Thursday, March 30, 2006

Personal Note

This is sort of out of context, but here goes.... I've spoken with a range of people in the podcast biz over the last couple of months. I've met some seriously interesting people, some not so, some polite people, some not so, some bafflingly coarse...mostly all good people though, sincere too. But perhaps the kindest soul I've encountered belongs to Kevin at Schwagcast. We'll be appearing on the next Schwagcast, #25, but that's not why I'm writing this. I'm writing it because sometimes I feel like calling out the good guys. People don't do that enough.

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Podcast: Bandweblogs

Jenny and Dave at BandwebLogs were gracious enough to include Supraluxe on the latest installment of the Bandweblogs podcast. I found Bandweblogs by chance one day while seeking out podcasts that play interesting pop. (To my ear, "interesting" could mean lots of things) These guys are sincere music junkies; it shows, and it warms my heart to hear people like these two champion the cause, especially the cause of the little guy, which we, collectively, are. Bandweblogs is produced in England, Oxford I believe. A gentlemanly shout out to Jenny and Dave, big thanks.

Stream the show HERE.

Direct link to their podcast page HERE.

Note to Jenny: Yes, we did record it all in a home studio, Bob's basement. At least as comfortable as Electric Ladyland, and cheaper to boot.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Videocast: Justinfeed


Justin at Justinfeed.com produces a videoblog, or vlog. In his latest segment, Justin chose Boyfriend for the background music. The effect is amazing.

Stream it HERE

Monday, March 27, 2006

Podcast: Clever Little Pod


Jason (ed: pronounced GARY) breaks the podcast "Boyfriend" silence and plays it on the latest Clever Little Pod. Honestly, I'd have thought the pods would be all over this song, but CLP's the first.

Stream it HERE.

Edit: There's a lot of pod chaff (podchaff?) out there, but Clever Little Pod is so well scripted and FUNNY, you really need to check it out. Five out of Five stars. Click on the link. Really. Just do it.

Podcast: Razing Giants



Russell Turley broadcasts from Long Beach CA, a far cry from our frozen abode. Tokyo appears in the latest Razing Giants podcast, #20.

Podcast: Today Betacast

Finally broke into the Australian market. 8^) A fellow name Per Erikkson (good sturdy Scandinavian, judging from the name) has a podcast called Today Betacast. It's a production of Raines & Horne, a real estate enterprise in Gladstone Autralia, located on the Northeast coast. They maintain a weblog/podcast where they talk about a mix of things, including the weather. They're apparently as obsessed with it as we are in MN - MN weather segments in newscasts drone on for 10 minutes.

Here's a direct link to the podcast we appear in.

Monday, March 20, 2006

Podcast: WildHockeyFan


AJ at WildHockeyFan Podcast gave The Big Comedown a spin on his latest show. Thanks AJ! We're sandwiched between The CoolWaters Band and Quarter to Nine. Cool company.

Check it out HERE or HERE

The geeks who made all this possible

This is most fascinating. A film from 1972 in which the Supraluxe fore-fathers discuss the future possibilities that connecting computers together will enable. They stop just short of predicting blogging.

Watch. Learn.

UPDATE: Google has apparently pulled this video, probably due to its popularity. On behalf of Supraluxe, sorry - it was a very cool short movie. To Google: bite me.

Podcast: The Little Show

Scott at The Little Show plays Tokyo in his latest podcast, for 3.20.06. It's National Proposal Day, National Cleaning Week and National Clutter Awareness Week!



Music on the show:

* JaeL - Broken
* Inner Surge - Backlash
* Supraluxe - Tokyo
* Deccatree - Tears
* Brent Pocker - On The Shelf
* Chiba-Ken - Letters Home
* Loungeroom - Tea and Sugar

Podcast: Podgy's Tokyo Talk

Tanjoubi Omedetou! Episode 29 is dedicated to Roger whose birthday it is today! Music from Tokyo band Kinlay with "Honey", Delphinium Blue return with "Joy", Supraluxe with "Oleander" and "Sugar Chalet", Ash Verjee "Impromtu for six pianos", Andy Guthrie "Come out of the rain", In the hands "Chopin Nocturne" and Furious Ball with "A Fog"

Friday, March 17, 2006

Podcast: Razing Giants



Russell Turley was kind enough to include Run Rabbit Run on the latest Razing Giants podcast, #19. We're sandwiched between some very melodic tunes by Julie Gribble, Matthew Ebel, and more. There's a song called Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathon Coulton that grows on you, but you wonder where he's going with it early on, the lyrics read like a script from a B movie.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Podcast: Insomnia Radio

The latest episode of Insomnia Radio, #71, features no advertising. Jason is going part-time with the ads - I hope that doesn't mean he's going part-time with the income. Maybe he's going part-time with food. I don't know, maybe he's on a diet and he's trying to incentify his stomach. Although he doesn't sound like an overweight man. He sounds, like a, uh, just a guy. With brown hair? Just a guess. And good taste in music, which crosses all hair color boundaries.

