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ninety five point three. So here we are, and we've
got a great show for you coming up. In just
a couple of minutes. Rivia, a great band from the UK,
is going to be joining us. We're gonna be talking
about We haven't talked since their newest single came out,
Piece of View. Love that track. We feature it many
times on the show, very often we play it. I
will find any excuse I can to play it. And
they're starting to make inroads in American radio as well.
They're having a lot of success in the UK so
we're gonna speak with them in a few minutes, and
let's see, in the second hour we have Kevin Kirstat,
who is going by the stage name k t K.
He's gonna be here with us in studio. And then
in the third hour we have Euphemea or Euphemia, I'm
not sure how to say it, but we'll find out.
Great band from Portland though. I was listening to them
yesterday and uh, they've got a lot of really good music.
They sent us their full album and it's so good.
So we have a very busy, very full show for
you today. Let's see.
Speaker 6: So oh I want to give a show?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yes, yes absolutely, fis.
Speaker 6: I had an awesome lift driver this morning, Ralph. Thank
you so much for helping me run back grab what
I mistakenly left behind and got back here in time
to start to show.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you very good. Yes, thank you, Ralph. So
I think what we're gonna do is, uh, in a moment,
we're going to play the newest single as I mentioned,
from Rivia, such a great band and I love this song.
This is one of those songs I cannot get enough of.
And then we're going to have them on the line
with us via WhatsApp. No, they did not travel all
the way from the UK to be with us to way. Yeah,
that's something we have not had yet. You know, we've
we've had a lot of touring artists from the area.
I mean not from the area rather, but who are
coming through the area, I should say, who will come
in and sit down with us? But uh, but we
have not had anyone come from the UK specifically to
visit the show. That would be something I would imagine
that would be a very very expensive trip. But we're
gonna play this again. This is the newest single from Rivia.
This is called Piece of You. I love this song.
And then uh, and then when we come back from that,
we should have them on the line via WhatsApp, And
then I think at the end of our conversation we'll
play another great Rivia track that I love. And I
believe we were the first American radio station, by the way,
to play this BANDY very proud of that. It's such
a good band. But if you have not heard this yet,
you're in for something. This is such a great song.
It gets stuck in my head every time I hear it.
This is called Piece of you and this is the
newest single from Rivia.
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Speaker 7: I don't want to be like show recognizable from the person.
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Speaker 4: Now ain't long?
Speaker 9: God?
Speaker 4: How didn't love?
Speaker 3: No brocky k.
Speaker 4: That ain't long guy, Now ain't love? God?
Speaker 10: Can say I didn't hit the ring set, but I
don't want to start. John said, ain't don't please like choke.
Betty started like you want star Suddy who wasn't what
your wanter?
Speaker 4: He said?
Speaker 3: Jo why John is sun?
Speaker 2: We can't waste some min and we want to waste
some minutes a jo ways some man, don't.
Speaker 5: Wait child, that ain't long, guy, I ain't loguy.
Speaker 4: My blacky yard guy, that ain't long guy, that ain't long?
Speaker 11: M h.
Speaker 3: I've got that sick chim feeling what we used to feeling.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3: I still love he shook you.
Speaker 7: I got that sick chim feeling out right now.
Speaker 3: I know where still I don't know what sometime sell
no wait.
Speaker 4: Long long long God?
Speaker 3: No, Saint Jeff very not always to him? No, so
sell sell.
Speaker 2: Yow, Oh there it is. I love it. That is
such a great track piece of you. The band is
Rivia and let's see. I know we've got members of
the band on the line. Let's see who we've got.
Welcome everybody, can you hear me? Oh, it's always such
a relief when this works. You know, these international calls
don't always go as planned. Welcome to the show, Welcome back,
I should say. I know you've been on before, but
it's been a while since we've talked. Uh, who do
we have? Who do we have with us from the band?
Speaker 12: Full house all of us?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 2: Nice, nice, wonderful. So how are things, Uh, how are
things going over there? Says what did we talk last?
It's been a few months, right, I think we talked
after the the release of Fallen was the last time
we had you on? Correct?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 15: That was a July definitely earl on in the year,
wasn't it.
Speaker 16: Yeah, loads of gigs spinning the studio, festivals stock too.
