Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-23-26 hour 3

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3:36 Speaker 8: If that doesn't get you move and check your polse you might be dead. That is called thrash king. That's the radio edit, of course, from frequency overload from New York. Some real New Yorkers here, and let's get uh let's see. I think we have Tom Bush on the phone with us. Tom are you there?

3:51 Speaker 3: I am, we got the whole band.

3:52 Speaker 8: He oh, you got the whole band. Welcome guys, I'm really excited to talk to you. All right, every everybody in as orderly a fashion as you can. Please tell us who you are and what you do in the band. Go ahead and introduce yourselves.

4:06 Speaker 3: Kevin Dally drums.

4:08 Speaker 8: Welcome.

4:09 Speaker 3: Steve Little Bass. Hello, Steve Little play bass?

4:14 Speaker 8: Yes, excellent, he too.

4:18 Speaker 3: I am Corey Schaeffer. I play lead guitar and rhythm guitar.

4:21 Speaker 8: Hey, Corey. Okay, how you doing man?

4:24 Speaker 3: I am mister Bush vocals?

4:26 Speaker 8: All right, mister Bush, Hey man, you guys. Is that everybody? It's the four of you?

4:31 Speaker 3: Yep?

4:31 Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, you guys are very very uh well, high energy obviously. It's but like I said, I mean that really gets the that really gets the blood pumping. And you guys are from Long Island? Is that correct?

4:44 Speaker 3: That's right? Yep?

4:45 Speaker 8: What does this scene like there? I mean, are there a lot of Is there a lot of hardcore bands there? You know, classic thrash and that kind of stuff, or you guys kind of I don't know the lay of the land there exactly. I mean, obviously you're in New York, but you know, there's a lot of different kinds of music there. But what you guys are doing, are there a lot of bands kind of doing something similar or are you guys sort of on your own in that sense?

5:05 Speaker 3: We're kind of on our own in the particular style that we play in.

5:12 Speaker 6: Yeah, but there is a lot of new metal, death metal, some hardcore and crossover band still around and we all play together.

5:20 Speaker 3: We're all friends basically.

5:21 Speaker 8: Yeah, Well that's good.

5:24 Speaker 3: There's a big local scene.

5:25 Speaker 9: The only thing, the only downside is there's not many good local venues to get ourselves.

5:31 Speaker 3: Out there on right.

5:33 Speaker 8: Yeah, that can be a challenge anywhere, you know, especially with what you guys are doing, because it's not like, you know, like if you're playing acoustic guitars, you know, you can do coffeehouses and stuff like that. But what you guys are doing, obviously, you need a stage where you can really I mean, I would imagine, you know, you get moshpits going and all that, so you need unied places that can really kind of contain what you're doing. Have you guys has has frequency Overload been around for a while.

5:58 Speaker 8: Have you guys been out this a while? Or how long has the band existed?

6:03 Speaker 3: About four and a half years.

6:05 Speaker 8: Also not that long, Okay, it's only been you know, a year.

6:13 Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a lot for years though.

6:15 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's excellent. That's excellent. So tell me about Thrashking. Love that song. I did make a radio edit of it for our purposes here today, But I love that track. You know, it's the kind of thing if you're listening to it in the car, you're gonna end up getting pulled over for speeding. But tell me about thrash King and the inspiration behind that.

6:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe kind of like the road Rage.

6:35 Speaker 8: Song exactly exactly.

6:39 Speaker 6: The way that most of our songs come to come to life is the guys write it and then present it to me, and basically.

6:51 Speaker 3: The song dictates to me.

6:53 Speaker 6: I'm more like a conduit when I write the lyrics, like the song tells me what it is, yea. And for whatever reason, when I I heard that, it hit me like the good old you know, no fluff toxic Waltz, port Namash, you know, into the pit by by Testament, like a regular song, not trying to make any messaging to anybody, but Slam for Slam's sake, you.

7:20 Speaker 8: Know, yep, yep, I'd say it accomplishes that certainly. Is that must be a crowd favorite. Right do you guys play out a lot? Are you playing a lot of shows?

7:29 Speaker 3: Uh? We play.

7:30 Speaker 6: We kind of took a little bit of a hiatus to record the second album.

7:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, so we played. I guess it was a month ago, Spring Slaughter two.

7:42 Speaker 8: Okay, we played.

7:43 Speaker 6: Is that a place called Shakers over in Oakdale by us? We're playing but two weeks from today. Yeah, we're playing two weeks from today at a record store okay called record stop. Yeah, we played a record store. I talked to our video guy this morning. He might be down there and do a live stream on our Facebook page. We're trying to figure that out. And then we have another book, another gig booked for October twenty third, which is at one of the biggest stages around here called Stereo Garden, And that's with some other bigger bands, including a band called Anika that's kind of making a name for themselves in the city.

8:24 Speaker 8: Okay, excellent, excellent. It's cool that you're going to play a record store. I mean are there a lot of those there still or because I know, you know here in New Hampshire, there's a surprising you'd be surprised at how many there still are.

8:39 Speaker 6: Yeah, we have a couple of pretty good ones on Long Island. This one actually is a new location. It's in Patchog but nice when it was in a place called ron Kankama.

