DOJ v. Live Nation.

Dayna Frank is CEO of First Avenue Productions and co-founder of the National Independent Venue Association. We discuss her involvement in the passage of the Save Our Stages Act and the formulation of the new TICKET Act and the ins and outs of getting things accomplished in D.C. as well as concert promotion in the Twin Cities.

This is not a harbinger of what's to come, this is the last gasp of a dead paradigm. In other words, record reviews are history. We needed them. Because there was no way to hear most of the m...

Singer/songwriter extraordinaire.

All you have to know is “Rich Men North of Richmond” went to number one on the streaming chart. Which is a bit complicated, because there’s on demand streaming and radio-style streaming, and YouTube and… But if you make it to number one, one thing is for sure, people are listening! It’s all about consumption.

This is the “Hit Men” of its day. But nobody seems to know this, because nobody seems to have read it, and you can’t unless you subscribe to the “Los Angeles Times,” which nobody seems to do anymore, the paper having shrunk itself down to near irrelevance. This story launched online six days ago. Was in print yesterday, on the front page. How many e-mails do you think I’ve gotten about it? ZERO!

Drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Average White Band and more!

We all want to belong. First it was baseball, then it was the Beatles and finally it was MTV. We all paid attention, we all knew what was happening, and even the barely hip caught the references. Today you’ve got no idea what people are talking about, unless they’re a member of your cult.

This isn't about violence, this is about power. It’s not the twentieth century anymore. And the media and titans of yesteryear and those following in their footsteps are ignorant and unaware. The landscape has changed. For all the doody about adoration of artists, more people now believe artists are no better than they are. The emperor has no clothes.

Tim Leiweke is Chairman and CEO of the Oak View Group, which builds and owns arenas and manages venues for others. We discuss the status of buildings and shows around the world, as well as Tim’s history, from sports to concerts, hockey to basketball to Springsteen and Henley, from St. Louis to Los Angeles and AEG and then Toronto and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment to OVG. 

Would this have happened if she wasn't in the public eye? At this writing the cause of death has not been revealed, but I am not optimistic it was natural causes. They don’t make stars like Sinéad O’Connor anymore. There’s nowhere to project a unique talent to everybody simultaneously, to deliver to the public a unique voice that blows them away. That was the power of MTV.

Harvey Kubernik is a music history savant who's written numerous books on such topics as Laurel Canyon, the Beatles and the Summer of Love. He has dedicated his entire life to rock and roll, and his memory is extraordinary. Harvey experienced it all firsthand, this is his story.

Ivan Neville has a really good new album, "Touch My Soul." We talk about everything from his early years in New Orleans to working with the Neville Brothers, Bonnie Raitt and Keith Richards...as well as his drug addiction and so much more.

I never met her, but I know her. Every L.A. rock fan does, those who were listening to the radio during the heyday of classic rock, after all, she was the Burner, Mary Turner. 

Bassist extraordinaire Colonel Les Claypool has regrouped his Fearless Flying Brigade for its first tour in two decades. This is Claypool's story, from picking up the bass at 14 to Primus to Oysterhead to wine-making to... Les will entertain you!

All you ever wanted to know about ticketing, and more!

It's Napster redux. Universal telling DSPs not to host AI music... What could be better! Think about it, you're an act that's so popular, so desirable, that the audience wants even more of your music! Can we stop trying to hold back the future? It has never ever worked, why should it now?

Holly Knight started out as the pianist in the band Spider (alongside drummer Anton Fig). Mike Chapman convinced her to move to Los Angeles to be a songwriter and the two of them ended up writing Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield" and Tina Turner's "The Best." Holly also wrote hits for Patty Smyth, Animotion and Aerosmith. She has a new book, "I Am the Warrior: My Crazy Life Writing the Hits and Rocking the MTV Eighties."

Susanna Hoffs has a new novel, "This Bird Has Flown," and a new covers album produced by Peter Asher, "The Deep End." We talk about these two projects, growing up, the Bangles, meeting her husband and so much more!

He wasn't the average record exec. Although I first met Seymour at the Troubadour, when he approached me about something I wrote and then went into a story about Syd Nathan, it wasn't until 2004, when I went to Tony Wilson's In The City conference in Manchester, that we began to hang, began to bond.

Producer Burt Sugarman just put "The Midnight Special" on YouTube. We talk about the show as well as Burt's career, from TV to hamburgers! You'll be fascinated! 

Davey Johnstone, guitarist and musical director for Elton John, has an amazing memory...learn not only about his history, from folkie to rocker, but the recording of Elton John tracks and more!

Singer-songwriter Willie Nile has never given up. He debuted on Arista with hoopla back in '80, however legal problems ultimately sidetracked him. But Willie has re-emerged with a vengeance, releasing ten albums between 2006 and 2021.

Shinedown has the most number one "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Songs (18) in the history of the chart (40 years), and Brent Smith is the band's lead singer. You might have no idea who he is, or have even heard Shinedown's music, but I guarantee you're going to find Brent and his story very interesting.

Mr. Ticketmaster.

Mr. Ticketmaster.

I was not going to send responses/do a mailbag on this. But I believe the comments supporting Rogan, all from non-Jews, prove my point.

Michael Strickland is the Founder and Chairman of Bandit Lites. Since the advent of Covid he has been involved in getting government money in support of the touring industry. Furthermore, he is trying to get all facets of the entertainment industry aligned in the Entertainment Association, so they have a voice in Washington, D.C.

Let’s start with the fees. Everybody wants them baked in, except for the acts. Ironically, even those acts complaining about the fees! 

Of the Modern Lovers. Of the Talking Heads. We cover it all!

David Crosby was a difficult man. But he was brilliant.

She's honest, real and articulate. You want to listen to this, whether you're a fan or not!

It’s hard to imagine, but once upon a time “guitar hero,” “gunslinger,” was not a thing.

Come for the Chess Records stories, stay for the Rolling Stones stories!

He was the first star drummer. Except, of course, for Ringo Starr, but he was a Beatle. The Beatles were gods, everybody else was a musician. And musicians the Young Rascals were, except of course for frontman Eddie Brigatti, with that space between his teeth.

There's a new documentary about John Waite, "The Hard Way." We discuss the film as well as John's career. John is an artist who never stops creating, he's a true believer, you will find him intriguing.