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Michael Ferrari
This blog is for Aural Island Enterprises which include: AURAL FIX COMMUNIQUE (indie music publication, AURAL FIX TRANSMISSION (indie music webcasts, NEXT WAVE IN MUSIC SERIES (live music show cases). But mostly it is a vehicle for the AURAL FIX TRANSMISSION Podcasts which are archives of the radio show which these days can be heard live Tuesdays 7-9pm EST on 88.1FM and streaming online at http://www.WCWP.org
AURAL FIX Edition of the ROCK SHOW
2013 Xmas Spectacular!!!
Sick of the same old holiday music? Well why not try a fresh take from your local music scene? Hour 1 of holiday music, both classics and originals! Merry Xmas!- Mike
Mike Ferrari
Publisher, Creative Director:
AURAL FIX COMMUNIQUE, P.O. Box 6054, North Babylon, NY 11703
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Host & Producer:
AURAL FIX TRANSMISSION on 88.1FM WCWP (Tuesdays 7pm-9pm)
http://www.wcwp.org
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AURAL FIX Edition of the ROCK SHOW 2013 Xmas Spectacular!!!
Sick of the same old holiday music? Well why not try a fresh take from your local music scene? Hour 2 of holiday music, both classics and originals! Merry Xmas!
- Mike
Host & Producer:
AURAL FIX TRANSMISSION on 88.1FM WCWP (Tuesdays 7pm-9pm)
AURAL FIX Edition of the ROCK SHOW
Top 20 Songs of 2011 from the Long Island Music Scene
ok, end of the year means Top Blah, Blah, Blah lists and Aural Fix is not immune to them! After many beers (Mike) and deep meaningful thought (The J?!), and in no way influenced by politics or payola (Mike), we have come up with our Top 20 Songs of 2011 from the Long Island Music Scene. It is by no means definitive, as there was actually a Top 50 List, but we only have a 2 hour show and only 20 songs actually fit in that allotted amount of time. Especially when you factor in the format breaks and The J's mic hogging endless rambles, we did what we can with it. If you are displeased with not making the list, complain to The J. I'll try to get the 30 of 50 Top Songs out this weekend in a separate podcast, but I drink alot and tend to get distracted...
- Mike
ps - some classic moments to listen for in podcast: PUI intro, dead air brought to you by M&J ... and more silliness
Mike Ferrari
Publisher, Creative Director:
AURAL FIX COMMUNIQUE, P.O. Box 6054, North Babylon, NY 11703
http://www.auralfix.net
Host & Producer:
AURAL FIX TRANSMISSION on 88.1FM WCWP (Tuesdays 7pm-9pm)
http://www.wcwp.org
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http://www.youtube.com/auralfixtrans • http://www.myspace.com/auralfix
The Aural Fix Transmission is back on 88.1FM WCWP airing live Tuesday nights from 7-9pm and can be heard streaming online at WCWP.org! Joining host Mike Ferrari is co-host The J from the RadioJ Show, another great independent music podcast. We are also happy to announce the podcasts will resume for the new New Year!
In this episode we celebrate indie holiday music from the Long Island region with our special guest, Tom Cavanagh from Bent Pussycat Records! Enjoy & Happy Holidays!
The Experience Long Island edition of the Aural Fix Transmission! We had festival organizers as well as a few of the creative participants that will be giving Long Islanders a taste of their art! This is the un-edited 2 hour show. I wanted to get it online since the event is this coming weekend. We'll chop it up later, but right now its a whopping 162mb file!
Push Play at WCWP By Mike Ferrari
Okay, long time AF readers are like, “C’mon Mike, a boy band in Aural Fix?!” To this I say – when your band came to WCWP, did you have 20 screaming teens and tweens holding signs with your name on it? I didn’t think so!
In that long standing tradition of good looking boys, sugary pop music and hype galore, Push Play has gone where boy bands like N Sync and New Kids On The Block et al have all gone before... straight to teenage girls hearts.
While Push Play certainly does all this, they do go beyond simple crass commercialism, and forgettable little ditties. The band donates a portion of all their proceeds to various local charities.
Featuring a fab four of local Long Island teens; CJ on Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Keyboard, Nick on Bass and Derek on Drums they pump out songs like “Away” which is pure pop confection, but it is sweet and and it's hard to resist the hook. Sometimes the vocals get a little over processed like on “Starlight Addiction” but I guess no different than most pop artists you’re hearing on your FM dial right now.
