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Radio Crystal Blue/RCB Novus Ordo 5/27/12 audio and links

Posted on May 30, 2012 | 1 comment

Radio Crystal Blue: Novus Ordo spotlights CDs that are debuting on my
standard freeform radio program, Radio Crystal Blue. The show exists as a
weekly podcast.Listen here:
(1) The FeedPlayer on my home page (visible with Flash-supported browsers)

www.radiocrystalblue.net and available to stream/download/share. Click the
pop-up linlk at the ‘home’ tab.
(2) If you cannot view the FeedPlayer, try a different browser, or get
Flash, or try my podcast provider at www.bigcontact.com/radiocrystalblu
(3) mp3: https://radiocrystalblue.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rcbnew052712.mp3

(4) RSS: www.bigcontact.com/radiocrystalblu/rssThis show was distributed on 5/30

Tom Goss “Pills And Chalk” – Lost Songs and Underdogs CD www.tomgossmusic.com
Danielle Asman “Given The Orders” – s/t EP www.facebook.com/danielleasman
Bakelite 78 “Dark Spot” – What The Moon Has Done CD www.bakelite78.com
Terry Rivel “Closet Full of Tear Stained Shirts” – Broken People CD www.terryrivel.com
Fred Arcoleo “Made To Stand” – Seeds CD www.fredarcoleo.com
Hannah Judson “No Harm Done” – underbelly CD www.hannahjudson.com
Dave Potts “If I Broke The Record” – Live At Sundilla CD www.davepotts.com
Running time: 54 minutos
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All content of Radio Crystal Blue’s programming is free to listen and share
to via a Creative Commons License, version 3.0, full attribution,
non-derivative. For more info: www.creativecommons.org
Here’s RCB proper:

Radio Crystal Blue is my long-running standard freeform radio program. The
show exists as a weekly podcast.
Listen here:
(1) The FeedPlayer on my home page (visible with Flash-supported browsers)
www.radiocrystalblue.net and available to stream/download/share. Click the
pop-up link at the ‘home’ tab.
(2) If you cannot view the FeedPlayer, try a different browser, or get
Flash, or try my podcast provider at www.bigcontact.com/radiocrystalblu
(3) .mp3: https://radiocrystalblue.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rcblive052712.mp3
(4) RSS: www.bigcontact.com/radiocrystalblu/rssThis show was distributed on 5/30/12
Artists with shared gigs in the near future are noted with * & **
Along with the usual segments I spun some summer-oriented songs (at least those songs that I term as reminiscent of summer )

Supergrass “Sun Meets The Sky” – In It For The Money CD
Ride “Sennen” – Today Forever CD
Jesus & Mary Chain “Rollercoaster” – Honey’s Dead CD
The Boo Radleys “Smile Fades Fast” – Everything’s Alright Forever CD
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Jason Spooner “Time Is Running Out” – Sea Monster CD www.jasonspooner.com
Ryan Tennis “17 Years” – goodbye to the ground CD www.ryantennismusic.com
Catie Curtis “River Wide” – Stretch Limousine On Fire CD www.catiecurtis.com
Vance Gilbert “Come Here My Love” – old white men CD www.vancegilbert.com
Teresa Storch “Mr. Moon” – Stream Of Concrete CD www.teresastorch.com
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th’ Faith Healers “Moona-ina-Joona” – lido CD
The Ramones “7-11” – Pleasant Dreams CD
The Ramones “Palisades Park” – Brain Drain CD
Los Straitjackets “Cal-Speed” – The Further Adventures of Los Straitjackets CD
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M’Balia “The Hard Sell” – s/t demo EP www.mbalia.com
Tom Principato “Don’t Wanna Do It” – A Part Of Me CD www.tomprincipato.com
Fellaheen “Nobody Gets The Joke” – Death & Frolic CD www.fellaheen.com
Heth & Jed “Between The In and The Out” – Between The In and The Out CD www.hethandjed.com
Kmang Kmang “In the Dangers of my Imagination” – Drifting CD www.kmang-kmang.com
Sylvia Platypus “Hush Now” – s/t EP www.sylviaplatypus.com
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Catherine Wheel “Indigo Is Blue” – Ferment CD
Primal Scream “Slip Inside This House” – screamadelica CD
Depeche Mode “Never Let Me Down Again” – Music For The Masses CD
808 State “Sunrise” – 90 CD
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Justin Roth “Trembling Like A Train” – Now You Know CD www.justinroth.com
Claude “Butch” Morgan “Mr. Blue” – Talk About CD www.butchmorgan.com
Randy Stern “Ain’t Dead Yet” – Give CD www.randystern.info
Evangenitals “Hard Luck Song” – s/t CD www.evangenitals.com
McMule “Ramblin’ Life” – Whiskeytalk CD www.mcmule.com
Jon Shain “Getaway Car” – The Kress Sessions CD www.jonshain.com
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Jimmy Cliff “You Can Get It If You Really Want” – The Harder They Come soundtrack CD
Booker T. & The MGs “Hang ‘Em High” – Soul Limbo CD
The Sandals “Wild As The Sea” – Endless Summer soundtrack CD
The Cowsills “Gray Sunny Day” – The Rain, The Park & Other Things compilation CD
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Gypsy Fuzz “Grace” – Searching, Finding, Living CD www.gypsyfuzz.com
Patricia Silverberg “Hear My Song” – Don’t Look Back CD www.patriciasilverberg.com
Anais Mitchell “He Did” – Young Man In America CD www.anaismitchell.com
Katie Barbato “I Know 100 Ways To Die” – The Millay Tapes CD www.katiebarbato.com
Eleanor Fye “Sing Me To Sleep” – Love Stays On CD www.eleanorfye.com
Helen Austin “Nearly Dry” – Song of the week CD www.helenaustin.com

