Arena Release Party Tonight

It's here! The long-awaited "Arena" has been released and Rundgren Radio is in the partying mood! Join us tonight at 8:30 ET when Doug & CruiserMel will be breaking down the new album from Todd Rundgren!!!

We will be joined by some special guests to give us their takes on the album and the upcoming tour. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we will be joined by Prairie Prince, Jesse Gress, Kasim Sulton, and hopefully, Rachel Haden.

Listeners must be partying or they will will be blocked! (kidding) But listeners are welcome to call in and give their reviews if they like at 646-716-9262

8:30 ET at RundgrenRadio.com

Rundgren Radio presents: The Battle of the Todds Contest!

Starting with the October 7th show, we will play clips of the Todd/Nazz/Utopia song choices of 4 contestants along with our new promo spot from Todd. The first lucky contestants are a few of the long time listeners -- Roger, dustin29, Darnelle, and veggiegurl.

We will be taking the new Todd promo audio clip we have where he says, "Hello everybody, this is Todd Rundgren and you're listening to RundgrenRadio.com", and add background music for about 30 seconds or so. The time depends on when we feel like it's a good time to fade in and fade out the music. The first week of each month 4 contestants song choices will be pitted against each other during the show and one will be eliminated. At the end of the month we will have one winner!

We are going to set up a poll here immediately after the 10/7 show where listeners can vote on which RR promo clip song they liked the best. The song promo clip with the least votes gets eliminated each week until we're down to one.

The monthly winner will get a prize and of course a huge boost to their pride. The prize will be a RR shirt or something, TBD.

For contestants, we are going in order of when people join this blog as followers. Please sign up (look up to the upper right corner) if you'd like to compete!

Todd Rundgren was on Rundgren Radio last night!

Todd called in last night for a special show and stayed on with us for an hour and 15 minutes. He was kind enough to take some calls from listeners and answer their great questions.

You can listen to the archive of the show by visiting:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/runt/2008/09/25/Rundgren-Radio-Special-Edition

Subjects included bootlegs, Arena, Rachel, Kasim, Robert Johnson, Toddstock, and more.

Enjoy!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Denny Laine!

Editors note: This show has already taken place, but you can listen to the entire show featuring Denny Laine by visiting ...

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/runt/2008/09/24/Rundgren-Radio

It's Tuesday and that means it's Rundgren Radio show day! Please join us today at 8:30 pm ET as our guest for tonight is Denny Laine!

Denny Laine founded the Moody Blues in 1964 and had a hit song with his own composition, "Go Now," still played on classic rock stations across the world. In 1966, Denny left the Moody Blues in search of greater commercial success. He formed The Electric String Band and did some work with Ginger Baker's Air Force, a partial offshoot of Blind Faith.

By 1971, Denny had co-founded Wings with Paul McCartney. Wings enjoyed huge international success. Some of their hits were "Hi, Hi, Hi," "My Love," "Live & Let Die," "Band on the Run," "Jet," "Silly Love Songs," "Let 'Em In," "Maybe I'm Amazed," "Mull of Kintyre," and "With A Little Luck," among others. They were truly a band, as each member sang lead on songs, not only Sir Paul. However, personnel changes abounded during Wings' tenure, but Denny, Paul & Linda stayed the course until 1981, when they finally disbanded amid talk of a souring relationship between McCartney & Laine. Was it the result of McCartney's drug arrest in Japan derailing their tour plans in 1980? (You be the judge when you hear what Denny has to say tonight.)

Denny has been active recording solo material and making appearances both solo and in all-star ensemble settings such as Beatlefest events ever since. Most recently, Denny joined Todd Rundgren, Christopher Cross, Lou Gramm, Greg Hawkes, Bo Bice, John Ferenzik, Prairie Prince and Jesse Gress on tour in a tribute to the Sgt. Pepper album "It Was 40 Years Ago Today."

Check out Rundgren Radio tonight at 8:30 ET to see what Denny has in store for the future. He might even have a fun story or two about OH. We welcome your questions at 646-716-9262.

Welcome to Rundgren Radio's new blog page

Welcome! We'll be posting updates here about our special guests and announcements about musician Todd Rundgren.

Rundgren Radio is an online talk radio show for Todd/music fans. The shows aren't just about Todd but the common theme among the special guests is that they all have had some type of connection with him.

The shows air every Tuesday night at 8:30pm ET at http://www.rundgrenradio.com/ . Listeners can call in and ask questions and a chat room is available during all shows. The call in number is 646-716-9262. Rundgren Radio is broadcast through Blog Talk Radio and the shows have consistently been in the top 5 most popular music shows out of over 2000 in their programming.

All past shows are archived and available for listening at http://ww.rundgrenradio.com/.

Rundgren Radio's first show was 8/29/07 and here's how things went in year one ...

Hosts: Doug/CruiserMel/Michele Rundgren

Special guests and topics (in order of appearance):

Bill Bricker

Michele Rundgren

Alec Roeser

Shandi Sinnamon

Mike Keneally

Todd fans

Roger Linder

The Difference

Todd Reynolds

Kasim Sulton

Prairie Prince

Randy Rundgren

Rebop Rundgren

Todd Rundgren

Mary Lou Arnold

Roger Powell

Michael Urbano

John Montagna

John Ferenzik

Moogy Klingman

Live from Dallas gig

Chris Anderson

Tony Levin

Jean Lannen

Billy James

Tony Rogers

Lyle Workman

Jesse Gress

Willie Wilcox

Live from KY gig

Atom Ellis

Stewkey Antoni

Doug Kennedy

Andy Partridge

Dave Gregory

Indie Artists Show

Larry Tagg

RUNT album review

Godfrey Townsend

Doug Howard

Barney Hoskyns

Nikki Nichols

Lynn Robnett

M. Frog Labat

Bobby Strickland

Aloha Show

Cathy Stoia

Diane Hubner

LIVE Toddstock Reports

Post-Toddstock Show

Hunt Sales

Tony Sales

Greg Hawkes

ARENA show’72

Bearsville Promo

Brent Bourgeois

Scoop shows

Ed McCarthy

Rachel Haden

We were mentioned in two major music magazines during our first year, Guitar Player and Goldmine.

We just celebrated our one year anniversary with a B'day Bash in Las Vegas featuring Todd Rundgren with Jesse Gress, Prairie Prince, and Rachel Haden. Check out the photos:

www.photobucket.com/trvegas

We have a few youtube videos for viewing:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RundgrenRadio

We also have a myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/rundgrenradio

Please add us as a friend!

www.RundgrenRadio.com

All show guests are subject to change on rare occasion. Rundgren Radio is not officially affiliated with Todd Rundgren or his management or his record company. He has been on the shows a few times though and his wife has hosted a segment and been a guest several times.