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And stay tuned in for some songs from a couple amazing BLUE bands who are extra blue now, as both Blue Cheer and Blue Ash both lost original members this month.  Rest In Peace, Dickie Peterson…

…and Bill Bartolin of Blue Ash…

AND, thanks to the good rockers over at Anthology Recordings, I’ve also got some great EXMAGMA music in ‘Anthology is Also Beyond’.  You gotta hear it all on Beyond Beyond is Beyond, Thursday at noon eastern at East Village Radio dot freakin’ com!

CHEERS!

Mike

*photo by Bettina Herzner

Remaining U.S. tour dates:

10/1 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY WFMU Festival
10/3 Pop Montréal Festival Montreal, QC daytime workshop followed by
evening performance
10/4 The Polish Combatants Hall Toronto. ON
10/5 Detroit Museum of
Contemporary Art Detroit, MI workshop
10/6 Detroit Museum of
Contemporary Art Detroit, MI performance
10/7 Empty Bottle Chicago, IL
10/8 Wexner Center for the Arts Columbus, OH
10/9 Buster’s Lexington, KY Boomslang – WRFL’s Festival
10/10 40 Watt Club Athens, GA presented by AUX
10/11 venue TBA Athens, GA workshop, presented by AUX

*photo by Ole Tommy Pedersen

I saw Irish rockabilly boogie-woogie belter, Imelda May, last week at Piano’s with Eric Silverman…and we were both floored! What a voice…and what a band!!! And we’re all lucky enough to have her on the Beyond Beyond is Beyond show on East Village Radio on Thursday at noon eastern. I’ll be talking to her right at the top of the show and she’ll give us an exclusive live performance, so be sure to tune in right on time! Right on?

photo by Mike Newman

AND…Great New Band Alert: I will be giving away a few copies of the excellent new Zoos of Berlin album to lucky emailers and Tweeters. I’ve been listening to it and it’s really good! Get a jumpstart by emailing now at beyondbeyondisbeyond (at) gmail (dot) com or Tweeting at BBiB!

Talk to ya Thursday at noon on East Village Radio!

Zoos of Berlin NYC shows this weekend:

Tune in to Beyond Beyond is Beyond today at noon eastern to hear lots of great jams and tunes, and I’ll be talking to Alberta Cross…a band that Rolling Stone just deemed ‘stoner-rock revivalists.’  After a summer of touring and festing at Bonnaroo and Coachella and a very critically-acclaimed and well-received first EP, they are ready to drop their first full-length, Broken Side of Time, on Tuesday, September 22nd.  They’ll also be playing for us live for us in the studio.  Some come along to the land of beyond on East Village Radio where nice things happen to your ears.

This week I will be welcoming the super-talented Bryan Scary of Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears fame!  I’ve been championing these guys since last year when I chose their Flight of the Knife album as one of the best new releases of 2008.

“[Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears] revives everything you love about psychedelic pop…”  – New York Post

Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears will release their Mad Valentines EP on Elijah Wood’s Simian Records and Brooklyn-based Old Flame Records on October 27th, just in time for Halloween.

Plus plenty more hot rocks and phazed cookies on this week’s Beyond Beyond is Beyond on East Village Radio, live Thursday…noon to 2:00pm Eastern~!

Cheers!

P.S. – BBiB is on Twitter, are you?

Here’s the playllist. Dig…

“Curious Electric” – Jon & Vangelis
“The Four Horsemen” – Aphrodite’s Child
“Waterhouse Rock (Groove Corporation Mix)” – Big Youth
“Hot Smoke & Sassafrass” – Bubble Puppy
“Ragga Muffin Style Dub” – King Tubby
“Madman” – Klaatu
“Cocaine in my Brain” – Dillinger
“NYCNY” – Daryl Hall
“Tam Tam” – Gregory Isaacs
“Sombre Reptiles” – 801
“Draw Your Brakes” – Scotty
“Hole In My Shoe” – Traffic
“Atmospheric Dub” – Mad Professor
“Journey to the Center of the Mind” – Amboy Dukes
“Blood on His Lips” – Scientist
“Long Piece No.3 (Part 4)” – Egg
“Dub Dat” – the Upsetters
“China Cat Sunflower” – Grateful Dead
“Law” – Andy Capp

Thanks for allowing us to spike your bar mitzvah punch…

I’ve got a hefty show coming up this week on Beyond Beyond is Beyond.  I will be welcoming the amazing Corn Mo to the show who is releasing an album called Diorama of the Golden Lion with his band .357 Lover later this month.  It is dramatically and epically rockin’, you better believe!

