What You're Not Listening To

What You're Not Listening To


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The Very Definition of Grown Folks Music
May 09, 2021

For Mother's Day 2021, former back-up singer Dionne Warwick carved out her niche as an easy listening, adult contemporary icon with timeless songs that endure on true oldies stations and in endless covers and made songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal Dav...

The Filth, The Fury, The Frenzy and The Fun
May 02, 2021

The original U.K. Punk scene, from 1976 to 1978, made up of acts from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, was more than just "us against the man", but a whole culture that rejected the status quo in ways that one single idea could not encapsulate.

Billie Holiday: The Lady Day Anthology (Jazz Day 2021)
April 29, 2021

A special tribute to one of the most important and influential Jazz vocalists in history whose story and music enthrall us still, some six decades after her untimely passing at the age of 44. #ladyday #billieholiday #jazz #womeninmusic #jazzday

A Rock and Roll Pop Art Explosion
April 21, 2021

Revisiting the formative years of what many consider one of the greatest Rock and Roll bands in history, The Who, where they went from being part of the Swinging Sixties Mod youth culture to just before the release of their fourth album, Tommy,

Most Likely He’ll Just Keep Being Dylan
April 15, 2021

A half hour journey into Bob Dylan's masterwork, Blonde on Blonde, as we close in on its 55th anniversary, and in mono. #bobdylan #dylan #blondeonblonde #classicrock

The Latest 80’s Fashion
April 07, 2021

The look back at the 1980's career of one of the most influential electronic bands in history, Depeche Mode, before they became a huge mainstream success. #depechemode #1980s #electronicmusic

“I’d like to thank the Academy and all the little people…”
April 01, 2021

For April Fool's Day, and just weeks from the annual Golden Raspberry Awards (The Razzies), a program featuring some of the worst and sometime unintentionally hilarious film music of the 80's and 90's wrapped in an essay of how badly people have ruined...

Soul Jazz, Pt. 2 (Jazz Day 2017 Archive Program)
March 28, 2021

The second and last of the final two International Jazz Day archive programs, featuring Jazz music's biggest and most lasting impact on popular music. #jazzday #souljazz #jazz

Soul Jazz, Pt. 1 (Jazz Day 2017 Archive Program)
March 24, 2021

The first of the final two International Jazz Day archive programs, featuring Jazz music's biggest and most lasting impact on popular music. #jazzday #souljazz #jazz

Layover in Tago Mago
March 15, 2021

A look at one of the strangest progressive rocks albums in history by German group Can, featuring a Japanese lead singer, with an influence that would be felt less in traditional rock circles but prove highly influential on alternative rock and indie m...