Nick Coyne, artist relations coordinator and playlist curator for the global streaming service TIDAL, will conduct a live online Q&A for artists and members of the music industry today. Coyne, a 2015 graduate of the Jandoli School of Communication at… Read More ›
By Richard Lee Fifty years ago today, All in the Family premiered on CBS. Through comedy, the show addressed racism, sexism, war and other issues in a way that no previous sitcom had done. Norman Lear, who created the show,… Read More ›
By Richard Lee Fifty years ago, when several hundred thousand music fans descended on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the Woodstock Music and Art Festival, Queen was nearly a year away from its first performance, Elton… Read More ›
By Richard Lee Besides entertaining audiences of all ages, “Toy Story 4,” which opened Friday, provides an interesting lesson on the state of the media in America. Don’t expect Buzz, Woody and the gang to take on the roles of… Read More ›
By Richard Lee As the 50th anniversary of the Who’s Tommy approached, I devoted my WSBU-FM radio show to a musical look at how Tommy would fare as a presidential candidate. Don’t laugh. Tommy has a compelling personal story that… Read More ›
By Richard Lee “A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over.” – Joe Hill, songwriter and labor activist In the spirit of Joe Hill’s… Read More ›
By Sean Crangle On Jan. 29 just after midnight during a winter vortex on the streets of Chicago, two masked men wearing MAGA hats allegedly attacked actor Jussie Smollett, identifying him with a racist term and by the television show… Read More ›
By Richard Lee March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. In between, the month is filled with parades, shamrocks and leprechauns. St. Patrick’s Day may fall on March17, but the entire month has become a… Read More ›
By Dominic LoVallo We live in a time where the demand is “more now.” We want more of the things we like, and we want them as soon as possible. This can be seen clearly in the amount of shows… Read More ›
A Musical Look at the Impeachment Hearings (11/25/19) Ret. MSG Francisco Morales and Vernon ‘Longhorn’ Davis, a fourth-generation Army veteran, about Veterans Day with music (11/11/19) Cameron Hurst and music about Election Day (11/4/19) Mike Jones-Kelley and music about Brexit… Read More ›
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