Besides being a long, seemingly unfounded piece of local-music folklore, as well as a now well-documented and utterly fascinating part of the Smiths mythology, the story of James Kiss is a redemptive ...

The legend of WLIR, the small, but influential Hempstead radio station that helped bring British new wave to America in the ’80s, is about to grow much, much bigger. “New Wave: Dare to Be Different,” ...

Often in radio, the smaller stations are the most interesting. Case in point is KNAC (now KBUE, 105.5 FM). Licensed to Long Beach, the little station set the standard for creative programming during ...

The local radio station for Cuyahoga Falls residents has changed what its listeners will hear on the airwaves. Late last month, the city of Cuyahoga Falls, City Hall posted on its Facebook page that ...

The music blaring from the speakers of a small pub on a recent Friday night seemed like typical oldies fare: Aretha Franklin’s “Respect,” the 1970s tune “Disco Lady” and the 1950s surf instrumental ...

I’ll never forget how my big brother Dave used to scan the dial on our stereo after WILD 1090 AM stopped broadcasting for the day. WILD or AM109, as people often referred to it, had a tiny transmitter ...

The year was 1922 when WOC radio, only the second licensed station in the country, went on the air. Eighty years later, the Davenport station is set to be inducted into the Radio Broadcast Hall of ...

Absolute Radio has announced the forthcoming launch of a new radio station dedicated to 1980s pop music, which is aimed at fun-loving but "reluctant" adults. Titled Absolute 80s, the new station will ...

We’ve come a long way since the era of cassette tape hiss. From optical media to digital downloads to streaming, the way we’ve listened to music has seriously changed over the past 40 years, and ...