8:50 Speaker 3: We're talking about the eighties. I bought my first Mayhem album, now, my first Player album.

8:55 Speaker 4: Now.

8:56 Speaker 6: The name record Stop has been around forever, and when the two own is Bruce and his part and it sold out, somebody bought the name, you know, they bought the name as a franchise and moved it to Patcho.

9:07 Speaker 8: Oh wow.

9:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, most of my collection is from that store.

9:11 Speaker 8: Oh no kidding. Oh that's so cool.

9:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, the place was awesome back in the day.

9:18 Speaker 6: Bootlegs, Yeah, you know live Slayer albums that someone like recorded on a.

9:24 Speaker 3: I don't know, handheld radio and then put onto a record, you know, like an LP. Yeah, it was crazy stuff they had that. Yeah, this is Corey. I also like the fact that the vinyl is starting to come back a little bit. I me and my son were buying some vinyls and we played them. That's pretty cool. I liked doing that, you know.

9:42 Speaker 8: Yeah. Oh yeah, Well, Vinyl, I mean never really went away, but I think it was what was it twenty It was either twenty twenty four or twenty twenty three, was like the first year since the inception of CDs that vinyl actually out sold CDs. More people were buying vinyl than CDs.

9:58 Speaker 3: Yeah.

10:00 Speaker 8: Fun, Nothing sounds better than vinyl, you know, the warmth of it and everything. Yeah, yeah, it's great.

10:05 Speaker 6: Not only that, it's a it's a process. It's a chance to unplug, put it on. You're going to listen to the whole side now, right, you know, and then whip it. It takes away that that digital you know, I need immediate satisfaction and onto the next It takes that away, which is great.

10:23 Speaker 3: And you can also look at the artwork and read the lyrics again and all that other stuff. So that's that's kind of cool too.

10:29 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, that's one of the great things about physical media is you know, you know, when I was a kid, you know, I'm sure you guys were the same way. I Mean, I loved just looking at If I was really into an artist, I would buy everything that they put out, and I would look at even just like stuff like you know who their management company was, and you know, just any little, any teeny tiny speck of information I could find within the liner notes of the album or the cassette or the CD or whatever it was.

10:55 Speaker 3: I was.

10:56 Speaker 8: You know, that's that's how obsessive I could be with that stuff. And it's good. It's good that it's never gone away. You know, it's still even CDs. I would say, you know, five or six years ago, a lot of the guests that I would interview, they were like, CDs now, that's that's a dead medium. And now everybody's everybody's putting out CDs and and and a lot of artists, you know, major label artists of course always released on vinyl. But but even though a lot of independent artists now you know, it's expensive, but they're putting out vinyl.

11:23 Speaker 8: It's it's really amazing.

11:25 Speaker 3: Well, I still think that there's a lot of people out there now.

11:28 Speaker 9: That really want to have that that that physical piece of you know, music in the hand that they can take with them everywhere instead of you know, just this this digital.

11:36 Speaker 8: Copy right right.

11:40 Speaker 6: Absolutely, we we managed to find a really cool company. So we we have our first album, Fate Anthropic on vinyl at a place called Elastic Stage. Okay, So if you go on our website, frequency of olo dot com. You go down, you'll see off site merchandise and then merchandise directly from us. Okay, but you can you can link to Elastic Stage and they will make one off.

12:09 Speaker 3: You got to wait a few weeks.

12:11 Speaker 10: Oh my god.

12:11 Speaker 3: It doesn't cost us. We don't got to lay it all out.

12:14 Speaker 6: So you order it and it comes from in royal mail from England in a few weeks and you get.

12:19 Speaker 3: A copy of our album.

12:21 Speaker 8: Oh that's really cool. I love that.

12:24 Speaker 6: And then for us, because you know we have the account, I can get four or five at a discounted price for the merch table.

12:32 Speaker 2: Yeah.

12:33 Speaker 10: Oh that's.

12:35 Speaker 8: That is a great concept. I'm looking at the website too. By the way, the website's really cool. I'm a website nerd. This is a very cool site. And I love the video. Can you tell me about we didn't talk about this yet, the video for Thrashking. Circling back to thrash King because I'm looking at it now, and you know what's what's interesting about this? It reminds me of something I was having a conversation with someone about this recently. How when I was a kid, you know, you'd see these videos on MTV and and sometimes artists who are like really super famous, they would have these videos that look like they cost millions of dollars, you know, to make.

13:06 Speaker 8: But now with the technology that we have, because I'm looking at the video for a thrashking and this would have been very expensive to do back in the day, but this looks like I mean, tell me about this video the making of it.

13:21 Speaker 3: So we're on Soday Records from Canada.

13:27 Speaker 8: Yep, love them.

13:28 Speaker 6: And so Sam said, listen, we're going to do the release this and that you really should have something visual for YouTube. We could get like an AI video done quick and release it at the same time. So we're going to cross reference the lyrics with give me a couple of sentences, a couple of ideas what the song is about. And now I said, I all this to the people that are upset. They're doing their day job, you know, like the rest of us. They're in the mud, yep. And then they go out to a frequent The Overload show and they're happy and they're in the pit and they're losing you know that they're they're losing their inhibitions and they're having a good time.

14:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, and about two hours later, really like by the next morning.

14:12 Speaker 6: There's the video don Yeah, glorious, And the cost of it was seventy five hours.

14:18 Speaker 8: Oh my god, that's incredible. Wow, that's amazing, zero to that a.

14:26 Speaker 3: Few years ago. Oh.

14:28 Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's cool when the guys turn into like warriors, when the guys comes up with his sword and he's like a.

14:34 Speaker 3: Superherol you know, because the lyrics they're raising your sword.

14:37 Speaker 6: So whatever program they use for that and translate the lyrics, it's amazing what they can do.

14:43 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's really cool because I'm looking at it now and it's it's like, you know, the people in the video who are who are in the pit, like you don't they don't look like people that you would expect to see in the pit, So it's cool. So the whole concept is cool. You know, they're just regular people. They go to the show and uh oh they've even got thrashking on the on the back of their their phones. Oh that's really cool. Yeah, the video is awesome. I love this. Absolutely love this.

15:10 Speaker 9: It kind of shows, you know, like everyday people that you wouldn't think would be friends in their in their regular everyday life, but then once they get together, it come to over those show we're all friends and we're all in a pit and we're all there for one thing that we love.

15:22 Speaker 8: Yeah right, yeah, I love it. I love it. I love the whole I love that whole concept. That's that's amazing. So the first album, so thrash King is on the first album, correct, it is not this.

15:34 Speaker 3: The thresh King is the first release of what's going to be the second album.

15:39 Speaker 8: Oh gotcha?

15:40 Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, what we did was.

15:42 Speaker 6: We went in and we recorded ten more songs, okay, thresh King being the first one of those. We mixed all drums and bass to completion, and now as we can we go back. Guitars, vocals, guitars, vocals. Our recording engineer is Joey Z from Life of Agony.

16:03 Speaker 8: Oh no kidding, nice.

16:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, So if you look at.

16:05 Speaker 6: His schedule, he was on the tour with Keith Camputo playing bass for two months. Then they're going back in August to play I Guess Walking and the rest of that.

16:15 Speaker 3: So he's you know. He we got to kind of jump to Joey's studio and then back again as much as we can.

16:23 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So that's a that's a process. He's obviously a very busy guy. We also have Love and Bullets. Is that also going to be on the new album?

16:32 Speaker 3: That's on the first album?

16:33 Speaker 8: That's on the first album? Okay? Because that's the yeah, gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, because that's a great track too. We're actually going to play that in a few minutes at the end of our conversation. I made a radio edit for that too. And that's another that's another really great track. Is the the process for recording the new album? Has it been much different than doing the first one?

16:52 Speaker 3: It has been. The first one. We intended on doing a three song demo, okay, and we went through.

16:59 Speaker 6: A marketing agency and we came to him said, look, we have this three song demo, and he's like, great, A lot of our college stations are still album format.

17:09 Speaker 3: You need a full album.

17:10 Speaker 8: Yeah.

17:11 Speaker 6: So you got about five songs on there that we did at a studio and the other ones we did at Corey's house on Reaper and then had Joey mix it and master at his best that he could to get.

17:23 Speaker 3: It to the level of the other songs. Okay, so you'll see that on the liner notes.

17:29 Speaker 6: But yeah, it was a real process to get a full album together after we went there, so proud of ourselves for getting three done. The time we rented Voodoo Studios in Port jeff for two full days whole weekend there.

17:43 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's intense trying to get all that done in one weekend though. That's uh, I mean, what was that? I mean, was that challenging or did it flow pretty well?

17:52 Speaker 3: Or this is Kevin the drummer, And yeah, it was challenging.

17:56 Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

18:00 Speaker 3: But we got it done.

18:01 Speaker 11: And everybody's real cool, you know, try to keep it light and ye, you know, joking.

18:06 Speaker 3: Around and uh, you know, we got it done.

18:09 Speaker 11: The first day we tried to we were thinking we were going to get like five or six done, and we only got like two done. So the next day we came in, I came in with a great attitude and just went in and we just crushed it. We crushed the rest of them.

18:27 Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely a challenging process, but we also had a great fun time doing it too, because Joe is just a great engineer to work with, and he makes the process just smooth and uh and really really fun to He motivated, really fun to do.

18:41 Speaker 3: He motivates us ten.

18:43 Speaker 8: Yeah, excellent, excellent. Do you have a title?

18:45 Speaker 6: Another thing that he did that that adds that that thickness and warmth to it is they ran the digital signals from the drums and the two direct base ends through the old tape reel to reel machine really of course, not in the tape, just running the signals through those old handmade capacities and the wound ceramics and all of that then into pro tools.

19:14 Speaker 8: Really yeah, oh that's interesting.

19:18 Speaker 3: And then it's Kevin again.

19:20 Speaker 11: Whenever I would get a little stressed, I'd look up into the recording booth and Tom rs.

19:24 Speaker 3: Sanger is dancing with a life size skeleton.

19:28 Speaker 2: You know.

19:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I get right back on it. Yeah, Yeah, it's all good.

19:35 Speaker 11: It's exciting, and I think the songs are sounding great and look forward to getting some more out there.

19:40 Speaker 3: You know.