Speaker 2: Wonderful, wonderful, So you had to you had a busy summer.
Speaker 17: It sounds like, hell, yeah, it's been it's been great.
Speaker 2: Outstanding, outstanding. Tell me about tell me about festivals. What
what festivals have you done? Because I always say festivals
are such a fantastic opportunity for bands, especially younger new
bands like you, new were bands like you, because not
only does it get you in front of audiences, large
audiences that might not otherwise come across you, but it's
also such a fantastic networking opportunity too. You know, you
get in front of new fans, but you also get
in front of people in the industry and other artists
that you might work with in the future or have
worked with in the past. Even But what are some
of the festivals that y'all did this past summer.
Speaker 15: We've done a couple to mean, the most most memorable
for us because we made a weekend out at Isle
of Wight Festival, so we have to we'll drive down
hop on the ferry and then head into Islow eight
and that was a full weekend, well just all of it,
but they all weekend. Yeah, we brought some posters down
with us and just meeting a loads of people and
chatting about the band and just made it really personal
to no seeing them come down to the show and
never gave and they of us and then they just
meet us with a post I say come to our show,
please come. We got some nice messages.
Speaker 14: Well, people like and we've had a few comments on
things on YouTube and stuff saying, you know, like this
was a really nice thank you for coming and saying
all though.
Speaker 17: It was just so glad we caught your set and stuff.
Speaker 16: It goes to that human interactions still goes along way definitely.
Speaker 2: That's a yeah. And that's a good reminder too, because
as Ai continues to uh to take hold of you know, especially,
I mean, it affects everything, but it certainly is affecting
the music industry. So uh, that's a good thing to
remind people about the importance of human interaction, especially when
it comes to music or any kind of art that
you're making. How does a piece of you must go
over really well live? I would imagine the song's got
such a great energy about it. I just love it
so much. How does that go over? How does that
go over live? Because I would imagine, I mean, do
you do you open or close your set with it?
Or where do you put it in the set?
Speaker 17: It's usually second, doesn't it?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Seconds in the It's it's a little bit heavier than
some of the other stuff that we've done, so we
before we were unsure on how it will go down,
but the reaction to it's been really good so far.
It's made mistake. Should we just go a bit heavy?
Speaker 3: Right right?
Speaker 15: Ye gets the people going.
Speaker 2: Like it is a little more aggressive than the other songs.
But I love it. I love it. There's almost this
is you know what I hear? What I hear in
that song. There's almost like a sort of a desperation
to it and and earnestness maybe that's a better word.
Who wrote that? Who in the band? Did you all
write that together? Or who wrote the song?
Speaker 16: So the the instruments are a team effort, like everyone
puts the bits on it and Matt and Matt hello,
I wrote the lyrics for it. And for me, it's
basically like sort of it's about about getting revenge basically,
but knowing and being aware enough to know that it's
not the right thing to do.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 16: So it's it's tackling trying to tackle the sort of
thoughts and the feelings that you get when you've been
wronged and you want to you want to get revenge
on people who've done done you wrong, but you know
better effectively and just trying to trying to grapple with
that and trying to move forward with that, and like
I've I've been on a bit of a journey personally
of trying to look after myself a little bit more
and trying to trying to live life a little bit
healthier and things like that and be a bit more positive.
So it's really sort of it's a it's a it's
a time capsual for me lyrically in that respect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think it's I think it's really good.
And I think that you know, the theme that you
just described, I think is universal. I think we've all
had moments like that, situations where you know where you're
thinking about, you know, trying to get revenge on somebody,
and you know, as you get older, you learn, you know,
really the best revenge is living well and being successful.
But but but we certainly have we we certainly have
those situations occur, no doubt, no doubt. Now, what what
what is the what is the plan? I mean, you know,
you've released some great singles and I think I think
one of you at the start of our conversation said
something about being in the studio. Are you working on
an album or do you have another single you're working on,
or what's kind of the future plan.
Speaker 15: So we have.
Speaker 16: We have another one sort of in the chamber, ready
ready to fire, and then we're going we're going back
in the studio on Monday actually.
Speaker 15: To do another one to follow.
