Use the chart below to look up the radio station in your town to hear the exclusive radio-edit version of the latest single “I Walk Alone” from Transcendencesinger/songwriter Ed Hale’s newest album, Ballad On Third Avenue. “I Walk Alone” had been the unanimous choice as the first single from the new disc since the album’s initial recording sessions, back in late Fall of 2008. Producer and fellow Transcendence guitarist Fernando Perdomo heard it the moment that Hale played him the song accompanied by nothing but an acoustic guitar on the first day of recording. Hale also played Perdomo forty-plus more songs that day in order for them to begin the process of deciding which songs would make it to the new album. Perdomo stated that he knew instantly that “I Walk Alone” would be the “hit song” from the album and demanded that it be the first song they record “just to make sure it made the record. You know how Ed is. He’ll play you a song once, and then won’t want to play it again and instead want to move onto something totally new. But I knew we had to get that one recorded first.”
Enter a slew of opinions from fellow musicians, fans, management, and radio promoters and normally you end up with ten songs that are bound to be “that hit song.” But in a rare occurence, time and time again, “I Walk Alone,” the second track on the album, proved to come out on top as the most obvious choice. Thanks to the good folks at FMQB, the Syndicate, the Howard Rosen Agency, and Jeff Appleton’s Marathon Music Radio Promotions, “I Walk Alone” is now currently spinning on approximately one-hundred and twenty commercial radio stations across the United States, all of which fall under the Triple A format, also known as “Adult Album Alternative.” This is a genre that is new to the singer, completely untouched and uncharted by the band — who have comfortably rotated numerous songs in the College Radio or Alt Rock radio formats for years since their formation in 2000. But there is no getting around that Ballad is a departure both lyrically and sonically, leaning much closer to a ’singer-songwriter’ sound reminiscent of Belle and Sebastian, David Gray or even Simon and Garfunkel, rather than the Brit Pop or Modern Rock style Hale and his bandmates usually produce.
So far the change in direction worked. As many in the Dying Van Gogh Records camp would attest, it has exceeded their wildest dreams of how well the album might fare. Debuting in the CMJ Top 20 Most Added Chart at #14, it continues to climb the Top 200 week after week — ironically the most spun song from the album at College Radio as reported by MediaBase just also happens to be “I Walk Alone.” Hale credits the success of the song to many factors, downplaying his own role in it altogether — although he cannot deny the fact that he did just happen to write the song and sing it. “For one thing, I can’t even really take credit for this song and what those lyrics mean to people… I mean, I know what people are saying about it, and I feel the same way about those lyrics, but this is a song I wrote based on a poem by a good friend of mine Tyler Bejoian,” he says. [Bejoian for the record was fourteen years old when he wrote the lyrics to “I Walk Alone;” along with four other songs on Hale’s new album] Hale also credits Perdomo’s production, the stellar cast of some of Miami’s best musicians who played on the album – many of them stars in their own right, and “the excellent job Zach Ziskin did at trimming off all the fat from our original rather long-winded five minute magnum opus. He turned that baby into an exciting no-frills power pop radio-ready slice of ear candy no doubt about it… and coming in at less than three and a half minutes! The song wouldn’t even be on the radio now if Zach didn’t have those ears and that talent for knowing what to keep and what to throw away,” Hale bemuses.
As “I Walk Alone” continues to soldier on gaining more and more airplay and momentum, Hale and crew are now working on the music video for the song, and crossing their fingers that the song attracts enough attention from new music fans in the Triple A format who may not be familiar with the band that the song indeed becomes the “smash hit” that Hale’s musical partner and confidant for eight years Perdomo predicted from the start of the project. In the meantime, Hale’s record label Dying Van Gogh has released the radio edit version of the song for sale as a single on iTunes and the amazon.com MP3 store.
