Well, the old design has served us well, but it’s time for an upgrade! You’ll notice we’ve had to add a temporary audio player, as the one we purchased years ago is going away. Our new WordPress theme has some exciting features that we *may* take advantage of:
And much more!
We’re working hard on it, and no definite release date, but as soon as it’s live, we’ll let YOU know 🙂
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
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Bill Wood, chief creative officer of Bill Wood & The Woodies and former lead singer/songwriter of Canadian Pop music sensation Eye Eye, decends into The Vinyl Vault with Todd Miller to chat about his brand new CD “Oh Look…” and his whirlwind time in Eye Eye.
From pop music sensation, to exiting the music industry, becoming a family man, overcoming addiction, and finally re-entering the music industry on his own terms, Bill has done it all and lived to tell the story! Plus, we spin some tracks from the new disc and a choice cut from Eye Eye.
Bill also starred in a couple of videos which we chatted about as well, click the links below to take a trip back 🙂
Seagram’s Wildberry Vodka Cooler Ad
The Woodies have a monthly gig at Graffitis in Toronto, and are also appearing at Relish on The Danforth on November 22nd, 2014!
If the November 2014 issue of Post City Magazine arrived on your doorstep in the North York area of Toronto, you’ll find RTDS founder and Chief Creative Officer Todd Miller profiled inside! And if you live outside the delivery area, feel free to read the article below or clicking on it for a larger version, and we’ll also publish a link to the article online when it’s available.
Todd was profiled as part of the Post’s ‘Graduates’ section, and talks about where his interest in radio began, how it’s changed over the years, and where it’s headed in the future.
Find out more about Post City Magazine HERE
A special Tuesday presentation of The Vinyl Vault! Drummer extraordinaire, composer, percussionist, vocalist, inventor, sideman, hired gun, painter/sketcher, interviewer…the list goes on and on for Terry Bozzio! He was the man behind the kit and Frank Zappa’s foil onstage for 3 years, moved on to form the highly successful Missing Persons, joined the prog band UK for a few albums and tours, recorded with Tony Levin, Jeff Beck, Mike Portnoy, Alan Holdsworth…let’s just say he’s played with a few people and bands! And he’s on tour…
Coming to The Cosmopolitan Music Hall in Richmond Hill, Ontario on September 19th & 20th, he’ll be performing solo on a tuned drum kit like the pic above, triggering bass notes and textures in a captivating performance! For other tour dates, visit www.TerryBozzio.com/tour-dates and check out the itinerary. Terry also sells his own line of signature drum sticks and drum heads that he invented! And just for fun, check out the biography section, and see if you can read the whole thing in one sitting!! The guy is busy!
We talk about the current tour; his inspirations on the drum kit; his inspirations in life; the profound impact working with Frank Zappa had on him; talked about politics, art, design…he’s opinionated!
For more info on is work with Frank, go to www.FrankZappa.com
To hound him on Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/@terrybozzio
Heeeeeeeeeee’s baaaaaaaaack! The highest rated jazz host is now on RTDS! Larry Green, formerly of JAZZ-FM in Toronto now hosts “Out Of The Blue” heard Mondays from 1-3 pm on RTDS, starting September 8th, and will be re-rolled Tuesday – Friday in the same time slot. The sprit of jazz. A touch of everything and then some…” Once broadcast from the top of the CN Tower, Larry will now be heard from the top of Willowdale 🙂
It seems that doing a Jazz radio show was meant to be part of Larry Green’s life. Growing up in Toronto’s multi-cultural Kensington Market area, music was part of the culture and community.
After many years of studying music, including Toronto’s Oakwood Collegiate, Larry began working delivering mail at CBC Toronto. Del Mott, a CBC host of many national radio shows, had befriended Larry at the corporation as well as hearing him play at various venues. He helped this fledgling radio voice get hired at CHVC- Niagara Falls, Ontario, his first radio job. This rude radio awakening was followed by on-air performances in Guelph Ontario; Vancouver and Penticton, British Columbia; and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Toronto and several other Canadian stations.
Larry eventually ended up doing the afternoon drive show on the then experimental CHUM-FM in Toronto. During his stay at CHUM, he was also appointed creative director of the entire group of CHUM stations at that time, and was the first Canadian recipient of the coveted Armstrong Award, “for excellence in FM broadcasting”, given out by Columbia University.
Larry hosted the first music show on Toronto’s CITY-TV, and co-hosted a national children’s show on CBC-TV (After Four), with Jan Tennant.
