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Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 06/17/2021

Today on Captain Phil's Planet we talk with Michael Schilling of Shore Leave about Shore Leave 42.6 as the long running Star Trek convention goes virtual for 2021 before returning to Hunt Valley MD in 2022. (https://www.shore-leave.com/)
Then the extended 90-minute interview with Evership, the Tennessee-based Prog band on their new album The Uncrowned King. Hear Composer Shane Atkinson and lead singer Beau West talk about how they created one of the best new Prog albums of 2021 and what will be coming our way in 2022!
This afternoon the fun starts at 3pm on WUSB 90.1fm Stony Brook or www.wusb.fm!
“The Uncrowned King Act 1 a two-part rock opera based on a story by early-1900s writer Harold Bell Wright.
http://www.evership.com/

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 06/03/2021

John Hall https://johnhallmusic.com/
RECLAIMING MY TIME, New Album by John Hall, Due May 28 on Sunset Blvd.
“Reclaiming My Time” is John Hall’s sixth solo record, in addition to the 18 albums he recorded with his band Orleans. The title is a phrase used in Congress (where Hall spent 4 years) after being interrupted. It’s also an allusion to the music he might have written and played during ten years in elective office.
Supporting musicians include John Cowan(New Grass Revival, The Doobie Brothers), Andrea Zonn (James Taylor, Vince Gill), Sean Paddock (Kenny Chesney), Steve Wariner, Jay Collins (Dukes of September, Allmans), songwriting partner John Paul Daniel and steel guitar legend Dan Dugmore. Dar Williams and Wariner sing duets with John, the latter on a song they wrote together, “Another Sunset.”

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 05/20/2021

Join Captain Phil as he welcomes Candice Night as the Queen of Captain Phil's Planet (Richie is the King...no worries) as we talk about the new Blackmore's Night Album, how to pronounce the name of the town Hauppauge and more! Then welcome Michael Shilling from Shore Leave as he brings us up to speed on this years Shore leave convention which is happening virtually. All this and the best music on any planet, only on WUSB 90.1fm Stony Brook

On March 12, internationally renowned Renaissance rock band Blackmore’s Night, featuring Ritchie Blackmore, Candice Night and their band of minstrels, are proud to release Nature’s Light. Their fi rst new album in six years, and eleventh studio album overall, Nature’s Light will be released via

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 04/21/2021

Special Guests RB Wood (http://rbwood.com/dir/) and Luis Nasser (https://shadowsmadeofsound.com/) on this edition of Captain Phil's Planet

The wait is almost over! R.B. Wood’s BAYOU WHISPERS will be out on the 29th (paperback and Kindle; audiobook in the works): https://geni.us/BayouWhispers
Bayou Whispers, the latest thriller from horror writer R.B. Wood is the story of no-nonsense New Orleans native, Jeannine LaRue, the sole survivor of her family after the devastation brought on by Hurricane Katrina. In the aftermath of the storm, she believed she'd been saved, but soon found herself held hostage and sexually exploited, rescued months later by sheriff’s deputy Curtis Jones.
Twelve years after Katrina, Jeannine is a new attorney who returns to New Orleans to save her old friend Curtis Jones—now a local thief and trafficker of stolen goods—after he is arrested for the murder of Jeannine’s captors, whose bodies have recently been found. But Jeannine discovers more than she bargained for when she uncovers a family history of dark voodoo magic and an unholy alliance with an ancient evil Haitian god.

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 03/24/2021

Join Captain Phil as he chats with Jeffrey Erik Mack (https://www.jeffreyerikmack.com/)about his new album The Forgotten Earth in the 3pm hour of Captain Phil's Planet! Then welcome back John Tuohy of Mile Marker Zero http://www.milemarkerzero.com/ as the band releases it's newest album Mile Marker Zero Live and Confined! Then we're gone as Sports is happening on WUSB starting at 4:45pm! Also it's Pledge time!
Jeffrey Erik Mack
Jeffrey Erik Mack's musical endeavors began at an early age in a small village called Sloan, NY. He played the tuba and trombone for the Classical Ensemble and the bass guitar for the Jazz Band and Pit Band throughout his Middle School and High School years.
Jeff's love for the bass guitar grew by listening to artists such as Rush, Yes, Jethro Tull, Al Di Meola and Allan Holdsworth. Bassist's such as Geddy Lee, Chris Squire, Jeff Berlin and Anthony Jackson were big influences on his playing technique.
In 1987 he relocated to Southern California to study at the Musician's Institute of technology where he graduated with honors.

