Matt Connarton Unleashed 7-4-26 hour 2

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5:51 Speaker 4: Dance into the nights. Great single from the Azoress. I'm gonna have to ask if I'm saying that correctly. But let's see, I think we have uh, I think we have at least Gas from the band and we'll see you else Gas.

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6:03 Speaker 13: Yeah, go on as well.

6:06 Speaker 4: Oh wonderful, wonderful, welcome. Guys. Love that song, very very very catchy, very positive and uh no, that's great that came out and uh that came out in May, correct, Yeah, yeah, it's not me yeah yeah, so relatively new.

6:21 Speaker 13: Yeah yeah.

6:22 Speaker 4: What what's the response been to it? I would imagine you're having some success with it because it's impossible to uh you know not. I mean, it's it's kind of infectious. So the first time I listened to it, it was stuck in my head the entire day.

6:34 Speaker 1: That's a good thing, isn't it.

6:36 Speaker 14: Very want want to be inside your head to like actually record it and play it back to you constantly.

6:46 Speaker 13: No doubt it's going doing well. It's always been like a favorite, even when we played it live shows and so you get recorded, so for people, it's it's been good.

6:55 Speaker 4: Yeah, excellent, excellent. You guys have been around for a while, right did you start? Basically? Are you a COVID? I probably hate this term, but a COVID band. Did you start during the pandemic?

7:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, right, we did, but maybe just started anyway.

7:11 Speaker 14: I think we were all at a point in our you know, like they were Kenny all looking for something like that.

7:18 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, the COVID just a coincidence that that happened at the same time.

7:24 Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, maybe it's a wee bit of a bust at the beginning, because obviously we're able to practice a you know and putting new songs together and stuff like with with a bit of piece and.

7:35 Speaker 1: Quiet, right with everybody in the world being locked away.

7:40 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's interesting because we've had a lot of you know, even I mean it's it's you know, quite a few years after now, although it might not seem like it, but in twenty twenty six. Even now, we have a lot of guests on the show who will talk about, you know, they've they formed around that time or before them. And then the pandemic happened, and then everything really changed for a while, and it kind of kind of forced people to find new ways to be creative and to work together and and uh.

8:08 Speaker 4: But but you guys, you know, starting around that time, obviously, because I was reading that, I didn't think. I don't think you played your first live show until a couple of years right later, right in twenty two.

8:18 Speaker 13: Twenty twenty two was the first, first one, because they won't just jumping into do like a live show when we're only ready for it. So yeah, basically, we took our time and we worked on a set. Go to our songs the way we were watching them, nice and tight, next and tight, so that you.

8:32 Speaker 14: Know, when we're playing people with our music would come across correctly. And if you go out before you've practiced songs properly, or you have them into set too quickly, you're bound to make mistakes, you know, and it's time making mistakes.

8:46 Speaker 1: And everything like that.

8:47 Speaker 14: Right, most people don't notice them, but they do notice a band that's not tight.

8:52 Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely, So tell me about the name. And well, actually, first let's let's clear this up. Am I saying it correctly? The azure resins? Am I am I close?

9:04 Speaker 1: That's that's actually quite good.

9:05 Speaker 14: Yeah, I don't know, I'm not sure of the definitive way to say it, right, but we're named after a magic mushroom that grows in America, and it's called the Azuris.

9:19 Speaker 1: But I mean I might actually be pronouncing that wrong as well. It might be ever action.

9:24 Speaker 13: Yeah, it's it's like it's.

9:26 Speaker 14: Called Azuris, and I suspect right, I've never really actually seen the mushroom itself, but it's called a blue Mini's I take it it takes its name from azure as.

9:37 Speaker 1: In you know, the color. So okay, So that's that's the basic thing of it.

9:44 Speaker 14: I mean, the reason for choosing that really is because we're kind of quite a psychedelic band. We like to, you know, have nice reverbs and delays and stuff like that going on in our tunes. So it kind of makes the songs, although they're pop paying rocky, you know, at the same time, they're quite psychedelic.

10:04 Speaker 1: So they give somebody something to listen to. Well that's what we hope anyway.

10:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, right, right now, what went into the choice to go with Well, how many? How many? Let me ask it this way because I'm curious about the choice of Dancing to the Night for a single, But how many songs do you guys have recorded that that you've released at this point?

10:24 Speaker 13: I think it's maybe sixteen. I think we will maybe a live in singles, and we've done a six.

10:31 Speaker 5: EP okay last year.

10:34 Speaker 13: Okay, I think maybe about fifteen or sixteen we've got recorded and out.

10:40 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, all the.

10:43 Speaker 14: Ones we've got one say that we've recorded already, but we've not worked on them yet as they they're just a desk mixes at.

10:51 Speaker 13: The moment, you know.

10:51 Speaker 1: So another four yeah, and then we're going to do an album after that.

10:58 Speaker 14: But the problem is is that people have a very short attention span nowadays, and most people really really do have a terrible attention span.

11:07 Speaker 1: So it was so like the kind of idea is is that folk like to see things.

11:12 Speaker 14: That are like short, you know, and whatnot. You know, so when it comes to putting things on the internet, it's all shorts, you know, so very basic brief clips of videos.

11:24 Speaker 1: That's not the way that we work.

11:28 Speaker 14: Our tunes have got a bit of depth in them, you know, they need somebody to have an attention span, unfortunately, right.

11:34 Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it's interesting. We live in a time where there's so many different ways to release music. And you know, I'm old enough to remember when I was growing up, most most bands or solo artists whomever would release an album, you know, the first single would go to radio ahead of the album, and then the album would come out and then you'd get you know, if if all went well, you know, you might get a second single and a third single, et cetera. But now a lot of artists are kind of doing the inverse of that, releasing a series of singles eventually coalesced to an EP or an album, because you know, you've got to feed that algorithm, you know, So.

12:07 Speaker 14: That yeah, that's what we're kind of doing. We're just bombarding the internet with lots of singles and.

12:14 Speaker 1: Then at some point we will re record, you know.

12:19 Speaker 14: A whole album and start to finish and it will be probably a few new songs, you know, mix with ones that we've previously recorded but obviously have refined over the years.

12:32 Speaker 1: So like some of the things that.

12:33 Speaker 14: We've recorded, we're playing them slightly different now obviously with them being live. Yeah, you know, when you when you play a few you know, gigs and things like that, things change. Find So sometimes some of the recording that we've done, we feel that we're a lot better that those tunes now.

12:56 Speaker 13: A lot of genderman, go back, get them done better.

12:58 Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, and you guys went through you know, speaking of playing live, you guys went through a lineup change last year.

13:05 Speaker 5: Correct, that's correct.

13:08 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, we've actually been through a couple of lineup changes, but not they're they're not. We've lost our drummer on a couple of occasions. The first time was our first drummer was a guy called Jay, and Jay, you know I got his girlfriend pregnant and had to leave the band, you know, because he worked and things like that, you know, and obviously family is a slightly different thing. Yeah, and then we've got we've got another guy and he was sound. It was two years and then he offered a like kind of a dream job for himself.

13:47 Speaker 14: Yeah, so wouldn't have the time to do the band as well. But we've landed on our feet. We've got a really good, good replacement. It took us about six months though, to refine of the songs, and actually they they've all got better because of that, you know, the change, because it's forced us to rethink how we play things and get tighter again, you know, and with slightly different melodies within the songs and stuff. So yeah, it's all learning process, isn't it.

14:20 Speaker 15: You know.

14:21 Speaker 4: I don't know if it's the same there, but here, you know, when you lose a drummer that that can be a deathnell because drummers are very hard to find here. I have a theory about it. I think it's because when when you're growing up and you want to learn to play a musical instrument, and you have to have the conversation with the parents. If you tell them you want to play drums, they're gonna either that or the tuba. They might try to talk you out of it, you know, but.

14:44 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, anything that's hellish to listen to you, they're going to want to get rid of that idea.

14:50 Speaker 1: Most definitely.

14:51 Speaker 13: It's kind of like that.

14:53 Speaker 14: Yeah, it's definitely down to the parents say not wanting it, but you still do have good drummers.