19:40 Speaker 8: Excellent. Yeah, do you have a title for the album?

19:45 Speaker 6: Most likely it's going to be one of two Relapsed into Rage or This Metal Life. Flip a coin on that one.

19:56 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are both good. I like Relapse into Rage though that one kind of something a little provocative about it, which I like. But did do you have any kind of an ETA on the new album or I know you don't want to put a hard hard date on.

20:10 Speaker 3: It, but definitely by the end of the year.

20:12 Speaker 6: I mean, we're I'm going back to do vocal tracks on one, possibly two tomorrow, so okay, yeah, so we'll have at least the next one done vocally and he'll be able to mix and master it after tomorrow.

20:29 Speaker 8: Oh excellent, Okay, all right, that's good. That's great. And then do you intend to keep releasing singles until you know, like when when the next one is ready? I mean, are you going to uh or are you going to hold out for the for the album at this point?

20:44 Speaker 3: No?

20:44 Speaker 6: No, according to our label and everybody else, really they want this constant gratification. They want singles, single singles, and then what we're going to do is we're gonna do the singles, then put it all together and well for it as a full download, full CD, full LP on vinyl the end of the year.

21:06 Speaker 8: Okay, okay, oh, very good, very good.

21:10 Speaker 9: Yeah.

21:10 Speaker 8: Soday Records they're sending us a lot of like really good artists. That's that's how we met you guys. And uh yeah, that's that's quite a label they've got. They've got some real talent there. So it's great that your work. How did you come to work with them? How did that come about?

21:26 Speaker 3: You don't even know, Corey doesn't even know all. So we have we have a local school.

21:34 Speaker 6: Teacher on Long Island and he has a streaming station called l I n L Long Island night Light. Okay, they started sending stuff to him, and he contacted me and said, hey, this is some of this stuff is going to go on that uh hammer and Anvil metal show that we were talking about that we kind of made up around frequency overload at the time.

21:55 Speaker 3: Oh and uh so I was like, oh that's crazy, that's cool.

22:00 Speaker 6: And then I started listening to some of this stuff and I said, holy crap, I got to send this guy an email and I said, listen, we we'd love to have representation and would you listen to ali stuff and give us an idea?

22:12 Speaker 3: And that's how it happened.

22:14 Speaker 8: Oh well, very cool. Well yeah, I mean, like I said, you know, they clearly know what they're doing and they're doing right by you guys, and that's that's wonderful. So what what's kind of the next Uh? Do you guys have any Are you playing any shows this weekend? Or when's when's your next show?

22:32 Speaker 6: Not this weekend, it's two weekends. Yeah, two weekends. So June sixth, Saturday, Patchog, New York. The doors open at six point thirty. It's at a record store called Record Stop. Okay, and we're playing with a couple of other bands, including Out Close and Dear Friends in Idiot Box and uh, we're looking to have a good time.

22:51 Speaker 3: It's a free show, all ages.

22:53 Speaker 8: Oh, very good. That's outstanding. Do you guys there aren't that many opportunities at least around here. I don't know what it's like there for even all ages shows anymore. I mean, what's it like there? I mean, obviously, because you want to get in front of a young crowd right when you can. You want to get those You want to get those young fans because they're the ones who you know, they're going to be sticking with you for for a long time if you you know, if you can get them to see you alive. I mean, are there a lot of opportunities to do all ages shows there There.

23:20 Speaker 3: Isn't a whole lot of opportunities.

23:22 Speaker 6: But Kevin and Steve came up with this great idea that we used last year, which we started booking our own shows. So we did in all ages what we call Pappy palooza. Oh, at a brewer in Riverhead. Yeah, each year we do this, uh, pappy palooza. First one was on my driveway and we ended up going to a brewery and they serve food there, et cetera. So it was all ages and it turned out to be a fabulous time.

23:51 Speaker 8: Oh that's excellent, very good.

23:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, we packed the house. The fire marshal came. Actually, yeah, it was packed.

24:00 Speaker 8: Did the fire marshall give you our time or what?

24:02 Speaker 3: What?

24:02 Speaker 8: What was the result of that?

24:04 Speaker 6: He said, listen, guys, is not enough exits. You gotta do this, We gotta you gotta do it upstairs. Oh, we broke down, sent everybody upstairs and did like a Chinese fire drill with all the equipment running up and down and set up in the broom facing out into the restaurant.

24:24 Speaker 8: Okay, it was out of control.

24:27 Speaker 3: Wow, but but it went off like it like it was meant to be.

24:33 Speaker 9: And uh we finished that day out strong and it was great.

24:36 Speaker 11: Yea, and is gaining traction like it's it's becoming like a Long Island music festival that people are looking forward to and bands want.

24:46 Speaker 3: To get on the bill and play with us. Yeah, and uh, it's really fun. It's really cool.

24:51 Speaker 8: Oh that's excellent. You guys are all four of you, you all New Yorkers like y'all grew up there, born and raised. Yeah, that's a great place to be for a musician, that's for sure.

25:02 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but right on the island.

25:06 Speaker 8: Oh that's excellent. Yeah, good good, Well guys, Oh go ahead.

