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Shadercast Episode 18 Keytars and Open Mic No-No's

Shadercast Episode 18 Keytars and Open Mic No-No’s

It’s a mixed bag this time out, with a cold open featuring none other than Eric, the UrbanSurfer himself, interviewed out in the wild (i.e., a basement studio in North Jersey). I ask him a question about keytar ownership that just popped into my head. Great interviews work that way sometimes. After that, we feature a 25-year-old field recording of speeches made at a union holiday party in midtown…

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Shadercast Episode 15 Notes on a Prologue with Cameo from Billy Squier

Shadercast Episode 15 Notes on a Prologue with Cameo from Billy Squier

We start at the beginning, or almost the beginning, in this Shadercast, with a reading of Chapter 2 from Shader. Mentioned: my car stereo, Long Island rock festival incompetence, Billy Squier, Geoffrey Wolff’s The Duke of Deception, and how one reacts to getting life-changing news over the phone. There’s also a voicemail message from Todd Colby, and music from UrbanSurfer, written by Eric…

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Shadercast Episode 14 Was It Really a Game?

Shadercast Episode 14 Was It Really a Game?

Sit down, grab a Therapist card, and show us you’re With It in this episode of the Shadercast. Our fearless podcast shares with his formidable longread, recently featured up on the literary website The Millions: “Group Therapy: Was It Really a Game?” But before that a snippiet of an interview with one of the game’s co-creators, Phil Ross. So don’t Cop Out–listen. Music provided by UrbanSurfer…

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Shadercast Episode 13 You Came and She Gave Without Taking

Shadercast Episode 13 You Came and She Gave Without Taking

It’s an gendered episode of Shadercast as our podcaster hedges his way around gender and Guns N’ Roses and the story of making out inside Our Lady of Perpetual Help church, which we’re pretty sure is illegal if not sinful in the eyes of the church. We talk a bit about Barry Manilow, but not nearly enough. This episode includes theme music by UrbanSurfer, written by Eric Schorr, a snippet of the…

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Shadercast Episode 12 Intensely Relaxin' While Others Panic

Shadercast Episode 12 Intensely Relaxin’ While Others Panic

It’s all cold lamping all the time in this Episode 12 of Shadercast. We begin live from New York City, with a subway song recorded by your plucky podcaster, followed by an excerpt of a field recording of someone we’ll call “Missy,” regaling us with tales from her young adulthood in the West Village bar scene. And how else can we go from there but to dive straight into the gnarly with “Notes on…

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Shadercast Episode 11 Main Street Music and Clerk Nostalgia

Shadercast Episode 11 Main Street Music and Clerk Nostalgia

We return with “Notes on Main Street Music,” a cornerstone chapter from Shader, as well as some preliminary impressions from our podcaster’s outings to see Guns N’ Roses in concert in Philadelphia, as well as Jane’s Addiction with Dinosaur Jr. and Living Colour. A fair amount of reflection is given to the record clerk and record stores, and how both will be missed, more by the podcaster than…

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Shadercast Episode 10 Garden Path Paragraphs

Shadercast Episode 10 Garden Path Paragraphs

Who’s your daddy? I am, for the next 50-odd minutes of your life in this Shadercast episode. We kick off with some field recordings of the Nester Sisters, Miriam and Beatrice, after a day of frolic and water hijinks. Then a reading of “Garden Path Paragraphs,” being an account of the author and his partner’s experience with fertility and IVF. This excerpt from How to Be Inappropriate first ran in…

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Shadercast Episode 9 Like a Hobo Born to Walk Alone

Shadercast Episode 9 Like a Hobo Born to Walk Alone

Unlike hobos, you weren’t born to walk alone! We begin with some riffs from Derek from Shader, talking about such record nerd subjects as Zappa, rock critics, and Red Hot Chili Pepppers. Following this, we are treated to some observations on a Whitesnake concert as well as a crucial lyric difference between the 1982 and 1987 recordings of the band’s anthemic ballad, “Here I Go Again.” Then, two…

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