ANYWAYYYYZZZZZZZZ.......Episode #71 features, in the words of Jason: "Andy J, the composer, guitarist, synth master, bass player, and percussion section of The Holden Caulfield Experience. Every instrument he plays has been broken." And if that isn't enticement enough for you to check it out, let me add that Andy plays the trumpet too. Now how much would you pay?

Oh, and Jason plays Sugar Chalet on #71. Forgot to mention my own band. Sheesh.

In case you missed it, you can also catch Insomnia Radio Show #65, where we make another similarly exciting appearance.

Podcast: Podgy's Tokyo Talk

The Podgy's Tokyo Talk podcast featuring Supraluxe is up. Podgy sounds like an expat from the UK, or at least the accent would seem to imply that. But what do I know. Anyway, he spins two songs, Flower and Chemical Fun, alongside some experimental ambient tunes, some bluesy stuff and more. I'm going to quote Podgy's description of the show:

"MOUSHIWAKEGOZAIMASEEEEEEN!
No its not Horiemon here, just Podgy
after a three week absence with a new mac
and episode 28 full of good merodeezu!
Shaggy goes telephone shopping, E-sin with "Disrecall",
Featured band Supraluxe sing "Flower" and "Chemical Fun".
Brain Buckit with "Rocket Science" and Sharif with "Simple Ways""

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Podcast: Tower of Song



Tim Harlow at Tower of Song features us in another episode, #51. Like I mentioned before, Tim plays some seriously cool stuff, and by that I don't mean he plays us (or just us) but there's great music in every episode. There's a song by a French band called Lo that's particularly cool.

Tim hails from Dallas Texas, where it's nice and toasty warm, which Minnesota is NOT right now. We just got dumped on with about 9 inches of snow, and there's more coming tonight. Guess we'll have to stay inside and write songs. Bummer. But I digress.

Listen to show #51 HERE.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Podcast: The Daily Journal Internet Radio Show


The Daily Journal is a daily newspaper out of Kankakee Illinois, a place I visited many times as a youth. They do a regular podcast where they talk about local events, interview people, etc.

Listen to the Supraluxe episode of The Daily Journal Internet Radio Show now!

Monday, March 13, 2006

allmusic



Our allmusic.com listing is online.

Friday, March 10, 2006

Podcast: Tanfastic



The Tanfastic Podcast from Oshkosh Wisconsin is playing Supraluxe in the latest show! Thanks Jon

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Podcast: UltimateMix



UltimateMix chose to include "The Big Comedown" in their latest podcast. TBC has always been one of my faves on the disc, so I'm grateful that UltimateMix chose it.

Stream it HERE

Podcast: WildHockeyFan



Hockey Fans! Especially fans of the Minnesota Wild, have you heard of the WildHockeyFan PodCast? Click HERE and check this out! And BTW, Supraluxe happens to make an appearance.

Stream it HERE

Monday, March 06, 2006

Relax With Supraluxe



Comfortable living, Supraluxe style. You've earned it.

Radio: The Current

Run Rabbit Run got played on The Current tonight. Thank you, Beth. Thank you, Mark.

Podcast: A Good Day For Airplay

The Supraluxe episode of A Good Day For Airplay is up!

STREAM HERE

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Sleepless

Friday, March 03, 2006

Run Rabbit Run

Today is the day. We have "Track of the Day" on Garage band.



"Congratulations! As a result of some very enthusiastic reviews from GarageBand.com members, "Run Rabbit Run" will be Track of the Day at GarageBand.com.

For 24 hours on Friday, the 3rd of March, 2006 (PST) "Run Rabbit Run" will be featured on GarageBand.com's Power Pop front page. The address for this page will be:

http://www.GarageBand.com/go/I3BB2SD85I"

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Behind the Scenes

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Podcast: bit jobs for the masses



I'm so pumped about this one!!! Phil at bit jobs for the masses dedicated an entire show to us!!!!

Absolute Powerpop Ratings

Supraluxe is currently #1 on the Absolute Powerpop "Best Of" list for 2006 (so far).

Absolute Powerpop

Frappr

Come on and FRAP us.

Podcast: Podgy's Tokyo Talk



Supraluxe will appear on the episode 28 of Podgy's Tokyo Talk! Podgy is a Japanese podcaster who plays some very cool bands.