There you go kids, the new Circus Brown's Not a Side Show podcasting site is up!

Tonight on Not a Side Show Rock n Roll Academy will be the guest, this is young musicians playing original songs NOT COVERS!

8pm on http://krcl.org or 90.9 FM in The Utah.

Tonight you'll also hear a choice cut for my new compilation Circus Brown's Second Snackbox in stores June 2009.

For fun I thought I'd let you see which podcasts were the favorites, and I'd like to note that the Aye Aye show only has the fewest downloads right now because it was just posted yesterday and its only barely behind Mikey. So here you go from highest number of downloads on down:

Musclehawk
Buckner & Garcia Interview
Kid Theodore
Laserfang
i<36335
The Deathless Pros
Mindstate
Novaburn
Trebuchet
Stereotype
Biggunbaby
Ropeorbullets
Palace of Buddies
Mike Brown Interview
Aye Aye

Guess this podcasting stuff is the wave of the future, or maybe the shows are getting better, basically since November the number of downloads have almost doubled each month. If this trend continues then we'll have over 400 downloads in February! Keep on enjoying this little slice of KRCL!

This Friday night on KRCL at 8 I will have a great Salt Lake band on that wowed me last year with their latest release Abalone Skeletone, they're called Tolchock Trio don't miss this show!

As you can see from the new SLUG ad pictured above, KRCL and Circus Brown have reached a mutual agreement to move me over to Friday's at 8pm. I'm really excited about this, so this upcoming weekend the 24th will be my last Saturday program, sadly I'll be retiring the Not a Side Show theme song that Gianni (He hosts Dirty Boulevard on KRCL 10:30 Thursday nights) wrote and performed for me. I fucking love that song! Its sad to see it go, maybe all you musicians out there should come up with a new theme song and submit it to me!

Along with the theme song I'm also retiring the name 'Not a Side Show'. When the show was on at 3 a.m. on Monday mornings it was a side show, it was just me and a couple listeners and I was trying my hardest to make a dent in the wee hours and live up to the show title. When I moved to 1 a.m. Friday mornings it was still me, a few more people and I was stirring up trouble making sure people knew this wasn't some silly Side Show. June of '05 was when I started on Saturday's, and I think with the help of a bunch of bands and some nice media outlets it really became Not a Side Show.

The format of my show isn't going to change, there will still be a live performance every Friday, and you'll still be hearing the music you've grown to love and enjoy on Not a Side Show. The show's just going to be earlier, better for you to pre-party with instead of fighting at the party about turning off some lame music and turning KRCL on. Connery and I are really excited to be on earlier in the evenings and on Friday which pretty much gives us our weekends back. More camping and travel time sounds good to me.

Coming up on the 24th of January, the last episode of Saturday's Not a Side Show, Trebuchet will be in studio playing live. They played back in the Spring of '07 and one of the songs from that recording ended up on the Death By Salt III compilation from SLUG Magazine. It made me so proud of those guys.

Also performing on the 24th I<36335 that's right folks, no more h8 for bee's just love!

Please tune in at 10 p.m. and enjoy the show. I've got CD's, Records, and DVD's I'll be giving away throughout the show! Then Join me on January 30th for my first episode on Friday Evening. Big Gun Baby will be live in the studio, and then on Friday February 6th Aye Aye will by my special guest. Also coming up in February Mindstate once again and hopefully I'll nail down a date with Tolchock Trio. Cross your fingers!

Thanks for listening, I hope the change to Friday's doesn't keep you from hearing some of the greatest local and international music on the terrestrial airwaves, the show's just going to get better!

I knew exactly why I was being pulled over, my plates expired 2 weeks ago, I had taken care of the safety and emissions but still hadn't mailed in the money and paperwork. I pull over, and start going through my jockey to get the papers, I hadn't turned down my stereo or even put the car in park yet and the cop was right there at my window tapping on the glass. Whoops. Well I put it in park, turned off Wreckless Eric, and rolled down the window.

"Do you know why I pulled you over tonight?" He asked with a smile, damn a smile?

"Yeah, plates expired, here's my paperwork I just haven't mailed it in yet, sorry."

He took the papers, flipped through them, "Have you been pulled over for this before?"

"Nope, here let me give you my drivers license..."

He let out a little chuckle, handed the papers back, then patted me on the shoulder and said "Don't worry about that, have a nice night."

