podcast
Older Brother's Records - New York
Wednesday, October 31, 11:22 AM By
Bryan
Older Brother's Records - Big Beat and Trip Hop
Friday, September 28, 06:13 AM By
Bryan
Two more radio shows from the archives today. Both shows are hosted by my computer friend, Electronic Filler and the Big Beat show has lots of fun cutting and shenanigans. Off to Nukecon.
Get the
Older Brother's Records Big Beat Show HERE.
Get the
Older Brother's Records Trip Hop Show HERE.Soon, I'll be all out of old shows and have to make new ones.
Generic Beat Show 2
Thursday, September 13, 01:01 PM By
Bryan
The Thing Radio 7
Friday, September 07, 02:08 AM By
Bryan
This week's show is all new music except for Old 97's. That's All.
Get the CD Jewel Inset HERE.
Get the deluxe AAC version HERE.
Get the crappy MP3 version HERE.
Subscribe in itunes and visit the TTOTD Radio Page.
Long Week. Have a good weekend.
Older Brother's Records -- Alt.Country
Friday, August 24, 02:16 PM By
Bryan
Here's another archive show, probably the most requested show I have.
It's been requested 3 times. It's a mixtape radio show of No Depression-type alternative country. You know, Wilco 'n stuff.
Get the show HERE.
The Cover Show - The Clash
Thursday, August 16, 03:28 AM By
Bryan
Due to space limitations this week on my podcast server, this week's show is an archive MP3 show. Hey, it's probably new to you. Back when I was teaching, circa 2002, one of the shows I produced a cover show tackling a different band or genre each week.
This is an all Clash cover show. It originally aired on KWSC-FM and all of the songs are mentioned in the show. Wow, looking at K-92 website, I see some stuff I wrote so long ago.
This cover show was before Coverville. But check out that site.
I did make the picture especially for this post. So, That's today's original Thing.
Pirate Clash Radio on a Podcast Web Site.
Get the MP3 Show HERE.
TTOTD Radio - The Thing 6
Thursday, August 09, 03:21 AM By
Bryan
This
week's podcast was once again hastily assembled, but the mix is
okey-dokey by me. There's a variety of songs. Guess I should narrow
my tastes more so those subscribing (all 3 of ya--ya b*stards!!)
would know what they're getting. Well, no. Discover different
stuff, ragamuffins. Here's an idea how the flow goes--power pop,
pavement guy, funny, electro-funny, pop, country pop, R & B,
blues, yo la sounding, weird country, fuzzy freakout, hip hop
weird, soft weird.Works for me.
Don't forget to visit the podcast page or subscribe in itunes.
Get the Enhanced AAC Podcast HERE.
Get the crappy MP3 HERE.
Get the CD Jewel Case PDF HERE.
Until next time...
TTOTD Radio - The Thing 5
Thursday, August 02, 03:07 AM By
Bryan
Today's
Thing Radio was put together rather quickly, so I'm not a hundred
percent how it all will turn out on reflection. But what I lack in
quality, I make up for in quantity. All the music is relatively new
music---the oldest track being from February of this year. There's
even a few preview tracks in there. Visit the website links and
check out the bands while you listen. I'm in a bit of a hurry
today, so no comments on the tracks, but all the regular bells and
whistles are there. Don't forget to visit the podcast page or subscribe in itunes.Get the enhanced AAC podcast HERE.
Get the crappy MP3 podcast HERE.
Get the CD Jewel Case PDF HERE.
Back with another show next week.
The Generic Beat Show 1
Thursday, July 26, 04:16 AM By
Bryan
From the archives, here's an old electronica show I made for radio circa 2003. No song titles, it's all there along with plenty of extra added funky stuff. About once a month, I'll release an old show you can listen to in the player. I'll make a new picture, so at least one Thing is new in the post.
Get show HERE.
TTOTD Radio -- The Thing 4
Friday, July 20, 03:17 AM By
Bryan
Some
TV-related songs in today's The Thing Radio plus a hidden comedy
routine from a cartoon rat and another bonus hidden track. The
podcast is now in AAC--the preferred format because you get
chapters, song titles and artwork--and in crappy MP3 so you can
listen in the players here on the page. Visit the podcast page or subscribe in itunes.Grab the AAC Version HERE.
Grab the MP3 Version HERE.
Grab the CD Jewel Insert HERE.
Off to find more free, legal internet music...
It's Hard Out Here For A Podcast Pimp
Friday, July 13, 12:37 PM By
Bryan
Today's Thing is another Friday promotion. There's a bunch of podcast related sites. Have you picked up a podcast lately? It's not hard to find, subscribe and listen to a wide variety of podcasts. Howver, I do wonder how much effect subscribing to a podcast listing site helps people who would like The Thing Radio find the show. I also added the blog to a few more blog warehouse sites. Are these large referenced sites with no readers. It's hard to tell. I did find another giant list of ways to promote your site. Here's some of the places I went to promote. You could check them out to find new sites.
itunes -- Yeah, everyone knows itunes, but it's still the big dog in podcast promotion. Too much commercial stuff being promoted. I'm still waitng to hear back from them. My last podcast just cheap dirt did make it on itunes and was probably the reason I had over 80 subscribers. I'll put a link up t the new show when it comes out.
