Sunset Strip...

Nancy Deedrick's interview about Jim Morrison and the Hollywood Hangover is brilliant... Just heard it again here on the commercial free Pluto Radio stream.  It was a pleasure to interview her, she was/is frank, to the point, and colorful in a way that you just have to listen to her.  Thanks again for the interview Nancy!

MUMPSY - Garage / Indie / Pop

The Orlando based Mumpsy create a pop incarnation of eclectic influences ranging from punk bands to ‘50’s crooners and beyond. Releasing six albums and a handful of b-sides since 2005, Mumpsy started as a musical project fronted by singer-songwriter Jeff Ilgenfritz and quickly caught on like a wildfire in the surrounding Central Florida area. Now a full-fledged band, Mumpsy has logged 10 tours, 4 releases, and 8 music videos in the past 2 years. (as compiled on the bands website)

Read more: www.facebook.com/mumpsy

THE LOW LOWS - Lyrical Oddities /Terrifying Pulses / Dark Corners

Founded 2006 in Athens Georgia, the Low Lows were named after the final release of NYC noise-pop trio Parker & Lily.  In the Summer of 2008 the Low Lows relocated from Georgia to Austin Texas, simultaneously flowering quite suddenly into a sprawling ten-player onstage spectacle. Still centered around the plaintive voice & songs of Mangham Parker, now vibraphone, steel guitar and a slew of vintage organs and pianos round out a dense, funereal live sound evocative of Band of Horses & early My Morning Jacket. Their intricately orchestrated four-man brass section evokes both stax/volt- style balladry and Neutral Milk cacophony. Stately, dreamlike waltzes build to explosive, gospel-tinged climaxes, & a woozy country narcosis kin to Skygreen Leopards or Phosphorescent alternates with Velvets- style feedback drones & buried noise melodies. (as compiled on the bands website)

Read more:   www.thelowlows.com

Sweet kiss on the ass Kimmy...

Kimmy, you're crazy, you chase me and scare me, but, you also do an amazing amount of work posting here on the commercial free Pluto Radio stream.  Just wanted to thank you - even though I'm still going to have you arrested for stalking me!  Your the best/worst.

BEES DELUXE - Guitar Driven Rock n' Roll!

Bees Deluxe is a full-tilt, acid blues/funk/rock collective comprised of Boston-based musicians. Among their favorite venues, they've played at Jake's Dixie Roadhouse, in Waltham, Fat Boy Bill's Milford, Frankie Dee's in Kingston, the Honey Fitz in Malden, the Milky Way in Jamaica Plain, Firefly's in Marlboro.  Their unique repetoire include over three sets of floorboard-stomping originals and 60s, 70s, and 80s covers from Little Feat, The Meters, Billie Holiday, Derek Trucks, Donny Hathaway, Steely Dan, B.B.King, ZZ Top & more....(as compiled on the bands website)
Read more: http://www.beesdeluxe.com/

Diverse musical stew...

Just heard a nice hard rockin' piece from one of Stalker Kimmy's favorites Zak Daniels and the One Eyed Snakes here on the commercial free Pluto Radio stream.  Serving the most diverse musical stew in the galaxy!   Oh, and thanks Kimmy for the recent posting work here at the station.  Always appreciate your efforts.

THE COSMONAUTS - Alternative / Rock

Dynamic four piece from Edinburgh infused with 60s rock, dark sounds and brooding electric cello.  The Cosmonauts were formed in 2008 by guitarist/vocalist Chris Bryce and bassist/vocalist Alan Robertson, the latest phase in a long-term collaboration of almost 10 years. With the aim of creating a more distinctive sound, cellist/vocalist Claire Schiavone was brought on board, adding a notably dark edge to the sound. After experimenting with several dummers, Paul Stuart joined the group in 2009. With their line-up settled, The Cosmonauts set to work fusing their sound together and bringing their individual influences and shared vision to the mix. After recording a few demos the band decided to try them out at live gigs in Edinburgh, eliciting a extremely positive response from audiences. With this new found confidence the band then pushed themselves further, securing regular gigs outside Edinburgh, plus radio play in the USA and on Scottish independent radio stations.

Riding this wave of enthusiasm, The Cosmonauts are currently working on their self produced debut album, due for release in early 2012.  In the meantime, the band have released a 3-track EP showcasing the diverse styles and real musical depth of their sound. This is to give existing fans and new listeners a taste of what is to come on the album. Once the album is released, The Cosmonauts will be promoting it throughout the UK with live gigs and more local/international radio play. (as compiled on the bands website)

Read more: www.reverbnation.com/cosmonauts69

Tristen Luhrs...

