We couldn't just leave well enough alone. This blogging has got us all worked up, so we went and started a podcast to go along with.
Announcing the Austin Independent Music Podcast. Hopefully, it's just what you'd expect - A varied sampling of Austin-based indie music to listen to, right there on your iPod or Zune or whathaveyou, in straight-up mixtape style. The blog is here: Subscribe to it with your blog reader and you should be able to listen to it right there in your browser.
At this point in time, we're not listed in the iTunes directory. Hopefully that will change pronto. But in the meantime, if you're feeling like you can handle a smidgen of iTune-age tweaking, here be the directions, tuned to taste, straight from Apple's iTunes website :
A podcast I want to subscribe to isn't available in the iTunes Store.
...In the "Advanced" menu, select "Subscribe to Podcast" and paste http://feeds.feedburner.com/AustinIndependentMusicPodcast into the dialog box.
It's Austin, so here's what happens -
A musical guy/gal genius outgrows their hometown, wants to take their music "to the next level". They look around, think "Nashville, here I come!" But that city has a much closer association to country/western than our guy/gal genius wants. They look around a bit more, spot Austin on the map, saddle up the truck and move to town. It is the Live Music Capital of the Known World.
Well. In this case, no. It was love, I think, that brought Jamie Pearson (a.k.a. Mr. Bear) to Austin. But not before he cut his teeth, musically speaking, in the UK playing for various punk and ska bands. Nowadays, he's producing danceable electronic tunes, or mixing down "chill ambient". Quoting the man:
Musical styles range from ambient, chillout and downbeat to techno, electro, IDM, drum & bass and good old fashioned pop music. Mr. Bear also makes time for ‘Cut & Paste’ remixes, mixing famous and not so famous tunes into one big mashup, which he gives away for free.
Hey, give a listen to my personal favorite of his remixes:
