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100 Years of Radio: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 212
This episode begins shortly after 9 am on the Saturday I turned 6…for reasons that will forever remain mysterious, the present from my grandmother wa…
6 years, 2 months ago
Big Picture Stuff: Part 2
Season 1 Episode 211
In the olden days of newspapers—and I’m talking decades ago—there was a specific way printing photographs…photos were given to the printer who copied…
6 years, 2 months ago
Big Picture Stuff: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 210
When it comes to music, it’s so easy to get lost in the weeds…to become distracted by all the minutiae and trivia…
There’s nothing wrong with that, o…
6 years, 2 months ago
9 Great B Sides
Season 1 Episode 209
Back in the day...when singles were released on vinyl...you needed to put a song on either side of the record.
Sometimes it was another version of th…
6 years, 2 months ago
Airplanes!
Season 1 Episode 208
People often ask me where I come up with ideas for this program…my answer is always the same… you know that feeling when it’s Sunday night and you pr…
6 years, 3 months ago
Alt Rock Revivals Part 5: New Wave
Season 1 Episode 207
It is a fact of life that there are periods where everything old is new again…if you look at Broadway, for example, old productions are always being …
6 years, 3 months ago
Alt Rock Revivals Part 4: Garage Rock
Season 1 Episode 206
Take a look in your closet…are you the kind of person who won’t throw out anything because you’re sure it’ll come back into style one day?...
I am…lo…
6 years, 3 months ago
Alt Rock Revivals Part 3: Emo
Season 1 Episode 205
We hear this phrase all the time: “once in a generation”…fine, but how long is a generation?...according to Wikipedia, it’s about 30 years, which is …
6 years, 3 months ago
Alt Rock Revivals Part 2: Ska
Season 1 Episode 204
Certain types of music have been around forever…jazz, for example, has been with us for over a hundred years…classical music goes back at least six h…
6 years, 4 months ago
Alt Rock Revivals Part 1: Punk
Season 1 Episode 203
We begin this episode with Ecclesiastes, chapter 3, verses 1-3…ish:
“to everything there is a season, a time to every purpose under the heaven…a time…
6 years, 4 months ago