Sound + Vision Radio

03/07/2024

One more programming note about this week's edition of Sound + Vision - The Cyclical Dreams label has continued to release one great recording after another, and we are featuring selections from two of those great recent albums: "Last Call" by Pabellon Sintetico & Lucas Tripaldi and Liam Boyle's "Interdimensional Mind Traveller"!

Additionally, we are featuring a piece from one of our favorite recordings by Robert Rich, 2015's "Filaments"!

Listen tonight a 9pm ET to WPPM 106.5 FM, from anywhere at https://wppm.phillycam.org/ and on Sunday at 1pm Mexico time / 8pm UK time to Artefaktor Radio Online, worldwide at https://artefaktorradio.online/

02/07/2024

This week's edition of Sound + Vision features a selection from the highly anticipated 4th album by SET, "The Rotting Wood (and The Eternal Darkness)" more from VAZUM's hot new release, "Western Violence", another spin for the Stabbing Westward Mix of CHIASM's 'Chasing Butterflies', and speaking of Stabbling Westward, we will feature one of their big rock hits from the late 1990's!

All of that and much more, Wednesday on WPPM 106.5 FM, listen from anywhere at https://wppm.phillycam.org/ and on Sunday at 1pm Mexico time / 8pm UK time on Artefaktor Radio Online, worldwide via https://artefaktorradio.online/

02/07/2024

This past month's edition of Book of Prog is now available to stream via the Mixcloud and SoundCloud platforms!

This edition featured a few selections from the brand-new album by Michael Shrieve titled "Drums of Compassion", an advance track from the forthcoming EP by Florida's psychedelic groovers, Soft Cuff, a favorite later period Rush selection, classics by King Crimson and Yes, and a dark, looping, heavily distorted guitar piece from David Torn!

The links to listen to the show are as follows:
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoundVisionRadio/book-of-prog-eighteenth-edition-712024-broadcast/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-137005798/book-of-prog-eighteenth-edition-712024-broadcast

This month's edition of Book of Prog features a few selections from the brand-new album by Michael Shrieve titled "Drums of Compassion", an advance track from the forthcoming EP by Florida's psychedel

30/06/2024

This past week's edition of Sound + Vision is now available to stream on the Mixcloud and SoundCloud platforms!

We featured new and recent selections from VAZUM, Chaos In The Veil, Replicant, Pabellon Sintetico & Lucas Tripaldi, Charles Patrick Henstrom III, Chris Meyer's Alias Zone, and Cosmic Cadence, as well as a couple of classic goth rock tunes from the 1980's by The Sisters of Mercy and Siouxsie and the Banshees, and speaking of the 1980's, we celebrated and commemorated the 40th anniversary of the release of "Purple Rain" with a double shot from that recording!

The links to listen to the show are as follows:
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoundVisionRadio/sound-vision-june-26-30-2024-broadcast/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-137005798/sound-vision-june-26-30-2024-broadcast

We all know that VAZUM rocks, and we are excited to present a selection from their great new album "Western Violence" as part of this week's edition of Sound + Vision! We are also excited to present the brand-new single from the Tropi-Gothers, Chaos In The Veil, will harken back to a favorite track....

29/06/2024

We are just a few days away from the airing of the next edition of Book of Prog! This month we are featuring a few selections from the brand-new album by Michael Shrieve titled "Drums of Compassion", an advance track from the forthcoming EP by Florida's psychedelic groovers, Soft Cuff, a favorite later period Rush selection, classics by King Crimson and Yes, and a dark, looping, heavily distorted guitar piece from David Torn!

Tune in Monday, July 1st at 2pm to WPPM 106.5 FM, worldwide via https://wppm.phillycam.org/. I will have the show ready to stream on both the Mixcloud and SoundCloud platforms later that evening.

29/06/2024

The Second edition of Friday Night Frights is now available via both the Mixcloud and SoundCloud platforms!

