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  Chris Frantz Remembers Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, and Most of All, Tina

  July 2 at 4 a.m.

  Chris Frantz remembers very vividly the first time he ever laid eyes upon one Martina Weymouth. It was September of 1971, and was lounging on a grassy park with a fellow student at the Rhode Island School of Design. When he saw a vision. “Suddenly, as in a scene from...

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  New Doc Finally Gives Suzi Quatro Her Due

  June 25 at 4 a.m.

  In the mid 1970s, she was a pioneering female rocker at a time when that term was nearly nonexistent, a hugely popular record and concert attraction, and a style icon. That is…in much of the non-U.S. world. Here in her own home country, the singer/bassist born and bred in tough...

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  Blackberry Smoke Revisits Ground Zero for Southern Rock on New Covers EP

  June 15 at 4 a.m.

  During the 1970s, most of the major rock recording studios were in well-known cities like New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Memphis. But down in Macon, Georgia, a little upstart operation called Capricorn Studios made a surprising impact, particularly with the raucous sounds of Southern Rock. Founded in 1969 by...

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  A Survivor's Story: Lynyrd Skynyrd's Plane Crash Gets the Movie Treatment

  June 9 at 4 a.m.

  Sometimes, the sound of impending doom is quiet. And sometimes it is loud. Less often, it is both. That’s how Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle recalls what he and 25 other band members, crew, associates, and pilots heard inside their Convair CV-240 plane over the swamps near Gillsburg, Mississippi on...

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  Rocker Joe Grushecky's Iron City Serenade at 40

  May 29 at 4 a.m.

  It hard to fathom in a time when the push of a button can send the music of an album to the entire country at the same time. But from the ‘60s through the early ‘80s, local rock scenes thrived around the country. Midwest and East Coast towns like Boston,...

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  Dennis DeYoung Goes Back to the Basement Where It All Began

  May 15 at 4 a.m.

  Like all musicians of varying ages, genres, and stages in their career during the Age of Coronavirus, Dennis DeYoung is stuck at home. He’s got a new solo record coming out, but has put a planned tour on ice. So he finds himself at walking the floors with his wife...