Coronavirus is really making it difficult to talk about a lot of music in the middle of a non-existent music festival season!  Instead, I focus more on the third part of my Rising Artists segment.  In this episode, I focus on folk, pop, and metal artists.

In this episode, I discuss a festival cancellation in Chicago and how that could impact Lollapalooza.  I also resume my Rising Artists series and discuss some artists who have upcoming albums, just released albums, or are in genres that I don't have a lot listed.  Even though this episode has been posted a day after Mother's Day, happy Mother's Day!

In Episode 1 of my Rising Artists series, I discuss several artists of various genres and my predictions for their popularity, including YBN Cordae, Royal Blood, The Internet, I Prevail, Tyler Childers, Kaytranada, and many more!  I also briefly talk about various changes in concerts and festivals due to Coronavirus.

While we're all wishing we were able to live our normal lives, in this episode I reflect on a happier time; in particular, I rank each live act I've seen.  Before that, I provide some updates about music news related to COVID-19 and discuss the Boston Calling lineup.

It sure feels like the end of the world with COVID-19 happening.  In this episode, I discuss the impact Coronavirus has had on several concerts and music festivals, including a final update regarding Epicenter.  I also discuss what other artists I would compare the nominees for Best New Artist at the Grammy's to.

As a special for International Women's Day, I discussed five influential female musicians.  I also provided some festival and concert updates and rumors regarding the Coronavirus and some funny political campaign song stories.

In this episode I discuss and analyze several upcoming festival lineups.

In this episode, I reviewed three different albums (including one by Pop Smoke who recently passed away), the issues that Ticketmaster has had with scalpers for several shows, and talked about how excited I was about the Epicenter lineup.

Everybody knows about how Woodstock is a legendary festival and is one of the most popular, if not the most popular, music festival of all time.  However, I am more interested in everything that went wrong with Woodstock.  In this episode, I investigate several issues with each iteration of Woodstock, starting with the issues that should have ruined the original Woodstock and ultimately the ones that undermined the notorious Woodstock '99 and the cancelled Woodstock 50.  I also briefly discuss the future of the festival and if there is one.

I discuss my list of best albums of 2019.  I also briefly discuss the Ticketmaster issues with the My Chemical Romance show in Brooklyn.