“You’re on the air”: Did a serial killer really confess his crimes on a Howard Stern phone-in?
Hell of a way to go public.
Radio
Art Bell and the strangest radio caller of all time: “They are not who they say they are”
Don’t believe everything you hear.
‘Test Driving The New Prius,’ a radio play by Jim Fry And Luke Haines
I’ve posted here before about Luke Haines’ excellent Righteous in the Afternoon show broadcast every Tuesday on Boogaloo Radio. It’s a fun time for rock…
Attention rock snobs: Dig Luke Haines’ righteous outsider rock & roll radio show
On Luke Haines’ 2016 album Smash the System there is an affectionate paean to the Incredible String Band (“The Incredible String Band were an unholy…
Radio, Radio: Behold, the greatest collection of novelty radios known to mankind!!!
About a year ago, I shared a compilation of wacky telephones that I had found in a novelty collector’s book. Shortly after publishing, I received…
Brian Eno, Debbie Harry play movie soundtracks on ex-Strangler Hugh Cornwell’s internet radio show
The March 3, 1979 issue of ‘Record Mirror’ Last summer, I posted clips from MrDeMilleFM, the new internet radio venture of former Stranglers singer and…
CB Action: (Apparently) CB radio wasn’t just for sad, lonely middle-aged men?
Okay, I’ll admit it. Everything I know about CB Radio comes from that episode of Family Guy where Peter Griffin sat naked in his basement…
Ex-Strangler Hugh Cornwell has an internet radio show about film history and movie music
Hugh Cornwell, who was once the lead singer and guitarist in the Stranglers, has a new internet radio show devoted to movies and their music.…
The Doors’ last charting single, ‘The Mosquito,’ as marketed by Presbyterians on Christian radio
One hears a lot of contrary opinions, spending year after year in the orbit of musicians, record collectors, and resentful nerds. That the Beatles “sucked”…