Listen to the Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight each Monday night at 8 PM EST on www.butterfliesradio.com. The hour long pre-recorded show features songs and an interview with me, Kiva Johns-Adkins and an Indie Artist from the station's rotation. This week's guest is New York singer/songwriter/musician Melissa VanFleet. A self-taught vocalist with over 20 years of extensive dance training, Melissa grew up in Pennsylvania and lived and worked in Nashville for four years before moving to New York City. You can currently catch her every Wednesday in September at The Hard Rock Cafe in Philadelphia.

Listen to the Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight each Monday night at 8 PM EST on www.butterfliesradio.com. The hour long pre-recorded show features songs and an interview with me, Kiva Johns-Adkins and an Indie Artist from the station's rotation. This week's guest is MK Ultra, the solo project of songwriter and musician Travis Szendrei from Los Angeles. He talks about his new album, "Documentation" and the personal journey that lead to the album.

Listen to the Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight each Monday night at 8 PM EST on www.butterfliesradio.com. The hour long pre-recorded show features songs and an interview with me, Kiva Johns-Adkins and an Indie Artist from the station's rotation. This week's guest is Canadian singer/songwriter, Dylan Lock. Lock was named the July MSI: Hit List Winner for July. As a strong piano player and songwriter, there is no doubt Lock is on the right path as a full-time musician.

Listen to the Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight each Monday night at 8 PM EST on www.butterfliesradio.com. The hour long pre-recorded show features songs and an interview with me, Kiva Johns-Adkins and an Indie Artist from the station's rotation. This week's guest is San Diego indie/singer/songwriter, Josh Damigo, who heads out on his third U.S. Tour on August 30th. The tour starts and ends at his "house" - LeStat's West in San Diego. We talk about the upcoming tour and discuss the embattled Mayor of San Diego.

Listen to the Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight each Monday night at 8 PM EST on www.butterfliesradio.com. The hour long pre-recorded show features songs and an interview with me, Kiva Johns-Adkins and an Indie Artist from the station's rotation. This week's guest Andrew Como from The Como Brothers, who were named Indie Music Bus Artist of the Month for August. We talk about their upcoming album, 'Baby Steps,' which will be released this October (two songs from the new album play on tonight's show), what it was like performing with The Wallflowers and their opportunity via Hard Rock Rising.

Listen to the Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight each Monday night at 8 PM EST on www.butterfliesradio.com. The hour long pre-recorded show features songs and an interview with me, Kiva Johns-Adkins and an Indie Artist from the station's rotation. This week's guest is Satellite Mind's Christian Dyer, from Arizona. Dyer was formerly with the band The Misery Science, in Portland, Oregon before moving to the Tucson area and starting Satellite Mind. We talk about the change in climate as well as music scenes, on line dating and the band's upcoming EP, "Transmissions from the Satellite Mind."

Listen to the Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight each Monday night at 8 PM EST on www.butterfliesradio.com. The hour long pre-recorded show features songs and an interview between me, Kiva Johns-Adkins and an Indie Artist from the station's rotation. This week's guests are Fraser and Naomi Browne from Paper Cranes. The folk band from New Zealand bring unusual instruments to their performances, influenced heavily from Naomi's childhood in Japan.

Listen to the Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight each Monday night at 8 PM EST on www.butterfliesradio.com. The hour long pre-recorded show features songs and an interview with me, Kiva Johns-Adkins with an Indie Artist from the station's rotation. This week's guest is a young lady from Great Britain with a voice and sound that go well beyond her 16 years. I was very pleased to be the first to formally interview Sophie. In our interview she talks about recording The Counting Crows' 'Holiday in Spain' for a cover recording the band released. She also talks about being mentored by The Verve's Simon Jones.

Listen to the Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight each Monday night at 8 PM EST on www.butterfliesradio.com. The hour long pre-recorded show features songs and an interview with me, Kiva Johns-Adkins with an Indie Artist from the station's rotation. This week's guest is a multi-talented young woman from Chicago. Ashleigh Ashton is not only a singer/songwriter, but she also dances and acts as well as doing motivational speaking about bullying. We talk about her busy summer schedule, her work in community theater (including her work with the famed Piven Theater), and how her soon-to-be-released video for Break in 2 assists her in her motivational speaking engagements.

Listen to the Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight each Monday night at 8 PM EST on www.butterfliesradio.com. The hour long pre-recorded show features songs and an interview with me, Kiva Johns-Adkins with an Indie Artist from the station's rotation.

This week's guest is the five-man punk/metal/pop band, The Upset Victory, out of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Upset Victory were just named Indie Music Bus' Artist of the Month for July.

We talk about the Queen City, how they named their latest EP, Wall Street and about the upcoming Bunbury Music Festival where they will perform.