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FreeWorldNetworkRadio-X Interviews Michael Hill’s Blues Mob

Posted by Bruce Mack on July 15, 2009 @ 9:15 pm | Post a comment

Greetings, music lovers!  This is your host and producer of FWNR-X -Bruce Mack and I just wanted to let you know I did an interview last night with Michael Hill’s Blues Mob and it will be featured in hour 2 of episode 6 (7/16/09 and 7/19/09) and runs about 50 minutes, followed by a couple of the bands songs.  Guitarist/vocalist/composer-Michael Hill, drummer/vocalist-Bill McClellan and bassist/vocalist-Mike Griot are great musicians and performers and longtime friends of mine who I have the honor of getting some inside scoop on their current and future projects and upcoming performances in South Orange, New Jersey at Baird Park.   So please join us if you would like to get acquainted with this contemporary Blues band.

Some journalistic wisdom:

“Hill writes songs that make other young musicians seem ignorant of the real world in which we all live … Hill is truly the bluesman piloting the music into the next century.”
– Blues Revue

“Hill writes songs that make most of his peers seem either empty-headed or self-obsessed. As a singer, writer and most impressively as a guitarist, he celebrates the blues form without being shackled to it, creating a sound that’s referential and relevant at the same time. Alternately scorching and soaring solos.”
-Washington Post

“Forward-thinking Michael Hill nods to rock, reggae and New York soul. He takes chances, stretching boundaries with supple, super-charged solos … Kick-ass and world-class.”
– Guitar Player

So please join me for my first artist interview feature.

All the best, B.

Welcome

Posted by Bruce Mack on June 12, 2009 @ 10:53 pm | Post a comment

FreeWorldNetworkRadio-X is here.

Songs on Toast - 05/29/2009

Posted by Brian Cullman on May 29, 2009 @ 12:00 am | Post a comment

THE WORST JOB I EVER HAD….

B.P.R.D. - 04/12/2009

Posted by Todd Morman on April 12, 2009 @ 3:00 pm

Here’s avante-garde pedal steel-player Susan Alcorn’s site (the links page looks great) and an informative Allmusic review of the collaboration with Eugene Chadbourne. Chadbourne would be a great fit for a live Taint performance at Marsh Woodwinds. Just discovered Bird Names, an experimental group out of Chicago making dense, psychedelic, catchy noise. Picked up the cd used at the local store and can’t wait to get their most recent one, which one reviewer describes as “a collection of music boxes caught in a traffic jam” and “a lost track from the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, that is, if it had been mixed by a monkey.” Sounds perfect. The “Violin” piece by Oregon is a collaboration with Polish jazz violinist Zbigniew Seifert, who I like to think I’d have heard of before now if he hadn’t died young of cancer in 1979. Turns out there’s a new documentary about him that’s just been released. Here’s a short interview at Jazz Fiddle Wizard. Oregon’s Wikipedia page claims “Apollo astronauts took a recording of Oregon’s music to the moon and named two lunar craters after compositions by the ensemble - ‘Icarus’ and ‘Ghost Beads.’” I have no idea if that’s true. The album by Yoon Sun Choi and Jacob Sacks got a decent amount of positive jazz press last year; it’s a collection of sharp/funny/warm improvisations on the music of Joe Raposo, best known as the composer of Sesame Street gems like “(It’s not easy) Bein’ Green” and “Sing.” (Raposo was also pals with Sinatra and has a number of songs on the album “Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back.”) It’s astonishing what Choi and Sacks do with these songs, and there are lots more quirky Raposo gems on Youtube, including this one written for Kermit and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The only question is how far down the Muppet fandom rabbit hole do you want to go? Otolithen (more) and Disque 9 are two more finds from local used bins; I liked this Disque 9 review at the great Egg City Radio, where you can download the album for yourself. Silica Gel is a hilariously dark experimental techno duo from the Wifflefist collective, a local noise/rock label active in Raleigh during the 90s. Great group of folks.

FCC clears the way for nationwide wireless web

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on October 19, 2008 @ 12:34 am | Post a comment

FCC engineers say they have found no technical reason not to move forward on a proposed plan for a nationwide, free wireless Internet service . T-Mobile, which uses spectrum adjacent to the bands in question, had argued against the proposal, suggesting the new service‘s signals would interfere with the company‘s 3G wireless network.

The report clears the way for the FCC to move forward with a plan to auction off airwaves to a bidder who agrees to offer free, national wireless Internet service. The FCC is expected to finalize rules this year and could begin auctioning off airwaves in early-to-mid 2009.

T-Mobile has fought FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposal to encourage development of free Web access by raising concerns that the service would disrupt the company’s 3G wireless network, for which it charges customers. But FCC engineers said recent tests in Seattle showed the airwaves could be used for a wireless broadband service “without a significant risk of harmful interference.”

“This report confirms that we’re able to move forward with broadband services as proposed by Chairman Martin without causing harmful interference to license users of adjacent spectrum,” said an FCC spokesman.

The network would have to reach 50% of the U.S. population in four years and 95% within a decade.