Friggin Fabulous Radio is now available as an app for iPhone and iPad! Go to the iTunes Store and download the "Podcast Box" app and type "Music" in the search field. Friggin Fabulous Radio should be one of the first ones in the list. It costs $1.99, but it's totally worth it if you like Fabulous live music, interviews, Booze News and more!
*It's also available for Android and Kindle Fire in the Amazon App Store.
Please download and enjoy!
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MJ Cyr Live From Path Cafe, NYC 3/8/13Every once in a while I suffer from a syndrome known as "Amazed Ears" and it happens when I hear music that reaches in and pulls my soul out through my throat, so to speak. MJ Cyr's set at Path Cafe recently was one of those times.MJ Cyr is an amazing singer/songwriter/composer from Toronto, Canada.Please check out and buy her music at:http://mjcyr.com/music
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Friggin Fabulous Radio is proud to announce that it is now on the Stitcher Radio Network! Download the Stitcher app from the iTunes store and listen to FF Radio and thousands of other podcasts for FREE! http://app.stitcher.com/browse/feed/33949/details
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Friggin Fabulous Radio Live-4/2/13This was one of the most EPIC Live episodes featuring live performances and interviews with Justin Purtill, The Working Effective and Trash Executioner!
Also, check it out on iTunes and as an Android and Kindle Fire App in the Amazon App Store!
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Anthony Mulcahy Live From Path Cafe, NYC, 3/8/13Anthony Mulcahy's live set from Path Cafe, NYC was truly one of the best performances I've ever seen at Path.Mulcahy is currently touring Ireland promoting his new album "for my sins."I recommend purchasing it from iTunes asap!
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Check out the new Trash Executioner video, "Succubus",
starring Jack Halpin and Kit Vogelsang!
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Justin Purtill Live From Path Cafe, NYC-3/8/13
Justin Purtill has been an active member of the creative music
scene for over ten years. He has performed,recorded, and toured with the likes of Gary Burton, Marco Benevento, Jerry Bergonzi, Hal Crook, George Garzone, Leo Genovese, Brian Godchaux, Donna Jean Godchaux and more!
Justin has released three CD's of improvisational singer-songwriter music
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Friggin Fabulous Radio Show #3 Featuring my interview with Mike Doughty!Listen Here!
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Jasper Lewis Live From Path Cafe, 10/9/12
Jasper Lewis performed an amazing set as part of the Friggin Fabulous Showcase at Path Cafe, NYC, on 10/9/12.
Jasper's new album, "The King of Ideas and the Weirdo Kid" just came out and it's incredible!
E. W. Harris recorded and mixed it at Scifidelity in Brooklyn and it was mastered at Friggin Fabulous Studios:
http://www.frigginfabulousradio.com/audiovideoservices.html
Jasper's album can be downloaded at CD Baby:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jasperlewis
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Derek Webb Interview-11/30/12
This is truly one of the most fascinating interviews I've ever had the pleasure to host. Derek Webb tackles one of the topics that many of us have been thinking about lately-the human/technology relationship and all the pros and cons and craziness that goes along with said relationship.
On Ctrl, Webb places his acoustic axe in the service of his most ambitious project to date. It tells the tale of an unnamed character that melts the lines of physical and virtual realities until it's hard to tell man from machine, the digits from the DNA.
Here's how Webb explains it: "It's an album about one man's desire for something he cannot have because it isn't real, the journey he goes on pursuing it, and the costs of that journey. But essentially, 'Ctrl' is both personal autopsy and cultural observation about how we use technology to try and control our lives, and my concern that it could ultimately have more control of us."
Download the album and get more info here:
http://derekwebb.com/home
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Nick Ciavatta Live From The Brightside Tavern, Jersey City, 10/11/12
Nick Ciavatta doing a short solo set live from The Brightside Tavern in Jersey City. Ciavatta fronts the super happy fun time band, Sea of Otters, who have been playing around the New Jersey and NYC area for quite some time now.
Ciavatta is also the Executive Producer of Friggin Fabulous Radio, which can be found on the web at http://www.frigginfabulousradio.com/ and as a podcast on iTunes and an Android and Kindle Fire App in the Amzon App Store.
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Jo Kroger Live From Path Cafe, NYC, 8/28/12
Jo Kroger is not a big fan of writing bios and I quote: "i hate writing bio lines. but i love you."
Jo is actually an amazing singer songwriter from NYC, LA and everywhere in between. She is one of those perfomers that I'm mesmerized by every time I see her play. She is truly an amazing talent. Check it out!
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Malcolm Marsden Live From Path Cafe, NYC, 8/28/12
Malcolm Marsden has had a long career as a musician, starting in New Haven CT, where he played with former and future members of Rocket From The Tombs, Miracle Legion, and Dumptruck. He is a vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter, who performs his original compositions solo, and rarely-heard songs from a broad folk-rooted pop and rock repertoire in a trio called In The Dreamlife.
