September 13, 2025 • 59 mins
w/Keith Samland of Alienstone
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Speaker 2 (04:19):
I really like that a lot. The track is Breathe,
the artist is Alienstone, and we're going to talk with
the gentleman behind that project in just a moment. But
welcome everybody. We have entered our number two numarrow doos
of Matt Connorton Unleashed. For those of you listening live
today is Saturday, September thirteen, twenty twenty five, and we
come to you from the studios of wm NH ninety
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five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny
is here, of course at the news table, and of
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of you who tune in with us. And let's go ahead.
I'm gonna bring this Micah and we're gonna talk with
(05:01):
mister Keith sam Land, the gentleman behind alien Stone, Keith,
Are you there?
Speaker 13 (05:07):
I am?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
How you doing good? Good?
Speaker 14 (05:09):
So?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I know you can't see us on video, but I
can see you on video and you look like you're
in a radio studio. And I saw something online. Do
you also do a radio show?
Speaker 11 (05:17):
Yes?
Speaker 15 (05:18):
I uprate my own internet radio station for about the
past eleven twelve years outstanding.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I have a show too, Oh, very cool.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Very cool, And what's the station and what's the show called?
Let's give that a plug. Just partly for selfish reasons,
I do want to talk to you about the music,
but also as a radio guy, I'm just super curious
about what you do as a broadcaster too.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
For sure. The station's called alien X Radio okay.
Speaker 15 (05:42):
And the show that I currently do is called Inside
the Mothership okay. And I used to do interviews and
all kinds of stuff with movie stars and things like that,
but as of late, it's just become mostly just a
comedy and entertainment show.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Oh interesting, I'm gonna have to check that out. Very cool.
So I have questions about alien Stone, and a big
one and part of the reason I picked that track,
and I chose another song too that will play at
the end of our conversation that I really like. But
I love your sound. I love the songs. I'm particularly
taken with the sound of the guitar. Is that you
(06:17):
on lead guitar and all.
Speaker 15 (06:18):
These I did everything on these songs, with the exception
of leads and solos.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Okay.
Speaker 15 (06:24):
What I did is I went through all of the
bands that I've played with through you know, different bands
that have played shows with me, and I've gotten their
guitar players from all the local bands and had them
all individuals, each one of these tracks as a completely
different person playing on it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Gotcha.
Speaker 15 (06:38):
So they all contributed these from their home studios and
sent them over and I chopped them up, spliced them
and put them together and I got different. That's how
I got such different flavor throughout the course of the album.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That makes sense because I really love the guitar tone
on that track Breathe And is his name David Quick?
Is that how you say his name?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
David Schwick?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh Schwick? Okay, yeah, I wasn't sure I pronounce it.
Speaker 15 (06:59):
The crazy thing about that, too, is that he's actually
one of the most talented drummers that I've ever met,
and I didn't even know he played guitar and now
he's the he's the drummer of a band called Sonic
Smut in this area right now. But that's how a
drummer plays guitar. Really yeah, wow, Yeah, he's really good.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah. And it it uh, you know, it fits the
song perfectly. And I love the I love the tone.
Everything about it is is so good. And tell us
about I mean again, I listened to the you know
you sound Us a whole album. I listened to the
entire album. It's funny because we had kind of talked
I'll pull the curtain back a little bit. Uh, we
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kind of talked online about you know.
Speaker 13 (07:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
One of the songs you gave me a four warning
has a word in it that we would have to
make a radio edit up and I and I was
willing to do that, but then, you know, I listened
to the whole album and it's like, well, there's so
much great stuff here. There's no reason to even bother
making a radio edit of that song because there's no
shortage of great songs here. So I agree that. So
I picked a breath to open with, and I'm going
to play criticize yourself at the end. Of the segment
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because I love that one too. Those are my two favorites,
so selfishly, I picked my two personal two favorites. But
but I'm curious about your creative process, and it sounds
like you do all the production yourself. Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Yep?
Speaker 15 (08:14):
Right here, where I'm sitting right now is where I
did all of the production on that whole album. Yeah,
recorded everything in myself. I used Superior drummer to program
and edit all the drums. I recorded my own bass tracks,
my own rhythms on the acoustic, and actually all the
vocal tracks, I recorded scratch tracks that I was going
to re record later and I ended up just cleaning
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them up and using the ones that were already in there. Okay, okay,
so everything was a one take on all the vocals.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Okay, Wow, Have you ever done this before? Or is
Alien Stone this album? And by the way, what's the
name of the album?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
The album's called After the Gray?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
After the Gray is After the Gray? Is this the
first album where you've done that or have you released
previous work where you've you've done all the production?
Speaker 15 (08:59):
Well, I it was kind of a collaborative effort, but
I was in a band for about twenty years called
Freak Stark and not to be confused with the current
Freak Star out of Los Angeles. But yeah, we were
together for about twenty years and we got into recording
our own stuff too. But of course it was much
harder to do back then with the equipment. You know,
it's much easier to do today. You can do with
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a laptop and you know, a very small mixer. So
I and I also went to as you can see,
I am into radio, so I went to radio school,
so I know about mixing and you know, engineering and
all that kind of stuff. So it just it made
it much easier when the technology caught up to me
and what I wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Absolutely. Yeah, it's an amazing time to be alive, isn't
it in terms of technology? And oh, for sure the
things you can do now really.
Speaker 15 (09:43):
Because that great track that was was given to me
in many many takes from someone who never even came
into my studio, recorded at elsewhere and just emailed it over,
you know, So that's that's huge. Yeah, and had to
get a bunch of people in a room.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, especially when you come out with something that sounds
like it was recorded, you know, with a live band
in a studio. I mean, that's that's fantastic. So so
that that's a good good for you being able to
do that. And then and then you mentioned so you
you recorded everything else.
Speaker 15 (10:13):
Yeah, pretty much everything else on there was me with
the exception of piano. Okay, that came from another gentleman
that he's the lead singer and piano player for a
band called Sweet Crystal, which is a Detroit Award, a
Detroit Music Award winning band for the last thirty years.
I mean he's a huge, huge artist around Detroit area.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Okay. That's obviously very satisfying when you can do all
of that yourself, I assume. I mean, did you feel
any pressure putting this album together because so much of
it was on you? Or or or maybe you did
and you thrive on it, or maybe you didn't and
you just enjoyed being able to have such autonomy and
so much control. I mean, what was what was that like?
Did you feel any pressure or was it just like, yeah,
(10:53):
I'm just gonna do this mostly myself.
Speaker 15 (10:55):
That that was the best thing about it is that
there was nobody on my heels. There was nobody saying, hey,
we got a deadline. We got to get this done.
You know, Stone's was coming over to do the bass tracks.
We got to get them all done today, right, You know,
there wasn't any of that. You know, if I came
home and I was tired, I just didn't do anything.
I went to bed. You know, if it takes me
a year to record it, it takes me a year. I
don't even know how long it took me. I didn't
even pay attention to that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, no, that makes sense. And is this your first
because a project officially is called alien Stone, is this
your first project that you've recorded as alien Stone?
Speaker 15 (11:27):
Well, I did something a long time ago when Freestar
had like a hiatus in the middle, where I did
my own kind of thing on the side, and it
was under the name alien Stone. But it was very,
very different from this, and it was much lower on
the production scale. It was kind of like a technoe
beat kind of thing with a lot of heavy guitar
on it. Yeah, and yeah, I just it never really
(11:48):
released or anything anyway, so I don't really count it right.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Right, Where does the name come from, alien Stone?
Speaker 15 (11:55):
It actually comes from all the way back in high school.
This would have been like eighty eight eighty nine, I
took a media production class and we were supposed to
write and produce a small video, and I wrote a
script that would have required me to get about thirty
or forty million dollars, So I never made the movie.
But it was about a meteorite that falls into Los
Angeles and an alien comes to retrieve it because it's
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some kind of power source, and he goes on a
murderous spree to retrieve the alien stone.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Okay, it's a good time.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
It just stuck ever since.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, yeah, all right. And the album is called After
the Gray? Where does that come from?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
That's actually uh.
Speaker 15 (12:30):
In one of the songs, there's the title says after
the Gray, maybe there'll be some kind of light, Okay,
And that's basically what the song was about, all this
crap that happens to you, was like, well, maybe after
this crap passes, you know, there'll be something better after that.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
So after the Gray, maybe there'll be some kind of light.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So are these songs? Are they reflective of things that
you've been through? Because in listening to the lyrics, I
do feel like, you know, these aren't you know? They're
not just simple feel good rock songs there, I feel like,
I feel like there's some heavy stuff behind the lyrics
of these songs. It definitely, you know, without I mean,
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you know, there's ambiguity, and of course, one of the
wonderful things about music or any kind of art is
that you can kind of interpret it however you want to.
And sometimes people, different people find different meanings behind different
you know, the lyrics to different songs and so forth.
But my impression, because I listened to the entire thing
in one sitting, you know, I wasn't like, Okay, I'm
gonna listen to a song now and I'll listen to
another one later. So I listened to the full thing,
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from front to back, and I felt like there's a
story there, like like there's something that you're getting out,
but I'm curious about that.
Speaker 15 (13:39):
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of heavy lyrics. I've been
criticized by a lot of people saying, can you write
a happy song? I'd be like, if there's any happiness
inside me, I want to keep it there, keep it inside.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You know.
Speaker 15 (13:51):
If I get all this heaviness that's thrown on me
from the world, let's.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Let's get that out through the therapy. Of music.
Speaker 15 (13:56):
Let's remove that, you know what I'm saying, right, So
I don't need to write a hand song. I just
live the happy stuff, but you know, yeah, the the
darker stuff. If you don't talk about the things that
get to you, that the things that bring you down,
then it's just going to keep you down. So that's
pretty much you know what I do. It's like, if
something bothers me enough to where I'm thinking about it
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a lot, then then yeah, it's gonna translate into the music.
