Alive With Clive show
I was a guest on the White Plains cable show Alive With Clive on August 8th. The show will air on channel 76 on White Plains cable in the near future and also on YouTube, so please check back for air dates. It's a 30 minute show with me being interviewed about all sorts of heavy things and performing the DSC tunes "Rock Song" and "Comatose." You can VOTE FOR ME to be in the Alive With Clive Top 25 artists which will help me be included in a forthcoming compilation CD to help combat AIDS in Clive's homeland of South Africa. (You need to scroll down a bit).

Internet Radio and Podcast Dominiation
The DSC is featured in the August 12 edition of the Kweevak music magazine podcast, which also features a cool interview with Mick Box of Uriah Heep and another with Candice Night of Richie Blackmore's Blackmore Night. Right after that interview you'll hear "The Valley." Check it out here (show # 105).

This month, "Go Outside" has been added to Alan Hare's Live365 station and it seems that "If I Had the Time" and "Patterns of the Rain" are now in rotation on KRFC (Radio Free Colorado).

Also, we missed this last month but "Comatose" is featured in the July 27th edition of Queens Artsits Music Podcast.

"See Kay" a hit in Phoenix
"See Kay" has been in the KWSS-FM (Phoenix, AZ) Top-25 for several weeks now, along with Coldplay, The Foo Fighters, The Offspring, Buckcherry, Candlebox and a few others that you may have heard of.

More August news in the making!

-Dan

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While the band has been taking the month off from gigging, yours truly has been busy planning the next phase of world domination (well, as least cyberworld domination). On the 15th I attended Ariel Publicity's Digital Press Conference, a great party and event sponsored by Ariel Hyatt and friends at the fab Central Park West apartment that you can get a glimpse of in the photo to your left, taken as I was chatting live on the air with Jerry Bumpskey of Live 365's Bumpskey Radio. I also got to hob-knob and be interviewed by Friggin' Fabulous Radio, Hit Records Nightlife Video as well as John and Rick from On the Road With John and Rick (NOT Nick!), and ran into some folks who have played us on their shows before such as Dan Herman from Live 365's Radio Crystal Blue and Tara from Queens Artist Podcast, and people who've solicited the DSC CD but have yet to review it like Lee Sobel. Plus I met the very cool folks like Lou from Reverb Nation and Clive from the Alive with Clive cable TV show.

Podcasts groovin' to the DSC this month include the TLP 6-Pack and Indie Radio Chattanooga from WAAK in Georgia (the U.S.state, not the former Soviet Republic) and the Next Big Thing show from Germany. Meanwhile, we continue to have strong showings on FM radio and web radio, so keep your ears perked!

On the radio front, "See Kay" hit the Top 25 chart at KWSS-FM, Phoenix AZ, along with Coldplay, Buckcherry, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails and more.

On July 26th, "Comatose" was deemed to be "Track of the Day" in progressive rock on GarageBand.com, and Dan received the distinction of "best male vocals" in progressive rock for the week of July 28th.

Phat Press

June has been an especially rewarding month to all of us in DSC land. A full-page article about the DSC appears in this month's issue of Long Island Pulse, in the annual "summer fun guide" and we also got 2 awesome online reviews from British DJ Alan Hare and from American DJ Radio Free David. Check our press section to read them all, and for now here's just a few quotes for ya:

"This is a future classic... Absolutely brilliant album of modern sounding rock, prog, and little quirky bits."- Alan Hare

"We love the way this disc flows and think that Dan has simply outdone himself. Conspiracy? We don’t know about that, but we do know that it is darn good tunes–and that’s what matters the most"! - Radio Free David

Podcast Mania and more airplay

The DSC has been added to more radio stations this month, many of them in Europe, and is prominently featured in the popular podcast Dressed Up and Stripped Down from NextBigHit.com. This a unique podcast featuring live, "stripped down" performances alongside studio cuts and interviews from Dan and the other artists. The interviews and live cuts were recorded in May at Next Big Hits' studio in Manhattan.

We're in at least 4 editions of the WLSO.fm podcast Longtown Sound this month, and also have been featured on KKUP-FM's No Pigeonholes podcast and WMIR-FM's Indie Revolution.