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Closing music: Chicha Libre “Tres Pasajeros” – Sonido Amazonico CD www.barbesrecords.com

Running time: 3 hours, 54 minutes
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All content of Radio Crystal Blue’s programming is free to listen and share
to via a Creative Commons License, version 3.0, full attribution,
non-derivative. For more info: www.creativecommons.orgNext show will be recorded and distributed in the week of 6/3/12
namaste
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2159952234
www.radiocrystalblue.net
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@ The Grape Room 4/19/12

Posted on April 20, 2012 | 2 comments

Thursday was a day built for theatrics at The Grape Room. All the artists in this showcase had some sort of visual art going on, often leaning toward non-traditional methods of dance and performance.Opening act was local solo acoustic act boog. boog presents music with gruff voice and rough timed measures of words and chords. Gutteral acoustic blues is his fare. He was dressed virtually all in black including sunglasses, fancying himself quite cool. I enjoyed the latter two songs of his set which happened to be older tunes (these appear on his 2010 album “The Walking Club”). He’s firmly entrenched in the Philly scene and plans to do more shows in the Northeast.

Sylvia Platypus bill themselves as ‘psycho-Celtic’ rock. They are a solid six-piece with something for just about everyone. Not at all a quiet bunch, tho lead singer Janet Bressler presents a quiet power on stage, inwardly led to dancing, arms outstretched at just about any time in the set. She took her act to the audience in the first song, and performed a mock collapse during a closing medley of songs. The band includes Ruchama on bass, a well-hidden Rosalba on drums, Charlie on loud bagpipes, Bill on lead guitar, and Michael Southerton (Song Dogs & The Nightjar) with rhythm guitar. Good live show, very good groove if you dig psychedelic sounds.
   
VIDEO of Sylvia Platypus: http://youtu.be/P96I_yVv0lY
The latter three bands on the set have been touring together. First were The Unholy Sideshow. They are just that, unholy and a sideshow, with music piped in on keyboard and piano by someone. There was a large metal apparatus installed in stage and the devilishly half-naked emcee who performed a dozen death-defying sideshow feats including hammering metal into his nose, gettting into and out of several animal traps (including fox and bear ones), and presented an assistant, Davy Danger, clad in leather and lace. Davy Danger did an exciting Houdiniesque upside-down straitjacket escape from said apparatus, and assisted with several other tried-and-true items like the bed of nails, sledgehammering a cinder block off the emcee. A few volunteers from the audience assisted in the closing act, where their donation of various dollars would earn them staple gun clips on various parts of the emcee’s body. Offers of $100 weren’t made but they would have been directed toward the privates. Great alternative to the usual tipjar passing, eh?
 Mister Joe Black, from UK, performed seemingly authentic German cabaret, both solo on keyboard, and fronting a good band. He covered Britney Spears and The Weather Girls (you know, ‘that’ song) and included a few originals with such velvet-gloved, hat-in-hand forcefullness, complete with double- and triple- entendres). Pretty much everyone in the audience had visible grins on their faces, especially after enduring the sideshow antics on stage prior.
  

This Way To The Egress take their name from a P.T. Barnum slogan, have a great merch table, and provide cabaret, burlesque, and gypsy-punk sounds. They shared band members with Mister Joe Black, notably the fetching Rachel Galassi on keys and violin.