This whole thing took place in a little over a minute. I know because I looked at my clock it said 1:30 when the lights went on, I pulled away at 1:32. As I pulled away I clicked the radio back on, cranked up Wreckless Eric, and started laughing. I guess I'm no longer a rebellious young adult, I'm a harmless thirty-something, and in the wee hours of the night I'm not even worth a shakedown.

I called Connery up on the way home and told him about what just happened, we both laughed about it, hell if it'd been him I'm sure the police would have loved to harass the youngster. I know when I was 19 and got pulled over I was getting searched, so was the car, and I was possibly being accused of several possible crimes in the area. Maybe I just looked and smelled like trouble 16 years ago more then I do now. I think that cop was a pretty cool policeman, I like good cops, he knew there were much more important things to be doing in the Pioneer Park district, I'm really glad it took him just a few seconds to realize that.

Well enough chit-chat, lets PODCAST! This last week Novaburn came down to KRCL and jammed some sweet tunes. Their podcast is up now for your enjoyment. I also went back through my archives and busted out a couple shows that I really, REALLY liked from 2008, the first one is from June 21st, Palace of Buddies is the band really cool stuff.

The third free downloadable podcast is a very unique one, I had my first hip hop performance on Not a Side Show Mindstate blew up the airwaves back on July 12th. Get all these podcasts here or just search your iTunes podcast directory and ENJOY!

Coming up this weekend on January 17th Cavedoll will be playing live in the KRCL studios!

What a way to end a year and start a new one. Hope everyone got through the Holiday's unscathed. Time to start losing weight, quit smoking, stop wearing diapers, or if you're like me time to swear off resolutions.

This last weekend I had a band stop by Not a Side Show for their second appearance, a different kinda band, Stereotype. This band consists of Vel, LJ, Ivan, and Josh, 3 Serbians and a Korean, very international. Funny interview and them playing live on the air, plus their new single "Olympic City" which was released in 2009 and debuted on NASS this weekend.

As always you can listen to the podcast all you want for free!!!

Coming up this weekend on NASS - NOVABURN

Ok, I'm going back searching for a new place to buy or rent or something.

Last night The Deathless Pros kicked in the studio door and pasted the walls black and blue. They've got a show coming up in January on the 23rd and you don't want to miss it, I saw them at SLUG Localized earlier this month it was rocktastic.

If you missed last nights show you can click on the link for your area and to listen to or download the podcast of The Deathless Pros performance.

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Today I wanted to hear the first Lips song I'd ever heard. I decided to head over to the u-tube to get my fix, lucky for me they had a sweet live vid of the song. I'd also like to mention I didn't really like this song the first time around, now its one of my favorite songs ever. Top twenty material here, bah, scratch that I won't put a number on it, I like it ok?

My buddy Jordan came out to Colorado for a week and did a bunch of skiing and we went out and saw the Lips one night. The Fox is just a small place, a little bigger and better then the Zephyr that used to be the gem of SLC.

Looper was the opening act, they were way better live then recorded, I threw their album I bought at the show away shortly after listening to it. After Looper played we were standing around having a beer and Wayne Coyne was walking through the crowd, he looked at Jordan and I and said "Hey, thanks for coming out tonight, great to see you". That little sentence made my heart pound and put the biggest smile on my face. Nice guy, he walked away, we both just stood there smiling, the show kicked ass.

I need to see the Lips again.

Tonight on NASS - The Deathless Pros

Just a half hour till blast off!

As I peered out at the winter wonderland a song popped into my head. Yep, another Lips song. The first time I ever heard this song was back in '93, I'd bought Oh My Gawd!!! and copied it to tape so we could listen to it in Jayson's bus. We were driving from Big Cottonwood Canyon to Sugarhouse and we picked up a couple that were hitchhiking. That song came on as they got in the bus, we cranked it up and started laughing and acting strange to freak out the passengers. They weren't even phased by us and just busted out a bowl, can't remember their names, good kids, good kids.

The next 5 weeks are going to be good ones on the old Not A Side Show, Connery and I are booked solid with local bands:

December 27th: The Deathless Pros
January 3rd: Stereotype
January 10th: Tolchock Trio
January 17th: Cavedoll
January 24th: I<36335
January 31st: Big Gun Baby

Damn, last time I had shows planned this far into the future most of them canceled or just forgot to show up, I'm going to twitter all of them daily so they don't forget.

