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Sirens' Muse with your hosts AJ and Susan
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Playlist from featured shows
To fill the transition time until we are on air again, we are putting up our old favorite shows on our webpage. We’re starting with our older shows and moving forward from there. Enjoy! |
Siren's Musings Hi All. I've got some sad news. Sirens' Muse is officially off the air. This past January, we went to every other week, and part of the reason was that on top of having extra life responsibilities, the executive director of the parent organization of WPVM started a bunch of drama that just keeps getting worse. Here's the link to a blog that details the drama http://wpvm.blogspot.com/.  But I'm not bitter about it... ;) Really. We're happy to have a break, and we are working towards being back on air again through another station. Meanwhile, I hope your enjoying hearing the archived shows we set aside as our faves over the years. THANKS SO MUCH for caring about women's music generally and Sirens' Muse specifically! Keep in touch! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoAJ & Susan Are you on MySpace? If so, add us as your friends. Susan & I are having too much fun collecting friends on it. We've also learned about some great musicians we hadn't heard of before. Click on our pictures at the top of this page to get to our Myspace pages. Check out our "top" MySpace friends to learn more about some of the musicians we're currently featuring on our show. Featured Artist! 
Liz DurrettHometown: Rome, Ga. At the age of 16, Durrett received a guitar from her uncle, Vic Chesnutt, who encouraged her to explore the world of songwriting. This gift quickly turned into a passion, and Durrett began writing her own music shortly after receiving the instrument.  Why She's Worth Watching: Durrett, whose gentle, whispery vocals and effortless instrumentations will quickly captivate listeners, is already planning and writing songs for her third album, which she hopes to create by herself at home on a laptop. "I want to play all the instruments myself, and I want to come up with all the parts slowly over time and record them," she says.
For Fans Of: Beth Orton, Cat Power - from Paste magazineGo to lizdurrett.com to hear some tracks from or to order one of her CDs. Sirens' Muse in the News Local radio program puts female vocalists in spotlight By Laura Blackley CITIZEN-TIMES CORRESPONDENT published: December 2, 2005 6:00 am There was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when commercial radio DJs were not allowed to play two songs by different female vocalists back-to-back. But that’s not the case on “Sirens' Muse,” a program that features nothing but female singers, airing Sunday afternoons on low-powered FM radio station WPVM/FM-103.5. Show host AJ Browder, has “always been a passionate (music) fan,” she said. “I always loved to sing. I memorized all the Beatles’ songs when I was in probably third grade. I bought my first 45 (rpm singles) either fourth or fifth grade: Blondie’s ‘Rapture,’ and ‘Tainted Love,’ (by) Soft Cell. (But) my passion has been women’s music/female vocalists for awhile -- about 10 years now.” Browder got into radio in her hometown, Memphis, Tenn. “I moved back to Memphis for a couple of years after (attending Warren Wilson) college. There’s a station there called WEVL,” Browder said. “WEVL (to me) was like a beacon of light in the abyss ... so I applied to do a radio show there. Finally, after about six months they called me for an interview. They sat there with me and taught me the ropes.” Next thing she knew, Browder had her own show, and the original version of her program “Sirens’ Muse” was born. Featuring two hours of contemporary female vocalists, plus one ‘Man of the Hour’ each hour, Browder enjoyed doing the weekly show so much that when she moved back to Asheville, she began looking for a station to support and complement her show. She found it at WPVM. “That’s the nice thing about community radio, compared to any other kind of radio, is that nobody tells me what to play,” Browder said. “We have a distributor who sends us free CDs and asks us to check them out, and I have gotten some wonderful stuff from them ... but mostly I (do the show) from my own CDs.” Browder often includes guest deejays, including such local luminaries as Lauren Calvert, owner of In Your Ear Music, as well as musicians Brianna Lane and Mary Ellen Bush from the group Menage. She includes a ton of local music each week, as well, spotlighting artists who are doing shows at area clubs. “I really (feel like) I’m practicing community radio,” Browder said. (When I have guest deejays), they play what people from our community want to listen to — not what some (media giant) executive thinks (people in Asheville) want to listen to.”  AJ & Susan in the Studio at WPVM More News Sirens' Muse was featured in article about women's music radio programs. Check it out: www.beaweb.org at the link to Feedback November Issue pg 44 Exploring Women's Music Radio Programs in the US by Erika Engstrom   You can preview the up and coming Encyclopedia of Women in Popular Music. Let us know what you think and who should be added!
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