3/27/11: Lucky Ghost (aka Seth Berkowitz) Guests

Lucky Ghost (aka Seth Berkowitz) will be a guest on the show this weekend Sunday, March 27, 2011 (2-4 pm ET), talking about his new LP "Sex Griddle" and spinning some of his favorite soundtrack music.

  

Seth Berkowitz, the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist behind Lucky Ghost honed his approach as singer and frontman for the bombastic NYC rock outfit Conquistador, followed by the do-it-yourself experimentation of his first solo project, Aaron Hill & The Crimson Guard (where he served as both Mr. Hill as well as the Guard). What emerged was a distinctive voice - synthesizing prog, the sparkling sadness of 80's pop, chugging guitar rock and the slippery craft and lyrical aplomb of British singer-songwriters.

Always in evidence is the quality of songwriting and wide array of influences, realized live on stage with the help of guitarists Jed Livingston (The Couriers) & Mike Quoma (Balthrop, Alabama), drummer Chris Miller (Conquistador) and keyboardist Dave Stone (The Insteps).

"Seth Berkowitz gently prods commonly used genres and musical styles - There`s a brilliantly comical stance with grey and sentimental overtones... Sex Griddle is a Pop-fest, the layered synth hooks and bright bass lines are more than a quick fix to the quintessential three minute Pop song - Defined and danceable, the story unfolds." -Mojophenia

"Basically what we’re getting here is excellent power pop from a genuinely great songwriter. It becomes clear quite soon that he is one of the few contemporary artists that have the rare gift to write songs that are impossible to forget. Lucky Ghost have a pop sensibility not unlike that of the Cars back in the late Seventies and early Eighties, but tweak it just so that it makes sense for the new millennium." -Disagreement.net

http://luckyghost.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sethberkowitz
http://www.facebook.com/luckyghostnyc

March 20, 2011: Just the Hits

Sundays 2 - 4 PM ET

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 Morricone Youth

Soundtrack music from the first talking picture onwards. If it was written to accompany images on a screen, we'll play it. Popcorn optional. 

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Artist              Track               Album              Label

John Barry

Human Jungle (Alt. Version)

Human Jungle

Columbia

Mar 20

Ennio Morricone	Titoli	Slalom	Dagored	Mar 20
Carlo Montez	Go Go Mobil	Nymphomania Vol. 1	Sexy Hexy	Mar 20

Fabio Frizzi/Franco Bixio/Vince Tempera	M34	Sella D'argento	Digitmovies	Mar 20
Ray Martin	I Spy	Thunderball and Other Thriller Music	RCA	Mar 20

Luis Bacalov	La Bambolona	La Bambolona	Verita Note	Mar 20
Nino Rota	The Awards	Toby Dammit Dammit	El Records	Mar 20

Earle Hagen	Main Title	The New Interns	Colpix	Mar 20
Ennio Morricone	Gli Intoccabili	Gli Intoccabili	EM	Mar 20

Alfred Waitzmann	Fuga dall' Isola	La Ragazza dalla Pelle di Corallo	Easy Tempo	Mar 20
Vladimir Cosma	Chewing-Gum Attack	Les Aventures De Rabbi Jacob	London	Mar 20

Johnny Pearson	Mini Motoring	KPM 1076 - Speed & Excitement	KPM	Mar 20
Guido and Maurizio De Angelis	Sequence 5	Milano Trema: La Polizia Vuole Giustizia	Digitmovies	Mar 20

Brigitte Bardot/Francois De Roubaix	Ecoute Le Temps	Saint-Tropez	Vole	Mar 20
The Flamingos	I Only Have Eyes For You	Flamingo Serenade	End	Mar 20

Rita Pavone/Ennio Morricone	Il Milo Domani	Chet Is Back	RCA/Victor	Mar 20
Paul Anka	Il Tuo Compleanno	A Casa Nostra	RCA	Mar 20

Tokyo Nagaremono	Drifter Love Theme-Theme Reprise	Tokyo Drifter	DVD	Mar 20
The San Diego Music Awards	No Way In Hell	The SDMAs	Unreleased Demo	Mar 20

John Cameron	The Competitors	KPM 1131 - The Trendsetters	KPM	Mar 20
Sammy Hagar	Winner Takes It All	Over The Top	Columbia	Mar 20

Danna - DeVotchKa	The Winner Is	Little Miss Sunshine	Lakeshore	Mar 20
Carter Burwell	Nightmare in the Trophy Room	Millers Crossing	20th Century Fox	Mar 20

Charles Gerhardt/Alfred Newman	Airport (Main Title)	Captain From Castile: Class Film Scores of Alfred Newman	RCA	Mar 20
Guido E Maurizio De Angelis	Blue Song	Milano Trema: La Polizia Vuole Giustizia	Digitmovies	Mar 20

Paul Williams	The Hell of It	Phantom of the Paradise	A&M	Mar 20
Bruce Hornsby And The Noisemakers	Invisible	World's Greatest Dad	Verve	Mar 20

