Rock & Roll High School With Pete Ganbarg
Hosted by Pete Ganbarg · Pure Tone Music
4.9from 47 ratings
- 115
- Episodes
- 27
- Transcribed
- 47
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 111K
- YouTube views
About Rock & Roll High School With Pete Ganbarg
Season 6 Coming Soon! Rock & Roll High School is an interview series that tells the story of contemporary music one artist at a time - in their own words. Hosted by Pete Ganbarg -------------------------------------- About Pete: Pete Ganbarg has been doing major label A&R (Artists & Repertoire) for over 35 years. He's a 2X Grammy award winning record producer as well as a member of the board of directors of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Pete has held senior A&R positions at Atlantic, Arista, Epic and SBK/EMI and is currently the president of Pure Tone Music and co-owner of Silver Sky Music. As a music publisher, Pete operates Songs With A Pure Tone and Margetts Road Music, joint ventures currently in partnership with Warner Chappell Music as well as new ventures in partnership with Kobalt. Songs published by Pure Tone include 2024's Grammy winning Record of the Year, "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus, the global #1 "Ordinary" by Alex Warren, as well as hits by Benson Boone, Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Katy Perry, OneRepublic, Charli XCX, Lewis Capaldi, Ed Sheeran, Andy Grammer, Lizzo, Beyoncé, and more. Pete is the recipient of two Grammy Awards for his role as producer on the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Dear Evan Hansen and the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Jagged Little Pill. At Atlantic, among the artists and projects that Pete has overseen are twenty one pilots, Halestorm, Jason Mraz, Christina Perri, Melanie Martinez, Skillet, GAYLE, Brett Eldredge, Matchbox Twenty & Rob Thomas, Theory Of A Deadman, and Icona Pop; as well as the Original Broadway Cast Recordings of Hamilton, Mean Girls, Jagged Little Pill, Dear Evan Hansen, and the multi-platinum Billboard No. 1 soundtrack album The Greatest Showman. Pete began his A&R career in 1989 at SBK Records. In 1997, he joined Clive Davis at Arista Records, where, as Senior Director of A&R, he conceived and A&R’d Santana’s 30x platinum worldwide, nine-time GRAMMY-winning album, Supernatural. Additionally, Pete was named International Music Person Of The Year in 2023 by the music industry organization MUSEXPO. He writes on Substack as Confessions of a Pop A&R Guy: https://substack.com/@peteganbarg
- Publisher
- Pure Tone Music
- Category
- music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Apr 2021
- Latest episode
- 29 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
27 of 115 episodes have a transcript.
29 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Rock & Roll High School Book Club: Nik Cohn - Corner Boy
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Rock & Roll High School Book Club: Mitchell Cohen & Dennis Diken — Wake Me, Shake Me
13 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Desmond Child
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Rock & Roll High School Book Club: Nik Cohn - Corner Boy
Published 29 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I went back to writing, but this time I wasn't that interested in celebrities. I didn't want to write about the Elvises and the Beatles of the world. I wanted to write about people I met on the street. I switched from writing almost exclusively about men to more and more writing about women. Right. […]
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- Nik Cohn
- Mitchell Cohen
- Dennis Diken
- Desmond Child
- Richard Gottehrer
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- YouTube views
- 110,984
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 34 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 13 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 43 / 100
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- Quality
- 32
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 51
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