Empty Orchestra: Recent Episodes
Angelica Vergel
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Amanda flies solo with a set all about Florida and a karaoke challenge of Florida based bands. Featuring a dreamy set of songs selected by Amanda and Angelica that reminded them of their once home, the sunshine state!
Amanda and Angelica are joined by Radio Free Brooklyn founder and host of Frequency Theory, Tom Tenney, as they celebrate their 80th episode with a show dedicated to the 1980's!
Amanda and Angelica are joined by Mark Piro for Empty Orchestra's first edition of live piano karaoke on the radio! We interview Mark about his experience playing Sid Gold's Request Room (165 W 26th St), how he came to be a karaoke piano player, and of course sing live karaoke on the radio! Be sure to check this episode out and catch Mark behind the keys at Sid Gold's Request Room every Friday from 6 to 9 p.m.!
It's the beginning of the fourth season of Empty Orchestra on Radio Free Brooklyn! We celebrate with playing our favorite quartets!
Amanda and Angelica revisit food as a theme in karaoke in celebration of Amanda's new food centric radio show, Reciprocity Radio! We are also joined by Pan, host of Pandemoneum on Radio Free Brooklyn!
Angelica and Amanda celebrate a slew of spring birthdays with an episode all about birthday karaoke!
Amanda and Angelica are joined by special guests Amberly, Butch, Andy, and Lauren to discuss the much loved karaoke genre, Arena Rock! Get ready to rock as we discuss what makes Arena Rock so great, debate over "Don't Stop Believing", and sing the hits from Kiss, Queen, Boston, and more!
Angelica is in the studio alone and is playing music featured in MTV's 120 Minutes! Amanda calls in from Chicago and her brunch crew karaokes' The Cure's Boys Don't Cry!
Amanda and Angelica chat about karaoke the night before; Angelica gets mansplain after she karaokes; Amanda reads the hip hop playlist; and RFB's Elann (Lost & Rewound) calls in and karaoke's Mo Money Mo Problems!
Amanda and Angelica continue their April celebration with a show all about the weather! Sun, rain, wind, April has it all and so does our set and karaoke challenge!
Amanda of Radio Free Brooklyn's Empty Orchestra fills in for the bi-monthly Pot Luck Dinner slot with a set of dreamy, hazy, synthy songs inspired by the onset of Spring.
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A spur of the moment live fill-in guest set for Burning Bridges with Amanda from Empty Orchestra.
Angelica and Amanda celebrate April and spring with a bouquet of songs all about flowers!
Amanda and Angelica celebrate Empty Orchestra's 69th episode with a sexy 2 hour live karaoke marathon featuring fellow Radio Free Brooklyn hosts Jason Trachtenburg of Thought Patterns, Shane Gasteyer of Everybody Plays The Fool, Cooper Wilhem of Into The Dark, Elann Danziger of Lost and Rewound, and former Empty Orchestra guests Alex, Jamie, and Brad! We karaoke everything from Ludacris and Nine Inch Nails to Al Green and Boyz II Men. Don't miss out on this extra special, extra sexy karaoke extravaganza!
Angelica and Amanda celebrate women's history month with a set of amazing female performers and and all female karaoke challenge! We sing, we share, and Amanda somehow survives her hangover! Don't miss out!
Angelica and Amanda are joined by Daniel Kelly of the NYC based band Moral Panic. We knocked back some tall boys, shot the shit, sang a lot of karaoke, and debuted two new tracks from Moral Panic's upcoming release on Slovenly Records! Moral Panic will be playing Saturday March 18th at Bar Matchless here in Brooklyn, so be there or be square? We don't give a fuck.
Amanda and Angelica throw it back to 1997 with a playlist and karaoke challenge of our favorite songs from 20 years ago! We're joined by a special guest and we revisit some beloved radio hits from our youth, so don't miss out!
Amanda and Angelica revisit one of Empty Orchestra's earliest themes "karaoke tracks" or songs that we think sound like karaoke backing tracks! We broke out the turntables and dusted off our record collections to bring you a set of dreamy, synthy songs for your listening pleasure.
Amanda and Angelica return with another Valentines day episode of Empty Orchestra, this time with a playlist and karaoke challenge all about heartbreak.
We celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year and played songs about fire, roosters, and the moon!
We're joined in the studio with guests Alex & Jansen as we have serious discussions and karaoke about boy bands.
Amanda and Angelica are back with another set of protest songs (of the feminist persuasion) and stories about their experiences at the Women's March in both Washington D.C. and New York City!
Angelica and Amanda are back with a second episode all about songs featuring names! Our first episode got so many responses that we had to do a second!
Amanda and Angelica kick off the new year with an episode all about firsts with a playlist and karaoke challenge of debut albums and their first tracks. We play everything from Queen to Orange Juice, get a call from our friend Elann, and Angelica sings too! Happy 2017!
Empty Orchestra further investigates the space between the unspoken karaoke law "ballads or bangers" and celebrates those songs that aren't quite either with an episode centered on mid-tempo music. Songs for the sensual, shy, and subdued ensue and of course Angelica and Amanda both karaoke their mid-tempo favorites!
