Historic First Music Scene Podcasts out of Bakersfield, CA - By N.L. Belardes

IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!

If you’ve been looking at The Arts pages on nlbelardes
.com then you’ve seen the logo for The Buck City
Podcast. Well what is it? Is it here? What can I do
with it? Do I eat it like a salad? Do I listen? Do I
listen and dance? Tell me, N.L., tell me!

Podcasting is relatively new. It’s cool, it’s hip, and
it’s all about underground college radio style music
playing—that’s what it is. The really cool part is in
understanding what a podcast is and does…

By definition a podcast is a downloadable unregulated
slice of media, an MP3 that you can listen to on your
computer, MP3 player (car, home, wherever), or in your
coolio iPOD.

What is really neato about podcasting is you can
actually subscribe to it. Subscribe? Yes. But what does
that mean? Subscribing means the actual MP3 has a feed
attached that you can plug into a little piece of free
software. The free software then automatically
downloads the podcast feed without you having to click
on a link. Go to this page and find the podcast logo.
Click on ipodder and download.

Then put in this feed:
http://nlbelardes.com/buckcitypods/buckcitypodcast.rss

The marvel in all of this is you can do a nifty feed
not just into your computer, but right into your iPOD.
That means every instance of hooking up your iPOD to
your computer, you can upload any new podcasts linked
directly to that feed. So, if I do a new Buck City
Podcast, and you have the feed plugged into the
ipodder software, or to your iPOD, then SHAZAM! You
have brand new Buck City Podcasts to happily listen
to.

You can even set the software for how often to check
when podcasts have been updated…

Today’s historic first Buck City Podcast is
‘Rockabilly City’. It’s a 23-minute show of music and
me blabbing about a few rockabilly bands mixed in with
some other great music. Yes, this is kinda of like
pre-recorded college radio. It’s very raw with a very
amateurish hiss in the background noise—though the
music all plays clear. There’s no advertising for now,
so it’s all underground coolness in action.

I play ‘Londontown Girls’ from local rockabilly band
Fat Kat and the Von Zippers, ‘Ghostfire’ from
Psychobilly punksters Tiger Army, ‘Individual’ by
touring band World Wide Spies, ‘After Her’ by local
eclectic jazz rocksters Soulajar. I also play a
thrashing song from local punks, The Black Jerks, and
a rockabilly song from actress/cowgirl Lynda Kay…
There’s more to come on The Buck City Podcast…

Stay tuned!

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