Company founder Joe Rosenthal has written and produced content for some of the best-known brands in the world, including Rolling Stone, AOL, Entercom Broadcasting (now Audacy), Scholastic, Bertelsmann, Universal Music, Kimberly Clark, Sargento, American Family Insurance, and Grainger.
Music Defender takes a stand for the artists, albums, and songs that history tries hard to forget. Our hosts make the case for their favorite unappreciated gems.
Most Stones fans feel this ‘80s album was a low point. We beg to differ.
Was Brian Wilson lost – or are you? Michael makes the case for a forgotten classic.
Scott Stapp takes so much heat. Our guest host Matty Conaghan steps in and takes the brunt.
Kalli Wolf moved from Arizona to Chicago a handful of years ago to pursue her passions in marketing and communications. By day she works for an advertising agency, and by night she can be found blasting The White Stripes or The Kinks. She got her start in music production as DJ Ginger Wolf, hosting a weekly radio rock show called "Excuse My French", where she broadcasted her favorite tunes to listeners in Tucson, AZ.
Michael Blocher is a longtime music lover, who, if pressed, will choose the Phil Collins-led Genesis years. He plays the drums, and has been indoctrinating his children into loving Led Zeppelin since their birth. He feels that Harry Nilsson is criminally underrated, and that John Lennon is wildly overrated. His first concert was Huey Lewis & the News, and Curtis Mayfield is his muse. He prays to Herbie Hancock before bed every night.
Max McKenna is a writer, editor, and musician who spent much of his formative years listening to the same classic rock station in his small hometown in South Jersey. He likes to take a literary approach to pop and rock music, likely a result of having had to memorize lyrics by the bard of the Garden State, Bruce Springsteen.
Joe Rosenthal has been a music fan since he was a young child stealing his dad’s vinyl and playing them on his plastic clown record player. Over the years, he’s been fortunate to have held numerous jobs in the music business – from music journalist for Rolling Stone to content director for one of the country’s largest broadcasters to helping launch several music start-ups. He was a college radio DJ for 3 years, and plays guitar when his kids are asleep.
“Great combo of music & interesting convo/ Great show. You get create music clips that bring you back and the album breakdown is so thoughtful and profound without rambling. Top music/convo combo podcast in my book”