The links to stream the show are as follows:
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoundVisionRadio/friday-night-frights-second-edition-6282024/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-137005798/friday-night-frights-second-edition-6282024

27/06/2024

We are less than 48 hours away from the availability of the next edition of Friday Night Frights, 90 minutes of music influenced by and about horror, the paranormal, sci-fi, and related! We are featuring tracks from some of our favorite artists who we play on the Sound + Vision show, including American Grim, Dracula Party, and Mach FoX, selections by Alice Cooper, John Carpenter, Christian Death, Goblin, and Rob Zombie, a rockin' set dedicated to Area 51, Roswell, and UFOs that includes Blue Oyster Cult, Megadeath, and Saxon, plus much more!

The show will be posted to the Sound + Vision Mixcloud page to stream Friday at 9pm ET: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoundVisionRadio/. It will also be available on SoundCloud shortly thereafter: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-137005798

26/06/2024

One final programming note about this week's edition of Sound + Vision - the 40th anniversary of the release of the iconic album "Purple Rain" was yesterday, June 25th! Purple Rain is the perfect blend of pop, funk, R&B, rock and electronic elements and catapulted Prince into a mega-star, with it sitting atop the Billboard album chart for 24 consecutive weeks and going on to sell 25 million copies worldwide - 13 million in the US alone!

Purple Rain is regarded as one of the best albums of all time by numerous publications. For example, Rolling Stone ranked it the 8th best album of all time, Consequence of Sound ranked it the best album of all time, and Pitchfork ranked it the best album of the 1980's! We will celebrate and commemorate the anniversary of Purple Rain with a pair of selections from it on Sound + Vision!

Listen tonight a 9pm ET to WPPM 106.5 FM, from anywhere at https://wppm.phillycam.org/ and on Sunday at 1pm Mexico time / 8pm UK time to Artefaktor Radio Online, worldwide at https://artefaktorradio.online/

26/06/2024

In addition to the dark wave and goth tunes I posted about earlier, this week's edition of Sound + Vision will feature a set of new space themed music, including a piece from the brand new recording, "Last Call" out on Cyclical Dreams by Pabellon Sintetico & Lucas Tripaldi, the new digital single from Charles Patrick Henstrom III titled "Ooga Da Moon" and more from the great new recordings by Chris Meyer's Alias Zone and by Cosmic Cadence!

Tune in tonight a 9pm ET to WPPM 106.5 FM, listen from anywhere at https://wppm.phillycam.org/ and on Sunday at 1pm Mexico time / 8pm UK time to Artefaktor Radio Online, worldwide at https://artefaktorradio.online/

25/06/2024

We all know that VAZUM rocks, and we are excited to present a selection from their great new album "Western Violence" as part of this week's edition of Sound + Vision!

We are also excited to present the brand-new single from the Tropi-Gothers, Chaos In The Veil, will harken back to a favorite track from the first Sisters of Mercy album, and will give a spin to another selection from the great new recording by Philadelphia's own Replicant!

All of that and much more, this Wednesday on WPPM 106.5 FM, listen from anywhere at https://wppm.phillycam.org/ and on Sunday at 1pm Mexico time / 8pm UK time on Artefaktor Radio Online, worldwide via https://artefaktorradio.online/

19/06/2024

One final note about this week's edition of Sound + Vision - we recently lost Joe Whiteaker, vocalist, bassist, arranger, writer and ostensibly the leader of one of the great artists we feature from the Rockford, IL area, The Funeral March, also known as The Funeral March of the Marionettes. We will pay tribute to Joe's life and music with a couple of choice Funeral March tunes during this week's show!

We will also feature a track from The Cure's most overtly goth rock album, "Po*******hy", Moby's most rockin' tune from our favorite album of his, "Everything is Wrong", and give another spin to that great new single by Apology Kink, 'Let Me Be Your Heartthrob'!

Tune in tonight at 9pm ET to WPPM 106.5 FM, listen from anywhere at https://wppm.phillycam.org/ and Sunday at 1pm Mexico time / 8pm UK time at Artefaktor Radio Online, worldwide via https://artefaktorradio.online/

17/06/2024

There has been a significant amount of new music pouring out as of late, and we are loading up this week on Sound + Vision! In addition to the new recording from Michael Shrieve that I posted about previously, we are featuring a selection from the brilliant new spacemusic recording, "Planetary Forces" by Cosmic Cadence, more from the great new release by Philadelphia own Replicant titled "DOSAGE", a track from the new album by dark wave legends Clan of Xymox, and an advance piece from the new modular synth recording by Chris Meyer's Alias Zone!

