Light The Music is teaching kids (and everyone else!) to engage with music and and their own creativity via the Oro music app which also includes an exciting visual component that kids really respond to. Co-founder Steve Van Dam has been in the music business for years, first with his band Everything and later as a composer and producer. Now Steve and his Light The Music partners are helping bring creativity, learning and communication to kids and schools through music.
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Megan Abbott is a personal trainer with Gym Guyz who discovered fitness following a difficult childhood struggling with identity and anxiety issues. She says fitness changed her life and gave her focus. She’s made it her mission to help others discover their best selves. This is another “Synapse Stories” installment.
Christian Hip-Hop artist Legin is in-studio for a conversation about his music, his message and the Safe House Project, which “exists to raise awareness of Sex Trafficking and raise funds to build Safe Houses for those running from sex trafficking”.
Bryan Berry was told he had 60 days to live. He needed a new liver. Then he was told he also need a kidney. Bryan tells his incredible story and advocates for everyone to become organ donors in today’s conversation on the Good Eye Podcast. Bryan also talks about UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) and the organization that so inspired him he decided to change careers and work on its behalf, Synapse, in this latest Good Eye Podcast installment of “Synapse Stories” featuring Bryan Berry.
New Sammi Lanzetta, new Camp Howard, Big Kahuna OG & Graymatter, Humungus, new Cannabis Corpse, Alluvion.
SAMMI LANZETTA – Nude Hugs, Love Keith
-Ceiling Mirror
-releases Nov 1
-pre-order now and Get “Titty Logic” and “Nude Hugs, Love Keith”
- https://sammilanzetta.bandcamp.com/album/ceiling-mirror
-6131 Records
Sammi Lanzetta - vocals, guitar
David Long - guitar
Justin Shear - bass
Austin Tekamp – drums
CAMP HOWARD –Don’t Say Shit You Don’t Mean
-Canon
-releases Oct 18
https://camphoward.bandcamp.com/
BIG KAHUNA OG & GRAYMATTER – Shrimp Szechuan (E)
-Strainman Chronicles
released Aug 18 2019
https://schemeteamallstars.bandcamp.com/album/strainman-chronicles
RVA
HUMUNGUS – Warband
-Warband
-released Oct 2015
-humungusrva.com
new record “Balls” releases Oct 2010
Jack Bauer - Lead Vocals
Peyton Gregory - Lead Guitar
Joseph Granger - Guitar
Wayne Pompey - Bass
Robby Scarce - Drums
Produced by Peyton Gregory // Mastered By Dan Randall at Mammoth Sound Mastering // Released by Killer Metal Records (Germany)
CANNABIS CORPSE – Cylinders of Madness
-Nug So Vile
releases Nov 1 2019
Season of Mist Records
ALLUVION – Husk
- The Secret’s Out
-released Sept 6 2019
https://officialalluvion.bandcamp.com/album/the-secrets-out
Here’s a recent project I voiced for Rocs Local Market. I got to, well, “reference” a couple of my original announcer heroes, legends both. This delivery channels elements of NFL Films announcer John Facenda, and the man who took over for him after his passing, longtime voice of the Philadelphia Phillies (my favorite baseball team growing up) Harry Kalas. This is by no means an impression of either man, but a melding in the style of each. Thanks to The Audio Suite for hiring me.
Once upon a time I had a podcast. It featured good people doing good stuff. It focused on wellness, mindfulness practices, health, creativity and other interesting topics. I’d invite smart, interesting people in to ask them questions so I could steal their knowledge and share it with you, the listener. The original name was a little to similar to another entity so I renamed the podcast and relaunched it as “The Good Eye Podcast“. The podcast and an accompanying Facebook page is live. Look for Instagram, Twitter and YouTube with the handle @goodeyepodcast and a website for notes and other content at goodeyepodcast.com. The first new episode is about this year’s Bike MS: Colonial Crossroads event to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. It follows my brother and me as we participate in the MS Ride from Richmond, Va to Williamsburg, Va and back. Check it out! And feel free to submit topic and guest ideas via the Facebook page. Thanks! -Jay
This week’s episode is a profile of the 2019 edition of Bike MS: Colonial Crossroads. A whole bunch of cyclists, support crew, police, sag vehicles and MS Society organizers head from Richmond to Williamsburg – all at once! I’ll have audio from the event, interviews with riders, organizers, support staff and more. We do it every year to try and eliminate Multiple Sclerosis. Come along for the ride!
R.I.P. Hal Blaine
Looking back at The Wrecking Crew‘s Hal Blaine following his passing earlier this year. One of the greatest studio musicians ever and one of the most recorded drummers of all time. His drumming has been heard on thousands of songs and hundreds of hits, 40 of which went to number one, laying the foundation for artists such as Frank Sinatra, The Supremes, Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, John Denver, Tanya Tucker, Simon & Garfunkel, Barbara Streisand, Steely Dan, Neil Diamond, and the Byrds. It’s fascinating to hear him in the context of so many different arrangements and approaches to songwriting, recording techniques of various producers, tones, artists’ musical visions and evolving tastes in different eras of popular music. And yet you can always hear his signature sound within it all. His influence on drumming and session recording in popular music can’t be measured.
Thanks to the team at Success Training Co. for hiring me to provide voiceover for one of their promotional videos! Check it out.
