by Noah You may remember that at some point last year, a bubblegum country recording "artist" named Jason Aldean became some sort of...

Go ahead, click on Patti I think I first became a radio dj in 1966 or ’67— WUSB, the Stony Brook college station. They didn’t really want...

I’m not sure how influential Rolling Stone  is these days but they do have 60 million unique monthly visitors, which is a lot more than...

Bob Dylan had already been putting records out for 3 years before I caught on. I missed his eponymous debut (early 1962) but years later...

My parents and all their friends were Frank Sinatra-Dean Martin fans when they were in high school. Those high school friends stayed as...

No, This One Isn’t Trump… It’s The Eagles This is a long and convoluted story and because I know so many of the characters, hard to tell....

An old friend from Stony Brook, Brian Baxter, is working on an art project and a couple of days ago he asked me if I could remember all...

In 1978, Dolly Parton had been a major country artist for a decade. At the time, I was a music journalist writing about both country...

Until he died, whenever I went to New York, I always reserved some time in my schedule to spend with him. I’m not going to name him...

Towards the end of my senior year in college I was in a race with the Suffolk County police— I wanted to graduate and get the hell out of...

by Noah Sunday Thoughts: Yep, that's a real record album cover folks. Believe me, I've been to enough record shows and music expos to...

He Can Still Grow Up To Be A Billy Bragg Wednesday night, Natalie Grant, a 9-time Grammy nominated “Christian artist,” sang the national...

by Noah I once knew a very successful songwriter and producer who lived up near the Hollywood sign in the Lake Hollywood area above L.A....

by Noah As is often the case, my wife delivered the first bit of fresh news to me this morning. This time it was that Tony Bennett, the...

Trump & DeSantis Come Out Backing Racism Yesterday we were contrasting Neil Young’s “Southern Man” (1970) with Lynyrd Skynryd’s “Sweet...

-by Denise Sullivan By now you’ve seen the viral video of Justin Jones singing “Ain’t Going to Let Nobody Turn Me Around,” with Joan Baez...

As the old guard of the music industry make their exit, as Sire Records Seymour Stein did this past weekend, so dies most of what made...

On Sunday, record business legend and personal mentor, Seymour Stein, passed away after a long battle with cancer. He figures prominently...

All 4 of my grandparents came to America as penniless immigrants from Eastern Europe, making my parents first generation Americans....

There were some wonderful perks to working at a record company— and particularly to being a top executive. Personally, I appreciated the...