Amanda and Angelica explore the world of Honky Tonk women with an episode dedicated to the ladies of country music! We celebrated the release of Darlin' Darlin's The Long Haul by previewing a track from the new EP and even sang some country karaoke to boot!
Angelica and Amanda are joined by former guest and friend of the show, Evan, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the beloved music documentary The Last Waltz.
We're joined in the studio with our friends Leah and Jason to talk & karaoke about Gilmore Girls!
Empty Orchestra closes out its second season with a somber episode, in which we reflect on our feelings on the current state of American politics with a set of protest songs that we felt mirrored our collective grief and anger. Stay strong and never stop fighting.
Join us in celebrating two amazing seasons of Empty Orchestra! We revisit past guests, callers, and karaoke'ers in an amazing sound collage made by Angelica and hear two of our favorite performers from the past two seasons singing in full! Don't miss out on this episode!
Amanda and Angelica are joined by Cooper of Into The Dark for a spooky karaoke episode featuring shufflemancy and plenty of creepy tunes!
Empty Orchestra goes to the bar with an episode all about boozy karaoke. Drinking songs from all sorts of musical genres, and of course, live karaoke!
Yes, embarrassing karaoke does exist! Shane from RFB's "Everybody Plays the Fool" calls in! We karaoke!
Amanda and Angelica delve into karaoke 20 years ago, with an episode all about songs from 1996!
Jame and Alex join hosts Amanda and Angelica for a stirring discussion and sing-a-long devoted to Divas!
Angelica and Amanda are joined by the one and only Bob Lancaster to discuss our favorite TV Show theme songs! We talk Jessie Frederick, TGIF, CSI, and more! Special thanks to Alice and Elann for some excellent call in karaoke singing!
We revisit duets again with special guests: Richard & Rod. We chat, karaoke, soundboard, and pick our fantasy duets!
New Wave! Call-in Karaoke! Phone call about the Pyramid Club! The return of rating karaoke bars! What more can you want?
Angelica is alone in the studio and reflects on songs she wishes were in karaoke books.
Amanda and Angelica are joined by special guest Eli to discuss being from and living in thie great city we all call home. We cover it all from Sinatra to Seinfeld, so be sure not to fuhgetabout listening to this episode!
This episode of Empty Orchestra is all about the beach! Angelica is California dreaming after her recent trip to L.A. and Amanda can't wait to get back to the Rockaways! Listen in for some coastal Pokemon tips, surf inspired tunes, and of course some karaoke!
Amanda flies solo with a second edition of "Solo Soul". In this episode she focuses on girl groups and female vocalists! Chart toppers intermingle with lessen known cuts, and of course there's some karaoke!
Great Scot! Amanda of Empty Orchestra fills in for Rommel with an all Scottish set of music!
In this episode we draw our show topic out of a hat, with special guests Misael Soto and Alex Gilwit! All the music and karaoke tunes were curated on the fly, live on the radio! This is a fun episode, so don't miss out!
Angelica and Amanda explore their karaoke alter egos, talk stage presence, audience interaction, inspirational artists, and even come up with their own alter ego persona names!
We celebrate the long holiday weekend with all our favorite songs about being American!
We're joined in the studio with Chantel from NYC Karaoke League and Serena from Gotham City Karaoke League and talk about competitive karaoke!
A special Father's Day episode in which we reflect on both our families and our experiences with personal loss.
We're joined in the studio with guest Travis Atria, author of "Traveling Soul: The Life Curtis Mayfield"!
We play and karaoke songs to get your summer started right! We also kept getting unexpected phone calls, and/or faxes.
Angelica and Amanda celebrate the start of season 2 of Empty Orchestra with a live karaoke marathon!
Guest Alexander Chaparro joins Angelica in talking & analyzing hip hop/rapping in karaoke. We spin & rhyme!
Angelica plays songs for mothers, and awkwardly karaokes one for her mom.
Special call-in also karaoke!
We play hits and our favorite jams from 1986! Angelica begs listeners to call in and karaoke Cameo's Word Up!
We're joined in the studio with our new friend Elann who has been a host to many of karaoke parties!
Angelica and Amanda welcome special guests Bob Lancaster and Ched "Hortle" Winkwagon to celebrate Opening Day! We talk favorite teams, walk up songs, hold a fantasy band draft, and even sing-a-long to the 7th inning stretch tradition of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game". Happy baseball season!
Angelica is in the studio alone, plays lonesome music, discusses her alone karaoke experience, and karaokes in an empty studio.
We're joined in the studio with our friend/musician Evan Mitchell! We talk about all the karaoke faux pas. Ballads or Bangers karaoke theory? Evan karaokes a mid-tempo song!
Amanda and Angelica play daylight/spring themed songs, and started their first segment of rating karaoke bars!
Amanda & Angelica celebrated their friend's Jamie birthday with a karaoke outing & recorded the occasion.
Our 2-hour Valentine's Day Special! Love songs! Lust songs! Heartbreak songs! Call-in karaoke! in studio karaoke!
We slay so many punk anthems with special guest Daniel Kelley from MORAL PANIC. Who's the punk rock girl? Which Ramones did Daniel tried-out for their touring band? Also, Lots of beer drinking.
Cover versions you rather karaoke! Sam Haft from Comedy Llama performs! GG Allin or Michael Buble?