Tune in Wednesday at 9pm ET to WPPM 106.5 FM, listen from anywhere at https://wppm.phillycam.org/ and Sunday at 1pm Mexico time / 8pm UK time to Artefaktor Radio Online, worldwide at https://artefaktorradio.online/

16/06/2024

Michael Shrieve is most known in the mainstream as the drummer for the original incarnation of Santana, and to a lesser extent as drummer for Prog rockers Automatic Man, for the Power Pop outfit Novo Combo and a hard rockin' album with Sammy Hagar, Neal Schon and Kenny Aronson. Over the past 35+ years, Shrieve has led a brilliant career as leader and composer, primarily in the areas of electronic music and what I call "dark jazz", with albums that included personnel such as Klaus Schulze, Steve Roach, David Torn, Mark Isham, Shawn Lane, Bill Frisell and Jonas Hellborg.

Michael Shrieve’s new recording "Drums of Compassion" is not merely an album; it's an odyssey that began two decades ago inspired by the Dalai Lama's call for a Time of Compassion, with a nod to the title of Nigerian Percussionist Babatunde Olatunji's classic album from 1959, "Drums of Passion", which is one of the first records to popularize African Music to the Western World. The album boasts an ensemble of musical virtuosos and soundmasters, including Jeff Greinke, Babatunde Olatunji, Jack DeJohnette, Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, Trey Gunn, Amon Tobin and others. Their collective genius creates a tapestry of rhythmic brilliance that transcends conventional music boundaries, offering listeners an immersive sonic experience.

We are featuring a piece from "Drums of Compassion" as part of this week's edition of Sound + Vision! Tune in Wednesday at 9pm ET to WPPM 106.5 FM, listen from anywhere at https://wppm.phillycam.org/ and Sunday at 1pm Mexico time / 8pm UK time to Artefaktor Radio Online, worldwide at https://artefaktorradio.online/

14/06/2024

I want to thank everyone who donated during the WPPM Fundraiser! However we are short of our goal, and if you have not done so, can still make a donation. Donations are used to cover maintenance and updates to our transmitter, antenna, tower, emergency alert system, turntables, CD players, radio board, computers, software, remote broadcast tools, and other in-studio equipment such as headsets and microphones.

With your help, we can continue to power community radio in Philadelphia to bring you my shows, Sound + Vision and Book of Prog plus my various specials, and all the other great programming at WPPM! Your donation will help to sustain WPPM 106.5 FM as a home for my shows and support the work of the other community radio programmers at PhillyCAM.

I hope you will please consider donating at any tier, or anything you can afford - literally every dollar counts! If you care to donate, you can do so at wppm.phillycam.org/donate

14/06/2024

The second edition of Friday Night Frights is just two weeks away, and as part of the show, I will be featuring a set of music themed around Area 51, Roswell and UFO activity that will include Space Rock legends Hawkwind, rockers who are regularly featured on the Sound + Vision show, American Grim, and a brand-new tune by one of the all-time great Metal bands, Saxon! More details to follow...

If you haven't checked out the first edition, you can do here via Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoundVisionRadio/friday-night-frights-first-edition-5312024/ or SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-137005798/friday-night-frights-first-edition-5312024

12/06/2024

In addition to that set of Florida based artists, we are featuring a set of some of our favorites from the West Coast as part of our 2nd WPPM Fundraiser Sound + Vision special, including selections by Bart Hawkins, Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen, AeTopus, Apology Kink, and Trade Secrets!

Tune in Wednesday at 9pm ET to WPPM 106.5 FM, listen from anywhere via https://wppm.phillycam.org/

As of this posting, we are ~$3,000 short of our Fundraising goal with only 24 hours left. Please pledge your support to Sound + Vision at https://wppm.phillycam.org/support/fund-drive

10/06/2024

Last week's WPPM fundraising edition of Sound + Vision featured artists from Philadelphia, Chicago/Rockford, and Minneapolis. This week, we are featuring a lengthy set from artists based out of Florida, including Miss FD, Faustan Band, Deep Red , Chaos in the Veil, Soft Cuff, and Daniel Coppens Music!

