With Brian & Chris 7-Midnight on 101.9 RXP
Email:
TheBasement@1019rxp.com
Q: What happens when the PD forgets to give the studio key to the new overnight team?
A: They broadcast from the basement studio and turn it into their “world headquarters”
From the Basement turns your tortured sleepless night into a tortured sleepless night that includes some music. Hosts Brian D’Aurelio and Chris Nadler broadcast “From the Basement” every weekday from midnight to 6am. Proud to be “Matt Pinfield’s opening act,” Brian and Chris hold down the overnights with deep tracks from their own personal collection, new RXP music and cerebral late night topics such as “I Can’t Believe What Just Happened in My Cab.”
Their first show aired from a basement studio due to a “scheduling” mishap -- the studio is now the official world headquarters of From the Basement with Brian & Chris…apologies in advance for any running water you may hear when someone upstairs flushes the toilet (we always know when Pinfield arrives to get ready for his shift).
ABOUT
Brian D’Aurelio has produced concerts from Rock to Hip Hop & Pop including shows at Madison Square Garden and Giants Stadium and featuring acts like Aerosmith, Tool, Britney Spears and JayZ. Along with hosting From the Basement on RXP, Brian’s less exciting day job includes being the Director of Marketing and Digital Media for three radio stations. Prior to this he has held various on and off-air radio duties in radio starting in his small hometown outside of Cleveland in afternoons and working his way to Chicago and eventually New York where he has resided for the past 10 years. Brian was an integral part of the team that inspired and built 101.9 RXP and was responsible for selecting the first song ever played on the station “Rock n’ Roll” by the Velvet Underground.
Likes: Mowing my lawn and petting my dog.
Dislikes: Bias, pontification, transparency and hate. Also mushrooms.
Favorite Rock Experience: Seeing the John Lennon tribute concert “Come Together – A Concert of Healing of New York City” at Radio City Music Hall just three weeks after 9/11. The show was originally scheduled to take place the week of September 11th but was postponed to become one of the first large public gatherings in the city after the attacks. Like everyone else at the show my wife and I were still stunned and nervous to gather in a large crowd within a public space and landmark building. The night however turned out to be one of the most powerful examples of how music can heal and bring people together. Performers included Lou Reed, Dave Matthews, Alanis Morrissette, Cindy Lauper, Rufus Wainwright and Stone Temple Pilots…but the real performer of the evening was clearly the lyrics and hope in John Lennon’s music. By the end of the night when Yoko Ono led the crowd in “Give Peace a Chance,” everyone in Radio City Music Hall had come together in a collective first step toward healing. John Lennon had achieved many things in his life, but that night it seemed that he returned when we most needed him and he helped to get NYC back onto its feet.
Set List and performances from the night:
Imagine: Yolanda Adams & Billy Preston
In My Life: Dave Matthews
Revolution: Stone Temple Pilots
Dear Prudence: Alanis Morrissette
Across the Universe: Rufus Wainwright, Moby & Sean Lennon
Strawberry Fields Forever: Cyndi Lauper from Central Park
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds: Marc Anthony
Mother: Shelby Lynne
Julia: Sean Lennon
Instant Karma: Nelly Furtado with Dave Stewart
Jealous Guy: Lou Reed
Mind Games: Kevin Spacey
Come Together: Craig David
Give Peace A Chance: All performers led by Yoko Ono
Contact Brian@1019RXP.com
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Chris Nadler is the Lifestyle Engagement Group Director at Emmis New York and is a music industry veteran with a diverse rock background including managing and writing songs with the midwest group Fools Face. Check out the band performing "Even Angels Fall," a song Chris wrote with bassist Jim Wirt (who produced the most recent Jack's Mannequin CD, "The Glass Passenger"). Go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B9tdxz7NgY). Chris also toured the world with icons such as Paul Simon, Elton John, and South African jazz great Hugh Masakela and the late Miriam Makeba. He was one of the last editors of the much-incarnated Creem Magazine (during which he paired Blind Melon with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter for a celebrated interview, gave Tori Amos her first national cover, and managed to get Boy George to give up the phone number of a Hare Krishna temple in London so that he could track down Poly Styrene of X-Ray Specs fame for one of her first interviews in several years). Chris currently directs marketing partnerships and event sponsorships at Emmis New York (including 101.9 RXP) , where he is involved in daily (and mostly futile) power struggles with Brian.
Likes: Our cool RXP promotions, like allowing a listener to perform onstage with 311 or go backstage at All Points West to film exclusive footage of the Beastie Boys. Good power pop (for instance, we'll get along fine if you happen to remember The Pop's "Down on the Boulevard" or The Elvis Brothers' "Hidden in a Heartbeat"). Butch Walker's "The Difference Between Goin' Back & Goin' Home." Discovering hard-working new bands with an indefatigable work ethic. Oh, and searching for that one rock trivia question that will stump Matt Pinfield
Dislikes: Copycat bands touring under an original group name when there are no members who wrote, played or sang on any of the original songs in the current lineup. Live music venues with lousy sightlines (like having had to watch most of an M.I.A. performance between someone's legs once).
Favorite Rock Experience: Way, way, way too many to ever narrow down to a single story. But let's hang at Bowery Electric or Welcome to the Johnsons (AKA "that '70s bar") one night and I promise I'll share a few with you. Like going through customs in Australia with Paul Simon and the 50+ people traveling as part of the Graceland tour. Or hearing 65,000 people singing along with Elton John at a stadium in Buenos Aires. Or maybe something as simple as always telling people The Raspberries' "Go All the Way" is one of the greatest pop songs ever written and then finally getting to see the band perform live when they reunited for an incredible show at BB King's.