Posted in music, The Zone @ 91-3, tagged Band of Skulls, Interview, Russell Marsden, Sweet Sour on November 12, 2011| 4 Comments »
I had a chance to talk with Russell Marsden of the English rock & roll band Band of Skulls from his base in London.
He shared some laughs and wisdom. Have a listen as we discuss his new record and what’s coming at our ears in February of 2012.
Interview >> Russell of Band of Skulls
Download MP3 >>20111111 Band of Skulls Edit
Happy Saturday!
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, The Zone @ 91-3, tagged Chicken Fried, Dylan Willows, Jason Lamb, Jon Williams, Zac Brown Band on October 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Zone DJ Jon Williams got real sick after Rifflandia (so many GERMS!) and rolled into work last week all sniffily with aches and pains. Poor little guy.
The Zone studio is a shared work environment with mics, and keyboards and coffee mugs, and CANDY! So when one of us gets sick, much like a daycare, we all get sick.
Dylan and Jason from The Morning Zone called him out on it! Jon took exception and wrote a dis-rap.
Listen>> Jon’s First Rap
DW and Jason replied with…
Listen >> Jonny’s Rhapsody
Then Jon answered that!
Listen >> Jon’s second rap
… now I just wish these two would get along.
The Jeremy Baker Band – “Get Along“ (mixcloud stream)
Download MP3 >> ZAS-GetAlong
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Go with yourself.
Posted in Dave Babych, The Zone @ 91-3, tagged /A\ News Vancouver Island, Bruins, Canucks, Vancouver Island Brewery on June 17, 2011| 1 Comment »
Posted in music, The Zone @ 91-3, tagged Daniel Wesley, Ko, The Rebel Emergency, The Zone Afternoon Show on June 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Last Wednesday, Daniel Wesley, Ko and The Rebel Emergency all came by the Zone afternoon show. And all three groups laid down a live acoustic cut. Here we go!
The Rebel Emergency – “Up All Night”
Download MP3 >> RebelEmergency-UpAllNight
Ko – “Moving Mountains”
Download MP3 >> Ko-MovingMountains
Daniel Wesley – “Head Outta Water”
Download MP3 >> DanielWesley-HeadOuttaWater
Happy Friday! Go with yourself.
Posted in The Zone @ 91-3, tagged Chevrolet, Chevy Cruze, Football, New Orleans Saints, NFL, Seahawks, Seattle on January 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in music, The Zone @ 91-3, tagged Best of 2010, Modern Rock, Top Albums of 2010 on December 23, 2010| 4 Comments »
Instead of jamming out a Modern Rock Countdown this weekend (it being Christmas and all) I thought it would be fun to play some selections from the Zone DJs “Best of 2010” lists. I hope it sounds like a pretty good couple hours of music to be enjoying your Christmas brunch too.
Selections from the Zone DJ Top 10 of 2010 Lists
01) Dead Weather – Die By The Drop
02) Middle Class Rut – New Low
03) Gorillaz – Stylo
04) Deftones – Diamond Eyes
05) Eminiem – Not Afraid
06) Slash – Going Back to Cali
07) Maurice – Robin
08) Tokyo Police Club – Bambi
09) Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
10) The National – Bloodbuzz ohio
11) Sweet Thing – Dance Mother
12) Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land
13) Vampire Weekend – Cousins
14) Bedouin Soundclash – Mountain Top
15) Hot Hot Heat – 21@12
16) Infant Sorrow – The Clap
17) Daft Punk – Derezzed
18) Kings of Leon – The End
19) Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait
20) Mumford and Sons – Little Lions Man
21) Kanye West – Power
22) Broken Bells – The Ghost Inside
23) Hollerado – Juliet
24) Black Keys – Tighten Up
Posted in music, The Zone @ 91-3, tagged Boots, Chevy Cruze, Ellisa hartman, Future Shop, Little Drummer Boy, The Killers on December 13, 2010| 3 Comments »
The Morning Zone’s Quest to fill the Chevy Cruze is spiraling out of control in the best of ways.
An event that began as Dylan’s Mom wondering why the Zone doesn’t do MORE to help kids has escalated into a great event on Friday, December 17th. DW and Jason will be at the Mayfair Mall parking lot at 6AM till 10 doing their radio show. Please bring new unwrapped toys.
