Honest Tunes Radio Show – Honest FM Weekly Webcast

About

WTF:
Dgold.info is the personal blog of Dgold. This is not the website of Honest Tune Magazine, but if you like the wide range of music we play on the radio show, you’d probably enjoy reading that magazine so check it out.

What:
Now we are 2 radio shows. Honest Tunes Radio Show is from Dgold on KXUA Fayetteville. The Honest Tune Radio Show is from Tspeed on WUMS Oxford. The programs are similar in spirit, but different in the mix of music.

It’s a live webcast, and weekly radio program (now periodic podcast), covering a wonderful array of songwriters, jambands and roots music, including anything that combines any 2 or more of blues, jazz, bluegrass, folk, improv, live electronic, new wave, swing, metal, and rock. We trace the deep history of music up to today’s best live concert recordings and new releases. Interviews, live performances, theme-shows, artist spotlights, concert calendar, and two hours of non-stop good music, every week.

Live FM Radio Broadcasts When:
In Fayetteville, Arkansas listen to KXUA 88.3 FM Tuesday 8pm – 10pm.
In Oxford, Mississippi listen to WUMS 92.1 FM Sunday 6pm – 8pm.

Live Weekly Webcast When:
This Tuesday 8pm – 10pm Central Time (Arkansas, USA) most likely.

Time Zone translations: 02:00-04:00 GMT. That’s 9pm Tuesday night in Boston. It’s 8pm from Chi-town to St. Louie and on down to NOLA, 7pm in Boulder town on the front range, and 6pm in San Francisco Bay Area. That’s 3 o’clock on Wednesday morning in The Netherlands, if you’re still up. In Japan, we broadcast live from 11:00 to 1 mid-day Wednesday. Around the world and around the clock. We’re glad you tuned in!

Podcasts and Archived Webcasts When:
Whenever we’re able of offer an archived mp3 of the radio show or a live interview recorded at the Honest Tunes studios!

Who:
For you, the listener, the music lovers on the web! Request and contest-prize hotline 479-575-5883. Honest Tunes Radio Show is produced by Daniel Gold and co-hosted by Matt Dempsey. The Honest Tune Radio Show in Oxford is produced by Tom Speed. KXUA co-founder and my original co-host Michael Saba named the show “Honest Tunes .” Read on for the show’s history…

Bands, Record Labels, Publicists please send good new music press packs.
Contact us by mail | email (coming… later. You know how to contact me.)

Non-commercial college radio partnering:
KXUA is non-commercial in the sense that we don’t sell advertising on the radio show. Honest Tunes offers extensive street-team volunteer-base and on-air FM+online promotion for concert and festival events in partnership with venues, record labels, festival promoters, musicians and friends primarily in the US and Europe.

We regularly announce an on-air Concert Calendar based on shows listed at Jambase (please post your tour dates on Jambase.com).

We offer prize packages to listeners for trivia or 1st caller, 3rd caller speed-dialers. Honest Tunes ticket-giveaways have included Festival Passes and Free Concert Tickets worth hundreds of dollars.

Jammin’ Java coffee shop in Fayetteville often hosts the prize reclamation so our winners can pick up their tickets and goodies during regular business hours.

Contact Dgold if your band or festival event wants to partner with Honest Tunes to offer promo prizes to our listeners.

Podcast Plans:
We record a radio show, you listen anytime and anywhere! Podcasting is now a regular reality on this radio blog, where it was once a wishlist item. We use a portable FM direct to mp3 recording device to produce the podcast based on the radio program. The radio blog now offers a periodic podcast, which may be available for download as an mp3, or on bit torrent, or sometimes simply streaming audio directly in your browser or external media player. You can subscribe for free to automatically get new podcast mp3′s dumped onto your computer or synched to your iPod type mp3 player: Subscribe to Honest Tunes Podcast RSS Feed. If any artist, publisher or record label wishes to not be included in the podcasts, please inform Honest Tunes and we will remove any mp3 traces of your music. Honest Tunes intends to promote and publicize songs and bands for the benefit of the fans and artists including fluffing your ticket, merch, and record sales. The podcast is 100% free and intended for educational purposes.

Satellite Radio Plans:
We broadcast on FM radio and on the web, but so far we have not syndicated Honest Tunes Radio Show on Sirius or XM Satellite Radio – the way things are going, we might. Come on satellite radio execs, have your people talk to my people.

Still Want More:
View Playlists from 1992 to present in the nifty new radio show setlists archive. See any songs you like? From the first-broadcast-ever to the latest playlist, transcribed in our patented “setlist view” format.

