Music On The Menu with Alan K. Stout

07/23/2025

Ozzy at Montage, 2003:

07/23/2025

Ozzy at Montage, 1996:

07/20/2025

Every Sunday night, 21 years and counting ...

Tonight, Music On The Menu with Alan K. Stout hits the airwaves from 9-10 p.m. on The River (104.9-FM in Scranton, 100.7-FM in Wilkes-Barre and 103.5-FM in Hazleton/Bloomsburg.) You can also listen anywhere, world wide, at www.therivernepa.com or the free RadioBOLD phone app

Broadcast on 105 The River from Mohegan Pennsylvania.

07/19/2025

Nice.

07/18/2025

Band On The Run …

WILKES-BARRE — The Rockin’ The River music series will continue at the Millenium Circle at River Common in Wilkes-Barre on Friday, July 18. Headlining the show will be Maybe I’m Amazed: A Tribute to Paul McCartney. It will be the second of three shows that comprise the annual sum...

07/16/2025

Friday. 🎸

07/14/2025

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of Live Aid. For Generation X, it was a milestone event. Many of rock’s greatest acts, on two continents, on the same day, for one cause. It was inspiring. And, yesterday, I enjoyed seeing all of the posts on social media noting its anniversary. In London, Queen gave a monumental performance, Paul McCartney returned to the concert stage for the first time since John Lennon’s death, The Who reunited and totally crushed it, and the lead singer of a younger, up-and coming band from Ireland, U2, had a signature moment when its lead singer, Bono, left the stage to slow dance with a fan. In Philadelphia, Robert Plant was on the bill. But no one knew he was going to show up with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, and that for the first time in five years, and one of the few times since they disbanded, they would play under the name Led Zeppelin.

Amazing.

As a 17 year-old kid, I was not only in love with the music, but was also intrigued by the organizational side of Live Aid. Bob Geldof of The Boomtown Rats, who somehow managed to put it all together, was someone to be admired. And 14 years later, when I first started to organize some benefit concerts, I sometimes thought of what he had done in July of ’85. Granted, it was all on a much, much, much smaller scale - not even in the same realm of Live Aid - but when working on Concert For A Cause for all of those years, I realized I really liked working with a great team to run a show, and working with lots of bands on the same bill, and working with sound companies and sound technicians, and event sponsors, and working on the promotion and marketing. I loved every single bit of it, and when I saw a whole lot of people having a great time at the event, and everything ran smoothly, it always made it all worthwhile. And for the past four years, while working on Rockin’ The River, I feel the same way. And I guess that why I thought it was ironic, and perhaps fitting, that yesterday - on the 40th anniversary of Live Aid - the Citizens' Voice ran a big, page-one story that talked about what goes into presenting Rockin' The River and all of the teamwork and planning that is involved.

It made me proud to be one of those kids, from 40 years ago, that marveled at Live Aid and have tried - in much smaller ways - to help carry its torch. Because, in my opinion, nothing can bring people together like music.

Cheers to Live Aid. ❤️🙏🎸

07/13/2025

TONIGHT: Music On The Menu with Alan K. Stout hits the airwaves from 9-10 p.m. on The River (104.9-FM in Scranton, 100.7-FM in Wilkes-Barre and 103.5-FM in Hazleton/Bloomsburg.) You can also listen anywhere, world wide, at www.therivernepa.com or the free RadioBOLD phone app

Broadcast on 105 The River from Mohegan Pennsylvania.

07/09/2025

Sunday's show. Miss it? You can listen to it right here:

Music On The Menu Radio Show: July 6, 2025

07/06/2025

We'll be debuting lots a new tunes tonight.

Music On The Menu with Alan K. Stout hits the airwaves from 9-10 p.m. on The River (104.9-FM in Scranton, 100.7-FM in Wilkes-Barre and 103.5-FM in Hazleton/Bloomsburg.) You can also listen anywhere, world wide, at www.therivernepa.com or the free RadioBOLD phone app.

Broadcast on 105 The River from Mohegan Pennsylvania.

07/02/2025

Miss Sunday's show? We debuted some great new stuff. You can listen here:

Music On The Menu Radio Show - June 29, 2025

06/29/2025

TONIGHT: Music On The Menu with Alan K. Stout hits the airwaves from 9-10 p.m. on The River (104.9-FM in Scranton, 100.7-FM in Wilkes-Barre and 103.5-FM in Hazleton/Bloomsburg.) You can also listen anywhere, world wide, at www.therivernepa.com or the free RadioBOLD phone app

Show debut tonight of a brand new track from Bret Alexander & Friends.

Broadcast on 105 The River from Mohegan Pennsylvania.