About
The Show
When designing the format for The Can You Feel It Radio Show it was my goal was to produce something that is not available elsewhere. There are plenty of shows on the radio that play music and announce the song title and the artist. But streaming music services have made that format obsolete. And there are plenty of music podcasts that give extensive histories and backstories of songs and the artists who performed them. But a podcast can only play a 30 second sample of each song.
The Can You Feel It Radio Show gives you the best of both worlds; the histories and backstories you get from a podcast, and like a radio show you get to hear entire songs.
The show also features several regularly and intermittently recurring segments such as a weekly set of cover songs of a particular artist’s work, shows built around a listener submitted Top 5 list and the intermittently recurring segment “Can You Steal It” where two similar songs are compared and judged as to whether the second song might have borrowed too much from the first.
The Host
My name is Todd Lewis. As the host and producer of Can You Feel It I have three primary goals for the show. My first goal is for listeners to make a connection to musical styles they may have previously considered not to their liking.
I think I have an “everyman’s“ taste in most forms of popular music. By that I mean, I love music from almost every genre of popular music, but normally not the extremes in any one of them. So while you can expect to hear hip-hop and rap you’re not going to hear hard-core gangster rap. While you’ll hear plenty of rock ‘n’ roll, much of it fairly high energy, you’re not going to hear death metal or thrash. I love country music but not the furthest reaches of the spectrum. By airing the best and most accessible music I can find I hope to make it easy for listeners to open their ears and their minds and discover a whole new world of music.
And that’s one of the reasons I love doing the show. It keeps me in constant pursuit of new material and new artists to put on the air which means I’m finding good new music for the listener of Can You Feel It as well as myself.
The highest compliment I can receive is when someone tells me what a great new song that they heard for the first time on the show by an artist that’s new to them. I work hard on the Can You Feel It Radio Show and this website trying to put out the best product possible, and in doing so enriching myself and anyone else who wants to tagalong on this musical journey.