Not that you need another reason to do the right thing, but Future Shop has kindly donated FIVE prize packs that are valued at at least $1,000 each! You can win if you bring toys. Plus Future Shop is starting to fill our Cruze with music instruments for kids that could really use them. Wow.
On top of the $1,500 in Toys from Brett and Dave Wheaton Chevy and Dylan says another $250 from The Real Canadian Superstore.
A Zoner also showed up with TWO boxes filled with Toys as he can’t make the broadcast on Friday.
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The Killers are on the hiatus… but they are not letting that stop them for jamming out a Christmas song for the holidays.
I do believe it is number 5 in their series of Christmas singles.
What I like about the song “Boots” is that its not overtly Christmassy. I don’t think they say “Christmas” in it once… while still painting a beautiful (and slightly melon collie) holiday song.
The song talks about watching Christmas programs on TV… like “Its a Wonderful Life.”
The Killers – “Boots”
And since I’m feeling a wee bit festive…
I got an email from Ellisa Hartman… I *think* she is a local singer-songwriter… There was no bio on her website.
She did a nice take on “Little Drummer Boy.” Which… and I didn’t know this, is religious. I know now because Treehouse had a cartoon on the other day that was about the little drummer boy being a slave to some fat evil guy… then he ran away to see the baby Jesus. Good times.
Ellisa Hartman – “Little Drummer Boy”
Go with yourself.
Posted in life or something like it, The Zone @ 91-3, tagged Chevy Cruze, Dylan and Jason, The Morning Zone on December 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I love our “perma-borrowed” Chevy Cruze from Dave Wheaton Chevrolet.
I originally got my hands on it when Brett let me take it to Vancouver to see Vince Vaccaro. Then during the snow, I got scared and didn’t want to bike, so I kept it… and NOW we’re going to keep it over the holidays and put it to work for good.
DW and and Jason are taking their show on the road next Friday, December 17th. They will broadcast from the Mayfair Mall Parking lot and want to fill the car (multiple times) with brand spanking new presents for kids that NEED them. The toys will be managed and distributed by the Saint Vincent De Paul Society. Yes the same society that Dylan’s Mom volunteers for.
Brett from Dave Wheaton started this party with A) a car to fill and B) a generous cash donation (no money to advertise, all money they gave us, to the kids). Now we (all of us at the Zone) need YOU. Please spread the word, then come join us Friday morning, a magical week before Christmas to fill the Cruze with toys.
here is the link to the Zone dot FM… please share it. http://www.thezone.fm/events/#toydrive
Go with yourself.
Posted in food, music, radio, The Zone @ 91-3, tagged Adam Lambert, Elias, Portofino Bakery, theset on April 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I almost got caught in the rain. Hard at work on a sandwich before work and it looked sunny and bright. But then I got caught up playing with Madelyn, changing a bum and putting some clothes on her, and when i looked outside again, it was POURING. If I had left when I could have, I’d have got soaked on my scooter ride! So thank you Dad-chores? Today that’s a yes.
Speaking of sandwiches… yes I am still doing my damnedest to pack a lunch everyday. And I (errr… actually Coral) may have found the BEST bread.
Portofino Bakery makes an epic sandwich bread. They don’t have a website, or fan page, or twitter… or anything really… so I guess they are building low and slow with word-of-mouth or whatever, but its good bread. Yum yum.
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Theset is truth.
Yesterday, Victoria rock and roller band theset stopped by my radio show for an interview and live performance.
Have a download: Theset yaps then performs “Already Know.”
For you Zone Mail subscribers, the song will be available for download in the Zone Mail section in the next couple days.
We talk about iPodMeister.com, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first movie), moving to Toronto to get signed by Wax Records, how great Elias is, shooting music videos on shoe-string budgets, and Adam Lambert. Oh the times we share. Then they sing “Already Know” and that’s a podcast.
Go with yourself.
Posted in radio, The Zone @ 91-3, tagged Cory Monteith, Glee, Wayback Guy on October 2, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Download: The Wayback Guy Interviews Cory Monteith
This week on the Modern Rock Countdown, The Wayback Guy had the chance to sing with Glee star Cory Monteith.
The Wayback Guy is produced by Mr. Sheldon Hovde.
The Morning After 