Speaker 13: That up, and then if all goes well, next year,
I think we'd really like to do an album. I
feel like we're at that sort of point as a
band where we kind of want to do that, but
it's just a case of whether we can make it happen.
Speaker 15: Yeah, if the time, yeah, at the time, trying, I'd
love to.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, no doubt. I you know, I'm old
enough to remember when it was you know, you release
an album and then first single goes to radio six
eight weeks before the album comes out, and then if
everything goes well, you know, you release the album, and
then if everything goes well, you get a second single
and and maybe a third single and so forth. But
today there's so many different ways to release music. And yeah,
a lot of the guests that we have on the show, uh,
in these times are are just doing a series of
singles and just kind of seeing which does keep you
well engaged? Uh, you know, in terms of the algorithms
with social media and whatnot, if you're you know, because
you release, if you release an album, you know, you
get that big bump from that, and then you don't
necessarily depending on what happens after that, you don't necessarily
get get a lot of traction on social media. But
releasing a series of singles and maybe when you do,
if the goal is to do an album, will the
singles Maybe I haven't thought this far ahead, but I'll
just ask you, will the singles that you've released so
far be a part of that album? Or will will
the album be a completely separate thing? Do you think?
Speaker 15: I think they might be one or two that have
to be.
Speaker 17: We have talked about re recording and the like.
Speaker 14: Yeah, there's tunes that we've got in the set that
we've had for years that we would like. We've always
said that's going on the album.
Speaker 16: They've sort of as we've played them over the years,
they've they've evolved into not new songs, but they're definitely
and they're sort of different in their versions and and
how we sort of play them.
Speaker 17: And yeah, the standard that we're right now as a band,
we'd love to sort.
Speaker 16: Of get back in the studio and redo them and
do them to the standard that that we could do
them to now would be really cool.
Speaker 2: That makes sense, and to be able to do them
too with the current lineup, right, because Rush, you've been
in the band for a while just you joined this
year correct?
Speaker 18: Yeah, I joined like kendewards the end of April, so
what like sexially seven months. So yeah, so it's fairly recent. Well,
it feels like I've been here forever.
Speaker 2: That's good, that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 14: There was a funny moment where because we said, oh,
we'll do like a little trial period, Shaw we get
on you know, shout for all Joe and and that,
and then we came to the end of that trial
period and basically like Rush came in and went, so,
are we gonna have a discussion about you know, like
being being in the band and stuff, and we just went, oh,
we thought you were.
Speaker 18: In plan And I was like, you know, it's the
trials coming to it, and they're like, okay, break it
up and be like, you know what am I in?
Speaker 15: We're still in trial?
Speaker 2: Yeah that's funny, but that's how you know it's a
good fit. Right when when some of you didn't even
you know, give it another thought, it was just like, oh, yeah,
this makes sense. And then but it's good.
Speaker 17: I think that was the big giveaway for us, was there.
Speaker 2: We were like, yeah, definitely, yeah, Oh that's excellent, that's
excellent going into I mean now that we're geez, I
can't believe it's already almost the end of October?
Speaker 15: Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you still playing a lot of shows? As I
know in the United States, a lot of a lot
of bands, they kind of they don't go into hibernation.
They're still working, but they kind of use, at least
in this part of the country where it gets cold
in the winter, they kind of use winter time to
maybe focus more on recording because traveling isn't so great
when it's snowing and icy out. But I mean, what,
what's kind of your plan? Are you still playing a
lot of shows now? Do you plan to play through
the winter or I don't even know what the winter
is like exactly where you are.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean it's not it's not great. It's definitely wet.
Ye've got a couple to see us out. But that's
the plan for us as well, to be honest, do
some bits behind the scenes and they say again next year.
So we've got two Liverpool shows, you know, one on Halloween,
which will all go in this pilots.
Speaker 17: Yeah, we want we want everyone to come. Everyone crew
is taking over nice.
Speaker 15: And we've got there on the sixth of December as well,
which is really good, really good line up on that.
So we're looking forward to that and you know, who know,
something some might come our way. I don't know. I
was just squeeze in there, but at the moment, definitely
slow it down a little bit.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we want to focus only on writing
for next year.
Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent. Oh by the way too, I wanted to
circle back to a Piece of You for a moment.
