Scott “SKA-T” Emery and “Like a Chocoholic, but with booze” Justin Somaduroff of the godfathers of local music, Nervis Rex, stopped by to put the ‘rude’ in Rude Blender Radio. Regulars of more venues that I care to list (hail be to Humpy’s), this venerable act has been at it for over a decade bringing the best ska wherever they go. We discuss the past, present and future of the band as well as the multitude of highly talented musicians that have come and gone. Interestingly the band appreciates the dynamic shift that new members bring to the show and are open to the possibility of adding new members as others move on. If you’re a local musician who, ya know, doesn’t want to get a real job, give this show a listen; you may very well have a shot at being part of the local music legend.

We also wanted to send out a special congratulations to Don Cosgrove who wasn’t able to make it into the studio due to the birth of his daughter the previous day. You rock, Don!

 

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Tags: Nervis Rex, Podcasts

Those people who wrote in to let us know how much they were anticipating the Vicious Regress show might be a little disappointed; they weren’t able to make it. Yet worry not! We were able to score an in-studio live show from Matt and Evan (aka +Church+) of Mose Giganticus and The Emotron as they concluded their US/Canada tour. We recorded two songs from each act and then sat down for a lengthy chat all fueled by a healthy dose of warm beer and cold taco bell.

We realize that these guys aren’t from AK and we discussed the reasoning behind featuring them on a local music show. When you hear what they had to go through to get here to play for everyone, you’ll understand why we had to get them on the show.

The four tracks we recorded have been made into a live split for us by Brett of Rune Fire Records. There’s a slim possibility that we might make up a few copies as donation-optional giveaways to help the guys get back home. If you’re interested, let us know in the comments.

 

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Tags: Church, Mose Giganticus, Podcasts, The Emotron

We went a little long with this week’s show which is making dumping the audio from our mixer kind of a pain in the ass. We’ve pretty much gotten all of the bugs worked out, but it’s put us a few days behind schedule. We’ll get the audio ready for the series of tubes and posted as soon as possible. When you see who our guests are you’re not going to want to miss this one! Stay tuned, kids.

The first show posted in our new one-off schedule has us skipping through the tundra with two members of one of Anchorage’s most beloved metal bands; Chased Through The Woods. Compared to a lot of other bands in the state, these guys keep an extremely rigorous show schedule making regular appearances at venues in the valley, The Paddleboat Cafe and their recent Club Millennium Downstairs debut at the Metalfest.

We would also like to congratulate Kara, whose appearance here has quickly become the highest rated show yet!

 

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Tags: Chased Through The Woods, Podcasts

Since the three of us have real jobs, we are working on the record/release schedule.

Mainly, Clay is our tech guy. He’s the one who cleans up the show before we release it. Prepping the show consisted of getting the show from Jeff some time on Sunday and working like a dog to try and get it sorted by Tuesday.

Starting this week, we’re going to release the show every Friday. This eases the workload on Clay and ensures a bit of consistency on our part.

That out of the way, in the coming weeks we’ll have Vicious Regress, Nervis Rex,  The Jeffries, and Mangrobang

Tags: Mangrobang, Nervis Rex, The Jeffries, Vicious Regress

This week local acoustic favorite Kara joins us in studio for an amazing live set including two brand new songs. We discuss her past, present and incredibly bright future including early plans for an album release. Soon to be the face of local Alaskan music, you can not miss this!

Apologies to Kara for the late posting of this show. 12 hour work days 6 days a week are really kicking my ass…

 

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Tags: Kara, Podcasts

This week we had in-studio Brett from RuneFire Records and his bandmates Tyler and Jeremy from Bound By Entrails. Unfortunately the guys won’t be making the Kincaid Metalfest on June 14, but we discuss some great things coming up for the band including plans for a new tour and songs for an upcoming album.

Next week will be a change of pace as we welcome Kara to the show. She’s opened for the likes of Bound By Entrails, and Chased Through The Woods which has earned her the nickname ‘the calm before the storm’. Her soft chords, deep sound and hypnotic voice has won her a legion of fans (which most definitely includes the punks and metal heads behind this show). If you haven’t heard her music you owe it to yourself to tune in next week and check it out.

 

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Tags: Bound By Entrails, Podcasts, RuneFire Records

Portugal. The Man is returning to Alaska! The indie four-piece from right here in AK is back for a handful of performances after a lengthy European tour. They’re scheduled for an acoustic set at Humpy’s on June 26 followed by two shows at Club Millennium on the 27 and 28. Show up to support your local boys including opening performances by The Hoons (June 27), Strept (June 28) and Lavoy (June 28).

Promo flyer is here.

Tags: Lavoy, Portugal, Shows, Strept, The Hoons

This week Spenser and Chris from Korupture stopped by for a chat. We demo a few tracks from their new album ‘The Book of Time’. Lead vocals Scott couldn’t make it, but we had a fuckin’ blast. For anyone who isn’t familiar with Korupture or hasn’t heard anything from their new album, you owe it to yourself to give it a listen. Even if you don’t consider yourself a metal fan. This will change your whole world. Check it out!

On a side note I’m working on getting the file sizes of our shows down. I should be able to cut the download size in half and save everyone involved some time. Sizes should come down sometime this week when I can get everything re-encoded.

 

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Tags: Korupture, Podcasts

Quite a few people asked about the site on Monday so here’s an explanation of what went on. From the looks of things Dreamhost finally got around to replacing an old, worn out server being used to store a bunch of sites. That didn’t go as planned and the machine died in the process. Good thing we were on that server so we could get in on that sweet downtime. That problem was actually fixed pretty quickly, but some genius moved our database onto a new and quite mis-configured mysql server. A quick email to tech support and everything is back to normal.

Three years hosting with Dreamhost and one day of downtime… I can live with that.

I’m gonna be working late so the new podcast will be up later tonight.

Tags: downtime, dreamhost