As per the usual Subterranean will be pre-empted this week due to the holidays. While we're sad as always not to have a show for you, we're excited because we do still have a podcast.
This week Courtney and Lyndsay (who books the guests on Subterranean) sat down to tell some of their favorite stories from the show. Both ladies started working on Subterranean right around Thanksgiving 2005 and talk about their favorite bands, the reasons behind the guests on the goth & brit pop specials and maybe a horror story or two.
This week's Subcast is something extra special (and an extra long download, sorry about that) where Courtney and Dev from Lightspeed Champion engage in The Great Weezer Debate. It's a must listen for all current and past Weezer fans.
Ready for another Subcast? Good, us too. This week is a whopper with Rodrigo Perez, founder and executive editor of The Playlist - one of Subterranean's favorite blogs about movie music. Perez is also one of our long time co-workers at MTV.com in music production.
Aside from Rodrigo and Courtney's stinging criticisms of various musical topics, from "Twilight" to Wolf Parade side projects, there's great music from Holy Hail, Paper Route, Iran (feat. members of TV on the Radio) and Wolf Parade.
In addition to our regular podcast announcement we've got some good news this week - you can catch special bonus half hour episodes of Subterranean on MTV2 at 1AM this Tuesday and Wednesday late night for our CMJ special week. We'll show interviews with Beach House, Friendly Fires, Hercules and Love Affair and The Teenagers. This Thursday you can catch our regular full hour, hosted by MTV News Rock Editor James Montgomery, with two special CMJ guests - Deerhoof and Lykke Li.
To tide you over until all that excitement kicks off, download this week's Subcast with our UK obsession Emmy the Great, also recorded during CMJ. She charms us, gave us a great idea to have Dev from Lightspeed Champion on soon for a Weezer showdown and told us some disturbing things about Tim from Ash.
It is Monday and so we have this week's podcast for you. The MTV.com producers have gotten us rather attached to the idea of calling it the Subcast. They're pithy like that.
This week Courtney talks to Brendan Canning from Broken Social Scene and Liz Powell from Land of Talk (and who is moonlighting in BSS these days) and plays you new songs from Longwave, Her Space Holiday, BSS Presents: Brendan Canning and Land of Talk.
This week we kind of suck. Courtney tried something new with her mic during the podcast and long story short it all sort of quiet. We promise to never do it again. Just the same, you can still hear the interview plus great new songs from Shearwater, Princeton and the Ruby Suns (and of course Liam Finn).
How long do you think a podcast can be before it's just annoying? We at Sub HQ have decided to test the boundaries of how much podcast you will listen to before your love for us turns to hate. Just kidding, the real problem is that Nick Harmer of Death Cab for Cutie and Courtney of MTV2 Subterranean had a podcast conversation that was very much like what would happen if you sat next to them at a bar and eavesdropped. We didn't want to edit any of it out.
If you're looking for the link, go to Kiva.org for more info on participating in the loan program!
Also, of note for those of you who note these sorts of things, this podcast was actually recorded in one of the many, many dressing rooms in Radio City Music Hall last week where Death Cab played a sold out show (and where the Rockettes will soon begin their Christmas kicking show thingie). That dinging in the background is the elevator and at one point you can hear a tour bus driving off outside.
We'll try to make it shorter next week, promise. Check this week's podcast for new tunes from the Secret Machines, Fiery Furnaces and Stricken City plus one old one from Death Cab's first album which is being re-released in honor of its 10th anniversary this November.
Subterranean blog readers and show viewers, have we told you lately that we love you? Let us say it with a podcast. This week's edition has your Subterranean blogger and show programmer Courtney facing off with MTV News Rock Editor and FNMTV commentator James Montgomery. The two enjoy arguing about (and occasionally agreeing on) topics like The Hold Steady, Coldplay, and "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist." Plus there is the sharing of behind the scenes from FNMTV this summer super secret story time.
Stream it now (now you need to log in to hear the full length podcast!)
You probably already know you can be our friend on MySpace, but did you know you can join the Subterranean Facebook group too? We'll send you a cute little email every week when the podcast goes live and there may be more special treats in the future. Can't know unless you join!
In a ploy to make our show even more wildly popular than it is already we've put together a little podcast for you. It'll be coming in weekly installments and will probably change your life.
For our first go at it we invited the nice gentlemen of Tokyo Police Club up to Times Square for a chat. They were kind and even explained simple computer functions to us, such as how to record voice in QuickTime. It's funny because we're maladroit and cheap!
As per the usual Subterranean will be pre-empted this week due to the holidays. While we're sad as always not to have a show for you, we're excited because we do still have a podcast.
