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

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

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.

’cause jingle bells don’t jingle when you’re poor’ Lovely little number.

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