Hey there, until we get back on the air, we’re going to share our unique taste on Spotify, to the world! Join us for 10 or 11 tracks each week that are rarely heard or under-appreciated these days 🙂 If you don’t use Spotify, check out the SoundsGood playlist that plays nice with ALL streaming services!
Here’s our first playlist, we’d love your comments and reactions, both here and on our Facebook page at FB.com/RTDS.ca
Yep, The Vinyl Vault is back from hiatus! The show will be produced at the RTDS studios but now air twice weekly on two very fine FM stations, in Toronto and Vancouver. CKAV FM air in Toronto at 106.5 and in Vancouver at 106.3, Fridays at 8p local time, with a repeat at 10a Sunday.
The world needs more radio shows about vinyl, or at least we think so. It’s like a 1 hour vacation from reality!
On The Vinyl Vault, Todd Miller (Don River) plays songs from vinyl from the vinyl era, as well as newer tracks that bump up along them nicely. We play hits, B sides, one hit wonders, rarities and lost classics, interviews and perhaps some stuff we should *never* play again ?
Join us for an hour weekly of great music and interviews with music stars of yesterday and today.
If you’d like to make a request there are two ways to do that:
Digging deep into our vinyl library, and those of our friends, you can expect to hear songs heard very few other places, as well as enough familiar stuff to keep you tuned in ?
If you’d like to sponsor or advertise on The Vinyl Vault, drop us a line for our rate card…you can’t beat it!
Tags: #vinyl, #thevinylvault, #DonRiver, #ToddMiller, #CKAV, #rarities, #Bsides, #classics, #onehitwonders
For our recap of LAST YEAR’S event click HERE ==> http://bit.ly/1DgCOkr It’s back and bigger than ever!
May 2 – 8 2016, Canadian Music Week is happening again at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street W. Toronto.
Whether you are a music fan, a music label, a media conglomerate or an artist, this is the place to be to make solid connections and advance your career! Here are the details for all 3 festivals:
Comedy – http://cmw.net/comedy/
As well, the Conferences portion of the week is filled with amazing speakers, can’t miss information and plenty of opportunities to network with industry heavyweights!
Digital Media Summit
Radio
Music
And don’t miss the Mentor’s Cafe, where you can book time one-on-one with producers, songwriters, labels, media, etc. The Tradeshow is the place to find CD manufacturing/music placement, swag, books, gear, and more!
Stay up to date with the CMW app, available in the Apple Store and Google Play:
Tags: canadianmusicweek,#Conference, #justforlaughs, #rivalsons, #sheraton, #cmw, #comedy, #festival , #film, #music, #XPrime
Due to impending royalty rate hikes for the period 2016-2021, we have been forced to shut down. We are a minor non-interactive music discovery service/internet radio service, and are being forced to pay the same rates as some of the largest internet streaming services. They have millions of subscribers who pay $10 per month. This is not, at the moment, a valid business model for us. We feature quite a lot of new independent music, as well as lesser known tracks from more established artists. We do this because we want to be a valid destination for people with discriminating taste, and we want to give these artists a place to feature their music, as we all know terrestrial music rarely features new unsigned music.
We are NOT against artists being paid for their creative works, as many of us that work at RTDS are recording artists as well. We ARE for a fair and balanced system that pays creators but also reflects the realities of the many micro and small broadcasters that are presenting options that are NOT hit based radio.
We will be silent until we can find a way to find funding to pay these increased royalties, or until the system is re-evaluated.
If you want more information on the consequences of removing choice, Live365.com closed its doors this week, as they had thousands of stations that would be affected by these new royalties. Many of these stations are small broadcasters who feature many types of music NOT featured on traditional radio and will now go silent. Far few choices to listen to…very sad.
Copyright Royalty Board Raises Rates on Internet Broadcasters
We sincerely thank your for your patronage…and perhaps we’ll rise again…someday…
Todd Miller and the entire RTDS air staff
Blog – #Vinyl Revenue Higher Than Online StreamingIn my latest #blog post, I look at the #vinyl resurgence and why artists, even indie artists, really should think about adding vinyl to their product release strategy. And we talk hard numbers, not fanciful thinking…vinyl is growing faster than THREE streaming services COMBINED, so perhaps it’s time to get some vinyl pressed!
So, who honestly saw THIS coming? That in 2015 artists would see MORE revenue from vinyl sales than the combined income from THREE major streaming portals? Whaaaaat year is it again, and what does it mean for artists?
