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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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Join Us in THE HIDEOUT...
Current mood:  savage
Category: Web, HTML, Tech
The GaragePunk Hideout is now up and running, and growing like crazy. Think of it as GaragePunk.com, the Next Generation. It’s our own little social network, like Myspace only better. And like Myspace, bands & labels can sign up, too, and upload MP3s, videos, flyers, photos, etc. In fact, *anyone* can upload media! We’re pretty psyched about it and we hope you are, too. Please check it out and create your profile today!
http://hideout.garagepunk.com
Thanks,
kopper
GaragePunk.com
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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GaragePunk Chat (and T-Shirts!)
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping
CHAT ROOM!
Looking for a chat room to talk about trashy rock'n'roll or just hangout and meet new people into the same shit you are? Try this one on for size:
GaragePunk Chat
T-SHIRTS!
We've got some new styles of T-shirts available now at the online store, and more will (hopefully) be added soon! Check 'em out at the link below and buy one for yourself and every one of your friends:
GaragePunk Store
Thanks!
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Monday, July 23, 2007
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Attn: BANDS & LABELS! (Submitting Music)
Category: Music
So, you're in a band and you want to submit your music to us to see if we'd be interested in playing it on our podcasts, right? Well here's what you should NOT do... please don't send us a record or CD. It's a waste of time, and more importantly, an unnecessary waste of money for you (besides, half the time most of the stuff we get doesn't fit in with what we play anyway, which makes us wonder if people coming here really understand what "garage punk" music even is, or have even bothered to listen to our shows first!). Another thing you should NOT do is email us and leave messages on our voicemail line trying to promote your band. We've got better things to do with our time than field emails and phone messages from bands seeking podplay. I'm sure you guys don't like to get unsolicited emails (spam) and phone calls (telemarketing), and we don't either. So, please, DON'T DO IT. It ain't gonna work. Read on...
Instead, just rip MP3s of your songs and upload them to the Podsafe Music Network. You'll need to register your band and create a page for them there first if you haven't done it yet, so make sure you do that first. Please note: Labels can register there, too! Just click the "I am a label" box during the registration process. Then upload as many songs as you'd like (it's totally free), preferably originals, but you can also upload covers if you've paid for the licensing for them. We also recommend that you choose either "Garage Rock," "Garage Punk" or "Surf" for the genre... that way it'll be a lot easier for our show hosts to find your stuff. "Rock'n'Roll" is good, too, but that's a pretty crowded category, and includes everything from hard rock and metal-type stuff to just boring-ass modern rock. Putting your music on the PMN not only makes it available for our podcasters, but about 30,000 others as well, so you may end up getting podplay from all over the world, which is a good thing, right? And much more satisfying (and cheaper) than mailing out promos. Plus, you can add a nifty button like the one below to your Myspace page or band website:
After you've finished uploading your songs, feel free to post a message on the forums letting us know to go check 'em out. But please remember that NONE of this guarantees your band will get played on any of our shows. But it doesn't hurt to try, right? Thanks!
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
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Submitting a Show
Category: Podcast
Thinking about being a part of the GaragePunk.com Podcast? Good! The more, the merrier. We have a pretty full schedule of shows right now, but vacancies do come up from time to time, so it's entirely possible that we can squeeze a new show on periodically. Just don't expect us to post your show immediately if you submit one. Be patient and we'll eventually get to it. Please read on...
First and foremost, it really helps if you fully understand exactly what podcasting is before you decide you want to produce a show. The Wikipedia entry on podcasting is a great source of info. If you haven't read it, please do. A little edumacation never hurt nobody...
If you're unfamiliar with the basic how-to's on creating a podcast show, please take a few minutes to read the Beginner's Guide to Podcast Creation. This tutorial will give you all of the information you should need in getting started. Further information can be found in the podcasting topic on the message board.
We also highly recommend using a program called Audacity for recording your shows on a computer. Audacity isn't the best, but it definitely is the cheapest solution—especially for someone just starting out or experimenting—since it's FREE. You can import audio into Audacity and cut and paste it into other tracks and mix them, turn them backwards, process them, add soundbytes and FX, etc. It is also available for both Mac and PC. Another highly recommended program is PodProducer (although it is strictly for PCs). If you're a Mac user, and you've got GarageBand, you're in luck because it comes with excellent podcasting tools built right in and is easy and fun to use. Fuckin' A!
Of course, if you want to do everything live and not have to edit anything—probably the most fun way of doing it (for the listener as well as the podcaster)—you'll need a slightly more complicated setup. There are complicated ways of routing sound from one program to another on your computer, but the easiest thing to do is to get an external mixer, a microphone, a turntable, tape deck, mp3 player, CD player, live band or whatever you want to use and plug it all into the mixer, run it into your computer, and start recording. So you would be mixing everything "live" on the mixer and just recording a single signal in Audacity or whatever you are recording to.
Here are a few guidelines for submitting shows:
1) All shows should be recorded as MP3 files. Please make sure your podcast show is ripped with the following specs before submitting:
Bit rate: 80 kbps
Channels: Mono (not stereo!)
