Now based in the small town of Kings Mountain, NC where she grew up, Kim Ware recalls her cousin, who owned a radio station when she was a child, gifting her the station's vinyl copies of the Casey Kasem American Top 40 radio show once the shows aired. This inspired her to create her own radio shows in her bedroom, cassette tapes she’d make for friends containing her favorite songs of the time along with commentary, fictitious ads, interviews, and anything else a 12-year-old girl might wish to talk about. Several years later as a student at UNC-Wilmington, she became a DJ at their station WLOZ even though in their initial meeting she boasted to the music director that her favorite band was Hall and Oates (to be fair, they still are) and commented that the station played "weird music." She has since broadened her musical horizons to include not only Hall and Oates, but indie rock, punk, emo, indie folk, and country and western. She discovered her love of expressing herself through her own songs in 2006 while living in Atlanta, GA and since then has performed her heartfelt, catchy, "southern indie" tunes to anyone who’ll listen, sometimes solo and sometimes with her band the Good Graces. Kim and tGG have released five full-length albums to date (with a 6th and 7th due out in 2022!), toured all over the east coast, down to Texas, over to California, and at such festivals as 30A, NXNE, and LEAF, where Kim was a finalist in the 2019 NewSong singer-songwriter competition.

SHOWS:
Great Big Hoping Machine

Skizz Cyzyk’s DJ-ing “career” began in 1976, during fifth grade recess. From 1984-92 he was very active at WCVT 89.7 FM, a now-defunct 10,000 watt college station broadcasting from just outside of Baltimore, MD. His shows on WCVT earned him a “Baltimore’s Best FM DJ” award from the Baltimore City Paper. He continues to spin at bars, clubs, parties, record shows and film festivals. Some of the many bands he has been in include Berserk, The Stents, Go Pills, The Jennifers, Garage Sale, Half Japanese, and Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band. As a filmmaker, he has made music videos (Beach House, Young Fresh Fellows), animated shorts (Managers Corner, Alfred Jarry & ‘Pataphysics), and documentary features (Icepick To The Moon, Sound Mechanic). His first favorite band was the Banana Splits. The first album he bought was The Ventures self-titled album with the Batman theme song on it. The first single he bought was The Bertha Butt Boogie by The Jimmy Castor Bunch.

SHOWS:
Point Me At The Sky

Matt Walter (Matthew Rubbish) caught the DJ bug on-air in the mid ’90s while in college in Pennsylvania. After relocating to Maryland, Matt teamed up with several Baltimore promoters and cofounded many of the city’s popular and long-running indie club nights, including the Britpop and new wave party Underground, Two For Tuesdays, Automat!c, the 2000s indie disco Take Me Out and the ’60s soul and garage party Reaction. Outside of Baltimore, Matt has hit the road DJing events in DC, Brooklyn, Philly and Pittsburgh playing alongside many national touring DJs and bands. Although he possesses a wide variety of musical tastes, at the end of the day he gravitates back to classic indie rock and alternative from the late ’80s and early ’90s.

SHOWS:
The New Indie Hour
Warning Radio

Liquor Bike vocalist/guitarist turn DJ and coffee shop/record shop owner now residing in Lisbon, Portugal. David was born & raised in Baltimore before moving to North Carolina in the late ‘90s where he was a DJ on WXDU in Durham, NC. He has spun in many bars, clubs & music venues. Upon returning to Baltimore in 2012 he opened a coffee shop / record store with his wife Shirlé Hale called Baby’s On Fire. An avid music fanatic he spins everything from post-punk, Krautrock, dub, rocksteady, new wave, '80s indie, '90s indie, African, soul, jazz, garage rock & funk.

SHOWS:
Singles Going Steady

Shirlé has been a touring recording artist for most of her life, raised in NE Philly & attending Boston’s Berklee College of Music.

She turned her love of cooking & her many food service jobs into a career and is the Executive Chef/Co-Owner of a café/record shop called Baby’s On Fire in Baltimore with her longtime bandmate/husband David Koslowski. She has been a personal chef for 20+ years & a food stylist for many HBO & Netflix TV shows and films. She now resides in Lisbon, Portugal with David and also shares her world with a small rat terrier named Mr. Shivers.