The band came down to the MyWCWP.com radio station to do an in-studio interview and acoustic performance on the Top 40 Format Total Access Show with host Nick Parker. About 20 people showed up to the station, many holding signs with messages to Push Play. At one point the station let the fans into the studio with the band, and some like Morgan Manganello of Holbrook, got to ask the band a question on air.
So you local musicians are seething in your basement or garage demanding to know why it isn’t you on the cover, or you in the pull out centerfold poster. I’ll explain it as best I can... because you’re not a cute teenage boy. You haven’t dropped the cash on the PR machine to crank out fluffy hype about all the things you do. You haven’t dressed up and looked like a rock star or care about your image. You haven’t wrote a sugary pop song that sticks in the heads or tugs at the hearts of teenage girls. To put it simply – you haven’t done what Push Play has done.
The boys in Push Play with the support of “band mom” Sue Baran have done all these things. As superficial as it may seem to you, this is the way the music industry today works. The key here is to find some things to incorporate into your music business plan from their play book.
However Push Play hasn’t been all hype, having sold out Irving Plaza and School of Rock earlier this year, and recently signing with Creative Artists Agency. The band has made themselves known at Nokia Theatre in Times Square and ZooTopia all through good old fashioned grass roots, word of mouth and incessant MySpace and online social networking. Hype will only carry an artist or band so far, you still need to sell tickets and fill seats! Push Play has done this and more, and they’re just getting started.
www.myspace.com/pushplayrox
See The Gallery from their appearance HERE
12-29-07 New Years 2007 Countdown
In this special year end edition of the Aural Fix Transmission Mike Ferrari and guest co-host Radio J (Radio J - Radio for the Scene Podcasts on auralfix.net) count down their favorite releases from 2007! It was supposed to be 10 picks from each of us, but things went awry as they often do with The J and Mike got kinda short changed. But that's okay - he'll unveil his official Top 10 in a separate podcast for New Years. The J is supposed to produce an epic 2 hour podcast with his Top 20 local music past & present for New Years Eve.
This was the live webcast that aired Saturday December 29th on MyWCWP.com.
Radio J TOP 10 PICKS
10 - Cortez the Killer "make a move"
9 - Voxhound "bitter"
8 - Vicio "back down"
7 - 4 to 3 "tumbling down"
6 - Altamonte "build bridges"
5 - Finespun "hourglass"
4 - Magnetic North "novemtree"
3 - Blameshift "syossett polka"
2 - A Farewell Fire "forever"
1 - Show Me Action "if the continents can drift"
Radio J - Radio for the Scene Podcasts on auralfix.net!!!
http://www.myspace.com/radiojradioforthescene
radioJ@auralfix.net
MIKE'S SPINS
Miles To Dayton - rise
Joe Piket - summercrimes
Sonic Bliss - sahara
PushPlay - starlight addiction
Gina Cutillo - the blame
The Crusher - crush, kill, destroy
The Aural Fix Transmission show, is hosted and produced by Mike Ferrari since 1990. The program is the audio companion to the Aural Fix Communique print publication and auralfix.com web site. Featuring CD Cuts, Interviews and Live In-Studio Performances from artists from the Long Island region, the show has featured hundreds of independent artists from many mediums.
You can listen to the live broadcast on Saturdays from 5-7pm EST:
http://www.webradiowcwp.org
or you can download the Podcasts by subscribing to our feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/WJID
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In case you missed the FM Edition of AURAL FIX TRANSMISSION during Alumni Weekend on WCWP 88.1FM (Sunday October 7th from 6-8pm) – here's the archived Podcast of the show. It's a little more chaotic than usual being there's a lot of people popping in and out of the studio, but that's part of the fun. In this first hour AFT host Mike Ferrari is joined by fellow Weekend Mix deejay Jay Mirabile (otherwise known as the Disco & Funk King) and WCWP newcomer, Intern "Random Joe".
PLAYLIST HOUR 2
Hank Stone - blue crayon
Deborah Lombardi - my dogs life
Mary Lamont - ontario
Gina Cutillo - the blame
Ready In 10 - one man show
Sonic Bliss - sahara
Deep Rising - so frustrated
Pack of Wise - addiction
Finespun - invisible
Fear of Fred - girls on reality tv
Sick As Monday - so long
Blameshift - pink house
The Aural Fix Transmission show, is hosted and produced by Mike Ferrari since 1990. The program is the audio companion to the Aural Fix Communique print publication and auralfix.com web site. Featuring CD Cuts, Interviews and Live In-Studio Performances from artists from the Long Island region, the show has featured hundreds of independent artists from many mediums.
