We are starting to get the hang of using GarageBand on my MacBook to record the show. It's not great, but its good enough. Thanks to Chrispy and Jackson for the free GarageBand consulting they provided me in their 100 degree hot studio a couple weeks ago.

Topics of discussion included movies, books, the fringe festival, and the hype machine.

Here is the song list:

• Saving Grace - Tom Petty
• Waiting For The World To Change - John Mayer
• Alfie - Lily Allen
• Hot Cookin' - G. Love and The Special Sauce
• Bye Bye Love - The Ditty Bops - cover (not sure who wrote this song, if you know leave it in the comments)

so i've heard that the RSS feed has the wrong enclosure, the last show.

so i am reposting the 7-30-2006 show to hopefully solve that problem.

again, i apologize for the poor sound quality of the talk portions of this podcast.

i hope to figure out what i am doing wrong in GarageBand and fix it before our next show.

We did a podcast today on my new MacBook Pro. As a result we went with new audio software - GarageBand instead of Adobe Audition. It was a frustrating experience as I was not able to get the recorded audio to work right and you'll hear that the sound quality on the talk portion of this podcast isn't great and is certainly not up to our standards. I think I need a tutorial on GarageBand. Maybe I'll attend one of those sessions at the Apple Store in Soho.

Anyway, it's too bad because the music on this podcast is terrific and is all stuff we've just heard in the past couple weeks.

Here is the song list:

• Penny On The Train Track - Ben Kweller - from his new record coming out this fall
• Annie, Let's Not Wait - Guillemots
• Smile Like You Mean It - David Gray - cover of the Killer's song
• Punks In The Beerlight - Silver Jews
• Wolf Like You - TV On The Radio

Ted (aka Jackson) and Deittra joined us for this show. This is a relatively long show (40ish minutes) because we had some fun conversations. We talked about social networking, global warming, Tom Petty, and the Scope art show.

Here is the song list:

• Right In The Head - M Ward
• When You Were Young  - The Killers
• Breakdown - Tom Petty
• Looking For A Leader - Neil Young
• Who The F***k Are The Arctic Monkeys - Arctic Monkeys

We did our first podcast in three months today. We did it from our beach house and the music has that mellow summer weekend feel. This might not be the best podcast for that morning run or workout, but if you are just hanging out, I think this will do the trick.

Here is the song list:

• Summertime - Josh Rouse
• Other Side of the World - KT Tunstall
• Jacob's Ladder - Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band
• I'm Only Sleeping - Roseanne Cash (Beatles cover)
• Rollercoaster - M Ward

The Gotham Gal and I invited two special guests over for brunch this morning and we recorded a 25 minute podcast with the "father and son of podcasting".

The father of podcasting being Josh Harris, founder of the pioneering podcasting and videoblogging company Pseudo.com which started recording and broadcasting audio on the Internet in 1995. Here's a post I did about Josh, Pseudo, and podcasting version 1.0.

The son of podcasting being Jason Calacanis, who turned me on to podcasting in 1997 when he invited me to join him on the Silicon Alley Reporter radio show at Pseudo's studios on Houston Street and Broadway in lower Manhattan.

So The Gotham Gal, Jason, Josh, and I spent about 25 minutes talking about the early days of podcasting and how Pseudo got started.  We then got into the crazy days of the late 90s when Josh turned Psuedo into the digital equivalent of Andy Warhol's factory.

That evolved into a discussion of Josh's alter ego, Luvvy the clown, and how Josh and his girlfriend Tanya recorded their soho loft 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The podcast ends with a discussion of the wilson's family upcoming "red state weekend" and Jason Calacanis trash talking the Nascar crowd.

All in all, a very fun show and well worth a listen for anyone who wants to know how podcasting got started, what happened in that crazy days of "silicon alley" in the late 90s, and Josh Harris' views on the "synthetic reweaving of society".

UPDATE: We have taken this show down due to the reciept of a cease and desist letter from Shangri-La records. We are hoping to convince them to let us put it back up. We'll let you know how that goes. In the interim, we've posted a version of our theme song, Positively 4th Street.

Joanne and I did this one together in what might become the regular format for Positively 10th Street.

There is a distinctly political undertone to this one with a war protest song from Neil Young and the spanish language version of the Star Spangled Banner.

Plus we've got a roots music thing going with songs from Bruce Springsteen's Pete Seeger record and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Here's the song list:

Old Dan Tucker - Bruce Springsteen
Living With War - Neil Young
Rock And Roll - Jerry Lee Lewis (Led Zepplin cover)
Going Home - Sophie Zelmani
Nuestro Himno - Ivy Queen, Tito el Bambino and Gloria Trevi

The family podcast just hasn't been happening lately so I took it upon myself to do one tonight.

This show is all new bands from the UK that I like.

Five songs, very little talk, all in all about 20 minutes.

I hope you like it.

It seems like we are now pretty much on an every other week schedule for our family podcast, Positively 10th Street. We always do it on Sunday evenings and last week we had the Super Bowl festivities and Jessica's birthday dinner. Next week we'll be away skiing on President's weekend. So we had to get a podcast in this Sunday and we did it. Topics of discussion were why the kids never get a snow day, even when it snows 27" in one day, my thoughts on DEMO, and a bunch of other stuff. The kids are getting pretty comfortable with the podcast format and were really being themsevles on this show which made for some fun moments. Here is the song list: Josh's Song - Birthday - The Beatles (of course), Fred's Song - When The Sun Goes Down - The Arctic Monkeys (of course), Joanne's Song - Wonderwall - Ryan Adams (Oasis cover from The OC soundtrack), Jessica's Song - Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's (discovered on MySpace of course), Emily's Song - Upside Down - Jack Johnson (of course)

It was a shorthanded crew tonite, Emily was dealing with homework and Jessica was sick with a stomache virus (but she did make a short appearance near the end). We reviewed a couple restaurants, a play, and a movie and played five songs as usual. Here's the lineup: Joanne's Song - 16 Military Wives - The Decemberists, Fred's Song (for Jessica) - Mardy Bum - The Arctic Monkeys, Josh's Song - Angie - The Rolling Stones, Fred's Song - Our Swords - Band of Horses, Joanne's Song (for Emily) - You're Beautiful (acoustic version) - James Blunt