Pod Cast

A very good friend, and music aficionado, has done you a favour.  He has created a series of podcasts that give you a selective and very tasty selection of everything you should know about music that has influenced and changed the way we understand the sonic revolution over the last forty years.

He has also done you another favour.  He is paying all the legal dues to ensure these fine, and sometimes overlooked musicians get their royalties.

All you have to do now is log onto your Soundcloud account and like it.  Not only will you hear a kick-sass range of amazalicious music, you will be sweetly treated to commentary that is informed and insightful.  Your host was there and on the inside.  He also has a black and dry sense of humour to keep all your senses entertained.

Do yourself a favour. Spend the first of many hours getting yourself an education about what you love most.  Episode one is about British Post-Punk Women Icons.  You are gonna be treated to Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bow Wow Wow, Girls At Our Best, The Slits, X-Ray Spex, The Au Pairs, The Passions, The Young Marble Giants, This Mortal Coil, The Raincoats, Delta 5, Altered Images and A Certain Ratio.

While we are on the subject of mixed pedigrees, Episode Two includes Pixies, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Spizz Energy, Modest Mouse, Gorillaz, The Carpenters, Sufjan Stephens, Sun Kil Moon, Smog, Ash, The Fall, Ron Granger and David Bowie in the Sci-Fi Issue.

When so much of Melbourne radio has been such a yawn-fest lately, here is something that has really rocked your world.  It's more ad-free than community radio, and it really does kick-sass (you can thank me for that little vernacular stretch).

Here's the link. Named after a novel and a Talking Heads song.  Get liking!

https://soundcloud.com/sombrerofalloutpodcast

There is also an accompanying blog with all the details here:

 https://www.sombrerofallout.com/blog/

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