Monday, May 16, 2011

The Unblinking Ear Podcast: Three Years and Counting


(The traditional gift for a third anniversary is leather. If you must, just buy me a drink instead.)

Three years and a few days ago I posted my first podcast.

In that time I've done 73 podcast and played hundreds of bands.

541 to be precise.

And here are all of them:
  1. AC Newman
  2. The Action
  3. The Addicts
  4. The Adverts
  5. AK-47
  6. Alan Milman Sect
  7. Alternative TV
  8. Alice Cooper
  9. American Music Club
  10. Angry Samoans
  11. Animals and Men
  12. Anti-Band
  13. Apache Dropout
  14. Arc In Round
  15. Art Attacks
  16. Article 58
  17. Babylon Dance Band
  18. Bad Posture
  19. Babies
  20. Barbara Manning
  21. Bardo Pond
  22. Bare Wires
  23. Bartlebees
  24. Bass Drum of Death
  25. Bassholes
  26. The Bats
  27. Beach Boys
  28. Beach Fossils
  29. The Beat
  30. Beauty Supply
  31. The Beets
  32. Belreve
  33. Best Coast
  34. Better Beatles
  35. Bettie Serveert
  36. Bevis Frond
  37. Beyond the Implode
  38. Big Star
  39. Bird Nest Roys
  40. The Birthday Party
  41. The Bizarros
  42. Black Market Baby
  43. Black Tambourine
  44. Blue Orchids
  45. Bobby Soxx
  46. Boomgates
  47. Bottomless Pit
  48. Box Elders
  49. The Boys
  50. Brain Eno
  51. Brommers
  52. Busted Statues
  53. Buzzcocks
  54. Cabaret Voltaire
  55. Can
  56. Captain Beefheart
  57. Cardinal
  58. Carolee
  59. The Cat's Miaow
  60. Cause Co-Motion
  61. Chain Gang
  62. Chain and the Gang
  63. Chameleons
  64. Charles Bradley
  65. Cheap Time
  66. Cheap Trick
  67. Cheveu
  68. Chills
  69. Chris Carpenter
  70. Christmas
  71. Chrome
  72. The Chosen Few
  73. Cinema Red and Blue
  74. Circle X
  75. Classic Ruins
  76. The Clean
  77. Clinic
  78. Cloud Nothings
  79. Colin Newman
  80. Come
  81. Comsat Angels
  82. Consonant
  83. Coral
  84. Coloured Balls
  85. The Cramps
  86. The Creation
  87. The Creepers
  88. The Crescendos
  89. Crime
  90. Cruddy
  91. Crystal Stilts
  92. Cyclops
  93. Daniel Francis Doyle
  94. Dantalian's Chariot
  95. David Bazan
  96. David Kilgour
  97. Davila 666
  98. The dBs
  99. DC Snipers
  100. Dead Boys
  101. Dead C
  102. Dead Fingers Talk
  103. Death
  104. Deerhunter
  105. Defnics
  106. Desperate Bicycles
  107. Destroyer
  108. The Dicks
  109. The Dictators
  110. Died Pretty
  111. Dieter Meier
  112. Dikes of Holland
  113. The Dils
  114. Dim Stars
  115. Dinosaur Jr
  116. Dirt Shit
  117. Dirty Looks
  118. Dirtbombs
  119. Disappears
  120. Distractions
  121. Dog Eat Dog
  122. The Dogs (US & France)
  123. Dolly Mixture
  124. Double Negative
  125. Dr. Zeke
  126. Drive Like Jehu
  127. The Dream Syndicate
  128. Drunks With Guns
  129. Duchess of Saigon
  130. Dum Dum Girls
  131. Easybeats
  132. Eat Skull
  133. Eater
  134. Eddy Current Suppression Ring
  135. Electric Eels
  136. Eleventh Dream Day
  137. The Embarrassment
  138. Embrace
  139. Endtables
  140. Eppu Normaali
  141. Eternal Summers
  142. The Ex
  143. Ex Humans
  144. Fairport Convention
  145. The Fall
  146. Fang
  147. The Feelies
  148. The Fems
  149. Fey Gods
  150. Filth
  151. Flamin Groovies
  152. Fleetwood Mac
  153. Flesh Eaters
  154. Flipper
  155. The Flys
  156. Freestone
  157. The Fresh and Onlys
  158. Fucked Up
  159. Fugazi
  160. Futureheads
  161. Gaunt
  162. Gem
  163. Gene Clark
  164. The Germs
  165. Girls
  166. The Girls
  167. Girls At Our Best
  168. Go-Betweens
  169. Golden Error
  170. Goodnight Loving
  171. Gordons
  172. Grass Widow
  173. The Great Excape
  174. Great Plains
  175. The Great Unwashed
  176. Grifters
  177. Guided By Voices
  178. The Gun Club
  179. Gun Outfit
  180. Guv'ner
  181. Halo of Flies
  182. Hank IV
