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About Bradley Morgan
Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and the author of "U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America." He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. His forthcoming books are "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, Spring 2025) and "U2: Until the End of the World" (Palazzo Editions, Fall 2025). He enjoys listening to records with his ginger cat Rusty.Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. His forthcoming books are "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, Spring 2025) and "U2: Until the End of the World" (Palazzo Editions, Fall 2025). He enjoys listening to records with his ginger cat Rusty. Bradley Morgan on Twitter.
NBN Episodes hosted by Bradley:
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…
July 30, 2024
Sweet, Wild and Vicious
From the time he began recording with the Velvet Underground in the 1960s until his death in 2013, Lou Reed released nearly 50 original albums. In Swe…
July 27, 2024
1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left
1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left (Akashic Books, 2024) explores how that pivotal slice of time tastes to a bright, obsessive-compulsive boy …
June 24, 2024
Traveling
For decades, Joni Mitchell's life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired cou…
May 31, 2024
Springsteen
The definitive illustrated book on "The Boss"-- Springsteen: Album by Album (Palazzo Editions, 2024) is now updated to celebrate Bruce Springsteen’s 7…
May 11, 2024
Extending Play
Despite the hypervisibility of a constellation of female pop stars, the music business is structured around gender inequality. As a result, women in t…
April 3, 2024
High Bias
The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade the…
March 14, 2024
The Clash's Sandinista!
Following the success of their instantly iconic double LP, London Calling, The Clash set out to do something "triply outrageous." Named after the Nica…
February 5, 2024
Country and Midwestern
The untold story of Chicago's pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched majo…
January 7, 2024
Quantum Criminals
A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan. Steely Dan's songs are exercises in fictional world-building. No one else in the classi…
December 4, 2023
Gentleman of Jazz
This immersive new autobiography provides insight into the early life and illustrious career of the late great Ramsey Lewis, one of the most popular j…
November 17, 2023
Deliver Me from Nowhere
Without Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen might not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen's hugely successful album The River should have…
October 7, 2023
The Story of the B-52s
The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) is the first critical history of one of the most legendary and influential bands …
September 19, 2023
Living Colour's Time's Up
The iconic Black rock band Living Colour's Time's Up, released in 1990, was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial succe…
August 14, 2023
Rocking in the Free World
Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By t…
July 9, 2023
Alien Territory
Alien Territory: Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music in 1970s San Diego (Billingsgate Media, 2023) is the untold story of a sleepy Navy town tha…
June 22, 2023
Song & Dance Man
Song & Dance Man is an established classic, available again for Dylan fans and scholars alike on the 50th Anniversary of the original edition. The wor…
June 7, 2023
The Future of Rock and Roll
In 1983, an Ohio radio station called WOXY launched a sonic disruption to both corporate rock and to its conservative home region, programming an omni…
May 12, 2023
Breaks in the Air
In Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City (Duke UP, 2022), John Klaess tells the story of rap's emergence on New York City's airwa…
April 30, 2023
Lady Gaga
As one of the world's best-selling musicians, Lady Gaga has set the musical bar high. Since her debut album, The Fame (2008), she has sold more than 1…
April 13, 2023
Sylvia Kristel
A trailblazing figure in film and popular culture, Netherlands native Sylvia Kristel became one of the biggest stars in the world as Emmanuelle in 197…