You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna write a story about
you know what once was that is no more, or
something that has changed for the not for the better.
You know that that's you know, that's that's gonna come
out that way. I have one song that's on there.
It's called long Way Home, which is basically about thinking
that the grass is greener on the other side. So
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you take this long journey going around trying to find
something better, and then you find out that everything that
was better was actually at home, so you're right back
where you started. You took the long way home. So
that's not really a dark story. That's like, hey, you
just you didn't know, now you.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Do yeah, and it's relatable, you know, because I think
we can all we can all relate to that, you know,
at some point in our lives. So certainly. But I
like too that you use the word therapy when you're
talking about about you know, songs about dark subjects and
so forth. Because something that comes up on this show
a lot, because we talk about music, we also talk
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about mental health, and something that comes up on the
show a lot is how creating art, whether it be
music or you know, visual art Jenny as you know,
she's a visual artist, or whatever it is that you're creating.
It's it's a way I think it's the best form
of therapy, right because you're you're working whatever it is
that you need to work out through creating something. Not
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only are you creating something that ultimately that helps you,
it helps you to express yourself, but it also helps
others because then they are able to relate to what
you've created. And I'm sure I don't know if it's
happened to you, I assume it has. Maybe you've heard
from someone who said, you know, hey, I listen to
this song and I get what you're saying, and I
really relate to it, and it kind of helped me,
helped me feel better, helped me feel like I'm not
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alone whatever it is, right, So I think that that's
you know, the best form of therapy is to is
to create. And if you can take your pain, your trauma,
whatever it is that you've been through, or maybe you're
just upset about something going on in the world, whatever
it is, if you're able to take that and then
make something out of it, create something from it, you've
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taken something that's negative, but you've done something positive with
it by creating something. Yeah.
Speaker 15 (16:23):
And also, like you said that, if somebody else listens
to it and they say, hey, I you know, connected
with you on this level, it's like, okay, but you
wouldn't have, right. You know, you had no idea that
this person was on the same level with you, that
was there right there with you, right, But you didn't
know until you said something in the form of a
song or a poetry or a painting or whatever. Then
somebody looks at it and goes, you know what, I
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feel the same way, and it's like, okay, well I
had no idea you did. Now at least I have
a kindred spirit. I now feel like there's more people
with me instead of against me.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Right, exactly exactly. Yeah, do you play any of these
songs out or I mean, with all these guest musicians,
Maybe that's challenging to pull that off. I don't know.
But do you perform any of these live? Yes?
Speaker 15 (17:07):
Actually, what I did is, since I'm the one that
was in charge of producing the album, I was also
the one in charge of rendering the tracks when I
was done, so of course I rendered the entire album,
and then I went through and muted the acoustic guitar
and the vocals and rendered it again. Okay, so I
load that onto a loop pedal and I can go
out to any place I want now hit the track
and it plays everything with the exception of my acoustic
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guitar and my vocals, and I can just play right along.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh that's great. And you know, once again, it's an
amazing time to be alive, isn't it with all this technology.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Yeah, that was not available. I was not available.
Speaker 15 (17:38):
You had to come out there with a reel to
reel and all kinds of crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
That's great. They were able to do that, So does
anything ever go wrong with that? By the way, when
you're you know, trying to play to these loops, and.
Speaker 15 (17:55):
The only time it really went bad is before I'm
not I use loop pedal itself, which plays the the
wave file straight from there, and that pretty much is solid.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Okay, But I used to use a laptop.
Speaker 15 (18:04):
Yeah, and you know how laptops are, you know, right
in the middle of a song and goes, we're gonna
do an update.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
In the middle, Like, dude, you didn't even ask me.
You just we're restarting your computer.
Speaker 15 (18:16):
Really yeah, yeah, or you'll get a notification or something,
but right in the middle of your song, you're like,
that's not cool.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I deleted those. I thought I turned those off.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I mean, if you're a if you're a DJ, you
know you can say, oh, it's the part of the
remix or whatever if it suddenly goes creak. But if
you're you know, you're playing a rock song, you.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Know, and you got to know all that vas critical error.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yes, but but it sounds like so now it works
pretty It all works pretty smoothly, though.
Speaker 15 (18:46):
Yeah, it's pretty solid when you when you you have
to actually hit the button to stop it. Now, yeah,
you know it's not gonna just empower would have to
go out.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, yeah, when you when you play out, are people
ever surprised because obviously, you know a lot of people
who maybe haven't seen someone play with loop pedals and
so forth. You know, they might see you with your
acoustic guitar and think that, you know, that's going to
be it, and not that there would be anything wrong
with that. But do you ever see people in the
audience who are just surprised when they, you know, when
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they start to hear these other instruments in these other
tracks and they realize that it's actually a bigger production,
so to speak, then maybe what they were expecting.
Speaker 15 (19:25):
That's always the case when somebody who hasn't seen me
at first, they think I'm gonna come up there and
do some Hank William seeing your tear and my beer
kind of stuff, right, and you know, and there's nothing
wrong with that either, you know. And there's other people
at these shows too that do that kind of music.
So maybe somebody right before them just did that. And
then I come up there and they think, Okay, this
is gonna be a continuation, and then all of a
sudden they hear the drums kick in and a big
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fat bass kick in, and you've met guitar solo that
you just heard on that song. You know, they're not
expecting any of that, Yeah, and it kind of shocks
them a little bit.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
First dude. Sometimes they're like, are you just playing along
with your album?
Speaker 15 (20:00):
And sometimes I actually have to explain to people it's like, no,
what I'm playing is live, Yeah, that's removed from the sound.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah. Yeah. Do you ever, I mean, do you have
any thoughts of putting together a band to play these
or obviously doing it yourself? It gives you a lot
of freedom and autonomy and if you want to book shows,
you don't have to check with three or four other
people what their schedules are. So I so maybe this,
maybe this is a pointless question, but I am curious.
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I mean, have you thought about trying to put together
a band to play these?
Speaker 15 (20:32):
Yeah, I've always I'm always open to that idea. But
it You know, something that I've learned from being in
bands for you know, thirty plus years, is that you know,
the more people you get into a band, the more
schedules you have to coordinate. Everybody has wives and lives
and husbands and car problems and jobs and vacation time
(20:55):
and all that kind of stuff, and to get five
people in a band and have all that lineup so
that you can record, you can do a show.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
It's really hard. It's really hard.
Speaker 15 (21:04):
And then on top of that, you've got egos and
personalities that you also have to get along with, and
it makes it very, very difficult. So I'm always open
to the idea. But then you've got to find somebody
who's willing to play my music and then move forward
writing stuff yeah together, you know, don't change what I've
already written. That's already done right, you know. So you've
got to be willing to do that. And a lot
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of people are like, no, I don't want to, you know,
I don't want to be in the Dave Matthews band,
you know. And I'm like, no, that's what I'm not
trying to do that either, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, where are you from, Keith? I I just realized too,
I never asked you where are you located? Exactly?
Speaker 15 (21:43):
Well, I'm originally from Westland, Michigan, but I moved over
to Taylor, Michigan, which is a suburb of Detroit, pretty
close to Detroit. Be there in about ten minutes if
I chose to go.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, you're a you're in an area, then you're you know,
being close to Detroit where I mean a lot of
great music obviously is I mean you must have. I mean,
what's the music scene like there right now? I mean
there must just be talent everywhere. I would guess.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (22:09):
I do a lot of open mic nights obviously, you know,
because that's the easiest thing for me. I go to
places like Grizzlies and Windott or Three Nicks in Allen Park.
But like the place I go the most, it's it's
a bar. It's called road Rangers and Okan Taylor, and
this bar is set up as a concert bar. I
mean it has the full backing line, the full everything.
I mean, anybody can play there. Docing could play there
tomorrow and it would sound great. Yeah, you know what
(22:30):
I'm saying, Well, the sound would be great. I don't
know if Docing would be great, but.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, depends if George Leitch's and the band or not.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Right.
Speaker 15 (22:39):
So when I go and play there, it's like the
bands that come through that bar because of the fact
that it has such good sound and you don't have
to sell tickets and you don't have to be part
of a national thing. There's a lot of huge talent
that comes through that that bar. You know, bands like
the Creeping Chaos is around here right now. That's an
enormous band. And band's like Whole Shot the WRF, which
(23:01):
is a huge radio station around here. They constantly hire
that band to play all their events. Oh yeah, so yeah,
there's a lot of really good bands that come through there.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah. Something that we talk about on the show quite
a bit is you know every around here, you know,
because sometimes people will ask us, they'll ask me, or
they'll ask Jenny because she does the booking. You know,
how do you find all this great talent? And it's like, well,
it's everywhere, you know, And I think that's true of
probably every city and every town in the country. You know,
there's local musicians who are doing great stuff. And if
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you you know, because sometimes people, you know, they get
to a certain point in their lives where they sort
of say, Okay, all the music that I've heard up
to this point in my life, that's all the music
I ever need to hear, and anything made after this
point I'm not going to listen to. I'm going to reject,
you know, And people who do that, they're missing out,
(23:51):
you know. I mean there's first of all, I mean
you can get access to there's so much, there's so
much new music being put out. But also right in
your own backyard, you know, there's musicians making music and
you know you need to I always use my father
as a very positive example of this. My dad, you know,
he's in his seventies, but he still loves hearing new music.
He lives on the sea coast here in New Hampshire
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and there's a great college station at the University of
New Hampshire called WUNH and my dad loves to listen
to WUNH because he loves hearing new music. He loves hearing,
you know, new artists that he's never been exposed to before,
either young, new upcoming artists, or just artists who maybe
are not young but have been around a while but
he just had never heard them before. He loves hearing
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new stuff. And you know, and I can only imagine
what the scene is like there and how much great
music there must be there. But you know, I always
encourage people, you know, take a look around. You know,
there's this great, incredible music being created by musicians right
in front of you. You know, you're just not looking
you know what I mean.
