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Dave Schrader is a long time radio show host that delves deep into the realms of the strange, fringe and bizarre in the paranormal field. Dave and co-host Tim Dennis started off with Darkness Radio in 2006, which grew into a widely popular radio show. He became a regular fill-in host for George Noory on Coast to Coast AM that is heard world-wide with millions of listeners.

Dave now hosts Midnight In The Desert, formally hosted by the radio legend Art Bell on Dark Matter Digital Network along with Darkness Radio Presents: BEYOND the DARKNESS on PodcastOne and True Crime Tuesday on Patreon.

Dave co-wrote the book The Other Side: A Teen's Guide to Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal, was the lead judge on the Travel Channel hit mini-series Paranormal Challenge and has appeared onscreen on Travel Channel's #1 series, Ghost Adventures numerous times, Paranormal State on A&E and Haunted Hospitals.

Mr. Schrader also worked behind the scenes on Ghost Adventures for 3 years as a location scout and researcher.

Beginning in October 2019 he we be a featured cast member of a new paranormal reality series on Travel Channel.

Steve Gorman is a founding member of the iconic American rock n roll band The Black Crowes. Over 27 years, he toured the world relentlessly, leaving a small piece of his sanity at every stop. Gorman launched a sports talk radio show in Nashville, ’Steve Gorman SPORTS!’ in 2011, working with Troy Hanson at 102.5 The Game. The show was syndicated on Fox Sports Radio from 2014-2018. Over the last year Steve penned his memoir, “Hard to Handle: The Life And Death of The Black Crowes,” which will be published by Hachette Book Group this September. His current band, Trigger Hippy, is releasing an album, “Full Circle and Then Some” this October. He lives in Nashville with his wife, Rose Mary, their two kids, and entirely too many pets.

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For years, whenever she performed a concert, Patty Smyth heard the same question from fans: “People would be like, ‘When are you gonna give us new music? When are you gonna give us new music?’ I kept saying, “I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna do it…

IT’S ABOUT TIME is Smyth doing it — for the first time in 28 years, not counting the 2015 holiday album COME ON DECEMBER. And on the eight-song set, produced in Nashville by Grammy Award-winner Dann Huff, the veteran songstress is doing it with the same passion, fire and provocative temperament that she’s displayed since her ferocious arrival with the band Scandal in 1982, except now with the perspective and wisdom of three more decades of life and legacy she’s attained during the interim.

“I’ve been touring and playing shows with the same band for 12 years, just having a blast,” says Smyth, a Brooklyn native who now resides in Malibu and New York City with her husband, pro tennis legend John McEnroe. “I was always writing, but I didn’t really think about, ‘Should I put out a record?’ It’s so difficult right now, so I didn’t know whether I should do it or not. Then I finally went into the zone of writing these songs I felt were poignant and relevant for me, and I started to realize this is a real thing that’s happening and just went with it.”

 Smyth’s instincts, of course, have established a career that’s made her something of a legend in her own right as one of the foremost singers, and not just female singers, in rock. With the band Scandal, Smyth filled radio during the early 80s with indelible hits such as “Goodbye To You,” “Love’s Got a Line on You” and “The Warrior,” a Top 10 smash that also topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. She didn’t miss a beat after the band’s dissolution, either, following with a pair of well-received solo albums (NEVER ENOUGH and the Roy Bittan-produced PATTY SMYTH) and more hits, including “Never Enough” and “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough,” a duet with Don Henley that vaulted Smyth to the top of the Adult Contemporary charts, and to No. 1 in Canada.

Along the way Smyth was also asked to replace David Lee Roth in Van Halen (she was eight months pregnant so the time wasn’t right) and made guest appearances on the Hooters’ NERVOUS NIGHT album and a couple of Henley’s platinum releases. Her “Look What Love Has done” for the film JUNIOR was nominated for Academy and Grammy Awards, and Smyth’s “Wish I Were You” was a soundtrack theme song for the 1998 box office smash ARMAGEDDON. 

But it’s no great secret, and maybe even a source of pride, that Smyth — who reunited with Scandal for a time during the 00s — has spent most of the past two decades below the proverbial radar. Family is the main reason, raising a brood of six mine, his and ours with McEnroe and giving those duties the same determined and passionate priority Smyth gave her music career.

 “I was literally drowning in kids!” she says with a laugh — noting that it was daughter Ruby who encouraged Smyth to be part of the VH1 BANDS REUNITED episode in 2004 that resurrected Scandal. “My life just got too big for me to get around it. I’ve lived it, and it was great. But I had to step back (from music); I just didn’t think I would step back for as long as I did.” 

With the children all grown (youngest daughter Ava is 21), Smyth found herself using songwriting to take stock of where she finds herself in life now and what she’s learned over those intervening years as a wife, a mother and a community member as well as an artist who hasn’t entirely shed the chippy defiance of her youth. “Y’know, here we are. We still love music, we still like to have fun, but we’re in our fifties — How the hell did that happen! It went really fast, y’know. And for me that’s a little bit of a bittersweet thing. It’s a privilege to get older and you’re lucky to get older, but you do lose things.”

Recording IT’S ABOUT TIME — which also includes covers of Bobby Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” and Tom Waits’ “Downtown Train,” both staples in Smyth’s live show — in Nashville was a treat, meanwhile. (She recorded “Downtown Train” before, in fact — on her debut solo album, two years after Waits’ original version and two years before Rod Stewart’s hit rendition.) She wrote songs with a variety of collaborators, including good pal Liz Rose, while she’s known producer Huff since his days in the rock band Giant; He’s since gone on to win Producer of the Year and Musician of the Year awards from the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music, helming hits for the likes of Shania Twain, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, Celine Dion, Kelly Clarkson and scores of others. 

 “I knew him as a guitar player. When I found out he was a big producer I was like, ‘Do you want to work with me?'” Smyth recalls. They recorded primarily at legendary Blackbird Studios, with co-producer Ilya Toshinskly handling acoustic guitar and a crack band that included guitarist Derek Wells, keyboardist Charlie Judge, bassist Jimmie Lee Sloas and drummer Chris McHugh.

 “All I ever wanted to do was sing and perform, and when I discovered I could write I was so friggin’ happy,” Smyth says. “I want to just keep getting better and more disciplined and keep moving forward. My No.1 priority, my kids, are all good and grown now, so the music can be it for me again, and I’m really enjoying that.”

 

Will Chu is stuck in a thankless job while trying to pursue his true passion in life, becoming a stand-up comedian. When he gets the opportunity he's been waiting for, the emcee slot on the road opening for his hero Billy G., the realities of life on the stage come crashing in. Between relentless hecklers, drunk comedy groupies and hard-to-impress morning radio DJs, things get off to a rough start. Even if he can learn from his idols and overcome the challenges, he'll have to prove he has what it takes to make his dream a reality. Written by RLJE Films