25th
The Oxygen Ponies have been given an honorable mention nod on Raindog's Rants Best Albums of 2006 list. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I'd be mentioned on a list with Bob Dylan, Joseph Arthur, The Flaming Lips, Robert Pollard, Joanna Newsome, Mark Kozelek and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
12th
Join The Oxygen Ponies for some holiday cheer at Rockwood Music Hall at 10pm. Dave Eggar will be making his Oxygen Ponies debut on the cello as will Brnadon Wilde on the bass. Should be a fun evening.
November
14th
Join The Oxygen Ponies for their intimate, solo acoustic CD release come down show at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg at 9 pm.
10th
Join The Oxygen Ponies as they celebrate the release of their debut CD at The Living Room in NYC at 10:30 pm. We'll be sharing the bill with my good friend David LK Murphy in what promises to be a very special evening!
October
27th
Just found out The Oxygen Ponies will be in Magnet #74 First Exposure!
25th
We’re back on the charts at WLRZ with a new peak at #14! We also saw a debut at KSLU, a great station in St. Louis, MO, were we rocked the #30 spot. New stations on board with the album this week include KDWG, WOUB, WVYC, KRCX, and WGBK, just to name a few. To date, there are roughly 108 stations who have made the album available for play with about half of those stations reporting light or better airplay.
18th
Some really solid numbers this week, we picked up a new station this week! WKRK, a station which covers all of Detroit debuted us at #22! The station is actually a commercial talk station which broadcasts college music atnight and reports to CMJ. We're also #22 at M3 Radio and we moved up atWPPJ from #19 up to #14. New adds in this week from WMTS, WCFM, WGTB, WIDB, WSVA, and WOBN to name a few. So far we've been added at 84 stations!
11th
Great news! We hit the charts at 5 stations this week. We're #19 at WPPJ in Pittsburgh this week, #20 at WSBF in SC and WVAU in Washington DC, #24 at M3Radio in NY, and #25 at WLRZ. We're getting medium rotation spins from WMHB, WMUL, WSKB and KSOC. New adds are in this week from WNEK, WMSC, WWPV, WSYC, and WTBU this week. So far we've been added at 54 stations!
9th
Lovely review in the Fall 2006 issue of The Deli Magazine
7th
Deli Magazine show at Galapagos!
4th
The Oxygen Ponies have been added to the rotations at 47 radio stations including WLRZ, WSRI, CJSW, KUGS, WPUB!
2nd
Start calling your local college and non-commercial radio stations and request your favorite Oxygen Ponies tracks!
1st
Go buy Magnet, Harp, Synthesis and The Deli Magazines. Check out The Oxygen Ponies ads!
September
29th
"Get Over Yrself" has been selected as a Daily Download on Salon.com/Audiophile. Awesome!
25th
Okay too much news and not enough time. Here's a quick rundown.
My newest niece was born today!
The Oxygen Ponies are now available on iTunes and all other digital retailers.
Evidently there's a little review in Issue #55 of
Tape Op Magazine
The Oxygen Ponies have been selected as a spotlight artist on Sonic Bids for the week of September 25th!
15th
New Live date added!
The Oxygen Ponies have been added as a featured artist on Harris Radio!
August
28th
The Oxygen Ponies are proud to announce they are going to radio with Adam of the Planetary Group.
26th
The internet campaign is running wild. Snippets from selected Blogs will now be on the Archive page under press.
8th
You can officially buy the record today! Go to the shop page!
May
12th
Mixed, mastered and complete. Now it's off to the presses!!
5th
Just doing the final mixing touch-ups and then it's off to Dave McNair for the mastering.
March
2nd
It may be safe to say we pretty much completed tracking last night. Wow! Already looking forward to the next one
February
13th
Added link to lyrics and song credits on Audio/Video page.
Added updated version of Brooklyn Bridge complete with horns!
10th
THE OXYGEN PONIES features the talents of:
Paul Megna - songs, vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, lonely piano, organ and fx
Don Piper - producer, engineer, harmonies, lead guitar, lap steel, drums, and fx
Matt Durant (Rana, The King of France) - piano, rhodes and wurly
Matt Horn (A Don Piper Situation) - clarinet, organ
Konrad Meissner (The Silos, Girl Friday) - drums
David Roland - backing vocals, lead guitar
Steve Salad (The King of France) - lead guitar
Ray Sapirstein (A Don Piper Situation) - trumpet, flugel horn
Len Small (Champale, A Don Piper Situation) - bass, stand-up bass
7th
Ray Sapirstein stopped by tonight and laid down some killer trumpet parts.
5th
Matt Horn came by to lay down some mindblowing clarinet and organ.
4th
THE OXYGEN PONIES Tracklisting:
It's Yr Life, Brooklyn Bridge, Devotion, Truest Thing, Chainsmoking, Umbrellas in the Rain,
Have You Forgotten, I Don't Know Why, Happy Where U R, Get Over Yrself, Starshine,
The Quickest Way to Happiness
January
26th
Konrad and Len came in and laid down some killer bass and drums. Later that night Matt Horn stopped by and added clarinet to three tracks. Excited for you all to hear how this is shaping up.
