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Friday, March 18, 2011

SXSW 2011: Interviews with Sam Sessa

Sam Sessa Talking with Marcia Ball:



Sam Sessa Talking with J. Roddy Walston & The Business:



Sam Sessa Talking with Sharon Van Etten:



Sam Sessa Talking with Jessica Lea Mayfield:



Sam Sessa Talking with Surfer Blood:



Sam Sessa Talking with The Belle Brigade:



Scott Mullins Talking with James Vincent Mcmorrow:



Scott Mullins Talking to Brett Dennen plus a LIVE performance:



Sam Sessa Joins Marcia Ball in her home Studio:

SXSW: Brett Dennen - Sydney, I'll Come Running (LIVE)

Brett Dennen talks to WTMD's Scott Mullins about his new single, "Sydney, I'll Come Running" and then we see Brett and his band perform it LIVE! From SXSW in Austin, Texas, This is Brett Dennen:



Stay Tuned to WTMD for continued coverage of SXSW 2011, direct from Austin, Texas.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

SXSW: James Vincent Mcmorrow

Scott Mullins caught up with James Vincent Mcmorrow in Austin for SXSW!



Stay Tuned to WTMD for Continued Coverage of SXSW 2011!

SXSW: Sharon Van Etten

Sam Sessa caught up with Sharon Van Etten on the streets of Austin at this years SXSW conference. He talked to her about her writing and some of her friends from Baltimore!!



Here is a video of Sharon Van Etten performing "One Day" in nashville earlier this year:



Stay Tuned to WTMD for Continued Coverage of SXSW Live from Austin, Texas.

SXSW: J. Roddy Walston & The Business

Sam caught up with hometown boys J. Roddy Walston & The Business down in Austin, Texas at SXSW. Listen to what the guys have been up to and how Austin has been treating them so far!!



Here is a video of the guys playing LAST NIGHT at Stubbs. Live from Austin, Texas for SXSW, here is J. Roddy Walston & The Business:



Stay Tuned to WTMD for Continued Coverage of SXSW, Live from Austin, Texas.

SXSW: Marcia Ball

Marcia Ball was kind enough to invite Sam Sessa and the WTMD Crew into her home studio in Austin. Sam asks her about her new album and about the music scene in Austin.



Sam Asks a few more questions and Marcia plays a song off her new album.



Stay Tuned to WTMD for Continued Coverage of SXSW, Live from Austin, Texas.

SXSW: Live Streams from Austin

Hey everybody!! Here are some links to some great LIVE streams with performances from SXSW! Stay Tuned to WTMD for Continued Coverage of SXSW, direct from Austin 2011!!


Facebook Guests Live Stream

PureVolume House Live Stream

The sessions Presents Live Stream

Equal Vision Records Live Stream

IFC SXSW Live Stream

Weekend on the Radio recap

Every Thursday morning at 6:20 a.m. and 8:20 a.m. Sam Gallant of the Creative Alliance shares with you all the cool happenings around town on Weekend on the Radio. In case you missed a detail about a specific event, here's the list for this week


All Weekend Long

Thursday 3/17:
Friday, 3/18:
Saturday, 3/19:

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

SXSW: Sam Sessa Visits Marcia Ball at Home!!

Sam Sessa and the WTMD Crew were invited into Marcia Ball's home studio to talk about her new album and hear a new song from it. Sam and the Crew are working around the clock to bring you continued coverage of SXSW direct fro Austin, Texas. Stay tuned to WTMD for more great interviews and performances.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Between the Grooves: Schuyler Fisk Wins the Prize

Singer/actress Schuyler Fisk retreated to the rural Virginia where she grew up to make her second album Blue Ribbon Winner.

The daughter of Oscar winner Sissy Spacek's displays a soothingly smooth voice, a keen ear for bouncy pop/Americana melodies and a mom and apple pie kind-of vibe.

Schuyler Fisk plays this week's Between the Grooves, Thursday at 2pm on WTMD.

Check out the Sam Jones-directed ("I am Trying to Break Your Heart") video for Schuyler's "What Good is Love" that came out of a recent Vanity Fair photo shoot.

CD of the Week: Black Joe Lewis Gets Scandalous!

After a 2009 debut that told us what their name was, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears take a fan mandate for more unpolished, garage soul, please, and make another gloriously hedonistic, brassy gem, Scandalous, WTMD's new CD of the Week.

What more can you say about a band that sounds like Ike Turner and the Stooges on a bad blind date?! Those two might have wound up at the "Mustang Ranch,"  the Nevada brothel to which Black Joe pays homage.

Funkify with floor shaker "Black Snake,"  get seduced by the slinky bass, groovy guitar lick and reverbed saxophone on the highlight title song, "She's So Scandalous" and tap into the Howlin' Wolf/early Stones acoustic blues vibe of "Messin," and with apologies to Scott Mullins, you've got one heck of a dirty soul party!

Jim Eno of Spoon produced his fellow Austinites for the second straight time. Check out tracks from Scandalous all week long on TMD!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Weekend on the Radio Recap

Every Thursday morning at 6:20 a.m. and 8:20 a.m. Sam Gallant of the Creative Alliance shares with you all the cool happenings around town on Weekend on the Radio. In case you missed a detail about a specific event, here's the list for this week

All Weekend Long:

Friday, 3/11

Saturday, 3/12

Sunday, 3/13

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Get Between the Grooves With Ivan and Alyosha

The songs on Seattle quintet Ivan and Alyosha's new EP Fathers Be Kind both question and embrace faith.  That's not unexpected since the band is named after two sibling characters in a Dostoevsky novel who are on both sides of the spiritual spectrum.

They've combined religious themes with rich harmonies and punchy melodies that result in a delightful discovery for 2011.

Catch Ivan and Alyosha on this week's Between the Grooves, Thursday at 2pm.

Monday, March 7, 2011

CD of the Week: Listen to The Damnwells

Perseverance pays off on their new fan-funded release, No One Listens to the Band Anymore, WTMD's new CD of the Week.

Getting to this new CD has a back story worth telling.

The Damnwells poured their hearts and souls into into their latest CD only to see it sit on the shelf...and it wasn't even their own shelf.

The Damnwells were signed to Epic in 2004. Following a year of studio immersion for what eventually would become Air Stereo, the release date for the record repeatedly got pushed back until frontman Alex Dezen received the bad news they had been dropped by the label.

The setback only strengthened the resolve of Dezen and bassist Ted Hudson, who stayed together throughout those days of devastating setbacks chronicled in the cant-miss music documentary, Golden Days.

Dezen's lush vocals and sophisticated alt-pop songwriting take on a Neil Finn-like quality.

On the acoustic number, "The Great Unknown," Dezen nods to misfortune, "We are not afraid/we are underpaid/and waiting for the world to disappear."

Thankfully for us, The Damnwells have not.

Listen all week as we take you deep into the welcome return from The Damnwells!

ALL GOOD 2011 Artists ANNOUNCED!!!

Well as the second round of All Good artists were announced we got the line-up the thursday night throwdown, which includes a performance by STS9, who had to cancel their winter tour dates but are rested up and ready to bring it all to the mountain.

So Far the Line-up looks like this:

You can find out more Information at www.allgoodfestival.com


See you on the Mountain!!!