The most interesting, little known power pop composer/performer ever! Great music plus production, songwriting and performance by Dane Conover (Trees and Popgems) and Marisa Conover (Trees and Popgems). Give this show a listen and you will be hooked!

Doug Lynner’s World of Noise special show with Mark DeCerbo airs August 13, 2009 at 6pm and 9pm Pacific time (U.S.). It repeats at 6am Pacific time on August 16, 2009

My special guest this month will be legendary L.A. record producer Earle Mankey. We will be focusing on Southern California bands and discussing and listening to Sparks, Concrete Blonde, The Runaways, The Dickies, Trees, Invisible Zoo, 20/20, The Three O’Clock, Purple Bosco and more.

Join us on Flashback Alternatives, an Internet radio station, 5/14/09 at 6 and 9pm PDT.

Earle will be joining me on the Tag Board (chat) too so get the most out of the show by coming by the station’s web page and chatting with us.

Meet my special guest, Earle Mankey, on Doug Lynner’s World of Noise, 5/14/09 at 6 and 9pm PDT on Flashback Alternatives, an Internet radio station.

Earle Mankey is a legendary LA producer/engineer who represents the real heart and soul of LA music from the ’70s to today. He is also a founding member of Sparks.

Earle Mankey on Wikipedia
Earle Mankey in Sparks

Join me and my special guest Dane Conover of Trees on Flashback Alternatives, Thursday 2/12/09 at 6pm pacific time. Dane and Doug will be chatting with listeners on the Tag Board (http://www.flashbackalternatives.com) during the show. For help signing into the Tag Board, click the “Help” link at the bottom of the Tag Board box in the left column.

Here are some links to information about Dane Conover and the music we will be hearing.

About Dane Conover

The Popgems page – Popgems is the ongoing music project of Dane Conover and his wife Marisa.
Dane on NPR (regarding the RPM Challenge)
The RPM Challange – write and record an album in one month! Dane won last years contest!
Trees and Popgems on YouTube – Have fun!
Trees bio
Sleep Convention review in Trouser Press

About his influences

The RCA Mark II Music Synthesizer
Time’s Encomium by Charles Wourinen
Dominic Frontiere
(The) Ventures in Space
The Tornados
Joe Meek
Telstar
The Electric Prunes

Doug Lynner’s World of Noise repeats 2/12/09 at 9pm pacific, and, 2/14/09 at 6am pacific time.

The critically acclaimed band Trees was pretty much a one-man-band but oh what a band it was! Join me when, that one man, Dane Conover shares his musical influences and how they led to the Sleep Convention album and beyond.

Ira Robbins of Trouser Press couldn’t praise the Sleep Convention album enough: He said, “That this album died the commercial death is not just incomprehensible, it’s criminal. ”

Join Doug and Dane Feb. 12, 2009 at 6pm and 9pm Pacific time on FlashbackAlternatives.com on Doug Lynner’s World of Noise.