For indie music fans, check out the Low Times podcast, hosted by Maggie Serota and Tom Scharpling. You may know Tom from The Best Show on WFMU. Low Times highlights include interviews with Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh, Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500, and Peter Prescott of Mission of Burma and the Volcano Suns. Indie music fans should also check out Music That Matters, put out by college radio station KEXP in Seattle. This podcast has more music than talk, and is a great place to turn to if, like me, you don't have enough time in your life to source out new music and rely on the music review work of others. Sock Monkey Sound is also a great podcast for the hard-core indie music fan, with in-depth interviews and news. If you're a fan of 90s British indie rock genres like Brit-Pop, Shoegaze, and Twee, check out Indiepop Radio, which is broadcast out of the UK. Lastly check out the Noise Pop podcast, put out by San Francisco radio station KQED.
If you're into more niche genres of music, there a panoply of choices: If you're into Irish and Celtic music, check out Marc Gunn's Celtic Music Podcast, which features music from such artists as Sean Orr, Burning Bridget Cleary, and Rambling Sailors. If you're a Jazz fan, check out In The Groove, Jazz and Beyond, distributed by WHUS in Storrs, Connecticut. If you're into garage punk, check out Garage Punk Hideout, a network of podcasts dedicated to garage punk and surf music. Speaking of surf music, check out Surf Guitar 101's podcast. For sheer diversity, check out radio station WFMU. WFMU puts up many of their shows as podcasts. You can listen to everything from free-form radio to punk to 60's soul and funk Fans of Japanese punk should check out NIssei Sindex. And followers of roots, country, alt-country, and Americana music should definitely go to Twang Nation.
Lastly, for sheer diversity, you can't beat WNYC's Soundcheck. where you can find out about everything from Andrew Bird to a show dedicated to creating a playlist of what Don Draper of Mad Men would probably listen to.
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Scott Boxenbaum LA based comic and music junkie. He's created music podcast 'Hootenanny', which brings on stand up comics give a music review on a particular genre or band. Get free music podcast downloads at http://hootpodcast.com
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