Find the Radio Station in YOUR TOWN That is Currently Playing “I Walk Alone” Using the Chart Below
United States
[edit] Terrestrial radio
- http://www2.selu.edu/kslu/listen.php Louisiana’s Adult Alternative
- KBAC 98.1 Las Vegas/Santa Fe, New Mexico “Radio Free Santa Fe”
- KBCO 97.3 Boulder/Denver, Colorado
- KBHR 93.3 Big Bear City, California
- http://www.indie1031.com/
- KBXR 102.3 Columbia, Missouri
- KCLC 89.1 St. Louis, Missouri “The Wood” (Non Commercial, Lindenwood University)
- KCMP 89.3 Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, “The Current” (noncommercial, service of Minnesota Public Radio)
- KCSC-HD-2 90.1 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, “Ed 90.1″ (noncommercial, service of University of Central Oklahoma)
- KDBB 104.3 Bonne Terre, Missouri
- KDBN 93.3 Haltom City/Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas “FM 93-3 Quality Rock”
- KDEC-FM 100.5 Decorah, Iowa “FM 100.5″
- KZPS-HD-2 92.5 Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas “The Summit”
- KDTR 103.3 Florence, Montana
- KEEP 103.1 Bandera, Texas
- KENZ 101.9 THE END Salt Lake City, Utah “Everything Alternative”
- KEOL 91.7 La Grande, Oregon
- KFAN 107.9 Johnson City, Texas
- KFFG 97.7 Los Altos, California (Simulcast of KFOG in San Francisco)
- KFJM 90.7 Grand Forks, North Dakota (noncommercial, service of North Dakota Public Radio)
- KFOG 104.5 San Francisco, San Jose, Los Altos, California
- KGSR 107.1 Austin, Texas
- KHUM 104.7 Humboldt County, California
- KINK 101.9 Portland, Oregon
- KKRM 96.7 Montevideo, Minnesota “KRAM 96.7″
- KLRR 101.7 Bend, Oregon, “Clear 101.7″
- KMTN 96.9 Jackson Hole, Wyoming, “Your Mountain of Music”
- KMTT 103.7 Seattle, Washington, “The Mountain”
- KNBA 90.3 Anchorage, Alaska, “Alaska’s Native Voice”
- KNTI 99.5 Lakeport, California “The Tee”
- KOHO-FM 101.1 Leavenworth, Washington
- KOZT 95.3 and 95.9 Fort Bragg, California, “The Coast”
- KPIG 107.5 Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz, California and simulcast on:
- San Francisco Bay Area, California (KPIG AM 1510)
- San Luis Obispo, California (KPYG 94.9)
- Chico, California (KZAP 96.7)
- KPND 95.3 Sandpoint, Idaho
- KPRI 102.1 San Diego, California
- KPTL 106.3 Des Moines, Iowa “Capital 106.3″
- KQMT 99.5 Denver, Colorado, “The Mountain”
- KRKY-FM 102.1 Estes Park, Fort Collins, Colorado, “Radio Without Rules”
- KROK 95.7 South Fort Polk, Louisiana, “World Class Radio”
- KRSH 95.9 Santa Rosa, California, “The Krush”
- KRVB 94.9 Boise, Idaho, “94.9 The River”
- KRVM-FM 91.9 Eugene, Oregon, “Keeping Real Variety in Music”
- KSLU 90.9 Hammond, Louisiana
- KSPN-FM 103.1, 100.1, 97.3, 98.3, 107.5 Aspen, Colorado, “The Valley’s Quality Rock”
- KSRQ 90.1 Thief River Falls, Minnesota, “Pioneer 90.1″
- KSWD 100.3 Los Angeles, California, “100.3 The Sound”
- KTAO 101.9 Taos, New Mexico
- KTBG 90.9 Warrensburg, Missouri, “The Bridge”
- KTCZ 97.1 Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, “Cities 97″
- KTHX 100.1 Reno, Nevada, “The X”
- KVTT 91.7, Dallas, Texas (non-commercial; pending FCC approval of purchase by KERA-TV/FM)
- KDAL 95.7 Duluth, Minnesota, “The Bridge”
- KUMD 103.3 Duluth, Minnesota non-commercial “Duluth Independent Public Radio”
- KWMT 92.9 Tucson, Arizona, “The Mountain”
- KWRP 101.5 Pecos/Santa Fe, New Mexico “Indie 101.5 – The Clear Alternative”
- KWYS 102.9 Eastern ID Western WY Southern MT “Mountain 102Nine”
- KXLY 99.9 Spokane, Washington/Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, “The River”
- KYEN 103.9 Severance, Colorado, 100% Commercial-free
- KZEL 96.1 Eugene, Oregon “Oregon’s Quality Rock”
- KZGL 103.7 Flagstaff, Arizona “Eagle 103.7, Flagstaff’s Radio Station”
- WAPS 91.3 Akron, Ohio “The Summit”
- WBSD-FM 89.1 Burlington, Wisconsin, “Great Rock, Real Variety, 89 BSD”
- WBJB 90.5 Lincroft, New Jersey “Brookdale Public Radio, 90.5 The Night”
- WCBE 90.5 Columbus, Ohio “NPR Columbus Board of Education”
- WCOO 105.5 Charleston, South Carolina “The Bridge”