I wanted to ask about the video because I love
the video. It's really really cool. I like that. I
really dig the whole aesthetic of it, and and I
was just curious if that was something that you all
did on your own, or if you worked with with somebody,
or how did the video come about.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it was quite funny. It was just kind of yeah, yeah,
it was kind of It was just an idea that
come to us and we went, what's the best and
cheapest way we can do this? Yeah, and it ended
up being Matt in the alley hole were holding the
hose pipe over to z on the waterfall moment and
one of us fell with it and that was it.
Stick it in black and white. It's good to go.
Speaker 17: Well, you can't see behind the camera is me and
was in suits because we just come from where. Yeah,
he's molding the camera.
Speaker 11: And posters laughing at me while I'm shivering. Right, it's
a good idea for like shark time colored dragons.
Speaker 15: Then no warm hose pipes.
Speaker 2: Well, if you go down, I mean, if you can,
if you can come up with something that that is cheap,
you know, but but still looks cool, then you've got something, right,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 15: That really good, some good feedback. Yeah, yeah, like videos
cost us a few quids. Yeah, that was maybe three pounds.
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go. Oh you've also got
this is cool too, by the way, and I want
our listeners to know about this on YouTube. A piece
of you Rivia in Matchbox Studios a live record and
this is really good too. This is really cool.
Speaker 15: Thank you, Sean. Yeah, we love those guys. Patchbox a
great over there and you've got an amazing story the
recording as well as well as all the video stuff.
The package. Man. Yeah, the spot on really nice lads.
That was a good day. Every done fall In there
as well. Yeah, so yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 2: Do you intend to continue to work with them?
Speaker 15: Yeah? Absolutely, absolutely, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 14: I did the live the live videos a great with
them and they do go down well. Falling Us now
you can know, go and see that on the on
YouTube as well.
Speaker 15: Ready to go.
Speaker 14: Yeah, so if anybody listening, it's only on YouTube. You
can see the full thing if you want to go see.
Speaker 15: It, but we'd recommend them. That's to anyone for videos
or the fantastic Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh there's also two Falling there's this this acoustic version
live from Northwest Connection that's also very very cool. We're
going to play actually at the end of our conversation
today too, we're going to play fall In too, because
that's another that's another great, great track.
Speaker 15: But I forgot me Tom. That was the boss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like it looks like there's only three
of you there, but the the oh this was yeah,
live from Northwest Connect. What is Northwest Connection?
Speaker 15: So that those guys with the same talents that can't
remember the exact location, but it's a really cool spot
to radio station.
Speaker 16: A podcast MM hmmm, So we were, we were on
the podcast where we had a good, good shot for
a good forty five minutes.
Speaker 15: Yeah, a couple of tubes, Yeah, would good luck with them?
Speaker 2: Very nice, very nice?
Speaker 11: So what.
Speaker 2: I know, I've asked you this question before the last
time we talked, but for newer listeners or people who
aren't familiar with you, uh, tell us about the name.
I'm sure this is probably you probably hate this question
because you probably get asked this question every single day
of your lives. But what does what does Rivia mean?
Speaker 11: It's it's from It's from the Witcher if if you
know what that is.
Speaker 13: It's a it was a series of books that got
turned into video games that's now a crappy Netflix show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and basically the main guy and it's.
Speaker 16: Called Garrels of Rivia. And when we were when we
were making the band, I really I fell in love
with this character. Basically, I just thought he was the
coolest dude ever. And I was like, Riva is a
really cool name. And then I was like, are there
any other bands called Rivia? And looked through the fire
Instagram like every sort of music thing you can find,
and there was no bands called Rivia, So we were like, well,
that's that's a good start.
Speaker 13: So the rarely condensed version of the story is he's
in the sort of books. He's not actually from there.
He sort of goes there and he saves them and
they accept them. And I thought it was really cool,
the idea of like, it doesn't matter where you come from,
it's what you do that defines who you are.
Speaker 2: Yes, I like that. I like that very much. That
is that's excellent. So what is now? What's kind of
the short term do you do you have where's your
Obviously we're in the United States, but we have listeners everywhere.
When is when is your next show? When do you
do you have anything this weekend that you're doing that
you're playing?
