Hi. My name's Mike. I'm a singer/songwriter/producer from Truckee, CA, fronting a band called Radio Nowhere. We play music from the pirate radio countdown, and we'll be creating and releasing an album here, one song at a time, starting in early 2025.
Um, how’s this gonna work?
Well, right now we’ve got several dozen songs brewing, and I’m noticing that a bunch of them seem to be drawing closer to each other, surfacing some common lyrical themes and sonic resemblances—typical early warning signs that an album is on the way, a little like the way clouds of interstellar gas start inexorably organizing themselves into stars. Or something!
The fact that you’re here in the first place means…maybe that sounds interesting to you? My thought is that every two weeks, I’d email you the latest update on this songs>stars process, so you would get new music, demo versions, illuminating backstory on where the songs came from and what they’re about, short videos explaining some of the weird sounds we’re stumbling on during the recording process—that kind of thing.
The other thing: I imagine this process will take most of a year, or at least that it’ll be more fun for both of us if it moves at about that pace. During that year, this is gonna be the only place this music will be available. I won’t be uploading these songs to Spotify or Apple Music, and no one outside of our (initially small but hopefully somewhat heftier in the near future) circle will have access.
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What do i get if I become a paid subscriber?
Honestly, not sure at this point! I’m leaning towards keeping most of the posts here free for everyone to read, and for all subscribers to have access to the finished songs, while reserving some of the coolest stuff—like songs in progress, demo versions, deep dives into song origins—for paying subs. How does that sound?
Who the hell are you anyway?
Great question. Spicy. OK, well, my name’s Mike, last name Baker, and I’ve been an active independent musician operating here in Northern California for about 25 years. I’ve played tons of shows both solo and as a member of bands—including Slim, The Martyrs, Radio Nowhere, Crystal & the Mikes and Dark Horse—at clubs, theaters, ski resorts, garages, cafes, campfires and piles of dirt from San Francisco to L.A. to Tahoe and back again. I have rocked crowds of several hundred people with nothing more than an acoustic guitar and a well-timed Britney Spears cover (were they sober? No).
I’ve also recorded with amazing musicians better known for working with other artists—like Counting Crows, Peter Gabriel, Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, Mazzy Star and, uh, Fatboy Slim—and released a bunch of other music over the last couple decades. If you’d like to hear some of it, check these out:
So I read all the way down here, what now?
Well, I know you’ve got plenty of other things to do, so if you’ve reached the bottom of this page, that might mean that you’re exactly the kind of person who’s really gonna dig this whole album-in-real-time experience, and you maybe should subscribe. Click the blue button!