15:00 Speaker 1: It just happens to be that.

15:01 Speaker 14: I kind of knew a guy that was saying, you know, in between bands at the time anyway, and he's had a really good drummer. So, you know, if we were to lose a member of the band, is it's devastating because you lose a certain.

15:15 Speaker 1: Dynamic you know that the band brings. You know, it's not the band's never about one person. It can't be about one person. You know, it's about a.

15:24 Speaker 14: Collaborative you know venture. I suppose you know, and the minute you take one part out, it just changed.

15:33 Speaker 13: You know.

15:34 Speaker 14: Luckily we've just grin and you know, grit our teeth and just grind bear it and just got on with it.

15:41 Speaker 1: And on this occasion we came out to other other ends smelling the roses.

15:45 Speaker 14: I suppose. So our new drummer is really really good. He's really entertaining the watch as well.

15:51 Speaker 4: Oh excellent, excellent.

15:53 Speaker 13: Wed a keyboard player as well, go further than playing keyboard and extra guitar as well. So the band expanded their sound as over that. We've always wanted to get the keys involved in our sound. Don't got freighter and he's he's added a lot of the band as well.

16:09 Speaker 4: No, excellent.

16:10 Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean like we've we've always wanted to sort of make our sounds looser and bigger, not and that's not always the case by adding extra instruments. But then if you're a musician, you'll understand that the more that you can add, the more space can be creative. If people are tasteful, you know, it's all about being tasteful and not overdoing things, you know, so you know it's given every single instrument a space within the music.

16:39 Speaker 4: I suppose yeah, right, well said yeah absolutely, did you guys open Is this correct? You guys open for.

16:49 Speaker 13: Oh?

16:50 Speaker 4: Definitely Oasis? Is that a is like? Is that an Oasis tribute band?

16:54 Speaker 6: Yeah?

16:54 Speaker 13: Yeah, it's one of the travel around the world or one of the one.

16:58 Speaker 1: Of the premiere one.

16:59 Speaker 11: Yeah.

17:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, we were open for them at the electrotrooms.

17:03 Speaker 14: Say like Benjy and Edinburgh say nice, yeah, but like obviously yeah, that was a really nice gig for us.

17:12 Speaker 13: It was, yeah, one of the best and that was that was top that top.

17:17 Speaker 1: No, it absolutely ram.

17:21 Speaker 14: You've got to like, you know, you probably know the way Scotts people are like to party, you know, but you know, the gigs themselves are really really charged, like you'll you'll have an audience that's right up for it, you know, yeah, every one of them.

17:39 Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's quite entertaining. That was a little stuck in your head for.

17:43 Speaker 13: A while, that guy.

17:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the second time in the show today that Oasis has come up. Because with with our our previous guests, we were the radio addicts, we were talking about Oasis. Is that is that a band that's an influence on you guys. They're one of my favorite bands. But I've noticed when I talked.

18:01 Speaker 13: About the band as well, yeah, laughing, Well, but like everybody in the band has all got different sort of influences as well. They're like a like, I love them, but other people.

18:15 Speaker 1: I think they're all.

18:16 Speaker 11: Right, right, So.

18:19 Speaker 14: You know, I'm more into city like where they got their influences from, like sort of grew up listening to Led Zepplin and you know of the Beatles and the Stones and things like that, you know, and and even more obscure ones. Gas is in there a wee bit into his and stuff like that, you know. And then Brian's right into's indie but he's kind of like, you know, a bit like me as well, like some of the older bands. And then everybody's got their own and only thing and we actually laugh at each other something says, you know.

18:48 Speaker 14: It creates quite a good bit of banner within the band, because yeah, Brian can't stand country music.

18:57 Speaker 1: He's not here to defend hisself just now. It's just unfortunate, right.

19:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, Scottish as far as Scottish bands too, you know, because I'm curious about that. Simple Minds is what was one of my favorite bands growing up. They're the first ones I think of when I think of Scottish bands. But I mean, like, what is the scene like? There are there a lot of bands that sound like what you guys are doing or do you kind of.

19:25 Speaker 1: No, definitely not.

