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Host Sherrie Fell spotlights all aspects of the music business -- singers, songwriters, producers and record labels.
Sherrie Fell has performed standup comedy at Caroline's, Boston Comedy Club and Gotham Comedy club in New York. As an actress she has appeared in the Wes Anderson film, The Royal Tennenbaums, and in several episodes of HBO's "Sex in the City." Hers is also the voice of Kyota in the Japanese animated cartoon, "Munto." Last year, Sherrie formed 7th Street Entertainment, to represent songwriters and record producers.
Christa Titus, a freelance writer specializing in Rock and Metal who regularly contributes to Billboard Magazine, and host Sherrie Fell discuss how more women are appearing as lead singers of metal bands and have achieved validation as musicians in their own right. They note also that the advent of the daisy guitar - a smaller design specifically made to appeal to women for easier performance - has led to more women instrumentalists. Titus also writes for Metal Edge, LHM webzine.com, does concert reviews for the Hollywood Reporter, and was recently recruited by Heavy Metal and hard rock website; Blistering.com to be a content editor in addition to contributing to the site.
Playlist
01 Lennon - My Beautiful
02 Otep - Warhead
03 Tristania - Libre
Valerie Smaldone, a radio host on 106.7 Lite FM in New York, is a five time Billboard Magazine winner, best known for her unprecedented success holding the top position in the New York radio market as mid-day host. She has interviewed such high profile recording artists such as Paul McCartney, Sting, Elton John and Celine Dion. In addition, she has many television credits for PBS specials and charity events. Her experience as a voice-over artist is featured in the book entitled Secrets of Voice-Over Success: Top Voice-Over Actors Reveal How They Did It. With pal Amy Coleman, she wrote and produced the play Spit It Out!, accepted into the Midtown International Theater Festival. Smaldone is the celebrity spokesperson for the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance.
Host Sherrie Fell continues her conversation with Billboard Magazine's Chuck Taylor on subjects: the record industry, artists to watch, predictions for the future and the relationship between dowloading and the "single." Plus one track from Jem, Finally Woken.
Edition #14: Chuck Taylor, Pt. 1: Radio and Radio Formats listen |
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First broadcast October 10, 2005
Chuck Taylor is one of the most important voices in music journalism. He has covered radio and the entertainment industry for the past 20 years, and has worked at the weekly trade magazine - known as the industry Bible - Billboard for 10 years. At Billboard, Chuck has worked as Senior Editor/Talent, Senior Writer, Radio Editor and Columnist of AirWaves, and now Managing Editor of Top 40/Adult Contemporary for
Billboard Radio Monitor
and Billboard Single Reviews. Taylor has written Page One profiles on artists that span the decades, from Celine Dion and Britney Spears to Diana Krall, Elton John, Bette Midler, James Taylor, Tony Bennett, Barry White and many more. In all, he has interviewed more than 300 artists and he himself has been interviewed many times on an array of music and pop culture topics over the major networks and in national publications. Taylor and host Sherrie Fell discuss mainstream Top 40 and current radio stations and their changing formats, like the new Jack FM, Reggae Ton, Liberal Talk, Internet Radio, Satellite Radio, and Christian Radio. What they're playing, why and what it means for us. Plus a hearing of Natalie Grant's Held.
Essra Mohawk has released fourteen albums, including the classic 1969 Primordial Lovers which was declared one of the best 25 albums ever made in Rolling Stone Magazine. Her first single, The Boy with the Way was released in 1964. In 1967 she was discovered by Frank Zappa who asked her to join his band, The Mothers of Invention, and later signed her to her first solo album deal. Essra has opened for such legendary acts as Jimi Hendrix, Cream and the Grateful Dead, and has had her songs recorded by Cyndi Lauper, the Shangri La's, Vanilla Fudge, Bobby and the Midnights, Rita Coolidge, Tina Turner and Peabo Bryson to name a few. Her songs, Love is still the Answer and Bizarro World can be heard on the hit television show Joan of Arcadia. This radio show marks the 20th anniversary of Essra's first Indie release, her album E-Turn. Find out about her more recent work, like her album Rain dance, here.
