Dreampop - A History
We’re about to get all dreamy and floaty and all blissed out by taking a look at another specific genre…a post-punk genre called “dream pop”…it’s a thing unto itself but it’s also related to other gen...
27 Nov 202429min
The Most Explosive Band Bust-ups and Breakups
This is an episode all about bust-ups and break-ups, those times when tensions within a band get so high that things get weird and violent and—well, let’s just say “regrettable”. Some of these inciden...
20 Nov 202432min
Stories Behind Songs - 5
We’ve all sat listening to music and though to ourselves “what does this song mean?...what’s the singer (or the band) trying to say?”. Sometimes it’s nothing…it’s just a bunch of words strung together...
13 Nov 202433min
Murder Ballads (and Other Deadly Songs)
This is an episode about murder…call this a crossover episode with my true crime podcast, “Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry”. For as long as rock music has existed, people have been b...
6 Nov 202428min
Introducing... Haunted Canada
When Nadine Bailey was 7 years old she woke up terrified of dark figures looming at the end of her bed and an eerie presence all around her. From then on every night was the same, she was visited by p...
1 Nov 202423min
Celtic Rock - A History
Anyone with a passing knowledge of rock is aware of its origins back in the late 40s and early 50s when blues, rhythm and blues, western, country, folk, and hillbilly traditions began to mix and match...
30 Okt 202425min
Mighty Managers of Rock
If you’re a musical artist and you start to do well, the point will come when you need a manager. The manager is the person who looks after all the business stuff so the musician can get on with the b...
23 Okt 202439min
Stupid History: The Music Version 1
For some people, history is dry and boring…it’s all dates and wars and dusty facts about things that don’t have anything to do with life today…and yes, that can be true…but history also helps us under...
16 Okt 202435min