Malcolm has been active in promoting North Jersey's music scene, hosting open mics at Hat City Kitchen in Orange and Highland Place Bar & Grill in Maplewood, while appearing regularly at many others in the area. Malcolm has performed in recent months at Tapastry Restaurant in Montclair, PATH Cafe and Gizzis Cafe in the West Village, NY, and Boca Grande and Lucky 7 Tavern in Jersey City.
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James Dalton Interview-9/7/12James Dalton, although originally from New Jersey, is very well traveled an he has the well worn passport to prove it. He's played tiny pubs and festivals, clubs like The Bitter End and Stone Pony, and even ships at sail on the Baltic Sea.In this inteveiew we talk about everything from his songwriting style to Finnish Santa Clauses and Batman.His new live album. "Frankonia" is available for download at Band Camp. Check it out!
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Randy Burns Live From Path Cafe, NYC, 8/28/12
In 1966, Randy Burns was dropped off on the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal Street, with a bag over his shoulder and a guitar in his hand…ready for anything Randy had gotten his start a year earlier at The Exit Coffeehouse in New Haven, Connecticut but soon left to join the Urban Folk Revival in Greenwich Village.
It was an honor to have Randy play the Friggin Fabulous Showcase at Path Cafe, NYC!
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Terry Haman Live From Path Cafe, NYC, 8/14/12Terry Haman is one of my favorite singer/songwriters in the NYC Area. He is one of the few performers that I consider truly original.Terry is always writing and always giging somewhere in the NYC/North Jersey area. Enjoy this live set from the Friggin Fabulous Showcase at Path Cafe, NYC, which happens every second and fourth Tuesday at 7pm.
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This is Punk Rock! The new video from Trash Executioner!
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Gerald Lucas Live From Path Cafe, NYC, 7/24/12
Gerald Lucas is a multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, bass, violin and has an amazing voice.
His songs are so well crafted and truly original. He's currently in the studio working on a new EP.
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Sea Of Otters performing "Burnt Umber Blues" at Moore's Lounge, Jersey City on 6/1/12!
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Don Paris Schlotman Live From Path Cafe, NYC, 6/26/12Don Paris Schlotman is well known for his biting bass lines and sometimes spacey vocals with The Sky Captains of Industry, but Don is quite the acomplished singer/songwriter and he lit up the stage at The Friggin Fabulous Showcase at Path Cafe recently. Here is his scintilating solo set in it's entirety!
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Ryan Morgan Interview-5/11/12I sat down with Ryan Morgan, one of my favorite song writers, at Path Cafe, NYC, on a lovely Spring Day in Manhattan. Ryan talks about his new album, "Chivalry is Dead", the state of the News Industry in America, The Death of Amy Winehouse, Big City Folk and lots more. You REALLY need to buy his new album, which was produced and engineered by E.W. Harris.
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Rachel Epp Interview-3/21/12
It was an absolute pleasure to sit down with the amazingly talented singer/songwriter, Rachel Epp, at Path Cafe in NYC.
Her songs invoke imagery of ghosts, graveyards, trains, the country and the city. Her new EP Rosary has been on auto play on my iPod all week!
I suggest you get a copy as soon as possible!
http://www.rachelepp.com/
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P@Atomic performing "Before The Fall"at Path Cafe, NYC, on 2/28/12!
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Vic Della Pello Live From Algonquin Seaport Theater, NYC, 7/8/11
We had so many great shows at Algonquin Seaport Theater and the view was spectacular!
Vic's acoustic show from 7/8/11 was one of the best! Andrea Ceresa
joined Vic on stage for some backing vocals. Vic's new album "Broken
Heart Tattoo" is outstanding and he plays many of the songs from it as
well as some interesting covers from Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac and The
Beatles. You can get "Broken Heart Tattoo" as a digital download, CD and
LP-how cool is that!
http://vicdellapello.com/wordpress-blog/?page_id=36
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Mike Viola Interview
"From the get-go, Viola’s new release Electro De Perfecto pulls listeners in with a decidedly hot-rodded version of his acclaimed songwriting. Songs that are gloriously dark and uplifting about being lost in the maze of middle age, hungry for life as the body decays."
That's from Mike's web site:
http://www.mikeviola.com/
His new album "Electro De Perfecto" is Fabulous and I had such a great time interviewing him!
Check it out and share it with the world!
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Mike Doughty Interview
Nick Ciavatta's Friggin Fabulous interview with Mike Doughty,
who talks about his new album,"Yes and Also Yes", his days with Soul
Coughing and the unconventional use of an anti-depressant capsule on his
recordings. Download the new album on Amazon and iTunes! Download the Friggin Fabulous Podcast on iTunes for Free!!
