Podcast recommendations... PLEASE

This week is boogie heaven, provided by Boston's Colbourne:

odyssey - inside out
brass construction - music makes you feel like dancing
escorts - make me over
geraldine hunt - could we?
hypertension - got this feelin'
trance - hang on it
futura - feelin' hot
baricentro - tittle-tattle
feel - i got to have your lovin'
steel mind - bad passion
bazooka - alive
magika - I know magica
funky family - funky is on
affinity - don't go away
wandra - sex attack
damon harris - it's music
charisma ft. brenda watts - love treatment
midnightrats - goalmaker

http://www.switchpod.com/users/Sasha/feed.xml

Sasha welcomes you to her lair.

http://www.beatsinspace.net/feed.xml

It's not in the iTunes index yet, if you're using that, but you can add it by clicking (IIRC) advanced -> subscribe to podcast and entering the URL.

http://www.be-in.com/12/images/bio_sirius.jpg

http://www.rusiriusradio.com/feed.xml

A bit scary, but probably one of the best talk shows on the net.

The Donewaiting.com Podcast is interesting.

Tracks Up The Tree (indie and guitars):
http://tracks.upthetree.com/index.xml

Modern Rock Minutes (daily music news):
http://woxy.com/podcast_mrm.xml

Not Your Usual Bollocks (electroclash-type sounds and Evening Session-type bands):
http://marenco.libsyn.com/rss

Steve Allen (UK celebrity gossip and bitchiness from LBC radio):
http://podcast.chrysalis.com/BestOfSteve.aspx

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/stycast/

I've got one on dance music.

http://www.winamp.com/player/version_history.php

http://www.groovesmag.com/podcast.php

http://podcast.wfmu.org/

http://www.zen38066.zen.co.uk/podcasters.opml

number one eurocrunk podcast in the goddamn world ya heeeard

this week's tracklist

lady sovereign" hoodie" brucker & sinden remix
stacs of stamina feat DJ Tron & Ears "roll"
bo hagon feat crime mob & D4L "wuz up"
Trim n Scratch "trim n scratch"
laurent garnier "crispy bacon"
twista "badunkadunk"
electronicat "birds just want to have fun"

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=113325143

its slanted towards philly indie rock but quite good.

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/sched.php

last weeks playlist:

Whodini - Magic’s Wand Discogs
The Duke Spirit - Lion Rip The Duke Spirit
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher Van Halen
Amon Düül II - Manana Unofficial Page
Michael Rother - Silberstreif Michael Rother
Jason Forrest - War Photographer Cockrock disco
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash Tresor / Timmy’s Tabs
Porn Sword Tobacco - Freedom Commercial Forced Exposure
Gate - Standing In Fields Table of the Elements
Paul Hardcastle - Rainforest Trinn Rhythm Records

last weeks playlist:

Whodini - Magic’s Wand
The Duke Spirit - Lion Rip
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
Amon Düül II - Manana
Michael Rother - Silberstreif
Jason Forrest - War Photographer
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash Tresor
Porn Sword Tobacco - Freedom Commercial
Gate - Standing In Fields
Paul Hardcastle - Rainforest

http://www.parisdjs.com/share/feeds/podcast.xml

http://feeds.feedburner.com/GaragePunkPodcasts

http://www.pop77.com/blog/?feed=rss2

New talky-style podcast recommendations, please. I'm running out of stuff!

Try Iain Lee - http://lbc.audioagain.com/podcast.php?channel=bestofiain

Jonesy's Jukebox is the only one I listen to

http://indie1031.fm/podcasts/podcasts.php

I really enjoy Radio360's podcast (it's in iTunes) put together by DJ Darkhorse from SF's 360 Records label (which may or may not actually still be putting out music, not sure). Point is, great downtempo/funky eclectic mix like Ninjatune without as many breaks. 20-40 minute digestible episodes, very well sequenced.

man why didn't i suggest mine back when i did it

rofl@radioclit spam upthread

is there a thread on the fabric podcast?

new year, new (music) podcast recommendations, anyone?

muddup at wfmu.org. resident advisor too.

muddup isnt very good

i dunno -- i liked the dexplicit mix on the latest edition, but then i really like where rupture's at musically too.

is there a thread on the fabric podcast?

