Share on TwitterOnce I heard John Arch, formerly of Fates Warning, and Jim Matheos, current and founding member of Fates Warning, were recording a full-length album together it easily became my most anticipated album of the year. Arch and Matheos made some great music back in the mid-to-late 80s and I looked forward to hear [...]
Share on TwitterI love living in the future. I get woken up in the morning by my hand-held personal computer / communications device, which is programmed to notify me via sound and vibration at the exact moment I want to be awake. Without getting out of bed I can slide my finger across the touch-sensitive [...]
Share on TwitterIf you’ve never heard of Presto Ballet, that’s okay, I didn’t either until I came across them as a suggested band on iTunes about a year ago. Presto Ballet is a progressive rock band formed by Kurt Vanderhoof, guitarist for Metal Church. He wanted to pay homage to the prog bands from the [...]
Share on TwitterIn the 59th episode of the Functional Nerds, John Anealio chats with solo bassist Steve Lawson. From his website, Steve Lawson is: a solo bassist who spends a lot of his time making very unbasslike noises. an ambient experimenter who likes pop tunes too much to go strictly soundscape, but is way too [...]
Share on Twitter <a href=”http://johnanealio.bandcamp.com/album/books-bytes-bots”>Books, Bytes & Bots by John Anealio</a> Here is a little collection of my geeky, silly songs for you. The Books, Bytes & Bots E.P. is a pay what you want release. If you’re broke, you can still get it for free. Just click the Download button on the player above [...]
Share on Twitter In the 54th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester kicks back while John Anealio visits Devo Spice to talk about his new album. © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: George R. R. Martin is not your bitch (excerpt) – John Anealio Platform Wars (excerpt) – Devo [...]
Share on TwitterReleasing a cover album is a tricky thing. Sure, you don’t have to write the songs, which saves time, but will your fan base like the album if the material is different than your regular works? That is a question that comes to my mind as I listened to Stryper’s latest release called, [...]
Share on TwitterIn the 48th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with Jason Sanford, author of Memoria, available in Interzone Magazine. We also chat about: short story writing, novels, “Millisent Ka Plays In Real Time”, Interzone Magazine, inspiration, music, Lawrence Welk, Hank Williams, Ghosts, Philip Jose Farmer [...]
Share on Twitter040 The Functional Nerds In the 40th episode of the Functional Nerds, we welcome to the show singer, songwriter, record producer, science fiction author, media/pop culture commentator and all around cool guy – Paul Levinson!. We chat with Paul about: Hats (cuz hat’s are cool), science fiction, music, doo wap, The Bronx, the [...]
Share on Twitter035 The Functional Nerds In the 35th episode of the Functional Nerds, we welcome back Blake Charlton & James Enge to talk dyslexia, Latin, Greek & why other languages have fewer folks suffering from dyslexia versus English, then break out into a fantastic chat on music, instruments and how language plays a huge [...]
Share on Twitter033 The Functional Nerds In our 33rd episode, John & I welcome Shawn Gordon & Kevin J. Anderson. With Shawn & Kevin we discuss the creation of the Roswell Six albums, Prog Rock Records, James LaBrie, Dreamtheater, John Payne, Asia, Rush, Styx, Neil Peart, Ressurection Lane, Mercury Records, MySpace, Dune, Roswell Six, Erik [...]
Share on Twitter025 The Functional Nerds In the monumental 25th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by World Fantasy Award nominee and Sidewise Award winning author, Chris Roberson! We chat about: Cinderella-From Fabletown with Love, musicals, comic books, Azimovs magazine, Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham, the Bonaventure-Cormody sequence, Philip Jose [...]
Share on Twitter023 The Functional Nerds In the 23rd episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by returning 3rd Nerd Aidan Moher and our youngest recruit to date – Dan Goodman! This week, we chat about NASA, crowdsourcing wake up music for astronauts, digital distribution, Stargate Atlantis, creative commons licensing, [...]
Share on Twitter022 The Functional Nerds In the 22nd episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by Z from Hipster Please – together, we chat with Kyle Stevens & Jim Demonakos – better known as Kirby Krackle! We chat about: Nerd Rock, Voltron: the music writing machine, music, the song [...]
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