With your host Kelsey Hanrahan and special guest Ryan Krushenick from Unrestrained to promote “Screaming for Change” a Hardcore and Punk Festival in Bristol, VT July 4th & 5th.
1. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, “Ah Mary”

2. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, “Stop the Bus”

3. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, “Apologies”

4. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, “Aint No Time”

5. My Revenge, “String Through Non-Violence”

6. Unrestrained, “World Breaker”

7. Unrestrained, “Out of the Dust”

SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC! For more information on “Screaming for Change” and Unrestrained visit their page on MYSPACE!

With your host Kelsey Hanrahan and special street performing guest: Ben Balivet

Ben Balivet, “Captain Cook”
Ben Balivet, “But We Do” (LIVE)
Ben Balivet, “Night of the Ninth” (LIVE)
Pine Island, “Django’s Banjo”
Pine Island, “You Don’t Know My Mind”
Pine Island, “Mudlick”
Electric Sorcery, “Mother Sea”
Pine Island, “My Sweet Blue Eyed Darlin’”
Pine Island, “Hind Berry Bramble”

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

In support of The Radiator 105.9 WOMM-LP, two great Burlington bands and a wicked sweet Boston act will be playing at The Gezellig Theatre (formerly the Bakery) in the Old North End this Thursday, June 25!

The show will kick off at 8:30 pm with an awesome line up including: Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Maryse Smith, and Paul and the Mystery of Gravity. $6 at the door, and all proceeds support the Radiator. Bring a friend and come out to see some live music while helping out your local community radio station! For info, email info@theradiator.org

Paul and the Mystery of Gravity

This July, come celebrate Independence Day at the third-annual July 3 Celebration at Speaking Volumes! Beginning at 8:30 pm on Friday, July 3, the outdoor event will be around back of the building and will include live music and barbequing all night long with a great view of the fireworks. The band line-up includes: Workingman’s Army, Waylon Speed, The Bid, Blowtorch, L. Dora and VAKKUUM. There will be a small, $5 cover charge at the door, with all proceeds benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Lifestyle Foundation and Big Heavy World/The Radiator. In addition, there will be a raffle held including prizes from a variety of local businesses.

In its third year, the annual Celebration is sure to draw a great crowd and a great time. Come support some great causes and have a great time while doing it.

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

Mark the date in your calendars! On July 12, as part of Burlington’s International Waterfront Festival, the official release party for Big Heavy World’s latest CD, “Thrufters & Throughstones: The Music of Vermont’s First 400 Years” will be at the Waterfront Stage downtown! This 2-disc recording incorporates a wide variety of Vermont music, from traditional Abenaki songs, to Grace Potter, to a live Phish recording! Headlining the release party will be Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, along with The Jennifer Hartswick Band and Vermont’s jamgrass super-group, Pine Island.

The party will kick off at 6pm on the Waterfront Stage in downtown Burlington. Tickets for the event are $30 in advance and $35 day of. For more information, and to purchase tickets, call the Flynn Theatre Box Office at (802) 863-5966 or visit them on the web at www.flynntix.org.

Find ‘Thrufters & Throughstones’ at the Vermont Music Library & Shop.

With your host Kelsey Hanrahan and special guests Entendre to promote their show on 6-18-09 at the Monkey House!

Support local music!!

Interview by Jason Benz

Feel like catching one of the hottest local ska bands in the Burlington area this summer? Well, you better hurry because Husbands AKA have a limited schedule, and this Thursday (June 18th) at Higherground opening for Bedouin Soundclash may be your best chance.

Husbands AKA provide the high energy, alcohol fueled, off-beat music you’d expect from a typical ska band, as well as bring their own unique style, sound, and fun. Originally formed from a group of close friends, Husbands AKA was doing nothing more than looking for something to do while drinking.  However, the somewhat recent addition of Dylan Burns on vocals has infused an energy and creativity to the songs that inspired the group to continue to work on and improve their song writing skills. Still celebrating their recent CD release Swift Street, and being named Higher Ground’s Artist of the Month, BHW had a chance to sit down and talk with four of the five members of Husbands AKA which features Dylan Burns (vocals), Sean Fitzpatrick (guitar), Tyson Valyou (keys), Alex Pond (drums), and Chris Valyou (bass).

BHW: To my knowledge, Burlington doesn’t have the largest ska scene. Did that have any effect on your decision to play ska music? Or do you have any particular influences that helped you to create your sound?

