Category: This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio

I first saw 1.4.5. in the summer of 1980 at The Poor House North, a bar in the Syracuse suburb of Liverpool, New York. It was a weird night. I had graduated from college...

How in the name of Raymond Douglas Davies are we gonna fit all of this rockin’ splendor into a mere three-hour show? It’s a good thing we don’t believe in the laws of time...

Bob Seger was a cartoon bogeyman to This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio for many years. We used Seger to frighten schoolchildren, demonize our enemies, and bully the undecided into supporting our agenda. We...

It’s the most unexpected, cataclysmic Featured Artist in the history of TIRnRR! Just take those old records off the shelf. No, not THOSE old records! The older old records. The GOOD ones! Bob Seger....

It can be a busy life. One can find oneself juggling about a dozen different things, some important, some trivial, some nestled in the vast DMZ betwixt ‘n’ between. But stuff gets done, and...

Okay. Three-hour show. Lessee now. Oh! There’s a great, under-played early ’80s left-of-the-dial pop classic we’ve just gotta find time for. People will go NUTS. One song planned! Hey, we got a request also,...

Pop music is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. The original quote is from my ne’er-do-well ancestor Benjamin Franklin, and it was about beer rather than catchy tunes, but...

We have a MYSTERY TRACK! We’d tell you more, but then it wouldn’t be a mystery. Duh. We also have brand-new singles from Ken Sharp (“She Hates The Beatles”) and Orbis Max (“Love Will...

  Next month marks the 40th anniversary of the first time I saw The Kinks in concert: May 28th, 1978 at The Landmark Theater in Syracuse. It was magic, and I’ll be writing about...

What’s a college graduate to do nowadays? What’s a college graduate to do first? Well, just a week after sheddin’ the ol’ cap and gown, my daughter Meghan returned to the palatial Westcott Radio...