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WASHINGTON'S CROSSING - Alternative / Rock / Folk Rock

Washington's Crossing is a unique blend of sounds with influences ranging from British/ Australian to American rock. The band members' origins include hometown Philadelphia, PA to Russia. Haunting guitar solos with the addition of a 12 string guitar adds a new dimension to this melodic rock. Soon to be a classic.

Washington's Crossing's - Dreamers displays a wide range of great guitar work, finely crafted songs, smooth vocal harmonies, rich keyboard textures, and a hot rhythm section. Rock the way it should be! (as compiled on the bands website)

Read more:  www.reverbnation.com/washingtonscrossing

Explosion of listenership here at Pluto!

Okay, so there was a really weird run on the Pluto Radio stream today...  According to Google we managed over 450 listeners today (457).  Record!  Thank you to all who checkin in with us.  Beautiful times here @ the stream."

- Lee

CONFUSION IS NEXT - The Generation Of This Order

CIN begun in Feb. 2004 as two bored teenage guitarists, Teo & Lorenzo, in a grey high school of a city in the north of Italy, Monza, a city of F1 races and a king assasination, a few kms away from Milan. They decided to bang some noise together, form a grunge band, writing original songs and naming themselves after one of the most disturbing songs of early Sonic Youth. Mixing several influences and tastes, the band took final shape with Fabrizio (aka Bicio) and Giuseppe (aka Pinno), drum and bass, in october 2004. With a live debut in december 2004, CIN were ready. (as compiled on the bands website)
Read more: http://www.confusionisnext.com/

HUDSON K - Psychedelic Experimentalism

Hudson K is the brainchild of singer/songwriter Christina Horn. Combining influences that span decades, Christina’s work dwells in the abstract, emerging in timeless forms.  

The New York-born Horn pulls from her music school education and her experience producing scores when it comes to writing songs. She also cites Bat for Lashes and Andrew Bird as influences, while echoes of Bjork and PJ Harvey are heard throughout Hudson K’s transforming indie rock sound. (as compiled on the bands website)

Read more: www.reverbnation.com/hudsonk

Dirge on the commercial free Pluto Radio stream ..

The Other Side .

The Other Side are all from central Fife, Scotland, who put the band together in February 2009. Within 3 months they had written and recorded 8 songs, launched themselves on Myspace and did their first gig in Edinburgh.
Since then they have continued to write and record new songs, 17 in total so far. Their Album, Catch The Sun, is available at
 www.reverbnation.com/theotherside
They have gigged every month, 63 gigs so far and counting. All recordings are produced by Kirby in their rehearsal rooms on an 8 Track. Their influences are as wide ranging as their own music. They have no fixed agenda or style to constrain the writing process. If it sounds good, no matter what, they will go with it. To really find out what they are all about you really need to catch one of their explosive live sets. Where they can go from Bluesy/Rock, through Punk and back to mellow in the space of a few songs.
For 2011, more of the same. They are hoping to gig further afield, north or south, so any promoters or venues looking for a band that always turn up on time, give you or the sound engineer no grief and deliver a great set, get in touch.

Read more:
http://theothersideuk.bandcamp.com

Nothingdoers...

The Nothingdoers play contemporary folk-rock oriented music with English lyrics. Because of the appalling situation with independent music recordings in Russia, The Nothingdoers cling to the principles of DIY in their recordings and in the process of album promotion, so they still remain unsigned and plan to continue releasing their future recordings under the Creative Commons license. Starting their collaboration as a two-guitar act, the guys recorded their first two albums, “The Unplugged Room Of Killed Time” (2004) and “Tonight” (2005) using cheap mics and home PCs.

After 2005, Igor and George played together in some indie-rock and punk bands, improving their skills as stage performers and then got back to their home studios to record their third full-length album, “Twenty Past Sixteen” (2008), which is now available for free download on the Web. In Fall 2009 The Nothingdoers again began making live appearances in Moscow and St. Petersburg venues, performing songs from “Twenty Past Sixteen” and some new stuff from the upcoming record, which is going to feature over 10 tracks in various genres. The Nothingdoers’ musical influences include such artists as Beck, Micah P. Hinson, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Sonic Youth, Kings Of Convenience etc.