Speaker 15: Is it next next Rounday? Halloween and we will be pirates.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 15: So that's in Liverpool Cosmia stock Room, Saty Fairs, re
Sport and the band called Holy Cove so a Welsh
I believe in the great bands. Looking forward to getting
down seeing them there.
Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent, And then uh, where should people go online?
Where's the best place for people to go to keep
up with everything that Rivia is doing?
Speaker 15: Instagram and definitely Instagram at Rivia top band. Most of
our stuff goes there to always putting up stories what
we're up to as well.
Speaker 14: So we I've got all the other we've got like
TikTok YouTube, you've got Twitter and stuff, all of them.
Speaker 17: All of our main sort of go to is his Instagram.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and you like nonsensical quotes and there is the
place to go.
Speaker 17: Can full control of the Twitter and he does just
put his thoughts out there.
Speaker 15: Yes, all welcome, you'rektok.
Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead.
Speaker 17: I was gonna say our TikTok's more like our behind
the scenes stuff, isn't it Like he stills having a bit.
Speaker 15: Of fun silly stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that's excellent. Well, your social media game is
strong and that's very very important of course, uh these days.
So I commend you for that. And that's excellent And.
Speaker 17: Yeah, thanks man. We've been working on that a lot
this year, so appreciate that.
Speaker 15: I think we've got Rush to thank for a lot
of that. Yeah, absolutely saved excellent.
Speaker 18: Hard work for me is stock hard work, like you know,
thinking and stuff and then just having the time to
like film it and and then edit stuff.
Speaker 15: It's hard, is it, like?
Speaker 18: Yeah, Well it's just it's so important today, Like it's
just a massive part of the music industry.
Speaker 2: And I so right, right, because you're you're doing it
all yourselves too, right, You're or do you have a
label that you work with or is this all the.
Speaker 15: I y, that's all the one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I think.
Speaker 15: We've got managers of management engineering from we believe that
love those guys the bits. In terms of social media, yeah,
that's unfortunately just.
Speaker 2: Well unfortunately in the sense that it's a lot of work, right,
but fortunately in the sense that that gives you maximum control,
total control really over what you're putting out there and
in terms of your image and everything, and that that
can be that can be a wonderful thing to have
that kind of autonomy. So that's that's.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's a bit more personal for social media now.
That's kind of we talk, isn't that.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 14: We used to really struggle with like what what should
we put up and then we've realized we could put
up with everyone ourselves and it's just us exactly.
Speaker 2: It's it's easy to overthink it, but once you once
you're real, you know your fans they just want engagement.
So whatever you can put out there you know, and
and uh and if they don't like it, whatever, they'll
ignore it. But if they do like it, then great,
you know, then you've you've created that engagement that is
absolutely critical to being successful in the music industry today.
So uh so, yeah, absolutely, I commend you on that. Well, listen,
we're gonna we'll uh, we'll let you go. We're gonna
get to this track. We're gonna play fall and to
close out the segment, another great song.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: But I do want to thank all of you, Matt, Warren, Rash, Chris,
thank you all.
Speaker 18: You know.
Speaker 2: It doesn't always work out where we get an entire
band on all at once, so I appreciate that. Absolutely.
We'll do it again and keep us posted on when
the next single is ready to and and we'll uh,
we'll give it. We'll give it a spin here of
course always and uh and we'll have you back on
to talk about it and uh and I wish you
continued success and thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 15: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, Rivia, thank you, we'll talk to you soon.
Take care, bye bye power. All right, that is the
members of the band Rivia, and we're gonna close out
our conversation with this track. This is another great single.
We were the first American radio station to play this.
Of course, this is Fallen and the band is Rivia.
And if you are listening live on Saturday, stick around.
We've got plenty more to come.
Speaker 3: We would just.
Speaker 7: Chance back then, just a little bit more then for
us that it's always a talbot and we're figuring it
out with them with just my mantence. We were so close,
but sofa always to jam the mamas apart. Yeah, we
know all it has us till we try a jam.
But chuse me, chest, my manchion, can't you have text down?
Let's see show mo monight like.
Speaker 4: This probably won't.
Speaker 3: Ways you got me far around that feels song like
nuts at work?
