Alibi Jones Gets In Over His Head!

Alibi Jones is off to the world of Kee'ere to negotiate with the aquatic race known as the Kee'Klick – let's see if he remembers how to mediate as he goes under water... Chapter Fourteen of Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur this week! Free audio science fiction and The Adventures of Alibi Jones – every week on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio. Writer and reader Mike Luoma gives you the "story so far" a little news, and then science fiction adventure with Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur!

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Next Big Hit?

As a radio station Music Director, I get sent a whole bunch of new music every day. Some of it I fall in love with personally (see MIDLAKE), others I think our listeners will get into, even if I don't love it myself. And then there are some tunes that just grab me and say "I AM GOING TO BE A HIT!" That happened last May when I heard Lorde's "Royals" for the first time. It happened last summer when I heard Arctic Monkeys 'Do I Wanna Know". And now it's happening again:

This is a band out of South Africa called Kongos - the song is "Come With Me Now" - and you're probably going to be hearing it everywhere soon...

Who Is "Star-Lord"?

Have you seen the trailer for Marvel's Guardians of The Galaxy yet? Go ahead, take a minute or two:

Now that you've seen it, you might be wondering, "who the heck is 'Star-Lord'?" He's been around for a while - and a while back I took a look at the character's history and talked to some of the folks who wrote him over the years. You can read those articles over at Comic Related:

Part One: http://comicrelated.com/news/17021/star-lord-part-1
Part Two: http://comicrelated.com/news/17937/star-lord-part-2
Part Three: http://comicrelated.com/news/18390/star-lord-part-3

These were written back when the movie was first announced, so some of my references are a little dated. But if you're curious about the character this will fill you in!

Alibi Jones - On The Job!

Hear free audio science fiction and The Adventures of Alibi Jones – every week on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio, with writer and reader Mike Luoma!  Mike is presenting Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur - this week enjoy Chapter Thirteen - get the "story so far" a little news, and then find out what happens as Alibi is called in to report at SAIF HQ with his career on the line... listen in for science fiction adventure and Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur!



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The Sunrise of Hur...

Back to Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur this week – written and read by Mike Luoma!  Enjoy Chapter Twelve, as Alibi discovers whether or not he's really got The Sunrise of Hur in his hands... get the "story so far" a little news, and then find out what happens next – dive into the science fiction adventure Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur! Free audio science fiction and the Adventures of Alibi Jones – every week on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio!



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Both The Adventures of Alibi Jones #1 and Good Samaritan: Unto Dust #1 are now out at ComiXology! Get Alibi Jones here: http://cmxl.gy/LrPjDR Get Good Samaritan here: http://cmxl.gy/LrPe2M

Get the book you're hearing - Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur - At Amazon (paperback/kindle): http://www.amazon.com/Alibi-Jones-The-Sunrise-Hur/dp/1300203315/
Drive Thru Fiction (paperback/pdf ebook): http://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/105874/Alibi-Jones-and-The-Sunrise-of-Hur
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Rehearsal Read?

Hear free audio science fiction with the Adventures of Alibi Jones every week on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio – written and read by Mike Luoma! Something a little different on this week's show – taking a break from Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur on this episode to bring you a "rehearsal" of the piece I read today at Phoenix Books in Burlington, as part of the Vermont Science Fiction Writers series put on by the blog Geek Mountain State and Andrew Liptak.
It's the beginning of the novella "Alibi Jones and the Ghost in the Machine" – which came out last year in the Hunting Ghosts anthology from Black Oak Media. Wanted to do a run-through before my read in public, and instead of letting that get in the way of the podcast, I thought I'd let it become the podcast this time. So if you were there and wanted to hear it again, or you missed it an want to hear it now, enjoy!



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My First Favorite New Album of 2014!

I'm still an "album guy" - I love to find an entire album I can get into by a band or artist, one that sustains itself all the way through with little to no filler. As 2013 ended, the Arctic Monkeys' "AM" had been doing that for me - still love the album! It's around "proper" length, too, 42 minutes long. Another favorite album experience from last year was Phosphorescent's "Muchacho" - although it clocked in at a whopping 46 minutes.

I've always felt the best albums were about 45 minutes long. Goes way back - not just because my commute  to work is 45 minutes each way currently. That's one thing vinyl helped bands get right - maybe it was because you could only fit around 22 minutes of music on each side of a Long Play (LP) album, but that length seemed somehow correct, as if that time constraint helped bands focus their material down to what mattered (If you're into semantics, I term the body of work "album" because that's what the word album means - a collection, like a photo album, for a different example. The format the music is presented on and in can change - vinyl, cassette, CD, file - it's still an album. "EP" - extended play - and "LP" are modifiers, even when the word "album" is left off. And? single... is just a single. By the way? There's really no justification for calling an extra track that comes with a main single track a "B-Side" anymore - 'cept that it sounds cool, so we'll roll with that. Ahem. Semantics digression done).

These days, the album I'm listening to almost too much, on the commute and at home, is the latest from Midlake - "Antiphon". The band is new to me, though they've been around for a while. The album came out late last year - they just sent a song out to radio, which is how I heard of them. Learned they went through a big personnel shift recording this album, when their original lead singer and songwriter left. Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Eric Pulido stepped up to lead vocals, two new members were added, and they started over, crafting an album I've been playing on repeat!

The vocals are layered with subtle harmonies that occasionally soar - drums remind me of Jon Fishman's busy Nick Mason-esque playing - keyboards and flute are reminiscent of British bands of the early seventies without sounding "retro" - the songs sometimes remind me of pre-Dark Side of The Moon Pink Floyd, early Alan Parsons Project or early Moody Blues, but without the hollow ring of mimicry.  Midlake has arrived at this place on their own. Who knew you could find your way here from Denton, Texas?

We've added the "single" - "The Old And The Young" - to our rotation at The Point (http://pointfm.com). They've got a very cool video for the tune:

Speaking of video, Midlake has Antiphon up on YouTube for streaming, so you can hear it for yourself! Be sure to switch to HD - the video stays the same, but the audio gets MUCH better:

It's my first new favorite album of the new year!