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 03/11/2021

This Thursday in the 3pm tune in to Captain Phil's Planet as he talks to Dyanne Potter Voegtlin (https://pottersdaughterband.com/) about the new Melodic Revolution Records (https://mrrmusic.com/) project Troubleshooting Pandora’s Box and premiering the new track Pyrrha’s Song!
Then stay tuned for more great new Prog Rock and news from the nerd world as we take radio to infinity and beyond!
Pyrrha’s Song will be the first track to be released by the new project Troubleshooting Pandora’s Box due out in mid-march. Nick Katona of Melodic Revolution Records is offering a free download of the debut song from his new project, Troubleshooting Pandora’s Box, to all contributors to Potter’s Daughter’s campaign. The debut single, Pyrrha’s Song, features Dyanne and Jan from Potter’s Daughter and Jimmy Keegan, of Pattern-Seeking Animals (https://www.psanimals1.com/).
Potter’s Daughter’s Campaign Link
https://igg.me/at/pottersdaughter2021

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 02/25/2021

Join Captain Phil we explore the amazing Refractor Piano with composer Peter Manning Robinson and his new album Double Helix! This Thursday starting at 3 pm!

Then welcome back long-time guest Camdr Roy to talk about his on-line streaming show, Roy's Dye-Tie Dci-fi corner (https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner), and his upcoming episode featuring Star Trek Alum Michael Forrest!

Peter Manning Robinson (http://www.petermanningrobinson.com/) is a pianist, an Emmy and multiple BMI award-winning composer, inventor of The Refractor Piano™ and vegan chef. Performing live with his newly created Refractor Piano™, Peter plays a new style of music called “Refracted Music”. Without prerecorded tracks, triggered samples, external sounds or MIDI instruments, he creates a unique new music using only an acoustic piano that is “refracted” during his live performances. Peter’s foundations in classical structure and jazz improvisation induce a transcendent musical experience.

Peter Manning Robinson was born in Chicago and grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and Los Angeles,

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 02/11/2021

New Music Thursday PLUS Jack Licitra!

LET THE MUSIC HEAL YOUR SOUL February 15 @ 3:00 pm.
Free event. Registration required.
https://www.stallercenter.com/outreach/

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 01/28/2021

Thursday January 28th please welcome to the WUSB Airwaves and Captain Phil's Planet Patricia Tallman, Lyta Alexander of Babylon 5, author of “Pleasure Thresholds, Patricia Tallman’s Babylon 5 Memoirs” over 50 appearances in the various Star Trek franchises and Barbara in the 1990 version of Night of the Living Dead.
Joining Captain Phil will be MaryBeth Ritkouski (https://www.facebook.com/distilled) of the Star Trek set Tours in Ticonderoga New York (https://www.startrektour.com/) to talk Trek with Pat and then later in the 4pm hour examine some Progressive Rock music that Captain Phil put on her ProgMix Tape including Big Big Train, Barock Project, Moon Safari and Finisterre. Here are the websites for the history of Theodora in Green and Gold
https://empresstheodoraandretinue.weebly.com/empress-theodora-and-her-re...
https://www.ancient.eu/Empress_Theodora/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_(wife_of_Justinian_I)

It is the Dawn of the Prog Age of Music on Captain Phil's Planet!
See you there!

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 01/14/2021

This Thursday at 3pm we remember the legendary WUSB Monday Morning DJ Workhorse with an hour long tribute of music stories and an occasional aircheck or two.
Then stay tuned in the 4pm hour for Nick Katona of MRR Records (https://mrrmusic.com/) as we discuss MRR's plans for 2021 and what great new music the label has planned for the upcoming months and a BRAND NEW TRACK from MRR Artist Joe Deninzon (https://stratospheerius.com/) as Joe joins the conversation right here on your radio machine!

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 12/31/2020

Nick Katona from MRR Records in the house at 3pm to talk about whats happening at the great label and then a little year in review on the Planet! Happy New Year!

https://mrrmusic.com/

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 12/17/2020

The annual Captain Phil's Planet Holiday Special featuring AnneMarie Straus and David Braun! I mean Scarbucket.

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Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 12/03/2020

This Thursday in the 3pm hour we meet up with Days Between Stations (https://www.daysbetweenstations.com/) to talk about their upcoming virtual ProgStock (https://www.progstock.com/) concert on December 5th on https://www.stageit.com/ as the Moogvember celebration continues into December! Then New Jersey/New York band Sister Monk (https://www.sistermonk.com/) Zooms in with brand new music in the 4pm hour! All the and the best Prog Rock on any Planet!
Days Between Stations
https://www.daysbetweenstations.com/
Days Between Stations are Oscar Fuentes Bills and Sepand Samzadeh.
In fall 2003, Sepand Samzadeh placed an ad in a local magazine and Oscar Fuentes responded. The two began composing music and Fuentes suggested a very fitting name for the band, Days Between Stations –the name of a novel Fuentes had read by Steve Erikson.
In 2004, Fuentes and Samzadeh sent Bruce Soord, leader of the British band The Pineapple Thief, a CD with nearly an hour’s worth of mostly improvised material. Soord used some of this material as the basis for the song “Saturday” on The Pineapple Thief’s 12 Stories Down (Cyclops 2004).

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 11/19/2020

This Thursday celebrate the release of the new Firefall (Firefallofficial.com) album Comet with an interview with Mark Andes Bass player from the iconic band! Then welcome Jordan Rudess (www.Jordanrudess.com) of Dream Theater to discuss his upcoming virtual ProgStock (https://www.progstock.com/) concert on November 21st on https://www.stageit.com/ and the Moogvember celebration! Closing out the show will be an interview with Tom Brislin (https://tombrislin.com/) of Kansas who is closing out Moogvember with a virtual concert on Saturday November 28th! What are you waiting for?! Moog on down to Captain Phil's Planet and check out all the great new and live music this Moogvember!
LEGENDARY ROCK BAND FIREFALL RELEASES NEW CD, COMET
FIRST NEW ALBUM IN MORE THAN TWO DECADES FEATURING SEVERAL GREAT ORIGINALS AND SHOWCASING SIGNATURE FIREFALL SOUND OUT DECEMBER 11 ON SUNSET BLVD. RECORDS

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 10/22/2020

Captain Phil back in the studio!

Joe Deninzon is our guest and talks about his new music Storm Surge!
Link to Storm Surge event
https://www.facebook.com/events/475523123340907

Also our friend from Ticonderoga return to talk about the socially distant yet very great Halloween treat at the Star Trek set Tours!
https://www.startrektour.com/

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 10/08/2020

It's giving day for SUNY Stony Brook on October 8th. Make a donation between 3pm and 5pm to WUSB and Captain Phil will also make the same donation up to $250.00. Double your donation this Thursday! Pledgers can get thank you CDs as well listen on Thursday to find out how!
http://www.tinyurl.com/wusbgive

Thursday on Captain Phil's Planet join us as we celebrate the virtual ProgStock Festival (https://www.progstock.com/2020/) featuring all the bands performing over the weekend! We will be zooming in members from:
Total Mass Retain – YES Tribute Band
Solar Federation – A Rush Tribute
Mile Marker Zero
Cell15
Gnarbot
Crack The Sky

Virtual ProgStock 2020 will be streamed LIVE on Saturday, October 10 from the Hamilton Stage Theater of the Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) in Rahway, NJ, and on Sunday, October 11 from the Temple Stage at Tellus360 in Lancaster, PA.
With the pandemic in mind, and the rules and regulations in place, these shows will not have an in-person audience, so this is the ONLY way you can see them! We will be taking every precaution to protect the health and safety of our bands and crew.

