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Go See Local Bands and Local Art! A Dayton Show Extravaganza Weekend!

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10462882_771795486225757_7458810705605439738_nWho needs help with their plans this week and weekend? We got a few suggestions for you on the show this Tuesday on Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative! In addition to all of the great music and indie music news that you have come to expect, we are living our show motto – ‘Support Your Local Music Scene.’

Join us for our radio show on http://wudr.udayton.edu/ because Mrs Dr. J and Dr. J have many excellent shows to discuss this week happening in the Dayton, Ohio area! If you live elsewhere – do yourself a favor and check out some local music in your scene. Our suggestions for the Dayton area include a few suggestions…

Dear Fawn has a release show coming up on December 5th: Dear Fawn Ep Release Show w/ Jamaican Queens & Forage and OldNews, The Great Wide Open, and The New Old-Fashioned‘s David Payne are also playing out this week also on December 6th. If that was not cool enough we also have the album release party for Across the Vast & Deep from Tim Pritchard and the Boxcar Suite also on December 6th! Scientists… we need that time machine now! Dear Fawn

And yup there’s more… on December 6th we have The Jeremy Frederick Presents: North Of Nowhere South: An annual celebration of the life and music of Jeremy Frederick, Tim Taylor, Chris Green, and other friends, loved ones, and musical heroes we’ve lost in Dayton. Proceeds to go to the Izzy Frederick’s Education Fund. More info here: http://ow.ly/F7a85 

If anyone can’t make it, but would still like to make a donation to Izzy’s college fund, you can send checks or money orders to:

Isabella Frederick Educational Fund
Wright Patt Credit Union
P.O. Box 286, Fairborn, Ohio 45324

Yeah there’s some great new, local, Dayton, and indie music on the radio show this Tuesday too… but we bet you already knew that!

PlaygroundAnd finally, we are all excited about The Playground Theatre’s Breakfast Club production on December 11th!

Handmade DaytonExpect a report on Handmade Holiday Dayton for 2014! 

This is a great event – find one in your neck of the woods if you are not from Dayton!  Find the local artists for your gift giving needs.

So, join us this week for new music and a discussion of shows!  You can always contact us at drjwdur on twitter and gmail.  As always you can call in at 937-229-2774!

Dayton Most Metro Article on Dr. J

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Art-JipsonWe want to thank DaytonMostMetro and Tommy Johnson for writing such a nice article on our Dr. J (Art Jipson): Still Teaching Us After 10 Years Being On-Air | Dayton Most Metro

Remember our 10th anniversary show will be broadcast on WUDR from 10pm to 1am this Friday!  Or if you find yourself in Dayton on Friday night you can join us at the University of Dayton McGinnis Multipurpose room and watch The Motel Beds and Ghost Town Silence (formerly The Rebel Set) play to a packed house!

You can always tweet us on twitter at drjwudr! Or visit our Facebook Group page!

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Tod Weidner Helps Us Celebrate Ten Years of YTAA

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Very Final Band_Poster_CJS_final (2)_Page_03Fine fellow and great musician Tod Weidner joins Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative this week as we celebrate 10 years of the show. Tod plays in some mighty special Dayton bands – SHRUG and The Motel Beds! The ‘Beds will play our tenth anniversary show this Friday with Ghost Town Silence!

You can expect music from all of those bands as well as an assortment of new tunes and music that spans the anniversary of the show!  Ten years gives us quite a bit to fall back on for the set list but you can always suggest songs and bands by connecting with us on twitter or gmail at drjwudr.  And, hey remember those old analog ways of making connections?  Sure, us too.  Give us a call during the show at 937-229-2774 – we would love to hear from you.

So, join us Tuesday, November 18 from 3-6pm on WUDR and then come to the anniversary concert on Friday from 10pm -1am at the Very Final Band_Poster_CJS_final (2)_Page_04McGinnis MultiPurpose room at the University of Dayton. Remember if you can’t make the concert although you should – you can catch it on the live stream at wudr.udayton.edu because who loves ya?  Yeah we know that was way too much.  What can we say?  You have excellent taste in music and radio programming!

10th Anniversary show is coming soon… real soon… in a matter of days!

