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New Dissident Radio
Roster of Contributing Dissidents

You will notice that we air prerecorded segments between our regularly programmed shows. We proudly call the creators of these clips “Contributing Dissidents”.

This page is dedicated to those that so relentlessly, selflessly, and tirelessly use there powers of dissidence for good rather than evil.

George Carlin

George Carlin

Arguablly one of the founding fathers of modern day dissidence, George Carlin has inspired many to question the reality forced upon society.

NDR would like to thank the estate of George Carlin for granting us permission to keep his voice alive.

If you have never heard George Carlin or would like to reconnect with the dissident inside of you, please visit: www.GeorgeCarlin.com

Dylan Brody

Dylan Brody

Dylan Brody is an internationally recognized story-teller, a humorist who has released two CDs through Stand Up! Records (BREVITY, and TRUE ENOUGH) both available at Amazon.com and through iTunes. His third CD, A TWIST OF THE WIT will be released late in 2010 or early in 2011. He is also an award-winning playwright, a thrice published author and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. Mr. Brody has performed all over the United States and England and has appeared on Fox TV's Comedy Express and A&E's Comedy on the Road.

Mr. Brody lives in Sylmar, CA with two dogs, Sir Corwin the Beautiful Dog-faced Dog, Brindled Beast of Sylmar and Lord Buckley Sweetlips, Greatest of All Dane Mutts (The Dinosaur-slaying Dog) and his wife whose name escapes him at the moment.

www.DylanBrody.com

Lee Camp

Lee Camp

Lee Camp's rapid-fire, angrily opinionated comedy has garnered a lot of attention. He ran for president on Comedy Central's "Fresh Debate '08," and he's done comedic commentary on PBS, E! network, SpikeTV, MTV, and ABC's "Good Morning America." He's featured in the new bestselling book "Satiristas!" as well as Showtime's new series "The Green Room with Paul Provenza." Lee is also a contributor to The Onion, the Huffington Post, and has performed stand-up at events featuring Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore. Lee was the host and co-writer for OnDemand's show "The Movie Loft," and he provided a catharsis for millions of people when he went live on Fox News and called the network a "parade of propaganda and a festival of ignorance."

www.LeeCamp.net
Lee’s Fox News clip
Showtime's Green Room

Tracy Newman and The Reinforcements

Tracy Newman and The Reinforcments

Tracy Newman is a TV writer and producer. She started as a staff writer on Cheers. In 1997, she won an Emmy and a Peabody Award for co-writing the ground-breaking “coming out” episode of Ellen. In 2001 she co-created the ABC comedy, According to Jim, which recently finished its 8th and final season of production. Tracy has been a songwriter throughout her TV career. Her CD is “A Place in the Sun.” The Reinforcements are made up of Gene Lippmann, Rebecca Leigh, John Cartwright, John O’Kennedy and Doug Knoll.

www.TracyNewman.com
www.facebook.com/tracynewman
www.myspace.com/tracynewman1
www.myrecordlabel.com/tracynewman

Amy Engelhardt

Amy Engelhardt

AMY ENGELHARDT has been the sole female member of Grammy-nominated vocal “band without instruments,” The Bobs since 1998. She has won numerous ASCAP and ACA awards for her writing, arrangements and vocals on The Bobs’ CDs and DVDs. Her brainchild, Rhapsody In Bob (Gershwin’s concerto arranged for piano and The Bobs as a vocal orchestra), premiered at Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts in Spring 2005.

Her solo CD, NOT GONNA BE PRETTY, hailed as “the unlikely marriage of Nellie McKay and Meat Loaf,” garnered multiple JPF nominations (“The Grassroots Grammys” – LA Times). Amy’s insanely diverse vocal credits range from Jim Henson’s Animal Jam (Discovery Kids/The Learning Channel) to Barbra Streisand’s Timeless concerts, The Doctor Demento Show to Neil Young’s Living With War to the Los Angeles Bach Festival.

Equally at home writing the scenes as she is performing them, Amy’s theatrical credits include commissions for the rock musical adaptation of Carl Sagan’s CONTACT (lyrics), NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (lyrics) and the Bobs/Flying Karamazov Brothers collaboration, A COMEDY OF ERAS at ACT Seattle (music/lyrics). Her current project, BASTARD JONES (music/lyrics), an 18th century bawdy comedy with a rock score, will be workshopped in 2011.

www.myspace.com/iaremusic
www.ColdFoot.net
www.BastardJones.com

The Bobs

Sprung from the ashes of the Great San Francisco Singing Telegram Depression of 1981, The Bobs have blazed a unique, unparalleled trail in the flourishing world of vocal music. From an auspicious debut at an open mike in a Cuban restaurant in Berkeley (they sang "Psycho Killer” after every other performer butchered “Malaguena”) to a Grammy nomination, The Bobs have always clear-cut their own musical freeway. Their fifteen album catalogue is chock full of impossibly creative, award-winning original material and their trademark deconstruction of familiar pieces from Bach to Hendrix. In their 25+ year career, they’ve toured the world, performing in venues as diverse as New York’s Lincoln Center, Berlin’s Passionkirche and Billboard Live in Hollywood.

The Bobs, described by the Seattle Times as “a musical equivalent of a Gary Larsen drawing,” continue to add to their musical palette of possibilities as no other group. They are among the elite handful of totally original creators, who use just their voices and body percussion to fill a room with an orchestra of harmonious sound. They have left an indelible mark on vocal music, expertly skewering standards and establishing their own hilarious norms. Once dubbed the only New Wave a cappella group in history, “The Bobs,” commented The Washington Post, “prove that the human voice remains the most powerful instrument of all.”

www.Bobs.com
www.myspace.com/thebobsmusic
www.cdbaby.com/cd/thebobs6

Eric Schwartz

ericSchwartz

Eric Schwartz might very well be the only artist in history to be reviewed by "Sing out!" and "Hustler". A first-rate writer, singer and entertainer, he performs at Folk Festivals (Kerrville, Philly, Falcon Ridge), clubs (The Bluebird, Club Passim), larger venues (The Birchmere, The Ark, The Bottom Line), and comedy clubs (The Comedy Store, The Ice House).

Eric also gets airplay on Howard Stern 100, NPR's 'All Things Considered', Doctor Demento and Air America. He composed the score for a musical adaptation of Beowulf, wrote the songs for the Bilingual Children's Play "Jacob and the Underworld" currently in repertory in Spain. He is perhaps best-known for his Youtube videos "Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis" and "Clinton Got A Blowjob." He currently resides in L.A.

www.EricSchwartz.com

Ron Placone

RonPlacone

Ron Placone is a comedian and writer. He tours the country regularly hitting clubs, colleges, and everything in between. He has appeared on CNN and Hempfest-Seattle. In addition, he regularly opens for international recording artist, Hamell On Trial.

“This is a guy that oozes charisma- that just screams in dynamo fashion the hearty, steely Pittsburgh of movies like Flashdance and Hoffa”—Seattle Sinner Magazine

"…with a mixture of topical and self-deprecating humor on the state of this strange world, Ron Placone returns...” –Pittsburgh City Paper

http://www.ronplacone.com
ronplaconebooking@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/#!/RonPlacone Twitter
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Placone/6809447