Featured Music
Oz and Ed have worked with a lot of artists and musicians to make radio more pleasant and enjoyable. Here are those artists and more info on them.
Jeff Linden and the Black Spot Society
Jeff is an old buddy we met while driving through the placid screaming forests of Central Jersey. The album sampled in Season 1 is Strange Things Can Happen at Sea, a folk-punk story about spaceships and sailors. And also some good old feelings. We think he used to be an awesome pirate in another life, but he was way to considerate. So he got murdered and stuck here in the next life really talented at music and stuff.
If you see a guy stalking Jersey with the body type of a large birch tree playing songs about the problems with burning witches, tell him Oz and Ed say hi.
Rebecca Emont
Rebecca stopped us one day while we were at a bar to inform us that our car had been stolen and burned in the town square somewhere on the East Coast. We chatted for awhile but she had to go because of something completely unrelated to our car being torched and stolen. Luckily she did give us a copy of her album, We Need To Talk About Jerry, making sure we knew it was just her on the album. We’re big fans of her and regularly drive around with the windows down screaming out lyrics alongside her on the stereo. Oz always says it’s lucky she told us about our now rad torched smoke of a heap of a car, because it’s kind of the perfect metaphor for her album.
Storm the Skies
Oz and I are from around Texas, and I’ve spent a lot of time in the horrible calamity that is East Texas. While I was there I found remnants out in the desert of huge statues of these amazing giants, 60 feet tall, with enormous speakers in their mouths and metal instruments blasting this infernal wail about literary characters. It was so surreal that I recorded the whole thing to feature it on the show. We don’t know who these beasts of men were but we know from their left behind screams that they rocked and they rocked hard.
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If you’ve never been to the spires of metal that once composed Philadelphia we recommend it. There’s something about the way that the metal spires all reverberate when WarKing Bair is playing his kickass tunes that really ties the whole place together. Luckily we got an audience with him and his latest EP to play on the show without so much as a missing digit. So if you can’t make it to Philly but want to hear the way he can make a chord delightfully twist it’s way through your cochlear, we got it here for you.
Rose Boulevard
We actually have no idea where Rose Boulevard is. We know they have amazing music and GAIN and I are pretty big fans of them. GAIN thinks it must be a reference to some kind of golden city like El Dorado but instead of a whole city it’s just the boulevard. But I know it’s probobly just some great musicians with some amazing chemistry putting out and album that sounds like Americana-Dorado. Oz agrees with GAIN though, it must be the way they all sound so carefree and connected. So in the sake of fairness please mail all tips about the mystical Rose Boulevard to our agents.
Afraid Brigade
Afraid Brigade actually has the unique perspective to be band in the apocalypse. The album, If I Ever See the Stars Again, tells the story of a traveler who crash lands on a planet about to explode. Oz and I are big fans of anything that has to do with explosions but instead of an album of crying and despair, it’s a really fast paced action packed love story with amazing music and lyrics. Which is way better than just listening to a CD of explosion sound effects we found. Check out the whole album and settle a bet with Oz and Ed if they’re the greatest band of the 22nd century or just the best.