Indie Bands near and far — it is now time to apply for Cincinnati’s MidPoint Music festival for 2013! The Festival is September 26-28, 2013 this year! The opportunity for artist submission is through Sonicbids as of Feb 1! Do this please… would LOVE to see more great independent music, bands, and more at MPMF.13!
This Tuesday we will be talking to Gorman Bechard, the filmmaker who created Color Me Obsessed about the Replacements, about his current project — Every Everything, the music, life & times of Grant Hart!
This week we will be playing music from Sohio, Ra Ra Riot, The Moulters, Divine Fits, Lightouts, The Bengsons, The Mayflies USA, Grant Hart, Italian Japanese, Major Major Major, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Decade Runners, Cub, The Coathangers, Vanity Theft, King Elk, and much more! You should expect some classic indie from Love and Rockets!
We will also premier a brand new tune from Fire at Night! If that was not enough we have the broadcast premier of The Vains with an acoustic version of ‘Stitches.”
Remember to tune in for some great music and a terrific interview with an exciting documentary filmmaker for an afternoon of indie radio as Your Tuesday becomes Alternative with Dr. J and Mrs. Dr. J on WUDR!
A fantastic new band out of Austin, Major Major Major has some great music available for download on their bandcamp page. We just played Polka Dots + Porcelain. How did we find out about Major Major Major? Why, from Justin at the Atlas and the Anchor! He links to lots of great music, so be sure to take a look.
Join us this Tuesday — we have not missed one yet! — for another afternoon of radio on Your Tuesday becomes Alternative with Dr. J and Mrs. Dr. J this Tuesday!
This week we will be playing music from The Ready Stance, The Mayflies USA, The Kyle Sowashes, Grant Hart, The Exploding Hearts, Wussy, The Decade Runners, Night Beds, Christopher Owens, RobtheBank, Cub, The Coathangers, The Tigerlilies, Dear Fawn, and much more! You should expect some classic indie with The Replacements and Husker Du.
We will be talking about one of our favorite movies – Color Me Obsessed: A Film about The Replacements and a soon-to-be-favorite film — Every Everything, the music, life & times of Grant Hart!
We just had to share a recent discovery that we have made… The Decade Runners is a band that you must check out! You need to hear their amazing song, The Ride… and once you do — you will simply be unable to live without it. How often does that really happen in music anymore? We do not mean some corporate piece of music that you are told to love because executives are counting on sales of units. No, we mean a song that once you hear it… the music hits you stronger than a slap upside the head. You hear the guitars, the bouncy bass line, and a steady drum cadence that leaves you no choice. No choice whatsoever. You get up, you dance, you smile and you just close your eyes and find yourself transported by the music. A great song can do that. A great song should do that!
The Decade Runners are a guitar-focused rock band with a perfect, captivating sound that seems all the more impossible when you find out how crushingly young the band members are for playing such complex melodies. They sound like a band that is much older — and we mean that in a good way, alright! — than simply measured in years. As stated in their bio, The Decade Runners “came about as a result of three of the members being in the same class at school.” And in true, Tom Hanksian – That Thing You Do fashion, the band wins a competition and they understand that they have some special on their hands. And we believe that after you hear The Ride, you will believe that too.
Join us tomorrow as we celebrate the HoliDayton indie music extravaganza that occurs every year! Also, Tiny Spark by Dave Mann and The B-sides is out NOW! And you really want it. Dave will be calling in to talk about Tiny Spark, work on the new Mittenfields album, and more!
If that was not enough we are also premiering The Purrs new song Rotting on the Vine! In fact, we love both the A and B sides of that single — remember those days? — that we will also be playing You, The Medicine, and Me by The Purrs too!
New music from Guided by Voices, Okay Lindon, King Elk, Lightouts, Sleep Fleet, Mission Man, Human Cannonball, Me & Mountains, Major Major Major, Motel Beds, Robthebank, The Story Changes, and some great stuff from The Connells, Smug Brothers, and We Were Animals
Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative is celebrating our last show of our birthday month! Join us Tuesday 3-6pm on wudr.udayton.edu as we debut new music from Okay Lindon, Holopaw, Guided by Voices, Neal Young and Crazy Horse, RobtheBank, Swear and Shake, Dear Fawn, Human Cannonball, The Motel Beds, Glen Campbell, and so much more alternative, indie, and great local music. Expect some very rare music from The Connells, Mike Ness of Social Distortion, and a few other surprises.
Dueling covers this week will be between Uncle Tupelo and The Punch Brothers doing the classic, Moonshiner. We will be playing some local R&B and Rap with Dayton’s own Mission Man. His new album M, is out now!
Join Dr. J and Mrs. Dr. J as we celebrate our last show celebrating 8 years of playing some of the best independent and Dayton music on wudr. Check out the YTAA Facebook page!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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