Speaker 7: Joe around and around any sorry Joe, soo whitch you
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Speaker 1: T you're listening to Matt connorton Unleashed on WM and
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Speaker 15: Five point three.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody, and thank you again to all four
members of Rivia for joining us this morning on the program.
If you missed it, of course you can check the archive.
It'll be up later after the show. But I really
love such a great band. I love that song piece
of You. I also love follow and that's another great song.
But as they were talking about too during our conversation,
piece of You is a little more aggressive than their
previous songs, but just so good. If you are joining
us live today is Saturday, October twenty five, twenty twenty five.
We are live from the studios of WMNH ninety five
point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. But you
can stream the show anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com,
slash live and by the way, there is a I'll
just mention two. So don't believe everything you hear. I
know that there is some one on social media claiming
that I no longer have a radio show and then
I'm only podcasting now, but that is uh, that is
not true, as uh, we are on the radio right now.
Speaker 6: Long has this been?
Speaker 2: How long? What since we've been at w M and
H Yes, jeez, it'll be nine years in April, so
about eight and a half.
Speaker 6: Years ago, and altogether it's been well over we've been
here a wow nine years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know right. Oh, it went so quick,
went so quick, gone in the blink of an eye.
Speaker 6: Seriously, I was at shopping yesterday and they had Christmas
stuff out. I am not happy. No Christmas yet we
haven't gotten past.
Speaker 2: Well that's when you work in retail.
Speaker 6: I mean, I know, want to see it.
Speaker 2: When I when I was a store manager for f YE. Yeah,
but we'd have our holiday meeting in September and then
uh you know, and then we were off and running
from there.
Speaker 6: I don't think Santa should come out until after Halloween
is over. Yeah, yep, I'm sticking to that story. And
I had to take up my winter coat, so I'm
really not happy.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. So We've got a couple of
great guests who if you're listening live on Saturday. Still
coming up, we have KTK in the second hour, and
in the third hour we have Euphemeia, a great band
from Portland who are making the drive down so I
always appreciate that, so looking forward to that. Also shout
out in case they're listening to Replaced by Robots, because
I just received a text message from them, oh and
that I'm very happy about. But they were on the
show a few months ago and love them and you'll
be hearing more about them.
Speaker 6: And I want to remind folks to go check out
the Mosaic Are Collective because the Exquisite Corpse exhibit is
up until November third, and I have a piece in
there that I'm very proud to have in that I
carried around inside of me for years and finally put
it on canvas and it felt so good to get
it out there. So definitely go check out the Mosaic
Are Collective at sixty six Hanover Street, Sweet two one,
right here in the Queen City. And while I'm at it,
there is an open call submit your art to the
All That Glitters Show that's going to be coming up next.
The open call deadline is November first at eleven fifty
nine pm, So the deadline is approaching. Get your work,
and I would love to see you hanging on the
walls in the Mosaic Art Collective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, congratulations on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Our friend that reminds me too, our friend Dennis Layton
from the Gray Curtain has he's got art up at
Terminus Terminus Underground in Nashua.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think for the full month too. And I didn't
even know until the most recent time was a couple
of weeks ago. Now, two or three weeks at a time,
it becomes a blurr. He was on the show and
talking about that in addition to his music, and I
had no idea that he was also a visual artist.
Speaker 6: I did not know until he told us that either.
And I'm really excited that he has that show up
at Terminus. You should definitely go check it out. Yeah,
great spot to also catch a lot of great musicians.
Speaker 2: They've got a show tonight to their Halloween show is
at Terminus Underground tonight in Nashua. If you haven't been there,
it's amazing. It's an amazing room.
Speaker 6: It's definitely incredible room to go see. Abandoned. It's not
your average venue, you know, table chair whatever, man. No,
this is this is a beautiful environment. It really immerses
you in the experience. I highly recommend going and checkout
a show at Terminus located in Nashua.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. By the way, so you mentioned too, bad Bunny,
I just wanted an award.
Speaker 6: Congratulations Bad Bunny. How proud are we? An American has
been named the top Latin Artist of the twenty first
century at the twenty twenty five Latin Billboard of Music
Awards that happened this past Thurs.
Speaker 2: Bad Bunny's an American? Wow?
