music

Punk rock’s been around for a good half a century now. This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a deep dive into punk’s past and present.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, our yearly year-end look at the year in jazz.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, our mostly weekly pop culture roundtable, The Nose, looks back at 2022.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, our 2022 holiday spectacular with ‘Big Al’ Anderson, Jim Chapdelaine, and friends.

Has everything original been done in the arts? This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show we attempt to answer that question, explore the idea of originality, and discuss our tolerance for novelty.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, in The Nose’s stead, a long look at the long-dead movie musical. Long live the movie musical.

The humble tambourine is the underrated, understated, unsung hero of contemporary music. This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we shake our assumptions about this surprisingly enduring and ubiquitous instrument.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, The Nose considers two figures from the world of music with possibly pretentious one-word names, one real and one fictional: Bono and ‘Tár.’

History is littered with promising innovations that failed to live up to their hype. This week on Disrupted, a look at three revolutionary but doomed disruptions and their impact on our world today.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we look back at the history of ringtones, talk about their rise and fall, discuss the appeal of a well-composed one, and talk to someone who designed his own.