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    • Aug 15

EDBZ BLOG #29


Every Monday on Facebook I post a request for people to send me a picture of them listening to Eardrum Buzz Radio. You can see it at facebook.com/groups/eardrumbuzzradio. If you do that, I'll send you one of our mugs for free. Just go to our store and pick one out and send me a picture on Monday.  You can choose one here: eardrum-buzz-radio.printify.me


Heather Macias got one of our Goth mugs and here's a picture of her husband Mario enjoying a cup of coffee. 

We've also got totes, hats, shirts, hoodies and long-sleeved shirts, so if you want to put Eardrum Buzz on your body or help promote the station and look great doing it, please consider heading over to the store.


Well, we survived the five day long 4th anniversary celebration! Kirp Tony, from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia got a bunch of downloads from The Microdance, the new album from Tina & The Hams and the Shore Dive Records sampler for the 4th Anniversary.  Tom Lugo got the new vinyl single from 9-Volt Velvet and the CD from Tina & The Hams as well as the Shore Dive Sampler. Congratulations guys!


Check out Krip here: kirp.bandcamp.com and Patetico Recordings, Tom Lugo's label here: pateticorecordings.bandcamp.com/


I hope to get even more listeners and interactions next year. Everyone has their schedules and routines and I want to be your soundtrack and give you all something to look forward to and to take a break from the day-to-day and enjoy some tunes, silly GIFs and camaraderie. I'd also love it if all of you would continue to help promote the station to your friends and fans. And you know I love the enthusiasm from our listeners and fellow music fans, so please continue to promote your efforts and tell us what you're listening to on the Facebook Group page.


Thanks to the DJ's who put so much effort and passion into their shows, thanks to the guest DJ's for their fun and enlightening shows, thanks to the labels and publicists and bands for their efforts, and thanks to you, the listeners for taking the time to be part of Eardrum Buzz Radio.


If you'd like to hear a few of our shows on Podbean, head on over to eardrumbuzzradio.podbean.com and listen or download. If you'd like to help support the station financially and get exclusive shows and merch at cost, head over to Patreon at patreon.com/eardrumbuzzradio. If you simply want to listen to the station, we're on 24/7 at eardrumbuzz.net. If you want to get my blog and be notified when new shows are on Podbean, give us your email address on the bottom of the website. We're on Facebook, Instagram and X as well.


Eardrum Buzz Radio's 4th Anniversary Celebration statistics:


5 days


120 hours


7200 minutes


Thu: 68 Unique IPs (sources), 155.7 total listening hours (How long that source was connected)


Fri: 84 IPs, 113.1 TLH


Sat: 51 IPs, 77.81 TLH


Sun: 45 IPs, 75 TLH


Mon: 43 IPs, 91.92 TLH


7 guest shows from DJ Knillz, DJ Synaesthesia, Ronny and Goran of Damokles, Tina & The Hams, Alex Donat, DJ Jimi C and Kelvyn Williams.


1 special with Meagan


1 show with Greg and Meagan


5 special airings of the Shore Dive Sampler


2 Shore Dive Records Hours


6 regular DJ shows aired twice daily, from Nico, DJ Wednesday, Charles Motorbike, Brandon Dudley, David Kasheta and Kris Gardner, with Vinca as guest curator. DJ Wampas is on hiatus for the summer.


Thanks to John Treanor for his weekly show The Bitter Seas and to Dave Eastman for his Shots Across The Pond too! I will miss hearing your voices and music picks and hope to have you both come back soon.


Written by Bret Miller


Eardrum Buzz Radio Patreon page: patreon.com/eardrumbuzzradio

Follow Eardrum Buzz Radio: Instagram: @eardrumbuzzradio 

Twitter: @eardrum_buzz 

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! 