  183. The Haskels
  184. Thee Headcoats
  185. Helium
  186. Helmettes
  187. Henry's Dress
  188. Herman's Hermits
  189. High Tension Wires
  190. Home Blitz
  191. Homosexuals
  192. Honey Bane
  193. Honor Role
  194. Hot Snakes
  195. Huggy Bear
  196. The Hunches
  197. Hüsker Dü
  198. Idle Times
  199. Ike and Tina Turner
  200. The In Out
  201. Inferno
  202. Japanther
  203. Jawbox
  204. Jay Reatard
  205. Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
  206. Jet Bronx and the Forbidden
  207. Joel RL Phelps and the Downer Trio
  208. John Cale
  209. John Felice
  210. John Wesley Coleman
  211. Johnny Moped
  212. Johnny Thunders
  213. The Kent 3
  214. Kevin Ayers
  215. K-Holes
  216. Kidnappers
  217. The Kids
  218. The Kinks
  219. Kilps 1988
  220. Kriminella Gitarrer
  221. Kurt Vile
  222. Kistomized
  223. La Peste
  224. La Sera
  225. Lame Drivers
  226. The Laureates
  227. Lazy Cowgirls
  228. Lee Harvey Oswald Band
  229. The Leftovers
  230. Lemming
  231. Les Olivensteins
  232. The Lewd
  233. The Like
  234. Liket Lever
  235. Liliput
  236. Lilys
  237. Lime Spiders
  238. Liminanas
  239. The Lines
  240. Lipstick Killers
  241. Little Claw
  242. Lois
  243. Lollipop Shoppe
  244. Long Blondes
  245. Look Blue Go Purple
  246. Lost Sounds
  247. Lou Reed
  248. Loudon Wainwright III
  249. Love
  250. Love of Diagrams
  251. Lyres
  252. Ma'am
  253. Magick Heads
  254. Magik Markers
  255. Mannequin Men
  256. Mantles
  257. Marked Men
  258. Mars Classroom
  259. Master's Apprentices
  260. The Mayfair Set
  261. Mayyors
  262. Mecca Normal
  263. Mekons
  264. The Men
  265. Meth Teeth
  266. Method Actors
  267. Mick Farren
  268. Micronotz
  269. Mind Spiders
  270. Minutemen
  271. Mirrors
  272. Mission of Burma
  273. The Misunderstood
  274. Modey Lemon
  275. The Monorchid
  276. Moon Duo
  277. Moonhearts
  278. Mort Subite
  279. Motards
  280. Motorhead
  281. The Move
  282. Moving Sidewalks
  283. Moving Targets
  284. Muffs
  285. MX-80 Sound
  286. My Dad Is Dead
  287. My Teenage Stride
  288. Myelin Sheaths
  289. The Mystic Tide
  290. Naked On The Vague
  291. Nasal Boys
  292. Nation of Ulysses
  293. The Nazz
  294. Negative Approach
  295. Negative Trend
  296. The Neighborhoods
  297. Neil Young
  298. The Nerves
  299. Neu
  300. New Bomb Turks
  301. New Pornographers
  302. New Year
  303. Nitwitz
  304. NNB
  305. No Joy
  306. Nocturnal Projections
  307. Nodzzz
  308. Noh Mercy
  309. Nothing Painted Blue
  310. Nothing People
  311. Nubs
  312. The Obits
  313. OBN IIIs
  314. OFF!
  315. The Only Ones
  316. Opus
  317. The Oranges Band
  318. Oxford Collapse
  319. The Pagans
  320. Pain
  321. Parting Gifts
  322. Pastels
  323. The Patti Smith Group
  324. Paul Reekie
  325. The People's Temple
  326. Pere Ubu
  327. Phil Ochs
  328. Photobooth
  329. Pierced Arrows
  330. The Pin Group
  331. Pink Fairies
  332. Pissed Jeans
  333. Pleazers
  334. Polvo
  335. Ponys
  336. Pop. 1280
  337. The Pop Group
  338. The Prefects
  339. Pretty Things
  340. Prisonshake
  341. Proud Scum
  342. Protex
  343. Psychedelic Horseshit
  344. Psychic Ills
  345. Psycho Surgeons
  346. Public Image Ltd
  347. Puffy Areolas
  348. Purling Hiss
  349. Pylon
  350. Quintron
  351. Radio Birdman
  352. Randoms
  353. Rayon Beach
  354. Reading Rainbow
  355. Real Kids
  356. Really Red
  357. Reactions
  358. Red Asphalt
  359. Red Krayola
  360. Red Transistor
  361. Reigning Sound
  362. The Reruns
  363. Restricted Code
  364. Richard Hell
  365. Richard Thompson
  366. The Rich Kids
  367. The Rings
  368. Rip Offs
  369. Rivals
  370. Robert Wyatt
  371. Rock-A-Teens
  372. Roger Miller
  373. Roky Erickson
  374. Ron House