History of the Radio Show : Honest Tunes Radio Show was established in 1999 by Daniel Gold and Michael Saba, and went on-the-air in 2000 with the launch of KXUA student radio at the University of Arkansas. In 2001, Adam Dunaway co-hosted the show with Daniel. In 2002, Scooter Chandler joined Honest Tunes . In 2003, John-Garrett Whiteside joined Honest Tunes . In 2004, Elizabeth Mattocks joined Honest Tunes . In 2005, Matt Dempsey joined as Dalla$.

Meanwhile, Tom Speed established The Honest Tune Radio Show in Oxford, Mississippi. Michael launched an underground radio broadcast in Colorado and joined a new radio show in Memphis, Tennessee for a run of shows called Bluff City Nights. The radio staff are also contributors to the grassroots music music magazine, An Honest Tune (the American Journal of Jam and Roots music!).

We based the show-title on a quote from “Driving Song” by Widespread Panic: “An honest tune with a lingering lead has taken me this far!”

Extra Special Thanks:

Thanks KXUA, UA Fayetteville, Tom Speed and the staff of An Honest Tune magazine, Michael Saba, Harold Wiettes, Scooter Chandler, JWeiss of Recorded Live radio, Briffle, DJ Teo of Interzone Radio, John-Garrett Whiteside, Josh Rateliff, Adam Dunaway, Walt the Wizard, Elizabeth Mattocks, Matt Dempsey, the founders and original staff of KXUA including Sadeq and Jeremy, WUMS, Vince Herman – Drew Emmitt – Greg Garrison, Bob Hollis, Rev. Jeff Mosier, Jeff Austin, Nathan Moore, Robert Bradley, Tiffany Christopher, our daddy Col. Bruce Hampton, Shawn Eckles, Jeff Gray, all the bands, musicians, publicists, street teamers, DJ’s, grassrooted record labels, HomeGrownMusic.Net, Jammin’ Java, Sound Warehouse, Digital Panic, PanicFreaks.org, Grandpuba, Hittin’ The Web with the Allman Brothers Band, RadioDTB, TheMusicNeverStopped.net, Archive.org, Leftover Cheese, Live Music Blog, Shoutcast, Pipedream Productions, Chester’s Place (R.I.P.), George’s Majestic Lounge, our Familiy, Phoreal, and all of the listeners. -DG

Website Updates:
8/2006 – Major upgrades and re-themed the site at MySpace.com/weeklywebcast
7/2006 – Phoreal started an excellent MySpace site for Honest Tunes Radio.
6/2006 – Releasing periodic podcast recordings of the radio show from new T10 mp3 recorder.
4/2006 – Installed PodPress for a lightweight flash mp3 player in every podcast post.
2/2006 – Joined the new KXUA blog on Blogger.com
10/2005 – Joined Odeo and Yahoo Podcast networks
9/2005 – Continuing weekly blog posting
8/2005 – Integrated The Honest Tune Radio Show (Oxford, MS) into the program
8/2005 – Added more WordPress plug-ins and customized the design extensively.
7/2005 – Switched to WordPress blog software after surveying Moveable Type and Blogger.com
6/2005 – Hot! exchange with a local alt-country band’s webmaster.
5/2005 – Added more mp3′s, podcast and Sirius satellite futures
4/2005 – Tons of traffic from the Allman Brothers Band and RadioDTB
3/2005 – Added a pineapple and updated our radio history.
3/2005 – Added a regional Tourdatees link to Jambase
2/2005 – Set a new record number of online listeners thanks to PanicFreaks
1/2005 – Relaunched website on a new server.
11/2004 – It’s easier to update this page now, so I’m adding news and playlists frequently.
10/2004 – Moving! Radio show page is now here www.dgold.info/radio – created a nifty new iframe setlist archive!
2/2004 – Working on the setlist archives and posting Top 10′s for 2003.
10/2003 – HTML Website update.
5/2003 – Joined HomeGrown Radio Stations Webring & Yahoo Group for Playlist Reporting.
12/2002 – Moved site – updated area code from 501 to 479.
8/2000 – Linked radio site with www.anhonesttune.com
5/2000 – Built initial HTML site – linked streaming audio “listen live” from www.kxua.com
4/4/2000 – First public broadcast of Honest Tunes on KXUA Fayetteville.
3/28/2000 – Practice show in new KXUA studios (off-air).
1998-2000 – Working to get a student radio station back on-the-air in Fayetteville