19:27 Speaker 14: We do have a quite unique sound as ever since. But no, don't get me wrong, the Scottish music scene is absolutely bustling. Yeah that was you know, and I really cracking scene here. But it's just really hard to to get gigs in venues now. And that's not because of the lack of talent. It's actually just because the price of actually running a gig now is tripled or something in the last six years. So when you go into a venue, they you know, it's expensive, you have to charge more for tickets. Everybody's getting paid a little bit more, and that there isn't much left for the musicians.

20:08 Speaker 14: So we're all struggling. We're all struggling, and it's colon but we don't care about that. It's not that that's not an issue.

20:15 Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, you just gotta got to keep going. But I mean, it sounds like, you guys have a lot of have a lot of momentum. And by the way, the EP, we we kind of alluded to it earlier about Common Bond that that came out last year, right, mm hmm, yeah.

20:31 Speaker 13: Yeah, last October. I think of this, Yeah, six tracks on that one a Common Bond sort of. The main one that done well for that was One Horse Down. That was another week cat to three minute radio friendly song. We recorded our first two singles Middle of Nowhere and like from that and then but they.

20:53 Speaker 14: Were posted onto the EP gift an EP, you know, but that that was a wee test in the ground, wasn't it. And I think from that we've realized that we actually need to split the songs up, you know, and release them.

21:07 Speaker 13: And individually they get like what sort of attention if you like the songs each Yeah, we all believe right.

21:17 Speaker 14: That every one of our songs has got like, you know, potential greatness, you know, and it's just I suppose finding the right people. But with the short attention span that was talking about, we released EP and most people, well, there will be folks that did listen to the whole thing, but the majority folk were only really listening to the first chat.

21:43 Speaker 1: And that's just not what it's about, you know.

21:47 Speaker 14: See, so unless you can give them a physical copy, you know, which is rare nowadays people get physical copies.

21:54 Speaker 1: It's a lot a lot of.

21:55 Speaker 14: It's just digital download and stuff like that. So you know, like the they'll just press skip, won't then, and then that's it. So yeah, that's what we're struggling against. Sure, people's attention span. But then again, it's just you need to keep just doing it, keeping putting the music out there, you know, and then you never know. We've had some really interesting things happen. We animations and stuff made for us, and quite a lot of nice attention on the radio and things like that, so we hope to build from that moving on.

22:33 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Well you're definitely on a positive trajectory, no doubt about it. At the end of our conversation, when we let you guys go in a couple of minutes, we're gonna play this this song, Light from Dark. I really like this a lot. Is there is there any kind of a particular story behind this song or h and you know, and again I like the I like the positivity, which seems to be definitely a theme with you guys. But anything we should know about this song.

23:00 Speaker 13: Well, that one, that's an old song that I went and wrote. I don't know, maybe close to twelve year ago, maybe really yeah, but i'd always had like before I joined the band. It's the first band I've ever been in, so I would I wrote just loaded songs just for playing on the acoustic guitar in the house, But that one I wrote my Messids was going for a bit, I had time, so that was kind of like it was a wee song for her, but I just basically kept it to myself and then I went and played it to Andy and Brian when we were first sort of getting live together, and as soon as they heard it, they were like, wow, like let's work on that.

23:40 Speaker 13: Till we worked it and the way is and now it's phenomenal.

23:46 Speaker 14: So it's such a proud moment when we're playing that tune because it's a it's very emotional because it's it's obviously it's describing to somebody that's having psychological issues that there's all light at the you know, the end of the tunnel.

23:59 Speaker 1: It's not all don including you know, trying to positive and that's what you know, I mean set aside.

24:06 Speaker 14: You know, Gays is a brilliant songwriter, you know, and whether or not the songs are about depression, yeah, I often, quite often the music behind it's quite positive, so we try to balance it, you know. So if the message is really dark, right, the music will be sculpting around it to be really beautiful and hopefully positive. And I'm glad you're playing light for dark because it's it needs to be heard more from more people.

24:35 Speaker 13: And even me that one there is a message and again that there is hope, there is like that is basically there is like say, like the end it's done.

