John Diliberto

John Diliberto is a nationally published writer and award-winning radio producer who has been exploring and exposing new music on the radio, in print and online since 1974. He currently is the host and executive producer of Echoes, a nightly music soundscape on Public Radio International, and heard on public radio stations across the country.

Diliberto grew up in Massachusetts. A child of the British invasion, the first music Diliberto embraced was by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, The Kinks and The Zombies. His first concert was the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Soft Machine and The Eire Apparent at the Framingham Music Tent in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1968. Inspired by Jethro Tull and The Blues Project, Diliberto began playing flute in 9th grade. He had to give up his lessons because the marching band conflicted with football, but he kept playing on his own. Football got him a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he was a DJ on the university-owned public radio station WXPN. In 1975-6 he created Star's End, an ambient radio show that is still on the air.

Diliberto was a member of a short-lived band known as The Spontaneous Creation Space Music Ensemble, which was, in his words, "A jam band put together by DJs on the airwaves of WXPN in the 1970s."

Upon leaving Penn in 1976, Diliberto worked in various record stores while starting to write for the local alternative paper The Drummer under editor David Fricke, who has written and edited for Rolling Stone. In 1979 he began writing reviews for Audio magazine. In 1980 he ventured to California where he was Program Director of University of California, Berkeley's KALX.

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