Speaker 15 (24:54):
I know exactly what you're saying. Well, I hear it
all the time. You know, people are like, well, I
don't want to go see that band. I'm like, why no,
I don't know who they are. I was like, okay,
but did you know who Metallica was before you heard
them for.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
The first time?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Everybody has to be unknown before they're known.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Go and spend two.
Speaker 15 (25:09):
Hundred and fifty dollars on a ticket to see Metallica,
whom you'll never meet, or you can go to a
bar and here's some brand new music you've never heard,
and talk with them and do shots with them after
the show.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Right exactly.
Speaker 15 (25:20):
And then if it was a fifteen dollars ticket instead
of two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Bucks, you know, come on yeah yeah, and then if
you know, if they get big, you can say, hey,
I knew them when.
Speaker 15 (25:29):
Exactly I did shots with you know, come upcoming Metallica
back in the day, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
There you go, yeah, uh, I hear that a lot.
You know. In this area where we are, people will say,
you know, I saw Aerosmith, you know, back in the
day when they were you know, just a bar band,
you know, and it's it's that's usually an example people
use from from in this part of the country. But yeah,
there's there's so much, uh, there's so much great talent
out there and people people should definitely keep their eyes
(25:55):
open for that. Do you use your now with your
your online station and your show, do you use that
to showcase indie artists or do you do you use
that to promote for sure? Yeah, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 15 (26:07):
Sure all the all the indie artists that are around
here that have they have, you know, recorded music that's
you know, you know, you know the level it has
to be at, you know, the quality level it has
to be at. You know, anybody that has those albums
and stuff in it and they submit to me they've
been on the radio station. I go through those albums too,
and I pick a nice wide range of all the
local music and put it in there. And then I
sprinkle in some national stuff too, just for the people
(26:28):
that can't handle not knowing what the next song is, right,
you know, just to kind of keep them okay.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I think there's value in doing that too, is sprinkling
in some national artists. Because I've I've always felt that
that lends, uh for you know, for some people, that
lends a certain credibility to the independent artists, maybe the
local artists if they're mixed in with some national artists,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 15 (26:52):
Just yeah, for sure, you can have an unknown person
selling bar bells on TV, or you can have Arnold
Schwarzen that you're selling bar bells on TV.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Which one's going to sell faster?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Very well?
Speaker 15 (27:01):
Put a couple of pearl jam songs on a couple
of things in there around all these local artists.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Yeah, it'll attract a little bit.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, absolutely, So the where where should people go? Like,
where can they find the online station that you have?
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Well, it's at alien x radio dot com.
Speaker 15 (27:21):
Okay, And unfortunately, I've realized within the last couple of
days that the player isn't working, so I have to
figure out how to fix that. Since it's been a
decade since I've been into the actual controls of the website.
Oh really, yeah, there's no reason to change the website.
We just changed the music and stuff, you know, and
everything's live, you know, most of our shows and stuff,
so we don't have to go in there and change much.
(27:42):
And I can't get back in there, so I got
to figure that out. That's at alienxradio dot com. And
then I of course have a Facebook page. The artist
page is just alien Stone and you can get me
at Keith Samlan at alien at Facebook as well.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Okay, and then the album. Can people find the album anyway?
I mean assume it's on all the streaming platforms and everything.
Speaker 15 (28:02):
Yeah, I went through that distro kid, so it's on everything.
So you got Spotify, Apple Music, you know, it's even
on like Pandora and things like that. So you can
find it pretty much everywhere. Outstanding by the way in
the freak Star stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Oh good. Oh yeah, I'm curious. I'm curious to check
that out too. Do you do physical copies of the
album or is strictly online?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
No?
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I have physical copies too. I've made some CDs.
Speaker 15 (28:25):
And also what I really like is they look like
business cards, but they're actually a flash drive. It pops
out the side, oh perfectly straight in. Those are really
nice too.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
We had someone on the show recently who who used
that same concept, and yeah, that's a great idea.
Speaker 15 (28:39):
And some people you hand them a CD and they go,
what is this is this America online?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
What is this they don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Well, it's interesting. That's a subject that comes up a
lot on the show too, because there was a point where,
because I've been doing this a long time, and there
was a point where it seemed like none of the
guests we would have on nobody was doing physical media.
I'm talking like maybe seven or eight years ago, and
you know, and that's fine, you know, just you know,
email me the tracks whatever. But but lately, well I
(29:06):
shouldn't say lately, I'd say probably for at least the
past five years. Uh, it seems like, at least in
this area, for the guests that we have coming in
person from our area, physical media has had quite a resurgence.
A lot of our guests bring in CDs. Now, you know,
they send us the files ahead of time, obviously, but
they'll also bring in a physical copy or even we've
had some who even do vinyl and they'll bring in
(29:28):
a vinyl record, not for us to play, but just
to have. Although we do have a record player here
that one of the other hosts uses, and we even
have a CD player that I've never used, but we
do have one here in the in the studio that
I know. One of our hosts sometimes will bring in
CDs to play. But but it's interesting, you know, uh,
physical media never seems to completely go away, and sometimes
(29:49):
it has these little resurgences. And uh so a lot
of the artists around here are releasing things on CD
and even on vinyl, which I understand is very expensive.
But but I like your I like your content with
the flash drive.
Speaker 15 (30:02):
Yeah, it's it's you know, the physical media is kind
of it's just kind of changed what its purpose really is.
It's like, we know that when this guy gets home,
he's probably gonna listen to it on his smart device
or whatever from a streaming service, right. But you know,
now the physical media I don't even like when I
when I had a show or something, I find people
who were interested and I just give them one. Yeah, okay,
(30:22):
it's it has become the physical media has become the
promotional tool to get you to go and stream exactly.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
It's almost what it's become now, you know.
Speaker 15 (30:30):
So I'm not trying to sell I'm not, you know,
out of the trunk of my car out there going
I go. Yeah, you know, I don't do that, you know,
I just find someone who I think was interested, and
I give them a copy.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's an excellent strategy. Well, Keith,
I appreciate you joining us. In a moment, I'm going
to play this track criticize yourself because this is this
is the other one that I like. I said, I
enjoyed the whole album, but breathe and criticize yourself for
the two that really really kind of struck me. I'm
curious if there's anything we should know about this song,
(31:02):
if there's a backstory to this one, or what this
one might be about, because again, this is another one
of those songs too where I'm listening to the lyrics
and it's like, well there's something here, you know, and
I'm really curious about it. And by the way, and
also too, if you want to talk about the guitar
player on this one, because this is also another song
where I really love the guitar work on this.
Speaker 15 (31:20):
Yeah, the guitar this one is really involved. Yeah, it
really is. Basically, he came over and he had nothing planned.
This is Donnie Stanfill. He's the league. He's one of
the guitar players from the band Creeping Chaos here in Detroit, Okay,
and he probably recorded I just I just played the
song and just let him go and improvise. He did
(31:40):
probably fourteen tracks. Oh wow, just improvised. Yeah, and then
I went through and cut and spliced and put together
all my favorite pieces.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Okay, so that's what we ended up with.
Speaker 15 (31:49):
And then when I played it back for me, he goes, dude,
I don't think I could play that.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I was like, you just did? You just did.
Speaker 15 (31:58):
That's what we're telling everybody, right, right, So that's where
that came from. And the song itself is basically about
just all the things that can kind of build up
and start suffocating you. Is basically what it is. You know,
the just the day to day grind, the things that
happen around you and stuff. It's just it's choking you.
It's it's suffocating you. And it's like when will we
(32:19):
get a chance to breathe? Yeah, give us a chance
to take a breath.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
You know. Enough's enough?
Speaker 16 (32:24):
Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Well again, congratulations on the album. I think it's really good.
And remind people again to where should they go to
keep up with everything that you're doing online?
Speaker 15 (32:35):
Well, it's Alien Stone on Facebook or Keith Samlin on Facebook.
And then you've got alien X Radio of course, when
that's all, you know, moving and grooving again. Yeah, and
anywhere on any streaming site anywhere you type in alien
Stone or after the gray and it should pop right up.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Man, it's everywhere, YouTube everything.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, yeah, excellent. Yeah, I suggest people check it out.
An alien Stone is one word, by the way too,
for people when you're looking for it. And yeah, fantastic. Keith,
thank you so much for joining us this morning. We
will definitely have to do this again. In fact, maybe
we'll have you on again soon. I'd love to talk
to you more about your career with you mentioned you
used to interview movie stars, and I'd love to talk
(33:14):
to you about that in the future too, because you know,
we kind of mostly we talk about music on the show,
but we do mix in some other things as well,
so we'll have to figure that out and set up
a time for that. But congratulations on the album. I
think it's great. I suggest everyone check it out. I'm
gonna hit this track in a moment, criticize yourself another
very very strong track from the album. But we'll let
you go for now. But Keith, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Thank you for having me on the show.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
All right, you got to take care I have a
good one, bye bye, all right, wonderful. So that was
Keith sam Land and the project is called Alien Stone.
The album is After the Gray, and we're gonna give
this a spin and then we're going to come back
and Jenny and I are going to talk to you
for a couple of minutes about for those of you
who are listening live on Saturday, some exciting things going
on today that Jenny and I are going to be doing.
(33:56):
That you can come join us and be a part of.
But for right now again, this is alien Stone and
the track is called Criticize Yourself. I really like this
one a lot. Check it out.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
There's a storemass brew win. It's gone in in real slow.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
From glasshouses. Your throw wins in question.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
All I know?
Speaker 12 (35:35):
Back then I ride out, back, Then I ride out.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
There's a fire that's building your entry and the flame.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
And now the fire it's greegee.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
E give me give the name by then I ride out,
by then I ride out.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
Where you go in this my life?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
What's your neighbor said?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Then get you for your big moment?