The DSC returns to Molly Bloom's II

June 7th we played our second show at Amityville Long Island hot spot Molly Bloom's II, where Bobby and myself played as a duo back in February (in fact, I just recently added 2 new photos from the Feb. show to our live photo gallery). Some folks say it was our best performance ever! The evening was co-hosted by Patty Dodge Torres aka PDT Productions (with whom we hope to start doing a lot more shows) and featured resounding sets by The Headie Berrie and Gee Davie surrounding the DSC.

The Knitting Factory
It was cool to play with a four-person lineup for the first time at our Knitting Factory NYC show on May 9th. We brought back Mike Lynch (of the infamous Anything People) on bass joining myself (Dan), guitarist Chris Wider and drummer Bobby Polite for a raucous set of DSC-style rock in between some singer-songwriter types. Also playing at "the Factory" that night was head Violent Femme Gordon Gado, and we had a great time catching his set after we played, which featured Gordon backed by members of the seminal '90s band The Bog Men, which featured a percussionist named PJ who went to my high school and was there in attendance and whom I chatted with briefly thanks to his friend who was guiding me through the history of Gordon and the Bog Men!

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Long Island Battle of the Bands
Long Island Podcast Network is sponsoring a "Battle of the Bands," and we're solociting votes. You can vote for us simply by commenting on their MySpace page.

Next Big Hit's Dressed Up and Stripped Down
Speaking of podcasts, good old Dan did a solo acoustic performance on May 22nd for Next Big's Hit's reknowned podcast, Dressed Up and Stripped Down. This is a cool podcast where acts perform stripped down versions of their songs and give interviews. Check back and we'll let you know when this podcast becomes available.

Podcast and Internet Radio Action
On the heels of our massive radio campaign in February and March, April became a month of getting the music more into cybercasting. On April 3rd we not only got a welcome spin of "See Kay" on the highly revered podcast The Jersey Toddshow. We also got TOTALLY RAVED ABOUT by Todd (to the point that I transcribed his rave in our "press" section. Check out show #114 and hear it yourself! On April 5th we were once again featured in Dan Herman's streaming Live365 show Radio Crystal Blue. Dan went for "Go Outside" this time around. The archive can be found here and here. We also got played in the April 7th and April 14th editions of WLSO.fm's Longtown Sound hosted by Uncle Shag, who went for "Patterns of the Rain" and "The Valley" respectively. This is worth checking out if only to hear my ultra-awesome station ID! "The Valley" also seems to be the new featured single on Live365's Waiting For The Blackouts along with their perennial favorite, "See Kay."

Speaking of podcasts, I performed live, just me and my trusty Seagull acoustic guitar, at PodCamp NY on April 25th at the Brooklyn Polythechnic Institute as a special guest of iProng music magazine. Although my set was short, it was pretty cool being webcasted on Justin.TV and I got to meet some cool peeps like publicists Ariel and Christina of Ariel Publicity, Dan Herman of Radio Crystal Blue, Tara from Queens Artist Podcasting, not to mention Bill Palmer, the publisher of iProng.

And speaking of performing solo/acoustic in front of video cameras, I had a great time performing at WCVF-FM's annual "Rockin' the Commons" cancer benefit in Fredonia, NY (waaaaaaaaay out in the Western part of the state) on April 19th which aired live and will be rebroadcast many times on WNYF-TV. Hopefully Max will come through with quicktimes for the video section! I had a nice drive out West w/ my road manager, Chrees, who did a fine job hawking CDs.

Introducing our new drummer, Randy Jackson!
Don't worry, folks - we haven't lost Bobby from the drum throne. But Bobby was displaced for 2 Led Zeppelin covers ("Tangerine" & "Hey Hey What Can I Do?") at our April 5th show at The End Zone in Whitestone, NY by headliner Randy Jackson! Bobby returned the favor by joining Randy on drums for his covers of "Stairway to Heaven" (apparently Randy is exempt from the general "No Stairway" rule) and The Beatles' Abbey Road climax "The End." We were also joined for the first time by Race Odyssey guitarist Chris Wider. See the photos here.

