The WSJ article explains how music industry is starting to embrace podcasting by licensing songs to promotional podcasting group. Can we really say they are embracing podcasting? Is podcasting better of without the music industry embracing it? I always thought podcasting is better when it is indie.
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Jan 07
Music Industry Changes Its Tune on Podcasting
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Dec 06
Pluggd Promises Podcast Search: Hear Here!
One of the main problems with podcasts is not being able to search inside a podcast just like text based web content.
Pluggd seems to have the solution for that and it seems very promising from their demo. They are using speech processing and semantics to pinpoint the sections of the audio that contain the search term. It is called Hear Here!
I immediately signed up for the service to try it out. However, from what I understand only ESPN Sportscenter podcasts are search enabled at the moment. Their blog says the feature will be available site wide soon.
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Dec 06
Tune of the Week: Count Boogie
This week’s tune of the week will come from Count Boogie. One of his mp3 were dropped on my podcatcher by Daily Dose Podcast.
The song was called Tom Please Share and was about no other than the MySpace Tom who is everyone’s friend. I immediately went to his website called MyMP3forFree.com and found out that he is all about giving his work for free for non-commercial purposes.
On his site, he has Rock-Pop-Punk, Acoustic-Soft Rock, Comedy and Funky-RAP categories with many songs available for download.
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Dec 06
Tune of The Week: Decibully
This week’s tune of the week features Decibully, a band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are signed to Polyvinyl Records.
The band released their first album, City of Festivals in 2003, and their latest album Sing Out America in 2005. Their roots as a band go back to Fall of 2001 when they were formed as a trio according to the information on their page on Polyvinly Records.
From the same source, we learn that two members of Decibully were the founders of a band called Camden in 1999 and released a self titled EP back then. They were then signed to Polyvinly records as Decibully.
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Nov 06
Tune of the Week: The Ride Theory
This week’s tune of the week features The Ride Theory, a band from Ontario, Canada. They came to my attention, as usual, in one of Insomnia Radio episodes. It was also the IR Spotlight show last week that reminded me of them once again, and I decided I would feature a song from them.
The band has two albums so far. Their first album is Self-Titled Debut album (available in iTunes) from 2002. They released their second album In this City in 2005 (available in iTunes, and via Paypal here). On their web site, the band has 3 songs from each album available for download.
The Ride Theory is a very podcast friendly band. They have a list of all the podcasts they have been played on and they have Podsafe Music Network page which lists songs that are available for podcasters.
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Nov 06
Tune of the Week: Smoosh
Smoosh is an interesting American indie pop duo. They are interesting because Asya, the singer/keyboardist is 14 years old and her sister, the drummer Chloe is just 12.
Smoosh released their first album, She Like Electric, on September 2004. Their second album titled Free to Stay was released in June 2006. I learned from their Wikipedia entry that neither of them can read music and that Asya quit piano training because she found it boring. Girls, who write their own music are signed to Barsuk Records. There is lots of coverage about this interesting duo, and this page has a lot links and information on the young duo. In addition to their official page, there is a fan site which has some news and streams of Smoosh songs. There is also a Myspace page as can be expected.
The song I chose from them is Rad, which is from their She Like Electric album. This is a very happy and cheerful song and definitely leaves a smile on your face after you listen to it.
In addition, here is a live performance of Smoosh playing Rad:
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