Monday, September 24, 2012
Vital stats: Format: modern Japanese rock and modern Japanese rock talk Episode duration: 35m-2h Frequency: monthly My friends who taught English in Japan in the nineties insist that the glory days have gone. They describe having stood in the blast radius of the last and most exciting flowering of Japanese popular culture, that which burnt […]
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Sunday, September 2, 2012
Vital stats: Format: a man speaks of many things — in Spanish Episode duration: 5m-30m Frequency: maybe not a going concern, but 71 episodes exist So here’s one entirely in Spanish. If you don’t understand that language, I won’t stop you scrolling on, but if you understand even a little bit of it — or […]
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Vital stats: Format: talk with travelers, and talk while traveling Episode duration: ~28m Frequency: not a going concern, but 85 episodes exist Cultural England seems to have always loved a traveler. Perhaps this affinity lingers from the days of Empire, or maybe an island people instinctively understand wanderlust. Just behold the gallery of luminaries […]
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Vital stats: Format: two white comedians and a DJ interview black guys, a pornstar, and Jose Canseco Episode duration: 45m-1h35m Frequency: 2-5 per month Moshe Kasher, a comedian I’ve seen here and there in Los Angeles, wrote a memoir and became one of the very, very few nonfiction authors to appear for an interview on KCRW’s Bookworm. […]
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Vital stats: Format: thematic comedy gab, broken up with prepared segments Episode duration: 1h-1h30m Frequency: 1-2 per month “Why do you want to do a podcast? You ain’t gonna do no podcast. You just a johnny-come-lately. You spent too much time on The Simpsons and you lost it, and now you’re trying to get […]
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Vital stats: Format: interviews with Brooklyn-based experts about their expertise and how it relates to Brooklyn Episode duration: ~30m Frequency: 1-4 per month When one of my peers — i.e., anyone in that vast age group, “about thirty” — tells me they live in New York, I just assume they live in Brooklyn. Thirty years […]
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Vital stats: Format: conversations (and occasional songs) between Andy Dick and his friends and colleagues Episode duration: 1h-1h30m Frequency: erratic I know who Andy Dick is, and yet I don’t know who Andy Dick is. He entered my awareness as a guest on Loveline, the nightly radio program that occupied one of the larger, more edifying […]
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Vital stats: Format: the literary WTF Episode duration: 1h-1h30m Frequency: weekly Damn, are ever there a lot of novels to read. I get this mixed rush of excitement, gratitude, incredulity, and hopelessness whenever I plug into an outlet of contemporary literary culture. In one hour, I’ll hear of dozens of authors and hundreds of books […]
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Vital stats: Format: talk about all aspects of cycling and cycling culture Episode duration: typically ~30m, with occasional longer specials Frequency: weekly London’s Resonance FM broadcasts not what we would think of as straightforward talk programming, and not what we would think of as straightforward music programming, but something called “radio art.” This broad label […]
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Vital stats: Format: sound-oriented radio fictions Episode duration: 9-18m Frequency: 2-3 per month “I thought there would be a revival of fiction and theater on the radio,” says science-fiction author Terry Bisson, “and I’ve been very disappointed that it hasn’t, kind of, worked out that way.” You and me both, brother. I say this as […]
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