This week, it's a very special Teenage Kicks: today is the first Record Store Day drop of 2020 — a day when re-issues and new releases flood indie record stores, and vinyl fans celebrate! So this week, Jim McGuinn has decided to spin nothing but vinyl — from his own collection. It'll be the scratchiest, poppiest, surface-noisey Teenage Kicks ever — and you won't want to miss it!

By 1983, The Police had become one of the biggest rock bands the world, touring behind their Synchronicity album, and on Aug. 24 and 25 of that year, they brought their show to the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, formerly the home of the Minnesota North Stars, and now, IKEA. At that point, the Police had toured relentlessly since 1977, and by 1983, were alternating between arenas and stadiums. The Star Tribune's Jon Bream described their show as adventurous and jazzy, but they were also getting sick of each other — this would be their last tour together for more than 20 years. This week on Teenage Kicks, we'll feature live recordings from their '83 tour, along with songs by some of the dozens who opened for them that year: R.E.M., JOAN JETT, Madness, The Fixx, UB40, and in Minnesota, Ministry.

Forty years ago today, The Cars released Panorama. Nestled between their multiplatinum Candy-O and Shake It Up, The Cars' third album may not have sold as many copies, but in some ways it was their most adventurous, with Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr and the band stretching sonically, building on the New Wave sound made popular with their earlier albums and the emergence at the same time of groups like Blondie, Talking Heads, and The Police. From there, The Cars would turn towards the mainstream, culminating in 1984's Heartbeat City, but 40 years ago, Panorama captured the band at a point of transition that we celebrate this week on Teenage Kicks.

A couple weeks ago on Teenage Kicks, we featured live albums, and there was just not enough time to fit it all in — so this week it's Part 2, highlighting live releases by Kicks artists like Björk, Big Star, Gary Numan Official, Buzzcocks, Kate Bush, XTC, and some of the all-time greatest live albums — we're talking Bruce Springsteen, Allman Brothers Band, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and more. Won't have our lighters (or cell phones) up in the air for an encore for a while, but we can celebrate great shows captured in the past — it happens this week on Teenage Kicks.

August 1, 1981 is a date that changed music forever with the launch of MTV — music television. From humble beginnings on a few cable systems, within months the new channel would become the biggest national network and started breaking new bands behind the power of music videos. This week on Teenage Kicks, we celebrate those days — when MTV played music — with songs from iconic videos by Talking Heads (official), Peter Gabriel, Cyndi Lauper, the Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Prince and more.

Frampton Comes Alive or Motörhead's No Sleep Til Hammersmith? David Bowie's Stage or Cheap Trick at Budokan? The Who Live at Leeds or KISS Alive? From Folsom Prison to The Fillmore East, the live album was a staple of an artist's career — especially during the Teenage Kicks era in the '70s and '80s. Whether legitimate musical art or a contract filler, heavily overdubbed or warts and all, this week, Jim McGuinn features nothing but live releases on Teenage Kicks.

Released July 18, 1980, Closer was the second and final studio album by Joy Division, recorded in the weeks prior to lead singer Ian Curtis's death from suicide. Closer cemented the reputation of the Manchester band as one of the most important to emerge in the U.K. in the '70s. This week we listen to the courage and music of Joy Division, of Curtis and his bandmates who would soon morph into New Order, as they crafted an album that's been called "the crown jewel of post-punk" — Joy Division's Closer.

Teenage Kicks fans, here's a question: What song by a singer who came out of the New York folk scene would begin life as a two-minute a cappella track, become a worldwide Top 5 single when remixed with a dance beat, and later go on to be covered or sampled by dozens of artists, including Public Enemy, Fall Out Boy, and members of R.E.M.? If you guessed "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega — you're right!

Teenage Kicks rocks with Pride this week! Host Jim McGuinn spins awesome Pride jams from the 'Kicks era from artists including Madonna, Pet Shop Boys, Jobriath, Bronski Beat, Cyndi Lauper, George Michael, k.d. lang, Elton John, Erasure and many more.

This week on Teenage Kicks, we pay tribute to Duran Duran, whose bassist, John Taylor, turns 60 on Saturday. JT co-founded the Fab Five, and he also put together the supergroup the Power Station with Robert Palmer and Chic's Tony Thompson. Taylor is a dual citizen mostly living in Los Angeles, but who also owns a 15th-century manor in England, and he was one of the first musicians diagnosed with coronavirus back in April (He's since recovered.)