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EDBZ BLOG #48

Please give a warm welcome to our newest DJ Tony Baker, host of Year 2 Ears! On his two hour shows, Tony will be playing music by year and for his first two shows in October, he’ll be focusing on 2012. If you are like me, you likely have moved on to music from 2026 (which is almost over!) so leave it to Tony to remind you of all the interesting and exciting tunes that came out over the past decade or so.


Year 2 Ear will air new on the first and third Tuesdays of the month at 9am and 6pm Pacific time, with replays the following week.

I couldn’t wait to take time off from work, to relax and see my friends. It has been a year since last visiting San Diego. I don’t have a calendar and made the mistake of going the week that begins with Labor Day. Never again. But I did get to see Meagan Masingill and we had a great time outside under the San Diego stars talking and playing music. The heat and humidity from the tropical storm finally broke on Friday and the weekend was pleasant. It was the most humid summer since 1946 in Southern California. But the weather is nice again and thoughts are going towards Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.


While I’m opening submission emails I’m being distracted by live footage of Rush. They’re an inspiration to me. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are in their early 70’s and have taken back to touring.  While I don’t have the luxury of hiring people to get me into touring shape, I’m trying to get rid of the belly, it’s likely fatty liver, and I’ve been looking for foods and homeopathics that will best deal with clearing out the liver. I’d like to look more into the root causes, which is that the liver creates fat to fuel the fight or flight mechanic of my nervous system and I’m highly sensitive already so my body is always ready to fly. I stopped drinking alcohol, eating after 7pm and I take a bunch of pills and use a berberine patch. But I’ve been feeling exhausted lately and dragging my feet so something more needs to be done.


Yet music is restorative and is one thing that makes me feel better. I was watching a video clip with Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about music. There is musical therapy that aids in muscle movement in people suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, they talk about how we made music and communicated musically even before speech. At the beginning of the full episode they even amusingly say that while math is likely universal, it’s not going to do so well in a Spielberg movie when showing us trying to communicate with aliens. youtube.com/watch?v=TvtNElAmVqU


I also enjoyed a video of a seven year old drummer play to Rush’s Subdivisions and Caleb, who has a very metal logo on the wall behind his drum kit, is my new hero. While the video is from four years ago Caleb put some much-needed joy into my day and hope for the future generations. youtube.com/watch?v=7XZbzweWKnc&list=RD7XZbzweWKnc


Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be watching more videos of now 11 year-old Caleb playing drums like a pro. youtube.com/@calebhdrummer4


One last thing, if you go to the bottom of eardrumbuzz.net, please enter your email address to get notifications for my monthly blog and for when new DJ shows are posted on Podbean for free downloads! Please also stop by our Patreon page, and, as always, thanks for listening to Eardrum Buzz Radio!!!!


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Send submissions to: bret@eardrumbuzz.net with "Submission" and your band name in the subject. Include your band name, song titles, album title, track numbers and artwork in your metadata. Please no Country, Modern Pop, Blues, Rap or Americana. Please make the song/album link easy to find in the email. Please only MP3 files, no WAV files, no Spotify links, just your awesome music!

EDBZ BLOG #47


I’d like to welcome our newest DJ, Widgett Walls. He looks like a mad scientist in this picture and has a name like a goofy comic character, he runs a website needcoffee.com where you can read his thoughts on movies, music and more. He sings in a band and he has at least two music shows, including Completely Unsupervised on Eardrum Buzz Radio, new on the first and third Wednesday of the month at 9am & 8pm Pacific time, with replays the following week.


Widgett was referred by Rob Levy, host of The Comforts of Madness so I gave Widgett’s shows on Mixcloud a listen and enjoyed the whiplash eclecticism presented on those two hour shows. I gave him a few ideas of what I’d like to hear more of for his show on my station and time and promotional effort will tell if Completely Unsupervised catches on with listeners. His first show had Primus covering Dio, and I love Dio and enjoyed seeing and hearing Primus decades ago, a cover of David Bowie by The Airport 77s, a band I’d not heard of before, part of a collection of covers and I’m planning on doing a Bowie show next Friday, as well as The Damned covering Pink Floyd’s See Emily Play. I’m a fan of both bands there. So he got the memo on doing those fun connections, at least.

Our friend Tony Burnett, who designed most of the Eardrum Buzz Radio logos, played with one of bands Chancery Lane the other night and here’s a picture of him performing while wearing a long-sleeved shirt with his favorite logo. Tony is also in Visitors, Tender Fall and Mala Lama.


If you’d like your own shirt please click on the Store button on the website. The store needs some updating but if you see something you like but not in a color or size you want, please contact me and I’ll see what I can do.


Eardrum Buzz Radio has been around for over six years now. I’m not sure that many people know about it, but we’re here, we’re weird, so get used to it. In this crazy, beautiful world we live in, there are so many entertainment options, so many distractions, so much toxicity and silliness to seek our attention. I love to learn about history, cultures, aliens and the paranormal. I’m not a fan of religions because they usually miss the point, but I try to be a good person and keep things light when I’m interacting with others. But wanting to just relax and enjoy music or a conversation or read a comic or see a movie is my main goal in life.


I seem to have people come to me to be DJ’s from all over the world, who might just also be introverts, with a little or a lot of autism to them, good people who are just trying to navigate their worlds with grace and dignity and a whole lot of music. I’m learning to be patient, kind and to build trust with them so that we can continue to grow and build their shows and the station. The Eardrum Buzz Radio DJ’s are passionate about their shows and enjoy sharing the music they love. As do I, with my live show Friday I’m In Love.


