The Ozcat Radio DJs

In searching for cool images of LPs, I stumbled upon this amazing site.

LPCoverLover.com - Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of record covers from the golden age of LPs

It’s so cool I almost didn’t want to pass it around.

Jeremy welcomed back David Ramadanoff, Musical Director of the Vallejo Symphony, and first-time visitor to Ozcat, Ben Simon, Musical Director of the San Francisco Chamber Musical Orchestra. The two came together to promote two classical concerts in Vallejo at the beginning of the New Year.

The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra will perform “Double Trouble “, their first of four concerts at Vallejo’s Empress Theatre on Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 8:00. This free program will feature high-school-age cello prodigies Lau and Luo performing Vivaldi’s dramatic Double Cello Concerto in G minor as well as

The Vallejo Symphony will be performing their first concert of the year, “Ludwig Has Left The Building” at Hogan Auditorium on January 9th at. The symphony will perform Mozart’s Serenade in D major, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and a very special performance of Michael Daugherty’s Dead Elvis.

Check out the video of these two brilliant conductors after the jump:

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This week’s AirCheck is all Europe again.

As another year draws to a close, artists all over Europe have released their latest, hopefully CD-sales-inspiring, singles. With all of our time devoted to getting ready to go live on the FM dial, and being out of our studio while it’s remodeled, the past couple weeks things have mounted up, so there’s a ton of new music. As usual this is my worksheet, so not everything will be covered… just artists I needed to remember. The nice part of it is that WordPress has pretty good search capabilities, so as I grab these snippets, more and more of the international artists will be searchable here.

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Ozcat Entertainment was founded in June 2006 by singer-songwriter David Martin and his wife Kathleen. They developed the idea for a non-profit entertainment company dedicated to local popular arts after learning firsthand just how difficult it is for local and indie artists to gain exposure in the industry.

In 2004, David’s single “Anyway” was the only independent hit on the R&R Top-40 indicator chart, quite a feat for a local artist. Even then, he was turned away by every Bay Area radio station he approached. “We don’t break new music,” was the general response from Program and Music Directors.

Hearing those words was disheartening. The couple had put so much time, effort and money into the project only to hear that today’s radio market had no interest in new artists, not even those with proven talent. The Martins decided to reverse the current model and create a company where artists would find encouragement, assistance and local radio airplay. Vallejo, California — a city with a rich entertainment heritage and plenty of local talent– was a perfect setting for such an endeavor.  The rest is history, or will be soon enough.

OK, I’ll be honest here… this is more for me than you.  Every week when I prep AirCheck, my Tuesday night world hits show, I go through so many charts and wikis that I often can’t remember where I found info about an artist, or to whom it related.  Creeping CRS.    So i’m going to try it this way, using the OzBlog and ScribeFire to pull together the info behind my AirCheck show. We’ll see how it works.

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