Tampa Calling

To begin by beating a dead horse: Modern Radio sucks! We’re lucky in the Tampa Bay area with WMNF, but even this leftist station leans toward mainstream boomer culture rather than underground or avant garde sounds. And who can blame them? Fiscal feasability dictates the output of modern media (d’uh).

In a pinch, I tend to listen to right wing radio for a good, healthy gut laugh, because it’s better than being depressed by cheesy mediocrity! Bottom line: Radio is for the masses. Lowest common denominator pandering pervades every aspect of post-modern living. From the huge conglomerates to the indies, companies and not-for-profits don’t have faith in our ability to think, contemplate and make our own decisions. This is not special knowledge that I’ve tapped into / I do not have any extra intelligence not available to the rest of you. You are all well aware of the hoodwink that modern media attempts to pull over on us every day. It/s like that “Everybody Knows” song by Leonard Cohen (he supercedes boomer culture, right?).

Not that one lowly podcast does anything to change all that, but I started one, nonetheless. Check out music released and getting ready to be released by my record label, No Clear Records on No Clear Radio (http://sonicnadeau.podomatic.com) for a fun romp through genres like punk, no wave, folk, experimental, noise, garage and maybe even some sub-denominations I’m not willing to type at this point in my life…

There are two episodes completed so far, and I’m going to keep doing them because they are easy and really fun. Currently, all the music pounding out of anyone’s speakers who cares to press play is from Florida, except for one band from Nova Scotia I’m releasing a CD for very soon, Mess Folk (garage punk noisey electric eels awesome).

P.S. This post serves as an open invitation for anyone who does not like my podcast, or any of the other radio around them, to take the time and start their own. Anyone can start a podcast just like anyone can start a band, anyone can paint a picture and talent is a loaded word that doesn’t mean anything.

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