Cruising with "THE STRIP" and getting a 'grip' on New-Age media

[indie at indiecan.com]

   This week at IndieCan we roll out Episode 47 – THE TORONTO INDIE  
SCENE with the fusion of funk, rock, folk and jazz as THE STRIP enter  
IndieCan Studio.  In what seems to be a month of firsts, IndieCan  
brings you banjo and saxophone in this Tom Waits meets, Long John  
Baldry, meets The Band kinda’ jam. 

   Then we punk out, alt/rock and art/rock out with offerings from  
Joey Keithley (D.O.A.)’s new crew, Band of Rebels from Vancouver,  
Toronto’s Focus Puller, Vanderpark, Afternoon Zero and Fidget.

   If you’re a band or artist (or you love one) listen up.  Daniela  
Oliva, founder of The Toronto Independent Music Awards is our guest,  
reminding us that August 9th is the deadline for submissions.  Daniela  
talks to us about new developments for this, the third year.  On that  
note, we will also hear from artists, Natalie London, nominee from the  
2006 TIMAs and Letters to Elora, 2006 best Alt/Rock band.

   Take me to the show NOW, punky please:  http://www.indiecan.com/podcast.htm

   Let’s continue to support our internet radio partners.  Many feel  
that internet radio is in a fight for it’s survival with new royalty  
rates coming into effect in the U.S.A., home of the free.  IndieCan  
will be talking with Radio Triple X’s Curt Evens about this subject in  
the very near future.  Friday nights, you can catch back-to-back  
IndieCan episodes from Radio Triple X as they follow up the current  
week’s episode with an oldie from the IndieCan vault.  More is better  
is one of my favourite mottos in living so, way to go, Radio Triple X.

   http://www.radio3x.com

   Also this weekend, we welcome Error FM to the IndieCan Family.  We  
will be on Channel Two Saturday nights and Sundays (depending on your  
time zone).  Please familiarize yourself with Error FMs programming at:

   http://www.errorfm.com[1]

   As I learned at PODCASTERS ACROSS BORDERS the  number of us each  
day that turn away from commercial mediums for our news and  
entertainment and find it through alternative mediums like our  
computers, is alarming to the old guard.  To us it’s a revolution in  
freedom.  For the old institutions, they are loosing control.  For me,  
I once listened to over 20 hours of commercial radio every week.  Now,  
I wonder if l listen to traditional radio even 5 hours a week.  It is  
interesting to know we are in a social transition.  It’s something  
we’ll enjoy telling our kids; the chances of them enjoying hearing  
these stories is a whole other matter.  Never the less, we’ll remember  
this dawn of a new era.

   On that note, with information overload we are all well served to  
control the amount of medium we expose ourselves to, regardless of it  
being commercial or non-commercial.  And on that note, IndieCan is  
grateful to our new listeners but more so, to our loyal listeners that  
in an ever-increasingly busy world, with an ever-increasing choice of  
things to do with our time, you still tune in weekly to spend this  
time with us and for that we want you to know that it doesn’t go  
un-noticed.

   Enjoy this weeks IndieCan show and some of all the rest of the  
great alt/programming available, but please – listen responsibly –  
only so much of life is to be spent in front of any screen.
 

   Cheers,

    

   Joe Chisholm
host
THE TORONTO INDIE SCENE
www.indiecan.com

Links:
------
[1] http://www.errorfm.com/

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://indiecan.com/pipermail/indiecanfans_indiecan.com/attachments/20070720/0162f7a0/attachment-0001.html