Playlist
01 Thunder in the Morning
02 Golden Years
03 Bizarro World
04 Change of Heart (E-Turn Album)
05 Change of Heart (The Killer Groove Band album)
What is the new generation listening to and why should we care? This show features two Manhattan-based, iPod-connected, Internet-using, reality show-watching teenagers. Sherrie Fell asked them to bring music they're listening to and tell where they got it... because they are the age group that media and advertising are hovering around hoping to develop lifetime consumers. A bright light in the interview was the good music they picked to play and the fact that they are buying CDs in stores as well as listening to INTERNET RADIO!!!
Playlist
01 Fever - Ladyfingers
02 Ben Kweller - Down
03 Arcade Fire - Crown of Love
04 Alkaline Trio - Burn
05 Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away
06 Bright Eyes - Halai Halai Alie
07 The Faint - Posed to Death
Sherrie Fell speaks with Fatou Sow the manager and founder of
Slingshots Music,
a management company based in New York. Sow was formerly of Cypress Hill Management, and most recently S-Curve Records, (A&R, Joss Stone, OSX). Slingshot's core function is to develop talent and content towards securing a recording deal with major record companies, as well as acquiring contracts in such music related fields as publishing, touring and merchandising. The music samples and conversation led to discussion on the growth of the Indies, how the little guy can compete with the huge conglomerates, how art can work with industry, and how to bring diversity, creativity and passion back into the music industry.
Playlist
01 Dewkie - Not Right (alternative rock, dewkie.com)
02 Itlaee - Who Cares (rock/reggae)
03 Ayo - These Days (acoustic soul, ayomusic.net)
Sherrie Fell talks to KGM Entertainment's Kingsley Gardner, a songwriter/producer/manager who has sold over six million records worldwide and worked with such talent as Desmond Child, Diana King and Billie Meyers. His songs have been featured in movies such as Door in the Floor and Bad Boys with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Also in the studio are three artists KGM is developing and producing albums with: R&B artist Carla (currently awaiting her debut release) and the hot, first of its kind, male and female rap duo BBG (Bad Boy Bad Girl) aka Ali-Starr and Sillawet from South Jersey.
"Eve Nelson is simply the best, she can do anything"--Chaka Khan.
Producer Eve Nelson is in high demand and she likes it that way. She possesses a unique unbridled passion for the music business which has led her to produce major grammy-nominated artists as well as some of the nation's hottest jingles and television themes. Her flexibility and versatility has afforded her the opportunity to produce and compose for such broad ranging talent as Chaka Khan, Eva Cassidy, Ben Jelen, Donna Summer and some exciting newcomers.
Playlist
01 When Love Cries / Donna Summer (Atlantic)
02 Is That All There Is / Chaka Khan / Classikhan (Sanctuary)
03 Olalala / OSX (unreleased)
04 Sexysexobsessive / Willa Ford / (unreleased)
05 I Know You By Heart / Eva Cassidy / Eva by Heart (Blix Street Records)
Host Sherrie Fell and former Epic and Arista Records VP Peter Ganbarg discuss his current projects, the state of the music industry, and the value of knowing talented songwriters and producers as an A&R executive. Ganbarg elaborated on his continuing work with Clive Davis and how his interest for the music industry began.
Peter Ganbarg has been a major label A&R executive since 1989 and has worked on projects whose worldwide sales total more than 40 million units. These include: RUN DMC, Santana, Michael Jackson, and Keb Mo. In 2003, Ganbarg left Epic to start is own full service music company, Pure Tone Music. Additionally Pure Tone has been a practicing A&R consultant for albums by Santana, Jim Brickman, George Benson, Mica, Dora the Explorer and Spongebob.
Original tracks and new mixes by Jenni Muldaur and Don Fleming based on the 1930's era field recordings of John Lomax and Alan Lomax. The duo are releasing a new CD of songs first recorded with a 315-pound acetate disc recorder, which John Lomax and Alan Lomax used across the South in the 1930s to collect "untouched" songs passed from generation to generation.
Through his work as both a performer and producer, Don Fleming is a longtime supporter of the contemporary underground rock scene. He first emerged during the early 1980s fronting the Washington D.C.-based Velvet Monkeys, debuting in 1981 with the tape-only Everything Is Right. Jenni Muldaur's musical and vocal contributions can be heard on the recordings of a number of artists including John Cale, Eric Clapton, Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Todd Rundgren and Rufus Wainwright.