Sample rate: 44.100 kHz
Max file size/show length: ~35mb/1 Hour
The general rule of thumb is to try and keep your file size down to around 30mb. It's important to remember that doing your show in mono sounds WAY better when ripped at 64 kbps than stereo at the same rate. That's because 64 kbps mono is equivalent to 128 kbps stereo. Yep, it's true! And besides, this is primitive rock'n'roll, not Yngwie Malmsteen, or Korn, or Celine Dion, or... you get the idea. Just like your old '60s garage 45s, the mono ones sound better, anyway.
2) If you are already a DJ at a radio station (commercial, public, college, whatever) we must ask that you do NOT submit shows that were done live over the air or pre-recorded for that station. Doing so would require explicit written permission from the station for redistribution (since that station actually owns the rights to that production), and it's just something we don't want to mess with. Plus, we're trying to encourage people to produce shows specifically for our station, not just take something produced elsewhere to share with us (the only exception being if the show includes a rare live band performance, such as the Gories playing live on CITR in 1989 which we recently podcast). Doing so would be like WFMU rebroadcasting a show from another station, like The Wayback Machine on KDHX. It doesn't make sense. They've got their own programmers to do shows for them, right? So do we. So please submit unique shows that you produce specifically for GaragePunk.com only.
3) Show producers are given 100% control over what sort of show they want to do, but we must request that you stick to including either old obscure music such as '50s/'60s garage/rock'n'roll 45s and/or modern garage/surf/punk/primitive rock'n'roll music that is podcast safe or "podsafe." We have a listing right here on our site of bands and labels that have given us permission to redistribute their music in our podcasts. Please make sure what you play is represented there, or let us know and we will try to get permission first. You, of course, are also free to solicit bands and labels for permission. Please try not to include any song or selection that has been released on a major label. If you're not sure, just ask and we'll try to help you figure it out. You are also free to use any music that you can find listed on the Podsafe Music Network, just please make sure it fits in with what we're trying to do here, namely garage rock and garage punk (and related styles as listed above). Also, all shows must be approved for inclusion on the blog before they will be posted. Usually this will be done by me (kopper).
4) During your announcement breaks, instead of giving a radio station's call letters (like most DJs do on normal broadcast radio stations), give the name of the podcast network: GaragePunk.com Podcast. This can be done simply as "You're listening to [Show Name Here] on the GaragePunk Podcast." Please try to mention that at some point during each announcement break, if possible. Also, please include as much relevant information about each song as you can, such as band name, song/album titles, record label, and, if possible, you can also occasionally give out website URLs for bands or labels so people can find out more. Hell, tell a story about the band, too, if ya want. Web URLs don't have to be given for every song played, obviously, but once or twice during a show would be cool, and I'm sure the bands and labels will love you for it.5) You can make your shows whatever length you want, but the ideal length of a podcast show is around 60 minutes. The maximum length should be no longer than 90 minutes. The MP3 files can therefore range from around 15mb for a short, 30-minute podcast to 30 or 40mb for longer shows.
6) Since we have a full schedule right now, don't go too crazy recording a ton of shows for us. We have 8 shows that post every-other week (about twice a month), and another 7 or 8 that are done less frequently, like once a month or so. If you're new to our roster, try to stick to about one show per month, and hopefully we'll be able to post them all for ya.
7) After your show is posted, please try to remember to revisit the blog occasionally to check and see if anyone's left comments about your show(s).
8) Also please include the following information in email format sent with EACH podcast:
a) Show name
b) Name of host (please include your GaragePunk.com Forums username)
c) A short (100 words or less) description of the show that might include the styles of music featured, theme (if any), specific artists, etc.
d) Playlist (please include artist/title/record label info)
9) Another thing we recommend show producers do is to tie in specific topics (bands, labels, movies, jokes or other discussion threads) that come up on the message board into your shows. This isn't required, but we think it would be cool to keep some kind of dynamic between the Forums and the Podcast. It also helps encourage a sense of community that be conveyed thru the podcasts.
10) Try to remember to embed your MP3 files with the title of your show (under "Name"), the name of the network that's hosting it (GaragePunk Podcast, which would go under "Artist"), your name (under "Composer"), a short description (under "Comments"), and your show's "album art." All of this stuff can be easily added to your show file from within iTunes (highlight the show in your library, then click on "File" > "Get Info" and then click on the "Info" tab in the window that appears on the screen.
Ready to submit a show? Great! Now what? Well, first, you need to join Blip.tv if you haven't already. It's also smart for you to read over and agree to their Terms of Use and Copyright Policy while you're at it (those are there to protect Blip from copyright infringement which may occur from people including copyrighted material on their shows, IF someone decides to sue [NOT very likely]). After that, you'll just login there, go to your Dashboard and upload your show file (don't forget the description!). Then shoot us an email and either include your Blip login info (un/pw), or send us the permalink to the MP3 file (which you can get from your Blip account for that specific episode under the "Share" tab). If everything appears to be cool, we'll try to let you know when we think the show will post on the site. Please upload static MP3s only, DO NOT upload MP4s, Realplayer files, WMAs, or streaming MP3s (no streaming media at all). Just simple MP3s. If you have ANY questions about ANY of this, feel free to ask. We'd be happy to help. Thanks!
