I Hear a New World July 2009 - Recommended pod/vod/webcasts
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 06:37PM 
Picture by Le Vingtieme Siecle (click through to flickr)
In a change from our regular programming...
My IHANW podcast and Skinny column is currently on a hiatus (for various reasons which I'll not go into just now) so this time around I want to draw your attention to a bunch of other great podcasts and downloadable sessions featuring the best of new and innovative music from Scotland and beyond (some of which I have mentioned before on this blog).
Broadcasting in Brighton and recording stunning live sessions with all and sundry from the international modern folk scene, if you are in anyway acoustically-inclined you'll absolutely love what this lot are doing.
Featuring exclusive live session versions that are free to download by great artists like Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear and Wire which sometimes even top the album versions.
With exclusive sessions featuring the cream, oo-er, of Scotland's best musicians plus excellent live footage from the likes of Broken Records, we featured Matthew Toad on our May podcast so you really have no excuse not to know about his excellent site already.
The Waiting Room is a brilliant show broadcast all the way from Wales every Saturday but rather subversively broadcasting a number of IHANW approved Scottish bands such as King Creosote, the Kazoo Funk Orchestra and Eagleowl via Ohio's highly acclaimed internet broadcasting site Woxy.com.
Their weekly podcast features so many braw new bands I have difficulty catching up, but among others they've brought my attention to the brilliant Cheesecake, Yahweh and Electric Fan Death whilst being great craic to listen to in the process. They also have exclusive live sessions of the likes of French Wives and Panda Su.
With gorgeous, high quality videos of Malcolm Middelton, Slow Club, Frightened Rabbit and more, taken in Scotland's strangest and most beautiful nooks and crannies, and downloadable on iTunes. Also well worth checking out is www.theblackcabsessions.com which they cite as inspiration.
HP, Tallah and co have been putting on shows in Edinburgh for 3 years now with great success as well as broadcasting via the city's student radio station Fresh Air. Now they're putting out a regular, ultra-professional podcast featuring tons of great tracks and interviews.
What began as a brilliant underground music fanzine has developed into a regular radio show on Glasgow's Sub City Radio, featuring a dizzying array of cutting edge and innovative music. Also worth checking out are their pals at Winning Sperm Party.
Billy and Nick are new to the podcast game but in their brand new second episode for the Scotsman's cracking music blog they've got a nice wee feature debating the future of music journalism vs blogging which is worth a listen - expect more highbrow high-jinks from these two in the future.
Will let you know soon what's happening with the usual podcast.
Reader Comments (3)
Cheers for the mention :)
Pleasure!
Thanks for mentioning Electric Fan Death in your post, really glad you like the music. I agree, Glasgow PodcART is amazing, we listen in every week, they find some mint bands and artists. We DJed a podcast you should check out - the AMStunes Alt Podcast (http://www.amstunes.co.uk/radio/podcast). Cheers and all the best.
Ste
Electric Fan Death