November 10–16, 2026
The songwriter, uncovered.
Glen Ballard wrote Man in the Mirror, Ironic and half the soundtrack of your life — on his new album Uncovered, he finally sings them himself.
November 3–9, 2026
20 years, great songs, one sound.
Producer Quanah Jay Hicks — 35 years behind the music, 20 of them behind Joe — guitarist, TV composer, and the man the boards were lucky to have.
October 27–November 2, 2026
The one the industry lost. Now found.
NYC underground MC Masai Bey — The Weathermen, Definitive Jux — gets his due twenty years later.
October 20–26, 2026
From the director's chair to the lecture hall.
TV director Rachel Raimist (Elsbeth, Bel-Air, Queen Sugar) just took an endowed chair at UT Arlington.
October 13–19, 2026
Unapologetically themselves.
The Paradox — four kids from Atlanta who took pop-punk, made it theirs, and made history.
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