25:11 Speaker 11: I'm Kevin the Drama. I was from Nassau County, Okay, Long Island. These guys are in Suffolk County, so this was like the country to me when I grew up. But I moved out to Suffolk and I met Corey and we started this band and it's been it's been kicking ass for the last four years, four and a half years.

25:32 Speaker 8: That's great. Well, I look forward to seeing what you guys do into hearing what you guys do next and when the album comes out and everything, and we'll definitely have to have you back on, you know, as soon as you got as soon as you got something new, we will have you back on. Absolutely. And where's the best place to go online for everybody to keep up with what what you guys are doing. What frequency overload is up to.

25:52 Speaker 6: Definitely Frequency overload dot com because you can link out to all the socials and everything from there.

25:58 Speaker 3: But that's the basis.

25:59 Speaker 6: And if you go on there, you can join the mailing list and I always send out email blasts to let everybody know what we're up to, what we're doing. There's a blog page and we started adding what the new songs are about, one at a time.

26:16 Speaker 8: Oh interesting, so you'll.

26:18 Speaker 3: Be able to you know, get an idea of what's coming next.

26:21 Speaker 8: In other words, that's a cool idea. I've never really seen anyone do that. Oh okay, yeah, I'm looking at this. Uh, I'm looking at the blog page now. Yeah, so you got you know, boy and seed turn Okay, I see, Yeah, that's a that's a cool concept.

26:35 Speaker 3: I like that.

26:35 Speaker 8: That's a really good idea. That's a really good idea. And the way, and like I said, the way.

26:41 Speaker 3: What's going to get us out there?

26:43 Speaker 9: Getting ourselves out there and just try to really you know, engage with crowd and and and the public.

26:48 Speaker 8: And just get the word out right right absolutely well, in a moment, we're going to play the track Love and Bullets, of course from the first album. But I want to thank you guys, all four of you for being here today. Corey, Kevin, Steve, mister Bush. Thank you all. And like I said, I'm I became a as soon as I listen to you guys, I became an instant fan. I love this stuff. And of course the track that we're gonna play, Love and Bullets, as you said, that's from the first album, Fate Anthropic, And uh, I can't wait to hear what's next.

27:14 Speaker 8: But we'll let you go and we'll hit that track. But guys, Frequency Overload, thank you guys so much for being here today. This has been wonderful.

27:21 Speaker 3: Thanks for having us.

27:21 Speaker 8: Appreciate it absolutely. We'll do it again in the future, all right, take care, guys, Bye bye bye. All right, all four members of Frequency Overload and let's give this a spin. This is called Love and Bullets. This is from the first album, Fate Anthropic from Frequency Overload.

28:14 Speaker 6: We all git here a sovereign love and hostility.

28:19 Speaker 4: Ama, y'all, you gotta wake them because I will not relent. Return in this man on the yamoye fan, take.

28:29 Speaker 3: Up the bread out of this hot to the Dutch.

28:31 Speaker 4: Why now you re all like I love you too much?

28:33 Speaker 5: So won't something?

28:34 Speaker 10: I will play a ball.

28:36 Speaker 3: Listen for dad to his favorite result.

28:38 Speaker 4: Enjoyed the compil I will it will be fun before the seven I will give.

28:42 Speaker 5: You the god oh bad bullets swing up that bullet right and fortnight. Oh wait you in the funeral room.

28:52 Speaker 2: I went to nest week.

28:53 Speaker 3: You will so happy if they could be sick.

28:56 Speaker 4: I want to something, but to get there. Take see resolutions. You are working, okay, I have to drill that I wore the cake. The day is scumbled that they start to wallad. If it's a rache and that's the bride, they explode, So then we wont that the left on the spray away they get the funeral.

29:11 Speaker 5: Bullet wooday boo, sad blast string up now, bullet rice.

29:19 Speaker 3: And cot knights away.

29:20 Speaker 2: They get the funeral now and then that spree.

29:43 Speaker 5: That bullets string up down bullets rice and.

29:49 Speaker 3: Quad knights away.

29:50 Speaker 5: They get the funeral that way.

29:51 Speaker 4: The next break you gotta wake up because I will not release return investment on the yam Away test stick up the break Down. Its host of the dun Whyn't you realize I'm look you're too good?

30:02 Speaker 5: The Monterrey something I will play along.

30:05 Speaker 4: Listened with dad to his favorite song. They're trying to tuck him out with. This will be Father the call, it said.

30:10 Speaker 7: Another Thigures of God, Oh said.

30:13 Speaker 5: Bulls drag down, bullet right and one night, Oh way to get the beautiful? Now where did that screak?

30:43 Speaker 2: We have not a story with a normal God plan.

30:46 Speaker 5: The birl found out behind.

30:48 Speaker 3: Him the best man, I'm not.

30:50 Speaker 4: There their life, No now me Donna last, he family deliminated. If I don't wanna last, don't remember the hop we're.

30:56 Speaker 8: Having your room got into no mom, love and bullets. That is Frequency Overload. That's uh like I said, that'll get the blood pumping love it and those guys were a lot of fun to talk to. Frequency Overload dot com is the website. Check out what they're doing. That is from their first album, Fate Anthropic And of course earlier we played the brand new track Thrash King and you'll be hearing that again and we'll put that in rotation on the show. I've been sent something, so this is we've played this artist before.