Chris: Well, Fitzy, our guitarist, has been in love with ska for as long as I can remember. He had a college radio show, and him and I bonded over ska when we first met each other. He never really had an opportunity to be in a band that played music that he actually liked. So we started goofing off, drunk. It was more or less three friends sitting down and just playing whatever came out. It wasn’t like we sat down and said we’re going to be a ska band. The Bouncing Souls have been a big influence on us, and being able to play with them was a dream come true. We joked about it when we first confirmed the show, that if someone had gone back in time to the first month of us goofing off in his apartment, and said in two years you guys are going to be opening up for the Bouncing Souls we would have laughed, and there is no way we would have ever thought we’d be at this point.

Dylan: When I moved up here in ’98 there was a really decent ska scene. Club Toast would have a ska band about once a week.

Chris: It was easy to listen to ska then. One thing about Burlington, there’s so many different eclectic bands in Burlington, there’s not just 1,000 straight ahead punk bands, or 1,000 straight ahead indie bands, or there’s not 1,000 straight ahead hard-core bands.

Alex: There’s one of each. [laughs]

Dylan: Which is good because then the crowd of people are a whole bunch of different people too, and you’re exposing people who wouldn’t normally listen to your type of music to it.

BHW: What was the recording process for Swift Street like?

Tyson: Every other band I’ve been in, I have always gone through and done instrument by instrument, so we tried that. It was good, once we worked out the parts the way we wanted them, but it was just….lacking. After some discussions, etc… we just decided to do live, and we did drums, bass, and guitar all at once. Two or three takes. We did it at One Main Street over two or three days. After they were finished I went in and did all the keys, and after that Dylan did his parts. From there we sent it out and worked with Steve Foote in Boston for the mixing.

BHW: So did you enjoy the recording process or are you much happier playing live?

Group: Live.

Tyson: Yeah, definitely live. I’m definitely a fan of recording because you can do so much with it, that you can’t do live, but if you’re not careful you can lose a lot. It can sound bland on the record.

Chris: More than anything we’re just five close friends who really enjoy playing music together. If you came to our practice, or saw us at a show, we’re just as excited at both.

Dylan: It’s the first band I have ever been in where every practice, every show is just fun, and there’s no drama. No one is fighting or arguing over anything.

Alex: It’s the one day a week you’re guaranteed to hang out with your best friends.

BHW: So what would you like people who come to a Husbands AKA show to walk away with?

Chris: I just hope that after coming to see us for 45 minutes or so, that maybe, for that time they we able to just clear their mind and have a smile on their face.

Tyson: I like that, but also I like it when people are like, “I haven’t listen to ska in ten years, and I forgot how much fun it is.”

Dylan: Yeah, that’s always fun to hear.

Chris: Or the “I hate ska, but I like your band!”

BHW: Anything else that you’d like to share with the folks at home?

Alex: Can we do some shout outs?

Chris: Don’t look at me. If you’re asking for some shout outs, don’t look at me!

Alex: I just wanted to give some shout outs to the moms, man.

Tyson: What? Tell them I’m the biggest loser in the band. [laughs]

Chris: Alex, is the only single guy in the band, so it’s just like ‘Hey moms, I’m here’. [laughs]

Kevin Li is a junior at the University of Notre Dame who is studying IT Management and Television, joining the BHW crew through the summer to work on the Radiator’s new web site. Kevin is interested in new media, particularly with bringing traditional media to the web. He’s going to have fun making the new site cool.

As part of Burlington’s Discover Jazz Festival, The Radiator, 105.9 fm WOMM-LP is proud to sponsor the second annual JazzLab at the Firehouse Center on Church Street. Starting this Thursday, June 11 through Saturday, June 13, come see a festival-inspired, community created event encompassing music, art, dance and performance. Each afternoon, the Lab begins at 3pm and runs until 8pm. JazzLab features contemporary new work under the direction of free-jazz innovator, and NEA Grant recipient, Arthur Brooks, as well as Chicago-based dance quartet, The Architects, improvisational jazz group Ensemble V, and the visual styling of sculptor and set-designer Sue Rees.

As an added bonus, visitors to JazzLab will be able to blog about their own Discover Jazz experience via the LabBlog. Here, anyone can upload pictures from the festival’s events, or just leave a comment on their overall experience.

When you’re there, don’t forget to check out the Radiator broadcasting LIVE outside the Firehouse: Seeking public expression and impression!