The Standard Variety Hour

Short on music but big on commentary and interviews. Just wait and see.

Now higher quality for your listening enjoyment! On this music-filled Variety Hour Mark & Kevin will whine, complain, and moan about their current head colds. They'll talk about their recent trip to the Midpoint Music Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio... and you'll hear music on the theme of Leaves/Leaving in honor of Fall (Thunderhawk, Nancy Sinatra, Songs: Ohia, and many more).

On The Standard Variety Hour this week, Mark & Kevin will play tunes from bands performing at this year's Midpoint Music Festival (MPMF) in Cincinnati, OH. (including The Seedy Seeds, Kinetic Stereokids, and many more) They'll also travel time during a riveting Random Fact segment. "Things You Can't Say on Radio" will also be revisited...

In this episode, The Amo Joy Spectacular, we'll celebrate a new release coming this Friday on cassette from the crazy circusy-pop band. You'll hear the entire cassette release in two chunks of 13-minutes. Also this week, our Random Fact segment has us talking about the Indiana Pi Bill of the late 1890's.

We're back with an all new show this week! In honor of Kevin's recent trip to Yellowstone and his meanderings around Montana and Wyoming - we're playing tunes related to moving west, westward expansion, and traveling... music from Chad Serhal, Okkervil River, Harry McClintock, Songs: Ohia, and much more.

The .jascha spectacular! In this episode we'll feature music from Indianapolis-based music ground .jascha in honor of their upcoming 7" EP/CD release on Standard Recording. Kevin will finally air his fair collage, we'll play you some 1-minute stories about Love, and we'll issue a contest to win free tickets to the .jascha EP/CD release party in Indianapolis.

In this episode, we feature music from Mates of State, The Ting Tings, Sleigh Bells, The Budos Band, and Florence & The Machine. We'll visit "Metric Mondays" poetry slam event and hear a clip of Seth Walker (Austin, TX). And for the 2nd time, Mark will guide us through time and space via his time machine during a "Random Fact" segment that will shock and amaze you!

Our 10th SHOW! Wow, we haven't been kicked off the air yet... and we're happy about it. This show features music from Grandaddy, The Kinks, Handsome Family, and more... we'll hear 2 excerpts from the poetry event "Metric Monday" that takes place at Locals Only Art & Music Pub - Indy. Mark will also take us back in time to Boggstown, IN 1861 via his mail order time machine.

This week's show features music from Band Marino, Castle Oldchair, Mountain Man, The Zombies and more. You'll hear a 1-Minute Story from a caller, and we'll talk about Cilantro during our Random Fact segment.

This week's show is a Dead Beat's SPECTACULAR as we celebrate the release of a new LP on Standard, Dead Beats - Wake Up (LP/CD). We'll revisit last weeks Random Fact and tell you yet a NEW ONE! We'll also announce the winner of the Standard Variety Logo Design Contest...... oh so much fun!