Chip and Elaine Baker late of KSPK-FM in Walsenburg, Colorado Rock the Rockies is a euphemism rarely realized, but Chip and Elaine Baker...

Sam Kopper at WBCN-FM Boston c. 1969 We had a great Zoom interview with Sam Kopper last week about his long career in broadcasting, both...

Jim Santella c. 1972 - credit: bmhof.org We have a sense of impatience about this project and for good reason. So many of the great...

We had the pleasure a few weeks ago of talking with Steve Postell, he of the famed group of studio musicians known as Immediate Family (...

There are a lot of great stories in the history of radio. Being focused on freeform radio as we are, we can assure you there are many...

Then there is WFMU-FM radio, and there is nothing else like it. The About Us section of their website tells it better than I ever could:...

Phil Schaap Jazz Collection; Special Collections Library; Vanderbilt University - credit: NYT History we've observed is what is stored in...

How to ‘splain it? Garth Brooks sold more albums than Elvis Presley, more than Led Zeppelin, more than the Eagles, even more than Michael...

First Steps - Pablo Picasso 1943 We took the first steps in our Freeform Radio project a few years ago. We built a website (HERE) as a...

Tony Pigg c. 1977 - photo credit: Lucinda Scala Quinn in the New York Times The Last DJ for us is that rare and special breed of the...

credit: jimladdrocks.com Jim Ladd, disc jockey who was a fixture of L.A. rock radio in the 1970s, dies at 75. Jim Ladd spun vinyl and...

KVNF-FM Radio in Paonia, Colorado Fifteen hundred people live in the country comfort town of Paonia, Colorado, and the population of...

Dusty Street courtesy KSAN Jive 95 Dusty Street died last week. Her former colleague, Scoop Nisker, passed away a few weeks ago. They...

The famed KMET deejay passed away. Read her obituary HERE. Mary Turner - credit: LARadio.com

Not anymore. Not with that old, scratchy, battered AM radio band that drove the dreams and heartbeat of so many teenage listeners to Top...

credit: michaelbloomfield.com Bob Dylan called him, "the best guitar player I ever heard." Being the astute musicologist he is, Bob has...

(Abbreviated from https://citroenvie.com/history-of-the-car-radio/) One evening, in 1929, two young men named William Lear and Elmer...

Peter, Paul, and Mary, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, the Freedom Singers, Pete Seeger, Theodore Bickel at the Newport Folk Festival 1963 Bob...

A lot of great music came out of San Francisco in the latter half of the Sixties, but none of it better than what the Jefferson Airplane...

by James Pagliasotti text copyright 2023 Michael Bloomfield credit: Don's Tunes Mike Bloomfield left a successful stint with the Paul...