This month I've had more downloads of my podcasts then any other month. So far 85 different people have downloaded episodes of Not A Side Show, I'd like to break 100! So if you haven't checked out any of the shows, DO IT! I'll sweeten the pot, if you help me break the century mark I'll post 2 more casts before the end of the year!

Hey Happy Xmas and all that everyone. I woke up this morning with a Flaming Lips song in my head. So I got outta bed, found The Soft Bulletin and gave it a listen. The song that was playing in my dream was The Gash, I hadn't listened to this song in a long time. I had to look up the lyrics because I knew there was a reason I had this playing in my dreams. Powerful song.

I remember the first time I saw them perform this song live. I was living in my boss's really nice 36 foot RV in Golden, Colorado August of 1999. My friend Weng went to the show with me, I'd heard that there was going to be some sort of music experiment going on at this show. When we arrived at the Ogden Theater in Denver we bought tickets then gave our ID's to a security guy who gave us a portable walkman radio with headphones. You were supposed to tune to 89.1 on the radio and listen to the show broadcast live in stereo. It was really cool, with or without the headphones, this was the first time I'd seen them without a live drummer, all the drum tracks were recorded, still cool show.

Earlier that year I'd traded some tapes of live shows from Salt Lake for an advanced copy of The Soft Bulletin, I received it a month or more before the release, and I hated the album on first listen. The night of the show, with all the visual effects I fell in love with the album. Suddenly everything had changed. I didn't buy the actual album till just a couple years ago when I'd finally worn the burnt disc out.

Check out the lyrics and watch some vids of the Lips, it always puts me in a great mood. Be safe out there this Holiday season kids!

This Saturday night on Not a Side Show I'll have The Deathless Pros playing live for your enjoyment so tune in at 10pm to 90.9 FM in Utah or krcl.org

Still the last volunteer battles on
Battles on
Battles on

Another great show with plenty of new music plus some Queen, Cars, Dr. Hook, Randy Newman, Wire, you know all the classics needed to keep a cold winter night cozy.
New podcast is up for your enjoyment, and you can also check out Muscle Hawk live next year a few dates are listed on their myspace.

Vampires are dumb.

I'm trying to not be a dick accidentally in public, I'm failing.  Last week on a flight to Los Angeles I sat next to a woman quietly for the entire flight.  I was reading Cobert's I Am America (And So Can You!), and it seemed like the entire flight this woman wanted to talk to me, I didn't oblige.

Finally we land, bad landing and we both turn to each other and share a laugh of relief at the landing.  Then she says "So are you excited to see Twilight?"

I paused for a few second, as I mentioned earlier I was trying to not be a dick.  I haven't read the book, I don't really care about vampires, I mean shit Lost Boys was great and there hasn't been anything good since, right?  I mean in the 90's I was talked into reading Anne Rice books, I got through two of them, then a hundred pages into the third book I just couldn't do it anymore.  Vampires had become dull.  Boring.  To me vampire books and movies were about as intense as masturbating through a long yawn.

"Is that the hot vampire teen movie?"  I reluctantly asked.

"YES!"

"Yeah, that looks about as worthless as Transformers."

"No it doesn't, if you'd read the book you'd be so excited to see it.  It's the best book I've ever read."

"Yeah but vampire stories are all the same.  Somebody gets seduced, usually somebody young and hot.  They're stuck forever looking young and hot, but they can't go out in the day and must drink blood nightly(and sometimes they can go out in the day, depending on who wrote the story, how convenient!).  They always fuck it up because they aren't that into killing, miss thanksgiving dinners, or they decide the person that turned them into a vampire is a dick and they want their old life back.  And in some vampire movies they put sunshine in bullets and hunt vampires!"  then I just started laughing, "Sunshine in bullets!  Or the vampire decides to start a rock band, or travel forward and backward through time doing everything and anything they've ever wanted to but couldn't in regular life" laughing even harder "and somehow it comes down to vampires are like Jesus and are Gothic martyrs and it all just ends up stinking like Keanu flying around like Superman.  Yeah, vampires... not a fan."  

She got up and stood there ignoring me about to explode.  I've see that look a hundred times, she wants to scream loud enough to rip off all my skin, but she also wants to act like I'm not there but make sure I know she's mad, but for the first time ever its a total stranger that wants me dead.  As soon as the isle was clear she rushed off the plane.  

