Hudes wrote the book, adapting her loosely autobiographical play "26 Miles," about a mother-daughter road trip, and tapped the singer-songwriter Erin McKeown to compose the music, a propulsive Americana soundscape that evokes an FM dial tuning into stations across the country: folk, swing, glam rock, jazz.
The initiative is backed by a who's who of nonprofit foundations that will sound familiar to anyone who's spent any time with the dial tuned to NPR.
For Tejeda, Juan Gabriel's songs of heartache blared on the radio during long car trips, the dial tuned to KLOVE, a Spanish-language radio station.
More importantly, Westerberg was ready to take the lead on songs such as "Alex Chilton" and "Left of the Dial," tunes that not only romanticize our love of pop music, but helped forge the soundtrack for what was then a burgeoning independent community.
This sense was heightened during last night's all-Williams, all-the-time, keep-your-dial-tuned-right-here final of the United States Open, won by Serena, 6-4, 6-3.
In regular terrestrial radio and satellite radio — and even most mobile radio apps — the user has to either turn a dial to tune their experience or search for what they may like.
Add to the media mix a fiercely competitive United States Senate race and a bevy of aggressively contested state contests and ballot questions, and the television dial seems tuned to a schedule of all political commercials all the time.
For those without a radio dial that tunes that low -- and that would be everyone but the most hardcore radio enthusiasts -- the station used an E.H. Scott radio from 1941 to pick up the signal and rebroadcast it on its own frequency.
With Digi, it has a subscription service called Deejay, priced at $2.64RM8.0000) per month, which offers Deezer's tunes as dial tone replacements.
In the US, standard dial tone is an F. Tune your guitar every time you use it.