You can listen to the live broadcast on Saturdays from 5-7pm EST or you can download the Podcasts from this site by subscribing to our feed.
AURAL FIX COMMUNIQUE
http://www.auralfix.com
AURAL FIX NETWORK
AURAL FIX TRANSMISSION
http://www.auralfix.net
Send Press Kits To:
AURAL FIX NETWORK
P.O. Box 6054, North Babylon, NY 11703
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In case you missed the FM Edition of AURAL FIX TRANSMISSION during Alumni Weekend on WCWP 88.1FM (Sunday October 7th from 6-8pm) – here's the archived Podcast of the show. It's a little more chaotic than usual being there's a lot of people popping in and out of the studio, but that's part of the fun. In this first hour AFT host Mike Ferrari is joined by fellow Weekend Mix deejay Jay Mirabile (otherwise known as the Disco & Funk King) and WCWP newcomer, Intern "Random Joe".
PLAYLIST HOUR 1
MilesTo Dayton - rise
Glenn Jochum - it takes two to eat mangoes
Tommy Keys - rum boogie woogie
Paul Minissale - blues boy
Sweet Suzi & the Blues Experience - does your wife know
Early Grace - let him go
Last Charge of the Light Horse - getaway car
Kathy Fleischmann - iowa
The Aural Fix Transmission show, is hosted and produced by Mike Ferrari since 1990. The program is the audio companion to the Aural Fix Communique print publication and auralfix.com web site. Featuring CD Cuts, Interviews and Live In-Studio Performances from artists from the Long Island region, the show has featured hundreds of independent artists from many mediums.
You can listen to the live broadcast on Saturdays from 5-7pm EST or you can download the Podcasts from this site by subscribing to our feed.
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Aural Fix Transmission 1 (currently unavailable)
This is an archive from WebRadioWCWP.com of the Aural Fix Transmission show, hosted and produced by Mike Ferrari. The show's focus is on the Long Island New York music scene, and features CD cuts, interviews, and live in-studio performances from independent artists from the region.
This edition of AFT features LI songwriters Hank Stone and Christine Sweeney. The Podcast runs 20 minutes and has been encoded to MP3 at 128kbps (stereo).
AFT can be heard live on saturdays from 4-6pm EST on http://www.WebRadioWCWP and is offered in Windows Media,
For more information visit http://www.auralfix.com
Here's an archive of an event we presented in August of 2006!
FEMME-FEST 2006 - a celebration of the female musician!
Saturday August 26th, 3:00pm to 10:30pm
The Nutty Irishman,
323 Main Street, Farmingdale, NY 11735
516-293-9700
$10 admission (part of the proceeds go to 1 in 9.org)
Log on to the web and give them all a listen!
www.myspace.com/stringalley
www.myspace.com/milestodayton
www.rustylugs.com
www.myspace.com/edensong
www.myspace.com/andrejack
www.myspace.com/korromusic
www.myspace.com/earlygrace
www.myspace.com/jeanhatesjohn
www.myspace.com/tragicorange
www.myspace.com/jimmykrackcorn
The music and interviews with FemmeFest artists origininally aired on:
the Indie Connection show on RadioX (94.7, 94.9 & 104.5)
(Suffolk County for FM, or listen on the Web @ www.radiox.fm)
Friday nights 8-10pm 8/25/06
Aural Fix Transmission on WebRadioWCWP.org
Saturday 8/26/06
for more FemmeFest info contact Mike Ferrari at next wave at auralfix dot com
The Aural Fix Transmission show, is hosted and produced by Mike Ferrari since 1990. The program is the audio companion to the Aural Fix Communique print publication and auralfix.com web site. Featuring CD Cuts, Interviews and Live In-Studio Performances from artists from the Long Island region, the show has featured hundreds of independent artists from many mediums.
You can listen to the live broadcast on Saturdays from 5-7pm EST or you can download the Podcasts from this site by subscribing to our feed.
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AURAL FIX NETWORK
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After a long hiatus the Aural Fix podcast is back! We moved all the multimedia to our new auralfix.net site to free up the auralfix.com site for the magazine stuff (photo galleries, pdfs etc.). So we should at least be monthly again for the summer, and looking to go weekly in the Fall.
