The Tape Deck

Hallo! Another podcast, another opportunity to discuss artists that aren’t with us anymore. Sorry about all the death. This week we’re discussing Elliott Smith’s discography with Jason Lambeth, member of lo-fi band Red Pants and head of the Madison, WI-based tape label Painted Blonde. Join us as we ramble through a retrospective of most of his solo discography, with some closing words about David Berman (who passed away shortly before recording). Apologies for the telephone-quality recording!!

We’re recapping the most notable releases of 2019 so far (in our opinion)!

A few things:

1. Only releases covered on the site were up for consideration (so from early February this year onward)2. There’s two lists: Best of Seattle and Best of Beyond Seattle3. This was really REALLY hard to drum together. Like, seriously. There was so much good music that came out this year I felt bad even narrowing it to a top 5.

Please enjoy! If there are albums or works you feel should be included or reordered, let me know on your preferred social media! Alternatively, if you make music or represent an artist and want someone to hear your music, shoot me an email at [email protected] or use the Contact Form on this website! I listen to everything! Really!

Check out Kurt’s music here!!

Hallo! It’s time for another episode of maybe three people’s favorite podcast!! Today we’ve got Kurt Roy, frontman of the excellent Seattle indie-pop band Sea Salt, as we jump into the history of the portable music player! We all listen to music on all different types of devices, and a lot of use take it for granted, but there was time not too long ago when portable, private music listening was a nonstarter. Join us as we dive into the invention of the game-changing Sony Walkman (and the inventions that came before it) plus the jump from tapes to CDs to mp3s and everything in betweens. Hope you got your Stereobelt fastened tight and your Rainbow Books all lined up before you tune in and find ouuuuuuouuuuuout

Intro music: “saffron” by sunking (buy their album here)

“Push Push” by Herbie Mann w/ Duane Allman

And we’re back with your regularly scheduled programming!! Today on the podcast we’ve got Alex Benson (from the excellent local zine Loop and Replay) talking about one of the most devastating blows to artistic expression in the 20th century: the rise (and fall) of the Cambodian rock n’ roll movement. As Phnom Penh was transformed into a musical utopia in the 60’s and early 70’s, the communist Khmer Rouge ordered a mass exodus that resulted in nearly of quarter of the country’s population (including most of its artists) being sent to their deaths. How did a once fertile country change so rapidly? And how much has Cambodian culture recovered since? Tune in and find

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Oh check out Alex’s stuff here!! https://medium.com/loopandreplay

Well, here we are, at the end of the Tape Deck’s exploration of the 27 Club. And it’s a fitting finale for a series of tales about death: the heartbreaking story of world-domineering 2000s singer Amy Winehouse. She’s known by many to have struggled publicly with drug abuse and alcoholism, but what caused her to fall into this spiral? Was it her own doing? Was it the poisonous men in her life? Or was it the intense scrutiny of the media, in the midst of a superstardom she never wanted? Tune in and find out ouuuuuuuuuuut out

Welcome back to the Tape Deck Podcast EXTENDED PLAY on the 27 Club! Just two more to go, and this is the one we’ve all been dreading: frontman of Nirvana and unseeming progenitor of mainstream alternative rock in America, Kurt Cobain. His life and death have been covered by thousands of people since, but how is his death framed against the other members of this stupid club? How much did he have a hand in the propulsion of his band to the top of the charts? And was Cobain really the unassailable martyr we remember him as? Tune in and find oouuuuuuuuuut uhoh

Whoa! Too much death! Pull back man! I hope you’ve got the popcorn popping because it’s time to tackle a force of nature: frontman of The Doors and the poster child for rock n’ roll counterculture rebellion, Jim Morrison. How did he die? Why did he die? And how many people actually remembered the band’s antics in its heyday? Was he a symbol of the free-spirited movement sweeping the nation, or simply a representative of its dark undercurrent? There’s a lot to cover here and that traffic’s not stopping anytime soon, so you might as well find ouuuuuuuuuuuuutt yeh

Hallo there! It’s time for another episode of the TDP EP about The 27 Club! Man the late 60’s were full of this kind of stuff huh? Not two weeks after Jimi, another tragedy: the end of the fiery, charismatic blues-rock singer Janis Joplin. People know her as a casualty of heroin’s seductive pull, but was it actually heroin that killed Janis? And how did her life factor in her destructive hobbies? Tune in and find ouuutuoutoutuoutuu again

Hallo! It’s Episode #3 of the TDP’s exploration of the members of the 27 Club! Today we delve into the life of one of the most groundbreaking guitar artists of the 20th century, Jimi Hendrix. How did his childhood inform his art? Was his death purposeful or negligent? And just what effect exactly has Jimi’s output had on contemporary American music? Tune in and find out!!

Hello! We’re continuing the TDP’s exploration on the 27 Club with the notorious founder (and one-time leader) of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones. Another casualty of the rock lifestyle? Or an unwitting murder suspect? The choice is yours! And the coroner’s, but he made his decision a long time ago.