Celebration of Record Store Day

On April 20, 2012, in Music, by RDM

This was originally posted to the Cumulus Media Websites. All week, in honor of Record Store Day on April 21, you have read what our music writers would take with them if they were to be locked somewhere for a year and could only take five albums with them.  Some of us cheated and riffed [...]

Remembering The Early Days of MTV

On August 2, 2011, in Music, by RDM

This column originally appeared on the Citadel Digital websites under the RightNowRadio brand. August 1, 1981: The United States had a fairly new President, Russia was still a looming threat, NASA was testing something called a Space Shuttle and at 12:01 that morning, a few thousand people on a cable network in Northern New Jersey [...]

PJ20 – Here I Come!

On May 25, 2011, in Music, by RDM

It’s official. One of my favorite musical acts of all time will play two shows this summer in the USA, to commemorate their Twentieth Anniversary as a band. Yep, if you want to feel a little…um… more mature, Pearl Jam is almost legal. Well, I suppose by the time they get around to the festival [...]