-- poortheatre,

the fabric podcast, it is boring

The 2 Jonny Trunk shows were real nice

www.helloandwelcometotheinternet.com

http://rocktimists.blogspot.com/2008/10/heres-nicky.html

This is just a one-off recommendation- the Ed Banger podcast, which is mostly just boring promotional material, short clips of release parties and music videos, has a pretty great Midnight Mike mix available (as Mickey Moonlight, to promote his new single on EB).

Interlude Radio is a fave of mine.

Sample playlist:

playlist

minnie ripperton: here we go_capitol
sho nuff: sho nuff groove_malaco
o’bryan: doin’ all right_capitol
instant funk: it’s cool_salsoul
kid creole & the coconuts: stool pigeon_island
midnight express: danger zone_tri-fire
ca$hflow: party freak_atlanta artists
gino soccio: try it out_atlantic
the NY community choir: i’ll keep my light in my window_rca
andy nelson: bionic eyes_carrere
mass production: shanté_atlantic
dr fuck: basement edit
trinidadian deep: what is it?_future vision
ron trent: from above_prescription
dexter wansel: latin love_philly int.

http://www.allphon.com/

MOAR!
Here's a few I listen every now and then that haven't been listed yet:

Smuggler's Inn: http://www.redrackem.com/
Samurai FM: http://www.samurai.fm/home/
Tranquera: http://www.tranquera.org/category/podcasts/

The Tone Generation -- This Friday sees the launch of a new simonsound produced radio series looking at the history of electronic music as a worldwide phenomenon. The 10 part series called ‘The Tone Generation’ is presented by electronic musician and film-maker Ian Helliwell. Starting in Europe and finishing in the Southern Hemisphere Ian will be playing vintage tracks - some celebrated, many obscure and overlooked, to give an overview of electronic music. Part one starts with Great Britain and features music from a number of BBC Radiophonic composers including Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire.

http://www.simonsound.co.uk/sound

this person seems to be on my wavelength and has a track on her current playlist from for lee jackson in space:

http://iwillnotreturnyourrecords.podomatic.com/

so, on top of my lefty political talk show, my friend and i have just started a new podcast called "The Definite Article" about """the creative process.""" heavily influenced by Merlin Mann/Dan Benjamin's Back to Work.

i hope people like it

#1 is called "the elements of style, by drunken whites"

http://www.hoosteen.net/defart/1

a dude i know started a WTF-style one for interviewing musicians:
http://www.third-story.com/episodes/

knowing his tastes & connections it'll probably be mostly session and jazz dudes.

Ray Bausa's mod podcasts are great, google for info. Lately, I've been collecting oldies podcasts and something called "GaragePunk Pirate Radio" which is completist when it comes to fuzz-punk history. They also play glam rock, power pop and psychedelia...very good taste in songs, unlike some devotees of this genre.

Still looking for decent electronic podcasts, Beat Odyssey out of Australia was good.

I get LOaDS of stuff of podomatic.

would love to hear a good music podcast with some decent music-crit and chat along with it

I'd never heard of it until seeing it mentioned in the Kissinger thread, and it sounded cool, so I listened to the first episode of "If Books Can Kill," and ... while I appreciate the concept (shit-talking airport bestsellers), those guys were kiiiiind of insufferable. It's, like, middlebrow books vs. the obnoxious snobs at the party mocking the person for reading or enjoying the middlebrow book. Which feels a little punch-downy. I'll give another episode a shot, though; all I heard was (most of) the one about "Freakanomics," that first episode, so maybe they felt like they had to make a splashy entrance. But it was kinda the smug calling the kettle smug to me.

(Hmm, I guess this is an ILM thread?)

There's this thread on ILE: Podcasts

I don't think it's possible to punch down at Freakonomics considering the demographics that lapped that shit up. Mind you I think the misinformation and crypto-racism was a bigger problem with that book than smugness.