Says Ben Folds about the band: “.357 Lover are too good.  I doubt many people will like this because music audiences in general aren’t smart enough for this kind of quality. Only years from now will people understand what they’re missing. Ridicule them all you like. Ignore them, but history will not ignore .357 Lover. You are f*cking up if you don’t get it…”

And if that weren’t enough, in the first hour of the show, I will be playing newly-remastered Beatles songs since I got my hands on them a week early.  So tune in and check out the sonic superiority!  I’ll also play some other stuff that I’m not sure about yet, so come be surprised with me…or even request stuff at beyondbeyondisbeyond (at) gmail.com or Tweet requests to BBiB!

See you at noon Thursday live at noon on East Village Radio.

Cheers!

Mike

Psych Pspaghetti-Western rockers, Spindrift, will be joining me on Thursday’s Beyond Beyond is Beyond show!  Their new Legend of God’s Gun soundtrack album is fukkin’ fantastic and they’ll be playing at Union Pool Wednesday, the 26th and at the Cake Shop Thursday, the 27th.  They’ll be with me live in the second hour of Thursday’s show, noon to 2pm ET…

…and in the first hour, I will have my sometime DJ partner-in-crime, Chippy B, in the studio to do a nice live mix of psych rock sounds and ‘verbed out dub.  Feel free to spark a doob…it’s after noon!

Dig it…all at noon Thursday, live on East Village Radio!

Animal Collective – ‘Bits of Sound Check 8/15/09′:

I’m back from my intergalactic travels to a planet called Maine…and oh, what a time it was!  Filled with blueberries, shellfish and unbridled love.   I’m feeling extra-inspired to spin some exciting jams for you this week including stuff from a band I just discovered called Strangefeather, plus White Denim, Food Brain, Bryan Scary, Jan Akkerman, Sleepy Sun, and lots more.

And don’t for get my Woodstock Vision book giveaway contest to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock.  All you have to do is subscribe to Beyond Beyond is Beyond for a chance to win it!

Not to mention I’ll have a very special guest…in the form of a band…

I will be welcoming heavy blues riff-rockers, Night Horse, to the second half of the show to talk about touring, rocking, and how played-out daytime horses are.  The guys are playing some select shows on the East Coast to celebrate the 8/11/09 release of our 2nd of 3 new split singles on Tee Pee Records, including a couple right here in beautiful New Fukkin’ York!

Aug. 13 – New York City, NY
@ East Village Radio (In Studio Acoustic Performance)

Aug. 13 – New York City, NY
@ Pianos w/ TK Webb & The Visions, Barracks

* Official AFTER PARTY hosted by New York Night Train
@ Beauty Bar- Brooklyn w/DJ sets of deep soul by Mr. Jonathon Taubin, Sam James Velde (Night Horse) & Justin Maranga (Night Horse)

Aug. 14 – Providence, RI
@ Firehouse 13 w/ Doomriders, Howl

Aug. 15 – Baltimore, MD
@ Hexagon w/ Caverns, Solar Powered Sun Destroyer

Aug. 16 – Brooklyn, NY
@ Union Pool w/ Tournament, Orphan, Chronic Youth DJs

http://www.myspace.com/nighthorsemusic

TOON IN to BBiB, Thursday noon to 2:00!

Cheers,

Mike

Margaret will also be talking to Pete Bernhard, frontman for the ‘neo-Americana’ band, The Devil Makes Three.  And Pete will also perform some of his solo stuff live in the studio which will make you wanna slap your knee and drink new moonshine from a dissed still life.  His solo album is out on Milan Records on September 15th and he has two NYC shows this week…

Thursday, August 6th at the Living Room

Saturday, August 8th at Southpaw (opening for the amazing Seasick Steve)

So be sure to tune in as usual on Thursday, noon to 2, live on eastvillageradio.com for Beyond Beyond is Beyond, with your special guest host, Margaret the Prog Lady.  She claims it will be lots of fun.  Until next week…I’ll miss you!

