Monday, April 25, 2016

04/25 ACTOR AND SINGER SKYLAR ASTIN PARTNERS WITH MEGABUS.COM TO PROMOTE GREEN TRAVEL

ACTOR AND SINGER SKYLAR ASTIN PARTNERS WITH MEGABUS.COM TO PROMOTE GREEN TRAVEL AND CHATS OTHER CURRENT PROJECTS

About Skylar Astin: Best known for his role in Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2, with co-stars Anna Kendrick + Rebel Wilson, Skylar was also in the original cast of the award-winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening and most recently in West Side Story, which ran on Broadway in March. Other films he’s appeared in include: Hamlet 2 (2008), Taking Woodstock (2009), Cavemen (2013), and 21 & Over (2013). Skylar won Choice Movie Actor at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards for Pitch Perfect 2. Skylar will co-star in EPIX series Graves, a political satire set to debut August 2016, and was cast in new comedy movie, Speech & Debate, set to release this year. Skylar has a strong social following with nearly 1.5 million combined followers (Twitter /Instagram).

Megabus.com, a subsidiary of Coach USA, is celebrating its 10th anniversary in the United States this year. In honor of this celebration and its continued effort to promote green travel, Megabus.com has partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation to plant 10,000 trees along Megabus.com routes and across college campuses throughout the country.  To help spread the word, Megabus.com has partnered with actor and singer Skylar Astin, most known for his role as Jesse Swanson in the musical films Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2. As a millennial, the generation who has the most impact on the future of our environment, Skylar is excited to partner with Megabus.com.

About Megabus.com: Since its launch on April 10, 2006, Megabus.com has served more than 50 million customers. Megabus.com maintains the highest (Satisfactory) safety compliance rating with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and is approved by Transportation Safety Exchange (TSX), an independent safety rating organization. Megabus.com currently operates service to/from more than 120 major cities in North America and 23 hubs.

Friday, April 22, 2016

04/22 DAVID HULL, THE HULABALLOER


DAVID HULL, THE HULLABALLOER


ABOUT DAVE:
Dave Hull, aka "The Hullabalooer", is a Los Angeles radio personality voted one of the top ten LA radio personalities of all time. Born Jan. 20, 1934, he admits to being 77 with his personal addition herewith dated Mar. 3, 2011.

Hull began his radio career in Armed Forces Radio in Casablanca, Morocco and in commercial radio in 1955 at KGFL in Roswell, New Mexico. He reached Los Angeles' KRLA in 1963 as weekend relief and full time there on Jun. 6, 1964.

By the end of 1964, Hull's increasing popularity prompted one young female fan, Suzie Cappetta, to write and record a song entitled "Dave Hull The Hullabalooer", which quickly reached the local top 40 charts by early 1965. Hull became close with The Beatles during their 1965 and 1966 American tours. During that time, Hull taped approximately fourteen interviews with the band. He, along with Bob Eubanks, planned The Beatles' 1966 concert at the Chavez Ravine-Dodger Stadium. His work with the band earned him the honorary title of "fifth Beatle." Hull worked closely with The Beach Boys, The Dave Clark Five and The Rolling Stones during that period. In December 1965, Hull opened his "Hullabaloo" teen club on Sunset in Hollywood.

He got his nickname while working at WONE in Dayton, Ohio. Los Angeles radio historian Don Barrett quotes Hull as saying: "A woman wrote me from a hotel outside Dayton to say she couldn't stand all that hullabaloo. Well, Webster's defined it as a 'tumultuous outroar,' so I used it." Dave appeared (using the name David Hull) as a talent contest manager in an October, 1966 episode of "The Monkees".

Dave Hull was the first guest host on the nationally syndicated American Top 40 program, week ending November 6, 1971. ] He was heard in Los Angeles at the time on KGBS.

Hull hosted the nationally syndicated TV show "Matchmaker" in the late 1980s, reportedly seen in over 100 markets, a video version of his late 1970s "Lovelines" program heard on KMPC.

Today, Hull lives in Palm Springs, California and is now retired. He held the 6-midnight slot on one of the country's few remaining beautiful music stations, KWXY, from 1994 until his announced retirement in 2010. He also remains active as a voiceover for national radio and television commercials. Hull's book, Hullabaloo!: the (Mis)Adventures of L.A. Radio Legend Dave Hull was released in January 2013.

www.davehullthehullabalooer.com

Monday, April 18, 2016

04/18 JOHNNY DEPP, BRIE LARSON TO HOST SNL, CHRISSY TEIGEN AND JOHN LEGEND WELCOME BABY, TOM HARDY IS GQ'S MOST STYLISH MAN IN THE WORLD

Join MIKE and PAUL on the 
ENTERTAINMENT EDITION of THE PM SHOW
talkin' about ALL the hot topics...


DEPP’S IRONIC DOG APOLOGY 


BRIE LARSON TO HOST SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH ALICIA KEYS


CHRISSY TEIGEN AND JOHN LEGEND WELCOME A NEW BABY


TOM HARDY IS GQ'S MOST STYLISH MAN IN THE WORLD 


All this and MORE!