Funnily enough I also just listened to that ep after seeing the ILE mention and think Josh is super wrong lol

Most of the ep is an artful refutation of the infamous legal abortion made crime go down claim, but there is lots about the misinfo and not so crypto racism along the way

and tbc there is no mocking of the book's readers (for one thing, Hobbes admits he used to listen to the podcast regularly), except sort of at the end when they lament that people with genuine power do actually read these kinds of books while you might assume they're for the lay audience while the powerful have access to more sophisticated expertise

I generally agree (though they definitively mock the readers, just as they sometimes admit to the occasional good observations in the book), but what I listened to often felt less like a debunking and more like self-satisfied dunking. Maybe I just don't like the personalities involved and how they are presenting their takes? Like, they'd read a paragraph, pausing to laugh in the middle, and then land on something like "this fucking moron." But I kept waiting for some sort of correction that didn't always arrive, and when it did, it came with this (perhaps unavoidable) air of superiority. They'd dismissively say something like "this basic economics 101 bullshit is being presented as something smart," but I've never taken Econ 101 and wanted to hear a little bit more of the "why." Which they did sometimes offer. But I kept thinking of the shitty Tyler Coe podcast "Your Favorite Band Sucks," which surprised me. This is better than that, though I didn't make it to the end, since I was listening on a walk; I think I made it to addressing the crypto-racism stuff about names.

Like I said, I want to hear another episode. Any suggestion? The Nudge?

I've enjoyed a bunch of these but am finding it diminishing returns. It's all US conservatism all the time, which is obviously a rich pudding but I'd appreciate some deviation. I really liked the episodes on The Game, Men are From Mars and The End of History.

Yeah, that's what I'm curious about, something just plain dumb self-help or something, not kneecapping deep thinker Tom Friedman.

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Yeah, tbf, "do I like the host(s)?" is of course the crucial barrier for any podcast regardless of the content and why I tend to not bother recommending them often. e.g., the Bandsplain host was the guest on the last episode of 60 90s Songs that I listened to, and now I will never listen to Bandsplain, even though it sounded intriguing previously.

You probably have a point about the occasional lack of context-filling. I'm basically the prime audience for IBCK, because I'm already familiar with the legacies of a lot of these books and have read critiques of them before (in fact, my one major problem with the ep was that I don't agree that no one at the time brought up issues with the book; admittedly it might have just been on the lefty blogs I was reading, but it happened). I'm also in grad school so the more methodological complaints are in my wheelhouse as well.

And you're right, I do remember now that they make fun of some readers. I suppose that didn't impact me because it rang true in terms of actual convos I'd had about this terrible book irl, but I could see it seeming assholey if it felt like it came out of nowhere.

I've only listened to this one ep as well, but maybe the key is to pick a book where the disdain won't bother you so much? Like one you're already suspicious of (Nudge, maybe?) or is more clearly a noxious force in the world (e.g., Clash of Civilizations)

malcolm gladwell one is great bc i can’t stand him - also the men are from mars/women from venus one was good because there’s a lot that’s revealing in the dude’s backstory i thought

but i like them both: have been a michael hobbes fan for a while now, didn’t know peter before this but enjoy him esp when he gets sweary. i don’t care so much about the recent spate of conservative books but i enjoy the show generally

really want a tim ferris takedown but i dunno if they’d do it

I was on board when they did the Rich Dad Poor Dad episode, hated that book for a long time.

They haven’t done many really conservative books though. The ones they have done are ones that got NYT praise etc. like Bobos in Paradise, Clash of Civilizations, End of History and Hillbilly Elegy.

Nudge and World is Flat are Obama Dem books

ok whatever theyve done a few that i found boring

Presumably they're going to get to The Bell Curve

I like Michael Hobbes in Maintenance Phase with Aubrey Gordon and have enjoyed If Books Could Kill throughout.

I picked up World is Flat from a charity shop a while back but never got around to it. Now glad that I heard this first but maybe reading a bad book would shape my recognition of bad books and the ensuing thought etc. Which was why I was toying with buying some Jordan Peterson. Oh well.

Have been enjoying The Book ON Fire podcast which is one I don't remember seeing mentioned on here , which may be me missing its mentions. THey're currently working through the Dawn of Everything. I thought their coverage of Caliban and the Witch which was done a few years ago and listened to by me a month or so back and has me reading the book now.

I've been enjoying I Books Could Kill a lot the last couple of weeks. Of the books they've covered the only one I've read is Freakonomics, but as someone who was a not super informed 20-something year old when he read that book, it was pretty enlightening to hear just how wrong it was on certain things and how little of it was fact checked.

Have enjoyed the other episodes as well, especially when they talk about the actual real-world effect of these books, which (as mentioned somewhere above) is much bigger than I would have thought.

Maintenace Phase basically does the same thing that If Books Could Kill does but about popular dieting books instead of airport tomes. If you haven't heard it yet. I think it's quite enlightening.