31:52 Speaker 8: I'm gonna kind of seek in something here. I cannot reveal the true identity of this person, but they are called Hurricane, and uh check this out. Here's here's a new song from Hurricane.

32:27 Speaker 12: Innocent eyes with a sneaky little grin.

32:33 Speaker 3: Candy coated with a pinchive sing.

32:38 Speaker 8: She's a little bit sweet, but full of spies.

32:44 Speaker 3: Just don't cross that lot.

32:47 Speaker 12: She won't sing twice.

32:53 Speaker 7: She's a sportful of silver in aself.

32:58 Speaker 5: A double barrel and double is not hard to tell.

33:03 Speaker 7: She can throw yours, make you feel free.

33:09 Speaker 5: Try to steal herself.

33:14 Speaker 8: It's a shot of misery.

33:26 Speaker 13: She's trouble in heaven knows, sweet as hell, lim it's just the way it goes, a broken melody.

33:38 Speaker 10: You're written for a perfect.

33:40 Speaker 12: Song, been singing that song for far too long. She can bring you pee, so bring you all.

33:46 Speaker 8: It all depends on what you're asking for.

33:51 Speaker 7: She's a spool for the sugar in a shotgun shell.

33:57 Speaker 7: A double barrel of trouble is not hard to hell.

34:02 Speaker 12: She can pull your.

34:05 Speaker 5: Make you feel free to try to steal the sut.

34:12 Speaker 8: It's a shot of misery.

34:17 Speaker 12: Love her right, She'll show you her soul.

34:22 Speaker 13: But if you cross that line, it's not a side you wanta go.

34:30 Speaker 10: She's a sport.

34:31 Speaker 7: Sugar, a shotgun shell, a double barrow and trouble.

34:37 Speaker 5: It's not hard to tell.

34:42 Speaker 12: The sugar with the wall inside, the hellish little angel,

34:50 Speaker 12: the most dangerous kind.

35:04 Speaker 1: You're listening to Macconnerton Unleashed on wm n H ninety.

35:09 Speaker 8: Five point three right now the world radio premiere brand new from replaced by Robots. This is replaced by robots theme from Zero Joy Zero.

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36:08 Speaker 3: I have aware search He said you better be ware.

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37:14 Speaker 8: To get dissatisfied.

37:21 Speaker 3: All the non lead let Love.

37:26 Speaker 5: Nice replaced by Realist, Realist.

37:58 Speaker 8: And now another World radio premiere. You heard it here first on w m n H ninety five point three f M and Matt Connerton Unleashed. It is the second single from White Ash, coming out May twenty seven. This is called Blue Skies.

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39:00 Speaker 8: Never fos my b chasing.

39:03 Speaker 5: Yet today I already go, but you gotta get there boy.

39:20 Speaker 14: Let me seep is a menildy cado stuff pressed that seat, ma be had it wants you do so tell me about you get that?

39:32 Speaker 8: Tell me alady.

39:35 Speaker 5: Scot see you too.

39:39 Speaker 3: Gotchee come j.

39:43 Speaker 14: Yh me botch my bachasy.

39:46 Speaker 5: Yesterday by lady, what you're gonna get? There?

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41:08 Speaker 8: You heard it here first, that is the world radio premiere of the new single from White Ash that is called Blue Skies, and White Ash will be on the show talking about that in the near future. I think they've been on with us before it kind of becomes a blur, but I love that song. That is really really good. And before that, we also heard the world radio premiere of the new single from Replaced by Robots. The song is also called Replaced by Robots. But then in parentheses theme from zero Joy Zero, so that's also I love them.

41:38 Speaker 8: They're one of my favorite bands out of the Boston area. We love replaced by Robots, Great great stuff. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. You can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact and folk show archives, etc. Etc. And of course don't forget about a brand new site, Matt Connerton Unleashed dot com where you can find even more show related content.

42:07 Speaker 8: And we're gonna be putting some articles on there too, you'll see. Well, well, we'll promote that as we go, as we upload new things to the site. But there's there is much going on and we will have much content for you all to consume if you are a fan of the show. Today is, of course, for those of you listening live. It is Saturday May twenty third, twenty twenty six, of course, and we wish a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend to everybody. As you know, of course, we remember our fallen veterans on Memorial Day.

42:38 Speaker 8: And Memorial Day also the unofficial start of summer. So I love, you know, Summer's my favorite time of year. Obviously, I love this weather. Finally, we went through a rough winter here. I mean, you know, we didn't get that much snow in the grand scheme of things, although we got that once starm that was really big. But it was a very very cold winter here in the Northeast. So really looking for summer, and I love that we're finally getting some hot weather. And for those of you who don't know, I'll just tell you I'm strange.

43:06 Speaker 8: I'm one of those people who not only do I not mind the heat, I actually enjoy the heat when it's ninety degrees out.

43:13 Speaker 3: I like that.

43:14 Speaker 8: I know I'm strange. Don't get me wrong. I don't like the humidity. A dry heat's always better. But even when it's humid, I can. I can handle it. So I was telling someone the other day that I said, don't get me wrong, if I'm out in the heat for an extended period of time, to walk into an air conditioned room does feel really good. However, if I'm in an air conditioned room for more than a couple of hours. To walk out of that and back into the heat also feels really good to me. It feels like a warm hug because after a while, I don't want to be in an air conditioned room.

