Comments on: Looking for More than Music

By: James

James — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:34:41 +0000

You sure about this? There’s still so much good music out there. I recently moved back to France and have been catching up on all the stuff I missed, a few names (not all french…):

Sebastian Tellier (Jim noir mix of La Ritournelle is ace).
Bertrand Burgalat (ChÃ©ri B.B.).
Boards of Canada
Le Clandestin
Sigur Ros
Zero7
Calogero
Bartone (France / Allemagne 82 is funny…)
Stereolab
Le Hammond Inferno
The Flaming Lips
Gruff Rhys
Fat Boy Slim
Peter, Bjorn & John
Aphex Twin (Icct Hedral is excemment)
Amon Tobin (Searchers…)
And of course Ivor Cutler… go on – I dare you to listen to Ivor…

Apologies if above is not to your taste!!!

By: Sean Tubbs

Sean Tubbs — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:13:31 +0000

No worries on the not mentioning. After all, the site is kind of an eclectic beast, without any one podcast. That’s made it slightly hard to manage, which is why our site redesign (based on Mimbo!) has been so helpful as we try to rethink the best way to present such an eclectic array.

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:19:53 +0000

Thanks for the recommendations, Sean, they sound like good listening. I enjoy British-perspective commentary, too. Incidentally just added two Brits to my list: Boag World and The Rissington Podcast. My face is red for not mentioning the Cville Podcast Network earlier - I grabbed the list from my iTunes, instead of Netvibes, which is where I've bookmarked local audio like CPN, Monkeyclaus and so forth. Charlottesvillians, give it a listen. I recently learned a thing or two about chubs.

By: Sean Tubbs

Sean Tubbs — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:04:46 +0000

Sorry for the second comment, but the link in my above comment is to a specific podcast, rather than the main site.

By: Sean Tubbs

Sean Tubbs — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:04:06 +0000

For Charlottesville-based podcasts, there’s always my site, the Charlottesville Podcasting Network. There’s a combination of lectures, radio shows and the occasional feature. Of course, anyone who wants help creating a podcast is welcome to join our volunteer group.

Me personally, I listen to a lot of British podcasts, because I spend a lot of time in the UK. I’m able to keep current with pop culture and news. I’d suggest the BBC podcast page as a good place to start. Start the Week is highly recommended by me for anyone who wants to keep abreast of what’s going on in politics and culture. The format is brilliant – four guests in the same studio, and each has ten minutes or so to talk about their latest work. Sometimes there’s a thread, sometimes there’s not.

I’m personally very excited that the Now Show is back as a podcast. They pulled it from their podcast trial over the summer, but it’s back. It’s incredibly goofy and kind of inside-y, but fun all the same. What’s interesting is the way the BBC is now structuring it – the Now Show podcast feed will now carry another comedy show.

The Front Row podcast features highlights from art and culture, and is a good way to find out new things British. I attribute my discovery of Peep Show to listening to the podcast at just the right time. Peep Show is definitely the funniest sitcom I’ve ever seen, goes for the jugular each time.

I used to listen to the Sound of Young America, but I fell out of the habit when Jesse started splitting up the shows. I’ll get back into it. As you may or may not know, his show is now distributed by PRI.

If it’s still available, see if you can find Benjamen Walker’s the Theory of Everything. It seemed to have died shortly after he started producing them for NPR.