The Anubian Lights debut CD "Phantascope" is on Rhythm Bank Records, a new record label founded by punk-funk pioneer Nona Hendryx and entrepreneur Bobby Banks. Bandmembers Tommy Grenas, Len Del Rio and Adele Bertei make music that can't be plugged into one genre, but incorporates many including disco-funk and space-pop. Vocals are by Adele Bertei, formerly of "The Bloods" and "The Contortions" and a back up singer and songwriter for countless artists including, Tears for Fears and Sophie B. Hawkins.
Lourds, is proving to be an underground artist who may not be underground for much longer. She has done some solo recordings, collaborating with rock/indie producer Ray Cervenka of Nelson-O'Reilly Productions. Her addition of a band in the mix gives her sound a little harder, rougher edge. Lourds is known for her distinctive distorted violin sound-she has played since the age of 6-and for her playful, enticing lyrics.
Starting out as a Bluebell (with Patti LaBelle and Sarah Dash) in the 1960s, the dazzling Nona Hendryx emerged as a force to reckon with in the 1970s as a member Labelle. one of the great performing acts of the decade. When the group broke up, Hendryx quickly re-emerged as a star in her own right. She now has eleven solo albums to her credit, including Transformation: The Best of Nona Hendryx. Sherrie Fell speaks to her about this and her many collaborations with musicians and singers who include David Byrne, Prince, Peter Gabriel and Bill Laswell, as well as with the playwright Charles Wright, with whom she wrote "Blue," a musical theater piece for Broadway. Now we learn that Hendryx has become a record company exec with her own label, Rhythmbank, signing an amazing, 11-year-old gospel singer, Najiyah, to a contract and releasing "Phantascope," by Anubian Lights, a Los Angeles band whose lead singer, Adele Bertei, was once a member of the seminal New York New Wave band, The Contortions.
Veteran producer and songwriter Jeffrey Bernstein is at home in several styles of music, from experimental to hip-hop to jazz. With his producing partner, DJ Freddy Bastone, he is one half of Bastone and Burnz. Here he commiserates with Sherrie Fell over the pallid creative forces at work in corporation-controlled pop music, where a preference for repeating successful formulas ad infinitum has resulted in a music industry driven not by cool cats but copycats. Welcome to the popular fringe!
Playlist
01 Fame
02 Rod Stewart: If you think I'm Sexy (Remix)
03 Horny All the Time
In this age of singer/songwriters, producer/songwriters and rappers, how can a traditional tunesmith get a recording artist or company to listen to new material? In the second part of her discussion with the versatile songwriting team of Pat Maiorino and Andy Sarnoff (who have written for pop, jazz, country and gospel singers), Sherrie Fell asks the practical questions: how to get a demo made, heard and turned into hits, illustrating with songs they are currently pitching to both producers and recording artists.
Playlist
01 Some Flowers (Only Bloom in Heaven)
02 Through My Tears
03 Book of Dreams
04 Beautiful You
Hardworking songwriters Pat Maiorino and Andy Sarnoff - creative partners for two decades - get big names in country, pop, jazz and cabaret to record their music. Here they speak of ways to compose via telephone and other industry secrets with Sherrie Fell, who samples some of their extensive song catalogue, recorded by such artists as Martha Wash (a former Weather Girl) and jazz legend Nancy Wilson.
Playlist
01 Catch the Light
02 I Never Held Your Heart
03 Deeper
In this debut show, Sherrie pays tribute to the pop singer Laura Branigan, who died on August 26, 2004 of a brain aneurysm. A four-time Grammy Award nominee, Branigan leapt onto the scene with her chart-topping platinum hit, "Gloria," and had album and single sales exceeding ten million in the United States alone. The singer's five-octave range and the sheer power of her vocal instrument created a voice raw with emotion.
Playlist
01 Gloria
02 If That's What it Takes (unreleased)
03 Ti Amo
04 The Winner Takes it All (unreleased)
05 Heart
06 I Know You by Heart (unreleased)
07 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
08 The Lucky One
09 Self Control
