Annual Dayton Music Fest Preview Show!

October 1, 2012October 1, 2012 your tuesday afternoon alternative Dayton, Dayton Music Fest, Live Live Live, Me & Mountains, Motel Beds, Vanity Theft, Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative Arts, Dayton, entertainment, Festival, Ohio, Radio show

This week we will be listening to some of the great local music that we have in the city of Dayton! Many of the great music, venues, and artwork in our community will be previewed for those who are thinking about attending DMF 2012! And honestly that should be you. We also have some rare demos and live recordings from some of the artists who are making the Gem City music festival so amazing. Co-organizer Don Thrasher will be joining us in the first hour of the show. Expect some great music from Southeast Engine, Vanity Theft, Roley Yuma, Sleep Fleet, Al Holbrook, Turkish Delights, Me & Mountains, Motel Beds, Captain of Industry, Amnesia, Tim Pritchard and The Boxcar Suite and much much more!

We will also talk about the bands and artists that we saw at Midpoint Music Fest this past weekend. For the record, Dayton’s own Motel Beds were amazing at MPMF this year!

You can check out the schedule for DMF! Make your weekend plans accordingly!

Incredible Finds at MPMF

September 29, 2012October 1, 2012 your tuesday afternoon alternative MPMF, Swear and Shake MidPoint Music Festival, music, Swear and Shake

Mrs. Dr. J and I saw many incredible bands at the Midpoint Music Festival! Some of the standouts included Swear and Shake, The Ready Stance, Emily and the Complexes, Goldenboy, Shark?, Hospitality, The Purrs, Goldenboy and many more! We will be writing longer reviews soon! What were some of your favorite bands and musical moments of MPMF? Was it when Frankie Rose did a great Cure cover — ‘The Forest’? There were so many great bands in such a short time that all of us indie music fans felt very fortunate indeed. Thank you MPMF. Look forward to next year!

Your Tuesday Afternoon Alt Image 2 — wudr.udayton.edu

What are your picks for MPMF?

September 26, 2012October 1, 2012 your tuesday afternoon alternative Live Live Live, MPMF

As we approach the Midpoint Music Festival, what are you looking forward to as Cincinnati hosts the annual MPMF? We are excited about The Walkmen, Dinosaur Jr., Frankie Rose, Imperial Teen, The Ridges, The Motel Beds, The Seedy Seeds, Cloud Nothings, Ralph Stanley, and The Henry Clay People. So much great music… check out the current schedule!

Annual Midpoint Music Festival Review Show!

September 24, 2012October 1, 2012 your tuesday afternoon alternative Uncategorized MidPoint Music Festival, MPMF, R.Ring, Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative

We will be playing music from bands and artists who are part of the Midpoint Music Fest this year!

Expect another great set of indie music this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night in Cincinnati! We are also playing the new R. Ring song along with music from The Motel Beds, Me & Mountains, Captain of Industry, DAWNS, The Parlours, The Fair Shakes, The Kyle Sowashes, Go Robot, Go! and much more! Elizabeth Lenon-Van Dine will be joining us to talk about some exciting efforts to help victims of human trafficking here in Dayton!Let us know that you will be listening on Facebook!

Brand new song from Dave Mann and More this Week

June 26, 2012June 26, 2012 your tuesday afternoon alternative Dayton, New Music, Radio Show, Uncategorized, Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative Dave Mann, Dear Fawn, Homemade, Japandroids, Me & Mountains, Mittenfields, Motel Beds, New Music, POP-ETC, PowerFlower, Radio show, Southeast Engine, Water Liars

A new show tomorrow as Your Tuesday Afternoon turns Alternative featuring music and a premier from our friend Dave Mann – Tiny Spark. The song will make your day!

Hold on tight for bands like Fast Years, King Elk, Motel Beds, Me & Mountains, POP-ETC, Southeast Engine, Dear Fawn, Homemade, PowerFlower, Water Liars, Japandroids, Smashing Pumpkins, Soulsavers, Harper Blynn, A Place to Bury Strangers, The Black Cadillacs, Iskaa & the Red Cars, Good Sir Con Artist, Wussy, Mittenfields, Seedy Seeds, Royal Headache, Guided by Voices and more.

We will be talking about YTAA T-shirts, bumper stickers, and stickers…

So, tune in if you can because we would really appreciate it and you will discover great independent music on wudr.udayton.edu or 99.5 and 98.1 in the Dayton area!

Update on Me & Mountains’ KickStarter Project

January 13, 2012 your tuesday afternoon alternative Dayton, New Music, Uncategorized Me & Mountains

The outpouring of support for Me & Mountains‘s effort to release Feral on Vinyl is gaining traction! And it has only been a few days!

