Ray Carmen
Ray Carmen is your host for The POP! Radio Program, a weekly hour-long dive into the corners of his music collection, playing indie-bubblegum-garage-punk-power-pop, some 60s ska and 70s soul, as well as some underground and experimental pop to keep things firmly a little left of center. Philosophy of the show: mix The Monkees with The Residents, and see what happens. Six artists you will hear on my show: Martin Newell, R. Stevie Moore, The Monkees, Guided By Voices, Pere Ubu, Pleasure Leftists, The Residents. Okay, that’s seven. To derive maximum pleasure from the show: As you would expect with any show on Luxuria Music, expect the unexpected! Hopefully you will hear music you’ve never heard before, as well as music you haven’t heard in a long time. When I’m not DJing I can be found: singing lead and playing rhythm guitar with the Akron OH power pop band Librarians With Hickeys, signed to Big Stir Records, home of Graham Parker, The Armoires and Dolph Chaney. The secret superpower I possess: recording my show in my home studio, while my wife and daughter watch Criminal Minds in the other room…
