Sonic Café, where the skies end, that’s music on a galactic scale from Starset. So ahh welcome to the café. Grab your seat and join us for episode 298. I’m Scott Clark and this time the Sonic Café once again tests your grasp on reality with a music mix pulled from across time, ahh 57 years or so. How bout that? Listen for St. Vincent, the late, great tenor man Joe Henderson, Jethro Tull, Lord Huron, Jack White and of course many more including The Ting, Tings. We’ll let that tune loose near the bottom of the hour. Then valuable safety advice as comedian Sebastian Maniscalco steps up to the mic to share tips that will help you avoid, getting murdered, at night, at a gas station. So ahh there’s that. Then before we forget, the Sonic Café presents the official movie trailer for yet another Star Trek reboot. Listen for Billionaire Star Trek, starring Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson. Coming to a theatre near you this Christmas. All that and more, as the Sonic Café helps you avoid, getting murdered, at night, at a gas station. Ahem. Right here from the little radio café on the coast that brings you a weekly dose of intelligent, eclectic radio that’s fun. From the Seasons release, here’s American Authors. We’re the Sonic Café.
Song 1: Where The Skies End Artist: Starset LP: Divisions Yr: 2019 Song 2: Say Amen Artist: American Authors Feat. Billy Raffoul LP: Seasons Yr: 2019 Song 3: Psychopath Artist: St. Vincent LP: St. Vincent Yr: 2014 Song 4: Don't Get Murdered At A Gas Station Artist: Sebastian Maniscalco LP: Yr: 2020 Song 5: Immaculate Deception Artist: Joe Henderson LP: The Milestone Years (Disc 8) Yr: 1976 Song 6: AWOL Artist: Jethro Tull LP: J-Tull Dot Com Year: 1999 Song 7: That's Not My Name (Alternate Take) Artist: The Ting Tings LP: We Started Nothing Yr: 2008 Song 8: Not Dead Yet Artist: Lord Huron LP: Long Lost Yr: 2021 Song 9: Billionaire Star Trek Artist: SNL LP: SNL Yr: 2021 Song 10: Goo Goo Dolls Artist: Goo Goo Dolls LP: Miracle Pill Yr: 2019 Song 11: Weep Themselves To Sleep Artist: Jack White LP: Blunderbuss Yr: 2012 Song 12: Reality Artist: Blunderbuss LP: Psy-Fi Yr: 2004 Song 13: Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station Artist: Frank Zappa LP: Zoot Allures Yr: 1976 Song 14: Scusi, Facciamo L'Amore? (Two Cigarettes) Artist: Ennio Morricone LP: Scusi, Facciamo L'Amore? Yr: 1967
About the Producer:
Scott Clark has always had a lot of music in his life. Growing up outside of Chicago, he was mesmerized early on by the radio of the sixties and seventies and began collecting records at a very early age. From 45’s and LP’s to cassettes and CD’s and now digital… he really never stopped. Today everything in his library is digitized because he got sick of lugging all that stuff around.
The concept for the Sonic Café is to deliver the high production values and feel of the radio he grew up listening to. But unlike the tight, repetitious playlists of those commercial stations, feature a massive range of artists, genres and tunes. The whole idea is to package it in an eclectic, engaging, no repeat format that brings both new and old together in a unique, entertaining, and most importantly fun and fast paced way. There’s really nothing on the radio today, or in the past, that compares with it.
About the Sonic Café:
The show is set in an imaginary cafe overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Central Oregon Coast. The cafe serves up eclectic, intelligent music, comedy and pop culture. The program originates from KYAQ radio located on the Oregon coast in the Pacific Northwest, so the imagery is not a huge stretch.
Each program is 58:00 minutes in length leaving room for station ID, promos and PSAs. Each episode is .mp3 encoded at a constant rate of 256kbps and ready for broadcast.
An episode is released each week. All episodes are evergreen; never focusing on time of year, weather, month, holidays, events etc. so each show is timeless. All music is presented in a no repeat format. Once a song airs in an episode it never airs again. Episodes may be downloaded and grouped together to quickly create program blocks of two, three, four or more hours in length.
The Sonic Cafe has a Facebook page (facebook.com/SonicCafeRadio) where complete show notes and playlists are presented for each episode. Listeners can also reach the show producers via email (SonicCafeRadio@gmail.com)