Speaker 12 (36:35):
My face?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Uh, brn't you sell give a wheel.
Speaker 10 (36:42):
Till you print side yourself? Don't you print side yourself?
Why can't you pretty side yourself?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
There's a water light, it's not a battle with it.
You're judgment strikes light lighty? Is this the war I
can win?
Speaker 8 (37:21):
By bye?
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Will you got in this my life with your.
Speaker 10 (37:39):
NASA SAIDY give you gonna jumping off in my basa?
Speaker 12 (37:43):
But that your sail?
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Then wheel.
Speaker 10 (37:49):
Till you PRITI sash yourself. Don't you pretty sash yourself?
Why can't you print its side you sell? Will you
(38:34):
start in my life with your neighs and step to
kill you for your big over in my dash?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
But I just sail begin within.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Till you pretty side yourself?
Speaker 10 (38:51):
Well, don't you.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
Fred side yourself? Why can't you fretty side you? Say?
Speaker 2 (39:23):
I love the guitar sound on that. I love that
guitar tone. That is alien Stone. The song is called
Criticize Yourself. Alien Stone, of course is Keith sam Land.
And thank you again to Keith for joining us. Check
out alien Stone, check out alien x Radio and I'm
going to be checking that out looking forward to learning
more about that. We'll probably have Keith on again because
(39:45):
like I said, I'd love to talk to him too.
I'd love to have a supplemental conversation with him about
his radio career, and you know he mentioned he used
to interview movie stars and some of the other things
he does on his show. Very very interesting guy. If
you are just joining us, this is Matt Unleashed. We
are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five
point three FM, Inglorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Today is a Saturday,
(40:09):
September thirteenth for those of you listening live, and we've
got a busy day. So Jenny and I were going
to be attending a couple of events after the radio
show today a little bit later, so we've got let's
see you want to talk about the first one, Jenny.
Speaker 17 (40:22):
Yes, the Mosaic Our Collective. There is a show opening today,
the full Circle opening starts at four o'clock this afternoon
at the sixty six Handover Street, Suite two. Want to
hear in the Queen City you will find the Mosaic
Our Collective. There are I think I saw like over
right around seventy different pieces on display. Yeah, and the
(40:47):
exhibit the opening tonight is from four to eight. Come
hang out with us. They'll be some nushies to munch on.
People there lots of good things, meet some of the
artists in person. This is their annual full circle every year.
So people brought in things that are like things that
they considered their best or things that they considered brought
(41:09):
that notion of full circle to them and what that
what that means to them. So it'll be fun to
see all the work on display. I'm super proud and
happy that I have two pieces on display. Yes, a
painting and a Macroma piece. So come check it out
and say hi to us.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
We will be there, yeah, And uh so that starts
at four and when does that end? You know, ends
it eight? It ends at eight, and uh, I don't
know that we'll be able to say yeah, I don't
know that we'll be there for the entire.
Speaker 17 (41:34):
For there are going to go see.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Let's see so Vice's Inc. Jagger from Vice's Inc. And
invited us to join them. They're gonna be playing at
Bad Burger right here in downtown Manchester and joining them
on that show Under the Horizon of course. So Under
the Horizon a great band who we've had on the show.
(41:57):
And of course Plague Dad who is also been on
the show with us. He's probably traveling down with Vice's Inc.
Because Plague Dad also from Portland, but so a couple
of a couple of Portland acts there. Vices Inc. I
believe is headlining Plague Dad will be there, and of
course Under the Horizon, who are from here. Yeah, and
we love Under the Horizon absolutely so great great people
(42:17):
and such a great band. We saw Under the Horizon
just recently at Jewel Yep which is where Swarmy Fest
is going to be. So, by the way, if you
are listening live on Saturday, sepsis coming up in the
third hour to talk all about Swarmy Fest. Yeah, coming
up November fifteenth. But yeah, So we had a couple
of things going on today. We got the art show
at Mosaic and of course we have the event tonight
(42:39):
at Bad Burger. Come say hello to Jenny and I
come join us.
Speaker 17 (42:43):
I'd love to see you there. I absolutely love to
see you there. Oh I should mention there is an
art raffle going on at the Mosaic Art Collective. You
can win a piece of original art. The proceeds are
going to be supporting artists, so come check it out.
Tickets are five dollars for one, ten for five, twenty
furn arms length, come down to full circle and grab
(43:06):
a ticket.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
All right, very good, very good. Well, if you are
listening to Live on Saturday, coming up in the third
hour Sepsis, we'll be here with us alive in a studio.
But right now we got some premieres for you, some
brand new music. Here's a new music block our friends.
Of course from a big GPR they send us some
amazing guests. And of course all of these folks will
be either have been or will be interviewed on the
(43:28):
show in the very near future. So check these out
and we'll see you on the other side. Right now,
the world radio premiere of the new single from Ah
This is called My Prettiest Mistake.
Speaker 18 (43:42):
You are listening to wum and.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
A world premiere.
Speaker 16 (44:01):
And in a man and at its warming outside, I'm
craving a calls following that rockless man I shoulder the
better but expected shot. Guys, I was to get Oh,
I'm cursting.
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My prettiest missed?
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They found my person. Take me back to that mom
and get started.
Speaker 8 (44:54):
Side that love side fast to the spo James.
Speaker 12 (45:00):
In Mama, let me.
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Have a me.
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Oh tell me what I'm missing.
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Somebody took my posession and cares, let's follow your.
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Sister away that I can listen.
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Do you think in one day I might mean that
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They find no way.
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To ficture that sell me.
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Speaker 11 (46:05):
The way the fits.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Right now. The world radio premiere of the new single
from Tuesday Night Whites. This is called Time.
Speaker 18 (47:20):
You are listening to wumin h.
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World premiere.
Speaker 19 (47:54):
Black Si on the window, Silly works in his bones
eight some people.
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Stealing My name is days.
Speaker 19 (48:00):
Where he shot at the seventh Son, the black South
of half these days can't remember the dreams that he
used to parade by size.
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Don just remember to fire the gun.
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He said.
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Time is like a.
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far too good.
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Furnished Town saw from love.
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Because you're far too talk.
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Perish Town come.
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Because you're far too thought.
Speaker 8 (48:49):
First town.
Speaker 21 (48:51):
She dream of a better life, while love came first
to as a family strife on the bath. Does he
trust him as not bous to fire within? She says
those things on small.
Speaker 19 (49:04):
Though sadly Salmas on the factory floor that she believes
as remember it slowed the gun. She said, time is
like him mine field was that to send you, but
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but you far to go for this town. Because time
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far to go for this town. So don't look down.
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Because she far to you.
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God say this town.
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Don't look.
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Because you don't say dirty so myself, because it's all
safer yourself.
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She said, time it's.
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Like to turn my field start to sent me.
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You're listening to macconnorton Unleashed on WMNH ninety five point three.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
Now it's the American radio premiere of the Way We're
Rolling by Lydia. Ready, I can no crack this, I
can no crack that.
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It doesn't matter out of the week because I exist
for me, I can walk or I can't trash.
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It doesn't matter out of the way, because I talk
for me. Just sense chits my purpose. You're some even
have you don't know, Oh my b college should all the.
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Way I comment, And this is just the way we'll roll.
This is just the way we're rolling.
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I can sit down or stand up, sir, and that
is just the way it's kind of going.
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So I'll be me and you'll be you.
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That is what we've kind of you to try to
get through your chats.
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have your dog mad home.
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The people comment, shoulder all the way.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Someone just hurt you.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Others will hurt you.
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Turn over think they don't deserve her. You'll come through
everything they you do.
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Be your person.
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Livey for you.
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Boy, you live, I follow you.
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and this is just the way.
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This is the you're listening to Mattconnorton Unleashed on wmn
H ninety five point three.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
And finally, the American radio premiere of the new single
from Kyle Gordon, This is called she Chose Me.
Speaker 20 (56:08):
If the skies are gray when the day is night,
I can't find my way. If the day is night,
almost homel, you let me shine your eyes part of me.
Speaker 2 (56:22):
I stood on the stand. We hid in bed every night.
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To turn up live all these shiving time. We don't
always gathered right.
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And don't.
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You know my dog not fly doll.
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She shows me.
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Why if you're far away when the day is nine,
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I remain the same, just like black and white.
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We should not assume. Just while I mean to you
a part of me. I still don't under her stand
we hide in bed at me. N no need to
turn that a live, Always share it in my time.
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We don't always get it right. I just wanna get
it right.
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So we are back from the brain.
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but the bee stills are.
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so far our gee. Now the pesson shared it's lost
and burning. The price we paide is in the world
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keeps going. Me won't be paid without learning.
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So we just stove off with.
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This penancety.
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Until we just scold off, until we just luck that
we need.
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To call out until he got care. But now long
with me till at least let the world.
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Was beady, and as we woke we saw burning.
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He remains. Let me still lurky.
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Let the strict spoke cold.
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us demands leave until it just stand off till we
get breath.
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Don't just luck and we sell call out road?
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Speaker 11 (03:43):
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You can.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
How long the need to?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I really like that a lot. The track is Breathe,
the artist is Alienstone, and we're going to talk with
the gentleman behind that project in just a moment. But
welcome everybody. We have entered our number two numarrow doos
of Matt Connorton Unleashed. For those of you listening live
today is Saturday, September thirteen, twenty twenty five, and we
come to you from the studios of wm NH ninety
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five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny
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I'm gonna bring this Micah and we're gonna talk with
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mister Keith sam Land, the gentleman behind alien Stone, Keith,
Are you there?
Speaker 13 (05:07):
I am?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
How you doing good? Good?
Speaker 14 (05:09):
So?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I know you can't see us on video, but I
can see you on video and you look like you're
in a radio studio. And I saw something online. Do
you also do a radio show?
Speaker 11 (05:17):
Yes?
