RIP MRR

In January, Maximum Rocknroll announced they were calling it quits on the  legendary punk magazine. That is heartbreaking news to the worldwide punk community. Once upon a time before BBS and the Internet, MRR was a lifeline to even the most remote of punk scenes, uniting, inciting, informing, inspiring.

The good news is that MRR will still maintain the archive, likely the largest and most diverse punk audio library on Earth, and the radio show which is still in syndication since Tim's day in the late 1970s and also available as a podcast (subscribe).

More good news is that the Internet Archive hosts a nice collection of about 300 issues of the famous zine—scanned and searchable!

Go now and you can still get the final issues and back issues from Maximum Rocknroll's store to have, hold, and cherish. I have years of my MRRs and still adore and enjoy them. Cheers to all my MRR friends. MRR is dead, long live MRR.

— Katya Oddio

VitalFM Compilations

VitalFM, "First for Underground and Underrated Dubstep, Drum and Bass, and Electro", put out the call to artists for their compilations and met with success. Move your body to Infinity and Dystopia. Preview videos of both albums below. You will also find mixes and podcasts at VitalFM.

Various Artists - Infinity

Various Artists - Dystopia

Official Website | SoundCloud | Facebook

Music License: assume © All Rights Reserved

The Trypshop

You probably know Mark Vidler as mashup master "Go Home Productions." He gained a deal of notoriety with those early days of mashups, but Vidler is also a producer, remixer, A/V artist, songwriter, and disc jockey. Here's a snippet from his bio:

Using the thriving UK bootleg scene of 2001 as a starting block, has since gone on to officially produce tracks for all manner of 'legends' in the music business including David Bowie, Bob Dylan, The Doors, Blondie, The Sex Pistols and diverse artists like Gang Of Four, Malcolm Mclaren, Ruts DC, Alicia Keys, Siobhan Fahey, Kasabian, Martha and The Muffins, Plaid and Max Sedgley amongst others

Produced the single "Rebel Never Gets Old" for David Bowie in 2004 - UK Top 45 Singles Chart

Produced Blondie vs The Doors "Rapture Riders" single released in on EMI 2007 - Top 20 Chart hits in Europe / #1 Club Chart US

Produced the first officially cleared and released 'Mash-Up' album "Mashed" for EMI Records in 2007 - UK Top Ten Album Chart

Has produced radio sessions broadcast by Radio 1 / XFM / BBC 6 Music / BBC Radio 4 / BBC Asian Network / Jazz FM / WFMU (NYC) / K-Rock (NYC) / Indie 103 (LA) / Live 105 (SF) / OUI FM (FR)

We finally caught up on listening to one of his projects, Trypshop, a radio program of psychedelia. What a fun trip with the knowledgeable, friendly, and humorous host!

Mark Vidler's Trypshop Radio Show is now back after almost 5 years spent in a Psychedelic haze somewhere between Watford, Northampton and Mars. Visit the new website / facebook page. All new shows will be posted to Soundcloud then archived on the website.

Location: Watford, Hertfordshire, UK

Explore Opera With An Opera Singer

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera "through the prism of various themes - politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy" in the Resonance FM radio program (Thursday at 4pm, repeated Friday at 8am) and archived podcast, The Opera Hour.

Resonance104.4 FM is London, England's art radio station.

A platform for sound and radio art, experimental art practice, specialist musics, free speech and deep thought, we broadcast original content from musicians, artists, scientists, instigators, critics and thinkers from London's kaleidoscopic communities. Resonance FM is a challenging model of community media hailed as "the best radio station in the world".

Sample show (seems to be the only one hosted on SoundCloud)

Open Metalcast

Open Metalcast! Hey headbangers, I apologize for not promoting the solid Open Metalcast to you earlier. Craig Maloney has been delivering top-notch Creative Commons licensed metal in podcast form since the summer of 2010. His Instrumetalcasts, instrumental metal, are favorites at Rancho Oddio. Rawk!

Craig links on his site to every band and tune he promotes on the podcast. He also has a community for the podcast at Google+. All the shows (99 at this posting) are archived at the Internet Archive.

Here's a sample show, an Instrumetalcast, just to demonstrate the diversity and the format.

