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
Rockin' Rob Tonkin
Music Industry executive Rob Tonkin has been a fixture in the business for over four decades. He's accumulated quite a few stories, so much so that he’ll be releasing his own memoir in very the near …
01:15:49 |
Fri 07 Jun 2024
The dB's Stands For DeciBels
Exciting news for fans of power pop, as the dB's are releasing a reissue of their excellent debut LP, Stands for deciBels. Formed in New York City by four North Carolinians, The dB’s consist of singe…
00:42:55 |
Fri 31 May 2024
Hey! Do You Remember KROQ In 1987?
Hey! Did you know there are other 80s music podcasts? It's true! Joe Christopher and Kari Race host a podcast called Hey! Remember The 80s? We‘re happy to have them as our guests this week to talk ab…
01:11:53 |
Fri 17 May 2024
Marco Collins Gives Us Both The Glamour And The Squalor
Marco Collins may be best known as the Music Director at KNDD/The End in Seattle during the height of the grunge era. His career actually started at 91X in San Diego, but he had to commute to the sta…
01:00:01 |
Fri 03 May 2024
Midge Ure: Cataloging The Hits
The breadth of the Midge Ure music catalogue is one to behold. His career started in the 1970’s with the boy band, Slik, followed by Rich Kids through to Visage and Ultravox and a thriving solo caree…
01:05:41 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
Lol Tolhurst Gives Us The History Of Goth
Founding member of The Cure and Rock Hall Inductee, Lol Tolhurst, joins the podcast to chat about his second book, entitled GOTH. It's a deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music.
Of course, …
00:39:06 |
Fri 19 Apr 2024
Dylan Chambers Gets High
Dylan Chambers is one soulful dude, as a listen to his EP For Your Listening Pleasure! will prove. His first single, "High (When I'm Low)," featuring LunchMoney Lewis and Dave Koz, will immediately p…
01:00:20 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Urgent! Rick Wills Hits The Trail For Foreigner
Foreigner is one of the world's best-selling bands of all time, with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records, but they are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yet. Rick Wills, bassist for …
00:58:43 |
Fri 05 Apr 2024
It's Time To Follow Pearl Harbour
Pearl Harbour has a deep love of Rockabilly music. So much so that instead of recording another album on a major label with Pearl Harbor and The Explosions, she left the band to record a solo record.…
00:48:10 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
Dave Tarnowski Creates Disappointing Affirmations
Dave Tarnowski, like everyone, has voices in his head, confirming and/or denying his worst fears. Unlike everyone, Dave has created an Instagram Account around the concept, with 2.2 million followers…
00:48:29 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Dave Beasing Is The Sound That Brands
Dave Beasing joins the podcast this week. Dave is the CEO of Sound That BRANDS, a company that helps Brands tell their stories through audio-based marketing content…aka PODCASTS! Dave also has his ow…
01:02:45 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
Ireland's Enda Caldwell Comes To LA
Ireland native and radio geek, Enda Caldwell, has been heard on Atlantic 252, Radio Luxembourg, Today FM and Radio Nova in Ireland, Kiss in The UK, and many other radio stations worldwide, like 106.5…
00:57:09 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Karen Glauber Has Got The HITS
Karen Glauber is the President of HITS Magazine. She started her career with the legendary label, A&M Records, back in the 80s. She's also got strong opinions about the music. This makes her the perf…
00:57:43 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
Valentine's Day 80s music favorites
We at What Difference Does It Make love love and what better way to say it, than with a song from the 80s? We discuss a number of our favorites that make us feel all warm inside. Happy Valentine's (a…
00:48:02 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
KROQ 1987 Countdown Begins
The What Difference Does It Make Podcast begins our 1987 musical journey with an analysis of songs 106.7 to 101 from the World Famous KROQ 1987 year-end chart. The bottom of the chart includes novelt…
00:39:08 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
Pop Culture 1987
It was quite a year, from U2 and The Beastie Boys, to Spuds McKenzie and 21 Jump Street. While we can't cover it all, we start off a new season of What Difference Does It Make with a look back at som…
01:00:54 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Katherine Yeske Taylor Is A Badass
Veteran music journalist Katherine Yeske Taylor steps into our virtual studio to tell the tales of 20 badass musicians that she documented in her book, She’s a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism.…
00:54:18 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
Reaching The Western Edge At The Country Music Hall Of Fame
In this episode, we take you to the edge...as in the Western Edge exhibit currently featured at the Country Music Hall Of Fame in Nashville. Western Edge examines the close-knit community of Los Ange…
00:55:25 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
What Difference Does It Make Best Of 2023
Well, the saying goes, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.", but as Holly says, "I would be happy if we could have another year like this year." So we now look back at 202…
00:57:52 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
Christmas Music Favorites
What Difference Does It Make, the 80s music podcast, celebrates our favorite 80s Christmas songs. Holly tells us how she wooed her future husband with some skiing lessons and we also do a wrap on a c…
00:33:56 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
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