25.05.10 Tuesday Night Diner - 'International Pop Overthrow Liverpool!'

An amazing thing is going down in Liverpool this week. The International Pop Overthrow (IPO) Liverpool festival is a yearly chance for music fans to hear over 120 bands in about a week's time, all for free, at the world famous Cavern Club and Pub. You know, the place that launched the Beatles! The festival runs from May 25 through June 1, and you won't want to miss it.

 

www.internationalpopoverthrow.com

To celebrate, we'll do a radio show within a radio show! This 40+ minute program is jam packed with interviews with a few of the artists who will grace the stage of the world renowned Cavern Club. We’ll also hear their music, and a special interview with the IPO’s founder, David Bash. I chatted with folks in four different countries, and can’t wait for you to hear what it all sounds like! I'm especially excited about Maxi Dunn and Laurie Biagini performing on the same stage together, and Peter Hackett playing in Maxi's band during her sets! I also had the chance to chat with Fabrizio and Andrea from the Italian band Soundserif. And lastly, one of our up and coming favorite bands, Buzz Radio, will also have their place on the main stage as well!

www.maxidunn.info

www.myspace.com/lauriebiaginimusic

www.myspace.com/soundserif

www.myspace.com/1buzzradio

I can't be there, because I'm 5,000 miles away. But if you're anywhere near Liverpool this week, you owe it to yourself to experience this great festival. Let the music play!

If you'd like to make a request, just drop me a line at mike(at)rechargedradio.com. If you'd like to become an honorary California citizen, drop me a line at the same address. And if you'd like to hear all this great music—simply tune in to the Tuesday Night Diner, Tuesday night, 8:00-10:00 p.m. (GMT), 12:00-2:00 p.m. Pacific, only at Recharged Radio—www.rechargedradio.com.

See you then!

Chef Mike

mike(at)rechargedradio.com

MN2BDNC

 Featuring Music From....... 

Chad Neaves - You Said

Suzanne Benorden - Intention

Corner Laughers - You Two Are The Ones

Maple Mars - Citizen Roger

Beth Thornley - A to Z

RobBatley – Speaking Springsteen – Church of Steve Honest session

Retriever - Lion

Sarah Stanley - Tuesday Girl

David Bash interview Part 1
Cult of Wedge – Uprising
David Bash interview Part 2
Laurie Biagini – Another Old Lazy Lyin’ On The Beach Afternoon
Maxi Dunn/Laurie Biagini interview
Maxi Dunn – Always Be My Friend
Buzzradio – One Too Many
Soundserif Interview -
Soundserif – John Titor

Michael Miller - Carolina Skyline

Nacional - Telephone

Mad Tea Party - I Never Was A Cool One

Mark Bacino - Middle Town

Kat Jones - Those Expensive Eyes

Jimmy Catlett - Falling Up

Field - Saturday Soldier

Onward Chariots - Seven Miles Away

Kate Burkart - Destined

Joey Oskys - See It 2000000

Amnesiac Syndrome - Not Tired

Chancellorpink - Three People Care

Joe Swidenbank - Avalanche

18.05.10 Tuesday Night Diner - 'Nor-Cal and So-Cal Musical Legends!'

Here on the Tuesday Night Diner, I often try to serve my listeners a taste of my home state of California. It`s a pretty big place—if you don`t believe me, just Google a map of the United States with state names on it. It takes up more than half of the West Coast. If you superimposed it on the East Coast, it would literally stretch from New York City to southern Georgia. Wow.

 

http://www.historymania.com/american_history/upload/thumb/a/a0/800px-Map_of_USA_showing_state_names.png

Okay, enough of the geography lesson for today. But since it`s such a big place, I thought I`d represent both halves of it in tonight`s show.

When I first met the Corner Laughers a few months ago, they surprised me and brought along the legendary KC Bowman. They just introduced him as “KC Bowman”, but as the interview progressed, they started referring to him as legendary, and it just kind of stuck in my head that way. I almost can`t think of his name without putting “legendary” in front of it!

