Happy 7th Birthday Little Steven's Underground Garage!

New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - The for the next two weekends (3/29 and 4/5) Little Steven's Underground Garage celebrates its 7th anniversary with two "best of" episode featuring snippets of interviews with Ringo Starr, Brian Wilson, Jack Black, and Ray Davies, the original show intro, and as always the newest and coolest songs in the world.

Steven Van Zandt recalls, "I woke up one day and realized there was no rock and roll on the radio and thought 'How did this happen?'" Despite being shot down by numerous syndicators and radio stations, on April 7, 2002 Little Steven's Underground Garage (LSUG) launched with 23 US affiliates. With the help of the hard working staff at his company Renegade Nation, fearless leader Van Zandt has delivered this revolutionary syndicated radio show, the first of its kind, to over 1 million listeners on 140 stations in North America covering 200 markets, 45 countries around the world, and 9 countries via the American Forces Network.

The triumph of LSUG crossed over to other successful ventures including the 24- hour SIRIUS XM channels Underground Garage and Outlaw Country, Little Steven's International Underground Garage Festival in 2004, a national tour, a New Year's Eve Special on ESPN, and most recently Wicked Cool Records. In its first year, Wicked Cool Records has seen success with international album distribution just confirmed and two packed showcases at the 2009 SXSW Music Conference.

Next up Van Zandt's sleeve? Fund raising for his foundation and its first initiative Rock Roll High School, and pitching a TV show idea however, his main focus for 2009 is developing the artists on Wicked Cool Records. During a panel address at SXSW, a passionate Van Zandt said, "All we ever talk about is the delivery system of the product, the mechanics, the technology, the infrastructure; I want to spend just a minute on a topic that never ever gets discussed in the music business - the music. The reason nobody wants to talk about it is because it mostly sucks!"
Click here to read the full transcript of Van Zandt's SXSW address: https://www.undergroundgarage.com/home