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Tools to Enjoy Music - Podcast edition - Best of the Interface (spinner.com)

*** Part of an ongoing series of TOOLS TO ENJOY MORE MUSIC *****
I will attempt to profile great avenues of finding, listening to, and downloading new music, to help you, the music fan, get more out of your listening experience.


The interface was probably my first podcast.   Back in 2006 I spent many weekends working in my new house, and I needed some new music to get into while I was demolishing, rebuilding and painting.   I think I had been looking up bands for the upcoming Virgin Festival in Baltimore, MD., but somehow I had stumbled onto four awesome new bands.  Pigeon John, the Raconteurs, KT Tunstall, and Lady Sovereign.

During these early podcasts, the podcast was referred to as AOL Interface @ Spinner.com.  It was also mainly an interview with some performance added at the beinning or end.  Somehow they embedded chapters into the podcasts, so you could skip through and listen to the songs.  That was nice as, after the 10th time or so of listening to the interviews you could just skip to the songs.  Amazingly though, the interviews were very well done, and I never seemed to mind to listen to the interviews repeatedly.  Unlike other podcasts that reviewed new music, the songs were live, in studio performances.   As I mention time and time again her on McGurkMusic, if you really want to get to know an artist, listen to their music in as many variations as possible.

Unfortunately these early podcasts don't seem to be available, but I wanted to touch on a few highlights.
Artist                    Date Released                         Songs Featured
The Raconteurs         4/17/2006.                Yellow Sun, Steady As She Goes, Blue Veins
KT Tunstall                5/4/2006             Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, Miniature Disasters
Lady Sovereign         8/24/2006                         Random, Public Warning
Silversun Pickups      8/31/2006               Common Reactor, Well Thought Out Twinkles,
                                                                         Waste It On, Kissing Families
The Decemberists     11/7/2006              O Valencia, Summersong, The Crane Wife 1&2
Ted Leo                    3/9/2007                   Bleeding Powers, Who Do You Love,
                                                                      A Bottle of Buckie,Timorous Me


The Interface evolved in mid-2007.  First and foremost the podcast was now VIDEO!!.  Second it became a majority of performance, rather than interviews.

Artist                    Date Released                         Songs Featured
Tegan & Sara          8/9/2007          Back In Your Head, the Con, Nineteen, Dark Come Soon
Sea Wolf               11/21/2007      Winter Windows, Middle Distance Runner, You're A Wolf, Black Dirt
Sharon Jones         1/17/2008               I'm Not Gonna Cry, How Long Do I Have to Wait,                        and the Dap Kings                                          100 Days, 100 Nights, Keep On Looking
Adele                      4/24/2008                    Chasing Pavements, Make You Feel My Love,
                                                                 Melt My Heart to Stone,  Hometown Glory
Passion Pit             10/10/2008     I've Got Your Number, Live to Tell the Tale, Sleepyhead, Smile Upon Me

Adele singing 'Chasing Pavements' from 19 on the Interface


The third evolution of the Interface is where the interview portion was simply limited to a graphic of a question and the video response of the band.  Many times the questions are interspersed within the performances.   Now that the podcasts are staying available longer, I have gone back to find ones I missed or dismissed, such as the  Black Keys, Avett Brothers, Mumford & Sons, or Jose Gonzalez


Neko Case             3/28/2009                   Middle Cyclone,People Gotta Whole Lotta Nerve,
                                                                  Don't Forget Me,I'm An Animal
Phoenix                   7/8/12009                   1901, Lisztomania, One Time Too Many
Regina Spektor        8/7/2009                     Laughing With, The Calculation, Time Is All Around, Us
Noisettes                 8/14/2009                   Wild Young Hearts, Saturday Night, Never Forget You,
                                                                   ***Don't Upset the Rhythm***** (a must see)
Cage the Elephant   8/26/2009                    Ain't No Rest for the Wicked, Back Against the Wall
                                                                  Lotus, Tiny Little Rabbits
The Avett Brothers  11/6/1009                   I, and Love, and You, January Wedding
                                                                  The Perfect Space, Slight Figure of Speech
Mumford & Sons    3/29/2010                   Little Lion Man, The Cave, Timshel, White Blank Page
Jakob Dylan           4/27/2010                    Nothing But the Whole Wide World, Everybody's Hurting
                                                                  Holy Rollers For Love, They've Trapped Us Boys
the Black Keys       6/14/2010                   Tighten Up, Howlin' For You, Next Girl, Everlasting Light
Local Natives         7/2/2010                     Sun Hands, Airplanes, World News, Wide Eyes

Regina Spektor with 'Laughing With' & 'The Calculation' from Far live on the Interface


Tegan & Sara 'Hell' from Sainthood on the Interface

Local Natives 'Sun Hands' from Gorilla Manor on the Interface

a beautiful version of 'Airplanes' is also featured!!

Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man from Sigh No More on the interface



To download.. go to iTunes and search "Interface" 
To find any other free podcasts of your favorite artists, search the artist name, and then in iTunes

Tips.  - Media Type: Keep it as Podcast
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Check out the website as well. http://www.spinner.com/interface/mumford-and-sons-little-lion-man-interface/

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