Toadcast #15 – The Homeless Podcast
We are bloody well homeless, which is making it very tricky to record podcasts at the moment, so I apologise for the enormous wait since the last one. I promise I’m not losing interest, it’s just been a logistical nightmare to find the time and space to actually sit down and record of late. It takes a few hours, not least because my computer is depressingly slow, so please bear with me.
I’ve got a couple of new singles by The Indelicates and The National, as well as a couple of groups I’ve seen live recently, and then some more esoteric stuff towards the end including the highly uncharacteristic Nicole Atkins and a potentially naughty sneak preview of the new Raveonettes album. Enjoy, Toadlings, enjoy yourselves all to pieces.
Toadcast #15 – The Homeless Podcast
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01. Dragons – Here Are the Roses (01.50)
02. Killing Joke – Eighties (08.28)
03. The Indelicates – Sixteen (13.42)
04. The National – Apartment Story (18.30)
05. Arcade Fire – Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) (21.51)
06. The Parish Music Box – Heavy Drinkers (30.40)
07. Rick Redbeard – Dreams of the Trees (35.45)
08. Loch Lomond – Tic (41.49)
09. Over the Rhine – Don’t Wait For Tom (48.10)
10. Ravens & Chimes – The House Where You Were Born (52.10)
11. Siberian – Islands Forever (59.27)
12. Ice Cream Socialists – Mr Crazy (65.42)
13. 586 – Rags & Tags (71.47)
14. Nicole Atkins – Brooklyn’s On Fire (75.03)
15. The Raveonettes – Aly Walk With Me (82.22)
16. The Sugars – Monsters (88.27)
Hell Mr. T.,
Nice ‘cast. Am clandestinely listening in work.
We’re playing Over The Rhine also – you bemoaned the ‘country’ slump in this LP, well their back catalogue is somewhat dreary/bland/MOR country balladry in the duet style. Palatable for an album, but not the raft they seem to have ciughed up over the years. I like this one tho’. It’s a lot more refreshing.
Can’t say I’m that smoochy with Parish Music Box or Rick Redbeard. I wanted to like ‘em, but I just couldn’t turn the corner on both.
Nicole Atkins is a wee favourite of mine; gotta love her voice, & ‘Brooklyn’s on Fire’ is fucking glorious. We’re playing her ‘Party’s Over’ to end the show tonight. Her LP ‘Neptune City’ is a choppy little record, but I like it’s quirky earnestness & grand idea orchestration. One to watch for album #2 or #3 I think.
We have some great bouncy tunes on tonight’s show, & I recommend you seek out the following: Agnes Kain (LP title: “Keep Walking or I’ll Kill You”), Ida Maria (no album, just demos) & Anna Ternheim (LP: “Separation Road”). Agnes, from Australia, is lovely, chirpy glock-pop; Ida is simply a shotstorm of pop-punk energy with a deliriously good voice (she from Norway + Sweden) & Anna is more downbeat, with a warm, hushed voice, but streaked with that Swedish pop song sensibility. Lovely stuff all round.
At some point we’re (I say we, I mean ME until Hope recovers) going to be doing a show dedicated to Swedish pop because there is so much good stuff out there.
Speaking of ’special’ shows, care to contrinute requests for the Christmas Special?
DC
Phil Ochs – No Christmas in Kentucky
’cause jingle bells don’t jingle when you’re poor’ Lovely little number.
Apologies if you’ve explained before, but how exactly are you able to record and post podcasts then?
Legally? I have no idea, I’ve not even looked into it. You’d have to be pretty determined to separate out the tracks so I guess it’s fine.
Practically, I downloaded Audacity, which is free, and just use the microphone on my computer. It’s pretty straightforward, although it does help if you have a decent machine.
Hello China.
Podcasts is easy.
It’s a combination of self-absorbed faith, a lock on the door of on a sound-proofed room, Strepsils, mirrors & the final chapter/podium woman from Police Academy under your sound desk.
or, more liekly, downloading something like Audacity (free, on-line digital recording software), using said techno-prog to record you having a coughing fit or similar & then joining something like, for example, again, http://www.podbean.com what allows you to host uploaded recordings. Mr Toad probably has some easy peasy way of doing this, but it’s all much of a muchness.
Ta.
DC
I use Libsyn, but I get the impression it’s all pretty much the same thing.
Mr. M,
Libsyn seem very expensive & a tad limited compared to Podbean. Podbean offer a Professional package at $9.95p/m with ummetered bandwidth, 1GB starting storage space with 250MB monthly increment, unlimited total storage, & a very easy ftp service, etc etc.
If you consider jumping ship to podbean, let me know as I’ll ‘recommend’ them to you…
DC
I am pretty ambivalent I must be honest, but yes Libsyn are a little pricey if you update regularly. I’ll see how regularly I update once my life gets back to normal and if it looks wise, I’ll move.
Actually, I was asking how you were making podcasts if you were homeless (sorry for the slow response, and thanks for all the podcasting advice, though!).
Ah right, well I have my computer and my drive with me, so I just use that to record, take it into the office on a USB stick and upload from there.