It's taken me ages to sort this out due to various technical difficulties but I've finally "published" my first podcast. I'm sure I sound like a complete twat but at least the music is good! So here's the first ever Keep Hope Inside Podcast, showcasing the best unknown and underrated acts from around the globe. Hope you enjoy listening to it!
Keep Hope Inside Podcast#1 (33.13, 30.4mbs)
Intro (with samples from Michael Oster's website [link])
1) Johnny Foreigner - Sofacore [MySpace]
2) goFASTER>> - You Better Watch Out [MySpace]//Download 'YBWO' [link]
3) Distophia - Robert Redford (out Monday 30th April) [MySpace]
4) Shake My Hand - Invincible [MySpace]
5) Munch Munch - Celebrity Engine [MySpace]//Download from BBC Unsigned [link]
6) Linfinity - Magdalena [MySpace]//[Website]
7) Help She Can't Swim - Hospital Drama [MySpace]//Buy the single from Norman Records [link]
8) The Jane Bradfords - Hide From The Cold [MySpace]//Download from BBC Unsigned [link]
9) This Town Needs Guns - Hippy Jam Fest (Acoustic) [MySpace]//Download the acoustic version (also available on their MySpace page) [link]
Tracks used with permission or freely available on the internet.
DIRECT DOWNLOAD HERE (right click, save target as) [link]
Subscribe to podcast feed [link]//Subscribe in iTunes [link]
Subscribing to the feed means you'll be notified when I get around to doing more podcasts in the future. You can do that with podcatchers or through iTunes, as above. You can also do a DIY add to iTunes by going to "Subscribe To Podcast" under the "Advanced" menu and pasting the podcast feed (the left link above) there.
If that's whet your appetite, go forth and listen to the Take Your Medicine, Not Your Usual Bollocks and Contrast podcasts.
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Any cop? More talk/less talk? Longer/shorter? Fave track/s? Have you managed to subscribe to it okay? etc etc. Obviously, it's my first go so hopefully things will improve but would be nice to hear what you all think.
on Tuesday, March 20, 2007
"This one's for the freaks" apparently. The Manic Street Preachers have returned with a preview of their new material from forthcoming new album 'Send Away The Tigers'. I must confess I'm very unfamiliar with much of the Manics work but their new track 'Underdogs' is a bit more Green Day than I expected from the Welsh veterans. I'm probably doing it a great disservice so I'll let Nicky Wire fill you in on the details:
The new single 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough' is completely different and a bit more of what I expected from the Manics. Except it has Nina Persson of The Cardigans on vocals! LOVE ME, LOVE ME, SAY THAT YOU LOVE ME. Not as good as the Victoria Bergstrom and Peter, Bjorn and John combo but not bad, maybe a bit too radio friendly? Judge for yourselves:
Manic Street Preachers - Underdogs
The new album 'Send Away The Tigers' is released on May 7th preceded by a single 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough' on April 30th.
Sign up to their mailing list [link] to get the artwork/lyrics to accompany the download.
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Have the Manics been carried by an overenthusiastic fanbase reliving the supposed glorydays? Were their respective solo outfits better? Is Richey Edwards still alive? Answers on a postcard/comment.
"All out punk metal - Alice Cooper - Stooges guitar outro. Could have been on Generation Terrorist. A celebration of the unique, a post 'Everything Must Go' address to the fans 10 years after the first time we did it. In a Britain dominated by generic, one diametrical multi branding, let us embrace the difference - the downtrodden - the losers and the opposition. Let us fall in love with individuality again" - Nicky Wire, Manic Street Preachers
The new single 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough' is completely different and a bit more of what I expected from the Manics. Except it has Nina Persson of The Cardigans on vocals! LOVE ME, LOVE ME, SAY THAT YOU LOVE ME. Not as good as the Victoria Bergstrom and Peter, Bjorn and John combo but not bad, maybe a bit too radio friendly? Judge for yourselves:
Manic Street Preachers - Underdogs
The new album 'Send Away The Tigers' is released on May 7th preceded by a single 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough' on April 30th.
Sign up to their mailing list [link] to get the artwork/lyrics to accompany the download.
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Have the Manics been carried by an overenthusiastic fanbase reliving the supposed glorydays? Were their respective solo outfits better? Is Richey Edwards still alive? Answers on a postcard/comment.
on Monday, March 05, 2007
Last week I was lucky enough to get a couple of promo cds through the posts (courtesy of Alistair from High Voltage or at least his work experience monkey), so I thought I'd tell you a bit about my bounty. And encourage people to send me more cds or mp3s, details for where to send what are in my sidebar (---->).
Polytechnic - Cold Hearted Business
With an NME single of the week, two releases on the influential Transgressive Records label and support slots with Doves and Keane already under their belt, you'd expect the Manchester five piece to have achieved more commercial success than they've garnered so far. 'Cold Hearted Business' gives us an idea of what a British Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! would sound like. A jangly, exceedingly pop affair with oohs AND aahs. Not to mention handclaps. Fantastic. With former single 'Man Overboard' recalling Dresden Dolls with its sweeping piano, it's an exciting prospect to discover which direction Polytechnic have taken on their forthcoming LP 'Down Till Dawn'.
Polytechnic - Cold Hearted Business
Buy: iTunes // HMV
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The Black Ghosts - Anyway You Choose To Give It
Simon of the now defunct Simian's (you know..."here comes la breeze" from the car advert) latest venture is a two piece electro pop outfit. Along with Theo Black Ghost, he has crafted a pulsating, sexually charged fervour with new single 'Anyway You Choose To Give It'. Getting Manchester's flavour of the month The Whip to do a remix is inspired with the result being a more jagged, despairing effort yet nonetheless retaining the dancefloor vibe. I'm sure you'll hear plenty more about both these bands soon.
The Black Ghosts - Anyway You Choose To Give It (The Whip Remix)
'Anyway You Choose To Give It' is out on Southern Fried Records from 2nd April.
Polytechnic - Cold Hearted Business
With an NME single of the week, two releases on the influential Transgressive Records label and support slots with Doves and Keane already under their belt, you'd expect the Manchester five piece to have achieved more commercial success than they've garnered so far. 'Cold Hearted Business' gives us an idea of what a British Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! would sound like. A jangly, exceedingly pop affair with oohs AND aahs. Not to mention handclaps. Fantastic. With former single 'Man Overboard' recalling Dresden Dolls with its sweeping piano, it's an exciting prospect to discover which direction Polytechnic have taken on their forthcoming LP 'Down Till Dawn'.
Polytechnic - Cold Hearted Business
Buy: iTunes // HMV
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The Black Ghosts - Anyway You Choose To Give It
Simon of the now defunct Simian's (you know..."here comes la breeze" from the car advert) latest venture is a two piece electro pop outfit. Along with Theo Black Ghost, he has crafted a pulsating, sexually charged fervour with new single 'Anyway You Choose To Give It'. Getting Manchester's flavour of the month The Whip to do a remix is inspired with the result being a more jagged, despairing effort yet nonetheless retaining the dancefloor vibe. I'm sure you'll hear plenty more about both these bands soon.
The Black Ghosts - Anyway You Choose To Give It (The Whip Remix)
'Anyway You Choose To Give It' is out on Southern Fried Records from 2nd April.
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