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What is there say when a band calls itself “The Homecoming Queens”?
The Homecoming Queens combine ska and punk influences without pretense, in a ...read more
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It’s time to get back to basics here at American Hit Radio. For a number of shows, we’ve been focusing on topical events and/or individual artists, so we ...read more
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Farewell to Syd; Hello to Jesse
Ahh, live radio. You’ve just got to love it. At one point during today’s show, I think we inadvertently caused a ...read more
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For a few reasons, the music from 1992 still confounds me. At the time, most of what passed for ‘rock’ music (an obsolete term that was never adequately ...read more
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Can it really be 24 years have passed since these songs were released? It doesn’t feel that way, but history (and a glance at the calendar) proves ...read more
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Songwriters sure can be a litigious bunch. Somebody a lot smarter than me once described rock and roll as “three chords and an attitude”, and I’ve never ...read more
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I always marvel at America’s way of classifying something as an “oldie” once it exceeds its immediate shelf life. This was especially true in the ...read more
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Just last week, I finished reading a rather interesting book entitled “Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood,” by ...read more
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The Spring of 1972 was a confusing time for popular music. Most of us were still trying to get used to the fact that the Beatles were no more. At the time, ...read more
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It has often been said (by me) that pop music turned darker after 1967’s Summer of Love, but today’s show does a fairly good job of proving me wrong on ...read more
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