James Murphy	People	Greenberg	DFA	Mar 20
Francois De Roubaix	La Frite Equatoriale	Chut	Mantra	Mar 20

Akira Ifukube	Prayer for Peace	Godzilla, King of Monsters	Futureland	Mar 20
Stelvio Cipriani	Un Uomo Programmato	Sono Stato Un Agente Cia	Beat	Mar 20

Piero Umiliani	Tarantellaccia	Tra Scienza e Fantascienza	Omicron	Mar 20
Max Avery Lichtenstsein	Pumpkin	Tarnation	DVD	Mar 20

Ennio Morricone

I Deboli Pagano

La Violenza: Quinto Potere

Cometa

Mar 2

Second Skin Documentary now out on DVD

Second Skin is a 2008 American documentary film that follows the lives of seven people as they delve in to the world of MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games). The film was directed by Juan Carlos Piñeiro Escoriaza and produced by Victor Piñeiro Escoriaza and Peter Brauer.

Second Skin premiered to positive reviews and sold-out crowds at the South by Southwest film festival in 2008. It become the No. 1 movie on online streaming site Hulu.com, before completing a limited theatrical run. The film was released on DVD August 25th, 2009.

Second Skin examines people whose lives have been transformed by virtual worlds in online games such as World of Warcraft, Everquest, Everquest II and Second Life. The documentary follows a group of online gamers whose lives are intensely woven together inside and outside the virtual worlds, a couple whose lives have changed since meeting online, and an avid player whose life spins out of control due to his addiction to playing MMOs. It also presents disabled players who have been given voice and mobility in the virtual world and explores the controversial world of Chinese gold farming and presents astonishing facts about online gaming.

The film follows three distinct stories involving seven people:

* Heather Cowan, an EverQuest II player that lives in Florida;
* Kevin Keel, an EverQuest II player from Texas that develops an in-game relationship with Heather that moves from an online status to a physical relationship;
* Matt Ellsworth and Chris Mitchell, housemates in Fort Wayne, Indiana who play World of Warcraft and other MMOs for over 40 hours a week;
* Anthony Cronin, a housemate with Matt and Chris whose life changes by getting married;
* Andy Belford, a World of Warcraft player (who moved to Ft. Wayne from California to be closer to Anthony, Matt, and Chris) and his wife Karalee, and the changes in their lives after Karalee becomes pregnant;
* Dan Bustard, a World of Warcraft player whose addiction to the game cost him his relationship, his business, his health and his home. He connects with OLGA (Online Gamers Anonymous) during his attempt to kick the addiction to gaming.

Other players, doctors, and the founder of OLGA appear.


with music by Morricone Youth
http://www.secondskinfilm.com/store

TechConnect: Putting the Unity in Community

 

 

 

Apr 10, 2006

Corwin Pavilion, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA

A student film written and produced at UC Santa Barbara for the Center for Information Technology and Society's 2006 Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions: Social Collaboration and Dynamic Communities.

The film was written by Rob Patton and Nicole Starosielski.
Directed/Edited by Nicole Starosielski.
Produced by Rob Patton.
Production Committee: Kelsey Finkelstein, David Pierucci and Richard Sloven.
Music by Morricone Youth.

Tags: community, film studies, mockumentary, Morricone Youth, Santa Barbara Forum, Student Film

http://cits.ucsb.edu/event/techconnect-putting-unity-community

5/4/02: Morricone Youth on WBAI Peter Bochan's "All Mixed Up" Radio Show

Morricone Youth	Rosemary's Baby-Main Title(Lullaby)	CD-R
morricone youth	clan of the sicilians Tango Whiskey Man Magnum Force Ballad of Hank McCain Theme from Medical Center	live@BAI

 all mixedup

May 2002 Playlists

 http://www.mixedup.com/02-May.htm

2/27/11: Listen to Morricone Youth's Oscars 2010 Soundtrack Special

Tune into your source for all things soundtrack, Morricone Youth, this Sunday, February 27, from 2-4pm ET, for Morricone Youth's review of scores released in 2010 in honor of the 83rd Academy Awards honoring the year's best films scheduled to take place later that day at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California at 8pm ET.

Host Devon E. Levins will play a brief rundown of the nominated original scores (the original songs are, as usual, unplayable) before focusing on his obvious pick for the Oscar...as well as some of the overlooked scores from last year.

playlist:

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/shows/playlists.aspx?contentid=1284&showid=56996&list=22833

  

Brian Carpenter of Beat Circus on Morricone Youth

Tune into your source for all things soundtrack, Morricone Youth, this Saturday from 10 p.m. to midnight ET, when host Devon E. Levins will spend time chatting with singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Brian Carpenter of Boston's Beat Circus and NYC's Ghost Train Orchestra discussing and playing some of Brian's favorite film music as well music from Dreamland, the first of Brian's "Weird American Gothic" trilogy, and Beat Circus's upcoming Boy From Black Mountain which drops on September 29th on Cuneiform Records. Devon is crossing his fingers that Brian arrives with a copy of Beat Circus's version of Sicilian Clan.

