I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break. Relaxing with family and enjoying good food, there are few things better in life. With that in mind I decided it was appropriate to have a member of my family on MAPD. My brother-in-law, Dave, musician, businessman and family man sat down with me this epsiode to talk about his favorite concert memory and disaster stories when he was playing in a band. The music is new wave, synthpop at its best.

music:

Charlie Slick - "Keep It Simple" from Walter Carlos

Deastro - "The Shaded Forest" from The Young Planets

Otto Vector - "Dr. Wiley" from 5 Bits to Byte

Shitdisco - "O.K." from the PMN

Cobson - "Like A Bicycle Without Brakes"

The Ex-Rentals - "The Death of a Thousand Disinterested Chattering Fashionistas" from Unpopular Pop

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Happy Day After Thanksgiving!
I've got an episode coming up this week, but I thought I would send out this promo for the Dec. 2nd MPAD episode because I'm really excited about it. I interview Greg Gillis, the man behind the super DJ, mixing, sound collage, mash artist Girl Talk. Enjoy the video, and comeback for the episode. If you want to play the audio for this promo on your podcast it is located here



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On this weeks show I am promoting a contest that looks like a blast - see the details and link below! A little more variety on this show than usual with independent alternative and hip hop. At the end of the show I look into the interest of the My Bloody Valentine reunion.

 

music:

Kristeen Young - London Cry (mp3)

Kristeen Young - No Other God (mp3)

Buy at eMusic

Manna and Quail - It's Alright Now (thanks for the interview)

Photo of M&Q Kara Coraci of ARC Pontiac

 

 

Artifacts - Live Fast

NYpolean - Pimpafyin

P.S. I Love You- Where the F*! is Kevin Shields

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mentions -

My Bloody Valentine are back and touring!

 

 

 

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I've been having a lot of fun with my show lately talking to bands and going to shows. I've stepped up the show and I'm playing more music than before. On this show I have a couple of short interviews with Mason Proper and tigercity and play 2 songs by each. They're MPAD indie rock blocks!

music:

Flight of the Conchords - "Business Time" buy the DVD!

tigercity - "You Are Sensation" and "Other Girls"

Mason Proper - "Mr. Charm" and "My My (Bad Fruit)" (that's me with MP in the pic)

Mobius Band - "The Loving Sounds of Static" and "Friends Like These"

Buy at iTunes Music Store

other:

Control

Morrissey live at Royal Oak Music Theater (thanks to Shawn for submitting)

video for Friends Like These

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On this week's Most People Are DJs I'm going to feature songs and short interviews with Mason Proper and TigerCity. To give you a sneak preview, here's a video by TigerCity playing live at the Pike Room in Pontiac.

One of my favorite podcasts is Bazooka Joe's small World Podcast where Joe sits down with bands, artists, and people just like you and me to talk about their and passion and drive in life. It's been on hiatus for the past couple of months with database/website issues. But, Joe has everything back together, small World Podcast is again ready for action, and I'm very pleased to be his guest. Joe shoots the hard-hitting questions at me and I fire back answers as if a gun were pointed at my head. Well, I'm exaggerating. We actually have a nice chat while I play a few songs I hold high on my list of great indie tracks. If you want to know more about the what and why of Most People Are DJs this is for you. And, keep listening to small World Podcast as Joe always keeps the show interesting.
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Over the last couple of months I've seen a lot of shows and spoken with a lot of bands. This week I got a chance to see and speak with one of my favorite bands, the Hold Steady. It's always a tricky things interviewing a band on the night they play, there's noise, the bands could be distracted with playing that night (as they should) and it's a game of wait and see if the band has time to be interviewed. Luckily, Tad Kubler and Craig Finn from the Hold Steady were great guys to welcome me give me a few minutes of their time. On this episode I play the interviews along with some special music from the Hold Steady, a track from Art Brut who is also played that night. I also play the Mobius band and Mason Proper who play mater this week in Pontiac.

music -

The Hold Steady - "Chips Ahoy" "Teenage Liberation" "Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" (Live) "Killer Parties" Live

Art Brut - "Pump Up the Volume"

Mason Proper - "100 Years"

The Mobius Band - "Hallie"

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mentions:

The Crofoot Ballroom

The Hold Steady on the KXEP podcast

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This edited video of "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" was taken from the Hold Steady's show at the Crofoot Ballroom on Oct. 29, 2007. This was just one of many memorable moments. Make sure to come back and listen to MPAD#116 where the Hold Steady is interviewed.

On Monday night the Hold Steady came to town and the show is still playing in my head. The show was held at the excellant new club in Pontiac, the Crofoot Ballroom.With a line-up that included the hipper-than-hip Art Brut and the loud rocking, Federale, I expected this show to be great, but, this show was insanely good. I'll talk about it on my upcoming podcast, but I had to tell anyone else that has a chance to see this show  get your tickets. You won't see a better show this year. Art Brut's stage set included a movie screen that listed the band's set and had humorous comments to go along with their talky, sing-along songs. Eddie Argos, the lead singer (which is really stretching the term) explains his life through bitterly funny pop-punk songs. The Hold Steady played a set that was full of their boozey anthems of misguided youth, while the crowd sang along and held up their beer bottles at every mention of alcohol - which was a few times every song. Craig Finn looked absolutely giddy on stage as he sang his songs and recognized the appreciation and  satisfaction from the audience hearing it. During the last song, which is always "Killer Parties," all hell broke loose as the audience began climbing up on stage, hugging the band, waving arms and singing along (see pic.) I think the bouncer considered putting a stop to it but there was just too many kids rushing at the stage to share a moment with the band that absolutely thrilled them. On my next show, I talk to Tad Kubler, the guitarist and Craig Finn, the singer of Hold Steady play a couple of their tracks and Art Brut.