A disco kid and 80s music nerd building a community of dance-music lovers. Every week we explore the stories behind the 12-inch singles that defined disco, 80s and early-90s club culture. Expect nostalgia, deep dives, and a healthy dose of dry humor
Streaming, sales, attendance, charts, interviews, and more news tailored to the music industry's Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) side. By Ryan J. Downey, longtime journalist (Billboard, MTV, The Hollywood Reporter) and manager.
Interviews and insights, mostly about rock and blues music, but also sports, fatherhood and expat life from 3X New York Times best-selling author Alan Paul.
“A one-man music mag from rock’s finest narrative storyteller.” – Ted Drozdowski, Premier Guitar
It'll corral my 50 years of music journalism and authoring books in one spot, often in original uncut form, with pics and memorabilia, plus current activities with Nina Walsh in the Cosmic Hutch.
A lifelong Chicagoan, Nick is an award-winning broadcaster, film critic, writer, performer, podcast host, and professional speaker/interviewer who has entertained and informed the public for 4 decades.
Music connects to everything, and us to one another. In each article, Al or I focus on a piece of music that speaks to us in some way with a short essay and video.
Joshua Heath Scott is the creator and president of JHS Pedals. His YouTube series, The JHS Show, has garnered millions of views from audiences spanning the globe.
Blindfold tests, critical archives, fungal finds, urban ruins, and the most comprehensive, wide-ranging and idiosyncratic year-by-year single-listener recorded music accounting on the planet.
"The best music history writing online!" It's rock, records, and radio, as we go behind the scenes of my years in FM rock radio and the record biz in the '70s & '80s!
If music is your best friend, always there for you, in the best times and the worst times, if you turn on some music to start your day, and if you brake for rainbows, this is the place where I explore and celebrate music and the people who create it.
A newsletter about the music industry, technology, marketing, and the intersection of all three, brought to you by the strategic marketing agency Motive Unknown.
I've needed to write stuff down all of my life. What you'll find here is a little bit of journalism thrown against life experience with a heaping dose of imagination and feeling. Please subscribe to support my efforts.
Since 1984, Matt Baron's been a news reporter, columnist, PR pro & journalism coach on topics ranging from reporting crisis stories to math literacy (numeracy). He covers subjects across life's spectrum, nearly always without any typos or misspellings.
Jeff Miers is a music journalist, musician, former Buffalo News music critic and human "music encyclopedia" giving his expert opinion, insight and reporting on everything Music.