Tonight 94.5 the Buzz is starting a new show called the Texas Buzz. It's going to showcase local and Texas bands. All I can say is that it's about time a local radio station (other than KPFT, KTRU) played some local music. I think my band has a pretty decent chance of getting airplay tonight. Anyway the show will be on Sundays from 11-12 PM.
Still going for about another 15 days or so. I thought I had milked this board for all it was worth and didn't want to continuously bump the the thread and clutter up the board. Anyway, we're still leading 1,246 to 988 over the Busdrivers. It's pretty much a 2 band race now. We played with the Busdrivers on Saturday. Pretty cool guys(and girl).
I'm guessing the music will be as lame as the rest of the music played on the Buzz. But I hope I am wrong.
"About Time?" There used to be TWO of those shows on Sunday nights in the mid-nineties. The first and best was the Donna McKenzie created "Made in Texas" circa 1989 on the old KZFX - 107.5 FM. The cool thing about that format was they would often go on the road and actually air full live sets from various bands.
Well, sorry. I guess I missed that. Still, compared to about every city in the US, local bands get VERY little airplay on Houston radio.
Ya know EG, I was going to post this friday night when I heard it. I was actually surprise that KTBZ, a Clear Channel Station would do this. As I was driving to work after hearing this, it kind of reminded me of an episode on Hey Arnold!. Mr Huyhn recorded a country song, and Arnold and Harold wanted to get it on the air, but they couldn't because the DJs "hands were tied to what ever was programed." The DJ didn't have that slow drawn slang accent when he was off the air. But when he did, he went to his gimmick. Arnold, and Harold, I think is that guys name, played the track anyway. And people called in, and said they liked it. I hope there is a band tonight that makes you say, damn, they were good, I want to hear more from them. I think it is about time they do it right. I hate that force fed crap they give us.
Alot of people in Houston don't think there's really anything out there besides 'NSync, Brittney Spears, Creed, blah blah blah blah blah because they have no exposure to anything else. This also causes the local music scene to suffer and is why most Houston band that have been signed to record contracts have had to move away to do so.
Everyone has their own opinion, but I happen to love The Buzz. The play the best music and they are just about the only station with the balls to not just play top 40 music.
One of the local radio stations here where i live in Ohio plays local bands on sunday nights too, never listen to it, but thats because the station plays a lot of the same stuff over and over again, i listen to it going places but not when sitting around the house, around the house i listen to my cd player.
I used to help produce that show. It was Donna's baby and it even produced a CD. We would go to different clubs around town (Mucky Duck, Fitzgeralds, Sherlocks and sometimes Rockefellers) and broadcast the bands live. After Donna left the station (she quit to take a higher paying gig at KLOL), my boss Dale Pierce took over. When Dale did the show he would have bands come into the radio station and play live sets with the only audience being whoever showed up with the band, Dale and myself. The problem with playing local music (as opposed to nationally famous music) is that it's just not that familiar to most people and most people (not music lovers but your average "listen to the radio in the car" person) will turn the station when something unfamiliar gets played. That's why most stations play the same songs over and over (and it's why oldies and Classic Rock stations do okay - it's why KLOL plays mostly Classic Rock). The reason why KZFX put the show on Sundays was because that was the time when you had the lowest audience. Therefore the station didn't have to risk losing ratings and revinue (it's why the Buzz is doing the show from 11 - Midnight!). I remember the whole idea behind the live shows (at least from Donna's point of view) was for everyone to contribute (bands, clubs and the radio station) their time to make the show work and promote live, local music. The problem was no one REALLY wanted to put the good will into it. The station put it on Sunday night (the worst night for radio) and the clubs did it because it was essentially a 2 or 3-hour commercial for them. When the Sunday night club shows failed to draw large audiences (sometimes we'd get a great crowd but most of the time the places were pretty empty - it's Sunday night!) most of them bailed out. The only people (IMO) that seemed to be sincere in their desire to "get the word out" so to speak about the great bands in Houston were Donna and most of the bands. Oh, well. It was fun while it lasted!
Yep. It sounds like I actually probably know you in RL. I used to hang out with Toy Subs back in the day, and got to know Dale and Donna and Eddie Lee (at least a little bit) through them It really was a great, fun time. Let's hope they can catch at least a little of that spirit this go around.
First of all, I listen to this station regularly, and I havent heard Matchbox 20 in years. If you want to see what they play, click below and you'll see its not predominantly top 40: http://www.thebuzz.com/playlist.html http://www.thebuzz.com/thenightlynews.html