Monday, April 11, 2016

04/11 ROB KARDASHIAN & BLAC CHYNA WEDDING, SCOTT EASTWOOD JOINS FURIOUS 8, KIRSTIE ALLEY ENDORSED DONALD TRUMP, AMERICAN IDOL SAID GOODBYE

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ROB KARDASHIAN & BLAC CHYNA WEDDING TV SPECIAL WORTH MILLIONS


SCOTT EASTWOOD OFFICIALLY JOINS THE CAST OF FURIOUS 8 


KIRSTIE ALLEY ENDORSED DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT


AMERICAN IDOL IS A WRAP AND RATINGS WERE GOOD


All this and MORE!



Friday, April 8, 2016

04/08 WILL FORTE, THE LAST MAN ON EARTH, KEANU

ACTOR AND COMEDIAN WILL FORTE TALKS ABOUT SUNDAY’S EPISODE OF THE LAST MAN ON EARTH ON FOX AND HIS UPCOMING MOVIE KEANU
Will Forte..... actor, comedian, writer, producer and voice actor is best known for his work in television as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and as the creator and star of the sitcom The Last Man on Earth.

ABOUT “THE LAST MAN ON EARTH”:
In 2022, a cataclysm strikes Earth, seemingly wiping out the population save for former family man and bank employee Phil Miller. Sad and very lonely, Phil travels the United States, Canada and Mexico in his RV searching for other survivors. Striving to hold onto hope that there is at least one other living person out there, he tries to make the best of circumstances until his path finally crosses with that hoped-for other survivor -- and all the more comforting if that person happens to be a woman.

THIS SUNDAYS EPISODE : TANDY THROWS A PARTY ON “THE LAST MAN ON EARTH” SUNDAY, APRIL 10, ON FOX

Jason Sudeikis Guest Stars
Tandy tries to host a party for the group and Todd’s luck takes a turn for the better in the “Skidmark” episode of THE LAST MAN ON EARTH airing Sunday, April 10 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

Cast: Will Forte as Phil Miller; Kristen Schaal as Carol Pilbasian; January Jones as Melissa Shart; Mel Rodriguez as Todd; Mary Steenburgen as Gail, Cleopatra Coleman as Erica

ABOUT KEANU IN THEATERS ON FRIDAY April 29th:
Recently dumped by his girlfriend, slacker Rell (Jordan Peele) finds some happiness when a cute kitten winds up on his doorstep. After a heartless thief steals the cat, Rell recruits his cousin Clarence (Keegan-Michael Key) to help him retrieve it. They soon learn that a thug named Cheddar (Method Man) has the animal, and he'll only give it back if the two men agree to work for him. Armed with guns and a gangster attitude, it doesn't take long for the hapless duo to land in big trouble.

Monday, April 4, 2016

04/04 ATTORNEY DEAN STRANG TO GET HIS OWN SHOW, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SUED, GAME OF THRONES BUDGET, WENDI DENG AND VLADIMIR PUTIN

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ENTERTAINMENT EDITION of THE PM SHOW
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MAKING A MURDERER ATTORNEY DEAN STRANG TO GET HIS OWN CRIME SHOW



JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SUED BY CIRQUE DU SOLEIL


GAME OF THRONES REVEALS HUGE BUDGET  

WENDI DENG IS REPORTEDLY DATING VLADIMIR PUTIN


All this and MORE!



Friday, April 1, 2016

04/01 JAZZ SINGER LYN STANLEY, INTERLUDES

JAZZ SINGER LYN STANLEY – NEWEST ALBUM, INTERLUDES 

The female vocalist pool is the most competitive corner of the jazz market.  While jazz may account for about one percent of all recording sales, there’s never a shortage of women jazz singers.  That continual glut makes the ascendance of Lyn Stanley all the more impressive.  Since 2011 she’s gone from an unknown to international status with sales of 26,000 albums.

Her 2013 debut Lost in Romance quickly took off and sold 15,000 units worldwide.  The follow-up, Potions From The 50’S (2014), like its predecessor, went to #1 on CDBaby.com.  Taiwanese author Jack Liu named it number six of the greatest hundred audiophile vinyl albums of all time in his encyclopedic All About Vinylbook.

The success of her first album clued her in to the potential for the audiophile market.  Lyn recorded the successor, Potions, on analog tape—the Holy Grail of 1950s recording standards.  Her choice of material and the album’s warm sound formed a natural marriage for Stanley and her sound-conscious audience.

Tall and elegant, Lyn can’t be mistaken for anyone else.  She’s not a glib hair-flipper, a piano-playing introvert, a giggler, a shouter, a scat robot, or a faux Billie, Ella, Sarah, Carmen or Betty.  Stanley creates a sultry mood that evokes romance, connects the lyric to the listener, and affirms the timeless musical values of the Great American Songbook.  Audiences leave feeling that they’ve just had an emotional experience.

“She’s got a really good voice,” says pianist Bill Cunliffe, “a very lovely timbre.  She understands the lyric and is able to communicate it to the audience.”

