Frank E. Lee
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Frank E. Lee was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. His education in the Chicago Southwest Christian School system left him ill-prepared for a career as a rock superstar, so he turned to the radio. [Read Frank's Full Bio]
Laura Marling Performs Live From Studio X [Listen]
The lovely and talented Laura Marling has come a long way in a brief time thanks to her clear, distinctive voice and superlative guitar technique. Her songs are filled with compelling characters that are delightfully strange and hauntingly familiar at the same time. She has a brand new album coming out next week and will give some of those tunes the acid test when she returns to the Athenaum Theater for an XRT show tomorrow night. (Still some tickets available.) Ms. Marling stopped by the XRT studios about a year ago for music and conversation and here it is:
Ray Manzarek RIP
Psychedelic rock was driven by electric guitar freakouts and cosmic lyrics and it was well and good and still cuts through the airwaves like a tie-dye laser beam. But for the Doors, other textures came [...]
20 Tasty Tracks For Memorial Day Weekend Grillin’ [Playlist]
There is nothing better our dearly departed G.I. Joes and Janes would want us to do to celebrate their sacrifice on Memorial Day than to have a BBQ in their honor. While the coals heat [...]
My Pre-Summer Vacation
This vacation was much like the last stay at home variety, although there was a day trip to one of the many Long lakes in Wisconsin. The North country air was crisp and was filled [...]
Some Kinky Klassics [Playlist]
There might be a Kinks reunion. Kinda. For one thing, Pete Quaif, the original bass player, died last summer, and Dave Davies, Ray’s brother and lead guitarist, said a modern day Kinks would be like [...]
Day Of The Mothers
What’s it like to be a mother? Men must use their imagination. First, a new being will grow inside you and then you must push it out into the world. And that’s just the beginning. [...]
The Sweet Spot – Matthew Sweet Sunday Night [Playlist]
Matthew Sweet, the pride and joy of Lincoln, Nebraska, played one of the biggest XRT shows ever back in 1993 when he headlined the XRT Free Fourth of July Concert. Crowd estimates are notoriously unreliable, [...]
Ray Harryhausen RIP
For most of human history, the great departed monsters and imaginary creations of mythology and fiction existed only in art or the furnaces of our brains. This was sufficient as anyone who has ever woken [...]
Let’s Get The Old Band Back Together Again
For the first time in history, a president of the United States has tried to reach a diplomatic solution with the members of a rock and roll band. This makes compromise with Congress, detente between [...]
Frank’s Nightstand
With my lamp, radio, and contact lens case, there’s a limited amount of book space next to my pillow, but there’s always room for a stack of compact tomes to send me into the arms [...]
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