Podcast Alley -- Still waiting to hear back from them. One of the oldest sites for podcasts out there.
Podcast Pickle -- Second oldest.
PopCurrent.com -- Newish single episode directory. Signed up but haven't submitted a single show.
Odeo -- This guy went on to create the much more popular Twitter.
Blog Top List -- Vote for me and so on and so on.
There's more but I gotta go.
TTOTD Radio--The Thing 3
Thursday, July 12, 03:23 AM By
Bryan
TTOTD Radio--The Thing 2
Thursday, July 05, 03:33 AM By
Bryan
It's Thursday, so it's the Thing Radio. Number 2. Click on the podcast icon to listen in your browser. You can get the RSS Feed Here. You can download the PDF here. I added direct download links for each individual songs, plus some of the song track look weird, it's part of the bargain with IODA Promonet which gives me free music. Lots of links to explore. To the songs:
The Songs
1. Pavement--Spit on a Stranger from Twilight
Terror. One of my favorite old Pavement songs. Direct download.
2. Simple
Kid--Lil' King Kong from 2. New music from
English dude that has some Beck qualities. The whole EP can be
gotten on the Direct Download.
3. Mike Doughty--Looking
at the World from the Bottom of a Well from
Haughty Melodic.
An album from last year, but I like the song. Direct Download.
4. Los Campesinos!--Please
Don't Tell Me To Do The Math from
We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives.
The first, new EP from this Welsh band. It just became available
on emusic.
Ho-ray. Direct Download.
5. Shout Out Louds--Tonight
I Have to Leave It from
Tonight I Have to Leave It.
Swedish band. Direct Download.
6. 
Download "Robert Onion"
(mp3)
from "93-03"
by Frank Black
Cooking Vinyl
More On This AlbumI have most of the songs on this new Frank Black retrospective.
7.
Download "Elizabeth
Sways" (mp3)
from "Flowering Spade"
by Sean Hayes
Sean Hayes
More On This Album8. Rickie Lee Jones--Elvis Cadillac from The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard. Her newest, vaguely religious album and her best in years, striking toward Lucinda Williams territory. Direct Download.
9. Bright Eyes--Four Winds from Four Winds EP. Their first EP from Cassedega. Real country. Direct Download.
10. Cornelius--Gum from Sensuous. I like their previous albums; this one is from late last year. Direct Download.
TTOTD Radio--The Thing
Monday, July 02, 01:20 AM By
Bryan
I've
been thinking about doing regular weekly items to make thinking up
new Things but easier and more consistent for everyone else. Two
Things I like doing are comics and podcasts. So every Tuesday will
be comic day and every Thursday will be music podcasts or some kind
of podcast. Monday is update day. Wednesday is free day and Friday
is promotion/free day. However, better ideas take precedent.
So, today is update day. Over a year and a half ago, I had a podcast hosted on Libsyn called Just Cheap Dirt. It's no longer around; I burned myself out, but I like the Libsyn service for hosting podcasts. They've updated their features in the last year and I can put video up there as well.
So Today's Thing is a TTOTD podcast page. You can grab all the new shows there; I will also post them here as well. Look to the sidebar, there's a player there and a few new links. The show I did last Thursday is there as well as in the player. However, it's a long download. The best way to get new shows would be to subscribe to the RSS feed and stick it in itunes or your RSS reader. If you click on the direct download on the TTOTD Radio Page and open up the AAC file in a new browser window.
In other words, there's a bunch of new ways to easily get new shows.
Also, look for the podcast icon on
new posts here and click on them for the show.
I've spent all weekend promoting the new pages to a bunch of sites and searching for legal music to share. The music shows take the longest to make of than most of the Things here, but generally have the longest value for me. And I hope they have provide the most enjoyment for you as well. I should have a way to subscribe in itunes by the end of the week, waiting for Apple to get back to me.
The Links:
TTOTD Podcast Page
TTOTD Podcast Page RSS Feed
So, today is update day. Over a year and a half ago, I had a podcast hosted on Libsyn called Just Cheap Dirt. It's no longer around; I burned myself out, but I like the Libsyn service for hosting podcasts. They've updated their features in the last year and I can put video up there as well.
So Today's Thing is a TTOTD podcast page. You can grab all the new shows there; I will also post them here as well. Look to the sidebar, there's a player there and a few new links. The show I did last Thursday is there as well as in the player. However, it's a long download. The best way to get new shows would be to subscribe to the RSS feed and stick it in itunes or your RSS reader. If you click on the direct download on the TTOTD Radio Page and open up the AAC file in a new browser window.
In other words, there's a bunch of new ways to easily get new shows.