43:47 Speaker 8: I actually want to experience the heat again. I'm very strange, but that's me. I'm impervious to heat. What can I say. We've got a little bit of time left in today's show. I want to hit some music news. We did something earlier in the show, a couple of things. We'll see how much of this we get to. We love music industry news on the show. This is from digitalmusicnews dot com, one of my favorite websites for music industry news. And you know we someone even commented me about it recently. You know, you guys, you beat up Live Nation and Ticketmaster quite a bit on the show.

44:16 Speaker 8: Well, they are giants, or they are a giant, because it really is all one company. It is a monopoly. They can take it. They can take us throwing shots at them, but there is now they are being threatened with being forced to break up. Dozens of state attorneys general around the country are now demanding that Live Nation and Ticketmaster that this merger. When did they merge? I mean it had to be at least a decade ago, right, that this merger be undone after all this time, and that they be split up because they are simply too powerful, too much of a monopoly.

44:48 Speaker 8: And I'll tell you a lot of people in the music industry would really applaud that would love to see Live Nation and Ticketmaster finally being separated. But this is the article from Digital musicnews dot com. Live Nation ticket Master must be separated, say dozens of US state AG's demand in stepped up court filings. So this is what's happening, a group of state attorneys general. And by the way, it is the plural. And I'm glad they got it right in the article because I hear a lot of people get this wrong.

45:18 Speaker 8: I even hear journalists who should no better get this wrong. The plural of attorney general is not attorney generals. I hear people get that wrong all the time. The plural of attorney general is attorneys general. They're not generals, So it's not attorney generals. They don't serve in the military. They are attorneys and general as in a general attorney serving the you know, representing the community that for whom they've been elected to represent, whether it be a state attorney general or the United States Attorney general, they are attorneys general, that is the plural, very much a stickler for that kind of thing.

46:01 Speaker 8: I cringe every time I hear you know, some politicians say attorney generals. It's like, no, that's wrong, and you sound dumb. Okay, anyway, Sorry, I'm very judgmental when it comes to that. On Thursday, May twenty first, the coalition of over thirty state attorneys general that sued a Live Nation and Ticketmaster in a trial that found the live events giant to be in violation of antitrust law, has demanded that Live Nation sell ticket Master. The States laid out their proposal in a much anticipated legal brief, asserting that the only way to fix the live music business is to force the companies to split it says here okay, The States wrote in their filing quote in order requiring Live Nation to divest Ticketmaster such that is capable of restoring competition for primary ticketing contracts with major concert venues, Plaintiffs are evaluating the scope of assets, contracts, personnel, and systems that would be necessary for a standalone Ticketmaster to effectively compete in the market for primary ticketing services to major concert venues unquote.

47:12 Speaker 8: The States are also requesting that Live Nation be forced to divest a sufficient number of amphitheaters and face restrictions on acquiring new ones. Further, they demand monetary damages for a quote overcharges on ticketing fees paid by residents of the plaintiff states unquote, as well as the handover of quote ill gotten profits derived from ticketing fees during the time of the unlawful monopoly unquote. Live Nation, for their part, will be filing formal motions and opposition in the coming weeks.

47:45 Speaker 8: The company is likely to argue that the case can be resolved simply by changes to its business practices which were previously agreed upon with the Department of Justice, such as limiting its use of exclusive contracts. Dozens of states and the DEJ sued Live Nation in twenty twenty four, alleging that the company which which acquired Ticketmaster in an approved merger in twenty ten. Okay, so even longer than I thought. I said, what ten years ago? They actually merged back in twenty ten, so sixteen years ago, that this had grown into a monopoly that has dominated the live music industry for years.

48:21 Speaker 8: To put it mildly, but just a week after the case went to trial, the DOJ agreed to a sweetheart deal, blind siding the court. However, the States steemed the deal insufficient and not in the public interest and pushed ahead with the trial, asserting that the breakup of the two companies was the best path forward. On April fifteen, the jury found that Live Nation and Ticketmaster had operated a monopoly, dominating the market for ticketing services and the use of amphitheaters and illegally trying to use I'm sorry, illegally tying the use of its venues to its promotion services.

48:59 Speaker 8: So and again, we've talked about that on the show. That's the end of that article, but we've talked about that last part on the show. You know, when you when you try to induce someone into doing a particular type of business with you, or maybe they're already doing that business with you, but you're trying to get them to shut up and stop complaining about it. You might say, well, you know, if you cease to do business with us in this modality, we might also stop doing business with you in this other thing.

49:27 Speaker 3: You know.

49:28 Speaker 8: So if you're a company that maybe you own multiple venues and you want to sever your your relationship with Tickemaster in terms of servicing a particular venue, well they might say, okay, well, then we're also going to service our relationship with you with these other venues that you definitely definitely need us for. Is that illegal? Is that predatory a predatory business practice? Or is that just playing hardball? Is that just being tough? Now? I don't know where the line is. We've talked about that on the show before, but these state attorneys general they seem to have an idea of where the line is, and they're now aggressively once again going after Live Nation and Ticketmaster.

