Indie Music Podcasting

It’s hard for me to believe that I started Flow a year ago in November of 2005. I’ve heard lots of bands, recorded many podcasts and visited many live music venues in New York City over the last year.

And since then many more people have picked up the torch by creating their own audio and video podcasts in the music genre. Right on!

There’s so much great indie music out there that it becomes really easy to forget the musicians who are making it happen. So thanks to all those who endured my standing at the edge of the stage with video camera in hand. Or those who had my voice wrecking the lead ins to their perfectly crafted songs on the audio podcasts. It was all great fun.

Here’s to another year of turning the entertainment industry upside down.

It’s been a while since the latest news post so I figured it was time to throw something new into the flow.

I’m working on a new Flow Music Mix and also going through scores of footage from the last few months to put together some mixes of the best live performances since we started this thing in November of 2005.

Also, we’ve got some nice video of Brother Love for an upcoming Flow Video: On Location episode.

See ya soon!

Of course we are! Anyhow, we’re going to be back soon with another episode of Flow Video: On Location. Our guest band will be The New Heathens. The heathen boys are a very cool southern / roots rock band from New York City. They’re on the road right now in support of their new CD, Heathens Like Me. Expect to see and hear more of these guys soon on Flow: Music…Liberated!

We had a great night last night hanging with the guys from Urbansnake up at Wild Spirits on the far upper east side of New York City. Urbansnake is a no nonsense metal band from the Bronx and Wild Spirits is a no nonsense music venue. Of course, the camera was rollin. Look for the video podcast on this site soon.

Sorry for the delays on the next Flow Music Mix audio podcast. Busy, busy, busy. But it will be ready very soon. I’ve got a very nice representation of artists so the mix will probably be closer to an hour long.

In other news, I recently shot a pair of shows that featured some really excellent artists, including Kirsten Thien, C-Will and Sophia Ramos.

It’s all good, as they. So I guarantee that your patience will pay off

You may have noticed that we’ve been replacing the on page QuickTime player with a new flash player. This flash player is courtesy of Google Video. I’ve been uploading all video episodes to their free service and then embedding the Google Video player into the site. This represents a great advantage over embedding QuickTime since many more browsers will support the Flash player. Another cool advantage of integrating Google Video is the fact that you can grab the same snippets of code that I’m using and put these players on your site. Yes, that’s totally okay and I strongly encourage it. Find all of our shareable videos on Google Video by following this link.

We’ve had some problems with the podcast feed related to videos being embedded in the web page. As a result we had to remove the embedded QuickTime players from the pages. The good news is that the RSS podcast feed is healthy and folks can get their flow. The sad news is that almost all of the video won’t be playable in the browser. Have no fear though. We’ve been uploading to Google Video which provides a nifty flash player that almost everyone can view without trouble. So things are looking up.

More great music on the way too. We’ve got footage of Samantha Murphy playing at Rockwood Music Hall in a special solo acoustic performance.

Have no fear. Episode #2 of Flow TV will be out this week featuring music videos from Debra DeSalvo, Cheryl B. Engelhardt and o.h.m. You can wait, can’t you?

I know this looks weird. I’m working on a major upgrade right now. Check back later for the results. Links to pages will be different but the site should be fully functional shortly.