KC is from the San Francisco Bay Area, and has made quirky, intellectual pop music his stock in trade. He`s in a band called the Preoccupied Pipers, he`s in a new project with various Corner Laughers called the Agony Aunts, and he`s made some brilliant, sunny pop records on his own. His clever lyrics are noteworthy. Sometimes the songs are short—about a minute or so—always leaving you wanting more. Well, for those who want more—just play it twice! He sent me his late 1990`s album Fresher Tin Villages, and we`ll feature one of the tracks on this week`s show.

http://www.myspace.com/preoccupiedpipers

Also—check out this great review at: http://popfair.blogspot.com/2009/07/there-lot-of-people-who-havent-yet.html

Nashville, Tennessee. Music City. The world`s capital of country music. Nope, it`s not in California, and there`s a reason for that. Tennessee is wide where California is tall—and therefore, it simply won`t fit! But besides the geographic contrast in the shapes of the two states, there`s a difference in musical styles as well. Although some of the best-known classic country music was made in Nashville—and to their credit, is still the predominant musical style on the Grand OleOpry (broadcast every Saturday night)--at some point, things changed in Nashville. It wasn`t recent—it happened somewhere in the 1970s or 1980s. A good example is the legendary Dwight Yoakam. He couldn`t find musical success in Nashville—legend has it that he was told that his sound was “too country”. Pathetic. But obviously not debilitating. He simply moved to Los Angeles, and became a huge superstar. His biggest influences included Buck Owens and Merle Haggard (Bakersfield, California).

I told you that to tell you this. Skip Heller wrote and performed the single finest country song I`ve heard in the last decade. And he`s based in Los Angeles. So there! I was kind of surprised to read in one of his biographies online that he started in jazz, back in Philadelphia. And he mentioned to me once that he had the honor of playing in NRBQ for a short time, filling in for Johnny Spampinato. You need serious chops to keep up with those guys! Like Dwight—his music actually means something. It`s not that fluffy Southern pop that comes out of Nashville. It`s painstakingly-crafted songwriting that reaches into the inner depths of your soul, and makes you feel something. And it sounds good too. If you`re not a country fan—do me just this one favor. Listen to Skip Heller. It might change the way you think about this genre. Oh yeah—that great song I mentioned? I`ll be playing it on this week show for you!

http://www.skipheller.com/

If you`d like to make a request, just drop me a line at mike(at)rechargedradio.com. If you`d like to become an honorary California citizen, drop me a line at the same address. And if you`d like to hear all this great music—simply tune in to the Tuesday Night Diner, Tuesday night, 8:00-10:00 p.m. (GMT), 12:00-2:00 p.m. Pacific, only at Recharged Radio—www.rechargedradio.com.

See you then!

Chef Mike
mike(at)rechargedradio.com
MN2BDNC 

With Music From.......

 

Nacional - Telephone
Kaz Murphy - Hardly Think About That
Maple Mars - The Excursion
Chad Neaves - Something In My Soul
Dirty Amps - Fingertips
June & The Exit Wounds - Idly By
Maxi Dunn - Weather Warning
Anton Barbeau - Plastic Guitar
Terese Taylor - I'm Here
The Taters - Such A Good Day
K.C. Bowman - Capital I
Laurie Biagini - Ridin' The Wave
Jespa - Loves Lost Tourists - Church of Steve Honest session
Nushu - Another Rainy Weekend
Todd Dillingham - Crimson Spires
Auction for the Promise Club - Under China
Joey Oskys - Better Days
The Corner Laughers - For The Sake Of The Cat
Rich McCulley - Far From My Angel
The Complete Short Stories - One Blank Channel
Laurie Larson - Corporate Chew Toy
Amnesiac Syndrome - Not Tired
Sparklejet - Let's Behind That Place
Skip Heller - I Used To Love California
Allyson Seconds - Dig My Pig
Joseph Swidenbank - Coming Up For Air
Beth Thornley - Still Can't Hide
Soundserif - King Of The Night
Kate Burkart - Better Then
Handcuffs - Gotta' Problem with Me?
Splitsville - The Kids Who Kill For Sugar

11.05.10 Tuesday Night Diner - 'We`re Baaa-aack!'

Did you miss me? Well I certainly missed you! You see, Tuesday Night Diner was preempted last week, and for a very good cause—a live event! It was a gig—several bands on the bill—to protest the BBC shutting down BBC6 radio. Although the politics of this escape me—a good radio station being shut down, and perhaps a lousy one being put up in its place—that sort of thing could never happen here in America (okay—attempting to pull tongue out of cheek now)--live, unadulterated radio, beaming across the globe is a beautiful thing. I was happy to make way for this Recharged Radio event.

