruk. Classics From The Quarry features 38 Special and Foreigner.
Headlamp Highlight - Rock n' Roll - Vypera
Season 1 Episode 3
About The Show - Aired Live 9/27/22. A new segment, Classics From The Quarry, is introduced, a request from Dr. Dirt, Flick of The Switch is AC/DC's 2nd best album, BOC rocks Sony Hall 9/21-9/23.
Headlamp Highlight - Life In Hell - Megadeth
Season 1 Episode 2
About The Show - Aired Live 9/20/22. A new segment, Metal Meltdown, is introduced, talk of the Metal Queen, the talent of Randy Jackson and Zebra, Rest In Peace Mike Howe, Blitz is the greatest!
Headlamp Highlight - Sucks To Be You - Accept
Season 1 Episode 1
About The Show - Aired Live 9/13/22. A tribute to Steve Grimmett, Alice Cooper is coming to town, Vince Neil kicks ass live, thoughts on Van Halen's Diver Down vs. Fair Warning.
Headlamp Highlight - Dead or Alive - All or Nothing, Terry Ilous, and George Lynch