Maybe I just don't like the personalities involved and how they are presenting their takes? Like, they'd read a paragraph, pausing to laugh in the middle, and then land on something like "this fucking moron."

If you don't find them basically funny and enjoyable to listen to, it's probably not worth your time. I do appreciate, though, when they bring in scholarly critiques or other outside perspectives on the books to bolster their own opinions.

I wonder if the diminishing returns are down to them being spread a bit thin? Hobbes's dry wit aside, his great strength is his research and I can see why he'd be totally snowed under with the amount of content he produces.

I did finally get around to listening to another episode of "If Books Could Kill." This one was the Thomas Friedman "The World Is Flat" one, and I enjoyed it more than the "Freakanomics" one, if only because at the least Friedman is pompous in a way that the "Freakanomics" guys are not. But I suppose I had the same fundamental reaction to the podcast and the hosts, particularly the host who is more the Flava Flav of the pair (Hobbes?). Just so smug and sometimes willfully obtuse. Like, they make fun of Friedman comparing the US post 9/11 to Godzilla with an arrow sticking out of its shoulder, and they're all "what does that even mean!? why was there an arrow sticking out of its shoulder!?!" And Friedman and his metaphors might be dopey, but, like, come on, guys. He's comparing the US to a giant angry rampaging lizard, what's to figure out? I do very much like the gist of the podcast, though, taking aim not at sacred cows but at middlebrow bestsellers lauded as mind-blowing or world changing or whatever for no good reason. I just wish the takedowns were more methodical and not so snobby and obnoxious.

I haven't gotten to that one yet so can't retort, but they take turns being the point person for each book, so there's no Flava/Chuck D dynamic.

Based on this reaction, you *might* like the End of History or Clash of Civilizations eps better--they take those both a little more seriously. That said jaymc is otm, so you probably shouldn't bother

The Yacht Rock guys JD Ryznar, Steve Huey et al have launched two fine music podcasts - both very fun & very nerdy (obv)

Yacht Or Nyacht, a continuation of their old minisodes where they rank songs, always a good time

and, my personal favorite

Billion Dollar Record Club where they dig out an old classic & give it a close listen to explore the hidden value
first ep: Barry Manilow’s ‘Tryin To Catch The Feeling’ (1975) :D

I could not disagree more with Josh in Chicago re: the merits of If Books Could Kill. The "Godzilla with an arrow in his shoulder" metaphor was singled out not for being difficult to parse (it's a bit of an outlier among Friedman's work in that it lines up with our linguistic consensus about how figurative language works), but for being really stupid and unnecessary. The idea that "pre-9/11 U.S.A. equals Puff the Magic Dragon, post-9/11 U.S.A. equals angry Godzilla" may be a well-formed statement (in the sense of "Does not break any rules"), but it seems shockingly vapid even by the standards of newspaper punditry.

It's a bit specialized, but I highly recommend "The Hidden History of LA." It's a labor of love and will tell you things you didn't know about the city even if you're a native.

So glad the Yacht Rock guys are back. I remember that BYR episode about J.D.'s late wife. One of the best podcasts I've ever heard.

The "If Books Could Kill" guys are snotty as hell. They're also funny and right, although tbf they're picking off very low-hanging fruit.

I haven't listened to it yet, but No Dogs in Space is tackling Krautrock in their new season. If you're not familiar, No Dogs is husband-and-wife team Marcus Parks (the research guy from Last Podcast on the Left) and Carolina Hidalgo tackling histories of punk bands and related music. They've done series on The Stooges, Suicide, The Damned, The Ramones, The Misfits, The Slits, The Cramps, The Dead Kennedys, Joy Division, The Screamers, The Beastie Boys, The Velvet Underground, The Replacements, Patti Smith, and the Monks so far, with a few bonus eps sprinkled throughout. Like any podcast, they don't get everything right, but they're still really thorough and Marcus and Carolina are just a charming couple.

i think i mentioned this but JD Ryznar & the Yacht Rock guys have a second podcast “billion dollar record club” where they listen to forgotten records

it’s a lot of fun!
so far they’ve done barry manilow’s first album, jimmy buffet and dragon (!)

this week it’s Blackjack aka Michael Bolton’s hard rock band w Bruce kulick (lol)
They’re pretty good! With Bolton in rock mode it sounds like Y&T if they were a bar band or maybe like a lost Hagar record

Yeah I'm enjoying it and the new Yacht Or Nyacht eps too.