    • Jul 1

EDBZ BLOG #28



It's been four years and I still don't know what I'm doing. Yes, Eardrum Buzz Radio will have been on the internet playing music for four years as of July 4th, 2024. I'm calling it the "Feisty Fours". We're still doing our Vapour Trail Live shows with Greg Peters and Meagan Masingill and myself, DJ Wednesday is still at it with Six Beats Under and New Wave Nostalgia, Brandon Dudley has his bass-centric Souvlaki Bass Station and You Are There (live bootlegs), Nico Beatastic is doing Shore Dive Records Transmissions and weekday Shore Dive Records Hour, Greg has his Vapour Trail shows, Kris Gardner has her Your First Listen shows and Charles Motorbike has his shows as well. John Treanor has ended his The Bitter Seas show (for now?) while he focuses on Tombstones In Their Eyes and with Say Yes, Do Nothing on indefinite hiatus, Dave Eastman is looking to start another show down the line. DJ Wampas is taking a break this summer on his two shows but they are always excellent and I hope the break is short. Rock Never Rusts with David Kasheta is still going strong! Meagan is taking over John's slot and we'll see how that goes. She always has great shows!


I'm happy to have everyone staying with me, sad to see a few shows end or take a break. To those who have come and gone, I miss you and wish you all well and to those sticking with me, my heart is fuller for having you in my life and on the station sharing your passion with everyone.


So how do I celebrate another year of Eardrum Buzz Radio hanging around? I ask a whole bunch of musicians and music fans to put together an hour or two of music and put their personal stamp on the station. This year's guests are: DJ Jimi C of Black Nite Crash, Alex Donat of Vlimmer, Fir Cone Children and boss at Blackjack Illuminist Records, Twitch and local Colorado DJ Synaesthesia, Twitch's DJ Knillz, Goran and Ronny of Damokles et al, Australian band Tina & The Hams and the triumphant return of former EDBZ DJ Kelvyn Williams!  


I get misty-eyed seeing the excitement of the guest DJ's, of all the effort and time and passion they put into their sets and laughed a whole bunch of times listening to Goran and Ronny's show. They all do what they do for the love of music and I feel validated that they'd make the effort to contribute to Eardrum Buzz Radio's Fourth Anniversary.


Check for the schedule at www.facebook.com/groups/eardrumbuzzradio and www.facebook.com/eardrumbuzzradio as I put the shows up. 


We'll have giveaways too! Nico was kind enough to put together an exclusive sampler of music from Shore Dive Records, including four songs you can only hear on the sampler. I will also be giving away merchandise from the store, including mugs, shirts, totes and maybe something I'll make just for the anniversary.  So go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1012040783865644 and be sure to click "Going" to the event and look for the schedule. Please share with your friends and fellow music lovers and tune in from midnight Thursday, July 4th to 11:59pm Monday July 8th for all the usual shenanigans and guest shows!


EARDRUM BUZZ RADIO 4TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION (ALL TIMES PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME):

THURSDAY, JULY 4TH:

