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  A Day In The Life With Mr. Record Man Clint Broussard

  January 18 at 4 a.m.

  Clint Broussard is a walking encyclopedia of musical knowledge and the radio show and podcast hosts flexes his strengths every week hosting his Monday afternoon show on KPFT, Blues in Hi-Fi, and online with his podcast, A Day In The Life. Throughout 2020, a year where nothing was certain, Broussard’s...

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  Bill Champlin Talks New Solo Record and a Vast, Varied Career

  January 15 at 4 a.m.

  Bill Champlin is on the phone calling from his home in Santa Barbara, California. And while it’s ostensibly to discuss his new solo record Livin’ for Love—available digitally from Imagen Records and physically from BillChamplin.com—he first has something to say about visiting our fair city’s environs. “My wife and son...

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  Lee Rocker Calls Out All Cool Cats to Gather Round

  January 12 at 4 a.m.

  Musicians have always written songs on the road as inspiration hits them during their travels. But Lee Rocker has taken it to another level, and during a pandemic. The man best known for plunking the fat strings of a standup acoustic bass for the Stray Cats penned most of the...

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  George Thorogood Gets "Bad to the Bone" with Full Beantown Party

  Monday, December 28, 2020 at 4 a.m.

  The year 1982 was turning out pretty good for George Thorogood and the Destroyers. Nearly a decade into their existence, the blues ‘n boogie band had opened a string of European dates for the Rolling Stones (as they had done the previous year in the United States). They were musical...

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  New Book is One Stop Shopping on the Life — and Loss — of John Lennon

  Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 4:30 a.m.

  The Last Days of John Lennon By James Patterson with Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge 448 pp. $30 Little, Brown and Company December 8 of this year marked the 40th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon, gunned down in the hallway of his New York apartment building at the...

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  Loverboy Remembers Their First Kiss with Debut Reissue

  Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 4 a.m.

  When Loverboy’s self-titled debut came in in October 1980, the prevailing media format for music was the vinyl LP. But given what he saw shortly thereafter, guitarist Paul Dean probably didn’t expect that the Canadian rockers would be releasing Loverboy in a 40th anniversary edition on vinyl as well! The...