Archive for the 'Radio' Category


Playlists

They’re the new radio. As a result, you’ve got to exercise tender loving care, you’ve got to be a deejay, you’ve got to earn your listeners’ trust and keep it. We’ll only tolerate a fifteen or twenty percent tune-out rate. I was forwarded Esquire’s "Songs Every Man Should Listen to 2012" and you shouldn’t. But […]

Roger Waters On Howard Stern

He’s so damn difficult! Usually Howard gets the interviewee going and then interrupts him with left field questions. Frustrated that Roger was not forthcoming, Howard keeps firing away, hoping to rev up an interview that never truly gets rolling because Roger’s so reluctant. Maybe if you’re his buddy, he relaxes and moves up from 16 […]

Originality

So Howard Stern is sitting at home during Christmas vacation and he gets a call saying Paul is on the line. It’s weird that the head of NBC alternative programming responsible for "America’s Got Talent" would ring him, there’s no business pending, but it’s nice so Howard starts waxing rhapsodic, talking about the publicity, thanking […]

Say It Ain’t So Joe

So I’m fooling around with Spotify radio. I’ve got a problem with Pandora, the tune-outs and you can’t fast-forward and Tim Westergren is a Moonie. And whenever I’m given the ability to fast-forward on these services I end up just clicking to see what they play next and not even listening, it’s frustrating. But you […]