BFF…Mike

The show is called Beyond Beyond is Beyond and yes, I just learned the word ‘Beyond’ and am over-using it like a 3-year old.  It’s listenable at all times on eastvillageradio.com but I record live weekly on Thursdays between noon and 2:00 ET.  After that, you can listen to the most recent show in the archive.

When writing about an event that I’ll be DJ’ing at this weekend, a writer on the EVR page recently (today) said this about the show…and pretty much nailed it…

Let’s face it: most of your hipster types were too cool (or, secretly, too geeky) to go to their proms. But that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on that primal rite of passage, and just think: now you don’t have to wash your older brother’s van to get him to buy beer for you. EVR’s own Mike Newman, host of the hot new heavy-psych show Beyond Beyond Is Beyond will be manning the decks at The Shalimar Theatre Company’s fifth annual prom-themed benefit party Prom-iscuous, a note-perfect recreation of your typical high school prom right down to the crepe paper streamers and disco ball, except with the welcome addition of an open beer bar provided by Brooklyn Brewery. The party starts at PS 122 (150 1st Avenue [at East 9th], New York, NY) at 9 p.m.; tickets are $30 at the door, $20 through the website.

And if you haven’t yet checked out Beyond Beyond Is Beyond (every Thursday from noon to 2 p.m. ET), make this the week. Mike mixes hard rock, heavy psych, a hint of prog and some thematically appropriate softer sounds featuring vintage rockers like Roky Erickson, Man, Moby Grape and the almighty Edgar Broughton Band (best known for their mindbending 1970 single “Apache Dropout,” mashing up the Shadows’ dead-cool twang instrumental “Apache” and Captain Beefheart’s scarifying “Dropout Boogie”) alongside the best of the new acts mining those inspirations, like Wooden Shjips, Dungen and Akron/Family. Trendy folk have only recently realized it’s cool to like this stuff, but Mike’s been there all along.

I like that description!  And if you’re in New York and can come out to the shindig on Saturday, I can guaratee a good time.  Here’s the Time Out New York listing for Prom-iscuous.  If you can make it, then do!  If not, check out my radio show some time and maybe get in touch with me for show ideas or requests.  I’d always love to hear from ya!

Cheers!

Mike

I just got word yesterday that my radio show, Beyond Beyond is Beyond, is going to become a fixture on East Village Radio.  The show received lots of great feedback after a couple test run slots and it will now be airing weekly, every Thursday from noon to 2:00 (starting March 5th).  Tune in live!

Wanna hear the first two test-run shows?  Well, here they are…

Beyond Beyond is Beyond #1 (podcasted mp3 file via Sendspace)

Beyond Beyond is Beyond #2 (link to a stream of the show)

Those should tide you over till March 5th, when I go back live!  You can email me requests, rants, raves, mp3 messages…to beyondbeyondisbeyond (at) gmail (dot) com.

Thanks for lissnin’!

In case you missed the first edition of my new radio show, Beyond Beyond is Beyond, you can download an mp3 of the stream here.  The sound quality isn’t perfect as it was a rendering of a stream and there were a couple mic anomalies, but still definitely listenable.

And, the second edition will be airing live on East Village Radio’s “On the Fly” spot on Thursday, February 12th from 2pm to 4pm.  After that, a stream will be available there for a week too.  The second BBiB show, aka Lovepsych, will have all kinds of lovey Valentine’s-related stuff and emails and requests from you, your loved one, or perhaps someone you know.

And then after that, I’m hoping that my show will become a permanent fixture on East Village Radio and you’ll be able to hear me there whenever you want!  Fingers crossed.

You can also email requests, rants, stories, mp3′s of your own recorded voice for use on future shows to beyondbeyondisbeyond(at)gmail(dot)com.

Thanks for listening…and participating!

Mike

* lynx sys by Macho Mel

Oh yeah…and check out my first photography assignment for the Flavorwire