http://mikeypod.com Music and interviews with some activism in between. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:11:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CLICK TO PLAY/DOWNLOAD A little dancy, a little worldly and the usual suspects. Let me know how you likey. Still have some free stuff to giveaway from Mammut! Just be the first to go to iTunes and leave reviews for both this podcast and for Mammut, and you get ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/07/01/mikeypod-139/ CLICK TO PLAY/DOWNLOAD A little loopy, but no worse for wear. This is my first show post surgery. Listen for rockin' tuneage, a Mammút t-shirt/CD giveaway and....um.... did I mention the rockin' tuneage? Don't forget about Pride 48 this weekend! 48 solid hours of live gay podcasters! I'll ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/06/24/mikeypod-138-stone-free/ CLICK TO PLAY/DOWNLOAD Inspired by the 8 hours I spent at the 2009 Bang On A Can marathon, here is a intro to the composers I discovered there. (00:18) Memory - Ethel John The Revelator (Phil Kline) - Ethel / Lionheart (09:06) Kyrie (12:08) Alone (13:31) Agnus Dei (17:32) Lick (Julia Wolfe) - Bang On A Can ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/06/16/mikeypod-137-bang-on-a-can/ CLICK TO PLAY/DOWNLOAD Feeling happy with this mix, which includes a strange lineage of artists stemming from my twitter connection with Sweet Billy Pilgrim's Tim Elsenburg. Sweet Billy Pilgrim begat Uniform Motion begat Anois... at least that's the order in which I discovered them all. By the way, I ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/05/27/mikeypod-136-death-by-soymilk/ CLICK TO PLAY/DOWNLOAD Lots and lots of music in this episode, a t-shirt giveaway courtesy of eenie meenie records, the sad story of my hard drive disaster and how you can help using my Amazon wish list. (00:06) Overture - The Unbending Trees (05:03) Vermillion Plaza - Deastro (08:50) 24.12 - B. Fleischmann (12:25) One ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/05/19/mikeypod-135-the-things-you-want-to-hide/ CLICK TO PLAY/DOWNLOAD Lots of music and why to be careful dissing vegan chefs on twitter. (00:14) Come Monday Night - God Help The Girl (05:32) Houses - Great Northern (09:45) Kingdom of Rust (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) - Doves (18:01) When Brakes Get Wet - Julie Doiron (20:58) PSA: Freedom Center by Visitronix (21:32) Combination Pizza Hut ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/05/03/mikeypod-134-it-takes-an-ocean-of-trust-347-482-1360/ CLICK TO PLAY/DOWNLOAD Another grand mix to make your Monday brighter. I added time stamps to make it a little easier to skip around...not that you would want to miss a second! (00:34) iamundernodisguise - school of seven bells (05:42) kalypso - sweet billy pilgrim (12:05) pieces cancelled (cancelled pieces remix)- steve ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/04/19/mikeypod-133-dancing-on-a-pinhead-347-482-1360/ By now you all know that I am in awe of Gavin Castleton. I mean seriously. I was working while he was doing this set live on the legendary Morning Becomes Eclectic, but fortunately, KCRW puts these performances up on their site. Gavin is the type of ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/04/16/gavin-castleton-on-kcrw/ CLICK TO PLAY/DOWNLOAD More music for my dwindling audience! I'm a day late this week, but doing much better with consistency, right? Like the show? let me know! The tunes: Sugarcoats & Hearbeats - Up Dharma Down Vena Cava - 50 Foot Wave Escape Act - The Active Set Use Somebody (Andre Anjos ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/04/14/mikeypod-132/ CLICK TO PLAY/DOWNLOAD What?! Already another podcast? Yes, it's true! I had such a fun time with the last one I kept up the momentum for another week! Could it be that I am getting back to podcasting once a week? Could be. Could be not. I am really ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/04/06/mikeypod-131-another-pseudo-mixtape-347-482-1360/ CLICK TO PLAY/DOWNLOAD I really love putting together this type of show, even though my very own sister hates them. It's torture to get the group of songs and then the order exactly how I like, but when I get there with it, I am so glad. I hope ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/03/30/mikeypod-130-podsafe-mixtape-347-482-1360/ This morning I finally got around to putting up the show I recorded with my pal Joey Piscopo only to discovering that the recording was jacked up beyond repair. Please take a look at his video short of outakes from the ShamWow guy as you bide your time for ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/03/28/mongo-and-joe-fail/ CLICK TO PLAY/DOWNLOAD Gavin Castleton joins me on this episode of MikeyPod to talk about his latest full length, Home. I am so excited to share this interview with you because I am just amazed by this album, even more so after talking to Gavin about his process. Listen to the ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/02/16/mikeypod129-gavin-castleton-347-482-1360/ Click here to download podcast Lots of music and a little talking + sniffles. MUSICS Tainted Love - My Brightest Diamond Gobbledigook - Sigur Rós Curb - RH+ A Sunday Smile (SON LUX remix) - Beirut We Have A Technical - Gary Numan & Tubeway Army On The Eighth Day - Gavin Castleton Blood Bank - Bon Iver Nebraska - ... http://mikeypod.com/2009/02/01/mikeypod-128-kinda-like-a-mixtape-347-482-1360/ Reuben Butchart talks about his residency at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center and his new video for the song Come and Play. Reuben at work during his Watermill residency Links: Reuben Butchart iTunes link for the album Golden Boy Robert Wilson's Watermill Center Henry Hinterland Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe in Podcast Ready RSS Feed This ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/12/04/mikeypod127-reuben-butchart-347-482-1360/ On a very special episode of MikeyPod, the musical improv group Veal kindly let me sit in on one of their rehearsals. We talk about their process for creating musical comedy on the fly, they take me through their warm up process and create an opening number before my very ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/11/18/mikeypod126-musical-comedy-improv-with-veal-347-482-1360/ Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito and publisher Christopher Adams visit the show to talk about Joi's new book of photographs, Freesouls. portrait of Ryuichi Sakamoto by Joi Ito Also: A brand new Halloween track from Gavin Castleton, Since 1968 which is released on iTunes today. This track is popping up all over ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/10/28/mikeypod125-freesouls-joi-ito-and-christopher-adams-347-482-1360/ I got to chat with Paul Doucette (Matchbox Twenty) in the bluhammock music office this afternoon about his new project The Break and Repair Method. Here lies our conversation, along with a few tracks off the album which won't be available till Sept 16th. Music: You Won't Be Able ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/07/23/mikeypod124-paul-doucette-of-the-break-and-repair-method-347-482-1360/ SayNow Meat Free Radio Elastic Lab noneck Digital Flotsam Vegan Freak Almost Daily Devotional Music: All Sweet Things - No-Man All That Numbs You - Thomas Feiner & Anywhen Nothing is Innocent - Over the Rhine Black Winged Bird - Nina Persson Armon - Eve Beglarian (text by Rabi'a al-Adawiyya) Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe in Podcast Ready RSS Feed This ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/06/25/mikeypod-123-music-catching-up-and-looking-forward-347-482-1360/ Hey kids! I started a new podcast with Eric the Southernboy and Tim Corrimal. You can check it out by clicking here.Giocando i giochi per adulti quali il Roulette in linea ed il party poker viva certamente ed in tempo reale è la fase prossima ed il futuro ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/06/10/meat-free-radio-episode-one/ I have been tweeting about this dish so much and people have been asking for it so here it is. Isa Chandra Moskowitz gave me permission to post this, it's from the Veganomicon. Buy it. I included the recipe correction from The Post Punk Kitchen forums 3 large ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/06/06/lentils-and-rice-with-caramelized-onions/ Jamie Moffett joins me today to discuss his film The Ordinary Radicals. About the film: In the margins of the United States, there lives a revolutionary Christianity. One with a quiet disposition that seeks to do “small things with great love,” and in so doing is breaking 21st Century stereotypes surrounding this ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/05/14/mikeypod122-filmmaker-jamie-moffett/ click here to download video This afternoon, I interviewed filmmaker Jamie Moffett about his upcoming film The Ordinary Radicals. The topic of Christianity and Homosexuality came up, which prompted him to send me this clip from the film. It is part of an interview with with author/ ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/05/08/ordinary-radicals-advance-clip-of-interview-with-shane-claiborne/ It's been a while, kids. Been busy but here's alotta music for ya: Three Women - Stereolab iTunes Morning After Midnight - Adam Green iTunes Through the Night These Days - Jason