Play

Great Music Lives Here ®

Listener-Supported Music

Great Music

Lives Here.

Listener-Supported Music

Volume

00:00

0

listen

[0]

The Current

Playlist Schedule

Spotlight on the bass

Spotlight on the bass

February 17, 2023

Play Now [1:00:36]

Bassist Simon Gallup of the Cure performs at the Hollywood Palladium on November 21, 2011 in Hollywood, California. — Bassist Simon Gallup of the Cure performs at the Hollywood Palladium on November 21, 2011 in Hollywood, California.Mark Davis/Getty Images

This week's Transmission spotlights the bass guitar in the worlds of post-punk and new wave.

Program playlist

A band performing on a television soundstage — Rock band The Cure, with singer Robert Smith (L) and bassist Simon Gallup, appear on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" at the NBC Studios on April 31, 2004 in Burbank, California.
Kevin Winter/Getty Images