Also, look for the podcast icon on
new posts here and click on them for the show.I've spent all weekend promoting the new pages to a bunch of sites and searching for legal music to share. The music shows take the longest to make of than most of the Things here, but generally have the longest value for me. And I hope they have provide the most enjoyment for you as well. I should have a way to subscribe in itunes by the end of the week, waiting for Apple to get back to me.
The Links:
TTOTD Podcast Page
TTOTD Podcast Page RSS Feed
TTOTD Radio The Thing- Summermix 1
Wednesday, June 27, 05:29 AM By
Bryan
There's a whole hour-plus mixtape
radio show today. It's mostly new music for the summer. The 90 meg
zipped M4a file can easily be burned off to a CD for driving
around. Also, if you listen on your ipod, the show has different
album art for each of the 18 songs. I whipped up some pretty simple
stingers and bumps for in between the songs as well. If I make more
shows, I'll do some more mixing and make some more complex sound
interludes.You can grab the CD Jewel Case HERE. The PDF file has artwork and track listings. Print it out.
Don't worry about the show pirating music, each of the songs in the show were a free download on the internet from Salon and Discollective. If you like the songs, go out and support the artists. There's a ton of free music out there!
You can download the file HERE or click on the picture.
Tin Whistle: The Beginning
Wednesday, June 06, 08:34 PM By
Shelly
Last Saturday, I
purchased a Irish Tin Whistle. Learning the Tin Whistle is
something I've been interested in for a while, so I was excited to
finally find one. The music store had three choices, and I got the
one that had a book included. ('cause I'm smrt!) I've probably
practiced a total of two hours since Saturday, so I'm far from a
vurtuoso, but please enjoy my first recording on my new instrument
by clicking on the "podcast" link below.
The song is an Irish Single Jig called Rogha Mhaoir Ui Chathail. (but don't ask me how to pronounce it!)
Podcast
The song is an Irish Single Jig called Rogha Mhaoir Ui Chathail. (but don't ask me how to pronounce it!)
Podcast
The Roach Commands You!
Monday, June 04, 11:28 PM By
Bryan
It's a week of game-related Things. Monday kicks off with a whole damn professional game for you to enjoy, minus the cards. About a year ago, I recorded the rules to The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach for Shelly to listen to on her ipod at work. Last week, I contacted the nice folks at Bully Pulpit Games and they said I could share the recording on this website. Hooray!
The Roach is a rules lite, GM-less tabletop role playing game. It's not the nerdy elf 'n swords RPG new players think of when they think of RPG's, but a weird Lovecraftian mix of pompous, back-stabbing, dark humored, egotistical college professors and the hotbed of turn of the century small-town college politics. Oh, and alien roaches that infect you and guide your actions. It's eeevvviiiiiilll, I tells ya!
From the website:
So, you get the idea. The game's got a mean funny bone. The setting is Pemberton college, a small northeast college in 1919. Each player in the game plays a full or associate professor just trying to get ahead. You have your enemies, other players, and your friends, also other players. You create the ever-increasing crazy plot lines around six events of a school year with the help of other players, other characters you create, and cards you draw. The cards are the genius of the game and I think open the game up to people who aren't fully comfortable playing a full-on stats-heavy RPG. The cards tell you if your infected and give you a general guide what to do each setting. And you can learn Sumarian. Think of the game as improv with dice. Act-ING! The game can be played in an evening and actually has an end and a winner. Although winning really isn't the point, it's the journey. The emphasis is on characters, black humor and just plain strangeness.The Shab-al-Hiri Roach is a dark comedy of manners, lampooning academia and asking players to answer a difficult question - are you willing to swallow a soul-eating telepathic insect bent on destroying human civilization?
No?
Even if it will get you tenure?
You'll need a variety of multi-sided die, from 4-sided to 12-sided and that's about it. Visit the Bully Pulpit Games download page and pick up a character sheet, a 1919 events cheat sheet, a comic, a short movie and some extra rules errata. You can check out a 14-page preview before you download the audio file as well. The game does need the cards to play which come with the game, but you could make up your own cards or better yet, go out and buy the game!. You can buy it here. The Roach is twenty bucks and if you buy the game, you also get a rubber roach. Cool. I think as a future Thing, I may try to make some more Roach cards to add to the game. Also, roam around Indie Press Revolution, there's a bunch of imaginative low-cost games both in soft back and the much cheaper PDF's.
About the audio file, it's an AAC file best played in itunes. The file is about 30 megs, contains chapter breaks, royalty-free sound effects and music and a picture you can see in itunes. The rules run a little over an hour. I admit since I didn't expect to be sharing this sound file with the world, I used my crappy microphone, didn't use my super professional broadcasting voice and have a few vocal flubs. Also, I didn't add in the rules errata. I enjoyed reading the rules and, as a future Thing, may rerecord them with some more professionalism and better equipment. Hey Bully Pulpit people, do you need an audio version of your other game Drowning and Falling? Let me know. Love your games, love to help. They've got a free version of Drowning and Falling up.
You can download the rules HERE or click on the third roach.
The Roach commands you!
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