Monday, October 30, 2017

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 10/30/17

Well, it's been a while!

While, I'd rather not go into detail of the happenings of my personal life that coincided with the 4-month gap between episodes of this podcast (I'm a spy, OK?), will let you know a few things you may have missed:

I did not one, not two, but three fill-ins on WFMU. Listen to the results my Discogs transactions.

Unblinking Ear Records released the 4th album from Plates of Cake, Let's Not Deprive Each Other. It rules. Get yourself a copy.




I recorded a guest appearance for several episodes of the Decline Minute Podcast, where The Decline of Western Civilization (the documentary on the Los Angeles punk scene circa 1980, not current events) is dissected minute-by-minute . They're on hiatus themselves but I believe I'll be the first guest when they come back.

A lot of fine people died. I mentioned a few in the latest podcast. However, between its recording and posting, Mike Hudson of the Pagans passed away, which I'd be remiss if I didn't mention. RIP Mike.

Anyway, after several false starts and many, many Garageband crashes, here's the new podcast.

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Thursday, June 22, 2017

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 6/22/17


Above is an image from the Instagram of Peteski of this isn't happiness (occasionally NSFW), who was just profiled on Dangerous Minds and sometimes pairs the images he posts with songs he heard on this podcast or on my WFMU fill-ins.

I'm finally returning the hat tip. Or I'm just stealing content. However you want to frame it.

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Thursday, May 18, 2017

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 5/18/17


(Photo credit: Matt Wilson)

 I'm not sure why anyone would want to smell like punks. We'll have to ask the host of our sister podcast, the Unblinking Nostril.

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Friday, March 24, 2017

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 3/24/17

A day late but hardly a dollar short (because it's free) we've got a new Unblinking Ear Podcast.

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Thursday, February 23, 2017

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 2/23/17



If you enjoy this podcast (and if you're reading this, I hope you would at this point) and live in New York (god help you), you're certainly welcome to come see/hear me DJ live in person with my pal Jenn at young person gathering place Alphaville. Live podcasts are all the rage now and this is sort of like that. Except no ads for Bonobos. So not at all.

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Thursday, January 12, 2017

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 1/12/17

(Above: Kenny Omega, who had a pretty good 2016 himself)

My best podcast of the year is usually the first one. Why? Because I've read a whole bunch of other people's best of the year list from the preceding year and cherry picked my favorites from what I hadn't heard. This podcast is truly standing on the shoulders of giants. (Giants, in the case, usually meaning former fanzine editors in their late 40s/early 50s.)

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Thursday, December 15, 2016

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 12/15/16

From the collection of Kevin Pederson 

Another clichéd podcast to close out a year who's sheer awfulness has become a cliché. Enjoy it before we all meet our doom.

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Thursday, November 17, 2016

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 11/17/16


This is the first Unblinking Ear Podcast of this brave new era where facts, reason, qualifications and general decency don't matter any more. I feel the word "fiasco" will acheive a new prominence in the coming years. Anyway, here's some tunes to get you through these dark times.

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Thursday, October 13, 2016

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 10/13/16

So I'm going to go ahead and say this podcast is now monthly. This not by design. Not really be necessity either. More by convenience. That means the next podcast we'll have a new president elect. I'm pulling for Tiffani Mims. She looks like a nice lady.

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Thursday, September 15, 2016

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 9/15/16


Do you find the above GIF as hilarious as I do? Probably not but I'm to lazy to think of anything to write to accompany this podcast so you're stuck with it.

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Thursday, August 18, 2016

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 8/18/16


My 5th podcast of 2016 and it's only August. Enjoy this escargot-like delicacy!

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Thursday, July 07, 2016

The Unblinking Ear Podcast 7/7/16


I'm going to forgo my usual apology for the lateness of this podcast and instead, simply tell you what's been going on in Unblinking Ear HQ in the interim:

Our showcases for the Northside Fest were enormously successful (read: adequate). If you missed out, you can hear the Gotobeds set on NYC Taper.

Our name your price digital single series Office Supplies continued with entries from Trés Oui and Big Bliss. We also have a tote/record bag (as modeled by Taylor above) available for sale! It comes with a free download of our Serious Rockers comp (though you should really own it already).

I did a pair of fill-ins on WFMU, one my usual nonsense and one a "dad rock" special for Father's Day. Not sure what dad rock is? Don't worry. It's made up.

Finally, Jared Leibowich is on tour, including a Brooklyn show with Big Quiet and Big Bliss. Go see him. He's nice.


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