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 09/24/2020

Today on Captain Phil's Planet join us as we celebrate the next ProgStock presents (https://www.progstock.com/2020/) featuring OVRFRWD and District 97 on October 3rd (https://www.ovrfwrd.com/)
OVRFRWD will be zooming in the the 3pm hour to discuss their new album Star Stuff and the upcoming virtual show on Stageit.com
In the 4pm hour Jonathan Schang of District 97 will talk about the upcoming D97 show on Stageit.com as well as the bands new music, an animated music video to the track Ghost Girl, Jonathans story behind that supernatural song and more!
Also special guest ZATHRAS will make an appearance from the Great Machine on Epsilon III or maybe one of his brothers were really not 100% sure. All this and the best Prog Rock on any planet only on Captain Phil's Planet!

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 09/10/2020

Next up on Captain Phil's Planet join us as we celebrate the next two ProgStock presents (https://www.progstock.com/2020/) featuring Joe Deninzon and Stratospheerius (September 12th http://Stratospheerius.com) Aaron Clift (September 19th www.aaronclift.com) and Rob Shepard of Manticore (September 19th www.ManticoreNY.com)

We'll also hear from our friend Cmdr Roy about Roy's Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner (https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner/) upcoming Facebook show celebrating Space: 1999 on September 13th 2020!

Roy's Tie-Dye Sci-Fi on at 3:05pm
Joe Deninzon on at 3:30pm
Aaron Clift on at 4:00pm
Rob Shepard of Manticore on at 4:40pm

Joe Deninzon and Stratospheerius
http://Stratospheerius.com

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 08/27/2020

Thursday August 27th 2020 Captain Phil welcomes Sci FI Distilled hosts Micahel Rizzo and Marybeth Ritkouski as they light up their show with Firefly!

Then at 3:30pm welcome John DiGeronimo of Temptress (https://www.reverbnation.com/temptressmusic) as he premiers the new Temptress EP right here on WUSB.

Finally Dyanne Potter Voegtlin of Potter's Daughter arrives in the 4pm hour to discuss the new EP Casually Containing Rage with new tracks and news of the upcoming Concert at the ProgStock Virtual series (https://www.StageIt.com/ProgStock) which continues this Saturday August 29th with this incredible line up:
5PM: Melanie Mau and Martin Schnella (90 minutes)
7PM: Potter’s Daughter (45 minutes)
8PM: Aaron English (45 minutes) – NEW!
9PM: Robeone (Robert Schindler) for The Bob Moog Foundation (45 minutes)

Sci Fi Distilled https://www.facebook.com/pg/distilled
scifidistilled@gmail.com

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SciFi Distilled. Nerds, cocktails, and scfi chit chat.

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 08/13/2020

Tune in today for The Devil's Staircase with Luis Nasser and Tim McCaskey
https://thedevilsstaircase.bandcamp.com/album/the-devils-staircase

PLUS Virtual ProgStock!!!!
https://www.progstock.com/2020/
virtual concert series
Saturday, August 15:
5PM: Frogbelly and Symphony (45 minutes)
6PM: Gabriel (45 minutes)
7PM: André Cholmondeley of Project/Object (45 minutes)
8PM: Bob Richardson of Cell15 (90 minutes)
Saturday, August 22:
4PM: IO Earth Acoustic (45 minutes)
5PM: The Holzman/Getter Collective (45 minutes)
6PM: Beledo (45 minutes)
7PM: Mile Marker Zero (45 minutes)
8PM: McNally Waters (90 minutes)
Saturday, August 29:
5PM: Melanie Mau and Martin Schnella (90 minutes)
7PM: Potter's Daughter (45 minutes)
8PM: Aaron English (45 minutes)
9PM: Robeone (Robert Schindler) for the Moog Foundation (45 minutes)
3pm to 5pm WUSB 90.1fm and of course www.wusb.fm