Ray Melnik is a network architect in NYC and the author of the fictional science series, Life's Reason. 

Includes: 
THE ROOM - novel 
TO YOUR OWN SELF BE TRUE - novel 
BURNISHED BRIDGE - novella 
EYES IN THIS WORLD - series ending novel 

Now Coming June 2016 - GHOST IN THE PARK - novella

In THE ROOM we witnessed the love that Harry had for his daughters. We watched him struggle to find his self-worth again after a divorce, and meet a woman who helped him find it. In TO YOUR OWN SELF BE TRUE we saw a young woman, Kaela, searching for her "it" in life; that which will make her happy, and a father who reached through the void to show her what he believed was most important. In BURNISHED BRIDGE we saw a man who believes we are the way for the universe to know itself. He risked everything at the loss of love, but the universe had different plans. In Eyes In This World, love is once again at the center of the story. We learn that there is no force in any reality more powerful. Five people searching science for the answer, but all of them were finding it within themselves.



ADAM SWIDERSKI - Guitar, Vocals
SARAH MALINDA ENGELKE - Keytar, Vocals
BRIAN BAIR - Drums 
NEIMAH DJOURABCHI - Bass
AUDREY MARSHALL - VOCALS
SEAN WILSON - LEAD GUITAR

"If Fellini had made beach movies, Supermajor would have been their elegiac, enchanted house band. “Cemetery Eyes” is an anthem pouring out from and then somehow all around the dashboard of some convertible that went off a too-sharp curve on the Pacific Coast Highway in 1966 and never returned to Earth, picking up alien angel doo-wops and Eno buzzes from the ether and the future along with its irresistible elysian guitar jingle and synth fizz while it was in the air with no interference. “Your Drift Is a Drug” has that motorcycle-kickstart rhythm, recoiling on itself as it chews up distance, wrapped up in sensations torn away from the disappearing landscape. Happier yet still wiser, Supermajor are pop prophets and sibyls who haunt a collective hit parade without ever having had to die, as rock and roll never does, because they know that youth only passes from soul to soul. There is no more radio but there’s still ritual, and Adam Swiderski’s headlining songs are testaments of movie-star confidence and morality-play caution while Brooke Tarnoff’s and Sarah Engelke’s are séances of ’70s arena-diva sorrow and transcendence, “I See You Clearing” a prayer for hearts put back together from each others’ pieces and “Shotgun” the proto-punk hall of fame B-side. Everything converges for “A Little Piece of the Sun,” the kind of half-album-length epic that whole societies of counterculture would collect around. Supermajor makes the music of the flattened spheres, orbiting eternally on black tracks and then shooting you into the day each time the needle has to lift off." -Adam McGovern http://mcgovernix.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/off-the-chart/

Formerly of Spigot, Tyro, and Toenut. Author of Advanced Genius Theory. "The Advanced Genius Theory, hatched by Jason Hartley and Britt Bergman over pizza, began as a means to explain why icons such as Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Sting seem to go from artistic brilliance in their early careers to "losing it" as they grow older. The Theory proposes that they don’t actually lose it, but rather, their work simply advances beyond our comprehension. The ramifications and departures of this argument are limitless, and so are the examples worth considering, such as George Lucas’s Jar Jar Binks, Stanley Kubrick’s fascination with coffee commercials, and the last few decades of Paul McCartney’s career. With equal doses of humor and philosophy, theorist Jason Hartley examines music, literature, sports, politics, and the very meaning of taste, presenting an entirely new way to appreciate the pop culture we love . . . and sometimes think we hate. The Advanced Genius Theory is a manifesto that takes on the least understood work by the most celebrated figures of our time."

Banks Radio Australia always looking for new bands to play, please send mp3's to.banksradioau@gmail.com for consideration.

Lead singer Meghan Taylor fronts the band that specializes in CBGB's style punk mixed with 21st century pop hooks.  GIFTSHOP's dynamic live shows have earned them prime festival slots and a solid following.  Musolist Morning Commute calls the Astoria scene makers "One of my favorite NYC bands." GIFTSHOP's  latest EP, BLUE MONSTER was included in music writer Dave Cromwell's Best of 2017. Check iTunes, CD Baby and Spotify for BLUE MONSTER and Tarbeach Records for the blue vinyl single.  The critically acclaimed EP titled BigInAstoria was released on February 16, 2019.  In 2020 GIFTSHOP released new song and music video, Stylish Junkie.

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