Dancing Mattress Productions

Today's shows focus, for the most part, on solo artists featured over the last six months or so of both the Mental Nomad Podcast and Pod Across America. (KaiserCartel is a duo, and one supposes you could argue Ellen Cherry is a band, since the name is a pseudonym for the woman up front.)

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Justin Townes Earle: "Hard Livin'" (Podshow) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #112)
Jules Shear: "We Said Goodbye" (IODA Promonet) (originally featured in MNP #135)
Lesley Gore: "It's Gone" (IODA) (originally featured in Pod Across America #3)
Tom Vollman: "Genevieve" (from the album The Betty Violet) (originally featured in MNP #129)
Ellen Cherry: "The Meanest Waltz" (from The Ellen Cherry Primer) (originally featured in PAA #9)
Gordon Bell: "White Collar Slave" (from the album Songs for the Broken Hearted) (originally featured in MNP #131)
Lori Lieberman: "Killing Me Softly" (originally featured in MNP #131)
Josh Woodward: "She Dreams in Blue" (from the album Not Quite Connected) (originally featured in MNP #112)
Emma Wallace: "I Don't Like You Either" (Podshow) (originally featured in MNP #110)
Jim Boggia: "Three Weeks Shy" (Ariel) (originally featured in MNP #123)
Jude Johnstone: "On a Good Day" (IODA) (originally featured in MNP #123)
Cassandra Kubinski: "Wherever You Wait" (Podshow) (originally featured in MNP #129)
Noam Weinstein: "Planet" (Podshow) (originally featured in MNP #116)
KaiserCartel: "Okay" (Mood Indigo Entertainment) (originally featured in the 2009 Inauguration Day special)
Steve Earle: "Ellis Unit One (Live at Montreux 2005)" (Podshow) (originally featured in MNP #107)

(Total play time: 1:04:40)

IODA-sponsored tracks may be downloaded at the Blogger site as long as their promotions last.

As stated before, I'm going to be changing podcast hosting and blog clients in the coming weeks. I'll keep you informed of any developments here.

Here's the third of the current five-show set of retrospectives, the second of two shows to focus on cover tunes played over the last six months or so of both the Mental Nomad Podcast and Pod Across America.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Not the Sensational Alex Harvey Band: "Midnight Moses (demo)" (MySpace) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #134)
The Postmarks: "11:59" (Podshow) (originally featured in MNP #118)
Mr. Russia: "Boys Keep Swinging" (IODA Promonet) (originally featured in MNP #125)
Nancy Kelly: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (IODA) (originally featured in MNP #132)
Elena Zoubareva: "I Feel Pretty" (Ariel Publicity) (originally featured in Pod Across America #8.5)
The Stylistics: "Always on My Mind" (IODA) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #111)
AM feat. Julianna Raye: "I'll Be Your Mirror" (Podshow) (originally featured in PAA #6)
The Swayback: "I'm Waiting for the Man" (IODA) (originally featured in MNP #130)
The Swingle Singers: "Ticket to Ride" (IODA) (originally featured in MNP #111)
Not the Sensational Alex Harvey Band: "Faith Healer (demo)" (MySpace) (originally featured in MNP #107)
Nathaniel Street-West: "Motorpsycho Nightmare" (IODA) (featured in MNP #111 and originally in MNP #65)
Amy Abdou: "Just Like a Woman" (Podshow) (originally featured in MNP #107)
Love Riot: "You Don't Own Me" (from the Killing Time EP) (originally featured in the 2009 Women's History Month special)
Kurt Kreikenbom: "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (from The Capital Years, Vol. 1) (originally featured in MNP #121)
The Sky About to Rain: "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (from the album Scars) (originally featured in MNP #108)

(Total play time: 1:00:55)

IODA-sponsored tracks may be downloaded at the Blogger site as long as their promotions last.

As stated before, I'm going to be changing podcast hosting and blog clients in the coming weeks. I'll keep you informed of any developments here.

