Moon Tower Radio

08/11/2017

Glen Campbell 1936-2017

Culturcide Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America In 1986 the band released their most famous work. Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America compri...

07/18/2017

Happy Birthday to Keith Levene! The co-founder of The Clash and Public Image Limited turns 60 today. -DRM

07/13/2017

Happy Birthday, Roger (Jim) McGuinn! 75 today!

10/20/2016

Let's debate this hair.

Happy birthday to Keith Reid of Procol Harum who turns 70 today! -DRM

10/19/2016

Happy birthday to Keith Reid of Procol Harum who turns 70 today! -DRM

07/23/2016

Had a blast catching up with friends at KPFT Tuesday. Listen for yourself.

Moon Tower Radio* was Sound Awake's sibling show at the turn of the decade, an array of "anticlassic rock" to launch your weekend. MTR co-host Darren Ray Mayo shares stories, observations and tunes, including an inadvertent Legs Diamond request and a rare cover from Cheap Trick. The Classic Club Hou...

07/19/2016

COME BACK TO THE TOWER
if just for an hour
(or two)

A post-broadcast stream will be available later this week at http://mixcloud.com/soundawakeradio

02/03/2016

Happy Birthday, Dave Davies! Dave turns 69 today. -DRM

05/31/2015

Happy Birthday to the late great Adam Feger. Rest in sweet peace, my brother. -DrM

05/07/2015

On this day (May 7th) in 1967 Pearls Before Swine begin recording an album called "One Nation Underground". The LP includes a song called "Miss Morse", which would be banned in New York when it was discovered that lead singer Tom Rapp was singing F-***-K in Morse code. After disc jockey Murray The K played the record on the air, local Boy Scouts correctly interpreted the chorus and phoned in a complaint. -DrM

(Oh Dear) Miss Morse Pearls Before Swine ℗ 2012 ESP-Disk Released on: 2012-07-01 Ensemble: Pearls Before Swine Auto-generated by YouTube.

05/06/2015

50 years ago today, May 6, 1965 in their Clearwater, Florida hotel room, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards work out the opening guitar riff of "Satisfaction”, following Richard's purchase of a Gibson fuzz-box earlier that day. _DrM

04/03/2015

There might need to be a Moon Tower Revival edition of Sound Awake the week it drops. Are you down, Mr. Mayo? - KoG

Frank Zappa's last album 'Dance Me This' will be released in June 2015.