It's only available to Patreon subscribers, but I really enjoyed The Spectral Voyager, a recent miniseries by the Qanon Anonymous guys. Definitely among the best things I've listened to on the paranormal and general weirdness; my favourite episode concerned Mike Marcum, a would-be time traveller who was apparently trending a few months back (though I'd never heard of him until now personally) - very funny but also, unexpectedly, quite moving.

I've been loving that series too! I agree, the one about Mike Marcum was the best of the lot (though I've only gotten up through the Giant Squid one so far). I really liked the one about clairvoyance too. It made me a bit more open to the possibility of there actually being something there... Though patron comments made it sound like the author they interviewed wasn't as reliable of a source as they portrayed him in the episode.

If you mean Eric Wargo, his blog is very interesting, but I haven't read his Time Loops book. He refers to Daryl Bem's precognition study, which has been much contested.

In the majority of the weird encounter, out-of-body experience accounts, I don't doubt the sincerity of the witnesses themselves, it just seems that the experiences are almost always completely subjective, resulting from altered states of consciousness etc. But maybe I'm wrong, and demons will be singing Rihanna songs with altered lyrics to me after I die

I was surprised how much I enjoyed Ezra Klein's interview with Marilynne Robinson re her book on the book of Genesis. I feel like maybe I had him wrong based on some of his earlier work, and I found him a lot more thoughtful and less annoying than I expected. May start listening to his podcast more.

Was it here or somewhere else that I heard a recommendation for "Too Scary; Didn't Watch"? Anyway, I like it a lot, it's very charming. Three hosts (and sometimes a guest), one of whom (and sometimes a guest) watches a scary/violent/spooky movie and then describes it to the other two, who are too scared to watch.

My new favorite this year was an inspired choice: Grindr got Katya to host a podcast called "Who's the Asshole?" -- the first half of each episode is Katya and whoever the guest is (been a mix of fellow queens and other figures like Orville Peck and Adam Lambert) trading various hilarious/raunchy sex stories and general chatting, while the second half is them answering very AITA? questions left on a voicemail set up by the production company.

My favorite is A Sense Of Rebellion, Evgeny Morozov's latest series - this one about the Environmental Ecology Lab and Warren Brodey, the psychiatrist, cybernetician, nudist Maoist who's early work inspired Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Media Lab. The whole bizarre story feels like an Adam Curtis documentary.

https://www.sense-of-rebellion.com

oooh

I just started the Secret World of Roald Dahl and it is bonkers. I knew a little about his life before but holy shit that man got around. The host has my ideal podcast voice.

AI and the creative professional by Katharina Gellein Vilken and Alice Fraser is really interesting.

i’ll def check out that Roald Dahl one, thx for the rec!

The current series of Past Present Future in which host David Runciman runs through and criticizes George Orwell's collected essays, journalism, and letters of 1938-1945 is truly excellent and very relevant to our particular moment.

I had read all of the Orwell material before but this is exactly the kind of commentary I wish I could have listened to at the time.

i’ll def check out that Roald Dahl one, thx for the rec!

I’m a few eps in and it’s great.

Past Present Future in which host David Runciman runs through and criticizes George Orwell

i threw this on and was into it until the host started talking about "people bandying about the word 'fascism'" and saying that the word doesn't have any meaning anymore because people just use it for people they don't like. and maybe the british context is different or something but i really don't have time for this kind of shit anymore

I remember the part you're talking about but my impression was the host was characterizing a certain mode of thought and maybe associating it with Orwell. By the end the third episode he's distinguishing fascism from totalitarianism and talking about fascistic strains in nominally democratic countries, etc, relating it to what Orwell was trying to say in Animal Farm.

okay, maybe just a knee jerk reaction to living under literal fascism and having a pretty short fuse with people who are dismissive of the appellation when there are 100 times a day that it applies. but i wasn't listening as closely as i could have been, and perhaps he was paraphrasing like you say rather than outright stating that at his own belief

i threw this on and was into it until the host started talking about "people bandying about the word 'fascism'" and saying that the word doesn't have any meaning anymore because people just use it for people they don't like. and maybe the british context is different or something but i really don't have time for this kind of shit anymore