Hosts: Lucy Kannan and Susan Kate with Lou Conrad

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James "Roto" Rotondi: "Welcome to your new Summer Home. Have some taffy."

• Roto’s new Summer Home album, including the songs “Congratulations,” “Sansepolcro,” and “Chasing My Shadow” the influence on the album of Pink Floyd, Beck and the Beatles, and the album’s cast of great players: Shawn Pelton (SNL Band), Didi Gutman (Brazilian Girls), Joe Gore (Tracey Chapman, PJ Harvey), and others. Available at iTunes, CDBaby, Amazon.com and more. How playing with bands like Mr. Bungle and Air led Roto on a path to his own creation.
• Roto’s Syd Barrett Tribute Show, paying homage to the lost founder of Pink Floyd, and his two cult-favorite solo albums, The Madcap Laughsand Barrett. Discusses the story of how Barrett exited the band in 1968, and how the band was haunted by his work and his persona, even writing the classic song “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” about him. Listened to Roto’s cover of Barrett’s epic “Long Gone.”
• How Roto (aka James Rotondi) went from writing about music and musicians for Guitar World, Spin, and Mojo to writing about politics for the Huffington Post; can you be a passionate liberal pundit and still get along with conservatives?
• Acting Shakespeare at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; rocking out on guitar and doing blindfold taste-tests with John Cusimano and the well-fed members of the Cringe; and learning to grow up in the practical world while keeping your inner child open to the creative one. . .

To contact Roto, to purchase his album "Summer Home", and for more information about him, please visit the following:
CDbaby
Summer Home on Amazon
http://www.myspace.com/rotovybe
Facebook
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-rotondi
http://www.rotovybe.com
Vinyl Is Forever: In Praise of Indie Record Stores
Twitter: @JamesRotondi
Snail mail address: ROTO, c/o James Rotondi, PO Box 633, New York, NY 10012

Next show: Roto Presents A Tribute to Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett, Thursday, May 13, 11PM, Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

Press quote: “Call us Roto rooters: We love James Rotondi!” —The New York Post

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• A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, read by Tom Hollander
• Dark Nights of the Soul, by Thomas Moore, read by the author
• The Body Artist, by Don Delillo, read by Laurie Anderson

Show notes by Roto and Susan Kate