Eventually, Larry moved into the music business as the marketing director for GRT Records, and then the National Promotion Manager for WEA Music ( Warner Bros. Elektra and Atlantic Records ).
He was approached by CFNY-FM Toronto, and asked to do their weekly jazz show. That show produced great ratings for the station, and soon after, Larry syndicated his Out of The Blue show nationwide with the same results.
Always expanding his horizons, Larry moved into program management for Telemedia Broadcasting. He assumed the responsibilities of Program Director/Operations Manager, and was a front-line contributor at their CRTC FM hearing.
Larry continued his association with CBC radio, firstly as the jazz host of Catherine O’Hara’s Later The Same Day, and later on, producing and hosting a 13-week national series using the Blindfold Test theme. All of his work was celebrated and well-accepted by audience and management alike. Some of the shows included musicians like Ahmad Jamal, Ernestine Anderson, Chuck Mangione, Joey DeFrancesco, Oliver Jones, Phil Nimmons, Rob McConnell and others.
An international opportunity also arose, and Larry created, produced and voiced a successful jazz show on the web at theiceberg.com.
Although Larry has consistently acted as a mentor, and consultant, he augmented that part of his career by creating a program for the Learning Annex called Putting Your Voice To Work. This very successful program ran for two years, and was designed to teach techniques for developing voice talent for commercials, animation and announcing.
He also was an instructor for Humber College’s Broadcasting Program.
Larry joined JAZZ FM91 April 1st, 2002, and could be heard Monday – Friday, 2 – 6pm. Larry was consistently at the top of the stations ratings, continued to interview dozens of international and Canadian celebrities and was the Winner of The National Jazz Broadcaster of the year, .( 2006 ), and was nominated for this same award in 2007.
As part of his duties at JAZZ FM 91, Larry took a program idea, named it JAZZOLOGY, and developed a format for this extremely successful, accredited program that incorporates jazz students from four Toronto area Colleges and Universities. Larry hosted, produced and directed this show. As a result of the success of Jazzology, Larry was nominated for an honourary degree at the University of Toronto.
To get in touch with Larry or find out what he played, email him: larrygreen AT rogers.com
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THE SPRIT OF JAZZ. A TOUCH OF EVERYTHING AND THEN SOME…
You probably know that RTDS is heard in the United States via our Live365.com channel, as they include our US performance and publishing royalties as part of our monthly streaming package. But the sound quality is not as good as we could do ourselves and you have to login to Live365 to listen or use the Flash player on our site, which means that Apple devices can’t tune in. NO more…
We’ve negotiated our own licensing in the US, so as of Tuesday August 12th you can listen natively in the US via the Listen Live link that currently says “Listen Live – Canada/World”, AND in higher quality, AND because it’s HTML 5, it works natively on ALL devices via a browser!!
This also means that we will be BACK on iTunes radio, and you can easily hear us via Apple TV, Roku, etc. or hook us up to your home theatre system…if you have a better system than your computer.
However with gain comes a little pain – our stream address WILL CHANGE. If you use the built in player via our website, nothing needs to be done on your end. If you have entered or bookmarked the Listen Live link directly, or entered it into a WiFi radio, you’ll need to update the link on Tuesday to: http://streamingthatdoesntsuck.com:8000
If you have ANY trouble listening, drop a line anytime to feedback AT radiothatdoesntsuck DOT com or call us at 1-866-269-6155. Thank you for your patience and support we’d be “nowhere man” without you 🙂
Midge Ure, co-writer with Sir Bob Geldof of one of the most popular songs ever, Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas”, Ultravox frontman, one time band member of Thin Lizzy, and prolific solo artist drops by The Vinyl Vault to discuss his brand new release “Fragile” coming out August 19th on Hypertension Records, distributed by
e One music in North America. MIdge joins us at 9a ET, with repeats at 3p/9p Thursday, and 3a Friday. If you miss it, it will be On Demand at the link below…
Midge is also on one of this summer’s hottest tours, “RetroFutura” along with Howard Jones, Tom Bailey from The Thompson Twins, China Crisis, Katrina ex- of Katrina & The Waves and Right The Stars. RTS were Midge’s backing band during his last solo North American tour, and they are not to be missed! Get ticket info at www.RetroFutura.com and catch the tour right here in Toronto at Kool Haus on August 26th, it’s going to be a busy night!
Visit his website at http://www.midgeure.co.uk/
Find him on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=275159919205373&fref=ts
Tweet him here: http://www.Twitter.com/@midgeure1
His biography, “If I Was” is available right HERE on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1rChQFF 
If you miss it, the show will be On Demand below on Friday:
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“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