Oh well, it's not like I could have even started a relationship with some hot librarianesque woman that loves vampires.  I'm probably isolating myself just by typing this up.  Seriously I don't know much about vampires, other then they're fucking played.  I wouldn't buy a ticket to see a vampire movie, rent one, or even read a chapter of another vampire book.  I get it, the life of a vampire is a lonely life.  But every time a new vampire movie or book comes out I'm told it something totally new and differn't and I'll love the twist or the new take on vampires.  I doubt it.  What because of the title of this movie do they get to come out earlier in the night for happy hour?  If they aren't packing hollow points with rays of light I don't care.

Don't Care.  Don't Care.

Near Dark now there's a kick ass vampire movie, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, and a misfit group of vampires drive around a shitty van with sunglasses on and tinfoil on the windows.  But still that movie kinda sucked, watch it, it sucks just like every other v-pire movie, but its funnier then most.  Vampire's Kiss is another awesome vampire movies and only one of a handful of good performances by Nick Cage.  No complaints, I'll just put that up there as the best blood sucking movie out there that isn't porn.  No need to ever make another movie about Dracula again.

So this morning I'm on a flight back down to L.A.  Young 25 year old girl to the right of me, LDS, unmarried went on a mission.  To the left hot Orange County MILF who happened to have a 25 year old daughter.  What did they talk about?  Yep, they talked about the big suck that's a coming.  I just either pretended to sleep or read my book as they talked across me.  I skirted the question early in the discussion, but 45 minutes later they asked me again.  What should I do, be a dick again?  Pretend to enjoy stupid movies and just be a nice guy?  Act as if I had no idea there was a movie coming out?  Change the subject?

"Never heard of it."

"WHAT!" In stereo.

"Sorry never heard of it, but I see tons of commercials for it."

"Well you've got to see it!"

"Yeah, that'll never happen I gave up on vampire movies.  Plus aren't all vampire movies the same?"

"This one isn't, its going to be the best vampire movie ever!"  Then they launch into an explanation about how awesome these here vampires is.  I just tuned it out, I mean come on yes we all want to be teenage vampires I get it.

"Well if you don't like vampires then what do you like?"

"Music"

"You'll love the soundtrack!"

"Is it as good as Flash Gordon's Soundtrack?"

"Whaaa?"

"I dunno, Twilight, it looks like The Hills but with blood sucking... err wait, it is The Hills right?"

They sighed in stereo, so disappointed.  We landed in silence.

As the three of us got out of our row and off the plane they were still talking and both turned to me and gave me that smirk stupid dismissing smile goodbye you are pathetic look.  I smiled and said, "Well, I hope you enjoy your Potter-Vampire show" I did it again.  

I'm glad I did, am I the only person in this country without a vampire penis in his mouth?  

I got on the rental car shuttle, sat down and looked out at Century Blvd.   Just as we left the airport there was a billboard for it.  I kinda chuckled to myself, then the guy next to me turned to his co-worker and pointed at the sign and said "Dan, you gunna see that movie?  I just finished the book, so AWESOME!"

I stood up and walked to the back of the bus.

Tonight McCain pulled off what was probably his best speech since 2000, and it was moving to hear him actually speak from the heart, an organ Orrin no longer has. John asked for unity, while Orrin thought of building a wall around Utah.

Now I'm not going to get into politics about how good or bad Senator Hatch is, this isn't a political blog, this is about music and what I'd like to point out to everyone today is how incredibly terrible Senator Orrin Hatch's music is. Folks behold Utah's worst musician:

Hatch Music dot com thats right 9 unlistenable albums SIX of which are NEW!

Folks I don't care if you would rather pull bong rips to "My God is Love" or getting yer rocks off means bumping "Christ was Able" while being auto-asphyxiated. It's just not my thing, I just want to put this out for everyone and let them know that out of more then 1000 local Utah musicians EVERYONE is better then our Senator. I think the atrocities of what he's said trying to fight the inevitable doesn't even compare to the atrocities of what he's created in the studio. Now is the time for Unity and I ask all of you to unite and boycott every piece of art Orrin has ever put out to the masses.

Orrin I will work for the rest of my days to better our community, a job you were elected for but for some unknown reason fight against and ignore. Senator our country has made a decision and you have as well, I hope you enjoy staying stuck in the mud, I will forever be disgusted by your music.

I'm Circus Brown and I approve this message.

Anyways, back to what really is important (yes I voted early) music podcasts, the newest of which is a podcast of LASERFANG playing 6 songs in the studio, you can check it out right now! Where? Here Circus Browns Podcast Central!.

Have a great election day, get out and play in the snow, come next year we might not have any!