GARAGE TO STADIUMS Music History Podcast

The Story of The Cure: A rare combination of darkness and pop hits

The Cure proved something very rare in the history of music: that darkness and beauty could coexist in the very same catalog. While navigating immense and shocking intern

What is Garage to Stadiums? - trailer for the show

A top 5% of podcasts in the world, Garage to Stadiums is a podcast for true music fans — the ones who want more than just headlines and hype. This show is for listeners w

The Story of R.E.M. The most successful college radio band ever

Picture a 1970s American teen, dressed as Frank N. Furter from Rocky Horror, interviewed on local TV outside a suburban cinema. That fearless teen grows up to be Michael

The Story of The Eagles: From California country rock to stadium legends

Listen to how a true California sound was born… from musicians who didn’t even come from California. In the late 1960s, four young artists arrived in Los Angeles from com

The Story of Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys: The boy who built a musical revolution

In this repeat episode explore one of the most influential figures in modern music history - Brian Wilson leader of The Beach Boys.  Known for layered orchestrations and

The Story of U2: From near breakup to stadium legends

Incredibly, U2 began as a band of barely-formed teenagers—two 14-year-olds and two 15-year-olds—at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin, Ireland. Just 4 years late

The Story of Blondie: Masters of image and innovators of sound

From a crumbling New York of the mid-'70s, in a tiny downtown club on the edge of collapse, a sound began to cut through the noise and redefine what popular music could b

The Story of Stevie Nicks: The poetic teenager who became rock royalty

Travel back to Northern California of the mid 1960s with a young teenage girl writing poems in her bedroom after enduring countless moves across the country with her fami

The Story of KISS: Masters in the Business of Rock

From the streets of New York came four young men — including one born to Holocaust survivors — obsessed from their earliest days with becoming the biggest band in the wor

The Story of Bob Dylan: the music revolutionary

Step into the early 1960s to see how a young performer appeared out of nowhere to shape modern rock music. You'll follow him through the decades to hear Dylan's incredibl

The Story of Talking Heads: Creators of a new blueprint for music

Three art-school students leave Rhode Island for a collapsing New York City in the mid-1970s. It was a city on the edge of bankruptcy, violence, and.....artistic rebirth.

The Story of Paul McCartney post-Beatles & Wings Part II

Part 2 of Paul McCartney's story will take you inside the daily life of his band Wings as they ascend to the charts.  However, can they sustain their flight path given th

The Story of Paul McCartney post-Beatles & Wings Part 1

Listen in to inside details of how The Beatles empire collapsed and Paul McCartney's next challenge: could he be successful again without the banner, without the brothers

The Story of The Who: The architects of modern music

Take yourself back to Swinging London for the formation of The Who in 1964.  Guest Mark Wilkerson, author of Who are You: The Life of Pete Townshend discussed The Who's e

The Story of The Cars & Ric Ocasek: From folk rock origins to new wave royalty

If any band defines the long odds of the garage-to-stadiums journey...it’s The Cars. Grinding through years in Boston, they cycled through wildly different sounds before

The Story of R.E.M. The most successful college radio band ever

Picture a 1970s American teen, dressed as Frank N. Furter from Rocky Horror, interviewed on local TV outside a suburban cinema. That fearless teen grows up to be Michael

The Story of The Eagles: From California country rock to stadium legends

Listen to how a true California sound was born… from musicians who didn’t even come from California. In the late 1960s, four young artists arrived in Los Angeles from com

The Story of Stevie Wonder: The genius who changed popular music

This is an astonishing story of the human spirit. Travel back to early 1960s Motown when an 11-year old child prodigy mysteriously appeared on the scene. Stevie Wonder ro

The Story of The Band: How they changed rock music forever

Experience the improbable ascent of The Band — five road-worn club musicians from forgotten rural towns who for years played beer-soaked barrooms, drove endless highways

The Story of Nirvana: The band that ended one era and defined another

Rewind to the early 1990s, when a high school dropout from Aberdeen, Washington, turned his angst into anthems. This is the story of Nirvana—a band that took Seattle-base