Jan 6th :

Nervous Eaters : Just Head + I'm A Degenerate
Comets On Fire : Graverobbers
Chesterfield Kings : I Don't Understand
Forbidden Tigers : Next In Line
Amplified Heat : She Drank That Wine
Mekons : Never Been In A Riot
Pretty Things : Defecting Grey (live)
High Tension Wires : High Note
Awesome Color : Hat Energy
Om : Bhima's Theme
Testors : Primitive
Chrome Cranks : The Big Ripoff
Oresund Space Collective : Viking Cleaner
The Daily Void : Die Stiletto

If you're locating around Copenhagen/Malmo tune in tonite at 7.30 pm!

I have just realised you have to PAY now to listen to these shows! First time I discovered this site, everything was free. Anyone knows where to listen to more of Mad Daddy for free?

Thanks to the internet I've finally been able to hear some of Mad Daddy's radio shows (which I knew about from the Cramps). Juste in case you don't know it, here's the link : http://www.reelradio.com/bt/index.html. Fantastic, especially the 1958 show in which he played Andre Williams and Link Wray! I wish there could be more of them online.

I haven't heard those, but would love to!!

That certainly would be swell!

Did you ever listen to the National Lampoon Radio Hour? Those ran for only a year (around '73 or so) but were rerun on one local station throughout the '70s. I wish I could find archives of those old shows! I'm sure they have to exist somewhere, but I haven't been able to dig any up at all. Anyone?

I love radio, too. Obviously 98% of it sucks ass today, but I still love the medium. Hell, I majored in broadcasting, so that should tell you something. When we first started podcasting, we called the podcast "GaragePunk.com Pirate Radio," which a couple of people took exception to considering the careful nature of what we decided we could and could not play. Anyway, back then I always thought it would be cool if someone could take our podcasts and actually broadcast them over the airwaves somehow, in the spirit of Radio Caroline, Radio Sutch, Swinging Radio England and other '60s offshore pirates. Anyone own a yacht? Haha...

Hur hur hur...cool...of course I used to also love listening to ye olde Radio Luxembourg back in the mid to late 70s, in my dad's car in the drive cos the wireless in the house couldn't get a decent reception, used to be great listening for all these new records by all the groups of the day, like Sweet, Slade and erm things like Hello, cos I vividly remember hearing their 'Another School Day' and it just summed up what I felt too Oh No, Another Day, Another School Day-ay-ay Oh No......that was also the first time I ever heard the 'Stones' Goat's Head Soup thumper 'Star Star' aired on radio, best song on an otherwise fairly boring LP...certainly not a patch on their earlier stuff. Yeah UTM Ed Gnu-Sonic, doncha just love it eh ha ha...cheers for now - Lenny

When I cycle to work is the best time to listen to the podcasts on the MP3 player.

I actuallly work in front of a computer, so I just open the garagepunk podcast page and leave it open while I work away on the terminal server. Sometimes the music just takes over me and I lose all sense of rationality and stop working, not soo good but I have a great time, haha. I plan to get an iphone soon so that I can take the podcasts with me wherever I go.

Actually my original point was how do you listen to the shows without getting chained to the computer? I mean a lot of people are too busy to really just stay in one place and listen to them. So, what would an alternate means of listening be? I listen to most of my music in the car since I drive a lot.

Except when you want to listen to the podcasts in your car, or on the bus, or on a campout... portable mp3 players are all about convenience, baby! Having your entire music collection wherever you go (not to mention all of these great podcasts) comes in mighty handy! ;)

But (to for those who refuse to get a portable mp3 player - much as I resisted for a long time), to listen on your computer is just fine!!!

There are instructions on subscribing on the site. Check the "How to Subscribe" page...

You don't have an iPod or other kind of portable mp3 player? That's obviously the BEST way to listen to them (by subscribing via the RSS feed and having them synced up with your iPod)... then you don't have to spend all that time manually downloading them and burning them onto CDs...

Bat Out Of Hell-Meat Loaf. I cheered when he died in Fight Club
Xanadu - Olivia Newton John.
Cocomo - Beach Boys. Due to this song I was arrested and fined $150.00
Hall & Oates - Any song ever released, special to Rich Girl.
Hotel California - The Eagles. Enough said!
Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down.
It's Still Rock'n'Roll To Me - Billy Joel.No Billy, it's lame ass MOR crap.
The Day Chicago Died - Paper Lace. Please, if you don't know this song, do not ever listen to it.
Instant Replay - Dan Hartman.
In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins. Bald man,bad music.

Any photographers out there taking cool shots of live bands or just wanting to share album cover scans or whatever can feel free to share their pics with the GaragePunk.com Flickr Group. The 10 latest photos in the group pool actually get displayed at the top of the wordpress blog at GaragePunk.com (in case you were wondering where those photos originated... that's where!). Thanks, kopper

What are your favorite of the current crop of surf/instro bands out there today? Any new ones you're excited about? Post 'em here (and please refrain from blatantly promoting your own band... at least in THIS thread)!

Thanks,
kopper

you got one there the arse'plotcast

So how many of these did you actually GET for Christmas, Courtney? Hope you had a good haul!

Will the inductees get a plaque to hang on the wall or something ? Will there be a ceremony ?

Yeah I was just joking with the Little Bit Of Soul, althought I'd say it has plenty of soul of the teenage variety. I think they had a good singer. I saw Dirty Water on "blue eyed soul" compilation a while back. I thought that was interesting. Why is R. Dean Taylor not soul? Pardon my ignorance. I'm definitely new to the whole thing. I hope that question doesn't open up a "what is and isn't soul" can of worms. I never really liked that kind of thing.

We Just have State run liquor stores here in Washington. You can buy beer and wine and the supermarket (or corner store) if you are over 21 (the legal drinking age here in the USA) any day of the week (except between 2-6 a.m.) but the Wa. St Liquor Control Board runs the sale of hard alcohol in this state. Now if you go to California you can buy booze at the Supermarket. It varies from state to state here in the US. The Legal Drinking Age though is 21 (which also makes it the age you have to be to play clubs too!) It kinda sucks, but I kinda understand.

Now when I was younger it used to be that Idaho had a legal drinking age of 18 (as Canada still does) but that was like 300 miles away from were I live in Seattle (and Canada was only about 75 miles!) so we used to head up there to get ripped. Now it different and I am 40 and no longer drink. Sigh!

It seems pretty harsh to tax things like forgien/imported beer that high, but I guess Governments are the same all over the world. Just be glad you aren't in a country where alchohol is illegal.

What this all has to do with songwriting, I am not sure, but still its interesting.

Well its not exactly illegal, but the Swedish government has strict controls on the sale of alchohol, (Have you heard of the Systembolaget?) its to do with the tax and also regulating what is sold to swedish people, the price of Danish & English beer is extremely expensive. So if you buy cheap beer from Denmark (its about a third to half the price) no money goes to swedish tax, if we were to bring it on to the premises of a venue/club then they would be breaking the law and so get a large fine or closed down. So they freak out a bit about it. And yes its a great topic for a song, ie Black Gold on our forthcomming LP, just thought I'd crow-bar in a bit of promotoin.

For those who have a facebook profile, there is a Surf Music group too : Check it out !