Speaker 15 (05:18):
I uprate my own internet radio station for about the
past eleven twelve years outstanding.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I have a show too, Oh, very cool.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Very cool, And what's the station and what's the show called?
Let's give that a plug. Just partly for selfish reasons,
I do want to talk to you about the music,
but also as a radio guy, I'm just super curious
about what you do as a broadcaster too.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
For sure. The station's called alien X Radio okay.
Speaker 15 (05:42):
And the show that I currently do is called Inside
the Mothership okay. And I used to do interviews and
all kinds of stuff with movie stars and things like that,
but as of late, it's just become mostly just a
comedy and entertainment show.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Oh interesting, I'm gonna have to check that out. Very cool.
So I have questions about alien Stone, and a big
one and part of the reason I picked that track,
and I chose another song too that will play at
the end of our conversation that I really like. But
I love your sound. I love the songs. I'm particularly
taken with the sound of the guitar. Is that you
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on lead guitar and all.
Speaker 15 (06:18):
These I did everything on these songs, with the exception
of leads and solos.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Okay.
Speaker 15 (06:24):
What I did is I went through all of the
bands that I've played with through you know, different bands
that have played shows with me, and I've gotten their
guitar players from all the local bands and had them
all individuals, each one of these tracks as a completely
different person playing on it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Gotcha.
Speaker 15 (06:38):
So they all contributed these from their home studios and
sent them over and I chopped them up, spliced them
and put them together and I got different. That's how
I got such different flavor throughout the course of the album.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That makes sense because I really love the guitar tone
on that track Breathe And is his name David Quick?
Is that how you say his name?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
David Schwick?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh Schwick? Okay, yeah, I wasn't sure I pronounce it.
Speaker 15 (06:59):
The crazy thing about that, too, is that he's actually
one of the most talented drummers that I've ever met,
and I didn't even know he played guitar and now
he's the he's the drummer of a band called Sonic
Smut in this area right now. But that's how a
drummer plays guitar. Really yeah, wow, Yeah, he's really good.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah. And it it uh, you know, it fits the
song perfectly. And I love the I love the tone.
Everything about it is is so good. And tell us
about I mean again, I listened to the you know
you sound Us a whole album. I listened to the
entire album. It's funny because we had kind of talked
I'll pull the curtain back a little bit. Uh, we
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kind of talked online about you know.
Speaker 13 (07:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
One of the songs you gave me a four warning
has a word in it that we would have to
make a radio edit up and I and I was
willing to do that, but then, you know, I listened
to the whole album and it's like, well, there's so
much great stuff here. There's no reason to even bother
making a radio edit of that song because there's no
shortage of great songs here. So I agree that. So
I picked a breath to open with, and I'm going
to play criticize yourself at the end. Of the segment
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because I love that one too. Those are my two favorites,
so selfishly, I picked my two personal two favorites. But
but I'm curious about your creative process, and it sounds
like you do all the production yourself. Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Yep?
Speaker 15 (08:14):
Right here, where I'm sitting right now is where I
did all of the production on that whole album. Yeah,
recorded everything in myself. I used Superior drummer to program
and edit all the drums. I recorded my own bass tracks,
my own rhythms on the acoustic, and actually all the
vocal tracks, I recorded scratch tracks that I was going
to re record later and I ended up just cleaning
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them up and using the ones that were already in there. Okay, okay,
so everything was a one take on all the vocals.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Okay, Wow, Have you ever done this before? Or is
Alien Stone this album? And by the way, what's the
name of the album?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
The album's called After the Gray?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
After the Gray is After the Gray? Is this the
first album where you've done that or have you released
previous work where you've you've done all the production?
Speaker 15 (08:59):
Well, I it was kind of a collaborative effort, but
I was in a band for about twenty years called
Freak Stark and not to be confused with the current
Freak Star out of Los Angeles. But yeah, we were
together for about twenty years and we got into recording
our own stuff too. But of course it was much
harder to do back then with the equipment. You know,
it's much easier to do today. You can do with
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a laptop and you know, a very small mixer. So
I and I also went to as you can see,
I am into radio, so I went to radio school,
so I know about mixing and you know, engineering and
all that kind of stuff. So it just it made
it much easier when the technology caught up to me
and what I wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Absolutely. Yeah, it's an amazing time to be alive, isn't
it in terms of technology? And oh, for sure the
things you can do now really.
Speaker 15 (09:43):
Because that great track that was was given to me
in many many takes from someone who never even came
into my studio, recorded at elsewhere and just emailed it over,
you know, So that's that's huge. Yeah, and had to
get a bunch of people in a room.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, especially when you come out with something that sounds
like it was recorded, you know, with a live band
in a studio. I mean, that's that's fantastic. So so
that that's a good good for you being able to
do that. And then and then you mentioned so you
you recorded everything else.
Speaker 15 (10:13):
Yeah, pretty much everything else on there was me with
the exception of piano. Okay, that came from another gentleman
that he's the lead singer and piano player for a
band called Sweet Crystal, which is a Detroit Award, a
Detroit Music Award winning band for the last thirty years.
I mean he's a huge, huge artist around Detroit area.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Okay. That's obviously very satisfying when you can do all
of that yourself, I assume. I mean, did you feel
any pressure putting this album together because so much of
it was on you? Or or or maybe you did
and you thrive on it, or maybe you didn't and
you just enjoyed being able to have such autonomy and
so much control. I mean, what was what was that like?
Did you feel any pressure or was it just like, yeah,
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I'm just gonna do this mostly myself.
Speaker 15 (10:55):
That that was the best thing about it is that
there was nobody on my heels. There was nobody saying, hey,
we got a deadline. We got to get this done.
You know, Stone's was coming over to do the bass tracks.
We got to get them all done today, right, You know,
there wasn't any of that. You know, if I came
home and I was tired, I just didn't do anything.
I went to bed. You know, if it takes me
a year to record it, it takes me a year. I
don't even know how long it took me. I didn't
even pay attention to that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, no, that makes sense. And is this your first
because a project officially is called alien Stone, is this
your first project that you've recorded as alien Stone?
Speaker 15 (11:27):
Well, I did something a long time ago when Freestar
had like a hiatus in the middle, where I did
my own kind of thing on the side, and it
was under the name alien Stone. But it was very,
very different from this, and it was much lower on
the production scale. It was kind of like a technoe
beat kind of thing with a lot of heavy guitar
on it. Yeah, and yeah, I just it never really
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released or anything anyway, so I don't really count it right.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Right, Where does the name come from, alien Stone?
Speaker 15 (11:55):
It actually comes from all the way back in high school.
This would have been like eighty eight eighty nine, I
took a media production class and we were supposed to
write and produce a small video, and I wrote a
script that would have required me to get about thirty
or forty million dollars, So I never made the movie.
But it was about a meteorite that falls into Los
Angeles and an alien comes to retrieve it because it's
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some kind of power source, and he goes on a
murderous spree to retrieve the alien stone.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Okay, it's a good time.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
It just stuck ever since.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, yeah, all right. And the album is called After
the Gray? Where does that come from?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
That's actually uh.
Speaker 15 (12:30):
In one of the songs, there's the title says after
the Gray, maybe there'll be some kind of light, Okay,
And that's basically what the song was about, all this
crap that happens to you, was like, well, maybe after
this crap passes, you know, there'll be something better after that.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
So after the Gray, maybe there'll be some kind of light.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So are these songs? Are they reflective of things that
you've been through? Because in listening to the lyrics, I
do feel like, you know, these aren't you know? They're
not just simple feel good rock songs there, I feel like,
I feel like there's some heavy stuff behind the lyrics
of these songs. It definitely, you know, without I mean,
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you know, there's ambiguity, and of course, one of the
wonderful things about music or any kind of art is
that you can kind of interpret it however you want to.
And sometimes people, different people find different meanings behind different
you know, the lyrics to different songs and so forth.
But my impression, because I listened to the entire thing
in one sitting, you know, I wasn't like, Okay, I'm
gonna listen to a song now and I'll listen to
another one later. So I listened to the full thing,
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from front to back, and I felt like there's a
story there, like like there's something that you're getting out,
but I'm curious about that.
Speaker 15 (13:39):
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of heavy lyrics. I've been
criticized by a lot of people saying, can you write
a happy song? I'd be like, if there's any happiness
inside me, I want to keep it there, keep it inside.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You know.
Speaker 15 (13:51):
If I get all this heaviness that's thrown on me
from the world, let's.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Let's get that out through the therapy. Of music.
Speaker 15 (13:56):
Let's remove that, you know what I'm saying, right, So
I don't need to write a hand song. I just
live the happy stuff, but you know, yeah, the the
darker stuff. If you don't talk about the things that
get to you, that the things that bring you down,
then it's just going to keep you down. So that's
pretty much you know what I do. It's like, if
something bothers me enough to where I'm thinking about it
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a lot, then then yeah, it's gonna translate into the music.
You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna write a story about
you know what once was that is no more, or
something that has changed for the not for the better.
You know that that's you know, that's that's gonna come
out that way. I have one song that's on there.
It's called long Way Home, which is basically about thinking
that the grass is greener on the other side. So
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you take this long journey going around trying to find
something better, and then you find out that everything that
was better was actually at home, so you're right back
where you started. You took the long way home. So
that's not really a dark story. That's like, hey, you
just you didn't know, now you.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Do yeah, and it's relatable, you know, because I think
we can all we can all relate to that, you know,
at some point in our lives. So certainly. But I
like too that you use the word therapy when you're
talking about about you know, songs about dark subjects and
so forth. Because something that comes up on this show
a lot, because we talk about music, we also talk
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about mental health, and something that comes up on the
show a lot is how creating art, whether it be
music or you know, visual art Jenny as you know,
she's a visual artist, or whatever it is that you're creating.