Her burnished alto has earned Lyn a considerable following in Asia and Europe.  Those audiences appreciate the state-of-the-art audiophile quality of her recordings, which sell almost twice as many vinyl copies as they do CDs.  Lyn was in the vanguard of the return-to-vinyl craze.

She chooses her songs experientially.  “I’ve been through a lot,” she states, “and if I don’t have it in my background, I can’t sing it.  When I’m singing, I try to see in my mind where I was at a time in my life.”

Lost in Romance has songs by Irving Berlin, Michel Legrand, Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and other great songwriters.  Music critic Michael Fremer pronounced Lyn “chanteuse extraordinaire” on the strength of it.  “It was a concept album,” Lyn points out.  “When you hear all of those songs in sequence, you hear a story unfold.”

Her latest, Interludes (2015) pays tribute to the song sirens who were sexually assured, yet never gauche: Peggy Lee, Julie London, Rosemary Clooney and Doris Day.  “You don’t have to take your clothes off,” Stanley wryly notes, “to present yourself as sensual.”

Pianist Mike Garson, David Bowie’s musical director, plays on Interludes.  “Lyn captivates audiences,” he notes, “and brings them a real feeling of nostalgia.”

Music was always part of Stanley’s life.  Her mother was a spirited jitterbug dancer, her father was an enthusiastic amateur jazz pianist and her grandfather was a trained opera singer.  Despite the grounding, Stanley’s mother steered her toward a corporate profession.  College, a communications degree, a Ph.D. program, marriage, and a career as a successful businesswoman took her elsewhere.

Lyn rediscovered music through dance.  She earned three first places in USA Championship DanceSport in 2010, and she placed third in a World title Pro/Am event.  She then sought out the late pianist Paul Smith, and asked for a hearing.  Vocal coach Annette Warren Smith, his widow, describes their reaction:  “We couldn’t get over how good she was.  She knew she was a great dancer but she didn’t know how good she was as a singer.”

Stanley didn’t take on professional singing as a lark.  She formulated a game plan that included recording herself in the best possible settings.  Her musicians include the best in the Hollywood studios: Wrecking Crew veterans bassist Chuck Berghofer and pianists Mike Lang and Tom Ranier; renowned pianist-arranger-musical directors Mike Garson, Tamir Hendelmen and Bill Cunliffe; great jazz soloists like saxophonists Rickey Woodard and Bob Sheppard, trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos and trombonist Bob McChesney; Gold Standard drummers Joe LaBarbera, Jeff Hamilton and Paul Kriebich among them.  New York virtuosos like pianist Kenny Werner (also her producer for Potions [from the 50s] and harmonica player, Hendrik Meurkens grace her albums with their insightful performances.

One of her arrangers trained under veteran Sammy Nestico, whose charts for Basie and Sinatra are legend.  After listening to Interludes, Nestico wrote in an email: “She is excellent…what a thrill to work with great talent.”

Stanley has cannily directed her music toward the worldwide audiophile demographic.  Her albums are sensations as much for the high-grade sound as for the music and the A-list players.  Unlike many singers, she’ll never have to live down inferior early recordings.  Potionswas released as a vinyl album, SACD stereo hybrid (for Blu Ray and CD players), as a 180-gram double-45 vinyl, a reel-to-reel tape, and on CDBaby.com as downloads.

She uses the Capitol Records Studio and 23-time Grammy winning engineer Al Schmitt sits at the board on her sessions.  “Lyn’s a very impressive woman,” he states, “and she’s done this all on her own—no manager, producer or booker.  She checks around, finds all the best people and gets them.  I use the same kind of tape for her that I do for Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and Neil Young.  She wants the best possible quality and I’m always flattered when she asks for me.”
Post-production wizard Bernie Grundman is known particularly for mastering jazz recordings (he’s mixed a lot of Diana Krall’s music) and he’s the only one Stanley has ever used.   “Lyn’s what an artist should be,” he maintains.  “She’s got a nice voice and you can hear her steady growth from the first album, which had some cabaret to her jazz.  And now she’s a more complete jazz singer.”

“Lyn’s very aware that you have to pursue your art,” Grundman continues.  “All of the great ones do.  By striving for perfection they get closer and they grow as performers.  She’s really going to get somewhere.”

She’s also cultivated an audience in Japan, where Stanley performed two concerts in October 2015.  “Once they found out I market toward the audiophiles,” she says, “they became interested in me.”  A major Japanese analog publication gave her a recent two-page spread.

“The recordings are intersections in her life,” pianist Lang points out.  “They’re real documents.”
In 2015, Lyn’s tour schedule included several performances in Los Angeles, and shows in Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta, Munich Germany and Tokyo Japan.
Where does Lyn Stanley go from here?  “I always try to up the game,” she advises.  Venues with high profile intimate theatres like Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and other similar performing arts programs are on her radar.

As of this writing, Lyn Stanley’s new album “Interludes” is already charting in the top 90 album spins on national USA jazz radio after just three weeks.