The Music Never Stops

SUNDAYS, 8-10PM

"Lubricate your mind . . . "

HOST: Barry Smolin

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.mrsmolin.com

FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Music-Never-Stops/77963842512

TWITTER: http://twitter.com/Mr_Smolin

PLAYLIST ARCHIVE: http://www.well.com/user/shmo/tmns.playlists.html

DESCRIPTION: The Music Never Stops is dedicated to exploratory rock and roll in the form of Grateful Dead concert tapes, contemporary jam-rock, local freakiness and miscellaneous psychedelia. Each edition of the show features a live Grateful Dead set from a variety of eras in the band's history, as well as contemporary jamband madness and new music from various experimental, improvisational, accidental, avant-freak, wyrd-folk, and psychedelic cabaret artists or any other aural anomalies emanating from the nethersphere. Special emphasis is given to interesting offbeat local acts currently making the scene in Los Angeles.

BIO: Barry Smolin has been the host and producer of The Music Never Stops since 1995, when he was called upon to fill the large shoes of his predecessor Bob Young, longtime host of KPFK's Grateful Dead show Thursday Lunch. Joining Bob Young's co-host Tom Norton on the newly christened The Music Never Stops in March of 1995, Smolin played the role of sidekick for the first 9 months of his tenure on the program, until Norton departed to pursue other interests, leaving Smolin as the sole host.

Long fascinated with improvisational music, Smolin viewed his new role as an opportunity to help the show grow into something bigger than a specialty show for Deadheads. Rather, he envisioned the program becoming a nexus for all things psychedelic. The evolution has proven fruitful. In 2000, The Music Never Stops received the Jammy Award(psychedelic music award) for "Best Radio Show," and in 2004 the program was nominated for an L.A. Weekly Music Award in the "Best Radio Show" category.

In addition to his avocation as radio personality, Smolin wears a variety of other hats as well. His primary fulltime gig is as a high school English teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He is also an active musician, performing and recording his own music under the moniker Mr. Smolin. Furthermore, Smolin is a dedicated writer of experimental poetry, fiction and drama, seeking out methods of forging language that communicates the deepest layers of consciousness. As a journalist, Smolin has written articles on a variety of subjects for such publications as the L.A. Times, NY Arts, Relix, Dupree's Diamond News, The Sondheim Review, Rolling Stone.com, and Jambands.com. He has also provided liner notes for numerous recordings over the past 10 years. Smolin also wrote the Foreword to the book Dumb Luck, a retrospective of the work of artist Gary Baseman, published by Chronicle Books in April 2004.

He is constantly--though unconsciously--sabotaging his ultimate desire to remain anonymous.

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