It's it's a way I think it's the best form
of therapy, right because you're you're working whatever it is
that you need to work out through creating something. Not
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only are you creating something that ultimately that helps you,
it helps you to express yourself, but it also helps
others because then they are able to relate to what
you've created. And I'm sure I don't know if it's
happened to you, I assume it has. Maybe you've heard
from someone who said, you know, hey, I listen to
this song and I get what you're saying, and I
really relate to it, and it kind of helped me,
helped me feel better, helped me feel like I'm not
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alone whatever it is, right, So I think that that's
you know, the best form of therapy is to is
to create. And if you can take your pain, your trauma,
whatever it is that you've been through, or maybe you're
just upset about something going on in the world, whatever
it is, if you're able to take that and then
make something out of it, create something from it, you've
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taken something that's negative, but you've done something positive with
it by creating something. Yeah.
Speaker 15 (16:23):
And also, like you said that, if somebody else listens
to it and they say, hey, I you know, connected
with you on this level, it's like, okay, but you
wouldn't have, right. You know, you had no idea that
this person was on the same level with you, that
was there right there with you, right, But you didn't
know until you said something in the form of a
song or a poetry or a painting or whatever. Then
somebody looks at it and goes, you know what, I
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feel the same way, and it's like, okay, well I
had no idea you did. Now at least I have
a kindred spirit. I now feel like there's more people
with me instead of against me.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Right, exactly exactly. Yeah, do you play any of these
songs out or I mean, with all these guest musicians,
Maybe that's challenging to pull that off. I don't know.
But do you perform any of these live? Yes?
Speaker 15 (17:07):
Actually, what I did is, since I'm the one that
was in charge of producing the album, I was also
the one in charge of rendering the tracks when I
was done, so of course I rendered the entire album,
and then I went through and muted the acoustic guitar
and the vocals and rendered it again. Okay, so I
load that onto a loop pedal and I can go
out to any place I want now hit the track
and it plays everything with the exception of my acoustic
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guitar and my vocals, and I can just play right along.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh that's great. And you know, once again, it's an
amazing time to be alive, isn't it with all this technology.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Yeah, that was not available. I was not available.
Speaker 15 (17:38):
You had to come out there with a reel to
reel and all kinds of crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
That's great. They were able to do that, So does
anything ever go wrong with that? By the way, when
you're you know, trying to play to these loops, and.
Speaker 15 (17:55):
The only time it really went bad is before I'm
not I use loop pedal itself, which plays the the
wave file straight from there, and that pretty much is solid.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Okay, But I used to use a laptop.
Speaker 15 (18:04):
Yeah, and you know how laptops are, you know, right
in the middle of a song and goes, we're gonna
do an update.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
In the middle, Like, dude, you didn't even ask me.
You just we're restarting your computer.
Speaker 15 (18:16):
Really yeah, yeah, or you'll get a notification or something,
but right in the middle of your song, you're like,
that's not cool.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I deleted those. I thought I turned those off.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I mean, if you're a if you're a DJ, you
know you can say, oh, it's the part of the
remix or whatever if it suddenly goes creak. But if
you're you know, you're playing a rock song, you.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Know, and you got to know all that vas critical error.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yes, but but it sounds like so now it works
pretty It all works pretty smoothly, though.
Speaker 15 (18:46):
Yeah, it's pretty solid when you when you you have
to actually hit the button to stop it. Now, yeah,
you know it's not gonna just empower would have to
go out.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, yeah, when you when you play out, are people
ever surprised because obviously, you know a lot of people
who maybe haven't seen someone play with loop pedals and
so forth. You know, they might see you with your
acoustic guitar and think that, you know, that's going to
be it, and not that there would be anything wrong
with that. But do you ever see people in the
audience who are just surprised when they, you know, when
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they start to hear these other instruments in these other
tracks and they realize that it's actually a bigger production,
so to speak, then maybe what they were expecting.
Speaker 15 (19:25):
That's always the case when somebody who hasn't seen me
at first, they think I'm gonna come up there and
do some Hank William seeing your tear and my beer
kind of stuff, right, and you know, and there's nothing
wrong with that either, you know. And there's other people
at these shows too that do that kind of music.
So maybe somebody right before them just did that. And
then I come up there and they think, Okay, this
is gonna be a continuation, and then all of a
sudden they hear the drums kick in and a big
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fat bass kick in, and you've met guitar solo that
you just heard on that song. You know, they're not
expecting any of that, Yeah, and it kind of shocks
them a little bit.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
First dude. Sometimes they're like, are you just playing along
with your album?
Speaker 15 (20:00):
And sometimes I actually have to explain to people it's like, no,
what I'm playing is live, Yeah, that's removed from the sound.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah. Yeah. Do you ever, I mean, do you have
any thoughts of putting together a band to play these
or obviously doing it yourself? It gives you a lot
of freedom and autonomy and if you want to book shows,
you don't have to check with three or four other
people what their schedules are. So I so maybe this,
maybe this is a pointless question, but I am curious.
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I mean, have you thought about trying to put together
a band to play these?
Speaker 15 (20:32):
Yeah, I've always I'm always open to that idea. But
it You know, something that I've learned from being in
bands for you know, thirty plus years, is that you know,
the more people you get into a band, the more
schedules you have to coordinate. Everybody has wives and lives
and husbands and car problems and jobs and vacation time
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and all that kind of stuff, and to get five
people in a band and have all that lineup so
that you can record, you can do a show.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
It's really hard. It's really hard.
Speaker 15 (21:04):
And then on top of that, you've got egos and
personalities that you also have to get along with, and
it makes it very, very difficult. So I'm always open
to the idea. But then you've got to find somebody
who's willing to play my music and then move forward
writing stuff yeah together, you know, don't change what I've
already written. That's already done right, you know. So you've
got to be willing to do that. And a lot
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of people are like, no, I don't want to, you know,
I don't want to be in the Dave Matthews band,
you know. And I'm like, no, that's what I'm not
trying to do that either, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, where are you from, Keith? I I just realized too,
I never asked you where are you located? Exactly?
Speaker 15 (21:43):
Well, I'm originally from Westland, Michigan, but I moved over
to Taylor, Michigan, which is a suburb of Detroit, pretty
close to Detroit. Be there in about ten minutes if
I chose to go.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, you're a you're in an area, then you're you know,
being close to Detroit where I mean a lot of
great music obviously is I mean you must have. I mean,
what's the music scene like there right now? I mean
there must just be talent everywhere. I would guess.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (22:09):
I do a lot of open mic nights obviously, you know,
because that's the easiest thing for me. I go to
places like Grizzlies and Windott or Three Nicks in Allen Park.
But like the place I go the most, it's it's
a bar. It's called road Rangers and Okan Taylor, and
this bar is set up as a concert bar. I
mean it has the full backing line, the full everything.
I mean, anybody can play there. Docing could play there
tomorrow and it would sound great. Yeah, you know what
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I'm saying, Well, the sound would be great. I don't
know if Docing would be great, but.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, depends if George Leitch's and the band or not.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Right.
Speaker 15 (22:39):
So when I go and play there, it's like the
bands that come through that bar because of the fact
that it has such good sound and you don't have
to sell tickets and you don't have to be part
of a national thing. There's a lot of huge talent
that comes through that that bar. You know, bands like
the Creeping Chaos is around here right now. That's an
enormous band. And band's like Whole Shot the WRF, which
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is a huge radio station around here. They constantly hire
that band to play all their events. Oh yeah, so yeah,
there's a lot of really good bands that come through there.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah. Something that we talk about on the show quite
a bit is you know every around here, you know,
because sometimes people will ask us, they'll ask me, or
they'll ask Jenny because she does the booking. You know,
how do you find all this great talent? And it's like, well,
it's everywhere, you know, And I think that's true of
probably every city and every town in the country. You know,
there's local musicians who are doing great stuff. And if
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you you know, because sometimes people, you know, they get
to a certain point in their lives where they sort
of say, Okay, all the music that I've heard up
to this point in my life, that's all the music
I ever need to hear, and anything made after this
point I'm not going to listen to. I'm going to reject,
you know, And people who do that, they're missing out,
(23:51):
you know. I mean there's first of all, I mean
you can get access to there's so much, there's so
much new music being put out. But also right in
your own backyard, you know, there's musicians making music and
you know you need to I always use my father
as a very positive example of this. My dad, you know,
he's in his seventies, but he still loves hearing new music.
He lives on the sea coast here in New Hampshire
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and there's a great college station at the University of
New Hampshire called WUNH and my dad loves to listen
to WUNH because he loves hearing new music. He loves hearing,
you know, new artists that he's never been exposed to before,
either young, new upcoming artists, or just artists who maybe
are not young but have been around a while but
he just had never heard them before. He loves hearing
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new stuff. And you know, and I can only imagine
what the scene is like there and how much great
music there must be there. But you know, I always
encourage people, you know, take a look around. You know,
there's this great, incredible music being created by musicians right
in front of you. You know, you're just not looking
you know what I mean.
Speaker 15 (24:54):
I know exactly what you're saying. Well, I hear it
all the time. You know, people are like, well, I
don't want to go see that band. I'm like, why no,
I don't know who they are. I was like, okay,
but did you know who Metallica was before you heard
them for.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
The first time?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Everybody has to be unknown before they're known.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Go and spend two.
Speaker 15 (25:09):
Hundred and fifty dollars on a ticket to see Metallica,
whom you'll never meet, or you can go to a
bar and here's some brand new music you've never heard,
and talk with them and do shots with them after
the show.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Right exactly.
Speaker 15 (25:20):
And then if it was a fifteen dollars ticket instead
of two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Bucks, you know, come on yeah yeah, and then if
you know, if they get big, you can say, hey,
I knew them when.
Speaker 15 (25:29):
Exactly I did shots with you know, come upcoming Metallica
back in the day, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
There you go, yeah, uh, I hear that a lot.