24:43 Speaker 11: Yeah.

24:44 Speaker 14: Too many people get stuck in or that you know, we were you know, bad bad psychological issues and stuff like that when they could just share it with somebody.

24:54 Speaker 1: And when you share it, you know, it makes things a whole lot easier.

24:57 Speaker 14: I mean, I do realize there's folks that are out there that you know, just can't get away from the problems have but you know it's good to share them with folk gay And you never know when you share things what will happen? You know, sometimes right, positive thing comes out of a light for that being a good chune.

25:18 Speaker 4: Yeah, no, as someone who struggles with depression, I can really appreciate all that and maybe that's why the song connects with me the way that it does. But yeah, absolutely, absolutely, guys. This has been wonderful guys and Andy. I really enjoyed talking with you guys, and we'll have you back. We'll definitely do this again in the future as you're releasing more music. Yeah, sounds like you had a lot of good stuff coming up.

25:38 Speaker 13: So I got another one coming soon as well.

25:42 Speaker 4: Oh, perfect, perfect, not long? Where where's the before we let you guys go and we're going to hit that track light from Dark? But where's the best place to go online? To keep up with everything that you guys are doing, the the azuresence as as I the appreciation that I'm going with.

26:02 Speaker 13: We'll go like all social media. We're on Instagram and Facebook, we tech talk and our music is on like every

26:12 Speaker 13: Apple music.

26:13 Speaker 1: If you type in our name, you'll find it.

26:15 Speaker 13: You know it's there.

26:18 Speaker 1: It's sometimes think we've got it in too many Spotify seems to be the thing may be getting next.

26:26 Speaker 4: Really yeah, but yeah, it's helpful that you have a name that's not a common word. So yes, it's it's very you're you're very googleable. As I like to say, it's if you google, if you google that, it comes right up. Guys, thank you again. We'll let you go and we'll hit that track. But thank you both again so much for joining us.

26:43 Speaker 1: This is conversation. It's been interesting.

26:48 Speaker 13: Thank you.

26:48 Speaker 4: Oh thanks guys. All right, take care bye bye. All right. That is Gas and Andy from the band The Azuresins, and let's play this song. Like I said, this really connects with me. This is called light from dark.

27:42 Speaker 7: Raised your head upon my shoulder to calm, no fear.

27:47 Speaker 11: You know that I'm here for you.

27:53 Speaker 7: Tears will fall, they might all to calm, no fear.

27:59 Speaker 11: You know that I'm here for you.

28:05 Speaker 7: Harm, no feel, You know that I'm here.

28:28 Speaker 9: Things with land with bad and songs like harm no feal.

28:34 Speaker 7: The song will ride.

28:40 Speaker 9: All your whole sounds, reass harm, no feel at all, just waiting for your.

28:51 Speaker 5: Harve, no feel at all, just.

28:54 Speaker 15: Waiting for you.

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29:29 Speaker 7: I just love the way Holly in several ways. I like the dogs now it seems to.

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30:46 Speaker 1: I'm just loot the weed home.

30:48 Speaker 7: It can separate them from dog.

31:48 Speaker 4: That is light from dark. The band is the Azaressence, great band from Scotland. And thank you again to Gus and Andy for joining us on the show today. Of course if you missed it, you'll be able to hear it later in the archive. All the shows, of course get posted to Wmnhradio dot org as well as my website Matt Connerton dot com. And don't forget our new site, Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com with a searchable database so you can type in the name of the guest that you're looking for and you can find the exact episode that they were on.

32:18 Speaker 4: So, of course today is the fourth of July. Happy Independence Day everybody if you are just joining us Matt Connorton Unleashed and yes we are actually live on the holiday from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM. Big show happening today. I want to mention this again fourth of July, Rockshow, Happy two hundred and fiftieth America. Thank you to our veterans and active duty service members. This is happening at twenty six Sergeants AV in Nashua, New Hampshire. Kicks off at two pm and here is the lineup, Six Minds combined, Aaron Billideo at three pm, super Child at four, Sunset Electric at five, Born Fools at six and then Dead Harrison Headlines at seven pm.