The band has passed the $1,000 point and are very close to the goal of $1,700! Keep the support coming oh kind and generous music folks!

Again, what can you do? You, fan of all around great music can contribute to the KickStarter page for Me & Mountains and support their effort to release their new album, Feral on vinyl. You can for an incredibly small effort still support great local music!

You can listen and enjoy fantastic music and be part of the collective experience!

Thursday Night is for Indie

January 13, 2012February 2, 2013 your tuesday afternoon alternative Dayton, Live Live Live 3rd and Main, Abertooth Lincoln, Dayton Music, Vanity Theft, We Were Animals

Vanity Theft playing out this Thursday

Normally when you think of what night you should go out, you think about the weekend… maybe a Friday or Saturday night, right? Well music fans, this week Thursday is for Indie! That’s right, this Thursday, January 19th, we have a terrific collection of Dayton bands who will be playing at the Rathskeller Room at Wright State University! This is a show that you should not miss! We have a great lineup that includes Vanity Theft — whose album Get What You Came For — made my best of 2011 list. In addition to VT we have: We Were Animals — and their Apoco-Lips album– should not be missed, Abertooth Lincoln, and 3rd and Main! The show starts at 7pm and goes until 10pm that leaves plenty of time for your weekend. It is an all ages show so that music fans of all ages can begin their love affair with Dayton music! And most importantly you can get a good jump on a weekend of great local music.

And to give you a start on the show: You can download the We Were Animals album! You can also check out Abertooth Lincoln’s music, if you haven’t already at ReverbNation or their Facebook page! Yes, while it may be cold outside just remember that it is socially acceptable to begin your weekend on a Thursday night! And with this lineup, you really should.

Kickstart Me & Mountains’ Feral

January 13, 2012February 2, 2013 your tuesday afternoon alternative Dayton, New Music Dayton Music, Kickstarter, Me & Mountains, Motel Beds, Oh Condor, The Rebel Set

Dayton’s own Me & Mountains are not only a great live band that is part of an exploding local music scene but they are also rather savvy business guys. Normally the path to releasing music is wrought with many logistical challenges, delays, and processing problems. And while we are not talking the length of time that it took one William Bruce Bailey to release a record they titled ‘Chinese Democracy’, it can be a daunting task for bands to get music out to fans quickly and easily.

Thankfully, there are newer and more direct models that musicians with some acumen — and social media skills — can use to do that one most sacred of tasks in all of musicdom: getting the music to the people! But of course, we can talk about a band or artist playing live that is one way to share music, and for me, that remains a critical part of the experience. So, while playing out continues to be as important today as it ever has been, we all want to continue to encourage groups like Me & Mountains, Motel Beds, The Rebel Set, Smug Brothers, Oh Condor, and so many other area musicians to play in the Gem City more often! Yet it is still important to those who have heard the music to share it with others! And we need CDs, tapes, record albums, and MP3s in order to share the sweet nectar of musical satisfaction.

So, the gentlemen behind Me & Mountains are among those bands trailblazing new forms of fan-supported musical releases. And in the end, it is not dependent upon some distant and disconnected record label execs wondering whether a band or song is “the right sound”, it is the initiative of the bands themselves with the support of music lovers that should lead the way for new releases. And this model can lead to some great music ringing in the ears of fans sooner rather than later. Add to this the successful examples of several local groups, such as The Motel Beds and Smug Brothers using different forms of distribution and you have a recipe for musical happiness all around.

So, what can you do? You, dear music fan, can visit the KickStarter page for Me & Mountains and support their effort to release their new album, Feral on vinyl. You can for an incredibly small effort, support great local music and stick it to the corporate model.

You can support great local music and get a copy of the Me & Mountains new album, Feral on vinyl. You can listen and enjoy fantastic music without paying huge sums of money to someone who does not even know where Dayton, Ohio is located; much less care about the quality or integrity of the music.

It doesn’t get much better than that.

Explore Dayton: Explosion of Local Music!

January 13, 2012January 13, 2012 your tuesday afternoon alternative Dayton Bonneville, Branniac, Ed vs. Radio, Guided by Voices, Hawthorne Heights, Me & Mountains, Motel Beds, Night Beast, Smug Brothers, Splattertude, The Breeders, The Fair Shakes, The Rebel Set, The Story Changes, Toads and Mice, Vanity Theft, We Were Animals

: Vanity Theft playing First Friday at Riverscape

It is often assumed that there is no local music scene in Dayton. Dear music fans, nothing could be further from the truth! We have a literal explosion of new music from bands of numerous musical genres, approaches, and styles happening right now. Once the Gem City was considered the post-punk haven for groups such as Guided by Voices, Branniac, and The Breeders. Dayton has a long and significant music history of which the post-punk wave was but one trend in local music.

