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85 episodes
since March 20, 2024
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Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m continuing my Signature Songs series with Pat Benatar, one of the defining rock voices of the late ’70s and early ’80s. Benatar and Neil Giraldo built a catalog full of big guitars, big hooks, and unmistakable vocals, with songs like “Heartbreaker,” “Hit Me With Your…

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Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m continuing my Signature Songs series with the Grateful Dead!The Dead had an incredible career without any real commercial album or single sales. They were never really a traditional hit-single band. They were a live band, a touring band, a tape-trading band, and a ba…
Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m continuing my Signature Songs series with Earth, Wind & Fire!Earth, Wind & Fire had an incredible hitmaking run from 1974 through 1983, including 16 Top 40 hits, 7 Top 10 singles, and one No. 1 song. But their signature song isn’t necessarily their best song,…
Send us Fan Mail This week, I sit down with writer Adam Sobsey, author of Chrissie Hynde: A Musical Biography and A Jewish Appendix, for a conversation about music, writing, creativity, and the ways songs connect us to memory, identity, and each other. Adam shares how music first entered his life, …
Send us Fan Mail Summer is almost here, and I’m counting down my Top 10 favorite rock-n-roll songs about summertime. This episode is about the many different sides of summer: childhood freedom, teenage romance, city heat, beach days, backyard cookouts, summer storms, golden-hour sunsets, nostalgia,…
Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m continuing my Signature Songs series with Def Leppard!Def Leppard had an incredible hitmaking run from 1981 through 1992, including 15 Top 40 hits, four Top 10 singles, and one No. 1 song. But their signature song isn’t necessarily their best song, or even their bigg…
Send us Fan Mail This week on The Rock-N-Roll Show Podcast, I’m reviewing Brandi Carlile’s Valentine’s Day concert at Madison Square Garden. I went into the show a fan from seeing her on TV over the past 5 years especially, and was excited to finally see her live. I came away even more impressed. B…
Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m continuing my Signature Songs series with John Mellencamp — from the Johnny Cougar years to the heartland rock classics that made him one of America’s great rock-n-roll songwriters. I’ll look at the major contenders, including “Hurts So Good,” “Jack & Diane,” “Pi…
Send us Fan Mail Just in time for Mother's Day, I'm celebrating my favorite rock and roll songs about Mothers!  I’ll be honest — this list was harder to build than I expected. Rock has plenty of songs that use the word “mama,” but not nearly as many that are actually about mothers. Some a…
Send us Fan Mail This week's episode is Volume 4 of the Signature Songs series, and this week's subject is the Queen of Rock-N-Roll, Tina Turner. Looking at both the Ike & Tina Turner years and Tina’s massive solo career, I break down the leading contenders before making the case for …
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