Modern Musicology

As we close out our fourth year and enter into our FIFTH, we want to take a look back at our history and share with you our Top 10 episodes ever! These are our most-listened-to shows from our very beginning (our first episode is still very highly ranked) to the end of 2025. In case you have missed any of these episodes, links to listen are below:

Our Top 10 (okay, 11) episodes of 2025! Listen to any of these on our website (linked below) or on any podcast platform!

#177 – Burning Man Documentary
October 4, 2026
Left to their own devices, Rob and Alan take a trip to the Nevada desert for BURNING MAN! Well, we watched the new documentary about it, anyway! The Man Will Burn is a new docuseries from HBO Films that came out in July. The film series explores the origins and development of the festival as […]
#176 – One Album Wonders
September 20, 2026
One Album Wonders There are some really obvious examples of bands or artists that only made one studio album — The Sex Pistols, Jeff Buckley, and Lauryn Hill immediately come to mind. But how many others are there? Surprisingly, quite a few! We talk about those as well as other single-album artists like The La's, The New Radicals, […]
#175 – DOLLY
September 5, 2026
The heart of the world was broken on August 25, 2026 when the news came out that legendary singer, musician, songwriter, actor, businesswoman and philanthropist Dolly Parton passed away. Dolly was as close to a universally-loved artist as you'll ever find. We are joined in the studio this week by Emmy Award-winning Good Day Atlanta feature […]
#174 – 100 Greatest Tours
August 24, 2026
Consequence, an online pop culture magazine, released their list of the 100 Greatest Tours of All Time, which included big names like Prince, Springsteen, Bowie, the Jacksons, Taylor Swift, Madonna, Beyonce, Metallica, and many others, plus a few surprising inclusions as well. This week, the Modern Musicology team reviews Consequence's list and talk about some of the […]
Alan's Record Bin #6 – HEAVY METAL (The Movie)
August 16, 2026
The animated film Heavy Metal, based on the adult sci-fi fantasy comic magazine of the same name, was released 45 years ago on August 7, 1981, and while it wasn't a big box office smash, it became a cult classic and (at the time) something of a rite of passage. The iconic soundtrack featured great […]

Modern Musicology covers topics on rock and pop ranging mostly from 70s, 80s and 90s (with occasional excursions into 60s and 00s). Anything is fair game — classic rock, R&B, folk, punk, prog, rap, metal, and more. Hosted by DJ and author Rob Levy, solo artist and former Aquanettas drummer Stephanie Seymour, drummer and author R. Alan Siler, and guy from London Anthony Williams.

We have interviewed rock stars, journalists, and authors like:

Gina Schock of the Go-Go’s
Tony Levin of King Crimson and Peter Gabriel’s band
Steve Fossen and Michael DeRosier of Heart
Tommy Stinson of the Replacements
Ricky Byrd of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Ira Elliott of Nada Surf
Evan Sult and Paige Brubeck of Sleepy Kitty
Film composer Gary Clark (Flora and Son, Sing Street)
John Robb of Louder Than War
Punk rock photographer Theresa Kereakes
Katherine Yeske Taylor (author of She’s a Bad Ass: Women Shaping Feminism in Rock)
Richard Evans (author of Listening to the Music the Machines Make)
Tom Beaujoir (author of Nothing But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the ’80s Hard Rock Explosion)