Showing posts with label Rayon Beach. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Unblinking Ear Podcast: One Hundred!


That's right. kids. You are about to hear the 100th edition of the Unblinking Ear Podcast. You can say that's not a big deal and it probably isn't, but ask yourself this: what have you done a hundred of?

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Thursday, March 08, 2012

The Unblinking Ear Podcast: Note to Self

If you're going to put together a podcast, try not to do it while drunk.

Also, you might not want get drunk in the first place when you're on a self-imposed deadline to post a new podcast.

Otherwise you might do things like record an entire segment of back-announcing without your microphone plugged in so instead you'll be recording through your computer's built in mic and sounding like you're in a well.

Then you'll have re-record the segment by which point you'll be so tired that you consistently flub your lines and to achieve some semblance of coherence you'll have to do more patches than Steven Alder in "Civil War."

Of course, you could be stone cold sober and somehow manage to mute an entire song anyway.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Unblinking Ear Podcast: Know Your Genre


It's things like the above (stolen from Judd Apatow's Twitter feed) that make me think I should be much more specific in my iTunes store description.

Speaking of genres, how much come indie types can't come up with good subgenre names? What was the last one? Freak folk? Chillwave? Nobody wants to subdivide, I suppose. Metal fans cleave their medium into tiny slivers, but everything from U2 soundalikes to pure noise is "indie." Mostly this crowd just revives and misapplies terms like "lo-fi" (anything with distorted guitar that's harder than Sufjan Stevens) and "garage" (see prior).

I tried to get Curmudgeon-core (over 35 and reads Terminal Boredom) into the popular lexicon but no one was biting. But I'm making an effort.

The next podcast will be devoted entirely to "mustache punk."


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