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Jens Jepsen Interview
I had the distinct pleasure to interview, book and do live sound for Jens
Jepsen while he was in NYC. Jens is an incredibly talented
singer/songwriter from Denmark who
just toured the tri-state area with Kristian Odegard, who played cajon
and sang back up vocals. His album "Walking Between The Sun And The
Atmosphere" is a gem, and it was an honor to get to know him.
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New Otter Review Live at Algonquin Seaport Theater, NYC, Performing "Anti-Social Butterflies."
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The Times Interview
I sat down with Chris Sheard, Lead Vocalist and Guitarist for
The Times at Blind Tiger on Bleecker Street in NYC. These Brooklynites
mix Ska, Reggae, Funk, well, just about everything and if you don't move
your feet to their beats, you probably don't have a pulse!
http://www.thetimesband.com/fr_home.cfm
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Lyva Interview
Lynda McLaughlin and Valerie Gurka are two friends who met at a cover
band gig in an Irish bar in New York in 2005. They both share passion
for music performance, production, business, media and technology. Their
music is hard to classify because it spans multiple genres. If you like
Sade, The Gypsy Kings and Shayna Zaid, you're going to really dig LYVA!
http://lyvamusic.com/artists
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TINA Interview
Born in Mumbai and raised in Jersey, TINA has been singing and
performing since the age of five. She taught Ringo Star how to play
Tabla, has appeared on "Jerseylicious" and her new video "So Good",
featuring Fat Joe, is a You Tube sensation. This straight A student is a
rising star worth following!
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White Boy Brown Interview
"White Boy Brown" is a poignant and moving film about a black family that adopts a white
child. It deals with the subjects of racism, discrimination and
redemption. This is one of the few films that has ever moved me to
tears. It's part of the African Diaspora International Film Festival that was held at St. Paul's Church, 38 Duncan Ave., Jersey City, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, January 14th, 15th and 16th, 2011.
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Phoebe Legere Interview
Phoebe Legere is a beautiful and uber talented performer dubbed
"The Female Frank Zappa" by Roman Kozack of Billboard Magazine.
Her
voice is stunning and she plays several instruments. Her live shows are
multimedia masterpieces! Phoebe and her quintet are playing at Iridium
Jazz Club in NYC on tuesday, January 18th.
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Best of 2010 Radio Show-Part 1
2010 has been a great year for Friggin Fabulous Radio, and Nick is very
thankful for all the amazingly talented artists who did interviews for
the podcast. Artists like Niall Connolly, Shayna Zaid and the Catch,
Craig Greenberg, Jennings, and the list goes on. Here's to a Friggin
Fabulous 2011!
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The Singing Santas of New Otter Review.
Live at Boca Grande, Jersey City, 12/22/10.
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It just wouldn't be Christmas without a video from Macky!
This year I was honored to be part of the band.
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Niall Connolly Interview
I sat down with Brooklyn Based Singer/Songwriter, Niall Connolly
at Red Lion on Bleecker Street recently where he talked about his Irish
roots, the American Media and 99 Cent Stores in Jersey City. According
to his Bio, he recorded his first album in 2001 using money raised by
selling his body for medical research, and in 2010 he funded his fourth
album, "Brother The Fight Is Fixed" from pre-sales from fans across the
globe. It's an honor to have Niall on Friggin Fabulous Radio!
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Craig Greenberg
Craig Greenberg is one of my favorite NYC performers and song
writers, and I finally got the chance to interview him in front of Cafe
Vivaldi in the West Village. His new EP, "Spinning in Time" features his
guitar, piano and vocal work and is stuck on reapeat on my iPod. If you
like Ben Folds Five, Jackson Browne and Ben Harper, you're going to
love this!
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Peter Doran
This time I interviewed the super talented singer/songwriter Peter
Doran, from the fair city of Dublin, Ireland.Peter plays "soulful and
seductive folk-pop" according to Cyber PR, and I have to agree. If you
like Jeff Buckley, Fionn Regan and David Gray, you're sure to love the
music of Peter Doran!
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J-Punch and Dave Moonshine Interview
"Blast us with wind, melt us with acid and set us ablaze. What are we
left with? Sitck Figure Guy." That's the quote on J-Punch and Dave
Moonshine's new album, "Stick Figure Guy." I f you like Depeche Mode,
Moby, Everything But The Girl, you will love these guys. Their amazing
lyrics and Downtempo beats will blow you away!
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Nick Ciavatta sits down with the legendary King of Nostalgia,
Joe Franklin in his cluttered, memorabilia rich office in the heart of Times Square, NYC.
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Part 2 of Nick's interview with the legendary "King of Nostalgia" from his Times Square office. Joe talks about his movie career, Broadway, Comedians and some highlights of his 50+ years in broadcasting.
