Alas, playing only music from new releases was a bit of anomaly. Instead, we've got our usual mix of new music, old music and new releases of old music. But I swear, it's good stuff, not a bunch of leftovers like so much congealed post-Thanksgiving mashed potatoes.
And even if you don't think this current podcast is especially superior to the one prior, you can't deny that it's a minute longer. Enjoy!
Here at Unblinking Ear HQ, we've noticed over the last couple of months a large amount of music press/internet babble devoted to deluxe reissues of albums that came out 20 years ago*. There's nothing wrong with that as we here at Unblinking Ear celebrate rock history as well and have also been known to have something of a 90s fetish.
However, what use is nostalgia when it overshadows the vital work happening in the here and now? There has been such a deluge of terrific new releases over the past few weeks and months that we've been struggling to keep up. In fact, the amount of fine new records has been so great that we've decided to eschew the past temporarily and devote this edition of the podcast entirely to brand new music. With so much, so good coming out recently, it was actually rather easy to acompliish.
The next podcast will surely feature some fine music recorded many years prior mixed with equally fine music of the present. But for now... dig the now.
*Incidentally, the actual best album of 1991 was Eleventh Dream Day's Lived To Tell.
It seems as though live podcasting all the rage of late. Marc Maron, Julie Klausner and Paul F Tompkins among others have recently hosted live versions of the podcasts to great acclaim and have netted millions of internet dollars in the process.
In my ongoing effort to prove that I can imitate successful people, I'll be doing the same. This Saturday, I'll be hosting the first ever Unblinking Ear Podcast LIVE at the Diamond in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
It will be much like my usual podcast, only instead of it being 45 minutes or so, it will run, I don't know, four to six hours. Other bonuses include:
The songs I select will be played through a full sound system rather than your tiny computer speakers.
Listening to said songs while drinking alcohol in the company of other living humans rather than alone in your dirty apartment, staring into the middle distance.
The possibility of having a conversation with ME! (If you can get past my entourage.)
Another difference is that I won't be talking in between set over looped RZA beats to back announce the songs. The good folks at the Diamond are fans of my podcast but when they play it in the bar, they find the talking distracting.
What's that you say? That this is just a DJ gig and I'm trying to pass it off as something more grandiose and exciting?
You've got a lot of nerve, hypothetical person.
DJ Paul Bruno presents The Unblinking Ear Podcast LIVE! Saturday, November 5th @ The Diamond 43 Franklin St (between Quay St & Calyer St) Brooklyn, NY 11222 10 pm FREE!