32:59 Speaker 4: That is all happening today. So again the show kicks off at two pm. Go to twenty six Sergeants av in Nashua, New Hampshire for those of you in the area, and please support. There's a story behind the show which is not my story to tell, but this is not where the show was originally supposed to be. But Eleanor will come on the show at some point soon to explain all of that. But yeah, so, but please support Terminus Underground of course New Hampshire Underground and all the great work that Eleanor and Andre are doing.

33:30 Speaker 4: And they got married recently, so you know, congratulations on that as well. But that is happening again. That show is happening today. Some of these artists have been guests on the show, and the ones that haven't, I'm sure we will have in the future. But right now, I'm going to play for you a song from the band Heavy America. They were on the show a few years ago. But when I was deciding what to wear today. For those of you who are watching the video feed of the show, be it on Facebook or YouTube, or we even streamed the show to LinkedIn, somebody asked me recently, why do you stream the show to Lincoln.

34:03 Speaker 4: I said, well, why not? But I'm wearing my Heavy America shirt because it is I wanted to be patriotic, I wanted to wear I always wear a shirt on the show. I always wear a shirt that was given to us from one of the guests. You know, sometimes the guests will bring in merch, they'll give us a shirt, a CD, whatever it may be. Heavy America gave me this wonderful shirt that I love. So I thought, I'm going to If I'm gonna wear a shirt that was given to us by one of the bands, why not wear a shirt that was given to us by a band with the word America in their name, so but they're also a great band.

34:35 Speaker 4: Happy to promote them so Heavy America. I'm gonna go ahead and play one of their songs. If I'm wearing their shirt, I might as well play some Heavy America. And this is called check this out. This is called Pretender. And again the band is Heavy America.

35:07 Speaker 16: My God, spit in my wood. Thirty feet beats, the Silver s food bed down for the Pretending. Now the wildom means no surrender.

35:23 Speaker 17: Come on, come out, Pretender, slick hair thousand.

35:39 Speaker 5: One five, Now the room set, the world.

35:43 Speaker 11: Of fire.

35:45 Speaker 8: To pool with patience, to spare, but shot eyes.

35:51 Speaker 16: Down everywhere, Come out, come out, not Shade the Pretender, Hot Live, No Surrender has Pig The Contenders, Hot News.

36:12 Speaker 7: The Pretender.

36:23 Speaker 16: Joke, Jane Sue Sad, taken on you other side, show it off, get live, throw it up and start all over again.

36:39 Speaker 5: Come come on.

36:44 Speaker 8: Back, Shade the Pretender can't live No Surrender That pig the Contender Hotness, the Pretender, Richard.

37:09 Speaker 7: Lizer, Littel.

37:22 Speaker 18: Cleans, the Britton.

37:36 Speaker 8: Hut, Nothing Ready, b Ho Big, the Concerned, Hot Mills, the Pretender.

37:54 Speaker 19: Number you're listening to Matt Connorton Unleashed on wmn H ninety five point three.

38:29 Speaker 4: Happy Independence Day from Matt Connorton Unleashed here at w m n H ninety five point three FM, as we celebrate with a brand new track from the Melted Chapsticks. This is called We Beat the British.

38:52 Speaker 7: We did We did it.

38:54 Speaker 5: We bet we did we did.

38:58 Speaker 7: We beat in Lexingtenna shot was fired.

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39:22 Speaker 20: Now they're ringing in their ears from the Liberty Bell.

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39:52 Speaker 20: So the next time you attack us all our sacred lands, we'll beat you even harder.

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41:49 Speaker 4: Right now, we've got a w M n H ninety five point three FM and Matt Connerton Unleashed exclusive the world radio premiere of the new single from the SERTs coming out July at This is called Luna.

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42:26 Speaker 1: It's saying moan and as.

42:28 Speaker 5: There's nowhere else to boot the money man.

42:35 Speaker 8: Sna And then I'll coming back.

42:41 Speaker 18: To say your bed and tell me I'm alone if I.

42:51 Speaker 21: Could see you out again to say old bed.

43:00 Speaker 11: And telling him the box, if I could.