Here's the second of the current five-show set of retrospectives, the first of two shows to focus on cover tunes played over the last six months or so of both the Mental Nomad Podcast and Pod Across America.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Kurt Kreikenbom: "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More" (from the album The Capital Years, Vol. 1) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #112)
Lin McEwan: "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (Ariel Publicity) (originally featured in MNP #114)
Splitsville: "Our Love Was" (Podshow) (originally featured in MNP #117)
Human People: "Just Like Honey" (contributed by the band) (originally featured in MNP #110)
Cascada: "Because the Night (Makrolon Club Remix)" (Podshow) (originally featured in MNP #133)
Polecat Boogie Revival: "Play It All Night Long" (IODA Promonet) (originally featured in MNP #123)
Chris Daniels & the Kings: "The Heart of a Saturday Night" (Ariel Publicity) (originally featured in MNP #118)
Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat: "I Shall Be Released" (IODA) (originally featured in MNP #111)
Margo Reymundo: "Ain't No Sunshine" (On Target Media) (originally featured in MNP #131)
George Clinton feat. Sly Stone and El Debarge: "Ain't That Peculiar" (Podshow) (originally featured in Pod Across America #3)
J.J. McGeehan: "And I Love Her" (IODA) (originally featured in MNP #111)
Sylvia Bennett: "Since I Fell for You" (Ariel Publicity) (originally featured in MNP #115)
The Swingle Singers: "Drive My Car" (IODA) (originally featured in MNP #111)
Jim Butler: "I Know You Rider" (Podshow) (originally featured in PAA #11)
Omar Alexander: "No Woman No Cry" (Ariel) (originally featured in MNP #129)
Mr. Russia: "Wild World" (IODA) (originally featured in MNP #112)
Rhoda Nkojo: "Time After Time" (Ariel) (originally featured in MNP #120)

(Total play time: 1:04:28)

IODA-sponsored tracks may be downloaded at the Blogger site as long as their promotions last. (It looks like the Swingle Singers' track is no longer available.)

As stated before, I'm going to be changing podcast hosting and blog clients in the coming weeks. I'll keep you informed of any developments here.

We make an unexpected detour into the past today, the first of five shows featuring my favorite cuts from the past six months of both the Mental Nomad Podcast and Pod Across America.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Jack Jezzro: "I Got It Bad, And That Ain't Good" (Ariel Publicity) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #114)
21st Century Trio: "Bodega" (Garageband) (originally featured in Pod Across America #2)
Sylvia Bennett: "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (Ariel) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #123)
David Foster feat. Kenny G: "Love Theme From 'St. Elmo's Fire' (live)" (On Target Media) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #128)
Charlie Hunter: "Baboon Strength" (IODA Promonet) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #116)
Rebecca Griffin: "Baby, Baby All the Time" (from the album Live at Kelly's) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #119)
Fahir Atakoglu: "Istanbul in Blue" (Podshow) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #132)
Charlie Parker with Dizzy Gillespie's Rebop Six: "Groovin' High" (IODA) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #121)
Phil Mason's New Orleans All-Stars feat. Christine Tyrrell: "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (IODA) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #111)
Dave Stewart and His Rock Fabulous Orchestra: "Lily Was Here" (Podshow) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #110)
Somewhere Off Jazz Street: "Scene of the Crime" (Garageband) (originally featured in Pod Across America #2)
Sathima Bea Benjamin: "I Got It Bad, and That Ain't Good" (IODA) (originally featured in Mental Nomad Podcast #106)

(Total play time: 59:05)

Prompting this is a move I'll be making later this month to another hosting provider for the podcast audio and video AND for the show blogs. Libsyn is raising its rates, and I found a better deal -- and Google did me dirty several weeks ago, taking down a text entry after a bogus complaint of it violating audio copyright, so I'll be moving to my own domain at last.

IODA-sponsored tracks may be downloaded at the Blogger site for as long as their promotions last. Come back Friday for a second greatest hits show in place of the regularly scheduled Pod Across America.

Things will get back on track in June, I promise you.

Here's a video featuring Ariel Publicity clients Telling on Trixie, which came to me accompanied by this note:


Look for a new greatest-hits show tomorrow featuring about an hour of jazz songs featured on my podcasts over the past few months, as well as an announcement about changes coming to Dancing Mattress Productions and its affiliated podcasts in the next few weeks.

