Butterflies Radio IndieViews Artist Spotlight, featuring Melissa VanFleet - 9/16/13

This week's guest was New York singer/songwriter/musician Melissa VanFleet. Melissa was absolutely one of the most engaging guests I have ever had - I could practically hear her smile throughout the interview and her energy is contagious. We talked about her September residency at The Hard Rock Cafe in Philadelphia where you can catch her every Wednesday throughout the month. We also discussed her nominations for the 2014 Artists in Music Awards and the fact that her hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is also the home of PEEPS. We also discussed Renman Music & Business and the impact it has had on her life and career. Click on their name to find out more about them.

Melissa VanFleet performs Sleeping (In The Fire)

Butterflies Radio IndieViews Artist Spotlight PODCAST, featuring Melissa VanFleet - 9/16/13

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Butterflies Radio IndieViews Artist Spotlight, featuring MK Ultra (Travis Szendrei) - 9/9/13

Tonight's show features an interview with Travis Szendrei and the music from his debut solo project, Documentation. Szendrei goes by MK Ultra as a solo artist. We talk about the path his life has taken him on that led him to use the CIA's code name for mind control as his alter-ego and the series of events that inspired all of the music on Documentation.

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Butterflies Radio IndieViews Artist Spotlight, featuring Dylan Lock - 9/2/13

This week's guest is the MSI: Hit List Winner for  June, 2013. The singer/songwriter from Midland, Canada was a fabulous guest and I really enjoyed his insight into so many things. He also picked up his guitar and demonstrated live, during the interview, how he goes about songwriting.

Dylan is another of the very talented Canadian musicians I have had the privilege to speak with this past year. Dylan and I decided it was because Canadians have much longer winters that allow them more time to write and record.

He won the MSI: Hit List title with his song, Killer and Sin. I love the piano riff in the beginning. For me, it took me straight back to very happy memories. I immediately smiled and thought of The Haunted Mansion at Disney World and my favorite cartoon as a child, Scooby-Doo.

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Butterflies Radio IndieViews Artist Spotlight PODCAST, featuring Dylan Lock - 9/2/13

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Butterflies Radio IndieViews Artist Spotlight, featuring Josh Damigo - 8/26/13

On this week's Butterflies Radio IndieViews Artist Spotlight, I talk to San Diego indie/singer/songwriter Josh Damigo. Josh heads out on his third U.S. tour August 30th, departing from his "house venue" - LeStat's West in San Diego. That is also where the tour will end. All the songs from the show are from Josh's album, 'Hope.'

We discuss the upcoming tour, the best breakfast food in the country and the embattled Mayor of San Diego. We also talk about the Butterflies Radio Staff visit to see Josh perform at LeStat's back in February, where he took us to the best burrito dealer in town and we left in a literal hail storm.

Josh sings 'Cougar' at The Little Italy Walk

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Butterflies Radio IndieViews Artist Spotlight, featuring Satellite Mind - 8/12/13

Tonight's show features Christian Dyer, lead singer for Satellite Mind out of Tucson, Arizona. I discovered Satellite Mind via Reverbnation when I was doing A & R for Butterflies Radio earlier this year. I loved their song, 'Cool Like You' so much that I downloaded it to my iTunes right after I heard it for the first time.

Although tonight's show was extended by 15 minutes, there were still things that didn't make it on the show.

Christian talked about how therapeautic songwriting is for him, saying he is Happy-Go-Lucky on the outside but can explore his Dark inside when writing. He also told me how challenging it can be writing darker, more introspective songs when he lives in a place where the sun always shines.

Performing LIVE as The Misery Science

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Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight, featuring The Upset Victory, 7/8/13

This week's guest is the Indie Music Bus July Artist of the Month, The Upset Victory. The five man band are a mixture of punk, metal and pop and call Cincinnati, Ohio home. Guitarist Stephen Campbell sat down with me for an interview in advance of their mini tour, culminating in a performance this Sunday at The Bunbury Music Festival in Cincinnati.

We talked about the beautiful Queen City, which they call home, the excitement leading up to The Bunbury Music Festival, how they named their latest EP, Wall Street and the bands drummer, Aaron Roy, who also plays for a Hip Hop band.

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The Upset Victory with their latest video, Fake This.

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Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight, featuring The 7th Green, 7/1/13

This week's guest is the Rock/Funk/Jam quartet from LA (Lower Alabama) - Silverhill, Alabama to be precise known as The 7th Green.

The 7th Green were named the June Artist of the Month on Music Scene Investigation (MSI). Formed in 2006, by Hayden Dudley, Owen Finley, and Ethan Giles, the guys went their separate ways on their life paths, reuniting in 2012 and adding Kristian Brannan to the mix.

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Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight, featuring Sam Bradley - 6/24/13

This week's Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight guest is London-based singer/songwriter, Sam Bradley.

Sam is currently playing gigs throughout the British Isles and just released his newest EP, Not Your Kind. Music from that EP, a follow up to Zuni, is featured on tonight's show.

He talks about how far he has come and where he is heading, recording with a new band and what is like to live in London.

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Sam singing, Little Sister.

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Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight, featuring Zain Lodhia - 6/17/13

This week's guest on the Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight is Chicago-based singer/songwriter, Zain Lodhia.

Lodhia, who is new to the indie pop/rock scene just released his new EP, titled The Leap. He will be performing music from the EP at the official release party at Silvie's Lounge in Chicago on Friday, June 28.

His first EP, Memories was released in June, 2011.

Zain and I talked about a great Ethiopian restaurant in Chicago, how he became a serious musician after playing the game Rock Band and his endeavor to learn another language.

Butterflies Radio @IndieViews Artist Spotlight PODCAST, featuring Zain Lodhia - 6/17/13

Zain Lodhia's video to 'Lifetime' - My choice song of the week

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