The Strange Brew highlights particular themes in rock music from the mid 1960s to the present day. It is one of the The Daily Telegraph’s podcasts you need to be listening to, in Radio Today’s five of the best classic rock podcasts, preserved in the British Library Sound Archive and one of the 35 Best Rock and Roll Podcasts in 2025.
The Strange Brew is one of the top 1.5% most popular shows out of 3,505,648 podcasts globally, ranked by Listen Score in 2025.
Host Jason Barnard has been interviewed on BBC Radio about the Strange Brew Podcast and the Sixties music scene, and written for Record Collector, Ugly Things and Shindig! magazines. We hold a PRS Limited Online Music Licence (renewal granted for 2025-26).
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“Barnard seems to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the last half-century or so in rock music, and again it’s a situation where the host is a huge boon to the show’s appeal. One of the elements we like most is its attention on the unsung heroes of rock. So, you’ll get podcasts about David Bowie’s drummer, or maybe a sound engineer who worked on recording a classic album. Brilliant stuff.”
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