43:03 Speaker 7: Be again.

43:16 Speaker 5: A fabric reality, not tessamone. He's been any another sonical.

43:25 Speaker 7: He's another door.

43:27 Speaker 5: He bad only the next it's all.

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43:35 Speaker 13: Me.

43:36 Speaker 11: I'm coming back to say the little bad Man.

43:44 Speaker 5: And tell him the bob if I could see you.

43:49 Speaker 21: It's again to say bad and tell him the boy.

45:15 Speaker 4: That is Luna by the Sertz. And that is the world radio premiere. You heard it here first on Matt Connorton Unleashed here at WM and H ninety five point three FM. A world radio premiere. It comes out, I believe July tenth, but we have it before anybody else. And of course we also heard we beat the British from our friends the Melted Chapsticks, who will be here with us in studio on August first. But today is of course July fourth, which is why we chose that day to play that song. So welcome everybody.

45:44 Speaker 4: This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of WM and H ninety five point three FM in Glorious of Manchester, New Hampshire. I hope everyone is staying cool. It is very hot this weekend, but kind of appropriate though for July. I kind of think the fourth of July should be hot, shouldn't it. Just some quick music news This is from Digital Musicnews dot com. Kind of appropriate for the holiday.

46:07 Speaker 7: Uh.

46:08 Speaker 4: They're reporting that sixty nine percent of Spotify streams in the US come from American artists. The latest data reveals it says. Spotify releases some listening stats for America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, revealing that seventy percent oh this says, seventy percent of the Spotify oh, of the Spotify Top fifty in the US is made up of American music, so sixty nine percent overall, seventy five percent of the Top fifty in the US is made up of American music. The United States is turning two fifty, and Spotify has released some fun listening statistics to celebrate the occasion.

46:44 Speaker 4: Again. This is from Digitalmusicnews dot com. According to the streamer, sixty nine percent of all streams in the country go to American artists, and American music makes up seventy percent of the Spotify Top fifty chart in the US in twenty twenty five. Unsurprisingly, listeners in the South and the Midwest stream the most music made in America in just the past week. Spotify says Mississippi topped that list, followed by West Virginia, South Dakota, Alabama, and Louisiana. The artist driving those numbers quote captured the breadth of the American sound unquote, says Spotify, including chart topper Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Morgan Wallan, Kendrick Lamar, and Post Malone.

47:25 Speaker 4: Of those, Morgan Wallan has an exceptionally strong home market audience, with seventy four percent of his streams coming from US listeners, the highest share among American artists.

47:36 Speaker 5: Each year.

47:39 Speaker 4: Oh wait, sorry, I'm skipping ahead globally, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, and Eminem are among the most streamed American artists of all time. In the past year, people outside the US stream songs featuring at least one American artist seven hundred and seventy six billion times. Each year, Americans play over six hundred fIF fifty thousand and fourth of July themed playlists featuring tracks like Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, Lee Greenwood's God Bless America, Katie Perry's Firework, John Mellencamp's Rock in the USA, and Ray Charles's America The Beautiful.

48:16 Speaker 4: Pop, hip hop, rock, Indian country are the American genres most streamed within the country, while pop, hip hop, rock, dance, and indie lead internationally. Over that doesn't surprise me. Over the last five years, streams of American country music have grown more than ninety four percent outside the US. That's interesting. That does surprise me. Interestingly, English language tracks only account for eighty six percent of streams in the United States, a number that's steadily dropping in the face of the continued rise of Latin and K pop music.

48:53 Speaker 4: Bad Bunny, who mostly sings in Spanish, has undoubtedly, undoubtedly contributed to this number, especially after headlining the Super Bowl halftime show earlier this year. So there you go, just some numbers and stats. Again, the headline means sixty nine percent of Spotify streams in the US come from American artists, according to the latest data. Now, one other quick thing, because we do have to get to a break to show some love to our amazing sponsors before we enter our number three new marrow trace.

