Podcasts!

Here are a few of my favorite music-related podcasts. I was trying to reverse-engineer the little "embed" coding from youtube in order to embed these players, but couldn't figure it out. You can also find all of these through searching iTunes - it's what I do.

In alphabetical order:

Black Market Funk. They say: "We stream dj mixes of jazz, nu-jazz, future funk, funk 45's, broken beats, and anything that's deep and has a groove." I'd say that's about right - very beat heavy, and usually with a little soul and latin thrown into the hip hop and funk. You can go here for the streaming radio or search iTunes for the podcast.

Cokemachineglow.com. Yes, the somewhat-well-known Canadian music site features reviews, commentary and...podcasts. Good podcasts, featuring the annual "Fantasy Covers" series, wherein not-so-well-known indie bands do versions of other (usually better known) indie-appropriate tunes (ie, Pale Young Gentlemen doing M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes"). Not a bad way to see what's out there in indieland.

Donkey Wrangler to the Stars. He says, ""mashups, remixes, bootlegs, etc...."and that's just about it - there are hour-long mixes with little bits from old movies, with varying degrees of amusement value. Check it here.

Ebony Cuts. "Disco Soul Funk Old School" out of Sweden. Sometimes they can be a tad too disco-cheesy for my tastes but good stuff despite the ultra-super cheesy intro to each one - one of the few reasons I have to change the "begin at" option on iTunes. The mp3 for my personal favorite - a very nicely done Latin-afrobeat-sould mix - is here.

XLR8R. Not surprisingly, their podcasts feature the same sort of people as the magazine - hip hop and electronic music, usually with a bit more of a less-clean edge to it.

Bon appetit!