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In his book Vanilla Pop, Joseph Lanza attempts to rescue the whitest of the white music from the sneers and snickers of music critics and rock historians. He argues that vanilla, rath... (episode)
Klezmer meets hip-hop when clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer and his band Klezmer Madness joins forces with the young Jewish rapper So-Called. Today they preview material from their up... (episode)
The Village Voice calls Richard Barone a "pop icon," having led the Bongos in 1980's, releasing a string of his own critically acclaimed albums, and performing unrelentingly across th... (episode)
Cowboy Jack Clement, died Thursday (Aug. 8) at his Nashville home following a lengthy illness. He was 82. Over his long career, Clement held many roles: songwriter and performer, reco... (episode)
The Jammy Awards are tomorrow night and rock critic Anthony DeCurtis will be by to walk us through a night that is exclusively devoted to musical guests playing together, in combinati... (episode)
The legend of "Faust" has inspired art, literature and music from Goethe's play to the Al Pacino film "Devil's Advocate" to "Damn Yankees" and not least, Gounod's opera "Faust." The o... (episode)
Today on the show we welcome guest Ian Van Tuyl, author of the book Popstrology: The Art and Science of Reading the Pop Stars. Do you think you know what star you were born under? Thi... (episode)
Recently, file-sharing company Grokster and the recording industry squared off before the Supreme Court over online music sharing. Today, Mark Coleman, author of Playback: From the Vi... (episode)
New York's highest court recently ruled that old recordings could be reissued only by their original label. It sounds innocuous enough, but it could have major repercussions for the r... (episode)
The Bobs have been billed as "the only New Wave a cappella group in history." Their comicand slightly bizarrevocal arrangements have eroded the foundations of pop music for more th... (episode)