A (Mostly) 80s Music Podcast: What Difference Does It Make?
Dave and Holly, your 80s music aficionados, talk to the artists and music industry insiders that made it the greatest decade for music.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 288
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Kat Goldman is Off The Charts
Singer/songwriter Kat Goldman has a unique insight into the music industry, and writes about it in her book Off The Charts. Like anyone who has stepped onto a stage to entertain for a living, Kat ha…
00:51:43 |
Fri 21 May 2021
Annie Zaleski loves Duran Duran
Her name is Annie and she dances on the sand...whenever she hears the album Rio by Duran Duran! Writer Annie Zaleski joins us in the virtual What Difference Does It Make podcast studio to talk about …
01:02:48 |
Fri 14 May 2021
Dan McGrath is Master and Servant
Simply put, Dan McGrath is a huge Depeche Mode fan, I mean his initials are DM. The Creative Director of No Sheet Music and soon to be member of the duo cover band "Master and Servant", that plays on…
01:10:03 |
Fri 30 Apr 2021
Jorge Perez Navarro loves the 80s
Many of you know Jose Perez Navarro as the original anchor of Contacto Deportivo or as the play by play announcer for World Cup games since 2002. What you may not know, is his career started in radio…
01:12:16 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
Swedish Chris Modig
People listening to KROQ in the mid 80s got the good fortune to hear "Mega-mixes", a medley of songs from artists like Duran Duran and Pet Shop Boys that stretched out into one ten minute jam. The ma…
01:08:35 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
Marc Mookie Kaczor of 885 FM
Our favorite Los Angeles radio station is 885FM, so it was very cool to get Marc "Mookie" Kaczor into our virtual What Difference Does It Make studios. Mookie has turned us on to so many new artists …
01:07:55 |
Fri 09 Apr 2021
JC Douglas: Haligonian Superjock
JC Douglas, steps into the What Difference Does It Make virtual studios to discuss songs 60 to 51 from the 1984 KROQ year end list. This ten song chunk of songs really encapsulates why the music was …
01:01:20 |
Fri 02 Apr 2021
Nöthin' But A Good Time: The '80s Hard Rock Explosion
We continue our celebration of March Metal Madness with Nöthin' But A Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. Authors Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock did an intensive di…
01:11:46 |
Fri 19 Mar 2021
Long Live Rock: Celebrate The Chaos
We all miss the connection of live music, and that's why we're so happy a movie like Long Live Rock has been released. This rock documentary pays tribute to the many factors that explain our passion …
01:01:08 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
The Alternate Side Of Russ Borris
Russ Borris, Music Director at WFUV in New York enters our virtual studios and immediately throws down some knowledge. 1) "Duran Duran is Life" 2) Flight of The Conchords are Hall & Oates 3) When it …
01:00:57 |
Fri 26 Feb 2021
Kyle Meredith with WDDIM Podcast
Kyle Meredith, Music Director at WFPK in Louisville and host of his own podcast Kyle Meredith with... is ready to step in the ring with Holly and Dave and offer up his opinion on the year that was 19…
01:06:54 |
Fri 19 Feb 2021
1984 music countdown with guest Carmel Holt
Carmel Holt, creator and host of Sheroes Radio, steps into the virtual What Difference Does It Make studios. We dig into Carmel's musical origin's and lessons learned as Music Director at WDST in Woo…
01:05:56 |
Fri 12 Feb 2021
Melissa Gould: Widowish
Dave knew he had found a new friend when he saw Joel ...clad in a Wilco t-shirt...at his daughter's soccer game. They bonded easily over music and sports. Dave was also happy to discover another good…
00:53:07 |
Fri 29 Jan 2021
KROQ 1984 Countdown with guest Mike Marrone
You might know Mike Marrone as the guy that created and hosted The Loft for SiriusXM for 17 years. He first established a name for himself in 1984 at Your Rock Alternative FM 106.3 WHTG, a free form …
00:50:55 |
Fri 22 Jan 2021
1984 music KROQ songs 106.7 to 101
Our cover photo boy this week is Swedish Egil The jock from KROQ in Los Angeles kicks off our countdown with a song that time has forgotten, 'Erotic Egil'. Time has forgotten it because it is nowhere…
00:40:44 |
Fri 15 Jan 2021
1984 Pop Culture
Season Premiere! In anticipation of our upcoming dissection of the songs played on KROQ in 1984, we wanted to set the table so to speak, and take you back to what we might have been doing back in the…
00:38:22 |
Fri 08 Jan 2021
Greatest Hits of 2020
If bands can have greatest hits albums why can't podcasts have a greatest hits episode? We talked with so many talented artists in 2020 so this is a look back at what the year was like for What Diffe…
00:40:05 |
Mon 28 Dec 2020
Mark Goodman: Big 80s Icon
We couldn't be more delighted to talk with self-described "Big 80s Icon", Mark Goodman. Of course, we all know him as an MTV VJ, but his roots are in radio and so we dig into his start working small …
00:48:13 |
Fri 11 Dec 2020
John Lennon 1980
Like many significant moments in our lives, we remember where we were when we heard the devastating news about John Lennon. We tell our stories and then turn it over to a couple people that surrounde…
00:42:07 |
Fri 04 Dec 2020
Jules Shear Slower and Unplugged
Jules Shear created a name for himself as a pop songwriter in the 80s writing Top 40 hits like "All Through The Night" for Cyndi Lauper and "If She Knew What She Wants" by The Bangles. He's also the …
00:36:36 |
Fri 27 Nov 2020
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