Blessed Obscurity: Recent Episodes
Nathan Bennett Albright
This podcast discusses music history about obscure or forgotten artists, albums, or songs that deserve to better known by the public.
Here we talk about the recurrency rules, exceptions to those rules and alternatives to those rules as they affect the Billboard Hot 100 and other charts.
In this podcast, we discuss how it is that genres created and why it is not a bad thing to lead where others follow.
Today we talk about the career and oblivion of the 80's family band "The Jets" and why they deserve to be better remembered.
This podcast discusses the potential and promise for a format that includes music from other media.
This podcast discusses the unfortunate name of the Urban AC format and what it could be called instead.
This podcast is an introduction to the Soccermomlandia series on Adult Contemporary music and its cultural impact and history.
This podcast discusses the lost Alan Parsons Project album "The Sicilian Defense" and what it means to the world of music and the music business.
This episode discusses the potential that video games have for influencing the charts through microtransactions.
This episode explores the information that rapper 6ix9ine gave about the information that labels and artists may know about their songs and albums before charts are released.
This podcast explores the contemporary genre of quarantine pop and its context and examples.
How has Coronavirus affected radio and the world of music listening during the last few weeks? This podcast shares the perspective and experiences of the host in Oregon.