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About Greg Renoff
NBN Episodes hosted by Greg:
June 3, 2014
Living Colour
The New York-based rock band Living Colour exploded into national consciousness in 1988 after their video for the thunderous "Cult of Personality" wen…
March 17, 2014
Detroit Rock City
Today Detroit is down for the count, but as Steve Miller reveals inDetroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock 'n' Roll in America's Loudest Cit…
January 13, 2014
What You Want is in the Limo
Conventional wisdom holds that the birth of the rock star came in 1956 with the ascendance of Elvis Presley. Not so, says author Michael Walker, who a…
December 18, 2013
Slayer 66 2/3
2013 has been an annus horribilis for thrash metal legends Slayer. In February, Slayer parted ways with longtime drummer Dave Lombardo for the third a…
September 20, 2013
Won't Get Fooled Again
Between 1969 and 1973, the Who hit their commercial and creative peak. The legendary English quartet produced three Billboard Top Ten albums, includin…
August 7, 2013
Paul's Boutique
After spending millions to steal superstar Brooklyn-based rappers the Beastie Boys away from Def Jam Records in 1988, Capitol Records had high hopes f…
July 18, 2013
Outlaw
In the late 1960s, Nashville's recording industry was a hit-making machine. A small clique of writers, producers, engineers and session musicians gave…
July 2, 2013
Reign in Blood
By the fall of 1986, the Los Angeles heavy metal band Slayer had two solid but unspectacular records, 1984's Haunting the Chapel and 1985's Hell Await…
June 25, 2013
Ripped
At the dawn of the twenty first century, the music business looked forward to its sixth decade of monopolistic dominance of the sale and manufacture o…
June 6, 2013
This Ain't the Summer of Love
When I was a teenager growing up in the early 80s, I took it as an article of faith that punk rock and heavy metal were definably different genres. To…
May 17, 2013
Spray Paint the Walls
Scholars commonly trace the rise of the punk rock movement of the mid-1970s to two cities and two bands, New York's Ramones and London's The Sex Pisto…
May 3, 2013
Becoming Jimi Hendrix
After his incendiary performance at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix almost immediately went from obscure musician to pop su…