Speaker 6: Well yeah, do we not know our geography?
Speaker 2: So yeah?
Speaker 6: So for America has states and territories that we all own.
Speaker 2: That's right. Part of why why we bring that up
is because you know, and and it's it's been a
number of weeks now, but it was there was some
controversy or there still is some controversy about about about
Bad Bunny being selected to play the Super Ball this
year because some people like to say, well, you know,
you should have an American, and it's like, yeah, Bad
Bunny is an American.
Speaker 6: We've had lots and lots of Super Bowls with artists
from all around the world. Well it's not like it's
a fur yeah, but at first anyway, because it's not true.
Speaker 2: But the point being Bad Bunny is an American because
he's from Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico is a part
of the United States. And I'd put something on social
media when this whole controversy first erupted. It's like, you know,
it's it's maybe it's a failure in our education system.
Speaker 6: If we don't know what America comprises.
Speaker 2: But I think a lot of it, too, is just
willful ignorance supporting people's pre existing biases. And we won't
get too far into that because we don't do politics
on this version of the show, but just an observation.
It always, uh frustrates and disappoints me whenever I'm reminded
that there is a large portion of the American population
that doesn't seem to understand that Puerto Rico is a
part of the United States. It's not a separate country.
It is a part of the United States. Puerto Ricans
and this will really annoy some people, but I'm gonna
say it because it literally is true. Puerto Ricans are
just as American as you or me.
Speaker 6: Yes they are. They are citizens.
Speaker 2: They are born American citizens.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 6: They got their certificates from America, get American passport, they are.
Speaker 2: Born on American soil. Puerto Rico is a part of
this great country, you know. And I'm sorry for the
people who don't seem to understand that, but get it
through your skulls and get over it.
Speaker 11: See.
Speaker 6: And one of the reasons I particularly have followed Bad
Bunny because he did a thing on WW so awesome,
Like you know, sometimes are you'll see like superstars or
whatever get involved with wrestling and stuff, and then you know,
they make an appearance. But once in a while you
see artists come in that really get into it, like, oh,
who's the other one, the country singer jelly Roll. Jelly
Roll he did too, just like that funny they both
like took it so seriously. They did trainings and everything.
And if you've never seen Bad Bunny's entrance when they
had when he did the battle against Damien Price, yeah,
my favorite entrance. Yeah, it's awesome. They do it's it's
it's one of the best entrances to a match I think.
Speaker 2: Ever. I love it.
Speaker 6: The people go absolutely insane. You can feel the floor.
I can't, but you'd see people posted about they could
feel the floor. That was like the building was moving.
It was so amazing. And just the thing about Bad
Bunny too. I want to say what he said about
getting this award because I think it's really awesome.
Speaker 2: And what's what's the ward again? Remind us? I'm sorry,
what is the award again?
Speaker 6: Remind us of So this is he was awarded the
twenty twenty five Latin Billboard Music Awards. It's very prestigious,
it's an honor and it's you know, the ceremony was held.
I don't remember exactly what forgive me. I don't remember
exactly the ceremonies. Oh, it was Thursday night. They had
the ceremony Thursday night, and he had talked about like
facing barriers and trying to break in into music and stuff,
but he said, quote, for me, it's an honor to
receive this award from your hands. I respect you and
admire you so much. Every time I hear other artists
speak as you did of me, it tells me that
doing things from a good place and with your heart
is always the best decision. He also told Marino that quote,
I know how much I have worked, and not just
me but my whole team. At the same time, I'm
one hundred percent aware that any one of my colleagues
could have been given this award. So he was very
honored to receive it. It's you know it And he
talks about how it's hard to be a Latino artist
and to really to fight to get your career going.
Speaker 2: And well to get to break into the mainstream. It
is really can be really challenging, but.
Speaker 6: When you are doing it in Spanish, yeah, it's much harder.
