On Monday, fellow Radio Survivor Matthew Lasar and I were guests on the Gramophoney Baloney radio show at community radio station KPOO-FM in San Francisco. Matthew has written numerous times about his love for this radio show and he’s even followed its host DJ Schmormac from station to station. Although I didn’t know too much […]
[liveblog] I am here in the studios of Radio Valencia, anxiously awaiting the airing of the Gramophoney Baloney show. Here is a photo of Mr. Gramophoney Baloney himself as he prepares to go live: Now we go to live blogging.
Radio Survivor co-founder Matthew Lasar declares we’re in the post-“Radio Is Dead” era, during a time when audio media has survived and thrived, whether you listen over the broadcast airwaves, podcast, satellite or internet stream. Jennifer Waits and Paul Riismandel join Matthew live in San Francisco for a discussion about radio’s recent evolution, including the […]
The other day I looked up the history of the song “Teddy Bear’s Picnic” and found an interesting radio related connection. Apparently the formative 1932 recording made by BBC band leader Henry Hall offered such fine tonal quality that the Beeb used it for three decades to keep audio equipment up to speed. One BBC […]
Here we are in the middle of the Holiday season, and here’s some of the stuff coming through my RSS reader: WFMU Manager Ken Freedman has released his favorite gifs of the year image map. Looks like you have to go to his blog to access the image linking dots. Meanwhile, Merry Christmas from the […]
Two Sundays ago I was hanging out at free form radio station Radio Valencia in San Francisco, and in walked jazz singer/guitarist Meredith Axelrod. Axelrod spoke with the Gramophoney Baloney show’s DJ McShmormac, then schmoozed some more with DJ Ferrara and Malderor and Dr. Junk. Of course we all wanted Axelrod to sing. As a bonus, […]
I’m looking forward to this Sunday morning, when I will be on the Gramophoney Baloney show again over at Radio Valencia in San Francisco. This week the show’s host DJ McShmormac is planning a four hour Armistice Day special. I asked him for specifics on Facebook: “4 hours of recordings dating from the WWI-era 1914-1918 […]
As promised, San Francisco community based radio station radiovalencia.fm has moved from Chicken John’s Chez Poulet hangout on Cesar Chavez to a swell new third story studio operation at 2390 Mission Street “on the northwest corner of 20th St directly across from Bruno’s,” as the relocation announcement put it. I dropped by on Sunday to schmooze […]
Hip hip hooray for San Francisco based cellist Sebastian Plano, whose Kickstarter campaign succeeded about four days ago. The goal was to finance the production of two albums: “Novel,” a collaboration with cellist Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet, and “Impetus,” a solo album engineered by Nils Frahm in Berlin. Plano reached his $10,000 ceiling […]
I wandered about the “Sunday Streets” Valencia Street Fair in San Francisco yesterday, and quickly ran into the Radio Valencia booth, where those denizens of the FM deep were holding forth: Malderor and Dr. Junk (that’s Malderor on the left in the photo below; Dr. Junk on the right; Dr. Sleepless in the middle). Malderor and […]
