EVR is proud to present FRANKRADIO, a special on-demand two-hour stream in partnership with Frank151 and Black N Blue Productions. First up is Bustin Kaps, an hour of the latest and greatest in hip-hop with The Warden himself, DJ Big Kap. Next comes Black N Blue Takeover, classic and brand new hardcore brought to you by Cuz Joe and the legendary Jimmy G of New York hardcore mainstays Murphy's Law. Besides being a quarterly hip-hop lifestyle publication celebrating its 10th anniversary, Frank151 has its own apparel line available in over 600 stores worldwide, and on June 23, Frank's new label will drop its first releases, from Grand Puba and Wu-Tang's UGOD. For the last five years, Cuz Joe and the Black N Blue crew have been providing NYC with the best and the latest in classic hardcore shows.

Regular Gay Beach listeners will remember that Tedward left the beach for a few weeks earlier this spring so he could go to Europe as the keyboard player for

Michigan lo-fi punks Tijvek (formerly Tyvek, and still pronounced that way). Well, the band are in town on Thursday, playing a gig at Monster Island (128 River Street [between North 3rd and Metropolitan], Brooklyn NY) opening for local heroes Cause Co-Motion. Tedward will be giving away tickets to the show this afternoon on Gay Beach from 2 to 4 p.m. ET. You can't win if you don't listen!

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Tune into The Ragged Phonograph Tuesday from 6 to 8 a.m. ET when Mike the Barber celebrates the life of a true legend of American popular music, Billy Murray. A first-generation American (born May 25, 1877 to Irish immigrant parents) raised in Colorado's capital city, Murray was known as The Denver Nightingale throughout his career, which was astonishingly etensive: Billy Murray recorded more songs and for more labels than any other artist of the acoustic-recording era. He was the main interpreter of George M. Cohan's tunes, including "The Grand Old Rag," "Give My Regards to Broadway," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," and many more. Aside from his solo hits, Murray also sang tenor in some of the most popular quartets of the first two decades of the 20th century; his down-to-earth Everyman spirit, lacking the ego of so many early pop stars (cough*Jolson*cough), made him as popular with his peers as he was with audiences. He was also an avid baseball fanatic, known for occasionally playing hookey from recording sessions to go catch a game.  After the advent of talking pictures, he had a sideline as a voice artist for early cartoons. Compared to many of his peers, Murray is little known today, in large part because unlike those who made their names on the vaudeville stage, he was almost exclusively a studio performer; his rapid-fire, bell-clear voice was perfectly suited for the primitive recording equipment of the era.  Still, Billy Murray was the first to sing some of America's most popular songs of the 20th century, and its time he got his due.  Mike's been looking forward to this program ever since he started The Ragged Phonograph.

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Tune into your source for all things soundtrack, Morricone Youth, on Saturday from 10 p.m. to midnight ET, when Devon's guest host Gray Dolores (aka Misty Roses vocalist Robert Conroy) welcomes special guests Little Annie and Paul Wallfisch. Little Annie, a downtown fixture since the No Wave era, and Botanica keyboardist Wallfisch recently collaborated on the deliciously warped torch song collection When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos. On Thursday, May 28, they and Misty Roses will be appearing at Small Beast, a weekly salon at The Delancey (168 Delancey Street [at Clinton], New York, NY) curated by Wallfisch.

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