So, if you’re reading this, I’m guessing you too are a music fan, possibly a musician, but definitely are willing to take a few minutes or hours of your week to tune in to Eardrum Buzz Radio. I would ask you to not keep the station a secret. There are plenty of other people out there in the world who might be interested in tuning in as well. So please consider sharing your love for music and Eardrum Buzz Radio with others, on your socials, in your conversations, on Twitch, wherever you are and let’s get some more attention to our little station. We have archived shows on Podbean, we’re on Patreon, we have links on many online radio directories and we’re on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram and Facebook. Check out the schedule below the player on the main page, go to our store (which I will be updating) and buy a shirt or tote or hat.


All the shows on Podbean are free to listen to or download! If you sign up for the newsletter at the bottom of the main page at eardrumbuzz.net you will get our latest blog and get notified when new shows are on Podbean.


Listen: eardrumbuzz.net 

Eardrum Buzz Radio Patreon page: patreon.com/eardrumbuzzradio

Follow Eardrum Buzz Radio: Instagram: @eardrumbuzzradio 

Send submissions to: bret@eardrumbuzz.net with "Submission" and your band name in the subject. Include your band name, song titles, album title, track numbers and artwork in your metadata. Please no Country, Modern Pop, Blues, Rap or Americana. Please make the song/album link easy to find in the email. Please only MP3 files, no WAV files, no Spotify links, just your awesome music!

EDBZ BLOG #46

The San Fernando Valley will be hot and humid today. This is what we have to suffer through to live in the best state in the country. HOT SUMMERS. But we also don’t have to worry much about mildew, water damage, paint being stripped from our cars from ice or salted roads, we don’t spend too much on coats or jackets or boots to slog through snow. I wear shorts and short-sleeved shirts most of the time when I’m not at work. But these hot summer days! Ugh. Beats snow and rain and ice any day though.


The Odyssey was amazing! Go see it when you can on the biggest screen. Spiderman: Brand New Day is next week. I got tickets to see Avengers: Doomsday for December. Dune 3 is out in December on the exact same day. And if you haven’t seen The Furious yet and are even a tiny bit of a fan of martial arts and action movies, go see it while you can. It’s about four movies worth of stunts, punching, kicking, shooting, takedowns and general jar-dropping action. 

We have two new shows on the fourth Wednesdays of the month with Anatoliagaze hosted by Erkan, playing music from artists from Turkiye (at 11am & 6pm Pacific) and Frequency Dip with Marcus Mayes (at 12pm and 7pm Pacific), playing the latest and classic songs from Shoegaze to Post-Punk. Follow us on Facebook/eardrumbuzzradio for more info or look on the DJ page at the website.

Here’s a picture of me with the latest release from Sun Shines Cold, out now at: sunshinescold.bandcamp.com/album/light-fades-into-ruins Thanks to Colan and Brian for sending me this beautiful double album! You can’t see it, but the records are a smoky grey and black. Over 13 songs, Sun Shines Cold crafts guitar atmospheres that build and layer and crash over your ears, lifting you up with their power and beauty.


We also had our hot Sixth Anniversary Weekend a few weeks back and I’m slowly recovering from making sure everything ran smoothly. Except for a few hiccups, it all went well. I want to thank all the wonderful musicians and music fans who took the time to put together recorded shows for us, sharing their passion for music with our listeners.  


All the shows that aired on our Eardrum Buzz Radio Sixth Anniversary Weekend can be heard on Podbean. You can listen on the site, the app or download them for later. eardrumbuzzradio.podbean.com

Listen to shows by DJ Jimi C, aka Jim Biggs from Black Nite Crash, DJ Kirst's Knighted Snowmen Beats, Sean Schultz, aka SonderUS and Neo, DJ Dubya, host of the Surprise Cast podcast, Goran and Ronnie Vs. The World members of Damokles and Rule of Two, Greg Fuhs of Beyond The Beaten Tracks, Martin Kennedy of All India Radio and Kilbey Kennedy, DJ Knillz host of Underwater, Looking Up Thursday's on Twitch, The Scandinavian Shoegazers United with Gunnar Malmquist and Terje Lomondal, Alex Keevill of The Microdance and Damian Frood aka The Failed Blue Dot with Zaar.Plus the latest episodes of Beyond The Beaten Tracks with Greg and John, The Comforts of Madness with Rob Levy, Friday I'm In Love with Bret Miller and Vapour Trail with Greg and Meagan.All the shows on Podbean are free to listen to or download! If you sign up for the newsletter at the bottom of the main page at eardrumbuzz.net you will get our latest blog and get notified when new shows are on Podbean.


Listen: eardrumbuzz.net 

Eardrum Buzz Radio Patreon page: patreon.com/eardrumbuzzradio

Follow Eardrum Buzz Radio: Instagram: @eardrumbuzzradio 

Send submissions to: bret@eardrumbuzz.net with "Submission" and your band name in the subject. Include your band name, song titles, album title, track numbers and artwork in your metadata. Please no Country, Modern Pop, Blues, Rap or Americana. Please make the song/album link easy to find in the email. Please only MP3 files, no WAV files, no Spotify links, just your awesome music!

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