12am: Bret's Best of 2024 Megamix One

1am: Alex Donat

2am: Tina & The Hams

3am: DJ Jimi C

4am: Goran and Ronny of Damokles

7am: Head Trip with Kelvyn Williams

9am: DJ Jimi C

10am: DJ Knillz

12pm: DJ Synaesthesia

2pm: Shore Dive Records Hour

3pm: Eardrum Buzz Radio 4th Anniversary Sampler courtesy of Shore Dive Records

4pm: Tina & The Hams

5pm: Alex Donat

6pm: Meagan Masingill Live

8pm: Goran and Ronny of Damokles

11pm: DJ Jimi C


FRIDAY, JULY 5TH

1am: Alex Donat

2am: Tina & The Hams

3am: DJ Jimi C

4am: Goran and Ronny of Damokles

7am: Head Trip with Kelvyn Williams

9am: DJ Jimi C

10am: DJ Knillz

12pm: DJ Synaesthesia

2pm: Shore Dive Records Hour

3pm: Eardrum Buzz Radio 4th Anniversary Sampler courtesy of Shore Dive Records

4pm: Alex Donat

5pm: DJ Knillz

7pm: DJ Jimi C

9pm - 1am: Vapour Trail Presents wth Greg & Meagan


SATURDAY, JULY 6TH

1am: Alex Donat

2am: Tina & The Hams

3am: DJ Jimi C

4am: Goran and Ronny of Damokles

7am: DJ Synaesthesia

9am: Six Beats Under with DJ Wednesday

11am: Alex Donat

12pm: Shore Dive Records Transmissions with Nico Beatastic

1pm: Head Trip with Kelvyn Williams

3pm: Eardrum Buzz Radio 4th Anniversary Sampler courtesy of Shore Dive Records

4pm: Shore Dive Records Transmissions with Nico Beatastic

5pm: DJ Knillz

7pm: DJ Jimi C

8pm: Shore Dive Records Transmissions with Nico Beatastic

9pm: Six Beats Under with DJ Wednesday

11pm: The Charles Motorbike Show


SUNDAY, JULY 7TH

1am: Alex Donat

2am: Tina & The Hams

3am: DJ Jimi C

4am: Goran and Ronny of Damokles

7am: DJ Synaesthesia

9am: DJ Knillz

11am: Rock Never Ruyshs with David Kasheta

1pm: Souvlaki Bass Station with Brandon Dudley

3pm: Eardrum Buzz Radio 4th Anniversary Sampler courtesy of Shore Dive Records

4pm: Tina & The Hams

5pm: DJ Synaesthesia

7pm: Rock Never Rusts with David Kasheta

9pm: Souvlaki Bass Station with Brandon Dudley

11pm: DJ JImi C


MONDAY, JULY 8TH:

1am: Alex Donat

2am: Tina & The Hams

3am: DJ Jimi C

4am: Goran and Ronny of Damokles

7am: DJ Synaesthesia

9am: DJ Knillz

11am: Head Trip with Kelvyn Williams

1pm: Tina & The Hams

2pm: Shore Dive Records Hour

3pm: Eardrum Buzz Radio 4th Anniversary Sampler courtesy of Shore Dive Records

4pm: DJ Jimi C

5pm: Alex Donat

6pm: Your First Listen with Kris Gardner

9pm:  Goran and Ronny of Damokles


Alex Leonard Donat Times:

Thu Jul 4, 1:00am - 02:00am

Thu Jul 4, 5:00 pm - 18:00pm 

Fri Jul 5, 1:00am - 2:00am 

Fri Jul 5, 4:00pm - 5:00pm 

Sat Jul 6, 1:00am - 2:00pm

Sat Jul 6, 11:00am - 12:00pm 

Sun Jul 7, 1:00am - 02:00pm 

Mon Jul 8, 1:00am - 2:00am 

Mon Jul 8, 5:00pm - 6:00pm


Damokles Times: 

Thu Jul 4, 4:00am - 06:20am

Thu Jul 4, 6:00pm - 8:20pm

Fri Jul 5, 4:00am - 06:20am

Sat Jul 6, 4:00am - 06:20am

Sun Jul 7, 4:00am - 06:20am

Mon Jul 8, 4:00am - 06:20am

Mon Jul 8, 11:00pm - 11:20pm


DJ Jimi C:

Thu Jul 4, 3:00am - 4:00am 

Thu Jul 4, 9:00am - 10:00am  

Thu Jul 4, 11:00pm - Fri Jul 5, 12:00am  

Fri Jul 5, 3:00am - 4:00am  

Fri Jul 5, 9:00am - 10:00am  

Fri Jul 6, 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Sat Jul 6, 3:00am - 4:00am 

Sat Jul 6, 7:00pm - 8:00pm  

Sun Jul 7, 3:00am - 4:00am 

Mon Jul 8, 4:00pm - 6:00pm


DJ Knillz:

Thu Jul 4, 10:00am - 12:00pm 

Fri Jul 5, 5:00pm - 7:00pm 

Sat Jul 6, 5:00pm - 7:00pm 

Sun Jul 7, 9:00am - 11:00am 

Mon Jul 8, 9:00am - 11:00pm 


DJ Synaesthesia:

Thu Jul 4, 12:00pm - 2:00pm 

Fri Jul 5, 12:00pm - 2:00pm 

Sat Jul 6, 7:00am - 9:00am 

Sun Jul 7, 7:00am - 9:00am 

Sun Jul 7, 5:00pm - 7:00pm 

Mon Jul 8, 7:00am - 9:00am 


Head Trip:

