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Season 1 Episode 282
Let’s define a “concert ticket”...it is a contract between you, an act, a promoter, and a venue that allows you admission to specific event at a stat…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Early Days of LGBTQ Rock
Season 1 Episode 280
Once upon a time, it was illegal—criminal—to be another other than heterosexual...any hint that you may be something other than straight could get yo…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Very First Episode of the Ongoing History of New Music
Season 1 Episode 281
I vividly remember sitting down to write the first-ever episode of “The Ongoing History of New Music”...I was in my living room with a blank yellow n…
3 years, 4 months ago
Black History Month 2023
Season 1 Episode 279
A couple of years back, I did an episode called “The Diversity Show”...it ran in February as part of Black History Month...the goal was to salute the…
3 years, 4 months ago
More Vinyl Stories
Season 1 Episode 279
At the dawn of the 21st century, vinyl was dead, dead, dead...we were all going digital and there was no point in keeping this ancient format...vinyl…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Story of TV Theme Songs
Season 1 Episode 278
Like Homer Simpson, I love my TV...without my local, network, cable, on-demand, and streaming shows none of us would have made it through the pandemi…
3 years, 5 months ago
Connections
Season 1 Episode 277
Back in the late 70s, the BBC debuted a science education show called “Connections”...the host was James Burke, an affable, professorish guy, usually…
3 years, 5 months ago
The History of Remixes
Season 1 Episode 276
When humans first started making audio recordings of music, they were limited as to how long those recordings could be...
An original Edison cylinder …
3 years, 5 months ago
Couples in Music
Season 1 Episode 275
Have you ever had to work together with your significant other?...and I don’t mean anything like housework or parenting or anything like that...I’m t…
3 years, 5 months ago
In Memoriam of Those Lost in 2022
Season 1 Episode 274
Sometime around 2016, I got the sense that we were entering into a new era of rock history: a period when the musicians we loved and admired began to…
3 years, 5 months ago