Tune in Wednesday at 9pm to WPPM 106.5 FM, listen from anywhere via https://wppm.phillycam.org/ and please pledge your support to Sound + Vision at https://wppm.phillycam.org/support/fund-drive

We are presenting regularly scheduled programming featuring a brand-new edition of Sound + Vision on Artefaktor Radio Online on Sunday, June 16th. More details to follow on that later in the week!

09/06/2024

As part of this weekend's fundraising activities at WPPM 106.5 FM, I will be participating in a New Wave set this afternoon from 2:00-3:00, spinning records from some of the artists of the Philly scene of the early 1980's, then will be presenting a "Discoish" set later in the afternoon featuring Donna Summer, Rick James and others!

I am asking for your donation - with your help, we can continue to power community radio in Philadelphia to bring you my shows, Sound + Vision and Book of Prog plus my various specials, and all the other great programming at WPPM! Your donation will help to sustain WPPM as a home for my shows and support the work of the other community radio programmers at PhillyCAM.

I hope you will please consider donating at any tier, or anything you can afford - every dollar counts! If you care to donate, you can do so at wppm.phillycam.org/donate

07/06/2024

I am working on the June edition of Friday Night Frights! The May edition featured some of our favorite artists who we play on Sound + Vision, including American Grim, Dracula Party, and Mach FoX (with Sonikdevil) and you can bet that all three will be included in this month's program! Listen to the May show here:
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoundVisionRadio/friday-night-frights-first-edition-5312024/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-137005798/friday-night-frights-first-edition-5312024

If you have suggestions for the June's Fright Night Frights, DM here or email [email protected]

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07/06/2024

We are in the midst of our 2024 Fund Drive at WPPM 106.5 FM! We are community radio - noncommercial, participatory media - rehumanizing radio in your own backyard!

I believe that my shows, Sound + Vision and Book of Prog are worth investing in, because throughout the year I give dozens and dozens of independent artists, and artists on small labels airplay where there aren’t many outlets for exposure, and both shows present a unique blend of music that you just won’t hear anywhere else.

If you want to ensure that radio shows like Sound + Vision and Book of Prog as well as my various specials remain on the air in Philadelphia for years to come, make a gift to WPPM today. Every dollar counts - so please donate and acknowledge your support of Sound + Vision and / or Book or Prog at wppm.phillycam.org/donate.

05/06/2024

Great support from Joe Scott and my friends over at Digital Underground, the place to go in Philadelphia to purchase much of the music heard on Sound + Vision!
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WPPM is a member supported, participatory community radio station rehumanizing radio with local voices and original programming.

05/06/2024

In addition to that set of Philadelphia based artists, we are featuring a set of our favorite bands from the Chicago / Rockford, IL area as part of our WPPM Fundraiser Sound + Vision special, including Shadows & Mirrors, Peter Jennings Disciples, Bellhead, and The Funeral March, plus selections from a couple of our favorite artists from Minneapolis: RetCon and Zwaremachine!

Tune in tonight at 9pm ET to WPPM 106.5 FM, listen from anywhere via https://wppm.phillycam.org/

04/06/2024

As I mentioned yesterday, we are beginning our annual fundraising activities at WPPM 106.5 FM tomorrow, and as such, I have special programming planned for tomorrow's Sound + Vision show and next Wednesday's edition, consisting of sets of music from geographical areas where I play a high concentration of artists. I will begin with our home base of Philadelphia and will feature artists from the early 1980's scene including Robert Hazard, Executive Slacks, and Bunnydrums, and current artists such as genCAB, Tulipomania, and Replicant!

