Podcasts

Which one? I think the sound quality got better over time.

It was the Mike Reed one

Just taped an hour+ interview with legendary drummer Billy Cobham for the episode of my podcast that'll be live on 4/13.

David Goldblatt's new football podcast Game of our lives covers football round the world and is excellent even if you don't care about football. 1st ep is an interview w/ Werner Herzog on crowds, voodoo, piss, Peruvian football & ritual, highly recommended

https://gameofourlives.fm/

Excellent, I’ll bookmark that one.

Idk how the podcast economy manages to support professionally-produced double-episode deep dives into Chris Korda but it does apparently.

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/parcast/cults/e/53861518

It’s not particularly interesting but reminded me to dig out the old IDG compilations.

i'm going to be doing some driving in late april. i'm going to check out cocaine and rhinestones but have there been any good narrative podcasts lately? i like crime, rural stories, string music in background, creepy stuff. idk. my favorite place to drive is rural delaware and it would be nice to have a weird story along with it.

Heaven’s Gate is pretty good, a+ balance of research & storytelling

ooh i was looking for something about this after i watched wild, wild country because i'm not too young to remember heaven's gate at least. i might finish it before the drive!

i thought i knew a fair bit but they poke into interesting corners, it’s one of the best things I’ve heard in the past year imo

psyched for this. a history of china as told through 20 personalities. first episode: "the female emperor"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zgd6y/episodes/downloads

Interesting. Will have to check that out.

Anyone listening to "Empire on Blood"?

I fell off The Trap Set a long time ago, but if you dig way back in the archives, the Stewart Copeland episode is great. Ernie Isley's too.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, March 9, 2018 5:29 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I had forgotten about that one. I listened to the first handful of episodes and now they've got ... 158! Looks like that will give me something good to sift through.

― how's life, Friday, March 9, 2018 5:48 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I tried this again, cherrypicking episodes from some of my favorite drummers. Each one that I listened to felt like it could have been any podcaster interviewing these drummers, Chris Hardwick or whoever, rather than a drummer sitting down with another drummer and really going in. Joe Wong's approach to interviewing is very general, asking questions like "so what was it like when your band got big?" I guess I would be more interested in hearing more specifically about playing and technique and gear.

xpost - i started Empire on Blood the other day, only 1 ep in but i really like what i’ve heard

I guess I would be more interested in hearing more specifically about playing and technique and gear.
as a non-drummer, the non-gear / technique stuff is what I like about the trap set — I think he's pretty good at drawing out interesting ideas/stories from people. like the drummer from earth wind and fire talking about conspiracy theories last week, haha.

He specifically wants to avoid drum nerd conversations, it really is about "the lives of drummers" and not actually about drumming. The bonus episodes usually have those gear and recording questions that everyone wants to know though (or thinks they do, often there's not actually that much to say about technique and gear, although I do love studio stories).

xp that one sure took a turn!

I can't read 300+ posts so forgive me if I repeat myself:

GOs:
Code Switch
Serious Eats
RadioLab (sorry hoos)
Third Rail (my Brooklyn loves)
Radio Dispatch (good tho can be slow-ish going through their banter but Molly's stories about her students at school are magical)
Tea with Queen and J

NOs:
My reasons for the casts I don't like were too mean so I deleted them.

Empire on Blood was one of the best in class. It pulls the Serial trick of having putting its most tragic/compelling twist in the first episode (heartbreaking!) but it stays strong throughout and doesn't meander, and sticks the landing, too.

kind of nervous to post this as it's something i've been working on for 6+ months but now it's finally seeing the light of day and i'm incredibly proud. please give a listen! first episode is april 17.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p063zy3c/episodes/downloads

I guess I would be more interested in hearing more specifically about playing and technique and gear.
as a non-drummer, the non-gear / technique stuff is what I like about the trap set — I think he's pretty good at drawing out interesting ideas/stories from people. like the drummer from earth wind and fire talking about conspiracy theories last week, haha.

― tylerw, Monday, April 9, 2018 1:01 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think I'd want to hear gear and technique per se (terrible things to explore in an audio format anyway), but I'd like to hear more about musical approach.

