Jim Ryan

5 days ago | forbes.com | Jim Ryan

What began in 2021 upon the release of the EP Butter Miracle, Suite One, is completed today as Counting Crows release the brand new album Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!, their first full length studio effort since 2014.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Jim Ryan

By 1977, actor Jeff Bridges had already been nominated for a pair of Academy Awards in recognition of his work on 1972’s The Last Picture Show as well as Thunderbolt and Lightfoot three years later - but music was in his blood.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Jim Ryan

Over the course of the last 25 years, few songwriters have examined the human condition in quite the way Patterson Hood has, drilling down on the American experience over the course of 14 Drive-By Truckers studio albums and four solo records.

1 month ago | barrettmedia.com | Jim Ryan

- Advertisement -First, I would like to thank Jason Barrett and Jeff Lynn for welcoming me to hopefully bring you thought-provoking, interesting topics for the world of Hot AC radio. Am I the most qualified to speak on these topics? Well, you can decide on that from article to article, but like most who have spent time programming in this format, I also have opinions and thoughts.  To launch this new venture, I decided to try to answer the question: When does “new” music stop being new?

1 month ago | forbes.com | Jim Ryan

For rocker Billy Corgan, the curious mind and embrace of captivating storytelling that made the Smashing Pumpkins one of the best selling rock acts of the 1990s translates well to the idea of longform interviews via his new podcast The Magnificent Others. For Corgan, the idea is to go beyond the often stale idea of a one-on-one interview, engaging in actual conversations which create compelling character studies.