Starting with 1955’s “Maybellene,” his first single and a No. 5 hit on the Billboard charts, Chuck Berry helped revolutionize music. For the next few years, Berry sent hit after hit up the charts in ...

To be clear, when I say “in town,” I mean broadcasting from Playas de Rosarito, a suburb of Tijuana in Baja California, Mexico. And when I say “new oldies station,” I mean four hours per day, on a ...

Within the Pomona Swap Meet’s sea of shiny Corvettes and 1950s Cadillacs, a storage truck seems out of place. In thick block letters, it reads Thump Records and is open for vending. As racks of ...

According to the latest Nielsen ratings for metro Los Angeles released last week, oldies-formatted KRTH (101.1 FM) dominated the city, with a 6.4 share of the audience of listeners aged six and over, ...

For music lovers who are old but not that old, there’s a shock that comes with hearing The Cars and John Mellencamp on an oldies radio station for the first time. OK, so “Good Times Roll” actually is ...

For twenty years, Mitch Broder wrote about New York for the nation’s largest newspaper chain. On Mitch Broder’s Vintage New York, he covers the best places that take you back in time, whether you are ...