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About Bradley Morgan
Bradley Morgan, a media arts professional in Chicago, is the author of "U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), "Frank Zappa's America" (Louisiana State University Press, 2025), and "U2: Until the End of the World (Gemini Books, 2025). He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM and is the director of its music film festival. He also enjoys listening to records with his ginger cat Rusty.Bradley Morgan, a media arts professional in Chicago, is the author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), Frank Zappa's America (Louisiana State University Press, 2025), and U2: Until the End of the World (Gemini Books, 2025). He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM and is the director of its music film festival. He also enjoys listening to records with his ginger cat Rusty.
NBN Episodes hosted by Bradley:
February 28, 2026
Bob Dylan as Filmmaker
A deep dive into one of the most overlooked -- and fascinating -- sides of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature winner: Bob Dylan, the filmmaker. While …
February 12, 2026
The Cure
The story of The Cure: a tall tale of a truly unique British band. The Cure's story is a fantastical pop fable, but their trajectory has not been one…
February 9, 2026
Who by Fire
In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled from his home on the Gr…
February 7, 2026
What's the Big Idea
As long as there has been music, the form has been used as a vehicle for storytelling. Artists who have something to say often find that putting it in…
January 26, 2026
Fernando
Since its release in 1976, ABBA's song "Fernando" has been loved by fans around the globe both for its sing-along chorus and its revolutionary spirit.…
December 19, 2025
Under Pressure
In 1981, David Bowie and Queen both happened to be in Switzerland: They met and made "Under Pressure." Recorded on a lark, the song broke the path for…
December 9, 2025
Fela
A spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti—the Pan-African frontman, multi-instrumentalist, sociopolitical powerh…
November 22, 2025
Eyeliner's Buy Now
Michael Brown undertakes a thorough study of Eyeliner's Eyeliner's Buy Now (Bloomsbury 2025) a vaporwave homage to the kitsch electronic sounds of the…
October 11, 2025
That Gun in Your Hand
This is the story of a song. Yet, it is a song that binds nearly every strand of 20th-century American popular music. “Hey Joe” was written sometime i…
September 18, 2025
Revolution
Revolution: Prince, the Band, the Era (Backbeat Books, 2025) is a detailed exploration into the era of Prince's most prolific and groundbreaking music…
September 5, 2025
Down on the Corner
This is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s t…
August 6, 2025
Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan
Few politicians produced the musical reaction that Ronald Reagan did. His California-branded conservatism inspired countless young people to pick up g…
July 18, 2025
Why Alanis Morissette Matters
The first critical biography of iconic musician Alanis Morissette, creator of Jagged Little Pill. The 1990s hardly saw a bigger hit than Jagged Littl…
June 14, 2025
The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. When Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as "dad rock,"…
May 14, 2025
I Got You Babe
Covering her life and sixty-year career from Sonny & Cher to show-stopping solo performer, award-winning actress, fashion icon, and beyond, this is a …
April 8, 2025
John Cale's Paris 1919
John Cale's enigmatic masterpiece, Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever. It was 1973, the year of the Wa…
March 8, 2025
The Real Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor, renowned for her angelic voice and activism, overcame a tumultuous upbringing to become a global protest singer and advocate for soci…
February 8, 2025
There Was No Alternative
Grunge. Flannel. Generation X. In 1993, Seattle was the capital of the world, Nirvana was king, and slackers were everywhere. When the Red Hot organiz…
January 17, 2025
Taking Funny Music Seriously
Take funny music seriously! Though often dismissed as silly or derivative, funny music, Lily E. Hirsch argues, is incredibly creative and dynamic, ser…
December 11, 2024
Kate Bush's Hounds of Love
Hounds Of Love invites you to not only listen, but to cross the boundaries of sensory experience into realms of imagination and possibility. Side A sp…
November 6, 2024
The Endless Refrain
A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, wit…
October 19, 2024
Soul-Folk
Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-…
September 6, 2024
Dreams
An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac--the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures—Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood…
August 10, 2024
The England No One Cares About
An exploration of the much-derided English suburbs through rap music. There are many different Englands. From the much-romanticized rolling countrysi…