Here's the second of two videos provided by Ariel Publicity, for a rock outfit called Underwhelmed.

No new episode today due to time constraints and computer issues (needs ... more ... memory). So here are the first of two new videos from Ariel Publicity -- this one's hip hop, the next will be rock -- and The Mental Nomad Podcast and Pod Across America will both be coming your way next week.

Here's the twice-delayed show of music from the state of New Hampshire. Sorry that happened; hopefully we'll stay on track now.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Jim Butler: "I Know You Rider" (Podshow)
Jim Butler: "Letter to the President (1000 Coffins)" (Podshow)
GG Allin: "Outskirts of Life" (IODA Promonet)
Nicole Lepera: "Mister Sandman" (Podshow)
Conservative Man: "A Place Unknown" (Podshow)
The Queers: "Noodlebrain" (Podshow)
Scissorfight: "Drunken Hangman" (IODA)
Shearwater: "Whipping Boy" (IODA)
Don't Harass Betty: "So Blue" (Podshow)
Joe Mazzari: "Chain of Love" (Podshow)
Will Kindler: "You and I and the Princely Thief" (Podshow)
Michael Sandoval: "Janelle" (Podshow)

(Total play time: 56:34)

Learn more about the now-crumbled rock formation called the Old Man of the Mountain, which I talk about briefly in the show. (Apparently the government's tossing around some ideas to try and restore it.)

Ads to pick up whatever's commercially available to come; still running THAT much behind, anyway, I hate to say.

IODA-sponsored tracks may be downloaded at the Blogger site for as long as their promotions last.

A few times in the first 50 or so episodes, I read short fiction written some years ago. The sound quality on those was poor, and they probably merit remastering with some extra music in the near future, but in the meantime, here's a new episode with stories not read before.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Jules Shear: We Said Goodbye (IODA Promonet)
Deni Bonet: "Last Girl On Earth (Full Band)" (Ariel Publicity)
"Change"
Tonye Christopher: "Dear Ms. Anniston (I Need You)" (Ariel)
"Double Blind Illusion"
Gregory Douglass: "Cathedrals" (Ariel)
"Two-Minute Love Affair"
Lichtzwang: "Please Kill Me" (MySpace)
"Quivers"
Howard Markman: "I See the Rain" (artist submitted)
(Title withheld)
Jaik Miller Band: "After Last Call" (Ariel)
Neko Case: "People Got a Lotta Nerve" (Podshow)
"Best of All Possible Worlds"
... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: "Isis Unveiled" (Podshow)
Vanessa Daou: "Once in a While" (IODA)

(Total play time: 57:36)

The IODA-sponsored tracks may be downloaded at the Blogger site as long as their promotions remain active.

 A more personal episode than normal, wherein I talk about some upcoming developments in my life and what it might all mean.

Here's what you'll hear today (direct download here):

Comandante Zero: "Give It Up (Receive And Transmit)" (Ariel Publicity)
Vanessa Daou: "Black and White" (IODA Promonet)
Chris Huff: "Hey Now Now" (Ariel)
John Brown's Body: "Give Yourself Over" (IODA)
Dram: "Kringellek" (Magnatune)
Dudley Saunders: "Take Me Back Home Again" (Ariel)
Deep 6 Holiday: "Seafaring" (Ariel)
Noam Weinstein: "Learning to Talk" (Podshow)
Not the Sensational Alex Harvey Band: "Midnight Moses (demo)" (MySpace)
Ensemble Al-Asdeka: "Lake of Clouds" (Magnatune)
Judd Starr: "Firefly" (Ariel)

(Total play time: 1:00:57)

IODA-sponsored tracks may be downloaded at the Blogger site for as long as their promotions last.

Charities mentioned in this episode include Everyone Deserves a Roof (providing portable shelters to the homeless); Heifer International (anti-hunger efforts); Kiva (supporting entrepreneurship in developing countries); Operation Fairy Dust (helping young women have a prom experience); the Point Foundation (offering scholarships to LGBT young adults); the St. Baldrick's Foundation (funding juvenile cancer research); The Trevor Project (offering suicide and crisis prevention for LGBT youth); and local libraries wherever you are.