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Feb 21 2025 172 ep. 30 mins 9

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Music industry veteran SteveJ takes a "deep dive" into music books, including bios, criticism, photography, and cultural takes, and explores music documentaries and films with the people behind them, along with a fascinating revolving panel of guests.

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Welcome to Music City San Francisco: The Podcast

Feb 21 2025 4 mins

Step into the pulse of San Francisco’s music scene with the Music City San Francisco Podcast, presented by Pantheon Media. Broadcasting from the heart of the city on the corner of Polk and Bush, this podcast captures the pulse of a city steeped in musical history and alive with a modern-day revolution. From the legendary Hyde Street Studios, where artists like Tupac Shakur and Gr

In Case You Missed It: "THE SHANGRI-LAS: Golden Hits of The Shangri-Las"

Jun 26 2023 43 mins

From 2019, our convo with Ada Wolin presents a fresh new look into “The Golden Age of The Shangri-Las." Was the most idiosyncratic and influential girl-group of the 1960s also the “punkiest”? Tune in and find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Case You Missed It: "YACHT ROCK" with Greg Prato

Jun 19 2023 35 mins

Summer = Yacht Rock. That's a fact. Just what is "yacht rock," you ask? Is it AM gold? Soft, smooth 70s hits, come back to life? We're winding the clock back to Episode 19 so Greg Prato, author "The Yacht Rock Book" can lay it all out for you. Put your sunscreen and Ray Bans on, pop a Corona, and lie back and enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Case You Missed It: "“Selling BEATLES Merchandise in the U.S.: 1964-1966" with Terry Crain

Jun 12 2023 30 mins

Boy, has the music industry changed! It's almost irrelvant: no radio, no physical product, no sales. But has it? The Beatles were not only pioneers in music and popular culture, they were also the progenitors of the music merchandise phenomenon, which earned over $50 million in 1965! Author Terry Crain joined us early on to talk Beatles merch and other interesting side treks surrou

"The Ballad of MOTT THE HOOPLE" with Chris Hall

Jun 05 2023 40 mins

Mott the Hoople was of the most important bands of the late '60s and early ‘70s — the rock act that made a stray Bowie song into an anthem for a generation and beyond, and a singer with recognizable hair and ever-present shades. And Mott The Hoople may be one of the UK’s greatest and most cherished bands, but what of their story? We speak with Chris Hall, the director of The

In Case You Missed It: NEW BARBARIANS with Rob Chapman

May 29 2023 35 mins

Equal parts myth and legend, the New Barbarians are one of the greatest bands many people have never heard — or heard of! Put together by Ron Wood, the band featured fellow Stone Keith Richards, the Faces’ Ian MacLagan, sax player Bobby Keys, and a legendary rhythm section of the Meters Ziggy Modeleste and jazz great Stanley Clarke. If you missed this the first time around, tun

"FANNY: The Right To Rock" with Bobbi Jo Hart

May 22 2023 30 mins

Fanny might be one of the most influential bands ever that many people have never heard of. David Bowie called them “one of the most important female bands in American rock,” adding they had been buried without a trace. So who was Fanny? Bobbi Jo Hart’s documentary Fanny: The Right To Rock examines the first all-female rock band to release an album on a major label. Formed by

In Case You Missed It: "ALICE IN CHAINS: The Untold Story" with David De Sola

May 13 2023 38 mins

Alice In Chains were major players within the burgeoning Seattle scene that would forever change alternative and rock music. They were also one of the most self-destructive. In this early episode, acclaimed journalist David de Sola tells us how drugs nearly destroyed them and claimed the lives of frontman Layne Staley and founding bassist Mike Starr, and the incredible resurrection

REGGAE COVER ART: "Stir It Up: Reggae Album Cover Art" and "The Cover Art of Studio One Records"

May 08 2023 16 mins

"Stir It Up: Reggae Album Cover Art" and "The Album Cover Art of Studio One Records" discuss the evolution, look and style of the the visuals and branding of reggae music. From Calypso, to bluebell rocksteady to roots reggae, and dub to dancehall, the music and visual output of this tiny island is enormous. SteveJ take a look at these two books that deal with two of his all-time fa

In Case You Missed It: ELLINGTON & SINATRA IN THE WHITE HOUSE with Edward Faine

May 01 2023 31 mins

Let's go back and take a look at jazz at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Edward Allan Faine pulls back the curtain on the Nixon White House. Was Tricky Dick a jazz fan? After all, he did give Duke Ellington the Medal of Freedom in 1969. Who was in the band and who jammed at the “after-party”? Why did Sinatra almost get canceled, and just who that was playing piano behind some of Pear