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Jeff Smith - Saustex Records

Jeff Smith is a rock’n’roller for life. Having started a band called The Dwarves (not the SF punk legends) at the age of 14 he has continued to write, record, play and promote music for nearly four decades. J Smith launched his current label Saustex Records in 2004 and has since issued well over fifty releases by artists as diverse as Javier Escovedo, Blowfly, The Upper Crust and BP Fallon in addition to many lesser known regional and international acts and his own band, the long running Hickoids.

ELLEN GOLDFARB – Director / Producer

 

Ellen Goldfarb is the Creator, Director and Producer of Dare To Be Different. Ellen grew up listening to radio station WLIR, which greatly impacted her life. She has produced and directed many projects including 2 concerts, but this is her first feature film. She studied in New York and took screenwriting classes through UCLA's extension program.

Dare To Be Different is a feature length documentary revealing how 80's music was really introduced to the US from Europe. U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure: over half a billion records sold and you may never have heard of them if not for a small suburban radio station on Long Island, NY: WLIR. In August, 1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn't compete with the mega-stations in New York City. With one brave decision, they changed the sound of American culture forever. Program Director Denis McNamara, the 'LIR crew and the biggest artists of the era tell the story of how they battled the FCC, the record labels, mega-radio and all the conventional rules to create a musical movement that brought the New Wave to America.

Kevin Kerslake’s latest directorial effort, BAD REPUTATION, a documentary on the life of Joan Jett, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 joining a critically-acclaimed body of work that includes core culture and music docs (AS I AM: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DJ AM, THE RAMONES: WE’RE OUTTA HERE!, NIRVANA: LIVE! TONIGHT! SOLD OUT!,BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS’ LEGEND: REMIXED, THE ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL EXPERIENCE), television dramas (Disney/ABC’s 4-hour FALLEN miniseries starring Paul Wesley and Bryan Cranston, FOX’s THE VISITOR starring John Corbett), concerts and live events (Insomniac Events, HARD Events, AOL, HBO, KCRW, Soundgarden, STP, Queens of the Stone Age, Velvet Revolver, Cypress Hill), shorts exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Walker Art Center and Museums of Contemporary Art in Tokyo and San Francisco, plus writing duties for Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros, Ed Pressman, and Quentin Tarantino’s A Band Apart. One of a handful of filmmakers responsible for forging the visual identity of the MTV generation, Kerslake cut his teeth directing music videos for Nirvana, Green Day, R.E.M., Prince, Joan Jett, STP, the Rolling Stones, Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, Rise Against, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and many others. A surf film for Quiksilver launched a move into branded content where Kerslake directed commercials and brand-integrated campaigns for the likes of Hyundai, Nike, Puma, Sprite, DC Shoes, VEVO, Coca-Cola, Sony Playstation and Insomniac Events, plus advocacy projects involving Doctors Without Borders, the Red Hot Organization, Homeboy Industries, PETA, SurfAid, Room to Read, and Amnesty International.

John Foster is a world-renowned designer, author and speaker on design issues. His work has been published in numerous books and every major industry magazine, hangs in galleries across the globe and is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian. He is the proud recipient of a gold medal from the Art Directors Club. He is an international speaker, including numerous appearances at the largest design gathering in the world; The HOW Design Conference. Foster is the author of Album Art: New Music Graphics; New Masters of Poster Design and New Masters of Poster Design: Volume Two; Paper and Ink Workshop; 1,000 Indie Posters; Dirty Fingernails: A One-Of-A-Kind Collection of Graphics Uniquely Designed By Hand; For Sale: Over 200 Innovative Solutions in Packaging Design; Maximum Page Design; and is one of the authors of Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans. He had the honor of penning the layout chapter of Debbie Millman’s Principles of Graphic Design, and has written columns for howdesign.com, brightestyoungthings.com and rockpaperink.com. He sits behind an enormous desk for drawing, painting and thinking and general computering. The goofiest foxhound, dachshund, and olde english bulldog to roam the land occupy the region directly below his feet.

Jeff Dupre is the series producer and director of SOUNDBREAKING: STORIES FROM THE CUTTING EDGE OF RECORDED MUSIC, which was nominated for an Emmy as well as a Grammy Award.

 He produced and co-directed Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, which premiered at Sundance in 2012.  The film won the Audience Award at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as an Emmy and a Peabody Award.  His film Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, was nominated for two Emmy Awards, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination.  

Soundbreaking' is an eight-part documentary exploring the history of music recording. The series profiles accomplished artists, producers and music innovators, and features original interviews and clips. Studios and pioneering technology are tracked through time, revealing the evolution of recording. Episodes discuss how recordings became visual when MTV popularised music videos and how each generation had its own medium to play tracks, from vinyl to CD. In the first episode the work of record producing greats George Martin, Phil Spector and Rick Rubin is spotlighted. And artists who also turned their hands to producing are discussed; individuals include Joni Mitchell and Prince.

From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Cafe to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records, New York City's cultural, artistic, and commercial assets helped to shape a distinctively urban breeding ground for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s. Folk City explores New York's central role in fueling the nationwide craze for folk music in postwar America. It involves the efforts of record company producers and executives, club owners, concert promoters, festival organizers, musicologists, agents and managers, editors and writers - and, of course, musicians and audiences. 