Open Metalcast Site | Show Archives

RSS Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Vorbis Feed

Long live rock AND Creative Commons licensing!

photo: Nosferatu it, Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported license

Creative Commons Music Podcasts

We have shared our favorite podcast manager and about 120 of our favorite podcasts. Here now are some music podcasts featuring Creative Commons licensed music in a list compiled by the Creative Commons. Asterisks indicate those we love and know well.

Original photo by D Sharon Pruitt, modified by Katya Oddio, license: CC by 2.0, and used for the Ten Tracks to Sync // Oddio Overplay mixes

Tell Me Something

Audio books, lectures, stories, and podcasts that the Oddiobots enjoy and hope you might, as well

Click ★ to subscribe. Click title to visit website.

gPodder Is a Life Changer

gPodder downloads and manages free audio and video content, also known as podcasts, on any subject you can imagine. When subject experts share their years of acquired knowledge in a book or an interview, you gain some of that hard-earned knowledge in only the time it takes to read, watch, or listen. That can be a real life changer!

Using gPodder, you can find, download, and then listen or watch directly on your computer or on your mobile devices. gPodder supports RSS, Atom, YouTube, Soundcloud, Vimeo, and XSPF feeds. gPodder can also import your existing subscriptions from iTunes or from an OPML file.

gPodder is available for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X and mobile devices, like the Nokia N810, N900 and N9.

The Oddio Team have used gPodder for six years, and have only the best reviews. 

• We love how it can be set to automatically download new audio books, radio shows, and lectures. Then after we have listened to them, gPodder can mark them as old or delete them. 

• We love the episode details window that gives synopses of audio and video content.

• We love how gPodder lets us set up custom file names, like Name of Show - Episode Number - Title - Broadcast Date. This makes browsing files on devices much more convenient.

• We love that we can stream shows we are not sure about to preview them before downloading.

• We love how gPodder syncs up with mobile devices, replacing old content with new content. We always have fresh content!

We just love gPodder! It is free, open source, and works in most operating systems, so give it a go and feed your brain!

Download gPodder for Various Devices and Operating Systems

Next week, the Oddbots will share some of the audiobooks and podcasts they enjoy.

The Misunderstood Wolf Suffers Again

Despite the rush of exciting fear from folktales, there is NOT ONE single case of wolves ever attacking and killing man on the North American continent. They may kill livestock man has introduced to the wolves native home, but has never killed man. (LISTEN or download mp3)

Get more info on the misunderstood wolf. While you are there, how about joining Robert Redford in taking action?

Robert Redford has long championed the cause of the wolf. Hear him [zip file] on the first side of this record narrating "The Wolf You Never Knew" for the American Museum of Natural History in 1971 [320 kb/s, 32 Mb].

You can also click to hear the recording in lower quality [3.5 Mb].

More bad news for the wolf. Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the State of Wyoming announced that they had reached an agreement over Wyoming’s long-disputed wolf management plan. It has failed to commit to maintaining at least 15 breeding pairs of wolves in Wyoming, and it has designated wolves as predators that can be killed without a license in about 90% of the state.

Please take a moment to help save the wolves throughout America. Together we might convince the administration to stop the slaughter of wolves and return our small wolf population to the status of Endangered Species. Thank you.
www.savebiogems.org/wolves

Audio Letters from the Remote Operator

The Remote Operator (of Shirley and Spinoza Radio, The Royal Oculus and Gramophone Company, and other mindblowers) has sent audio letters from eastern China where he has been operating for a few years. Originally returning to his location in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China in 2006, he has since moved east into China proper. His letters/ broadcasts reflect the "East Side" relocation.

As ever, his letter home broadcasts are true audio field trips. Put yourself on location, escape, let the audio take you there. Enjoy!

Highly recommended.

Canada's Finest Metal

Special Edition: Full Metal Podcast
From Lisa Christiansen at CBC Radio 3:

We play a lot of great music here at Radio 3, and for one radio station we do play an unbelievable number of different genres, from hip hop to folk; electronica to pop and hard rock. But there is one genre that is sadly under-represented - metal.

But not anymore. Today marks the first Full Metal Podcast for CBC Radio 3. And I couldn't be more um, filled with unholy joy.

For the past few months a crack team of producers and one eager host, have listened to hours of metal tunes from our collection here at New Music Canada. We then sought out the opinions of a few serious metal heads and created this podcast.

