THE METAL DELI!!!!!

Hey, my name is Kimmi and I am excited to announce my new podcast – THE METAL DELI – featuring  metal, rock and all the music that encompasses.

I would LOVE to include your music on the show – and PLEASE include a pic of your band as we will be posting them on the website!

CDs may be sent – please include bio & band info!!! to:

Kimmi

The Metal Deli

P.O. Box 851

Highland Park, IL   60035

MP3s may be sent to:  TheMetalDeli@gmail.com.  Please make sure to include your band name, name of song and website with MP3s.

CDs sent to The Metal Deli will also be given written reviews to be posted on the website  WWW.THEMETALDELI.COM-- and my myspace pages.

Feel free to write me with any questions!!!   And be sure to mention you found me on SONICJIVE.COM!!!!

CHECK IT OUT:  SoupyGato Show #222!!!!

www.myspace.com/danielj42

interview with SonicJive's Mike!!!

Don't miss this!!!!!

Please check out SONICJIVE.COM/HONESTENGINES -- a great band out of Chicago.  I'm bragging when I say that the guitarist from the band is Marcus, the man who teaches my children how to play the guitar.  My daughter is a goth-wanna-be and my son a 70's and 80's metal-boy and Marcus teaches them both so that they not only learn the basics of guitar but how to play the music that keeps their interest. 

Thanks Marcus for being an AWESOME teacher and for joining Sonicjive!

BILLY IDOL ON TODAY'S SOUPYGATO SHOW #217!  check out my profile to hear the show or find out how to submit your own music!

Now playing:  SOUPYGATO SHOW #217

So pretend you're just goofing around online and you see a picture that captures your attention.  It doesn't matter what the picture is -- it could be a sunset, a street sign, a picture of a tattoo on a young man's arm -- and suddenly your life as you knew it has changed; everything that life was yesterday is different than today and everyone who knew you yesterday doesn't know you today.

that's how it was with me.  I was goofing around, surfing Myspace.  I was a mom of two children that I adored with a full-time, excellent-paying job with a nice house in the 'burbs and what I thought was a good life -- and then I saw the arm.  It was a muscular arm with a tattoo of a soup can -- a soup can that would change my life forever.

I wrote -- a silly, cutesy letter introducing myself.  It wasn't until 3 months later that I had changed my myspace profile name to say "BookWorm" that the person attached to the arm really noticed me and wrote me to say hello, asking how I had found him -- and the world to the SoupyGato Show opened to me.  Less than 6 months old, the podcast showcasing all genres from all around the world called The SoupyGato Show was about to become my life -- my passion.

It was exactly two years ago -- August of 2006.  I sat in the same couch I sit in now, on a quiet hot night exactly as it is tonight.  The air is humid -- thick.  My children slept quietly upstairs and I reached out to a world I didn't know existed.  My nature, to help.  My desire, to be needed.  To need myself in a world where I felt only my children needed me.

A smooth, soothing voice in the night.  The SoupyGato show in its infancy, a DJ on the brink of success, a world of music untapped.  I started out slowly, helping with odds and ends from hundreds of miles away, always offering more.  Knowing that whatever I gave was less than I got.  Secretarial jobs were nothing compared to the education in music I was getting, to the opening of my heart that had been closed for so long.  Just knowing people who could express themselves in music and who could believe in themself was exhilarating.  I was flying high -- higher than I had ever flown before.

It has been two years now.  I have been "the Fifth Listener" on the SoupyGato Show (www.soupygato.com) for 2 years, been reviewing CDs (www.myspace.com/goofymusicchick) for a little over 1 year.  I have met -- become friends with -- amazing people.  I have heard more music in these two years than I had in the previous .... the previous very many years. 

I am having the TIME OF MY LIFE.

Whatever you dream; whatever you hope; I hope you find the passion deep within you, the passion that brings forth the best in you.  I have found it -- in thanks to Dan, the host of the SoupyGato Show, my mentor and my best friend.  What was once a small path into an unknown wood is now a beautiful labyrinth for me to discover on a daily basis; to share with my children and show them that there is always more to learn, to discover.

I am wishing a happy anniversary to myself -- an anniversary of the month my eyes opened. 

Okay, so the truth is I'm sick of Led Zeppelin.  I know, this is the exact OPPOSITE of what you would expect a rock chick to say but seriously, they haven't come out with anything new in almost 30 years and it's boring already.

(This is a bad joke, I know; but this is my humor.  Stick with me now.)

Anyway, we are on vacation in a little Michigan beach town and it has been raining since we woke up.  Which would be fine if it were just me -- curled up on an open-air porch with my book and the rain all around me...  but is it not just me; my son is here with one of his best friends and they have been craving the beach all day.  Finally the rain stops and we head to the beach -- me accompanied by these beautiful boys.  I sit on my the new deck my parents built that looks like a helipad and which looks out over Lake Michigan, and the boys run down to the beach and straight into the water -- water that I KNOW is freezing cold. 

When we come back they change into dry clothes, leaving their wet bathing suits on the floor.  I start dinner and go upstairs to get my computer to go wireless (small town, bad internet) and all of the sudden I hear my son's friend playing the guitar -- halted and insecure but most definitely Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".

Tears come to my eyes.  I know, it's sappy.  And you're thinking I'm a sap and it's true -- I am.  But beautiful and unexpected things make me cry, and although any song by Led Zep isn't necessarily unexpected, coming from a 10-year-old boy it is, and it moves me.

Then the smoke alarm goes off.

Man I haven't moved that fast in a LONG time -- and I don't know which way to go first, as I have been burning scented candles all day, the boys were shooting off fireworks earlier and I have dinner cooking in the oven.  We're ALL running around, looking for fire and thank G-D it's just the sweet potatoes dripping onto the bottom of the oven and making smoke -- but my heart has been jolted and is beating way too fast --

then my son hugs me and his friend starts playing "Stairway to Heaven" again and it's all good -- my life, my kids, this rainy beach town.  Even Led Zeppelin, gone 30 years, brings tears to my eyes when played by a young kid who doesn't even know the names of the men who brought this band to fame; boys who trade the one guitar packed this weekend to take turns playing and coaching each other in frets and chords, friendship, rain and sunset. 

Life is BEAUTIFUL

SonicJive.com:
Indie Music's New Alternative

On September 8, 2008, indie musicians will have a whole new world opened to them, courtesy of Mike Canter. It's called SonicJive.com.

In a suburb south of Chicago, Mike grew up involved in music as a singer in a band called Buck Dancers Choice and as a follower of Grateful Dead, attending 38 concerts in one summer alone. At the age of 30, he went back to school at Northwestern University in Chicago, majoring in Business Management and Finance. In 1997, he prepared a business model that was designed to help the "musicians being screwed by Napster," as he says, to which his teacher encouraged him to follow through, marking the paper with the words, "You should do this." Mike ignored him and went about his life until a fire took his home and his entire collection of CDs. 0 Believing that musicians should be paid for their artistry, he refused to pirate and decided it was time to realize his dream – his original business model from 1997. A website for bands and their fans, where bands would get paid for visits to their page and downloads of their music.

By now, though, Myspace and Facebook had taken off and were making a lot of money off of indie bands. Effective Labor Day 2008, Myspace will have sold their Music royalties, allowing the four major labels of America to profit from all of the music – both major label and independent artists from all over the world. Every time a band page is visited, the music labels make money. They give none of it to the musicians themselves; the indie musicians will get nothing. The key reason to why they will find SonicJive.com.

A one-man operation, Mike has built SonicJive.com from the ground up, teaching himself how to build and code a website, buying drinks for band members and shaking their hands, finding advertisers. A bit shy initially, he becomes as animated as a father of a newborn baby, so protective is he of his creation that many times he would clamp his mouth shut as to not give away too many of the surprises that this website holds; so excited that he once leapt off his barstool in an attempt to fully describe everything. So protective is he of this baby he has found that he gets thousands of hacker attempts per hour – and so changes his 116-digit password daily.

The name SonicJive came to Mike while watching the John Cusak movie "High Fidelity." In it is a band called Sonic Death Monkey; Jack Black's character is Barry Jive – it clicked in Mike's mind and there is was: the website he hopes will someday become a household name, as much as an addiction as his competitors have become. However he is quick to say he is "not competing with any other website; SonicJive is an alternative to what is now offered."

Already endorsed by Southwest Airlines and an energy drink, Mike is looking to build his staff and find investors. But he is not so desperate for help that he would allow a major-label artist to have a page – actually becoming offended when approached by a musician who he felt was "just being greedy" – this site is for independent and minor-label musicians only.

One of the first bands to sign up for SonicJive was The Frantic, a local Chicago band. They rose through their ranks and were quickly snapped up by a major label – and dropped from SonicJive. Right now Mike's goals are to raise money, get advertisers and recruit bands. He has programmed an advertising "skin", as he calls it, located on the front page of the website, rotating so advertisers get equal time.

Also lined up: a monthly broadcast from Florida where sports figures will be interviewed and SonicJive's featured band of the month will play poolside. He is planning a huge presence at Chicago's Mobfest '09 and South By Southwest in Austin, TX, in March '09. A contest sponsored by Harley Davidson, scholarships to Northwestern University and a SonicJive Compilation CD.

Mike never stops coming up with new ideas for the website and the promotion of indie artists. Exposure for bands being so important to Mike, he is even allowing band pages to include a link to their Myspace page – knowing that the more attention a band gets the more money that band can make. So into music is Mike that when asked to list his 10 top favorite bands he did so with no hesitation, even adding in small comments on each one. To name a few: Sheila Sondergard, whose music makes you feel like you are on a vacation. Tripcatta, whose music is "phenomenal, better than Tool." Roe Tierney: "better than Van Morrison."

Had he been asked, it is quite possible Mike could have listed the other 1600 bands that have already joined the site. Although SonicJive has not yet made a profit, Mike says that it has "been worth every bit of blood, sweat and tears."