Today, we have bands playing in almost too many genres and styles to count. We have new music from The Fair Shakes, Bonneville, We Were Animals (from the previously power-pop dream of Ed vs. Radio), Vanity Theft, The Rebel Set, The Story Changes, the horror-rock of Splattertude, Hawthorne Heights, Me & Mountains, Night Beast, Toads and Mice, Motel Beds, Smug Brothers, and so much more.

We have many places to see bands and musicians are plying their trade in the Oregon District or throughout the city. If the assumption is that there is no growing and evolving music scene in Dayton, that is simply not correct. As someone who has conducted research on music scenes for several years (do not ask how many, I am just a little touchy about the age thing), I can honestly tell you that Dayton musicians have much to offer you. All you have to do is go listen.

You can go to several fine establishments to see bands play most nights of the week in the Gem City. And you should. Come on what do you have to lose except your preconceptions about how the limitations of Dayton music.

Cross-posted at DaytonMostMetro at http://mostmetro.com/music/explosion-in-local-music.html

Support WUDR Radio by eating…

January 9, 2012February 2, 2013 your tuesday afternoon alternative Dayton ArtStreet, Independent Radio, WUDR, WUDR Studio

Ok, so this brief essay is a little self serving.

Now that we have that warning out of the way… this Thursday, January 19th you need to visit the ArtStreet Cafe at the University of Dayton from 7:00-9:00pm and order some delicious food. WUDR is holding their annual fund raiser to both support Flyer Radio and the annual WUDR spring concert series and — this is the part that you are really going to enjoy — create an opportunity for members of our community to talk to the DJs and others involved in a student-organized independent radio station! WUDR is the home of our program, Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative and several other fine programs that spotlight Dayton bands, musicians, and local concerts. So, if you are thirsty for a smoothie or hungry for a sandwich this Thursday evening, you know where you should go satisfy your cravings and support a local radio station that is not part of a huge super mega corporate entity that is programmed and controlled by people far far away.

The only thing you have to lose is a little time and your thirst or hunger or both.

Tell them that Dr. J sent you!

Our faves of 2011

December 27, 2011December 27, 2011 your tuesday afternoon alternative 2011faves, Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative

Today’s show is dedicated to our favorite songs from the past year. Be sure to listen at wudr.udayton.edu. We started early and we will go a little late because we have so many favorites from this year. Here’s the hit list:

Money Maker, The Black Keys

The Unsinkable Fats Domino, Guided By Voices

Sunfried Dreams, Motel Beds

Someone’s Gonna Break Your Heart, Fountains of Wayne

Santa Fe, Beirut

Calamity Song, The Decemberists

Bedroom Eyes, Dum Dum Girls

Weekend, Smith Westerns

Holdin’ On to Black Metal, My Morning Jacket

Still LIfe, The Horrors

Nobody Knows, The Feelies

Meant to Be, Tommy Stinson

123 Stop, The Postelles

Juggernaut vs Monolith, Boston Spaceships

Forget That You’re Young, The Raveonettes

Go Getter, Bonneville

Lucky Now, Ryan Adams

Any Trouble, Glen Campbell

Record Machine, Sissy Mena

Westwind to the Boulevard, Dotsun Moon

Surf’s Up, The Beach Boys

Lost In My Mind, The Head and the Heart

Rabid Red Eyed, Sleep Fleet

somethin’ is better than nothin, Tashaki Miyaki

Sheila, Library

Cold Front Blues, Southeast Engine

Romance, Wild Flag

Be So True, Total Babes

Swim in a Tight Parallel, Mittenfields

Faces, Places-Lightouts

Lit eyes, Motel Beds

Analog Woodland Song, Viva Voce

Lock Our Friends Out, Sam at Eleven

Everything Falls Apart, The One AM Radio

Something’s Turning Over, Low

Tame the Sun, Male Bonding

Let U Down, Those Darlins

Dreaming, Seapony

Belong, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

On the Corner, The Twilight Singers

Teenage Wristband (live), The Twilight Singers

Sometimes It Happens, Wilco

Down By the Water, The Decemberists

Natural Disasters, City and Colour

Open Season, The High Highs

Heavens Gonna Happen Now, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

December 20th Indie Holiday Show

December 12, 2011 your tuesday afternoon alternative Acoustic, Live In Studio, Live Live Live, Radio Show, Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative

Hello music fans,

On December 20th – we will be playing indie holiday music. And to help us out, friend of the show and guitar player extraordinaire Tom Gilliam will be playing live holiday music in the studio.