You'll hear music from Protest the Hero, Cursed, Bison, and Cryptopsy. I check in with a touring Cam Pipes of 3 Inches of Blood and ponder the why behind Montreal's metal capital of North America status with legendary drummer Flo Mounier of Cryptopsy. [I had the pleasure of meeting Cam last year. Seems like a great guy. -katya]

It's a cross-country journey through some of the hardest and loudest music being made in Canada today, and it's all in one easy to enjoy package. So kick back and get ready and watch where you bang that head. Neck injuries are not covered by Radio 3.

Download the podcast in one of the 3 formats:M4A | MP3 | OGG

Featured Bands: Protest the Hero, Penetrator, Forty Birds, Gross Misconduct, Cursed, Divinity, Cryptopsy, Rammer, Bison, Soulscar, Arapacis, Sequoia, 3 Inches of Blood and Derelict.

You can find more info here.



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Buskers

Busker Dial Up (Du) is a recording service for subway and street buskers (street performers). The service allows for buskers and spectators to call up and have the performance recorded. Busker Du will record 3 minutes of audio and hang-up the phone automatically. The audio recorded is then sent to the blog, which is also available as a Podcast as the sounds of the city from the street and underground that people recognize on their commute.

Audio recorded will be posted to the audio-blog and made available to all who cherish lo-fi original music. Try it out at your favorite subway station or street corner. 1 (646) 862-7829

Some of these recordings are enjoyable, and some are impressive.

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A Gajillion Free Audiobooks - UPDATED

Sources for free spoken books, or audiobooks, available for download and/or by RSS subscription:

see also Tell Me Something,  audio books, lectures, stories, and podcasts

LibriVox
provides free audiobooks from the public domain
http://librivox.org/

Gutenberg:The Audio Books Project
Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books, also
provides human and computer read books
http://www.gutenberg.org/

LoudLit.org
committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high
quality audio performances
http://www.loudlit.org/


LearnOutLoud.com
over 15,000 audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video

Audiobooks.org
four free books and links to others
http://www.audiobooks.org/

Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig
http://www.free-culture.cc updated
audio: http://www.turnstyle.org/FreeCulture/
and here: http://www.archive.org/details/free-culture-audiobook

AudioBooksForFree.com
free membership required, pay for higher quality audio
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com

Podiobooks.com
serialized audio books in podcast format
click to listen on site or subscribe to feed
http://www.podiobooks.com

Activated Stories
http://activated.libsyn.com

Americana Phonic
http://www.americanaphonic.com/

AudioBoo Audiobooks Channel
http://audioboo.fm/channels/audiobooks

BBC Afternoon Drama
radio dramas to surprise and delight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qrzz

Free Audio
a non-partisan org with goal to spread the word of liberty, freedom and democracy
http://freeaudio.org

Japanese Literature At Bedtime [jp]
http://jclab.wordpress.com/ updated

Literalsystems
http://literalsystems.org/abooks/index.php

Literate Loser Show podcast
http://literateloser.mitchellkdwyer.net

Mercury Theatre (old time radio from '30s and '40s)
http://mercurytheatre.info

Miette’s Bedtime Story Podcast
http://enivrez.com/bedtime

Public Domain Podcast
http://publicdomainpodcast.blogspot.com

Spoken Alexandria Project
http://spokenalex.org

Story Spieler
Roy reads classics and his own works
http://www.storyspieler.net/ updated

Thought Audio
"one of the most fundamental aspects of humanity is to enjoy its thoughts and its great works"
http://www.thoughtaudio.com/


NEW: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, and Such

• Clarkesworld
• Drabblecast
• Lightspeed Magazine
• Escape Pod
• Podcastle
• Podiobooks
• Pseudopod
• Starship Sofa

NEW: For Children

• The Story Home 
• Storynory
• Barefoot Books
• The Palace of Stories
• The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd
• New Fairy Tales
• Audiobooks For Kids by KayRay
• BBC Podcasts for Children 
• Childrensbookradio
• Candlelight Stories
• Guardian (UK) Children's Books Podcast
• Original stories for Original Ears

updated July 2012

CarsCast

Was laughing with Mr. Write last night about CarsCasts, and thought I really ought to tell oddiophiles about them. Schoolgirls pretending to interview the Cars in 1982 - we love it! Hope you get some giggles out it, too.