Blog: Stark Online

Back in high school I used to write down the songs on Casey Kasem's American Top 40 while listening on the radio. It took me a while to realize that those charts were published in Billboard , and that the newsstand across the street from our apartment building in the Bronx carried it. It was expensive (think it was $4), but I literally read it cover to cover. Because there was no way I could buy it weekly, I kept the same copy around for months at a time, studying it—and one of my favorite sections were the [...]