Rock N Roll Pantheon

The Rock N Roll Archaeologist sits down with the impishly sweet Maria Muldaur! With a new album of traditional blues and a recent Grammy nomination, Christian and the Greenwich Village born Ms. Muldaur discuss her upbringing, THAT song, her forty one solo albums to date and all the great musicians she has had the pleasure to work with in her career.

Maria Muldaur is best known world-wide for her 1974 mega-hit "Midnight at the Oasis...

The Rock N Roll Archaeologists gets into the wayback machine to talk about original folk artists The Weavers with Jesse Jarnow author of Wasn't That A Time: The Weavers, The Blacklist and the Battle for the Soul of America.

The dramatic untold story of the Weavers, the hit-making folk-pop quartet destroyed with the aid of the United States government--and who changed the world.

Following a series of top-ten hits that became instant...

We are happy to celebrate our 10th episode by celebrating women in vinyl and their perspective and experiences. Producer Dana Berry sits down with three San Francisco Bay Area women who not only are avid vinyl collectors but own or have owned record stores - Tracy Parker of VAMP Art and Music, Hannah Lew of Contact Records and Windy Chien of Aquarius Records. Host Dave Whitaker follows up with episode 9 guest Mike LaVella, who shor...

This week our guest is Roxana Shirazi! She is an author, journalist, lecturer, actress and bad-ass human being with a heart of gold. Roxana is the author of 'The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage' and will be releasing a new book this fall called "Dead Iranian Girl".

In this episode we talk about Roxana's childhood, what it was like to move to England at the age of 10, how she got her start in the rock and roll world a...

Pantheon is proud to present Pamela Des Barres first hosted podcast series, "Miss Pamela's Pajama Party" Join Miss Pamela as she tells tales from her diary, has fun interviewing special guests, and shares her love of rock n roll.

This first episode features Miss Pamela getting together with former GTO bandmate Miss Mercy, sharing stories of the days where the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously) were mentored and produced by Frank Za...

Time to stage dive when the Rock N Roll Archaeologist digs deep into guest Ian Winwood's new book SMASH!: Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion.

Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and changed the genre forever. While the punk originators remained underground favorites and were slow burns commercially, thei...

Kosh is back with new friend, photographer extraordinaire Glen Wexler!

Glen Wexler was one of the first artists to use digital imaging technology as a tool in the creative process. His career began by designing album covers for clients like Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, ZZ Top, and KISS, and continues with an international client base ranging from Microsoft and Pfizer to Warner Bros. Pictures and Time magazine.

He has a new book o...

The Rock N Roll Archaeologist digs into the origins of 90's alt-rock with seminal figure Tyson Meade.

Often cited as The Godfather of Alternative Rock, Meade was the vocalist for Norman, OK based 90's rock band Chainsaw Kittens, and before that with mid 80's influential band Defenestration. Meade was cited by Kurt Cobain as an influence, his friends The Flaming Lips covered Tyson's song 'She's Gone Mad,' and Billy Corgan of the Sma...

This week we bring you the life story of Guinness heir turned '60's muse Tara Browne. Born into Irish aristocracy, Tara's upbringing was anything but normal. Surrounded by some of the worlds most famous writers, artists, and politicians, Tara spent his childhood absorbing culture and learning by experience. By 14, Tara was already influencing those around him, always ahead of everyone else when it came to music, fashion and fast ca...

The Rock N Roll Archaeologists talks doowop with Al Contrera where they dissect his book, 'Hushabye: The Mystics, the Music and the Mob'.

An original founding member of the Mystics, author Al Contrera tells the true story of how five Brooklyn teenagers went from singing on street corners to fame in the fifties with their first hit song, "Hushabye." Contrera, provides vivid and detailed accounts of the trials and adventures of formi...

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The Rock & Roll Reverend Andy King is back and will be looking at Springsteen On Broadway, the 2018 concert performance available only on Netflix.

I will be looking at various points of the film, so please consider this your spoiler warning. Go watch the film … now… then come back for our discussion.

You can view the film here - https://www.netflix.com/title/80232329

Some of the questions we will be answer...

Today the rock N Roll Archaeologist walks into Rock stars' Homes! Wait what? Ok, he discuss the new book, Rock Stars at Home published by Apollo. One of the six authors of the book , Bryan Reesman, joins Christian for a chat on many famous homes from many famous names.

You can tell a lot about people from the way they live, and rock stars are no exception. From Graceland to Neverland, private planes to island hideaways, Rock Stars ...

The Muses celebrate episode 100 by getting to know writer Evelyn McDonnell and discussing her latest book, Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyonce, Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl! Women Who Rock features over 100 amazing artists and is written by a collective of incredible women. If that weren't enough, each artist gets their own gorgeous illustration, all created by extremely talented female artists.

One of our favourite ...

This week the Rock n Roll Archaeologist sits down with music technologist to the stars, David Frangioni. Known to Steven Tyler of Aerosmith as Gyro Gear-Loose for his magical abilities in all things audio technology, David has worked with too many rockers to count. Along with the bad boys from Boston, he is also widely known for working on "The Osbournes" reality TV show.

He is the owner of Audio One and a collector of famous drum ...

Shelley and Christian dive into Bruce's autobiography, 'Born to Run'.

In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began.

Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same hones...

At the Aftermaster studios in Hollywood, The Rock N Roll Archaeologists sits down with ex-outlaw photographer, Julian David Stone.

What's an "outlaw photographer"? It used to be, anyone with a camera at rock n roll shows needed to be vetted and credentialed by the band and promoters. Every ticket would be printed with, "No Cameras Allowed". And so Julian, unvetted and uncredentialed, became an outlaw from 1981-1987.

Julian David St...

We all know her, we all love her and there is no one else like her. Who could we possibly be talking about? That's right, Dolly Parton!

Today Chanty presents the story of Dolly Parton, the early years. With the help of Dolly's book "Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business", you can hear the story of how Dolly got to be the super star she is today. A small town girl from the smoky mountains of East Tennessee, Dolly was one...

The Rock N Roll Archaeologist digs into the Death Rocker/L.A. Punk supergroup, the Flesh Eaters, with lead vocalist and head visionary, Chris D!

Coming out of the original late 1970's L.A. punk scene, centered around the legendary club The Masque, Chris D, a cerebral poet, journalist and singer, turned in his own brand of Western America influenced punk. Less New York and London and more it's own thing encompassing a wide variety o...

In episode 9 we continue our Confessions of a Vinyl Addict series. Producer Dana Berry interviews Mike LaVella, a life-long record collector who also worked within the music industry as a writer for Maximum Rock n Roll and Thrasher, published the garage punk/hot rod magazine Gearhead and ran Gearhead Records.

Mike now runs a 'Now Playing' vinyl spinning night in the Bay Area. Take a journey with Mike as he recounts the plot points ...