In this edition of the Aural Fix Transmission we interview the band TAUK! We also spin some other artists playing in the huge 3 day festival The Great South Bay Music Festival (http://www.greatsouthbaymusicfestival.com) happening July 13th-15th.
Enjoy!
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In this edition of the Aural Fix Transmission you can hear Ryan of the Madison Project talk about their upcoming CD and hear
some tracks on the Aural Fix Transmission show we aired Saturday July 21st on www.webradiowcwp.org!
The Aural Fix Transmission show, is hosted and produced by Mike Ferrari since 1990. The program is the audio companion to the Aural Fix Communique print publication and auralfix.com web site. Featuring CD Cuts, Interviews and Live In-Studio
Performances from artists from the Long Island region, the show has featured hundreds of independent artists from many mediums.
You can listen to the live broadcast on Saturdays from 5-7pm EST or you can download the Podcasts from this site by subscribing to our feed.
AURAL FIX COMMUNIQUE
http://www.auralfix.com/
AURAL FIX NETWORK
AURAL FIX TRANSMISSION
http://www.auralfix.net/
Send Press Kits To:
AURAL FIX NETWORK
P.O. Box 6054, North Babylon, NY 11703
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Another edition of the RadioJ show - Radio For the Scene!
This is Hour 1, which The J will eventualy email what he played!
:P
Enjoy!
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Here's an Aural Fix Transmission archive we managed to resurrect from a naughty hardrive! It features an interview with David Defeis of Long Island's own Virgin Steele, talking about their latest CD Visions of Eden and hear some tracks on the Aural Fix Transmission show we aired Saturday January 6th on WebRadioWCWP.org and later on WCWP 88.1FM Thursday January 18th.
The Aural Fix Transmission show, is hosted and produced by Mike Ferrari since 1990. The program is the audio companion to the Aural Fix Communique print publication and auralfix.com web site. Featuring CD Cuts, Interviews and Live In-Studio Performances from artists from the Long Island region, the show has featured hundreds of independent artists from many mediums.
You can listen to the live broadcast on Saturdays from 5-7pm EST or you can download the Podcasts from this site by subscribing to our feed.
AURAL FIX COMMUNIQUE
http://www.auralfix.com
AURAL FIX NETWORK
AURAL FIX TRANSMISSION
http://www.auralfix.net
Send Press Kits To:
AURAL FIX NETWORK
P.O. Box 6054, North Babylon, NY 11703
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RadioJ picks up where Radioxposed (formerly on RadioX FM) left off, helping the local/indi unsigned music from all over. Playing music from all of the bands that are really looking to go to the next level.
The show will be 2 hrs long. Every now and then guests including bands, local writers, promoters and anyone who is passionate about the scene. Radio J Radio for the scene lives and breathes new music, and will continue, by discussing articles from aural fix every now and then, as well as having a concert calendar.
RadioJ will have a band of the month highlighting a particular band each month, that is involved in the local/unsigned/indie scene. I'm hoping this show will help bring the scene back to where it should be and hopefully help to make it better!
This is Hour 2!
The J
RadioJ - Radio For The Scene!
http://www.auralfix.com/shows/radioj.html
http://www.myspace.com/thej
RadioJ picks up where Radioxposed (formerly on RadioX FM) left off, helping the local/indi unsigned music from all over. Playing music from all of the bands that are really looking to go to the next level.
The show will be 2 hrs long. Every now and then guests including bands, local writers, promoters and anyone who is passionate about the scene. Radio J Radio for the scene lives and breathes new music, and will continue, by discussing articles from aural fix every now and then, as well as having a concert calendar.
RadioJ will have a band of the month highlighting a particular band each month, that is involved in the local/unsigned/indie scene. I'm hoping this show will help bring the scene back to where it should be and hopefully help to make it better!
This is Hour 1!
The J
RadioJ - Radio For The Scene!
http://www.auralfix.com/radioj
http://www.myspace.com/thej
This is just a bit of footage from the 1 year anniversary of Berr Club at Mr. Beerys, a bar on Long Island known for it's wide selection of ales and live music.
A quasi secret society of discerning beer conniseurs who meet in the deep dark bowels of the bar to sample exotic hi-octane ales. Aural Fix gives you exclusive footage!
Should be suitable for iPods. 18mb download.