What are you listening to?

A question I pose and am posed often. Lately, I've been listening to a lot of podcasts but I already did a podcast blog post way back in the old "skinny" blog days but here's a quick run down anyway.

I'm listening to Keith and the Girl, Radiolab (two excellent podcasts Tim turned me onto), This American Life, Quirks & Quarks, Old Time Radio Network (old radio shows but only the ones about Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe), The Moth (true stories told onstage with no notes), Furled Sails (sailing podcast), Alan Watts (excerpts from his recorded lectures), The Bugle (British Humour from The Daily Show's John Oliver), The Preparedness Podcast and a few others.

As for music, I've been listening to YouTube a lot lately.

The first two are from a young Australian who calls himself Pogo. He takes sounds from Disney flicks and turns them into songs:





Here is a mind blowing pair from "Kutiman". He takes clips from YouTube and makes music from them. If you click on the video it will take you to the YouTube page with the same song on it. If you click on the right "more info" tab you can see the source of the sounds in his songs. Just amazing!





As for non-YouTube-remix artists, I've been hooked on Fleet Foxes a lot lately. Beautiful stuff.



If you're interested here is the background of this piece of video:



Here's Wilco doing Impossible Germany. I'm mostly paying attention to Nels Cline. He's the madman with the beat up Jazzmaster. Great solo in this tune. Starts at about the 3 minute mark



And finally, some light-hearted fun. Here's Vince with Slap Chop remixed. An ear worm for sure.




Oh and I'm always listening to the Books. "Smells Like Content", my favourite song from their last album, "Lost and Safe"



So what are you listening to?