You know. In this area where we are, people will say,
you know, I saw Aerosmith, you know, back in the
day when they were you know, just a bar band,
you know, and it's it's that's usually an example people
use from from in this part of the country. But yeah,
there's there's so much, uh, there's so much great talent
out there and people people should definitely keep their eyes
(25:55):
open for that. Do you use your now with your
your online station and your show, do you use that
to showcase indie artists or do you do you use
that to promote for sure? Yeah, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 15 (26:07):
Sure all the all the indie artists that are around
here that have they have, you know, recorded music that's
you know, you know, you know the level it has
to be at, you know, the quality level it has
to be at. You know, anybody that has those albums
and stuff in it and they submit to me they've
been on the radio station. I go through those albums too,
and I pick a nice wide range of all the
local music and put it in there. And then I
sprinkle in some national stuff too, just for the people
(26:28):
that can't handle not knowing what the next song is, right,
you know, just to kind of keep them okay.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I think there's value in doing that too, is sprinkling
in some national artists. Because I've I've always felt that
that lends, uh for you know, for some people, that
lends a certain credibility to the independent artists, maybe the
local artists if they're mixed in with some national artists,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 15 (26:52):
Just yeah, for sure, you can have an unknown person
selling bar bells on TV, or you can have Arnold
Schwarzen that you're selling bar bells on TV.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Which one's going to sell faster?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Very well?
Speaker 15 (27:01):
Put a couple of pearl jam songs on a couple
of things in there around all these local artists.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Yeah, it'll attract a little bit.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, absolutely, So the where where should people go? Like,
where can they find the online station that you have?
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Well, it's at alien x radio dot com.
Speaker 15 (27:21):
Okay, And unfortunately, I've realized within the last couple of
days that the player isn't working, so I have to
figure out how to fix that. Since it's been a
decade since I've been into the actual controls of the website.
Oh really, yeah, there's no reason to change the website.
We just changed the music and stuff, you know, and
everything's live, you know, most of our shows and stuff,
so we don't have to go in there and change much.
(27:42):
And I can't get back in there, so I got
to figure that out. That's at alienxradio dot com. And
then I of course have a Facebook page. The artist
page is just alien Stone and you can get me
at Keith Samlan at alien at Facebook as well.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Okay, and then the album. Can people find the album anyway?
I mean assume it's on all the streaming platforms and everything.
Speaker 15 (28:02):
Yeah, I went through that distro kid, so it's on everything.
So you got Spotify, Apple Music, you know, it's even
on like Pandora and things like that. So you can
find it pretty much everywhere. Outstanding by the way in
the freak Star stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Oh good. Oh yeah, I'm curious. I'm curious to check
that out too. Do you do physical copies of the
album or is strictly online?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
No?
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I have physical copies too. I've made some CDs.
Speaker 15 (28:25):
And also what I really like is they look like
business cards, but they're actually a flash drive. It pops
out the side, oh perfectly straight in. Those are really
nice too.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
We had someone on the show recently who who used
that same concept, and yeah, that's a great idea.
Speaker 15 (28:39):
And some people you hand them a CD and they go,
what is this is this America online?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
What is this they don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Well, it's interesting. That's a subject that comes up a
lot on the show too, because there was a point where,
because I've been doing this a long time, and there
was a point where it seemed like none of the
guests we would have on nobody was doing physical media.
I'm talking like maybe seven or eight years ago, and
you know, and that's fine, you know, just you know,
email me the tracks whatever. But but lately, well I
(29:06):
shouldn't say lately, I'd say probably for at least the
past five years. Uh, it seems like, at least in
this area, for the guests that we have coming in
person from our area, physical media has had quite a resurgence.
A lot of our guests bring in CDs. Now, you know,
they send us the files ahead of time, obviously, but
they'll also bring in a physical copy or even we've
had some who even do vinyl and they'll bring in
(29:28):
a vinyl record, not for us to play, but just
to have. Although we do have a record player here
that one of the other hosts uses, and we even
have a CD player that I've never used, but we
do have one here in the in the studio that
I know. One of our hosts sometimes will bring in
CDs to play. But but it's interesting, you know, uh,
physical media never seems to completely go away, and sometimes
(29:49):
it has these little resurgences. And uh so a lot
of the artists around here are releasing things on CD
and even on vinyl, which I understand is very expensive.
But but I like your I like your content with
the flash drive.
Speaker 15 (30:02):
Yeah, it's it's you know, the physical media is kind
of it's just kind of changed what its purpose really is.
It's like, we know that when this guy gets home,
he's probably gonna listen to it on his smart device
or whatever from a streaming service, right. But you know,
now the physical media I don't even like when I
when I had a show or something, I find people
who were interested and I just give them one. Yeah, okay,
(30:22):
it's it has become the physical media has become the
promotional tool to get you to go and stream exactly.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
It's almost what it's become now, you know.
Speaker 15 (30:30):
So I'm not trying to sell I'm not, you know,
out of the trunk of my car out there going
I go. Yeah, you know, I don't do that, you know,
I just find someone who I think was interested, and
I give them a copy.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's an excellent strategy. Well, Keith,
I appreciate you joining us. In a moment, I'm going
to play this track criticize yourself because this is this
is the other one that I like. I said, I
enjoyed the whole album, but breathe and criticize yourself for
the two that really really kind of struck me. I'm
curious if there's anything we should know about this song,
(31:02):
if there's a backstory to this one, or what this
one might be about, because again, this is another one
of those songs too where I'm listening to the lyrics
and it's like, well there's something here, you know, and
I'm really curious about it. And by the way, and
also too, if you want to talk about the guitar
player on this one, because this is also another song
where I really love the guitar work on this.
Speaker 15 (31:20):
Yeah, the guitar this one is really involved. Yeah, it
really is. Basically, he came over and he had nothing planned.
This is Donnie Stanfill. He's the league. He's one of
the guitar players from the band Creeping Chaos here in Detroit, Okay,
and he probably recorded I just I just played the
song and just let him go and improvise. He did
(31:40):
probably fourteen tracks. Oh wow, just improvised. Yeah, and then
I went through and cut and spliced and put together
all my favorite pieces.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Okay, so that's what we ended up with.
Speaker 15 (31:49):
And then when I played it back for me, he goes, dude,
I don't think I could play that.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I was like, you just did? You just did.
Speaker 15 (31:58):
That's what we're telling everybody, right, right, So that's where
that came from. And the song itself is basically about
just all the things that can kind of build up
and start suffocating you. Is basically what it is. You know,
the just the day to day grind, the things that
happen around you and stuff. It's just it's choking you.
It's it's suffocating you. And it's like when will we
(32:19):
get a chance to breathe? Yeah, give us a chance
to take a breath.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
You know. Enough's enough?
Speaker 16 (32:24):
Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Well again, congratulations on the album. I think it's really good.
And remind people again to where should they go to
keep up with everything that you're doing online?
Speaker 15 (32:35):
Well, it's Alien Stone on Facebook or Keith Samlin on Facebook.
And then you've got alien X Radio of course, when
that's all, you know, moving and grooving again. Yeah, and
anywhere on any streaming site anywhere you type in alien
Stone or after the gray and it should pop right up.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Man, it's everywhere, YouTube everything.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, yeah, excellent. Yeah, I suggest people check it out.
An alien Stone is one word, by the way too,
for people when you're looking for it. And yeah, fantastic. Keith,
thank you so much for joining us this morning. We
will definitely have to do this again. In fact, maybe
we'll have you on again soon. I'd love to talk
to you more about your career with you mentioned you
used to interview movie stars, and I'd love to talk
(33:14):
to you about that in the future too, because you know,
we kind of mostly we talk about music on the show,
but we do mix in some other things as well,
so we'll have to figure that out and set up
a time for that. But congratulations on the album. I
think it's great. I suggest everyone check it out. I'm
gonna hit this track in a moment, criticize yourself another
very very strong track from the album. But we'll let
you go for now. But Keith, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Thank you for having me on the show.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
All right, you got to take care I have a
good one, bye bye, all right, wonderful. So that was
Keith sam Land and the project is called Alien Stone.
The album is After the Gray, and we're gonna give
this a spin and then we're going to come back
and Jenny and I are going to talk to you
for a couple of minutes about for those of you
who are listening live on Saturday, some exciting things going
on today that Jenny and I are going to be doing.
(33:56):
That you can come join us and be a part of.
But for right now again, this is alien Stone and
the track is called Criticize Yourself. I really like this
one a lot. Check it out.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
There's a storemass brew win. It's gone in in real slow.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
From glasshouses. Your throw wins in question.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
All I know?
Speaker 12 (35:35):
Back then I ride out, back, Then I ride out.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
There's a fire that's building your entry and the flame.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
And now the fire it's greegee.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
E give me give the name by then I ride out,
by then I ride out.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
Where you go in this my life?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
What's your neighbor said?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Then get you for your big moment?
Speaker 12 (36:35):
My face?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Uh, brn't you sell give a wheel.
Speaker 10 (36:42):
Till you print side yourself? Don't you print side yourself?
Why can't you pretty side yourself?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
There's a water light, it's not a battle with it.
You're judgment strikes light lighty? Is this the war I
can win?
Speaker 8 (37:21):
By bye?
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Will you got in this my life with your.
Speaker 10 (37:39):
NASA SAIDY give you gonna jumping off in my basa?
Speaker 12 (37:43):
But that your sail?
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Then wheel.
Speaker 10 (37:49):
Till you PRITI sash yourself. Don't you pretty sash yourself?
Why can't you print its side you sell? Will you
(38:34):
start in my life with your neighs and step to
kill you for your big over in my dash?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
But I just sail begin within.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Till you pretty side yourself?
Speaker 10 (38:51):
Well, don't you.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
Fred side yourself? Why can't you fretty side you? Say?
Speaker 2 (39:23):
I love the guitar sound on that. I love that
guitar tone. That is alien Stone. The song is called
Criticize Yourself. Alien Stone, of course is Keith sam Land.