Igor Evanowe - vocals, guitars, keys, programming
George Manaev - bass, guitars, lyrics, vocals
Inat Olenev - drums & percussion

Read more:

www.myspace.com/thenothingdoers

Emerging from the dark depths of the sewers of London, Rattlin Bone walks that darker path…A raggle, taggle fourteen piece band in a world of Zombie Burlesque and Voodoo Circus…

Featuring…
Wily Bo 'The Wolfman' Walker, former frontman and songsmith supremo with Glasgow's self-styled supergroup The Heartbeats, now continues his wild frontman swagger as Ringmaster of the madcap burlesque voodoo circus that is Rattlin Bone.…

Joining him is demon trombone player L'il Neill, a nightcrawling desperado and an artist with a deviant palette. He fronts the bone section from hell…

Kareña Kelly adds her 'Vampirettes'; a wicked sideshow and backing vocals with bite!!!
The band is Currently recording the debut album Voodoo Zombie Blues for Flaming Hearts Records.

Read more: www.myspace.com/rattlinbone

Rand Reynolds

Rand Reynolds: Brief Bio

Rand Reynolds writes authentic Hillbilly Noir, a new music genre he created in 2005 to describe his haunting Edgar Allen Poe-like lyrics accompanied by a stark, rustic Martin guitar. Like its film noir counterpart, Reynolds’ musical vignettes focus on desolate characters that, on the surface, appear to exist only in terms of black and white, good and bad or love and lust. But Reynolds’ characters struggle inwardly to co-exist in the gray moral shadows of their own footsteps … the kind of boot steps that echo in a vacant alley on a black, rainy night while moving headstrong, wantonly, into life’s underbelly. He delivers his songs in a deep baritone voice that spearheads his unique signature sound that is dark, threatening and dangerous. Reynolds’ material -- which ranges from songs about alcoholics, drifters, serial killers, strippers, dope fiends, wife beaters, washed-up country singers, finger pointers and, generic sinners and saints -- explores a new modern sensuality and savvy. The songs reek of the human abyss, danger and disappointment because, in his world, hope and desperation go hand in hand. For his dreams of easy deliverance are empty, two sided and vague. Reynolds has fine tuned his Hillbilly Noir to make it stylized, individualistic and intimate, and the genre embraces this guitar player’s journey of candid self-discovery that is bold and rare among songwriters of today.  (as compiled on Mr. Reynolds' webpage).

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"We came across some of Mr. Reynolds' music on the internet archive - we hope to get our hands on yet more of this brilliant songsmith's material."  - Lee Crisman

Bernie on the commerical free Pluto Radio stream. . .

I play while sitting prone under a tree in a field on a plain. Why? I'll tell you why. I like to make music. I like to listen to music, but that mostly makes me feel like making music. So I started making music, lots of music.

I like the act of writing, playing and recording. The entire life-cycle of music. I've put together a fantastic web-site and have put together a fantastic album for sale, details on my fantastic web-site. I will continue to make music, to write music and to record music. Because that's what I love to do. Thanks! (all as compiled from Bernie Durfee's website http://cobzilla.com/)


Read more at: www.reverbnation.com/cobzilla

Black Wyrm Seed...

Metal ~ Jazz ~ Psychadelic

Sickened by the sad state of modern mainstream music, the gents from Black Wyrm Seed bartered for a kilo of “magic beans” in a backalley deal somewhere on the South Side of Chicago, and shortly thereafter found themselves in an utterly foreign — and yet strangely inviting — domain. There are some who might refer to the place as “parts unknown”; others might call it “the great beyond”; and its exact coordinates remain unclear. But this much is certain: it lies somewhere between 1966 and the mountains of the moon…and to Black Wyrm Seed, it is now home (as compiled from the bands website).

Ross Meyerson from Loud Loop Press in Chicago writes:

"Black Wyrm Seed’s debut isn’t something you’d put on when you need to get shit done. It’s stoner music for stoners and ex-stoners who like to remember the good old days when getting shit done had no meaning in one’s life. And it’s the perfect soundtrack for that. Black Wyrm Seed are more than comfortable going at their own, sloth-like pace. The fact that it doesn’t get old or drag is a testament to the fact that they write songs – slow as molasses songs – but songs none the less. If that’s your bag, I heavily suggest digging out your old tape deck and finding a bag of Doritos. You’ll thank me."

Read more: www.myspace.com/blackwyrmseed

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