Top of the pops, Ma!

Just because AM Top 40 radio is dead doesn’t mean the format has to go away.

You don’t have to miss the repetitive formatting, the crappy fidelity, the deejays talking over the music, the cheesy jingles.

Just for you, Steve Wheatley has preserved the radio relic with his fast-paced daily Dalecast, “from Frosterley in the heart of Weardale, County Durham, U.K.” Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 1:20 am Wed, Feb 20, 2008.

Robert G Parent loves to dance

Robert G Parent’s become a bit breathy with his delivery. And giggly.

“I really get an aerobic workout when I listen to these songs. ‘Cause I used to dance,” he titters noisily. “And when I hear music, something just starts to take over and I just…go with the music.”

Last I heard from Robert, he played The Ballad Of Morris The Cat on his poetry and music podcast The Write Stuff. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 4:54 pm Fri, Feb 15, 2008.

Let’s just cut the clap!

Jeri Massi’s listeners are exhausted refugees from the religious wars, beaten down, she says, by the hectoring authority of fundamentalist Christianity.

Neither did Jesus make them rich, nor save them, nor heal their wretched diseases.

They’re emotionally whipped and sorely disappointed.

Good thing they’ve got my songs to cheer them up! Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 3:28 am Mon, Feb 11, 2008.

San Luis rains sink Shawno fitness plan

Long the musician-techno-junk-food-consuming geek, Shawno’s reached his thirties and recently announced his Not A Resolution Health Initiative.

Trouble is, he’s been stuck inside the trailer, unable to exercise, due to extraordinary and relentless Southern California winter rains. His excuse, uttered to Hyper Nonsense co-host Jen: “You took the umbrella!”

Well, it rained here in Texas, too, for about five months straight last spring and summer. Didn’t stop until the reservoirs were ready to overflow and drown us all. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 1:04 am Sun, Feb 10, 2008.

Catch me Thursday on The Phil Show

Anybody here got XM Radio?

If you got it, tune in Thursday, Feb. 7, and listen to my interview with Phil Iazzetta on The Phil Show, heard from noon-6 p.m. PST on National Lampoon Radio, XM Channel 154.

I’ve known about Phil since his tenure as host of Phil’s Other Show, mid-days on the Sirius Raw Dog Comedy Channel. And best I can tell, Phil knew about me. Every once in a while, I’d get a new friend request on myspace, with a note attached: “Heard Phil talking about you!” Continue reading

Posted in: Radio at 9:40 pm Wed, Feb 6, 2008.