WTBU Awards!

Thursday night was the WTBU Awards at BU Central and everybody who's anybody was there (or at least the WTBU DJs) including some interesting musical groups.

I'm proud to say that Schist That Rocks! won its second WTBU award: Best Classic Rock Show! Sadly we did not win Show of the Semester and I did not win DJ of the Semester (both of which we were nominated for). I think it's a big deal to be nominated, anyway. I'd like to say thanks to my fellow DJs for nominating and voting for us and congratulations to everyone else who won an award or was nominated. We've got some really great shows and DJs at WTBU who deserve the recognition (not to mention an excuse to celebrate). Oh, and definitely a big thanks to my interns who helped make the show more bearable.

I took a bunch of video, especially of the musical acts, so keep an eye out for that...

Anyway, lemme talk about the musical acts!

My favorite that night was The Thin Heir. They played some great folky songs and everyone seemed to enjoy it. If I were you, I'd check them out.

Lauren Hurley, a singer/guitarist from New Hampshire, ended the show with some really good songs. I'm actually listening to her cd right now. Check her out here.

The first act was a long sort of psychedelic electronic jam. My biggest problem with them was that they over-stayed their welcome. Now, I'm all for going out big and all, but... Well, after their jam (which went overtime) was over and the awards were going to continue, they started playing again. The drummer knocked his kit all over the place and they got off stage. This didn't only create an awkward moment before the awards continued, but then the band had to periodically walk onto stage during the awards to get the scattered drums and the rest of the gear. Douche-y and awwwkwaard...

I'll let you guys know when the video from Thursday night is up.

Big thanks to WTBU for putting the show together and all...

oh! and another big thanks to all our listeners who help... uh... make us what we are? I dunno. Something like that.

Drum roll please...

Hey guys, I'm proud to announce that although Schist That Rocks did not win "Best Variety Show," I did win "Best Sweeper/Show Header!" Okay, so they added "the" to the name of my show, but it still counts! I was a little more excited that I was nominated for this one because everyone gets nominated for their own genre, but I was actually nominated for Best Header for something I did. Also, I'm the only one to record my own header as opposed to doing it with our Productions Manager, Joe (who does a great job with headers), and did it on Audacity no less.
The award show was pretty fun, even though they only had deep-dish pizza (it's good, but it's more of a casserole). There were some great performances by Intimate Sleepover (pop covers on Ukuleles and a kazoo), The Lonesome Mississippi Drifters (pop covers on acoustic guitars), and Jesse Schwartz (serious music with an accoustic guitar) too.


In other news, I still have two interviews waiting to happen: Slothbear and Red Vinyl. If you have any questions for the interview, let me know.

Also, I'm still uploading all the recorded broadcasts of the show, and added a link to my page on OurMedia.org (although I kinda like the player on archive.org better). I'm starting to think that maybe I should've chosen a better quality format than 64kbps MP3, cuz I'm hearing some fuzzyness and distortion in a couple spots, what do you guys think?
Anyway, here's the February 5 one:

I realized too late that the header I used in this one (and possibly in one other) was not the award-winning header, but rather it's evil uncensored twin brother. I'm really sorry about this.

Also, tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7pm, BU's Linguistics Association is showing Francois Truffaut's film L'enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child) in the Geddes Viewing Room, CAS 537C. It's supposed to be a great movie, and it's on a great topic. I'll definitely be there.

Anyway, time is running out so I better make these last shows rock!

Slight Change of Plans

So I pre-recorded the interview and performance today, and I'm getting it ready to play on this week's show! Everything went really well, with one slight change of plan: The Autumn Hollow Band didn't play. Instead, I got introduced to a really great band that I really liked called That Old Feelin who gave a great performance followed by an interview. It was the first time they ever did a live performance of these songs. They recently recorded an album which is being mixed as we speak and will be out by summer, in time for their tour.

Noel Coakley (of the Autumn Hollow Band and organizer of the New England Americana Festival) suggested them and came along to listen in and for an interview as well, talking about the festival, Boston's music scene, and new music everywhere.
Both bands will be playing on Saturday Feb 27 at the festival.

Listen in this week to win your 3-day pass to the festival, and to hear the exclusive performance and interview!

Also, I'll be talking about the 2010 Redstones! You know, what people wore and all that ("And here comes Comm Ave Guy wearing a stunning wife beater and shorts! Who designed your outfit?" "GET OUT MY WAY!")... oh, and the movies. Yeah, I guess I'll talk about the movies a little.

Ticket Giveaway and on-air performance!

Remember to listen in this week to win your 3-day pass to the New England Americana Festival! It's gonna be 3 nights of great performances by some awesome local/regional bands. I've been looking into some of the bands playing at the Festival, and I've liked what I've heard so far; particularly The Autumn Hollow Band, Bean Pickers Union, and Girls, Guns, and Glory.

I contacted Noel Coakley of the Autumn Hollow Band, who is also organizing the Americana Festival, and it looks like they'll be on the show this week for a performance and interview; should be pretty great!

So yeah, win a ticket and listen to a special performance? Sounds like a good show to me!

As always, lemme know what you think, and feel free to suggest any bands I should listen to or ask on the show (including your own)!