In Folk City, authors Stephen Petrus and Ron Cohen capture the exuberance of the times and introduce readers to a host of characters who brought a new style to the biggest audience in the history of popular music. Among the savvy New York entrepreneurs committed to promoting folk music were Izzy Young of the Folklore Center, Mike Porco of Gerde's Folk City, and John Hammond of Columbia Records. While these and other businessmen developed commercial networks for musicians, the performance venues provided the artists space to test their mettle. The authors portray Village coffee houses not simply as lively venues but as incubators of a burgeoning counterculture, where artists from diverse backgrounds honed their performance techniques and challenged social conventions. Accessible and engaging, fresh and provocative, rich in anecdotes and primary sources, Folk City is lavishly illustrated with images collected for the accompanying major exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York in 2015.

THE NEW YORK COFFEE FESTIVAL IS NEW YORK’S FLAGSHIP COFFEE EVENT, CELEBRATING THE BURGEONING SPECIALTY COFFEE SCENE IN THIS GREAT CITY.

We will be talking to variety-coffee-roasters ( They have amazing roasts) ,  Flat Brew ( The world’s first espresso spread), Tea Hee Hee ( Tea brand with a sense of humor. Each tag comes with a joke, pun, or just a little something to make you smile.

*The New York Coffee Festival celebrates New York’s vibrant coffee scene.

 

With over 12,000 plus coffee lovers and foodies, professional baristas, coffee shop owners and top decision-makers expected to attend, The New York Coffee Festival promises to be an unmissable event for all coffee lovers and industry folk alike.

Now in its third year, the Festival features artisan coffee and gourmet food stalls, demonstrations from world-class baristas, as well as all the coffee you could possibly drink, live music, art and much more.

Join me as I talk about the amazing life of Crispin Cioe , Music and so much more! 

In 1980, Crispin and three other horn players (Arno Hecht, Bob Funk, and Paul Litteral, who was eventually replaced by Larry Etkin) formed the Uptown Horns, starting with a weekly event at Tramps nightclub on E. 15th St., “The Uptown Horns Party”, that ran for two years, and featured many special guest artists as they passed through Gotham (including Solomon Burke, Rufus Thomas, Mitch Ryder, Elvis Costello, Wayne Kramer, Dennis Coffey, David Johansen, Dr. John, Southside Johnny, Clarence Clemmons, Buster Brown, Iggy Pop, and many others).The Uptown Horns emerged from this period with their first significant gigs and sessions as a section, including an acclaimed live album with Solomon Burke , and tours/recording with the ascendant J. Geils Band .  The Uptowns went on to tour/record with a wide variety of top-tier artists, including The Rolling Stones , Peter Wolf , James Brown , Joe Cocker, Buster Poindexter , James Montgomery Band , B-52s , Tom Waits , Bronski Beat, Iggy Pop, The Communards, Cameo, Joan Jett , Ohio Players, Albert Collins, Robert Plant & The Honeydrippers, Robert Palmer, and many more.In the late-90s Crispin’s started his band Cracked Ice, which has developed into  a multi-platform springboard for various facets of his music and business.  Crispin wrote/arranged/produced the band’s debut album “Soul Noir” (which music the band has performed live at festivals and clubs), developed the group into an ace backup unit for live performance (for Al Kooper, James Montgomery, Billy Squier and others), a potent ensemble for live TV (“The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Humor” for PBS), and (in a parallel universe) one of the premier party bands in America today.

What happens when an anti-social petty thief, a male hustler, and a delinquent runaway come together to join forces in the streets of NYC? One of two things, usually. Either the birth of a gang of misfit criminals, or a legendary rock & roll band. Luckily, for society’s sake, the latter has turned out to be true for Beechwood.

After our 30 Min interview ; Spencer and Holly talk about the things happening East/ West.. 

Tune in to Turn on!

 

link to purchase record: 

http://www.bompstore.com/beechwood-songs-from-the-land-of-nod-killer-nuggets-style-psych-glam-punk-w-insert-ltd-ed-starburst-vinyl/

In December 2015, the Smithsonian called on rock and roll lovers around the world to collect photos and stories of their favorite moments in music. Fans dug through attics, basements, closets, shoeboxes, digital cameras, and photo albums to post great rock shots to rockandroll.si.edu. From Woodstock to the Whisky a Go Go, from Lollapalooza to the 9:30 Club, and all the rockin' places in between, fans overwhelmingly responded with their favorite rock and roll moments. Iconic artists ranging from the Who to Nirvana to Chuck Berry to the Jimi Hendrix and many more are celebrated here. There are early photographs of everyone from Run-D.M.C. to the Runaways, and contemporary shots of some of the biggest names in music, including Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, and Metallica. Presented together, these photographs create a kaleidoscopic history of the artists, the musical styles, the venues, the concerts, and the fans. This is rock and roll as it has never been seen before.

BILL BENTLEY is the former A&R Director at Concord Music Group and Vice President of Warner Bros. Records. He has been a drummer, record store clerk, DJ, concert promoter, music producer, and record label publicist. Through it all he's also been a writer, and in 2007 he was given the ASCAP Deems Taylor award.