The Unblinking Ear Podcast 8/21/14

Another podcast. Another Brooklyn DJ gig. Tally ho!

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The Unblinking Ear Podcast: User Friendly

I've come to realize that many of you are still not totally wise to the many ways in which one can effortlessly enjoy this podcast.

Below, I've tried to make it as easy as possible. If you click your mouse anywhere within this post, you'll probably wind hearing the podcast somehow.

This podcast is available by subscription via the iTunes store. Just search for "the unblinking ear" and will come right up. Or if that's too much trouble, you can click the picture of the friendly mailman or anywhere in this paragraph and it will open your iTunes and bring you to the Unblinking Ear page. Just click subscribe and you'll be set. Feel free to click on the little drop down menu and share on Facebook and Twitter while you're at it.

You can also download this podcast directly from its storage site. Click on this paragraph or on the picture of Sandra Bullock from the 1995 cyber thriller The Net.

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The Unblinking Ear Podcast: Timing Is Everything

(Almost certainly not on Christopher Nolan's agenda for the Dark Knight sequel.)

For the first time since April, I've completed two podcasts within the same calendar month. This podcast comes just two weeks after my last one. (Well, 17 days, but who's counting?) Yes, I'm very proud of my newly punctual work ethic.

Of course, I haven't updated this blog with anything else in the month of July. I suppose I needed a bit of mental break. I know it would have been nice if altered you, dear reader, to this development. However, you can probably count on a more prolific August, as I've written some rough drafts here and there. Those should be polished up and ready to post in the near future. I'm a lot like Mr. Nolan in my need to perfect my ideas for public consumption. Sure, none of my ideas have grossed $533 million but I think you'd have to admit they're not a bad as nipples on the batsuit either.


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The Unblinking Ear Podcast: If This Be My Density

I haven't been updating this blog as often as I'd like. If you've picked up one of the 250 or so business cards promoting this blog that I've spread around the NYC area of late and you're wondering why I bothered to drop 50 bills getting them printed up when I'm not even posting regularly, well... I don't really have answer for you except to say that my life is constant battle between my ambition and my laziness.

However, I've still been putting together podcasts for your listening pleasure. It's quickly become my favorite hobby superseding trying to assemble the definitive Spiderman collection (in my head) and heckling Oliver Perez.



One day ambition will trump laziness and I'll figure out how to actually get this thing on iTunes. (One prior attempt was quickly aborted in a haze of head scratching with mouth agape.) Until then, you'll have to come to this startlingly content-free blog for all you Unblinking Ear Podcast needs.

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Make This Band Your Myspace Friend: Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves

You probably don't know it but British expatriate Sally Crewe is possibly the best pop songwriter in the world. Hyperbole, you say? Perhaps, but give one listen to her 2003 debut Drive It Like You Stole It and tell me that I'm wrong. On that particular album Ms. Crewe was backed by Jim Eno and Britt Daniel of Spoon with Eno producing. The inventive arrangements they usually bring to Spoon's albums fit Ms Crewe's batch of short, infectiously catchy songs perfectly. A top 5 record of the decade thus far, in my opinion. Unfortunately, Eno and Daniel could not commit full time for obvious reasons and Sally got a new crew of Sudden Moves to back her on her 2005 follow-up Shortly After Take Off. While the sound was far more conventional, the songs were equally if not more impressive than those on the debut platter. I've spent many a commute to work listening to this album's "Game Over" on repeat. Sometimes I even have trouble getting past it to listen to the remainder of the album.

Following this album Sally left London to relocate to Austin, TX and picked up yet another group of Sudden Moves. With this group she went into the studio (with Jim Eno producing again) and recorded Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, a record that has yet to see proper release because no label seems to have enough good sense to put it out. And yet someone is putting out Dan Deacon's albums. This is truly an unjust world. But I digress... Sally has promised to put (every?) track(s) from the new record on the band's myspace page. First up though will be four songs from Drive It Like You Stole It which are on the site now. This will be followed by 4 songs from Shortly After Take Off and then the new record. So go ahead and add them to get the cliff notes version of their discography. You'll be able to become aquainted with Sally's singular brand of pop/rock magnificence rather quickly which will allow you to lie and say you knew them way back before they were cool.

Make Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves your myspace friend.

Update: Sally posted this bulletin on myspace yesterday:

I've just upload "Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You" - track 1 from our upcoming album, uh... "Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You". I'll be uploading a track every day for 12 days, so go and check this one out now because it'll be gone in 24 hours...

So there is now even more incentive to befriend the band and to do it fast! Since 7 pm yesterday the song has received 13 plays. I'm hoping that the power of this blog will at least double that amount.