Beat Circus will be one of the first bands to unveil the Knitting Factory Brooklyn on Saturday, September 12th.

The archive is available here: 

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/news/items.aspx?id=6232

http://www.beatcircus.net/
http://www.myspace.com/beatcircus
http://www.myspace.com/vaudevilleorchestra

Listen to B-Movie Music Makers, The Vermin, on Morricone Youth

A Las Vegas punk rock fixture, The Vermin, are in town for another yearly round of Frank Wood shows and will be stopping by to hang out, play and discuss some of their favorite punk rock, Las Vegas and B movie soundtracks on this weekend's Morricone Youth (Sundays 2pm ET). 

The band, whose punk rock roots date back to the 80's Las Vegas hardcore scene, has provided music and appeared in B movie cult favorites as Ted V. Mikels' Mark of the Astro-Zombies (sequel to Mikels' 1969 Astro-Zombies) and Mack Hail's Switch Killer, the former of which stars legendary actress Tura Satana.  Rob Ruckus, the band's bassist and Double Down Saloon LV graveyard bartender, moonlights in rockabilly hall of fame musician, film producer, composer, actor and wrestling manager Johnny Legend's rockabilly band. With song titles such as Creature Feature Love Attack, Vampira Blues and Livin' in Sin with a Siamese Twin, you get an idea of where they are coming from.

The Vermin will playing Hank's Saloon, Friday, March 2nd with Psychocharger, TV Tramps (Ween members) and Morricone Youth (the band), Otto's Tiki Room on Sunday, March 6th after the show with Flack Blamingo (featuring Billy Ficca of Television) and, of course, hanging out at the Double Down Saloon NYC on Saturday night for its Anniversary Party, home of the Bacon Martini, Ass Juice and the one rule, "You Puke...You Clean!"

Archived (3/6/11):
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/shows/nowplaying.aspx?contentid=1284&showid=56996

Playlist:
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/shows/playlists.aspx?contentid=1284&showid=56996&list=22551

 

MORRICONE YOUTH remembers JOHN BARRY

John Barry, composer of nearly 100 films and 25 television shows including the scores to 11 (arguably 12) of the James Bond films, died last Sunday at the age of 77 at his home in Oyster Bay, New York.  Barry's career span for over 50 years beginning with his own band in 1957, the John Barry Seven, and resulting in Oscars for The Lion in Winter, Born Free, Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves.  Barry will also be remembered for his unforgettable scores to Midnight Cowboy, Game of Death, The I.P.C.R.E.S.S. File and Body Heat.  More recently, Barry's work has been introduced to a new generation sampled by everyone from Wu-Tang Clan, Dr. Dre and GangStarr to Fatboy Slim, The Sneaker Pimps and Robbie Williams.

(Originally posted on EVR blog 2/6/11 4:28 AM ET)

Archived (2/6/11):
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/shows/nowplaying.aspx?contentid=1284&showid=56996

Playlist:
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/shows/playlists.aspx?contentid=1284&showid=56996&list=22921

January 30, 2011: Don't Knock The Twist

The Twist was the first international dance craze in the early 60's inspired by rock and roll, particularly Hank Ballard's 1959 B-Side "The Twist" (to “Teardrops on Your Letter”) and most famously covered by Chubby Checker in 1962 to become a No. 1 hit.  It was in 1961, at the height of the craze, when patrons of Manhattan's Peppermint Lounge on West 45th Street were twisting the night away to the house band, a local Jersey outfit called Joey Dee and the Starliters, and their song "The Peppermint Twist" inspiring the first of many "Twist" movies with "Hey, Let's Twist."  The film and soundtrack solidified making the Peppermint Lounge a world-famous venue.  The craze continued with Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away" and The Isley Brothers' "Twist and Shout," also later to be made even more widely-known as a No. 2 hit for the Beatles.  

Drawing fire from critics who felt it was much too provocative for the day's youth, the dance inspired such dances as the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, the Jerk, The Pony and the Funky Chicken before being steamrolled by the British Invasion; however, not before film and television got its hands on it.  Some may have been more recently introduced to the dance in 1994's Pulp Fiction when Uma Thurman and John Travolta twisted to Chuck Berry as part of the Jack Rabbit Slim's Twist Contest (reviving Travolta's career) or in 2007 in an early episode of Season One Mad Men when Peggy Olsen and her Sterling Cooper co-workers celebrated her promotion to copywriter by twisting to Chubby Checker. 

 

This week on Morricone Youth (Sunday 2-4 pm ET), your host of all things soundtrack Devon E. Levins will be digging a little deeper into the craze exploring how it was portrayed internationally in film and television.  That's right!  It's 50 years later and no doubt that 2011 is the Year That The Twist Broke.  Don't Knock It!

(Originally posted on EVR blog 1/28/11 5:05 PM ET)

Archived (1/30/11):
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/shows/nowplaying.aspx?contentid=1284&showid=56996

Playlist:

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/shows/playlists.aspx?contentid=1284&showid=56996&list=23195