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Peril Dance

Splendid pop rock from NYC's LEVY. Mixes Trashcan Sinatras with The Strokes, Travis with the best of the 80's. A must for all OWR listeners. You won't regret it.

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The Adventures of Jet formed in 1998 when the founding members of the Dallas, Texas-based, concept-group BOBGOBLIN decided to leave the trials of upholding an often unwieldy concept behind and focus solely on making rock n' roll music. As it didn't seem appropriate to keep the name BOBGOBLIN without the fiction, the visuals, and the apparel associated with it, the name changed to The Adventures of Jet, in keeping with the title of BOBGOBLIN's first, independent release, "Jet."

In 2000, under a new moniker, with a slightly different lineup, and armed with a quiet but national reputation for creating a very unique style of New Wave-influenced, hard-rocking power pop, the group produced the critically acclaimed CD, "Part 3: Coping With Insignificance."

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My first podcast as an official member of the Association of Music Podcasters! Thanks gents!

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"Solid Action" by The Wes Hollywood Show, "Total Hardcore Ska" by The Brownies, "summercats" by the kid, "My Fair Lady" by David Byrne, "Don't Hate Me" by 2Twenty2, "That's What I Know" by Brain Failure

* David Byrne's "My Fair Lady" appears courtesey of a Creative Commons "Sampling Plus" license. Pod safe!

29 min | 29 MB | 128kbps

Artist's site:The Wes Hollywood Show

Wes Hollywood is a Chicago staple and writer of the kind of pop songs people seemed to stop writing.

Deeply rooted in the late '70's and early '80's tradtion of pop/rock songwriting greats, the music of Wes Hollywood explores with infectious choruses, disarming lyrical wit and huge vocal hooks.

The Wes Hollywood Show's "Moonraker" and "Playing Favourites" albums are now AMP safe. Enjoy!

Order "Moonraker" and "Playing Favourites" today at CDBaby.com.

Artist 's site: www.saintface.com

In 2001 songwriter, singer and arch romantic Peter Riley realized his one-man bedroom demos required a five-man real-world band and summoned his wayward childhood compatriot Michael Parkin back from London. With Parkin duly installed on keyboards the two in short order snapped up Queens-bred dandy and occasional bassist Joseph Babic; proofreader and former heavy metal drummer Andy Elder; and after numerous false starts (including a guitarist who pathologically refused to acknowledge the rest of them in rehearsals), the crashing fretboard theatrics of David Blake.

Self-produced in Riley�s kitchen in 2002, Saintface�s Hudson & Day EP won the band a fervent New York following and acclaim in town and abroad (one reviewer likening the disc to a "sunset singalong at Glastonbury"), yet marked them out as a different breed altogether from the artless garage squall of the moment. The band honed its songs, sound, and show over the following year before finally grabbing the bull fully by the horns and launching into the self-produced sessions for their debut LP.

The fruit of that labor is APARTMENT STORIES, eleven songs crackling with the wit and romance of city life, a record with a huge heart and a tongue planted firmly in its cheek; the kind they made when great songs were for putting a skip in your step or letting you know you weren�t the last in line to be loved. Recorded on stolen time and an overtaxed iBook in freezing Times Square rehearsal rooms, mixed within an inch of its life by Godfrey Diamond (who�s done time with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Lou Reed), APARTMENT STORIES is a blast of exuberance cut with a heady dose of melancholy, a record defiantly unafraid of wearing its emotions on its admittedly well-tailored sleeve.

It�s there in the boozy pounce of A Few Kind Women, the jubilant backbeat of That Word Is Love, and the lyrical come-on that is There Is a Room; the would-be Hollywood romance of Hudson & Day, the transatlantic swoon of Hand On My Heart, and the wearily raised glass of You Belong To Me (recorded on the family upright after Parkin�s ten rounds with the staircase). It�s guts, humor, sex, melody, pop�they all fit Saintface to a tee. These then are their APARTMENT STORIES.

soon to be AMP safe.
Go Pop! Records recording artists THE CHEESEBURGERS are a pop/rock/country/comedy band, right? These guys can't be serious. And yet their humor and range of styles offer a little something for everyone. The latest album, cheekily entitled "Desolation Blvd. II" is available now, and select tracks from it may soon be available to the AMP.

The OWR:N8M podcast is still hosted at www.new80smusic.com Check it out!