SHOWS:
Singles Going Steady

Culminating many decades of addiction of searching for new artist and sounds from around the world, Greg Vegas spent the 80’s and 90’s on-air at college radio WXCI Danbury CT. As a musician, Greg played guitar in 90’s grunge-gaze band Monsterland, moving to saxophone in improv outfit The Hat City Intuitive, and recently has played with The Clean's Hamish Kilgour & Brooklyn’s SAVAK, amongst others. For the last few decades, Greg’s career as a music industry professional has found him as an artist manager, record label A&R, music distribution specialist and running his current DECLARED GOODS record label.

SHOWS:
Declared Goods

Guy has been a Bassists playing in heavy bands for many years. Most notably OneSpot FringeHead & King Valley among others. He’s been a life long lover of music and comedy. Guy keeps his ear to the ground wanting to hear what’s next. Self proclaimed music snob he is always looking to turn people on to new music. He has moved away from his beloved city of Baltimore to Lower Slower Delaware with his lovely wife Nadja. He now dabbles in his home studio making odd tracks. He also hosts a Podcast called Send Us Your Farts. He describes this as an idiotic endeavor dedicated to fart humor.

SHOWS:
You May Like This

Tracey is a Baltimore native who has a lifelong devotion to the vibrations of music in all its diverse sounds. He is a producer of house and downtempo, who has been releasing tracks on international labels since 2005. His obsession with vinyl and crate digging fully developed while working at Own Guru Records where he deepened his knowledge of the history of music. He has journeyed down the musical rabbit hole in every genre from the Blues to Funk, Psych to Hiphop, Punk to Indie, Jazz to Drum n Bass, and on and on. Wanna take a trip?

SHOWS:
Trippin’ In The Crates

A college radio veteran and musician who can’t stop making playlists. When the pandemic hit, he & his friends started having mix contests, which eventually lead to broadcasting live through their Mixcloud radio ‘network’ Exciting Drink Radio. Unable to settle on a regular format or time slot he programs an eclectic show called the Paddles Pop-Up. Show themes have ranged from fresh new indie rock, to punk rock, psychedelic Nuggets era tunes and dub reggae deep cuts. You can also find Paddles with his cohost C+AVG. on their variety/interview talk show Personal Touch.

SHOWS:
Paddles Pop-Up

Recording under the moniker The Grassy Knoll, musician/producer Nolan Green has released 5 albums on the labels Nettwerk and Verve/Antilles.

His compositions have appeared in television, film, and video games. Highlights include the Netflix series Bobby Kennedy for President (series theme song), Legion, Incorporated, The Mod Squad, and Roswell.

Nolan also served as the Photo Editor of CMJ New Music Monthly Magazine during the years 1999-2002.

SHOWS:
Into The Darkness

Taking his DJ name from the alley that runs between Baltimore's Charles and St. Paul Streets, LG is one of the veterans of late 80's WCVT. Moving from radio to nightclub DJing, he became a key player in the mid-Atlantic "rave" scene of the early 90's. LoveGrove gained international attention as a promoter/DJ for the recurring mulit-media event he co-created, called "CloudWatch", which put the focus and attention on chill-out music. He was the first American DJ to be invited to perform at The Big Chill UK festivals. He toured throughout North America, held local residencies at the legendary club nights, Fever and Buzz, and provided opening DJ sets for "electronica" acts at The 9:30 Club. In the 2000s, he moved onto the lounge scene, developing a signature style of downtempo grooves and chill house music that earned him "Best DJ" honors from both Baltimore Magazine and The Baltimore City Paper (Reader's Poll). Still a fixture on the scene, you can find him spinning at venues, like El Techo and Jimmy Valentine's Lonely Hearts Club in DC, as well as occasional one-off gigs for his longtime promoter friends in Charm City.

SHOWS:
Served Chilled
New Sounds from the Lounge

Texas born, JT now calls Richmond, VA home. Stressed out lab manager by day and musician and radio host by night, OCD has led him to an obsessive love of music and an unshakable attention to (mostly irrelevant) details. A failed vegan, he has a distinct appreciation for delicious food, from Wawa to Momofuku. He’s always on the lookout for the next psychedelic musical trail to follow.

SHOWS:
Passage Radio

B-Major is a Baltimore and Ocean City, Maryland nomad with New Wave veteran DJ status as co-founder of the Sound & Vision monthly residency. Today he human joysticks between all things 80s, Classic Hip-Hop, Jazz, Indie, Post-Punk, Rock, Brit-Pop, Trip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Reggae, Lovers Rock, Rock Steady, Dub, Yacht Rock, Disco and everything in between.

