#246 with Todd Taylor

Summary: When we started these podcasts several years back, I thought it'd be a good idea to have themes so we didn't overlap one another too much. Commercial radio blows and one thing commercial radio does is play bad songs so often that people buy those songs and I get bummed out when I'm buying groceries or pumping gas when I hear it over the intercom. So, I suggested to our podcasters to play stuff that hasn't been beaten into the ground. The longer we're at it, I've realized that the main theme of Razorcake podcasts is “please don't suck.” That's the theme. Okay, that's not completely true. “Play a lion's share of DIY punk.” Because that's what's Razorcake's about. We think it's the best music on the planet, otherwise we're wasting both your and our time. I live in a cultural bubble. I totally cop to it. It gives me great joy to be totally straight-faced and honest when someone asks me about Justin Beiber or Jessica Simpson or Brittney Spears or Lady Gaga, and I have no fucking idea what they're about or one fucking note of their music. It's amazing how quiet the world gets when you don't reflect its garbage back to it. Tilt the balance. Fuck those corporate sharecroppers of the mind. Learn how to find these podcasts without the itunes middleman. Go to http://www.razorcake.org/punk-music-podcast and download all 240+ of them. -Todd Taylor To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #246 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: The Brokedowns, “Beast Resources V” (Cassette Deck) Occult Detective Club, “Third Way” (Dirtnap) -- The Measure [SA], “Stop Calling” Are You with the Band comp. (Paper and Plastick) The White Wires, “I Need Your Love” (Total Punk) Midnight Snaxxx, “Lost Weekend” (Goner) Neighborhood Brats, “SharkBeach” (Falsified) -- Poison Idea, “My Hard-on Withers in Your Face” (TKO) Red Dons, “Mauvaise Foi” (Dirtnap) Hygiene, “Hygéne” (Sorry State) Shellshag, “Crybaby” (Paper and Plastick) -- Eddy Current Suppression Ring, “Time of Day” (Almost Ready) PS Eliot, “Entendre” (Paper and Plastick) Black Dots, “Movin'” (blackdotrock@gmail.com) Alicja Trout, “Close UR Eyes” (Spacecase) -- Something Fierce, “Warlords of Information” (Dirtnap) The Chantey Hook, “The Disciples of St. Paul” (http://www.thechanteyhook.com/)