March has been a month for us to focus on our radio presence, which we started by playing live on WUSB (90.1 FM, Stony Brook NY) on March 6 on Bill Frey's Long Island Sound. The night started off a bit hectic as I got slammed by the worst traffic I've seen in years travelling across Long Island, but Bill kicked off the show with several tracks from The Dan Sheehan Conspiracy album until I arrived, joining drummer Bobby for a bit of interview action with Bill before we jammed on acoustic versions of "Melting Snowman" and "Patterns of the Rain." After some more interviews we went back in the studio and played live renditions of "Rock Song," "Before You Wake," and a surprise rendition of the old Banter classic "Forty Days (and Forty Nights)."

Meanwhile, our national presence on radio rose from about 75 stations playing the album to over 180, as we prep for some live April appearances.

February shows

So far this month's we've played 2 cool shows on Long Island. On Groundhogs's Day we headlined a show at Molly Bloom's II in Amityville, Suffolk County, NY, which is a really cool club for any bands looking to play in Sufflok, especially when it's produced by PDT Productions, a promotions company that's more in it for the music than just about any other promoters our there these days. Also on this bill were Finespun, who were hardselling their merch to raise money for a tour of Pennsylvania, and possibly my new favorite live band from the area, The Headdie Berrie (see them play at The New Porthole March 7th, where we'll be in April).

On Febrary 17th we had the honor of participating in the annual Band Battle to End Cystic Fibrosis at Mr. Beery's in Bethpage, Nassau County, NY, a place known for it's great benefit shows. We followed our friends Race Odyssey and got to check out a lot of the other bands and it was a great time with great bands, a great crowd, and all for a great cause no less.

For photos from these shows, please visit our MySpace page.

More airplay!
The Dan Sheehan Conspiracy has gotten a lot more radio play this month, having been officially added for rotation at over 70 stations nationwide, with verified airplay at over 50 stations, hitting the top 30 at WUTS in Tennesse, KSLU in Louisiana, and getting heavy rotation at WKKL in Cape Code, WPHS in Michigan, and WCYT in Indiana to name a few. Stations choosing to add the disc are the vast majority of those which have so far reviewed it at this early stage of our radio campaign. We'll be posting the stations that are playing the disc in a few days, so check back to see who you can request some DSC from in your area.

We also have continued to be featured on Dan Herman's Radio Crystal Blue show at Live365.com, Dan opting for "If I Had the Time" on his February 10th show, and apparently "Epic Fantasy Adventure Song" is the fave on M3 Radio. Listen up for us on March 6th when we make an in-studio appearance at WUSB 90.1-FM in Stony Brook, NY (don't worry, you can stream it online if you don't live in NY/CT!)

The Dan Sheehan Conspiracy is intellectually stimulating
Speaking of Stony Brook, The DSC's "Collateral Damage," a fave tune of WBAB and Radio Crystal Blue was recently used along with the Marvin Gaye classic "What's Going On?" in a graduate social work class at Stony Brook University as an example of music calling people to organize a movement.

Album Release Party
To celebrate the release of our album in CD form as well as on iTunes and a plethora of online music stores, we played our album release show at New York City's Parkside Lounge on Houston St. along with our good friends The Anything People. It was a great night performing and hanging out with our closest friends and fans from the area and we appreciate everyone who came! Check out the pics!

Lots of airplay!
The radio debut of The DSC occurred on January 15th on WBAB-FM, Long Island's #1 rock station. For three consecutive nights BAB mainstay Fingers featured different DSC tunes on his "Homegrown" show and we got to hear our songs played amidst legends such as Black Sabbath, the Black Crowes, Aerosmith and the like. If you missed it, click here to hear Fingers introduce and spin "See Kay," "Collateral Damage" and "I'll Come Along."

Our web radio debut occurred on Jan. 27th on Dan Herman's syndicated weekly new music show, Radio Crystal Blue, (which is now rebroadcast twice a week on Moozikoo Radio) with Dan opting for "Collateral Damage."

Jan. 29th the album was released nationwide to non-commercial stations and instantly became a College Music Journal "Top 5 add" at stations from Boise to New Hampshire to Louisiana. Among the local stations spinning the disk is WUSB 90.1 FM in Stony Brook, where we expect to be playing live on the air in March.

Good Times Feature
If you pick up the Jan. 22 - Feb. 4 issue of Good Times magazine, turn to page 26 for our featurette, which is mentioned on the cover of the magazine. Alternatively, click here to read all about it.