Fantano
Anthony Nicholas Fantano was born in 1985 in Wolcott, Connecticut. He launched
The Needle Drop in 2007 and graduated from Southern Connecticut State University
in 2008 with a liberal arts degree, having worked as music director for its
college radio station since the mid-2000s. The channel’s first video review, of
a Jay Reatard record, appeared on YouTube in 2009, and The Needle Drop won an O
Music Award in 2011. By 2017 he had reached one million subscribers, expanding
his content to include livestreamed Q&As. In 2019 he curated the charity
compilation The Needle Drop LP, with p...
