Can Radical Radio and Social Media co-exist? Better still, might they actually compliment each other? It's a question or two worth asking and apparently worth paying to find out, as Founding Member David Shepardson has done. Here's why. A while back, we worked with a couple of savvy art directors at BeCause Communications to design a pitch deck. We want to find seed capital to explore funding a film or documentary about Freeform Radio. We call that project Radio Active, which

Whether or not she was the very best of all the remarkably talented deejays of the Freeform Radio era, there were none bettter than the late, great Dusty Street. She was one of the very first female jocks when Tom Donahue founded KMPX-FM and had the good sense to hire her, first for her engineering skills but very soon thereafter for her brilliant taste in music. She rocked the airwaves from Day One and drew a huge, devoted audience. Dusty knew the music and she knew how to p

Here's a great piece that came our way from our friend June Renwick, who was in Great Britain when pirate radio was happening. This...

Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy at Chess Studio Chicago 1963 Last week, I mentioned meeting Muhammad Ali and the tongue-tying...