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
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How to Subscribe
Podcasting is on-demand radio programming. Podcasting enables you to listen to the content of your choice - when you want to - on your computer or portable MP3 player.
Subscribe to, receive, and transfer our podcasts onto your portable MP3 player, then take them with you and listen to them in the car, on the bus, at work, at the gym, on a campout... anywhere! Using RSS technology, podcasts are audio files distributed in MP3 format and will play back on any portable MP3 player.
To get GaragePunk Podcast programs, download a podcast client such as the free and easy Juice or Transistr and subscribe; or you can just copy and paste the feed URL below into the subscriptions window of your current podcast client.
GARAGEPUNK PODCAST FEED URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GaragePunkPodcasts Subscribe With iTunes:
 If you don't already have iTunes on your computer (Mac or PC), click here and download the latest version. Then, click the image above, or...
- Open iTunes on your computer.
- In the menu bar, click: Advanced/Subscribe to Podcast...
- Next, copy and paste this feed URL into the box:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GaragePunkPodcasts
- Click "OK"
- That's it!
Other Ways to Subscribe:
- Download one of these programs: Juice, Doppler, Podfeeder, FeedDemon, Nimiq, or BlogMatrix Sparks.
- Install it on your system.
- Add our podcast feed.
To Listen Without Subscribing:
- Just click on
 under the specific podcast post that you would like to hear to listen to the MP3 file directly on your personal computer.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
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Hot Slop 28
Host: Rob Baker
20 sides of rampant and smolderin' hot R&B music. Hop on for the ride—you'll hear only the finest sister shouters, northern bangers, instro titty shakers, hand-clappers and even a few Georgia soul records. Could this be this year's perfect party mixer?
RSS feed to subscribe:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GaragePunkPodcasts
For more info or to leave a comment, please visit www.garagepunk.com or call and leave us a message on our 24-hour comment line: (206) 202-1335
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
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Savage Kick 37
Current mood:  annoyed
Category: Podcast
Host: Kopper
What goes on in a large, sub-cellar room illuminated by flickering lanterns on a sultry summer night in St. Louie? Why, only the mad creation of a new episode of Savage Kick, of course, the hard and relentless fight of one man against the forces of evil (bland, uninspired mainstream corporate rock, natch). Tune in this time to hear sonic rumblings from artists like the Oblivians, Mark Sultan, Holly Golightly, The Third Bardo, The Greenhornes, The Rip Offs, The Count Five, The 5.6.7.8's, The Red Crayola, The Woggles, The Electric Prunes, the Pagans, Dean Carter, The Hipshakes, The Dirtbombs and more. A group of tough-looking men will see to it that you listen and cooperate. Enjoy.
RSS feed to subscribe:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GaragePunkPodcasts
For more info or to leave a comment, please visit www.garagepunk.com or call and leave us a message on our 24-hour comment line: (206) 202-1335
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
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Rock'n'Roll Suicide 35
Current mood:  angry
Category: Podcast
Host: R. Fink
R. Fink is back with another rock 'em, sock 'em, kick-ass stack of wax in this edition, number 35, of Rock'n'Roll Suicide. Twist to the now sounds of the Final Solutions, the Tuff Bananas, Off With Their Heads and the Surfites. Jerk with selections from the GaragePunk.com comp. "Party Time" and do "The Mouse" with local heroes, the Screaming Shambles, as they do (as best as I can tell) the un-comped smash, "House of the Rising Mouse." Here are some thoughts on the tune from onetime Shamble, Harry Hepcat...
"'House of the Rising Mouse' was done at a really big studio. It was on a small label (Sonic) and we were all set to do the tune on Soupy Sales' TV show. He used to do a dance he called 'The Mouse,' but there was no record about the dance. At the last minute, he decided to record his own 'mouse' tune. Thus, we didn't appear. I like ours better."
So grab this podcast, check out the action and go baby go!
RSS feed to subscribe:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GaragePunkPodcasts
For more info or to leave a comment, please visit www.garagepunk.com or call and leave us a message on our 24-hour comment line: (206) 202-1335
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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Monday, July 16, 2007
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
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Killed By Porn 20
Category: Podcast
Host: Duke Eastwood
This week, infamous Web designer, Kristian Boruff stops by to hide an impossible-to-solve riddle within the bytes of this podcast. Don't try to solve it, that's for the nerds. All you have to do is listen to this mid-summer's air set, play it at your pool party, barbecue, or wife-swapping shindig. It's either that or turn the file over to hacker geek forums; We trust you'll do the right thing with it.
If you haven't done so yet, leave a voicemail comment at (206) 202-1335, you may get to hear yourself in an upcoming podcast!
RSS feed to subscribe:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GaragePunkPodcasts
For more info or to leave a comment, please visit www.garagepunk.com or call and leave us a message on our 24-hour comment line: (206) 202-1335
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