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You could easily become what producer Patrick Skahill calls "the music nerd whom nobody talks to at parties" by spending an hour a day geeking out on podcasts.
Today -- with our music mavens Wally Lamb, Eric Danton and Joan Holliday coming in -- I was scrambling to sound just a tiny bit hipper and I stumbled across a podcast called Indie Music Sampler, which some guy does from a corner of a bedroom in a condo in -- yes -- a western suburb of Portland -- with a baby blanket tacked to the wall to reduce echo.
He, in turn, uses Music Alley, a site that specializes in so-called "podsafe" music -- stuff that can legally played on podcasts without having to sweat the licensing fees you'd have to think about in other formats. Anyway, spend a little time in a few places like that, and pretty soon you'll know about a whole bunch of really cool artists that nobody else has ever heard of. And nobody will talk to you at parties. But on the drive home, after you've been shunned, you'll be listening to great stuff.
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Thanks to WNPR's Harriet Jones for playing the role of Chion Wolf today. If you'd like to be Chion for a day, e-mail colin@wnpr.org.
ERIC DANTON:
“Hold On” - Alabama Shakes
“Go Peach” - Inclined Plane
“Disparate Youth” - Santigold
Wally Lamb:
“I Found You” - Alabama Shakes on Boys and Girls
“School Days Over” - The Chieftans w/Low Anthem on The Chieftans: Voice of Ages
“Not Cause I Wanted To” - Bonnie Raitt on her new one, Slipstream
“Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” - The Soul Rebels on Unlock Your Mind
Joan Holliday:
“North Side Gal” - J.D. McPherson
“Play That Song Again” - Chuck Prophet
“My New York City” - Mike & Ruthy
“Rogue Highway” - Winterpills