What it means is that you *should* diversify your media delivery to include vinyl records. Why? For more reasons than you might know.
What market other than vinyl can you say is growing so rapidly in the music industry? With purchases of Vinyl up 52 percent from this time last year, no other format is growing at such a rapid rate. So, it’s becoming harder and harder to ignore that vinyl, for the time being and foreseeable future, should factor into your product release strategy. From the article:
“In a pop-culture world dominated by streaming and pick-and-choose musical singles, it is interesting to see long form records making such a strong comeback, pointing to what some might consider to be a larger cultural shift.
The modern music consumer, when purchasing physical music, seems to prefer the larger images, exclusive content, and often free digital downloads that come with a vinyl buy. More and more bands are printing special singles, colored vinyl, and other cool content for analog fans.”
This week’s show appearing on www.RTDS.ca is the long awaited MORTALITY show in which Michael Tearson plays music from albums and sessions artists did knowing it would be their final work. The idea started with Warren Zevon, George Harrison and Jesse Winchester and grew to include Freddie Mercury, Mick Ronson, Steve Goodman, John Hartford, Eric Lowen of Lowen & Navarro, The Singing Brakeman Jimmie Rodgers in 1933, Townes Van Zandt, Dan Fogelberg, Pops Staples of the Staple Singers and a couple more. Instead of 60-70 minutes this one’s a double length show of 140 minutes. It really became a show MT is am most proud of.
Debuts on RTDS stream Tuesday 9a/3p/9p/3a ET then to on demand and always free Wednesday.
#mortality, #finalalbum, #queen, #warrenzevon,
Ok… SONGS ABOUT CARS in this week’s “Classic FM”!
–“I LOVE her… I NEED her… I SEE her!”
–“It’s the color of your skin… Your skin is black metallic…”
–“Sweet old racing car of mine… roarin’ down the broken line…”
EVERYONE will identify with one! Not the obvious choices either, but you expect that from Gene Godfrey. Wednesday in the live stream at 9a/3p/9p and 3a Thursday!
Did we miss your favourite? Let Gene know so he can add it to a future Part 2!
#ClassicFM #Prog #Rock #diverse #music
For our recap of LAST YEAR’S event click HERE ==> http://bit.ly/1DgCOkr It’s back and bigger than ever!
May 1 – 10 2015, Canadian Music Week is happening again at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street W. Toronto.
Whether you are a music fan, a music label, a media conglomerate or an artist, this is the place to be to make solid connections and advance your career! Here are the details for all 3 festivals:
Comedy – http://cmw.net/comedy/
As well, the Conferences portion of the week is filled with amazing speakers, can’t miss information and plenty of opportunities to network with industry heavyweights!
Digital Media Summit
Radio
Music
And don’t miss the Mentor’s Cafe, where you can book time one-on-one with producers, songwriters, labels, media, etc. The Tradeshow is the place to find CD manufacturing/music placement, swag, books, gear, and more!
Stay up to date with the CMW app, available in the Apple Store and Google Play:
#pressrelease, press release, #kowchmedia, #rtds, #listenup, #talkradio, #coaching, #talent, #stevekowch, #rtds.ca, #talk-radio.ca
Alan Parsons enters The Vinyl Vault this Thursday to talk #touring, #music and #life!
We last caught up with Alan just before his whirlwind visit to Toronto in May of 2012, as the Art and Science of Sound Masterclass Training Session took over Noble Street Studios to record the David Barrett Trio, plus vocalist Paul Reid in a marathon 12 hour session!
Alan and the Alan Parsons Live Project are hitting the road for some selected North American dates before heading off to Europe! The APP live project rolls into the Oakville Centre For The Performing Arts on March 13th and 14th. His tour starts Jan 28th and continues into March. Head over to www.AlanParsonsMusic.com for all the tour dates, as well as order yourself a copy of The Art and Science Of Sound – The Book. Recently written by Alan and Julian Colbeck, it takes the ASS DVD series to the next level, providing greater details and depth than can be provided on video. 
Alan also gave us a sneak peek at the soon to be released “Fragile” 7″ #vinyl record single! See the screen caps below.
“This is an exciting opportunity for kowchmedia to work with online radio talent and podcasters heard around the world on RTDS.ca and Talk-Radio.ca I look forward to working with the new generation of online radio and podcasting talent to help them chase their dream to have a successful career as broadcasters,” says kowchmedia President Steve Kowch…READ MORE