Alice Russell / TM Juke

OK back to some music. Alice Russell is one of the best vocalists you will hear period. Her new album is stunning; it features downbeat rhythms, jazz, funk and her amazing voice. It was produced by TM Juke from whom we can expect more great things in the future.

Check out the album My Favorite Letters on Tru-Thoughts UK.

Alice Russell's website

TM Juke's My Space profile You can hear a couple of full-length samples; check out my favorite, Fly in the Hand - if you like that DJ Vadim is doing a remix that will be out soon.

Tru-Thoughts website

Yahoo Podcast Search

Yahoo has a podcast search to go with their music search, which might make it easier to find good content. I tried it out and found a few, but I was surprised to find very few listings. Maybe it's still new, I'm sure eventually it will be better. I'm excited about podcasting (except for the actual term "podcasting"), I just feel overwhelmed sometimes when I think about just how big it's becoming. I think search and directory services such a this and others will help to filter out the junk.

I wish I could just type in "good music" and actually get results that are pleasurable; now there's an idea, if only we could figure out how to manufacture and package truly good music.

go to Yahoo podcast search

Motorola iradio

The iRadio project seems like a good idea.
Basically you can set-up a radio broadcast and
send it out to Motorola subscribers. It's pretty
much the same thing that you can already do with
a podcast--knowing that eventually everyone will
have a phone that can pick up podcasts and
satellite radio, and all of the other garbage
that will be polluting the airways.
With iradio, they say that you can access your
mp3 collection which is transmitted to your car
stereo or home stereo through your phone, so
whatever you have on your phone can be broadcast.
I like the idea that I can do one radio program
every week, upload it to my site and broadcast it
on iradio, itunes (and all of the other podcast
directories), and host it on whichever network
will take it. Plus I can use my own marketing
methods to try and reach listeners, so it could
eventually be like hosting my own program, and it
could even be better than terrestrial radio.

Anyway, it looks like a cool service to check;

it's always fun to get involved with
something in the beginning, and in this case if
anyone can pull it off, it's a big company like
Motorola.

check it out here