Don’t know why I feel the need to catch up on old podcasts, but that is only one of the many unexplainable quirks, is it not.
4/14 edition: Josh Rouse.
Just saw him perform a few months ago (maybe even in April?). I like the Subtitulo, although not quite as much as Nashville or 1972, and I like it a lot more live. He’s a good interview, makes jokes, etc. – he is also one of not-all-that-many songwriters with good stage banter. I really like the Peter Case spoken word stuff they played during this show as well. Never heard of him before, but may need to check it out.
3/2 edition: Paste Recommends.
I had saved this one up because I knew they played some Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson on it. Kinda silly to bother listening at this point four months later, of course, as I already own most of the stuff I like from this show (the new Shawn Mullins and Rhett Miller albums). They also play a new one by a Chicago-band the M’s, that I just barely know, and a Sufjan Stevens song that samples the Copeland/Shaker tune ” ‘Tis a gift to be simple…”
4/28 edition: Erin McKeown.
Great interview with McKeown. She’s a real spitfire live and at the end of this interview she plays my favorite song off her new album. They also featured the Weepies (I LOVE that album) and Sonya Kitchell (who I’ve been wondering about — they refer to her as “halfway between Norah Jones and Joss Stone”). Also an interesting interview with Wim Wenders and Sam Shepherd about their new movie Don’t Come Knockin’ (their first collaboration since their great flick Paris, Texas 20 years ago…
5/11 edition: They Might Be Giants.
I can’t think about my senior year of college without having “Istanbul was Constantinople / Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople…” leap into my head. But I never followed the band after that, although I have a friend who goes to see them all the time and probably has all their albums (hey KP!). But this interview is really interesting, these guys have so much going on. Children’s albums (I bought these for my nephew a few months ago but have yet to hear if they’re enjoyable to listen to), doing jingle awards for people’s answering machines for a radio station, their website has lots of stuff (downloads, etc., doing their own podcast)… Really fun interview to listen to.
In general…
If you want to check out the lineup before deciding to listen to the PCC podcasts, you can go to the website. The first few I listened to I thought the emcee (Josh Jackson) was a little awkward. He’s getting more comfortable and some of them (particularly the Paste Recommends ones which I believe come out monthly) have a few people chatting and sound much more “radio-like”.