And thank you again to Keith for joining us. Check
out alien Stone, check out alien x Radio and I'm
going to be checking that out looking forward to learning
more about that. We'll probably have Keith on again because
(39:45):
like I said, I'd love to talk to him too.
I'd love to have a supplemental conversation with him about
his radio career, and you know he mentioned he used
to interview movie stars and some of the other things
he does on his show. Very very interesting guy. If
you are just joining us, this is Matt Unleashed. We
are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five
point three FM, Inglorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Today is a Saturday,
(40:09):
September thirteenth for those of you listening live, and we've
got a busy day. So Jenny and I were going
to be attending a couple of events after the radio
show today a little bit later, so we've got let's
see you want to talk about the first one, Jenny.
Speaker 17 (40:22):
Yes, the Mosaic Our Collective. There is a show opening today,
the full Circle opening starts at four o'clock this afternoon
at the sixty six Handover Street, Suite two. Want to
hear in the Queen City you will find the Mosaic
Our Collective. There are I think I saw like over
right around seventy different pieces on display. Yeah, and the
(40:47):
exhibit the opening tonight is from four to eight. Come
hang out with us. They'll be some nushies to munch on.
People there lots of good things, meet some of the
artists in person. This is their annual full circle every year.
So people brought in things that are like things that
they considered their best or things that they considered brought
(41:09):
that notion of full circle to them and what that
what that means to them. So it'll be fun to
see all the work on display. I'm super proud and
happy that I have two pieces on display. Yes, a
painting and a Macroma piece. So come check it out
and say hi to us.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
We will be there, yeah, And uh so that starts
at four and when does that end? You know, ends
it eight? It ends at eight, and uh, I don't
know that we'll be able to say yeah, I don't
know that we'll be there for the entire.
Speaker 17 (41:34):
For there are going to go see.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Let's see so Vice's Inc. Jagger from Vice's Inc. And
invited us to join them. They're gonna be playing at
Bad Burger right here in downtown Manchester and joining them
on that show Under the Horizon of course. So Under
the Horizon a great band who we've had on the show.
(41:57):
And of course Plague Dad who is also been on
the show with us. He's probably traveling down with Vice's Inc.
Because Plague Dad also from Portland, but so a couple
of a couple of Portland acts there. Vices Inc. I
believe is headlining Plague Dad will be there, and of
course Under the Horizon, who are from here. Yeah, and
we love Under the Horizon absolutely so great great people
(42:17):
and such a great band. We saw Under the Horizon
just recently at Jewel Yep which is where Swarmy Fest
is going to be. So, by the way, if you
are listening live on Saturday, sepsis coming up in the
third hour to talk all about Swarmy Fest. Yeah, coming
up November fifteenth. But yeah, So we had a couple
of things going on today. We got the art show
at Mosaic and of course we have the event tonight
(42:39):
at Bad Burger. Come say hello to Jenny and I
come join us.
Speaker 17 (42:43):
I'd love to see you there. I absolutely love to
see you there. Oh I should mention there is an
art raffle going on at the Mosaic Art Collective. You
can win a piece of original art. The proceeds are
going to be supporting artists, so come check it out.
Tickets are five dollars for one, ten for five, twenty
furn arms length, come down to full circle and grab
(43:06):
a ticket.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
All right, very good, very good. Well, if you are
listening to Live on Saturday, coming up in the third
hour Sepsis, we'll be here with us alive in a studio.
But right now we got some premieres for you, some
brand new music. Here's a new music block our friends.
Of course from a big GPR they send us some
amazing guests. And of course all of these folks will
be either have been or will be interviewed on the
(43:28):
show in the very near future. So check these out
and we'll see you on the other side. Right now,
the world radio premiere of the new single from Ah
This is called My Prettiest Mistake.
Speaker 18 (43:42):
You are listening to wum and.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
A world premiere.
Speaker 16 (44:01):
And in a man and at its warming outside, I'm
craving a calls following that rockless man I shoulder the
better but expected shot. Guys, I was to get Oh,
I'm cursting.
Speaker 9 (44:21):
Do let me.
Speaker 19 (44:29):
Haven't made you pro.
Speaker 16 (44:44):
My prettiest missed?
Speaker 4 (44:46):
They found my person. Take me back to that mom
and get started.
Speaker 8 (44:54):
Side that love side fast to the spo James.
Speaker 12 (45:00):
In Mama, let me.
Speaker 9 (45:11):
Have a me.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Oh tell me what I'm missing.
Speaker 16 (45:27):
Somebody took my posession and cares, let's follow your.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Sister away that I can listen.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
I hope be car.
Speaker 8 (45:37):
Do you think in one day I might mean that
the Santa I'll be riding.
Speaker 6 (45:43):
They find no way.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
To ficture that sell me.
Speaker 8 (45:47):
Hort says, somebody took my pession. That that's by your sister.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
The way with actual listen, I hope becaud.
Speaker 7 (45:59):
They want not the that the songs that I may find.
Speaker 11 (46:05):
The way the fits.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Right now. The world radio premiere of the new single
from Tuesday Night Whites. This is called Time.
Speaker 18 (47:20):
You are listening to wumin h.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
World premiere.
Speaker 19 (47:54):
Black Si on the window, Silly works in his bones
eight some people.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Stealing My name is days.
Speaker 19 (48:00):
Where he shot at the seventh Son, the black South
of half these days can't remember the dreams that he
used to parade by size.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Don just remember to fire the gun.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
He said.
Speaker 20 (48:18):
Time is like a.
Speaker 19 (48:19):
Mind for you, a step to saying you but you're
far too good.
Speaker 8 (48:24):
Furnished Town saw from love.
Speaker 7 (48:36):
Because you're far too talk.
Speaker 8 (48:37):
Perish Town come.
Speaker 7 (48:47):
Because you're far too thought.
Speaker 8 (48:49):
First town.
Speaker 21 (48:51):
She dream of a better life, while love came first
to as a family strife on the bath. Does he
trust him as not bous to fire within? She says
those things on small.
Speaker 19 (49:04):
Though sadly Salmas on the factory floor that she believes
as remember it slowed the gun. She said, time is
like him mine field was that to send you, but
you far too cot th.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
So sot look.
Speaker 7 (49:33):
Because she sells cof this time, because she.
Speaker 11 (49:45):
Far to co.
Speaker 13 (50:11):
Because time is like you can't monthy start to send you,
but you far to go for this town. Because time
is like you can't mindy stop can sn you You
far to go for this town. So don't look down.
Speaker 3 (50:41):
Because she far to you.
Speaker 13 (50:43):
God say this town.
Speaker 8 (50:44):
Don't look.
Speaker 22 (51:04):
Because you don't say dirty so myself, because it's all
safer yourself.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
She said, time it's.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Like to turn my field start to sent me.
Speaker 8 (51:26):
You there sell me.
Speaker 5 (51:28):
So my.
Speaker 22 (51:32):
Time it's like to turn my fields to send me.
Speaker 7 (51:37):
But your fur very song sound common.
Speaker 18 (52:10):
You're listening to macconnorton Unleashed on WMNH ninety five point three.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
Now it's the American radio premiere of the Way We're
Rolling by Lydia. Ready, I can no crack this, I
can no crack that.
Speaker 16 (52:33):
It doesn't matter out of the week because I exist
for me, I can walk or I can't trash.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
It doesn't matter out of the way, because I talk
for me. Just sense chits my purpose. You're some even
have you don't know, Oh my b college should all the.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Way I comment, And this is just the way we'll roll.
This is just the way we're rolling.
Speaker 6 (53:11):
I can sit down or stand up, sir, and that
is just the way it's kind of going.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
So I'll be me and you'll be you.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
That is what we've kind of you to try to
get through your chats.
Speaker 10 (53:26):
My sister shots, my brothers, you are the perfect even
have your dog mad home.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
The people comment, shoulder all the way.
Speaker 7 (53:36):
I come that.
Speaker 8 (53:37):
This is just the way we roll.
Speaker 20 (53:40):
Yeah, this is just the way we're rolling.
Speaker 11 (53:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (53:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 19 (53:52):
Someone just hurt you.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Others will hurt you.
Speaker 8 (53:56):
Turn over think they don't deserve her. You'll come through
everything they you do.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Be your person.
Speaker 8 (54:04):
Livey for you.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Boy, you live, I follow you.
Speaker 8 (54:16):
You gotta lea.
Speaker 12 (54:20):
Shats my sensor shots my cos you want.
Speaker 10 (54:24):
Some perfect even if you're John hold a papo the
shoulder the.
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Way I commented, I'm bit yes.
Speaker 8 (54:34):
Shuts my sisters, my girl.
Speaker 23 (54:37):
Start you want some perfect even if you're john't know,
Oh my papo on my shoulder, the way you're comforting,
and this is just the way.
Speaker 7 (54:52):
This is just the way, man he.
Speaker 22 (54:57):
T.
Speaker 18 (55:00):
This is the you're listening to Mattconnorton Unleashed on wmn
H ninety five point three.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
And finally, the American radio premiere of the new single
from Kyle Gordon, This is called she Chose Me.
Speaker 20 (56:08):
If the skies are gray when the day is night,
I can't find my way. If the day is night,
almost homel, you let me shine your eyes part of me.
Speaker 2 (56:22):
I stood on the stand. We hid in bed every night.
Speaker 11 (56:30):
To turn up live all these shiving time. We don't
always gathered right.
Speaker 12 (56:42):
And don't.
Speaker 7 (56:46):
You know my dog not fly doll.
Speaker 9 (56:55):
She shows me.
Speaker 23 (56:59):
Why if you're far away when the day is nine,
(57:23):
I remain the same, just like black and white.
Speaker 14 (57:28):
We should not assume. Just while I mean to you
a part of me. I still don't under her stand
we hide in bed at me. N no need to
turn that a live, Always share it in my time.
(57:50):
We don't always get it right. I just wanna get
it right.
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