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NaPodPoMo 2010 #13 – Swingin’ in November

Russ Turley — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:00:29 +0000

Razing Giants Podcast is back again. Tonight’s show was inspired by my son Adam’s performance at his concert today. He’s part of Jazz Angels that has multiple bands made up of kid musicians. They’re great .

Songs Played:
Swing That Thing by Gas House Gorillas
Neighbor by Lascivious Biddies
One More Night With You by Brian Setzer Orchestra

Be sure to check out the Lascivious Biddies website as well as Amanda Monaco’s site. Also, you can’t go wrong with a Brian Setzer Christmas album

Christmas Parade – The Final Days

Russ Turley — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:40:29 +0000

Well, despite my desire to post each day of progress of the float, I was too busy putting it together to do that. Oh wells. Here is the float alost complete in my driveway.

Another one of the float in my driveway.

Lining up for the parade with the Long Beach Little League float behind us. They were still building the float as they were lining up. I couldn’t do that.

Steven and Jason doing some last minut decorating. Steven played guitar on the float this year, his first time. Jason is our drummer Travis’ brother. He was a life saver helping out before.

Almost done. We put up some silver mylar balloons to get the feeling of bubbles. A few of them had to be moved. Larry, singer and guitar player extraordinaire is there on the back of the float getting the chords all setup.

As soon as the video of the parade is shown and recorded and uploaded to YouTube I’ll post it here.

Merry Christmas!!

NaPodPoMo Day 22 – Lessons and Music

Russ Turley — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:34:09 +0000

What have you learned from this year’s NaPodPoMo so far? What have I learned?

#1, I’m really impressed by shows like Keith and the Girl that put out an hour long show every day. It would definitely help doing it as a full time job.

#2, podcasts don’t have to be perfect. It’s okay to strive for a good sounding show, but don’t sweat it when there are pauses, ums and ahs.

Songs Played:
Coming Soon…

NaPodPoMo Day 14 – Razing Giants

Russ Turley — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:53:11 +0000

A traditional Razing Giants podcast today for Day 14 of NaPodPoMo. The old Podsafe Music Network is alive and well and busting at the seams with great new music. Today I chose two songs from the PMN and one from a friend of mine.

Songs Played

Make It Work by Stratocruiser
Rodeo by Lake Dolores
Cooler Than Me by Ari Shine

Powerpop Video Tidbit

Russ Turley — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:19:20 +0000

Saw this on the Absolute Powerpop blog. Here’s a video from Canandian group, Sam Roberts of a great song, “Don’t Walk Away Eileen”. If you’re into the powerpop genre, then you have to be subscribed to Absolute Powerpop.

Matthew Ebel: Tennessee Never Cried

Russ Turley — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:18:23 +0000

Matthew Ebel is one of my favorite podsafe artists. Scratch that, he’s one of my favorite artists, period. Here’s a video of him performing his song Tennessee Never Cried. Thanks to Chris Penn for the video work.

The Return of Razing Giants

Russ Turley — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:42:48 +0000

Starting in May of 2005, until the unintended final show in December 2006, I did a music podcast called Razing Giants. It was a “weekly” podcast, and I use the term weekly very loosely. When I started my next podcast, Fat Guy Radio, Razing Giants suffered until it finally died. Apparently I can only do one weekly podcast at a time while having a full time job, a wife and 4 kids. I continued to play a song a the end of each episode of Fat Guy Radio, but now with the newer podcast, Fat 2 Fit Radio, we’re more focused on the content, so no music. So with all that in mind, I am proud to announce the return of the Razing Giants podcast.

I’m going to play pretty much any music that I like, instead of being boxed into any particular genre. It’s also not going to be only a music podcast. It’s going to be a sort of variety show of anything that I like and want to talk about. I’m planning on having as many of my friends that I can on the show and talking about anything and everything I can think of.

I’m going to be using the technology in the Podpress plugin to allow “category casting”. We’ll see how that works. I’ve never used it before. Shows will show up whenever, don’t count on any particular schedule. In the meanwhile, check out the archives of the old Razing Giants podcast. There are no show notes there any more, so don’t look, but the MP3 files are there for the listening from the site or subscribing to download the individual episodes.