Thu Jul 4, 7:00am - 9:00am  

Fri Jul 5, 10:00am - 12:00pm 

Sat Jul 6, 1:00pm - 3:00pm  

Mon Jul 8, 11:00am - 1:00pm


Tina & The Hams:

Thu Jul 4, 2:00am - 3:00am  

Thu Jul 4, 4:00pm - 5:00pm 

Fri Jul 5, 2:00am - 3:00am  

Sat Jul 6, 2:00am - 3:00am  

Sun Jul 7, 2:00am - 3:00am  

Sun Jul 7, 4:00am - 5:00am 

Mon Jul 8, 2:00am - 3:00am

Mon Jul 8, 1:00pm - 2:00pm


Written by Bret Miller 


Eardrum Buzz Radio Patreon page: patreon.com/eardrumbuzzradio

Follow Eardrum Buzz Radio: Instagram: @eardrumbuzzradio 

Twitter: @eardrum_buzz 

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! 


    • May 18

EDBZ Blog #27

The Eardrum Buzz Radio Fourth Anniversary week(end) is just around the corner! Starting Thursday, July 4th prepare yourselves for four days of guest shows, regular shows and many surprises. We'll have giveaways from labels and bands and maybe a live show or two. Contact me at bret@eardrumbuzz.net if you're interested and give me some ideas of what you'll play. The show can be one or two hours (59:30 and 119:30 to allow for promos) and must be a mixed MP3 file with a photo of you and a setlist. If you can record yourself talking into a microphone or phone and mix the files, contact me ASAP! We're also looking for giveaways, whether digital or physical, and clothes are welcome too.


Cruel World Festival was once again a great day! This year I not only got to see Daanon DeCock but also Anthony Michalopoulos and we three had lunch, reminisced, caught up and got to see some amazing bands! The weather was clear and warm, the crowd was friendly and often flashy, I saw a cross-dressed kabuki samurai with a jagged and fiery mohawk, plenty of senior or close to senior citizens dressed like they did 40 years ago, maybe a bit too much leather and bondagey gear, younger folks there to see the bands their parents (or older siblings) turned them on to, and even a few youngsters and toddlers with headphones muffling the Post-Punk and Goth sounds. We never bothered checking out the food and drink selections but the water filling stations had cold H20 and the outhouses weren't too terrible. 


While the show wasn't "sold out" we were quite happy to not have to rub against as many shoulders and navigate through/step over as many people.  I'd still love an event where there were two, not three stages and the set times were staggered to enable us to experience more full sets, but we got to see enough. It was too often a Sophie's Choice of missing a band we loved to see another band we loved playing an overlapping time or clear across the grounds. So, sorry, Blondie, we missed most of Simple Minds' set, I'd loved to have seen The Motels and Heaven 17 and some of the more contemporary acts like Leathers and Model/Actriz but there's only so much we could handle trudging between the three stages. 


At the main stage we started out with French Police, who obviously took lots of notes on the Post-Punk and Darkwave bands from the past 40 years, with their drum machine beats, guitar slashes and barely audible vocals. 


The Faint followed but I never was a fan of their hard Disco style and idiosyncratic vocalist and was just bored, though the audience loved them and plenty of people were dancing and having a blast. 


Gary Numan played songs from The Pleasure Principle and while I don't know his catalog, aside from Cars and Are Friends Electric,  it was nice to hear a slower, less aggressive and angsty set than what they did in previous years. And yes, Cars was played, but instead of sounding like the minimal classic Coldwave track, everything was amped up and the guitars were turned to 11. He even brought on his three cute daughters to sing on one song.



Ministry dug up the old tunes from With Sympathy and Twitch, back when Uncle Al was touted as the latest synthpop pretty boy, singing with a fake English accent, he and the band revved up the proceedings with plenty of heavy guitars and live percussion. The set was bookended by appearances from the "Ministrettes" and the "Ministrings", four backup singers, a violin and a cello player. Whether you know the early songs or not, there's no doubt Al knows how to put on a show. And when they ended their set with Everyday (Is Halloween) tears of joy were flowing as we sang along to the lyrics "O, why can't I live a life for me? / Why should I take the abuse that's served? / Why can't they see they're just like me? / It's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world." 