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Josephine Ancelle
It
was a joy to sit down with Josephine Ancelle at the Ariel Publicity
Press Conference a couple of months ago. Her gorgeous voice, amazing
song writing skills and French and English lyrics are mesmerizing!
http://www.josephineancelle.com/
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Beer. It's what's for breakfast. More accurately, it's four beers paired
with Delaney's twist on classic dishes, from blueberry pancakes with a
trio of beer-infused syrups to banana bread French toast. The fifth
course? A smoked imperial stout. Cheers to Paul Lin for letting us post this vital story!
Delaney's Beer Breakfast
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Big Five Chord
I spoke with John Lundbom, jazz
guitarist extraordinaire from the band "Big Five Chord" at Blind Tiger
Ale House in NYC. We spoke about everything from his roots in Chicago,
to the genius of Ornette Coleman, Frank Zappa and Little Feat. Their new
album, "Accomplish Jazz", is a Jazz and Fusion extravaganza with some
beautiful, beefy compositions.
http://www.jonlundbom.com/
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New Booze News article about one of New Jersey's best brew pubs, J.J. Bitting's, and their new Kick @ss Brew Master, James Moss:
J.J. Bitting's Brewery
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Another great Interview from Ariel Publicity Headquarters with Lauren O'Brien. Lauren's new album, "Inconsequential Dream"is truly unique and original-a total trip for the soul! Check it out here:
Lauren O'Brien Interview
Nick Ciavatta sat down with the
multi-talented Mark Plotkin, from the band, "Miles", at the Ariel Publicity
Press Conference in Brooklyn, NY. Recorded in a few different studios,
their new album, "As Fast as You Can", combines Pop, Rock, Alternative,
Electronica and a touch of hot sauce to make a truly delicious musical
stew.
http://www.milestheband.com/
Miles Interview
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Nick Ciavatta of Friggin Fabulous Radio interviews the deliciously
absurd improv comedy group,Lead McEnroe, who perform at The Magnet
Theater in NYC every Friday Night.
http://www.leadmcenroe.com/
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Friggin Fabulous Studios is a full service Audio/Video Production House:
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DEVI
Friggin Fabulous Interview with Debra and Keith from the band "DEVI."
Debra is one of the best female guitarists and vocalists out there! If
you like Joan Jett, Jimi Hendrix, Blondie and Television, you're going
to love DEVI!
http://www.devi-rock.com/
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Hong Kong is full of interesting bars and clubs, and has something for
everyone - from small taverns and tapas bars to loud Rock clubs.Check out Nick's take on the Hong Kong Bar Scene here:
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Rafael Santiago's drawings and paintings are organically
conceived, using a variety of experimental concepts- he fuses wax,
color dyes, micron pens to produce a unique color palette. His work
will be on display at Bold Hype Gallery in Orlando, FLA, through March
6th, 2010.
http://www.rafology.com/
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New Original Music Video Featuring Glenn Page and Chloe!
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Kelly Lynn Interview
Interview with Kelly Lynn, a multi-talented artist who is taking the Dance/R&B world by storm!
http://www.myspace.com/kellylynnmusic
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Booze News Interview with Mike Cadoux of Peak Organic Brewing of Portland, ME. Nick Ciavatta of Friggin Fabulous Radio sat down with Mike at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY.
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Ladies and Gentleman-Check out the new interview with the amazingly talented Chris Kirby. Chris Kirby's new album,"Vampire Hotel",
deliciously blends Blues, R&B, Funk, Soul and more, and the lyrics
are Fabulous too! No wonder he's been nominated for 4 East Coast Music
Awards. You definitely want to check this one out!
Chris Kirby Interview
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Need a "Craft Beer" education?
Don Mathisen from Intel Radio/New York Magazine sat down with FF Radio's own Nick Ciavatta to talk about beer and the best places to find it in New York City:
Craft Beer Interview
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The Booze News interview with Scott Vaccaro of Captain Lawrence Brewing, and James O'Brien of the Blind Tiger.
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Check out my interview with Jennings, who I sat down with at Blind Tiger, NYC.
Jennings Interview
It
was an absolute pleasure to sit down with Jennings at the Blind Tiger,
NYC, and talk about her expansive sound featuring piano, amazing vocals
and a hint of electronica. Her music reflects an enormous strength and
drive that is uniquely hers.
Become a fan of Friggin Fabulous Radio on Facebook!
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Here is the latest Bar Review, partially
recalled from the infamous night that a few of us went to the new
Zeppelin Hall Beer Garden in Jersey City:
Zeppelin Hall Biergarten - Review by Nick Ciavatta
And some excellent new Prose and Poetry from Sarah Kolbasowski and Kevin Carroll on the Poetry Page.
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The "King of Nostalgia", Joe Franklin, interviews Roger SeLegue,
author of "No Sun Without Shadow", June 2009.
Coming Soon, Nick Ciavatta's interview with Joe Franklin!
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