Tune in tomorrow at 9pm ET to WPPM 106.5 FM, listen from anywhere via https://wppm.phillycam.org/

03/06/2024

Friday Night Frights isn't just for Friday's! Listen to the first edition any time via both the Mixcloud and SoundCloud platforms! The links are:
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoundVisionRadio/friday-night-frights-first-edition-5312024/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-137005798/friday-night-frights-first-edition-5312024

03/06/2024

Over the past 2+ years, I have been able to produce my radio shows Sound + Vision and Book of Prog, as well as various specials at community radio station WPPM 106.5 FM, which is part of Philadelphia's community media center, PhillyCAM. This week, we are raising $7,500 as part of our 2024 Fund Drive, from Wednesday, June 5th to Wednesday, June 12th! I am asking for your donation - with your help, we can continue to power community radio in Philadelphia to bring you shows like Sound + Vision, Book of Prog and all the other great programming at WPPM! Your donation will help to sustain WPPM as a home for my shows and support the work of the other community radio programmers at PhillyCAM.

I hope you will please consider donating during our 2024 WPPM Fund Drive, at any tier, or anything you can afford - every dollar counts! If you care to donate, you can do so at wppm.phillycam.org/donate

If you donate, please let me know via DM so that I can track the number of donations (I don't want to know the dollar amount). I thank you in advance!

03/06/2024

This past week's edition of Sound + Vision is now available to stream via the Mixcloud and SoundCloud platforms. We celebrated and commemorated the 45 anniversary of the release of David Bowie's "Lodger" with a couple of choice tracks from that recording! We also featured new and recent selections by Apology Kink, The Antoine Poncelet Band, CHIASM, Frontal Boundary and others! Additionally, we gave a spin to one of Depeche Mode's biggest hits and to one of the best rock tunes of the past 15 years from Muse!

For all of that and more, the links to stream the shows are:
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoundVisionRadio/sound-vision-may-29-june-2-2024-broadcast/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-137005798/sound-vision-may-29-june-2-2024-broadcast

01/06/2024

My apologies to anyone who may have been listening to the show over the past half hour or so - I inadvertently uploaded an earlier version. I have since replaced the audio with the final version of the show, which can be listened to via this link: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoundVisionRadio/friday-night-frights-first-edition-5312024/

29/05/2024

As I mentioned earlier in the month, this Friday evening at 10pm ET, I launch the first edition of Friday Night Frights, a new streaming only show featuring music based on or influenced by horror, the paranormal, sci-fi and related topics! Join me for 90 minutes of Goth Rock, Death Rock, Industrial Rock, Darksynth, selections from Horror Soundtracks and more!

The show will be posted to the Sound + Vision Mixcloud page starting at 10pm ET Friday: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoundVisionRadio/

If you prefer SoundCloud, it will be posted there next morning: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-137005798

Any questions or feedback, DM me or email [email protected].

28/05/2024

David Bowie's "Lodger" album recently turned 45 years old! The third of the so called "Berlin Trilogy", Lodger featured further collaboration with Brian Eno, some great lead guitar playing courtesy of Adrian Belew, and a guest appearance from Simon House, most known for his long association as violinist and keyboardist for Hawkwind. We are featuring a pair of tracks from Lodger during this week's edition of Sound + Vision!

We are also featuring another new track from Apology Kink, another of the remixes off CHIASM's new EP, "Chasing Butterflies" and one of the best rock tunes of the past 15 years from Muse!

Tune in Wednesday at 9pm ET to WPPM 106.5 FM, listen from anywhere at https://wppm.phillycam.org/ and to Artefaktor Radio Online Sunday at 1pm Mexico time / 8pm UK time, worldwide via https://artefaktorradio.online/

28/05/2024

This month's edition of Book of Prog is now available to stream on the Mixcloud and SoundCloud platforms! We featured some long overdue Supertramp, new and recent selections from Dark Sky Alliance, Space Kitchen, Tulipomania, RoB sBaR-Composer|Guitarist, Steve Hackett, and Big Big Train, a few tracks from the Pierre Moerlen led jazz-fusion oriented version of Gong that featured Allan Holdsworth, an all-time classic by Pink Floyd, and what I like to call proto-progressive rock from The Nice!

For all of that and much more, the links to listen are as follows:
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoundVisionRadio/book-of-prog-seventeenth-edition-5272024-broadcast/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-137005798/book-of-prog-seventeenth-edition-5272024-broadcast