Speaker 2: Absolute.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The show that you guys did on retro a few
weeks ago where it was artist who did their songs
and other languages.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that was so cool on Retrospect Radio. Yeah,
check out that episode.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there was a David Bowie one that
was like in French.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there was David Lee Roth, who, of course,
at least one, maybe two of the early David Lee
Roth solo albums he recorded separate versions because he's fluent
in Spanish. I had no idea he grew up in
where he grew up in South Texas. He said, the
Spanish was just as prevalent. I know. Another thing that
will annoy some people, but get over it. Spent where
he grew up, Spanish was I think it might have
been El Paso. Spanish was just as prevalent as English languages.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no kid id teaching people languages and the little kids,
Like I went overseas and I'm leeting like these little
kids that are like nine years old and they speak English,
Dutch and Fresian, and I'm like, I'm struggling to figure
out how to tell you thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So it's really cool when you see an artist who
is in a genre that's harder than other genres because
it is in a different language. Yeah, it does make
it that much. So it's great to see an American
gain this award and with such grace. But like I said,
I'm a fan of him. I've been a fan of
him basically since I was introduced to him because of WWE.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you didn't see that.
Speaker 6: I highly recommend it. It's fun to watch musicians involved
in WWE, especially when I take it seriously and they
really go all in, like Jelly Rold did and like
Bad Bunny did. So I mean, so congratulations out there
of Bad Bunny. I think it's great. I'm playing at
the super Bowl. Thank you for being a great American.
Speaker 2: Yes, love from us. Yes, yes, one other thing. And
I wanted to send you this, but I'm logged out
of my Facebook on this and I'm having trouble getting
logged in. Maybe that's the problem. I just realized that
might be the issue. That might be the issue I'm having.
I'll have to during the break, I'll have to look
at that. But this is on Music Business Worldwide dot Com.
Just a quick story and then we got to get
to a break. Lizzo sued for alleged copyright violation and
unreleased song snippet referencing Sydney Sweeney jeans ad what you
see this? Yeah, this just happened.
Speaker 6: Come on, keep this.
Speaker 2: This went up a couple days ago. It says Lizzo
is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over a snippet of
a song the singer shared on social media that referenced
the controversy around Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ad. The GRC Trust,
a Georgia based revocable trust, filed the lawsuit in federal
court in California on Tuesday the twenty first, alleging that
Lizzo's track, known alternately as I'm Going In Till October
or Good Genes that's the full title, sampled without permission
the nineteen seventy song win or Lose We Tried by
soul singer and songwriter Sam Des. Lizzo's allegedly infringing work
quote incorporates interpolates and samples instrumental and vocal elements of
the Sam D's composition unquote. States's GRC Trust complaint, which
can be read and full. There's a link to it
it h if you want to check it out. Quote.
Representatives for Lizzo acknowledge the same unquote. However, a representative
for Lizzo told BBC News in Bloomberg Law that they
were quote surprised that the GRC Trust filed the lawsuit,
given that Lizzo's song has never been commercially released or monetized,
and no decision has been made at this time regarding
any future commercial will release of the song unquote. So
this is an example. We talk a lot on the
show about whether it's AI or whether it's something like this,
all this new territory that we're entering in the music industry,
because now this is something that was not has not
been released. A snippet of this was shared on social media,
and somebody's following a lawsuit over this. A snippet of
this was shared on social media. That's interesting. I'm not
making a judgment about whether it's right or wrong or
who's right or wrong here. I'd have to think this
one over a little bit. But this is but this
is a new but this is new territory.
Speaker 6: But it's not mentioning. It's literally taking sound.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And you know, so when you take somebody else's vocals
and sound and put it in your music, I can
understand why they say, hey, wait, you're infringing on my
rights to control my music, my artistry.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And if you're gonna put something like that in a
way that could be shared, I think you're opening yourself
up to some liability, whether it was intended to be
in the public or not.
Speaker 2: You did it well. Now that this is there, Now
that this is happening, it seems inevitable that something like
this would come up. But this is the first example
I've seen of something like this coming up where an actual,
an actual lawsuit has come about it. It's interesting. Again,
I'm not making a judgment in this moment about whose
side I'm on here or what I think. I just
saw this. I didn't even see this before the show.
I happened to see it just a few minutes ago.
It popped up in my newsfeed. But very very interesting.
So we will have to we will have to follow
that closely going forward. What we're gonna do now is,
if you are listening live on Saturday, we've got a great,
great artist coming up. Katk is going to be with
us in the second hour. So we're gonna go ahead
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