SHOWS:
Curious Consumption
Holy Calamity! A True School Hip-Hop Show
Interstellar Jazz Commune

I am a lifelong musician and began playing in bands at age 14. Currently, I play in RjVj , Mopar Mountain Daredevils, and Strange Room. My previous bands are W.O.D. (Womyn Of Destruction), Scapegoat, Estroget, Cicaeda and David Thomas (Pere Ubu). I am also a long-time Recording Engineer and Producer, currently working at WrightWay Studios. You can read my select discography. I work as a live sound engineer at The Ottobar, Metro Gallery and The Creative Alliance and I have travelled as a sound engineer for Beach House, Celebration, The Rogers Sisters, and Pig Destroyer.

SHOWS:
Girardi’s Grab Bag

Veronica Jay Clay is a multimedia artist and she plays synth and sings lead in the band, RjVj with Rob Girardi. Veronica resides in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

SHOWS:
Continuum

As a latch-key kid growing up in Queens, New York young Brian Musikoff often secretly ventured the perils of the early 80’s radio dial in pursuit of the most outlandish, potentially dangerous, and perhaps forbidden broadcasting that was hidden yet made available to his bedroom antenna. One such random but destined safari in 1981 landed Brian’s radio dial on WNYU, where his impressionable ears were exposed to the untamed and bizarre music that he was seeking but perhaps not entirely ready for or able to comprehend. By the mid 80’s and a move to the chancy suburbs of New Jersey teenage Brian had found satisfying broadcasting on his stereo with stations such as WFMU and WPRB Princeton, which in turn got him out to punk and hardcore shows and record stores that carried all those harder to find releases as heard on such radio stations. Brian was a founding member of the Hoboken, NJ rock band Stuyvesant, he has done cartoon work for Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, and Scharpling & Wurster, and he was a host and program coordinator on the live streaming post-punk station Radio Nope (2016-2023). Today Brian produces his show MusicOn with Musikoff in Seattle where he resides with an incredibly polite German woman and a very large hound dog with incredibly rude couch and bed manners.

SHOWS:
MusikOn with Musikoff

Rod Misey first started in radio during the summer of 1977 at WCVT which was the college station at what was then called Towson State University (now known as simply Towson University). By the fall of 1978 he was doing a Friday late afternoon spot and it was there that he started playing a different type of new music that was called at the time New Wave (an umbrella term which also included Punk and Post-Punk). During January 1979 an event occurred that directly influenced his future with the demise of Georgetown University's WGTB. Since WGTB was one of the few outlets for this type of music in the Baltimore/Washington region, WCVT's program director Randy Gray decided that WCVT needed a show to cover this musical area, thus the New Wave Show was born. Since Rod was already playing this type of music, it was a natural transition from his normal Friday show to this new format. So sometime in around February of 1979 (the exact date has long been forgotten) The New Wave Show came into existence. Rod thereby was the first person on WCVT to regularly feature what was, at that time, the most controversial and cutting edge music within the musical world.

Also, during Rod's WCVT years, several notable things occurred. The first was in the summer of 1979 when Rod, along with local Baltimore musician and Psychedelic Music Collector Paul Rieger, started The Annual Psychedelic Music Show, a program that featured the best (as well as some of the worst) of the Original Psychedelic era during the late 1960's. The second was a stint at the Johns Hopkins University radio station WJHU (while still at WCVT) from 1981 to 1986. The third was the featuring of semi-regular interviews with mostly local musicians within the New/Wave/Punk/Alternative Rock Music Scene.

In January of 1983, the show was renamed Pandora's Box and Rod continued to play music in the same vein as the New Wave Show while still featuring occasional interviews with both local and national musicians. This continued until 1990 when Rod "left" WCVT (under controversial circumstances).

After his stint at WCVT was done, Rod found a new home at the University of Delaware's radio station WXDR (now known as WVUD). Since he had relatives living in Newark DE, he was aware of the station and that it had a similar format to WCVT. So during around June of 1991, he started doing various late Friday night/early Saturday morning time slots, as well as continuing the tradition of the Annual Psychedelic Music Show, that is ongoing to this day.

SHOWS:
Pandora’s Box (Updated Edition)