“It was cheap, it was easy, go and do it”
Well here is my foray into the world of podcasting a.k.a. amateur radio. I’m going to try and do this on a schedule of the first Sunday of every month. I figure a monthly schedule should keep me motivated enough to keep doing this without getting burned out, and I thought Sunday is a good day to listen to radio or radio-like programs. At least that’s usually when I listen to radio. Every podcast is going to be based on a theme of some kind. I decided to start off with Chicago, the city I called home for seven years. Chicago is a big city any way you like it, and it would have been impossible to have covered everything (I do regret not having any Chicago juke on this, I didn’t know about it at all when I lived there, and I still have a lot to learn…) I decided to limit myself to the more humble task of trying to convey a much more general impression of Chicago music. Chicago, unlike places like New York City, the Bay Area, or L.A., doesn’t really have much in the way of hype infrastructure seeking out local talent. The consequence of this is there is a healthy don’t-give-a-fuck ethos displayed by a lot of musicians who don’t worry too much about taking risks, or fitting neatly into the easy categories favored in press releases. Sometimes this attitude results in a lot of hubris, but other times it could result in Chicago feeling like the most exciting place on the planet.
Cold Tropics Podcast no. 1
Tracklisting:
Mr. Fingers – Stars
Ghost Arcade – Datenaustauch
Memo – Coal 45
Binges – Bad Batch
Mayor Daley – M.L. Pony
Killer Whales – Ode to Puerto Rico
Bird Names – ??? (Track 6 off of Fantic Yard EP)
BobbyConn – Jealous (Winners Remix by Magas)
Jitney – Snowhite Sneakers
Fake Lake – Untitled (Track 4 off of s/t… presumably s/t anyway… CD-R)
Deep Earth – Worldly Men
Magical, Beautiful – Untitled (Track 5 off of Obscure Love CD-R)
Unfortunately I’m still figuring out the details about how to setup a podcast so that new episodes regularly update on your music/media browser (if anyone is familiar with this get in touch!), so for now you just get a boring old mp3 file. Next month I will be covering psychedelic music with an extremely heavy international slant that eschews the Sgt. Pepper’s and Grateful Dead paradigm.
look forward to this series, and cool to start with Chicago! (where I live). I actually don’t know any of these bands , Chicago’s music situation is a real strange one.
also, the Desperate Bicycles ruled
yeah, chicago certainly seems so spread out physically and socially that i always found it impossible to summarize. its something you could love or hate about it, sometimes at the same time.
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