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Psychedelic marathon’s eighth run

March 18, 2013 by 2 Comments
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Almost 60 hours of psychedelic music will electrify the airwaves of Cupertino, Calif., this weekend thanks to a radio marathon hosted by the duo of J-Kat & Ruby Tuesday. Northern California "people's radio" KKUP carries the couple's "Eight Miles High" show Tuesdays from 8-10 p.m. (PT). The eighth edition of the psychedelic marathon kicks off at 3 p.m. Friday. Psychedelic Sight caught up with J-Kat (Dan Kind) as he prepped for the big show. Q: Three straight days of psychedelic rock! I'm already having "Toad" flashbacks. How long has your show been on the air? A: Susan and I have hosted "Eight Miles High" for the past 6 years. I've been programming at KKUP for 15 years. Q: What gets played on "Eight Miles High"? A: Psychedelic music, of course! But we also do a lot of garage, … [Read more...]

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Hendrix booked for ‘Hawaii Five-O’ episode

January 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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In an unusual psychedelic promo, Sunday's episode of "Hawaii Five-O" will unveil seven of the 12 tracks from the "new" Jimi Hendrix album. The "special" episode of the CBS remake series follows the AFC title game (about 10 p.m. ET). Hendrix tracks used on the "Hawaii Five-O" soundtrack include "Somewhere," "Bleeding Heart," "Mojo Man," "Hey Gypsy Boy," "Inside Out," "Crash Landing" and "Hear My Train a Comin.'" ("Somewhere" debuted about a week ago.) They're all from "People, Hell and Angels," the collection of Hendrix studio tracks due in stores March 5. The CBS crime drama is the revival of the classic Jack Lord series, which debuted about the time Hendrix recorded these tracks. CBS' "CSI: NY" employed the music of pop-punkers Green Day for an October episode show that … [Read more...]

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Waters sets ‘town hall’ Q&A on sat radio

June 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Pink Floyd heavyweight Roger Waters sits for a "Town Hall" interview June 27 on SiriusXM at noon EDT. The appearance ties in with the relaunch of the Pink Floyd Channel (Sirius channel 142 and XM 43). Waters will be interviewed by Jim Ladd, the new face of Deep Tracks (the closest thing SiriusXM has to a psychedelic music channel). Waters' talk will be heard on Deep Tracks (channel 27) as well as 24/7 online (channel 802). Host Ladd, famously called the Last DJ by Tom Petty (another SiriusXM guy), joined Deep Tracks earlier this year after getting the sack at L.A.'s KLOS. Ladd's newish satellite show, originating in L.A., airs at 7 p.m. ET weekdays. Waters also is plugging the Yankee Stadium run of his "The Wall" tour, July 6 and 7. Ladd curated the Pink Floyd … [Read more...]

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Pink Floyd channeled by satellite radio

May 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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The multiyear celebration of all things Pink Floyd continues with a SiriusXM channel dedicated to the psychedelic music pioneers. Deep Tracks host Jim Ladd curated the Pink Floyd Channel's mix of music, interviews and concert broadcasts. The limited-run channel will span the Memorial Day weekend, beginning at noon EDT on Friday (May 25). The Pink Floyd goodness pre-empts Deep Tracks -- the closest thing satellite radio has to a psychedelic rock channel -- for those four days. Listen on channel 27. SiriusXM does have some full-time channels dedicated to rock acts -- such as the Grateful Dead, Elvis Presley and Bruce Springsteen -- but there's no indication the Pink Floyd channel will be permanent. Waters broke the news of the Pink Floyd channel May 22 on Ladd's Deep Tracks … [Read more...]

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‘Last DJ’ Jim Ladd in Deep with SiriusXM

December 2, 2011 by 3 Comments
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Veteran rock DJ Jim Ladd is going underground -- via satellite. Ladd, recently fired by longtime employer KLOS in Los Angeles, has found a home at Deep Tracks, the satellite radio channel reminiscent of the free-form FM stations of the 1960s and '70s. (Update: Listen to Ladd's show on Deep Tracks from 7 p.m.-11 p.m. ET. Tom Petty's show airs earlier on Thursdays as part of the reshuffle, at 2 p.m. ET.) He celebrated the news by blasting the "stagnant, preprogrammed fodder that passes for radio today." Ladd, dubbed the "last DJ" by Tom Petty, was one of the few major-market rock radio hosts allowed to work without a playlist. He launches his nightly four-hour show in January, on SiriusXM Channel 27. "I will be playing everything I want, from Pink Floyd to Tom Petty and the … [Read more...]

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Furthur live on Sirius; town halts show

June 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
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Reason to be grateful: Sirius XM is doing a live broadcast of Furthur's tour stop in tiny Jim Thorpe, Pa. Reason to be bummed: The July 5 show at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont was abruptly canceled because of fears of damage to the facility. One angry fan called it "Grateful Dead paranoia at its best." The Tuesday, June 29, concert on satellite radio comes from Penn's Peak, a 1,600-seat club, making it the most intimate performance of Furthur's current tour. (The concert, of course, is rock solid sold out.) The live broadcast begins at 7 p.m. ET on the 3-year-old Dead Channel. Satellite radio fans will hear the Furthur concert on XM channel 57 and Sirius 32. The co-host of the Grateful Dead Channel's "Tales from the Golden Road" talk show, Gary Lambert, will take calls from … [Read more...]

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Porpoise Mouth Radio: wide open

December 29, 2008 by 7 Comments
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Before Psychedelic Site there was Porpoise Mouth the Internet radio station. The Last.fm-based project follows this site's philosophy that psychedelic music need not be from any particular era or genre. And so along with Jimi Hendrix, Love, Pink Floyd, Traffic and the usual suspects from the 1960s, you'll find sonic adventures from Ornette Coleman, Bernard Hermann, They Might Be Giants, Thelonious Monk, Nick Drake and Kate Bush. The online collection is a psychedelic crazy quilt. The criterion for inclusion remains that the artists' music provides some of the fuel for our sonic journey. Porpoise Mouth Radio seeks to challenge and elevate listeners in ways that over-the-air radio rarely does. (Continued below.) While some commercial songs exist in the … [Read more...]

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