Colette iTunes The Very First Time - ABC (not yet available) Sunrise - Yeasayer iTunes Countdown - Jupiter One iTunes Blame - Temposhark iTunes Cloudhoppers ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/05/07/mikeypod121-where-you-been-206-202-4175/ Apparently I am on a temporary hiatus from podcasting. Things are kinda banannas for me right now, but in a good way. I am teaching in all the boroughs (well, not in poor Staten Island) and musical directing A Grand Night for Singing at Theater 1010. Fear not, things ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/04/13/well-lookie-here/ Guitarist, electronic musician, composer, and all around bad-ass, Christopher Willits joins me this week to discuss his collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ocean Fire an lots of other stuff. Music featured: Toward Water - Willits + Sakamoto (from the album Ocean Fire) amazon Colors Shifting - Christopher Willits (from the album Surf Boundaries) emusic ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/03/17/mikeypod-120-conversation-with-christopher-willits-206-202-4175/ Despite the fact that Anji Bee and I have both been podcasting for nearly three years, it has been just recently that we realized how much we have in common and begun a friendship. Still, I have always had great respect for her work and am really honored ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/03/04/niu-support-chillcast/ Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero's Veganomicon cookboook has been this newbie/aspiring Vegan's best friend since it hit my mailbox about a month ago. Isa Chandra Moskowiz was kind enough to take time out of her busy s'more eating to talk a bit about her philosophy and the ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/02/25/mikeypod119-vegan-chef-isa-chandra-moskowitz-206-202-4175/ Lots of music, it's all legal too. I really had a great time putting this playlist together, someone give me a radio show please. Thanks. It has almost become a game for me to put togehter a playlist that I am really happy with that contains only music ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/02/19/mikeypod118-a-promise-with-a-catch-206-202-4175/ Greetings. If you are wondering what this is all about, I tend to draw all over random things that get in my path and Mikeypod was gracious enough to let me commit blograffiti here this evening. In part to provide his album art for this month, although fashionably late, but more ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/02/11/sketch-o-the-day-now-in-progress/ There was a mistake on the podcast: the web address for Ian's book is www.diabetesmiracle.org NOT .com http://mikeypod.com/2008/02/08/website/ Author Ian Blake Newman discusses The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle and the impact it has had on his own health. Click here for the book tour dates. Music: Countdown by Jupiter One courtesy of Ariel Publicity [tags] The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle, Ian Blake Newman, Stuart A. Seale, Franklin House, Diabetes, Lifestyle Center of America[/tags] ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/02/07/mikeypod117-the-30-day-diabetes-miracle-206-202-4178/ My pal Curtis is my special guest host today. We talk about cool stuff and play cool musics. Plus, there is a big CD giveaway contest. Listen for info! cool stuff: the Quiet times podcast Curtis' Flickr photos Curtis' LiveJournal My LiveJournal metacritic.com"> cool musics: Fujyia and Miyagi - Ankle Injury Belle and Sebastian - ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/01/23/mikeypod116-special-guest-host-curtis-hill-206-202-4178/ I am joined today by my friend Ann Karp. She has been a part of the Koinonia community for four years, and is my featured artist this month. Ann welcomes commissions, and much of her existing artwork is for sale. you can check it out on her flickr. Music (not ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/01/18/mikeypod115-januarys-featured-artist-ann-karp-206-202-4178/ All music today, for your pleasure. I know alot of you guys don't like my music, but you need to stop being pussies and branch out a little bit. Here's your chance! Track List (not CC licensed): War and peace (AOKI takamasa Remix) - Ryuichi Sakamoto Cancelled Pieces - Steve Jansen Fit ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/01/11/mikeypod-114-pushing-musical-boundaries-really-fixed-206-202-4178/ Click the photo above for 14 minutes of Mongo and Joe New Year's hijinks! Kudos to Joey for his editing! Damn fine work my friend. [tags]Joey Piscopo, NYC, New York City, Times Square, ball drop, The National Underground, New Year's Eve[/tags] Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe in Podcast Ready ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/01/08/the-mongo-joe-show-new-years-eve-special/ I had intended to hit the ground running with podcasts in 2008, but as I mentioned before, my old mixer died. The good news is that this was the inspiration I needed to get my new (to me) Mackie 1202-VLZ Pro mixer up (thanks luke kurtis!) and running. ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/01/06/waiting/ I first met this month's featured artist, Ann Karp, as I was planning my four month internship at Koinonia Partners in 2006. She was welcome source of calm and serenity during my time as a part of the community, always able to put things into perspective by taking me ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/01/05/ann-karp/ I haven't said it here for realz yet, but I am trying again to stick to being vegan. Today is day three. YIPEE! http://mikeypod.com/2008/01/03/vegan-baby/ I have been trying for some time to think of a way to involve the visual arts in what I do here at MikeyPod. When my pal Ann Karp and I started talking about an alternate cover art design for the podcast it dawned on me that I could invite ... http://mikeypod.com/2008/01/01/featuring-artists-for-2008/ I have been working on this for about a week. this is it on youtube, but you should really turn off the lights and play the higher quality version on your full screen. I am kinda proud of this. I shot everything except for a few seconds ... http://mikeypod.com/2007/12/31/like-a-rolling-stone/ Kurt was my roommate for most of my time at Koinonia. After our four month internship together he decided to become a full time member of the community while I moved on to New York. It thought it would be fun to get an update from him and also ... http://mikeypod.com/2007/12/24/mikeypod113-kurt-morrow-from-koinonia-partners-in-ga-206-202-4178/ oooooops. my old voicemail expired! Here's the new one: 206-202-4178 look for a new podcast today! http://mikeypod.com/2007/12/23/new-voicemail-number/ Vegan bodybuilder and motivational speaker Robert Cheeke takes a break from his busy touring schedule to talk about his diet, training and the philosophy behind his decision 13 years ago to maintain a plant based diet. Linkies: www.veganbodybuilding.com Robert's MySpace Robert's You Tube videos Featured Music: Jesus-Page France [tags]Robert Cheeke, vegan, veganism, bodybuilding, fitness, animal rights, nutrition, ... http://mikeypod.com/2007/12/11/mikeypod-conversation-with-vegan-bodybuilder-robert-cheeke/ Long time MikeyPod listeners will know that Issa (formerly Jane Siberry) holds the honor of being one of my three most inspiring artists (Yoko Ono and David Sylvian are the others, if you're keeping track). After quite some time of arranging, she and I finally had the opportunity to ... http://mikeypod.com/2007/12/03/mikeypod111-conversation-with-issa-206-339-6682/ Talking with punk rocker and activist George Tabb about the fatal illness he developed after the 9-11 attacks. Despite the fact that his illness resulted from his proximity to the World Trade Center during and after the attacks, he has been denied any financial help with his medical expenses. ... http://mikeypod.com/2007/11/27/mikeypod110-talking-with-george-tabb-206-339-6682/ Yes, it's been a long time between podcasts, sorry 'bout that! If you need a MikeyPod fix, hop on over to my friend Chef Mark's show. We had dinner last night and saw Love in the Time of Cholera , podcasting all the way. I am editing the interview ... http://mikeypod.com/2007/11/25/mikeypod-in-the-time-of-cholera/ Talking touring, death metal and David Sylvian with the members of Division Day before their show at Brooklyn's Union Hall. Check out Bumpershine for pics from the show. Music (not CC licensed): Plowed - Division Day Darkest Birds - Nine Horses You Suffer - Napalm Death Reversible - Division Day Buy Division Day's latest, Beartrap Island on ... http://mikeypod.com/2007/10/28/mikeypod109-conversation-with-division-day-206-339-6682/ Before the interview with Division Day at Union Hall last Thursday, Ryan (d-day's guitarist) mentioned Gary Numan's album, Dance, which he has been listening to recently. I bought the album about a year ago on e-music and after giving it a few casual listens on the subway, it fell ... http://mikeypod.com/2007/10/28/oceans-of-dearth/ I had some time to kill and the Marantz recorder in my bag so I did a soundseeing tour of NYC: Hell's Kitchen, Times Square and the West Side of Central Park, right by the Diana Ross Playground. Cameo appearances by Rob and Andy Music (not CC licensed): More ... http://mikeypod.com/2007/10/26/mikeypod108-soundseeing-in-nyc-and-phone-calls-206-339-6682/