Episodes

  • About Radio: What Will the Future Sound Like?
    Dec 17 2025
    About Radio: What Will the Future Sound Like? Did video kill the radio star? No, it didn't. But it faces many other threats. Check out the solutions. Ferris Kennedy considers the required therapies for radio to rule again.
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    29 mins
  • Rolling Stone Magazine: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time - Part 2
    Dec 3 2025
    Rolling Stone Magazine: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time - Part 2 Listen up and we guarantee some buried treasures. Uncover riches that lay just beneath the sands of time. We do the heavy lifting. You turn up the volume.
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    32 mins
  • Rolling Stone Magazine: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time - Part 1
    Nov 19 2025
    Rolling Stone Magazine: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time - Part 1 You owe us one! Kennedy and Clarke endured both pain and pleasure with this list. It takes mucho guts and endurance to make it entertaining and engaging and sensible. So please, good people, listen in!
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    44 mins
  • Oh (No) Canada - Failure of the 2025 Junos (Kennedy's Corner)
    Nov 5 2025
    Kennedy's Corner - Oh No Canada: Failure of the 2025 Junos Our own Ferris Kennedy has a deep, passionate love for Canadian music. That's why the 2025 Juno Awards sent him down a deep well of depression. But he's okay now — tanned, pumped and ready to relate just what went terribly wrong.
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    9 mins
  • Janis Joplin: I Met a GIrl Who Sang the Blues
    Oct 22 2025
    Janis Joplin: I Met a Girl Who Sang the Blues Immortalized in songs, films and musicals, Janis Joplin burned bright in a brief career. The manner of her untimely death—though not wrapped in the same confusion as some others in 'The 27 Club'—nonetheless continues to raise questions. Join Dr. Clarke as he delves into the life and demise of 'the girl who sang the blues' (a nod to Don McLean). #janisjoplin #jimmorrison #haightashbury #stevemiller #woodstock #montereypop #mercedesbenz #crime #music #podcast #seriousrocktalk #donmaclean #americanpie #jimihendrix #losangeles
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    20 mins
  • Gram Parsons: Dark Death of the Cosmic Cowboy
    Aug 29 2025
    Gram Parsons: Dark Death of the Cosmic Cowboy Few musicians have started a genre—but that's what Gram Parsons did. He is the reigning pioneer of country rock—a huge influence on bands that came after, most notably, The Eagles. However, fate pays little attention to achievement, and Gram's life is clouded with a gothic darkness, culminating in the sordid details of his demise. Dr. Clarke takes you back in time to Joshua Tree. It's 1973. Let the tale unfold.
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    15 mins
  • Rock Trios: When Three Is Not a Crowd (Masters of Rock Talk)
    Aug 18 2025
    Rock Trios: When Three is Not a Crowd Usually a rock band has at least four members. Why would anyone settle for just three? Oh, there are many good reasons, and in this episode you're going to experience the liberation of those who claim, 'the fewer, the better'. Maybe it is. You decide. Listen in.
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    32 mins
  • The Real Roll of Sex in Rock (Masters of Rock Talk)
    Aug 6 2025
    The Real Roll of Sex in Rock Like birds of a feather, sex and rock go together. But why? You don't find this corporeal attachment in jazz or classical. Why rock? Dr. Clarke, diplomatically and with an unnerving sense of purpose, confronts the facts and figures straight on. Tune in. Turn on. But don't drop out.
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    19 mins