Roger LaMay, General Manager at XPN, shares his most memorable Zappa moment.

On this day in 1966 the garage band Count Five entered the Billboard charts with “Psychotic Reaction”, their only hit. The Count Five are one of many garage bands featured in the legendary Nuggets collection curated by Jac Holzman of Elektra Records and the Patti Smith Group’s Lenny Kaye. The Nuggets sound and garage band […]

A video sampler of performers that kept the music in the family. What are your favorite family acts? Did we forget a major family act?
Everly Brothers - “Wake Up Little Suzie”

The Ronettes - “Be My Baby”
Veronica Bennett (aka Ronnie Spector), sister Estelle Bennett and cousin Nedra Talley
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by Terry, Devon, Pa
The Air Force sent dad to Thailand in 1964, and transistor goodies were even more available there at the time than they were here…He sent home a small battery-powered, reel-to-reel so we could listen to the tapes he recorded and mailed to us. But when he returned, he brought home a whole […]

by artmaven, Ventnor, New Jersey
One of my most memorable music moments is making mix tapes from the Gene Shay Show on WIOQ. I don’t think I was ever happier. When I first started hearing Gene, I hated the show. Sunday night, I’d go to my room to start the homework that I’d avoided all weekend. […]

by Sas, Wilmington, Delaware
Every moment I have heard and read has been huge and I love hearing and reading them! I could repeat them all! But one I haven’t noticed is when Paul McCartney debuted his classical composition, Standing Stone, in Carnegie Hall on November 19, 1997. He had performed it first in October of […]

by William Kennedy, Gwynedd, PA
I have been in the music business for 30 years, and a huge music fan for 10 years probably before that. So many amazing, wonderful, sometimes stupid and hopefully faithful rock and roll full-on adventures have been the daily fabric of my work life, and sometimes my private life, too. ….just […]

by Charlie Crane, Thorofare, NJ
Pink Floyd, Spectrum, March 15, 1973
Pink Floyd had been touring for over a year doing the Dark Side of the Moon line-up of songs — although they hadn’t  released the album yet. Everywhere they played, it seemed a bootleg of the concert was released. The album would be released on March, […]

by Chuck Goushian, Runnemede, NJ
I forget the year. But this was by far the greatest musical experience anybody could have, other than if you were lucky enough to go to a Beatles concert.
My wife and I went to see Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble at the Mann Music Center. I forget the opening act. […]

by Diane Umile, Coatesville, PA
We’d had a blast at the Xponential Festival, especially seeing The Cat Empire and Los Lonely Boys. They were awesome! We were watching the unfortunate aftermath of the accident where the stolen SUV plowed into the concession stands, when suddenly the Garza brothers were walking swiftly through the crowd with their […]