LiquidTodd : DJ/Troublemaker

Great Station, Silly Name

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:13:09 -0500

Boombox went off the air on Sirius XM in the early morning hours of Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 after almost three amazing years. I designed Boombox as my ideal radio station - all breaks, all the time. It came on the air after I wrote an epic proposal for Sirius Satellite Radio about improving their dance lineup. As a result of unbelievable support and trust from senior management - especially Senior VP of Music Programming Steve Blatter - I was privileged to be able to be a key player in getting three new channels - Chill, Area and Boombox - on the air. Boombox started as a pure breaks channel but, after some (as it turned out, much-needed) guidance from Blatter, moved in a more breakbeat/rock remix/bootleg/mashup direction after the first year.

I’m extremely proud of all the great music we played and for all the people who have written me to thank me for turning them on to artists and mixes they would have never heard without Boombox. It was a great run on a big stage and I am thankful for every day Sirius management let us get away with airing a whole station with nothing but the best remix-tronica available.

I especially want to thank Steve Blatter (for giving us the green light and then a massive amount of support), Jeff Regan (for being the glue that held the whole thing together and for being a damn fine programmer), Geronimo (for helping get Boombox, Chill and Area on the air and for never wavering in his support for my crazy ideas), DJ Icey (for doing “Automatic Static” on Boombox every week without fail - a truly legendary radio show), Gregg Steele (for supporting the channel and empowering us to play what we thought was best), S-Dot and Vanessa (for all their essential behind the scenes work), Kool DJ Red Alert (for his short-lived but great midday show) and everyone else who pitched in to make Boombox happen every day. I especially would like to thank all the wonderful Boombox listeners. We would have been nothing without our faithful and ever watchful audience of super cool cats.

I will continue to play great music on Sirius XM as my Zeros+Ones show moves over to Alt Nation (and maybe even gets a new name) in the weeks ahead.

—Liquid Todd

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Oakenfold Dates

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:20:20 -0500

I’m playing with my ‘mate’ Paul Oakenfold in Georgia and Florida in November and also (drum roll please) on New Year’s Frickin’ Eve in Las Vegas. That’s gonna get messy. Here’s the info:

• Monday, November 24th - Opera, Atlanta
• Tuesday, November 25th - Destiny, Orlando
• Thursday, November 27th - The Green Iguana, Tampa
• Wednesday, December 31st - Rain, Las Vegas

Halloween 2008

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:57:50 -0500

Shoulda posted this earlier but...you know. Things get busy. So, without further ado (whatever an “ado” is) here is my scaaaaary, Halloween 2008 in NYC (mostly on the Subway) photo gallery. Also available on Facebook. Whatever. It’s HERE.

Will He Save Us?

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:43:54 -0400

Will he even get the chance? And will we - once again - expect one man to do all the heavy lifting while we watch cable? Americans love to complain about how the country is “going to hell” but now it appears the country really is going to hell (in a handbasket, even). The $700 billion billionaire bank bailout has been voted down in the House. The Dow is down 777 today (yikes!) and everyone is pretty much panicking. Meanwhile I’m seeing more homeless people sleeping on the streets than ever before. NYC is reporting an all-time high of more than 38,000 people crashing in city homeless shelters every night. Maybe we do need a superhero right now. I’ll settle for a competent manager who actually gives a sh*t about the less fortunate. That would be refreshing after eight years of Bush. Of course that pretty much leaves out the stunningly bad (yet somehow still competitive) McCain/Palin trainwreck...um...I mean ticket. Did you see this performance Sarah Palin gave on CBS with a respectful and supremely patient Katie Couric? Wow, that was friggin’ painful to watch.

My friend Gene sent me an editorial cartoon that neatly sums up Paulson & Co.’s ‘plan’:

Undead Marketing Blitz

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:09:03 -0400

HBO is marketing it’s new vampire show with a ferocity not seen in NYC since the last zombie invasion. Billboards that are adjusted in small ways over days, fake TruBlood advertising at convenience stores, TruBlood pint glasses at my local bar and that’s just what’s on the street. Online they’ve constructed a half dozen websites, made a pile of 2-minute fake news reports and are basically kicking everyone’s ass with this new show. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the show isn’t as good as the ad blitz. The ad above said “VAMPIRES ARE IMMORAL” for about a week until they were replaced with new versions adding a small “T” in fake spray-paint.