Cookin' Hot Buttered Soul - An Isaac Hayes Tribute
Oh just because he kicked the bucket you thought you were free from the ass kicking you deserved from that bad muthafu-SHUT YO' MOUTH! Look, I was just talking about the man behind the legend, Isaac Hayes. Not only did he wear more bling than most rappers today could even imagine, he also played a bounty hunter preying on a man named Gator, and a cartoon elementary school chef who sung about balls.
Escape Pod (Podcast)
Once upon a time mad, cynical geniuses like Kurt Vonnegut and Phillip K. Dick made a living hacking out stories for pulp magazines, trashy bits of entertainment that could earn a writer a few bucks for whiskey and cigarettes. In the science fiction world, pulp is still alive and well, and a writer can still make money selling short stories to podcasts like Steve Eley's Escape Pod.
Background Briefing
We are truly an attention-challenged, internet-addled generation who has forgotten that news can be found outside an RSS reader. For us overwrought victims of Web 2.0, social media and lifecasting, listening to BACKGROUND BRIEFING is like taking a warm bath in journalism juice.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING truly is Aunty at her finest - rational, thorough and educational.
Cloth Ear Music
Online mail order service Cloth Ear Music is a boon for fans of lo-fi psychedelia, drone experimentation and handmade recordings. Operated anonymously from Sydney with orders taken via email only, the site is a mainline for local and overseas releases of the most ethereal, under-the-radar kind; limited edition LPs, 7s, CDRs and tapes of Noise-fallout otherwise unavailable in Australia.
Party Pirates: Booty on the dancefloor mixed by the Apollo Kids
DJs Edo and Steezy are awesome DJs in their own right, but team them together and it's the Apollo Kids that drop the bombs. Sure, we might be a little biased - they are regulars at our nights after all - but those who know, know: their 4-deck sets have been known to reduce dance floors to sweaty messes.
Space Oddities
The adage everything old becomes new again holds on this mind-blowing compilation of 'rare European library grooves' courtesy of Munich's Permanent Vacation label. Compiled by the enigmatically named Alexis Le-Tran and Jess, SPACE ODDITIES takes in 19 super-obscure cuts from subscriber-only library music albums used to score European film and TV productions from 1975 to 1984.
The Savage Lovecast
Do you plan to have intercourse in the next six months? Scratch that. Do you ever you plan to have intercourse? If your answer is a resounding "F!*k yes" then you would be well advised to listen to THE SAVAGE LOVECAST. For the unaware, Dan Savage is a (and here, if I were speaking to you, I would obnoxiously preface the first term with "quote, unquote") sex adviser and podcaster based out of Chicago.
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