  375. Ronnie Mayor
  376. Rose Tattoo
  377. Rot Shit
  378. Roy Wood
  379. Rozz
  380. Rude Kids
  381. Running
  382. The Ruts
  383. Saccharine Trust
  384. Sado-Nation
  385. The Saints
  386. Salem 66
  387. Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves
  388. San Francisco Seals
  389. Satan's Rats
  390. The Satellities
  391. Screaming Urge
  392. Scritti Politti
  393. Scrotum Poles
  394. Sebadoh
  395. Severe
  396. Shannon and the Clams
  397. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
  398. Shop Assistants
  399. Sic Alps
  400. Silkworm
  401. Silver Apples
  402. Simply Saucer
  403. Singles
  404. Siouxsie and the Banshees
  405. The Skinnies
  406. Skrewdriver
  407. Slant 6
  408. Sleater Kinney
  409. The Sleepers
  410. Slices
  411. The Slits
  412. Slug Guts
  413. Smith Westerns
  414. Snuky Tate
  415. Soft Boys
  416. Soft Tags
  417. Some Chicken
  418. Sonic Youth
  419. Sonics
  420. Sonic's Rendezvous Band
  421. Sorry
  422. Sort Sol
  423. Soul Ayslum
  424. Spider Bags
  425. Spinanes
  426. Spoon
  427. Spring
  428. The Squad
  429. Squirrel Bait
  430. Steve Harley
  431. Stiffs Inc
  432. The Stooges
  433. The Stranglers
  434. Strapping Fieldhands
  435. Stuart Murdoch
  436. Styrenes
  437. Sugar
  438. Suicide Commandos
  439. Suicide Squad
  440. Superchunk
  441. Super Wild Horses
  442. Swamp Rats
  443. Swell Maps
  444. Tallboys
  445. Tall Dwarfs
  446. Tampax
  447. Tapeworm
  448. Team Dresch
  449. The Teardrop Explodes
  450. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
  451. Teenage Fanclub
  452. Telefones
  453. Television
  454. Television Personalities
  455. Terrorways
  456. Thee Oh Sees
  457. Thermals
  458. This Kind of Punishment
  459. This Poison!
  460. Third Bardo
  461. Thomas Function
  462. Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments
  463. Thought Criminals
  464. Throwing Muses
  465. Tights
  466. Tim Cohen
  467. Times New Viking
  468. Tommy Keene
  469. Too Much
  470. Toys
  471. Trash
  472. Tre Orsi
  473. Triple Hex
  474. The Trend
  475. Troggs
  476. True West
  477. TV Ghost
  478. Twink
  479. Twinkeys
  480. Two Tears
  481. Ty Segall
  482. Tyler Jon Tyler
  483. Tyvek
  484. Undertones
  485. The Unholy Two
  486. Unnatural Helpers
  487. Unrest
  488. Urinals
  489. Urge Overkill
  490. Uzi
  491. V-3
  492. Vagrants
  493. Vaselines
  494. Vast Majority
  495. Vee Dee
  496. The Verge
  497. Verlaines
  498. Versus
  499. Vicious Visions
  500. The Victims
  501. Victor Dimisich Band
  502. Vivian Girls
  503. Vomit Launch
  504. Vomit Pigs
  505. Volcano Suns
  506. Vulgar Boatmen
  507. Wanda Jackson
  508. Warmers
  509. Waves
  510. Wavves
  511. The Wedding Present
  512. Weekend
  513. Weirdos
  514. Wetdog
  515. The What's New
  516. Whines
  517. White Fence
  518. White Mystery
  519. Wild Flag
  520. The Wipers
  521. Wire
  522. Witchfynde
  523. Women
  524. Wooden Shjips
  525. Wounded Lion
  526. Woven Bones
  527. Wreckless Eric
  528. Wrong Words
  529. X
  530. Xray Eyeballs
  531. X-Ray Spex
  532. XYX
  533. Yo
  534. Yo La Tengo
  535. The Young
  536. Young Marble Giants
  537. Yung Wu
  538. Zero Boys
  539. 21-645
  540. The 3Ds
  541. 45 Grave

Last year, I posted a similar list and asked for suggestions of artists I haven't played. If you made a suggestion and I didn't play it, feel free to suggest it again.


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Monday, May 09, 2011

The Unblinking Ear Podcast: Hammer of the Gods

Anybody see Thor this past weekend? I haven't and unless it includes a Sweet cover, I probably won't.



(Thanks to Can't Stop The Bleeding for the link.)


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