We headed over the second stage to see some of The Jesus And Mary Chain's set. By then I was happy to zone out on the grass. The brothers put on a great show and I do enjoy a few of their songs, but I was tired. 



Adam Ant was my favorite set of the day. Loud, full of energy, with two drummers and Adam in black boots and jacket, ageless and dancing around the stage, the band ripped through so many great songs and got us all dancing and singing along. Hearing this set further drove home just how many memorable and influential songs Adam Ant has gifted us over the years and his signature tom-heavy sound was a joy to hear after his previous Cruel World cancellation. More acts like Adam Ant next year will surely make me and the masses happy to keep coming back. Get the compilation Stand & Deliver - The Very Best of Adam & The Ants for a sampling.



We got to see a few songs from Simple Minds across the grounds after Adam Ant and they had a huge audience dancing and singing along. Jim Kerr was the master of ceremonies presiding over the songs full of love and joy, backed by a powerhouse band and soulful backup singers with founding guitarist Charlie Burchill pulling out the dramatic guitar lines we all know and love. I hope to catch one of my favorite bands next year as Kerr announced a 2025 tour of the States. If you get a chance to see Simple Minds, please go! They have so many wonderful songs.


Placebo was surprisingly good for their set. I had seen them when they were first starting out and barely remembered songs from their first album. So to see them 30 years on, evolved and still going at it as a six-piece, Brian Malko's singing voice improved from the nasally approach of their beginnings was a joy to experience. They stayed to their early songs and it was a great time. 



Then over one stage and Interpol performed to thousands of fans, bathed in silver and monochrome colors and singer Paul Banks cool with slicked back hair and sunglasses, rarely the lights hitting his face, everything in shadows and grey. The constant reverb on Banks' vocals was excessive to my ears. Here's a band that you'd think was British but is from NYC, their sound is often danceable and upbeat yet has a dreary sheen. I preferred the songs when the rhythm section got funky and their tense sound loosened up.

Wrapping up the show in a pitch black bow and spiked black leather were Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins and Diva Dompe, this time billed as Tones On Tail. A few years back the trio toured as Poptone, named after the PiL track and played songs from Tones On Tail and Love & Rockets and put out an album of new versions of ToT and L&R songs. Diva is one of drummer Haskins' daughters and played bass, keys and sang live and on the Poptone album. For those not in the know, Tones On Tail was Ash and Haskins' project between Bauhaus and Love & Rockets, with Glenn Campling on bass. They did a tour of the States and UK but for many, us three included, we never got to experience their weird and wonderful songs live. I got to see Poptones perform a few years back at the Teragram Ballroom near downtown L.A. but it was great to hear the songs in a larger context and bigger stage. The trio's sound was a mix of jazz, ambient textures, noisy punkish rock, dance beats, playful rhythms and so much more, bridging and encompassing all things Bauhaus and a sign of what was to come with Love & Rockets once bassist David J returned to the fold.  The amount of Tones on Tail Cruel World shirts I saw in the audience during the day gave evidence of just how many people came to the festival for this set. While the majority of the Cruel World attendees were off seeing Duran Duran, the darker malcontents and music lovers were dancing to This is The Pops, Go and Burning Skies.

Who will Cruel World bring out to Pasadena next year? What band will come out of retirement or travel from the UK and Europe to entertain the Southern California masses? Get your wishlists going and I'll see you all next May!


Written by Bret Miller 


I'm on Facebook at: facebook.com/groups/eardrumbuzzradio, facebook.com/EardrumBuzzRadio, on Twitter @eardrum_buzz and Instagram @eardrumbuzzradio. I have an autopost for songs played on Twitter too.


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Thanks to everyone who listens to Eardrum Buzz Radio, chats with us throughout the week and during our live shows and helps spread the word. You are appreciated!

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Written by Bret Miller Eardrum Buzz Radio eardrumbuzz.net

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