50:10 Speaker 8: I don't know if these dozens of US filings, US state filings, I don't know if these are going to amount to anything in the end. I don't know. It's not the federal government this time going after them in this instance, although the federal government does go after Live Nation for other things. This is I mean, the DOJ has suit Live Nation more than once. This is individual state ags going after Ticketmaster and Live Nation and saying they must be separated. They are too powerful of a monopoly very quickly.

50:44 Speaker 8: In somewhat related news, I just thought this was interesting and we'll have to end on this. We don't have much time. This is also from Digital Musicnews dot Com. Ontario our neighbors to the north up in Canada. Ontario begins enforcement of a it's hardline ticket scalping ban, the most aggressive ticket resale law in North America. Ontario's ban on resale for profit is now the most aggressive ticket resale law on the continent, overtaking Maine's ten percent resale price cap that passed in June twenty twenty five.

51:19 Speaker 8: The Canadian province now joins Ireland, Denmark, Italy, and France in banning ticket resale for profit, while the UK and select states in the US only have proposed caps. The Ontario government has successfully enacted a ban on ticket resale above the original face value, just two months after Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the reform. The government has begun enforcement ahead of the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup, which starts on June twelve in Ontario. So if it wasn't for the FIFA World Cup, I wonder if any of this would even be on the radar of any of these people.

51:56 Speaker 8: Remember, Doug Ford's brother was a Tom Ford, an interesting person. The reform passed is part of the Ontario government's latest budget bill, which received royal assent on April twenty four. Schedule sixteen of the bill amends the Ticket Sales Act of twenty seventeen to require that quote, a ticket may only be made available for sale on the secondary market for an amount that exceeds the total price paid when the ticket was purchased from the primary seller, plus any applicable fees, service charges and taxes charged by the secondary seller or operator of a secondary ticketing platform.

52:33 Speaker 8: Unquote. That's a lot of words, but it sounds like they want to put a cap on what you can resell a ticket for, So you can't buy a ticket for ten dollars and then turn around and resell it for twenty. It says here the significant amendment to the Ticket Sales Act comes even I'm sorry, comes seven years after a failed reform bill which proposed capping resale price at fifty percent above face value. The Ontario government has taken swift action to ensure that ticketing platforms comply with the new regulation, including sending notices to vendors for upcoming inspections.

53:11 Speaker 8: So the article goes on from there, but Ontario is taking this pretty seriously. Again, I have to wonder if this, if any of this, would be on their radar were it not for the FIFA World Cup, because tickets to that, I assume are very expensive and they don't want the scalping going on. So we'll see. But that is up at Digital Musicnews dot com if you want to read the entire article. It does get pretty deep into the weeds. But I think we're going to close out today's show and again thank you everyone who joined us today on the show.

53:44 Speaker 8: Of course we had Danny from the Velt, we had the guys from Frequency Overload, and of course John Poussett Dart, who is going to be playing right here in Manchester at the Rex Theater on June fifth. Show starts at seven thirty. You can get tickets online. Always love talking with him, and once again I do want to thank and I'll hold the shirt up for our online video viewing watchers and listeners if you see the video on YouTube or Facebook or wherever. Our friend grim Rock he sent us two shirts, one for Jenny and one for I and also included a sticker, and grim Rock will be here with us live in studio next week.

54:21 Speaker 8: So he's in Pennsylvania, but he's on tour and he's coming our way. He will be here live in studio next week May thirtieth on the show, and he's going to be playing that night. Jenny and I will go see him at the Spot in Nashua, a great place. We've not actually been to the Spot. We've had Mike McDowell from the Spot on the show, but we have yet to attend his wonderful venue which I see and hear nothing but great things about. And grim Rock is going to be there live that night and we finally get to see him live.

54:50 Speaker 8: So we're really looking forward to that. So I think to close out today's show, we'll close out with another grim Rock song. We played don't You earlier in the show. Maybe we'll play Angry. That's a good way to good way to end the show. So if you miss any part of today's program, it'll be up in just a little bit at Wmnhradio dot org, n at my website Matt connorton dot com. Also Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com, our brand new website, which is going to be We're going to be adding a lot more of show related content to that site as well, so please check that out.

55:22 Speaker 8: Also, if you don't know, I am a certified hypnotherapist. So if you need to quit smoking, lose weight, deal with phobias, et cetera, et cetera, look me up again. You can do that right online Matt Connerton dot com. You can book a free fifteen minute consultation with me. I would love to talk with you, answer any questions that you have and help you if you decide to hire me to do so, and I hope that you do. And we will close out today's show with the track Angry Again. This is another great song from our friend grim Rock.

55:49 Speaker 8: He's got a real sort of old school low fi garage rock vibe to what he does and we absolutely love it here and he will be here with us live in studio next week. Oh, this song is really short, you know what, I think I'll play Abyss instead. Angry is a good song, but it's it's only a minute in twenty five seconds, and we have more time than that. Let's play Abyss. We'll go with this one and then maybe we'll even sneak, angry and at the end if we have time, but this will be a good way to close out today's show.

56:13 Speaker 8: That's gonna do it for us. For now, I'll talk to you a little bit later.

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