Completely Conspicuous 118: Radio Nowhere

The podcast returns with special guest James Gralian, who joins me to discuss podcasting and the slow death of commercial radio. Click here to listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly here (right click and "save as").

The show notes...

Topics:

- James hosts The Rink podcast (http://www.rinkpodcast.com)

- James got into podcasts after getting an iPod

- Worked as a radio engineer

- Wrote hockey blog for years and wanted to do more

- Plane flies overhead

- Don't listen to commercial radio anymore

- Playlists are shorter, formatting has taken over

- College radio is still great

- Since '96, consolidation has killed radio creativity

- Podcasting is a labor of love

- The fine art of podcasting while driving

- James started site called Podcasters Unite (http://www.podcastunite.com) to begin conversation about podcasting

- Operating in a vacuum

- Podcasting is more than Internet radio thanks to time-shifting element

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

- Quasi - Repulsion

- We Were Promised Jetpacks - A Far Cry

- Beach House - Norway

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The Quasi song is on the album American Gong on Kill Rock Stars. The song is courtesy of RCRDLBL, where you can download the song for free.

The We Were Promised Jetpacks song is on the EP The Last Place You'll Look on Fat Cat Records. The Beach House song is on the album Teen Dream on Sub Pop Records. The songs are courtesy of IODA Promonet:

We Were Promised Jetpacks
"A Far Cry" (mp3)
from "The Last Place You'll Look"
(Fat Cat Records)

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Beach House
"Norway" (mp3)
from "Teen Dream"
(Arts & Crafts Mexico)

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog.

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