30-year radio veteran (and 2-time Best Local Radio Personality among C-Ville Weekly readers) Jeff Sweatman has interviewed close to 2000 artists, including most of his all-time heroes like Jeff Ament, The Avett Brothers, Pixies, Al Green, St. Vincent, Ben Harper, Ani DiFranco, Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle, Jenny Lewis and Cowboy Junkies. THIS podcast takes you behind the veil to document tales of radio & record industry insiders who one way or another make the airwaves crackle with life! And NOW we conjure up cool playlists too, every Friday surveying the release landscape for your next new fave!
Radio Friendly Unit Shifters!
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30-year radio veteran (and 2-time Best Local Radio Personality among C-Ville Weekly readers) Jeff Sweatman has interviewed close to 2000 artists, including most of his all-time heroes like Jeff Ament, The Avett Brothers, Pixies, Al Green, St. Vincent, Ben Harper, Ani DiFranco, Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle, Jenny Lewis and Cowboy Junkies. THIS podcast takes you behind the veil to document tales of radio & record industry insiders who one way or another make the airwaves crackle with life! And NOW we conjure up cool playlists too, every Friday surveying the release landscape for your next new fave!
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September 17, 2021
Season 3 Episode 4 - Ayappa Biddanda
His title may be a mouthful, but it just exemplifies how many things Ayappa Biddanda can do, and do well, that he is Senior Director, Grass Roots & Video Promotion/Tour & Events Marketing at Concord, the largest truly independent music and theatrical rights company in the world. In an Industry Spotlight a few years ago, Ayappa told Play MPE some of his career highlights included: booking Matt Nathanson on The Howard Stern Show; booking Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats on The Grand Ole Opry; setting up an album event for Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; coordinating an unprecedented video premiere across MTV Live, MTVU, CMT Music, BET Soul, and BET Centric for Valerie June; being with O.A.R. on Capitol Hill in DC for Arts Advocacy Day alongside Norman Lear and Rep. John Lewis; booking Melissa Etheridge on the Power 106 Morning Show in LA to discuss her tribute to Stax. We talked about not only some of these stories, but how he's also gotten to work with legends like Merle Haggard, Tanya Tucker, Dolly Parton & Indigo Girls as well as newer artists like Amythyst Kiah and Allison Russell, coming from East Tennessee out to L.A. and back to Nashville, where he currently resides.
August 23, 2021
Season 3 Episode 3 - John Harper
<p>Great to visit with John Harper, DJ extraordinaire from the Outer Banks, NC! You can hear him these days on <a href="http://www.radiofreeobx.com/">radiofreeobx.com</a> and he's got a thriving wedding DJ business at <a href="https://johnharperdj.com/" target="_blank">johnharperdj.com.</a> He used to be heard right here in Charlottesville on 3WV and we chatted about what Cville was like a couple decades ago, how the landscape of AAA radio has changed since he got into it on the ground floor in the early 90s, his days as a kid radio pirate, what the best wedding reception songs are and why and who the best American band of all-time is. </p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://johnharperdj.com/" target="_blank"> </a></p>
August 9, 2021
Season 3 Episode 2 - Krystal Robbins
<p>Krystal Robbins (VP of Radio Promotion for ANTI-/Epitaph Records) might just take the cake for the most coolest artists mentioned per capita so far on RFUS! We actually recorded this in late 2020, but the podcast guest booking agent (aka me) took a few months off in 2021. Now we're back into a new season in August of 2021! In her years at ANTI- alone, Krystal has worked with everyone from Neko Case to Mavis Staples, from M. Ward to Mike Ness & Social Distortion to Michael Franti & Spearhead. Krystal has worked on behalf of legends like Tom Waits and Joe Strummer as well as newer acts like Jade Jackson, Son Little and The Antlers, to get airplay on some of the best radio stations in the country from KROQ in L.A. to WFUV in NYC. We shared stories of those gone too soon (like Cobain & Cornell & WFUV's own Rita Houston), the surprise equinox release of Fleet Foxes' latest amazing album, and (on a lighter note) RBF syndrome, dating back to Epitaph's heyday of Bad Religion, Pennywise, Guttermouth and so many more and an intern named Frances Bean Cobain. </p>
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