Not me. I thought I'd be getting Pearl vs. Tama fights. I want to hear about ratamacues and flamadiddles. All that shit. I'm no drummer. But that's what I hoped a drummer specific podcast could bring to the table that more general music podcasts don't.

pearl and tama can both go in the garbage imo, next q

rimshots fired

it would be cool if the podcast really went all the way and featured a lot of long stretches of the host and guest just vocalizing drumming patterns "You know that part that goes Dum dum dum PSH PSH! Dum dum dum PSH PSH!" "Yeah! Yeah! Dum diggida dum dum diggida dum PSHHHHHHHH!!!"

lol

There are other drummer podcasts that talk about drum nerd shit

kind of nervous to post this as it's something i've been working on for 6+ months but now it's finally seeing the light of day and i'm incredibly proud. please give a listen! first episode is april 17.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p063zy3c/episodes/downloads

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 April 2018 03:07 (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is good! incredible first guest too. yassmin's probably the most polarising person in australia atm (either you're absolutely fine with her or you're a phenomenally hypocritical fucking racist). if anything i'd love to have heard more from her, but it sounds like you're limited to the half hour.

...for anyone who doesn't know the back story, she said a couple of things in public channels (tv, twitter) that bigots didn't like, and those bigots genuinely hounded her out of the country.

awesome, i'm really glad you like it! not limited to half an hour, no, we're still just finding our way with it. if we get more feedback like that maybe we'll let it ramble on. this was recorded BEFORE yassmin got turned away from the US border, sadly, i would have liked to hear her talk about that.

:D

https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/1X2w0o3k040d2M0j2Y3W/ncfyw_screenshot.png

a sure sign that you're doing something right

excellent

Now the first series of Game of our lives has finished I'm desperately craving something similarly conversational, unsmug, varied, casually smart and devoid of nasal americans if anyone has any recommendations (all topics considered)

i'd highly super recommend Emil Amos' Drifter's Sympathy - https://starburns.audio/podcasts/emil-amos-drifters-sympathy/

alternating between storytelling episodes mainly based around growing up in the 90s underground/indie scene in smallish town america with music focussed episodes looking at the history of various strands of underground weirdness. it's a little hard to explain simply, but everyone i've got to check it out has loved it.

Anyone listening to Dead Rock Stars? It's yet more middle-aged white men rambling on about stuff, but it's diverting enough and Mick Wall knows his onions, mostly. The Lemmy one is good.

https://www.acast.com/deadrockstars

I’ve found that Emil Amos show to be good Background music for writing. I zone in and out of the show, then listen to him for a few minutes and generally wonder wtf he’s going on about. Occasional mid-90s indie rock content confirmed. His stories about drugging in India are pretty wild. Most episodes seem to feature one or more acid trips afaict.

so like... i'm reading flaubert's salammbo:

https://www.acast.com/elireads

fans of cannibalism, human sacrifice and detailed descriptions of clothing and foodstuffs please drop in

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 16:38 (five months ago)

Tracer I am loving this. I am spending a lot of hours in a room typesetting at the moment and this is a perfect accompaniment. It's also just really good.

You should see my copy of Salammbo: it's decorated by Edward Bawden with beauties like this:

https://www.charlesagvent.com/agvent/images/items/015661.jpg

holy crap. I consider myself pretty up on the various illustrations of Salammbo and i haven't run across that set. look at those colours!

really pleased you're enjoying it Tim.

IKR? It's amazing.

https://pictures.abebooks.com/AGVENT/4220065103.jpg

wow. love all the forbidding blacks in that too. so chunky.

does anyone else listen to Scene on Radio? i'm a new listener but i'm enjoying their current season, which is about male supremacy

the season on Whiteness was very good

Beyond Yacht Rock continues to be really funny. latest episode was very very different though and really beautiful/SAD as hell - https://omny.fm/shows/beyond-yacht-rock/beyondyachtrock-90-leahsongs

yes, really liked that one.

Wolverine is good

also Steal The Stars is really good

BYR is ending soon :(

At least I got to have my Marcos Valle choice be officially deemed nyacht before it happened.

oh bummer...where'd you hear that about BYR?

They mentioned it on a recent episode, I think it was a yacht or nyacht? Said they're doing ten more episodes so they hit 100 and then stop. Though they also hinted they'd do other things in the podcast format.

Ryan Cooper’s new show is good. 1st ep on Stephen Pinker, The Enlightenment, and what happens when “democratic processes are a figleaf for oligarchy?”

https://leftanchor.podbean.com/e/episode-1-steven-pinker-rousseau/

Thank you to whomever it was who recommended the two Revisionist History episodes on memory (s3,e3&4). I overcame my Malcolm Gladwell lolversion to listen to them and now I don't really believe any story anyone tells about anything that happened to them ("and that's OK")