 I stayed for the first few tunes, having to catch the last train out of Manayunk, if not the last bus. I also had enough time to get a customary meal at Frak’s. Their ‘Manayunk Fries” with cheese and bacon, is quite literally to die for, and at a great value for the portion size. No, the fries aren’t camera shy. I was just that much hungry.

Photos at the latest Facebook gallery.

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Radio Crystal Blue 4/8/12 news

Posted on April 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

Radio Crystal Blue is sponsored in part by:
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Miles High Productions www.mileshighproductions.com
Serge Entertainment Public Relations www.sergepr.com
Wampus Multimedia www.wampus.com

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NEXT SHOW will be published on or about April 11 and will be available for
about 4 months beyond. Owing to schedule demands, I usually aim for noon
Wednesdays or as soon as possible thereafter.
You will hear music in several segments of top indie/DIY/underground
songwriters and bands.
RCB Novus Ordo will also air separately. On this show I spin one song from
as many as 8 songs in one sitting and give you background info of each
artist.

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No new media for you this week. I’m planning to attend these shows here in Philly:
A Little Affair play at JR’s Bar here in South Philly on 4/13. I’ve heard a few interesting things about this dive. There’s barely a website presence; there is a macabre collection of decor strewn about; stage-diving is known to happen frequently. Am I scaring you yet? Good. www.alittleaffairmusic.com
Sylvia Platypus performs on a bill with Study Electrictiy at The Grape Room on 4/19. I’ve seen the latter band just once; great example of modern Philly rock. Sylvia Platypus I’ve not yet seen. They are billed as “psycho-Celtic’ rock. I met their lead singer Janet Bressler once at a Song Dogs & The Nightjar show; we already were connected on that Facebook thing. www.sylviaplatypus.com
Local Americana/country-rockers band Gavilan share members of the band Richie Allen & The Midvale 9, and are releasing a new CD at The Grape Room on 4/21. I have their CD in advance, and will certainly spin this for you when it’s time for me to debut itt. http://www.reverbnation.com/headlesscowboymusic
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TWITTER FIVE TO FOLLOW: These are the last 5 folks that I’m following who
follow back: @Nydialfb @FaceTheKing @katekilbane @TheWayHomeMusic @Geraldbrusaschi
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COVERAGE:
I do audio interviews, photos, video, and audio of live events. You can see
and hear evidence across my Facebook and YouTube channels, plus the field
recording FeedPlayer.Time, location and expense will be taken into account
before taking on a job.
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RCB REVIEW: The annotated version of my shows.
On RCB Novus Ordo: 2 bands local to Philly, Johnny Action Figure, and The Tressels, debut on this edition. Red Abbey, formerly of Hoboken NJ, now in Las Vegas, have recently released their first full album. full of the same fire and brimstone they produce on stage.

RCB proper: Segment 1 was anchored by Shane Cooley. He is touring with Adam Web across the MidAtlantic states .Shane and others in the segment are performing at this year’s Cherry Blossom Festival (Wes Tucker, Flo Anito, Jamie Alimorad). Segment 2 started with pairs of duos (Sirsy, Schwervon!, The StereoFidelics; note the string quartet added to Sirsy’s Sorry Me”). Segment 3 featured tales of death, despair and hopefulness. Marybeth D’Amico’s tune “Beneath The Rubble” seems to anchor all these songs. Segment 4 includes new music from Daniel Levi Goans, a recently released song by Kate Klim, and both a Mark Erelli cover and original. Also completed the first full airing of the unearthed music from 1997-2002 by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer.

AIRPLAY SUBMISSION:
Send CDs to
Dan Herman
Radio Crystal Blue
1701 Snyder Avenue, #4
Philadelphia, PA 19145
CDs MUST have a 2012 release date or have been released no earlier than July
2011. No exceptions.

Artists are also advised to add my email address to their general (not local/regional) email list.

I also accept EPKs through these companies. For EPK submissions I select
artists on their body of work and the completeness of the press kit
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All you have to do is a search on these sites for Radio Crystal Blue.

Any compelling compilation/concept CDs can also be sent here directly. I’m
seeking material that can be featured, song-for-song, in my CD FOCUS
segments.
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namaste

Dan Herman
Radio Crystal Blue
www.radiocrystalblue.net
http://www.bigcontact.com/radiocrystalblu
cblue456@comcast.net
@radiocblue on twitter
215 995 2234

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