5 Song Set

If the "post-" genres are all about pushing the limits and breaking rules within their parent genres, then this episode is a little bit of chaos for your ears: five songs from the "post-" genres. That's a post-rock song by a band from Budapest, a post-hardcore and post-jazz song from Austria, post-hardcore from Southern California, another post-rock song that feels quite different from the first from England, and some post-electronica that was made in Costa Rica. The songs are "Volt Jobb?" by [tagless], "IV" by IXOYE, "Mission: Control" by Harris Grade, "Constants (Part 2)" by Arbor Lights, and "Freddy Liked to Dance" by Adino.

In this episode, I have five tracks of music you can totally dance to by bands from Eastern Europe and Brazil. The songs in this episode are "Ti nikad nećeš znati srce jedne žene (vs. Zdenka Kovačiček)" by SevdahBABY, "Tanečná" by Hudba z Marsu, "Amor Sustentável" by Anelis, "Digadinovo" by Seu Bené, and "Techno" by Epic Lyrical.

This episode has five phenomenal songs for you that have a gypsy feel. The diversity of the bands is pretty impressive too, from Germany, Argentina, the United States, Finland, and Spain. Plus all the songs can be downloaded for free! The songs in this episode are "Labyrinth" by Nastja and the Orloves, "Die Naie Cuppe" by Segundo Mundo, "Les Triplettes de Bellville" by Mouce Manouche, "Uhkalaulu" by Väinö Grön, and "Requiem for a Fish" by The Freak Fandango Orchestra.

This episode features five very upbeat, very fun ska tunes. Ska has changed a lot over the years from its beginnings in Jamaica in the late 1950s, but the changes haven't diminished the music. If anything, time has given ska bands all over the world a lot of room to find their own sound and get out their message. From four high school guys in Colorado to Cleveland Street Ska coming out of Russia, ska has a lot to offer. The songs in this episode are "A Song For The Broken" by Stacked Like Pancakes, "Model Rocket" by Hatrick Penry, "Despierta" by Termofrigidus, "The City of Khakassia" by Hary Davi, and "Never Stop" by The Ruckus.

This is the Valentine's Day themed podcast, but since I can't really top last year's podcast for songs about love, I thought I'd go for something a little bit different. So, do you remember in the movie "The Terminator" when Sarah Connor's answering machine says "Machines need love too"? Well, I decided to use that as the theme. With that in mind, here are five songs about robots... and their relationships with the humans who love or need them. The podcast begins with "Everybody Needs a Robot" by Matthew Ebel, followed by "Robots" by Canadian musician Dan Mangan, which has a fantastic video. "Disco Droid" by Astro Kid and "I Need Your (Robot) Love" by Eat Me Drink Me are two robot-themed dance songs, and "Wadsworth's Song" by Lewis Fitzjohn wraps up the show with a tribute to the video game Fallout 3 in the style of The Ink Spots. Also, in this episode, I announce the winners of the 2011 Listeners' Choice Contest.

In this episode, I have five modern classical songs for you. Some of the songs are more "modern" and some are more "classical" but they are all really good. The first song in this episode is "Waltz of the Pigalle Side Streets" by Alexander Piterskiy, who wrote the podcast's theme music and cohosted episode 21. It is a swirling waltz that manages to be both complex and very easy to listen to. It is followed with the dark and chaotically fun "Drehorgel" by Sallo, a duo from Portland, Oregon. "Hiatus" by RQTN is a beautiful little piece from Paris. "Shores" by Empiric Project and "Nanoreactor" by Xcentric Noizz are both much more modern and push the definition of "classical". "Shores" is ambient electonica, while "Nanoreactor" is much darker and heavier. Both are off a compilation dedicated to the Chernobyl tragedy put out by the Tunguska Electronic Music Society. Classical is still alive and definitely still evolving.

In this episode, you'll hear five ragtime songs ranging from traditional to modern, beautiful and moving to upbeat and silly. The songs are "Harbor Light Rag" by Goodbye Kumiko, "Levi Jackson's Rag" by Tylwyth Teg, "Training Wheel Rag" by the Asylum Street Spankers, "Libellule Rag" by Jean-Paul Bataille, and "Big Top Rag" by Julian Gaskell.

In this episode, I have five happy songs to get you started out right in 2012. The songs are "Gitar" by Peter Nalitch, "Invincible" by SO3, "Love You Only" by Phat Bollard, "Abigail, Don't Be Long" by The Dimes, and "Le Rechauffement D'La Planete" by Quebec Redneck Bluegrass Project.

This episode rounds out the year with just really damn good songs, one of which is even a Christmas-y song. The songs are "The Eyes, The Beard, The Nose, The Stomach, The Lungs" by Indie Folker, "Ode To The Oligarchs" by the Long Dead Kings, "Hand Me The Crown" by The Dirty Urchins, "She's On Fire" by Something Underground, and "Emi Completely" by Summer Salt.

In this episode, I have five songs that cover the whole nerdy to science-themed spectruum. First, we'll hear two songs about video games, then two songs about astronomy, followed up by a song about the internet - kind of like a little survey of the different kinds of fun geek rock music out there. The songs are "Vault 101" by Kirby Krackle, "The Quick and the Blue" by The Megas, "The Ballad of Carl Sagan" by The Amoeba People, "Down on Vesta" by Andy Rivkin and his Gedankenband, and "3 Rules of the Internet" by Jonathan Mann.