Editor's Note: Apologies for the mix-up on the date for this show. It's Friday, for real.Renowned as a member of the legendary art/punk band Television, guitarist Richard Lloyd has spent the decades since that band's demise as an able sideman for folks like John Doe and Matthew Sweet. Television has reunited a couple of times, but it would appear that Lloyd and the other guitar-slinger in the band, Tom Verlaine, aren't exactly the best of buds.Occasionally though, Lloyd will release a competent
Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he's not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I'm feeling rather liberated, excited, and have so much else going on, I haven't even had time to think about my radio past.I really don't feel I was ever a "radio DJ", anyway. Just a music fan who was standing in t
Local combo Fate Lions has been around since 2007 in various incarnations, evolving from a rather pedestrian alt-country outfit to far more pleasing new wave/pop unit.
Led by songwriter and front man Jason Manriquez, the band has solidified enough to record a full-length debut, Good Enough For You, which hits the streets this week. Martinez was kind enough to send over the album's first single, "Astronaut," for DC9 readers' listening pleasure.
Very retro '80s jingle jangle pop, if you ask me. M
