The Unblinking Ear Podcast: Derby Season

The Kentucky Derby is in just two days. May I suggest that you bet on my horse Pie O' My?

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The Unblinking Ear Podcast: Plausibly the Best of 2011

The year is nearly over. But before we put 2011 in our rearview, let's take a moment (or roughly 47 and a half minutes) to reflect on the year that was.

Below are selections from what I consider the best records of 2011. For those of you with obsessive compulsive disorder, don't fret. I'll be putting them in list form in the near future, along with many "honorable mentions."

I welcome all agreements/disagreements, Either post them in comments section or tweet them at me. But before you work yourself into a frothy rage over my selections, do try and remember that these things are subjective.

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The Unblinking Ear Podcast: Zeitgeist, Baby

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.

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The Unblinking Ear Podcast: The Power Is Back!

(Above: mankind's greatest invention)

New York City went through a pretty rough heat wave this week. One couldn't be blamed for looking over their shoulder to if a Yautja was hunting the urban landscape for Earth's deadliest game. ("Only in the hottest years this happens. And this year, it grows hot.")

A more pressing matter for me was the 12-hour blackout my block suffered through on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. This not only meant that I was unable to DVR the third episode of Louie but it also prevented me from assembling this podcast in as timely a manner as I wanted. My apologies but you can see the situation was out of my control.

As for what happened the prior 6 weeks since I presented my last podcast that prevented me from making a new one... um... hmm. Would you believe that fantasy baseball is a highly-stressful, time consuming activity?


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The Unblinking Ear Podcast: Sour Grapes

(Above: a titan of industry)

A few weeks back I wrote about the imminent backlash for the lo-fi revival movement. I opined that some of these bands might be wise to at least explore the possibility of making records in an actual studio so that the sound (and trendiness thereof) didn't overshadow their tunes. Little did I know that Psychedelic Horseshit actually wants to sound like Rihanna. Or that Mike Sniper is apparently the most powerful man in the music industry.

I can only hope Mr. Sniper hears this podcast and my support of bands of varying degrees fidelity and offers me a place in his empire. Put the auction for that Mad Virgins record in your watched items list? Yes, sir!


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The Unblinking Ear Podcast: Detox Blues

I created this week's podcast during the first day of my detox regimen. So if while back announcing the songs I sound hungry, weak, irritable, or like I'm about to have an unpleasant bowel movement, that's why.

Enjoy!

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