- WDMT 102.3 Pittston, Pennsylvania, “102.3 The Mountain”
- WDST 100.1 Poughkeepsie, New York “Radio Woodstock”
- WEHM 92.9 Southampton, New York “Progressive Radio for Long Island”
- WERU 89.9 East Orland, Maine “A Voice of Many Voices”
- WESU 88.1 Middletown,Connecticut “Where Free Form Radio Lives”
- WEXT 97.7 Albany, New York “EXIT 97.7″
- WFIV [1] 105.3 Farragut, Tennessee Independent Radio
- WFPK 91.9 Louisville, Kentucky
- WFUV 90.7 New York City (noncommercial)
- WGFR 92.7 Glens Falls, New York, “The Revolution” (noncommercial)
- WHFC 91.1 Bel Air, Maryland, “The Crossroads,” (noncommercial)
- WLKK 107.7 Buffalo, New York, “The Lake”
- WLKR-FM 95.3 Norwalk, Ohio, “95-3 WLKR”
- WMMM 105.5 Madison, Wisconsin “Triple M”
- WMVY 92.7 Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts “mvyradio”
- WNCS, WDOT, WRJT 93.3, 95.7, 100.3, 103.1, 104.7, and 107.7 Burlington, Montpelier, St. Johnsbury, White River Junction, Vermont “Vermont’s Independent Radio Network, The Point”
- WNCW 88.7 Spindale, North Carolina
- WNKU [2] 89.7 Highland Heights, Kentucky – Cincinnati, OH, 94.5 Port Union – West Chester, OH “Your Natural Alternative”
- WNNX 100.5 Atlanta, Georgia “Rock 100.5″
- WNRN 91.9 Charlottesville / 88.1 Shenandoah Valley / 103.1 Richmond / 95.1 Harrisonburg / 95.9 Lexington, Virginia (noncommercial)
- WNTI 91.9 Hackettstown, New Jersey “Where Great Music Lives”
- WOCM 98.1 Ocean City, Maryland “Ocean 98″
- WOXL-HD2 98.1 96.5HD Asheville, North Carolina “The River”
- WQKL 107.1 Ann Arbor, Michigan, “Ann Arbor’s 107one”
- WPUP 103.7 Athens, Georgia “Bulldog 103-7″
- WPVM 103.5 Asheville, North Carolina “the Progressive Voice of the Mountains”
- WRLT 100.1 Nashville, Tennessee “WRLT Lightning 100″
- WRNR-FM 103.1 Annapolis, Maryland “WRNR”
- WRNX 100.9 Amherst, Massachusetts “WRNX“
- WRSI 93.9 and 101.5 Northampton, Massachusetts “WRSI the River”
- WRQQ 97.1 Nashville, Tennessee “Quality Rock”
- WRUR 88.5 Rochester, New York “Different Radio”
- WRXP 101.9 New York, New York “101.9 RXP – The New York Rock Experience”
- WTIP 90.7 Grand Marais, Minnesota “A Member of Independent Public Radio”
- WTMD 89.7 Baltimore, Maryland “WTMD” (noncommercial)
- WTTS 92.3 Bloomington–Indianapolis, Indiana“World Class Rock for a World Class City”
- WTYD 92.3 Williamsburg, Virginia “92.3 The Tide”
- WUIN 106.7 Wilmington, North Carolina… The Penguin “We’ve Got The Music Down Cold”
- WUKY 91.3 Lexington, Kentucky
- WVJW-LP 94.1 Wheeling, West Virginia, “The Voice of Dissent” (noncommercial)
- WVOD 99.1 Outer Banks, North Carolina, “99.1 The Sound”
- WWMM 100.5 Birmingham, Alabama, “live100.5 – Birmingham’s Modern Music”
- WXPK 107.1 White Plains, New York, “The Peak”
- WXPN 88.5 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (noncommercial)
- WXRT 93.1 Chicago, Illinois, “93-XRT, Chicago’s Finest Rock”
- WXRV 92.5 Boston, Massachusetts, “The River”
- WXRY-LP 99.3 Columbia, South Carolina, “The Independent Alternative”
- WYCE 88.1 Grand Rapids, Michigan (noncommercial)
- WYEP-FM 91.3 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (noncommercial)
- WYMS 88.9 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “88Nine Radio Milwaukee” (noncommercial)
- WZEW 92.1 Fairhope/Mobile, Alabama
- WZGC 92.9 Atlanta, Georgia, “Dave FM”
[edit] Internet radio
- The Lobo! World Class Progressive Rock Gleneagle, CO
- Tel Aviv Alternative Rock: Alternative rock
- WORJ.com Internet radio USA
- SlothRadio Internet radio Salt Lake City, UT
- Omemo Radio Tel Aviv, Israel
- Radio Paradise Paradise, CA
- Radio Pig (99.3 The PIG) Memphis, TN
- errorFM Indie Pop Music Los Angeles, CA
- Radio Oasis USA
- Pulse Radio Idaho, USA
- 103.5 Progressive Voice of the Mountains Asheville, NC
- AOL Radio and Pandora have Adult Alternative stations.
- KOHO 101.1 Wenatchee, WA
- Legato Cafe Cleveland, OH.
[edit] Satellite radio
- The Spectrum (Sirius 18/XM 45)
- The Loft (Sirius 29/XM 50)
- The Coffee House (Sirius 30/XM 51)
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