But that was then, and this is now. Your very own personal Chef Mike is back to reclaim my spot on the air, and I`ve got a stellar lineup of music for you.

Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Beth Thornley put out a stunning album this year called Wash U Clean. Melodic, mostly piano-driven tunes that stay with you long after you turn off your music player—seriously, I`ve gone for long walks with Beth`s tunes playing in my head! The album was carefully crafted by producer Rob Cairns. But did you know that Beth is aspiring to be an etymologist? Well, perhaps not really—etymology is the study of words and their origins. But some etymologist is going to be studying a phrase that Beth coined in the track that we`ll be playing on this week`s show.

www.beththornley.com

Time for some hometown pride. Yes indeed, a couple of acts originally from Northern California are going to be performing live next Monday, May 17th, at our home base of Maple St. Studios in London. Former Sacramentan Anton Barbeau, who`s something of a legend around these parts, now lives in the UK. He`ll be bringing his quirky, good-natured brand of Robyn Hitchcock-influenced tunes to our flagship studios. (For an advance, check out the “Ant `N Al” edition of Tuesday Night Diner on the Listen Again player on the home page of www.rechargedradio.com.) We`ll hear one of the tracks off of his current album, Plastic Guitar.

www.antonbarbeau.com

Half of the San Francisco-based Corner Laughers—Karla Kane and Khoi Huynh, are touring the UK, and will also be at Maple St. that night. For those of you not yet in the know, their current album Ultraviolet Garden is a standout in the bumper crop of excellent albums I`ve received this year (sorry, everybody else!). Who else but the Laughers could create intellectual, quirky, bouncy and moody alternative pop tunes armed with nothing but guitar, bass, drums, and ukulele! Oh yeah, and their perfect girl-pop harmonies and gift for clever lyrics. We`ll hear a representative track off of Ultraviolet Garden.

www.cornerlaughers.com

If you`d like to make a request, just drop me a line at mike(at)rechargedradio.com. If you`d like to become an honorary California citizen, drop me a line at the same address. And if you`d like to hear all this great music—simply tune in to the Tuesday Night Diner, Tuesday night, 8:00-10:00 p.m. (GMT), 12:00-2:00 p.m. Pacific, only at Recharged Radio—www.rechargedradio.com.

See you then!

Chef Mike
mike(at)rechargedradio.com
MN2BDNC

Go National - Until It's Good And Over
Joseph Swidenbank - Scattered
Kat Jones - One More Second Chance
Maple Mars - Borrowed Sunshine
The Corner Laughers - Shrine Of The Martyred Saint
The Small Change - Droppin' Petals On The Way Down
Cult of Wedge - Uprising
Beth Thornley - You're So Pony
Model Society - Lux
Raistalla - Long Way
Rich McCulley - Just a Few Miles To Go
Rob Batley – Church of Steve Honest Session: Small Potatoes
Mark Bacino - Muffin In The Oven
Onward Chariots - War Hero
Jimmy Etheridge - Sweet November
Kama Linden - Better Late Than Never
Kate Burkart - Cross The Street
Buzz Radio - One Too Many
Fake Teak - Solid-State
June & The Exit Wounds - Hey Hey Hey
Anton Barbeau - I Used to Say Your Name
Thinking For Tuesday - Falling
Domus - I Give My Love
Mad Tea Party - Blues Slip In
Nushu - Here's To Feeling Free
Maxi Dunn - Sinking In The Sand
Tom Alford - Yes It's You
K.C. Bowman - Our Market Share
Laurie Biagini - Leave Me Alone
The Taters - Wolfman Told Me Tonight
Little Guilt Shrine - Exit Flagger
50ft Woman - Ice Cream Man