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49:28 Speaker 4: This is something that we've talked about now twice on the show. But I told you all we were gonna follow this closely. It has to do with Taylor Swift. No, it has nothing to do with her wedding. Couldn't care less about that. But this lawsuit. You know, Taylor Swift has been sued by this woman I forget her name now, but she's got a podcast called Confessions of a Showgirl. Taylor Swift has an album called Life of a Showgirl. So this woman has sued Taylor Swift and I've think it's a frivolous lawsuit.

50:01 Speaker 4: But we've covered this twice on the show now because the story keeps evolving, and this lawsuit, while I think it's frivolous, has not gone away. This has not gone away and there is an update on this again. This is from Music Businessworldwide dot com. Taylor Swift moves to dismiss Showgirl trademark lawsuit. Calls amended claims absurd. Okay, it says here. Taylor Swift's legal team has filed a second motion to dismiss the trademark infringement lawsuit brought by Las Vegas performer Maren Flag.

50:31 Speaker 4: I couldn't remember her name before over the branding of the Life of a Showgirl. The motion, filed on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Central District of California, targets the first amended complaint that Flag filed on June sixteen. It was filed on behalf of all four defendants, Swift, Task Media Rightes, UMG and UMG's Merchandise Arm Bravado International Group, by attorneys at Venable LLP. A hearing on the most is scheduled for October seven. The defendants first moved to dismiss the case in May, arguing that Flag's original complaint failed to state a viable claim and lumped the defendants together more than ninety times.

51:12 Speaker 4: Flag responded by filing an amended complaint that resurrected her case, assigning such defendant a separate role, and added allegations that each directed its conduct at California. In the some of this I don't really understand, but I'm not a legal expert, but we'll go on. In the new motion, Swift's lawyers argue that the amended complaint fares no better than the original, the filing states quote. By filing the amended complaint, plaintiff concedes that her original claims were deficient and her second attempt fares no better.

51:47 Speaker 4: This lawsuit is merely plaintiff's latest attempt to generate publicity by associating herself with missed Miss Swift unquote m there's more to this. I don't know if we're not gonna have time to get through the whole thing, but basically so, if you don't know Maren flag I guess that's her name. She has a podcast called Confessions of a Showgirl. I guess she's been doing it for a long time. Taylor Swift releases the album Life of a Showgirl, and Maren Flagg says that's a trademark infringement. She's infringed on my trademark.

52:19 Speaker 4: The reason I say that's frivolous is yes, both have the word showgirl in them. They also have the words of and in them. You know, is so what this is? This is, in my opinion, very frivolous. There's no there's no confusion here. No one is going to confuse a podcast hosted by former Las Vegas showgirl with a Taylor Swift album, both of which happen to have the word showgirl. If you buy into Maren Flagg's argument, then you also have to buy into this idea that I guess she just owns the word showgirl and anyone who uses the word showgirl in any capacity is somehow infringing on her trademark.

52:59 Speaker 4: It's absurd. I'm gonna skip down a little bit. I just want to make sure that this we're not missing anything important in this little update. But the point is, and the details aren't don't matter so much at this point. It's just that I can't believe this is still going on, Like, how has this not been thrown out of court? Instead, it just keeps evolving, and these lawyers that Maren Flagg is hired, they keep filing motions and amending claims. And I mean it says here, skipping to the end of the article.

53:32 Speaker 4: Flag first sued Swift in March, alleging that the branding of Swift's studio album threatened to quote drown out her Confessions of a Showgirl trademark, which she registered in twenty fifteen. Life of a Showgirl was released in October of twenty twenty five and sold more than four million equivalent album units in its first week in the US. By the way, one other detail that's not mentioned here, but when Swift's album first came out, Life of a Showgirl, Maren Flagg tried to associate herself, tried to associate her podcast with the album, tried to kind of ride the coattails of that branding.

54:15 Speaker 4: So she tried to ride the coattails. And then when I guess that didn't pan out for her well enough, she decided, Oh, now she's gonna cry trademark infringement. It's absurd. She doesn't own the word showgirl. But this thing has not been thrown out and it keeps going. And I don't know these lawyers that she has, they keep trying. So there you have it. So just a quick update on that, all right, We do need to show some love to our amazing sponsors, and if any of them are listening, Happy Independence Day.

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