Producer Howard Benson has worked with acts as varied as the All-American Rejects and Kelly Clarkson. You know his hit with Hoobastank, “The Reason,” as well as P.O.D.’s “Payable on Death” and multiple records with Three Days Grace. This is his story, how he made it and how he produces records. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/howard-benson/id1316200737?i=1000698070284       […]

Playlist: https://shorturl.at/WhzPz Was different from 1964. 1964 was all bright and sunny, brand new. Credit the Beatles and the tsunami of British acts that followed them on to the radio. The radio… Record companies still talk about it, but youngsters do not. But in ’65 the radio was everything. Everybody had a transistor and everybody […]

1 I first heard about the Vietnam War from Marshall Drazen. It was 1964. We were at Camp Laurelwood. Well, actually we were on an overnight, off-site, gathering wood, and he said “You know there’s a war in Vietnam…” I didn’t. But Marshall had older siblings. Who told him about it. War? That was something […]

The hype is deafening, but will Jesse Welles break through? Not according to Spotify, where his streams are anemic. But I keep getting e-mail from people telling me he’s the great folk rock protest hope. So I checked him out. You’re going to be immediately put off by his voice. I know, I know, Bob […]