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The Self and Community in the Twenty-First Century LLC in collaboration with WUDR Flyer Radio are hosting a Late Night Concert Event to Celebrate 10 Years of Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative as our final C21 LLC music event for the Fall 2014 semester.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Student Involvement, the College of Arts and Sciences, ArtStreet, the Social Science Departments and Programs (Communications, Criminal Justice Studies, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work) and the Department of English this program is a late night concert featuring two Dayton bands, The Motel Beds and Ghost Town Silence.  All semester first year students in the social sciences have been attending C21 LLC events focused around the theme of self identity, music, and community.  This event brings two outstanding Dayton bands who have released new music in 2014 to the University of Dayton campus.  The concert will be held at the McGinnis MultiPurpose room from 10pm to 1:30am.  A Facebook event page is ready for all who seek.
Social media hashtags for the event include: #c21llc #YTAA #WUDR #UDLATENIGHT
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Countdown to Ten… A Decade of Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative

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We begin our celebration of ten years of YTAA this week with music over the last ten years of the radio show! Expect great new, indie, local, Dayton, and alternative music today! And we will preview our up coming 10th anniversary show on November 21st!

Next week Tod Weidner from The Motel Beds will be on the show as we gear up for a terrific musical celebration of a decade of independent radio!

Expect some music from the new Boxcar Suite songs and we promise that we will be playing some of them today! Because they are amazing! Tim Pritchard and the Boxcar Suite!  You can also support that band here as they get ready to release ‘Across the Vast & Deep.’

Join Dr. J and Mrs. Dr. J as we preview, dance, and new and a decade of independent music!

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Who has the New Music for You? Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative Does

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ImageMrs Dr. J and Dr. J have tons of new music for you Crooks on Tape, Dum Dum Girls, Smug Brothers, Throwing Muses, The New Old-Fashioned, U2, American Werewolf Academy, BRAT CURSE, Lightouts, Tyler Hilton, Johnny P, The Soft White Sixties, and much more! We will talk to Shy Boys about their Monday night show atThe Canal Public House along with some other fine show wrap-ups from the past week!

Expect some great local music from The Turkish Delights, Human Cannonball, Dear Fawn, Human Reunion, Oh Condor, Robert Pollard, Sleep Fleet, The Rebel Set, The Nightbeast and a few other choice musical nuggets!

We also will have some fine covers — especially The Motel Beds with a great Matthew Sweet cover!

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So, join us from 3-6pm (e) on wudr.udayton.edu!  Email us at drjwudr@gmail.com with any requests that you might have for the show!  Don’t forget to check the Event Page for the show to follow the set list and conversation!

Help out Canal Street’s Mick Montgomery!

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ImageWe can all help out a consummate Dayton music legend!  How often is it that we can do that?  A man who has created an amazing venue that has given a stage to a regular weekly musician’s cooperative, hosted local musicians and bands, been a venue for great regional and national acts, and treated all musicians with kindness and support needs our help.

Mick has been ill for a while now and has seen medical bills escalate.  Please take a few minutes and give a small bit of support to someone who has gone out of his way on a regular basis for great music.

Take a moment to visit the effort — Mick Montgomery’s Hospital Bills Fund http://ow.ly/rjnmI — at GiveForward.com!

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Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative Presents Smug Brothers!

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ImageJoin Dr. J and Mr. Dayton Music Don Thrasher for a discussion of Smug Brothers, great music, and more. Expect new music from Smug Brothers to be played during the show along with classics from the Smug Brothers. We will also be talking about upcoming music from Wussy, Dear Fawn and The Rebel Set

Local music will be a focus of our show with other music from The Motel Beds, M Ross Perkins, Kris N., XL 427 and Vanity Theft!

We will also be playing new music from The Head and Heart, We are SnapDragon, Grandfather Child, The Melismatics, Youth Lagoon, Action Camp, and Ha Ha Tonka!

So, come along and enjoy the ride this Tuesday from 3-6pm on WUDR!

Dear Fawn joins Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative

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Kyle Melton — who we think of as Mr. Dayton Music — of Dear Fawn among several other bands (King Elk, Smug Brothers) will be joining us to talk about the new Dear Fawn CD and the Dayton music scene. 

Expect some great discussions about local and indie music. We will also be talking about some great new music from Billy Bragg, They Might be Giants, Little Green Cars, Bettie Serveert, and more! 

Prepare for your Record Store Day with our guide! Join Dr. J and Mrs. Dr. J this Tuesday where we live our motto – ‘Support Your Local Music Scene!’Image

Thursday Night is for Indie

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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.

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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

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M&M_group_shotDayton’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.

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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.