We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at 5:00 P.M., Michael Rosenbloom will be a guest on Tom Ryan’s radio show on WHPC, 90.3 FM, Nassau Community College’s radio station.  (For a live feed click here and then click on “Listen Live, Now!”)

Wednesdays and Fridays at 5 P.M. Tom hosts one of the best shows on terrestrial radio “American Hit Radio.”  The Wednesday show is spent revisiting the music (sometimes popular, other times obscure) that was released and/or in the charts that exact month 50, 40, 30 or 20 years before.  It’s not what you think though.  It’s not a typical oldies show. It’s the antithesis of a “classic rock” radio program.  As both musician and musicologist, Tom provides insightful analysis placing the music in the context of rock’s arc over the second half of the twentieth century until this very day.  On Fridays Tom explores specific artists and phenomena in depth, sometimes over multiple weeks and even months, that impacted the development of popular recorded music.

On Wednesday October 16, 2013, American Hit Radio will be focusing on October 1973 which is when The Who’s epic LP Quadrophenia was released.  Michael Rosenbloom will be a guest on the show discussing Quadrophenia and his book “When Stars Were in Reach,” the title of which is a quote from a song on that very album.