New music this week from Sparks, The Damned, Steve Lukather, Foo Fighters, Comet Gain, Panic Pocket, Hugh Lee, Baby Rose, Bayonne, Alex Anwandter, Stewart Copeland, and much more. Enjoy!
As always, these songs have been added to the rotation of Radio Free California, available online (embedded below) and in the app store. This Playlist will play 5 times on Wednesday, And on Thursday we're going to play a full album at 9am and again at 9pm Pacific Standard Time. This week's album is the new Paul Simon effort, Seven Psalms, which is arranged and performed as a single song.
No cheap shots today. It's Memorial Day and I'm not working for it today. But because I love you, have some Cory Wong live, featuring Victor Wooten.
New music this week from blur, Homecomings, Yes, Todd Rundgren, MOULE, Greta Van Fleet, PONY, The Ocean, Leo give his version of an old Frankie Goes to Hollywood song, lovelytheband drops a new single, We feature a couple of songs by the Japanese pop band Homecomings (one of which is the theme to the anime "Kimi ha Houkago Insomnia", The Ocean releases the final album in their Phanerzoic trilogy, Ed Eagle, kiffie, Cory Wong and Theo Katzman all release songs where they are guesting on other people's albums, and much more. Enjoy!
And then a Foo Fighters song flew in under the radar at the last second, so I had to add that too.
<<insert sound of a needle on a 45 here>>
Well you may have noticed that this one is late. Late late late late late. That's because the evening that I was going to post this my computer suffered a Klingon breakdown and I lost everything. The whole. FUCKING. Machine. All of my files. My comics, my anime, and even two singles I had slated for July. One last mix and they were heading to the distributors.
All gone.
It's now five days later and I only just got a temporary working machine today. I'll have a new machine next week and then I will start the process of rebuilding, on <<shudder>> windows 10. I fucking hate Windows 10.
What amazes me more than anything is that I haven't lost my temper over it, and if you've read my work you can imagine that I might have a temper to match it. And I do.
But here we are anyway, and not a damned thing I can do about it. So I'm going to be sporadic for a bit while I rebuild my setup and my studio. I can re-record the singles but I had a magical performance on one of them that I'll never be able to reproduce. I also had the weirdest guitar solo I've ever recorded.
So I'm sorry this one's late. The radio station is down and I've lost all my e-mail contacts and bread recipes. Give me a moment or two to put it all back together again.
And because I love you and we need a laugh, may I introduce you to Dara O'Briain:
Welcome to this week's new releases! Music From The Hives, Serge Tiagnyriadno, Leap in Exile, Daft Punk, Sparks, Ed Eagle, Pet Shop Boys, Mammoth WVH and much more. Enjoy!
So the Radio Station version of Radio Free California is running strong. You can hear all of the Radio Free California Episodes for the last 6 months on random play, and I'm going to add the music from each playlist every week until I have a year's worth of uploads, and then start deleting the oldest music one week at a time, so that the rotation is constant.
No commercials, but we do have occasional announcements voiced by the wonderful Diana Mars. Also, Every Wednesday at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm and 6pm we run that week's Radio Free California uninterrupted. All times Pacific Standard.
Here is the web stream, which you can imbed on your own or open as a new webpage:
At this time there are no plans for an Apple version. We found that the licensing requirements were too burdensome. This isn't a money making venture - I'm doing it because it's fun and I like to share new music.
Fantastic week for new music featuring Iggy Pop, Gord Downie with Bob Rock, The Smashing Pumpkins, Cory Wong, Yusuf, Ben Folds, Peter Gabriel, Trev Lukather, Peter One and much much more. Enjoy!
So we have launched Radio Free California as an internet Radio Station. It's available on the web right now, and will be an app available at the Google Storein the near future. We're still kind of working the bugs out, but it's running now 24/7, and features ONLY new music, drawn from the various playlists I've put together and featured here since October of 2022.
Radio Free California will only be playing music less than 1 year from its release date. If you want to hear "Freebird" there are PLENTY of places you can go for that.
I've embedded the site here so you can just press play, or you can click here to be taken to a separate web page.
Cheap Shots (btw, tht thump you heard was the door hitting Scott Baio in the ass as he leaves California):
I' commenting on the picture here and not the story, but the more he protests the more he seems to resemble a Disney Cartoon character, don't you think?
New music this week from phil broikos, Yes, Benjamin Russell, Brenda Mtambo, Annahstasia, Stewart Copeland, The National, Smokey Robinson and much more. Enjoy!
So I live in San Francisco, California. It's a great place to live but I have to admit that radio here is fucking terrible. There are almost no outlets for new music and those that exist want to go so far outside the mainstream that a person whose tastes lie more towards rock, alternative and pop really have nowhere to go. The Bay Area's one great rock and roll station is more classic rock than anything else, the one adult alternative radio station is now doing sports and talk radio, and the one real alternative radio is now a "Dave" station - which means nothing past the year 2004.
For a working musician it is best to understand what else is out there and what your contemporaries are doing, so I crave and devour new music. That was really the whole purpose of starting Radio Free California in the first place, to share my discoveries. New music really isn't all that hard to find, but the days of being able to rely on radio to bring you new music are gone now.
So I've begun work on a new project that I hope to launch in June. I'm taking Radio Free California and turning it into an actual Internet Radio Station. It will feature the music from these playlists and a bit more, but the key thing here is that all of the music will be no more than 2 years since it's official release. All genres welcome, and I'll be playing the people with 50 followers right next to those with 50,000,000. Unsigned artists won't be regulated to 10pm on a Thursday night, but played in the main rotation with all the other artists.
Does this mean I will be launching an app? Why, yes it does! I'll let everyone know when it's ready, but Radio Free California will be available for both Apple and Android.
Cheap Shots:
A lot has been made of "Dark Brandon's" showing at the White House Correspondents Dinner, but for me the best work of the night was the last 5 minutes of Roy Wood's speech. A comedian who really gets it - maybe he should be the next host of The Daily Show.
