The Unblinking Ear
By The Unblinking Ear
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Podcast Description
Rock music from the margins: eardrum-testing lo-fi, raunchy garage, vicious but delicious punk, bizarro new wave, unpopular pop, non-pusillanimous indie rock and much more. From meat and potatoes to chromosome-damaged.
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: One Hundred! | That's right. kids. You are about to hear the 100th edition of the Unblinking Ear Podcast. You can say that's not a big deal and it probably isn't, but ask yourself this: what have you done a hundred of? Download the latest The Unblinking Ear Podcast Or Subscribe via iTunes | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Derby Season | The Kentucky Derby is in just two days. May I suggest that you bet on my horse Pie O' My? Download the latest The Unblinking Ear Podcast Or Subscribe via iTunes | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: I Think I'll Go For A Walk Outside | It's too nice out today for me to bother trying to write a clever bit to accompany this podcast. However, it's not too nice out for you to listen to it. Ever. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear Podcast Or Subscribe via iTunes | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Springtime Miracles | Two minor miracles today. One: the New York Mets won their opening day contest against the Atlanta Braves despite only scoring one run and nearly wasting a gem of a return from Johan Santana. Two: I managed to back announce this entire podcast without having a sneezing fit despite the allergies that have plagued me the past couple of days. Incidentally, if it seems that the volume of the songs contained herein varies wildly please excuse this as I can't hear anything right now due to congestion. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Vernal Punkquinox 2012 | We've got a special (or at least atypical) edition of the podcast today: our semi-annual Punkquinox spectacular. Heretics that we are, each equinox we celebrate by playing nothing but late-70s and early 80s punk rock. I've done 7 or 8 of these all-punk podcasts. Am I scrapping the bottom of the barrel? Not even close. (Or I did a long time ago, depending on your point of view.) In any case, enjoy these dozen examples of vintage punk rock, which are so pure and free of artifice that even Jaded Punk Hulk can't help but be delighted by them. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Note to Self | If you're going to put together a podcast, try not to do it while drunk. Also, you might not want get drunk in the first place when you're on a self-imposed deadline to post a new podcast. Otherwise you might do things like record an entire segment of back-announcing without your microphone plugged in so instead you'll be recording through your computer's built in mic and sounding like you're in a well. Then you'll have re-record the segment by which point you'll be so tired that you consistently flub your lines and to achieve some semblance of coherence you'll have to do more patches than Steven Alder in "Civil War." Of course, you could be stone cold sober and somehow manage to mute an entire song anyway. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Fork It Over | I do this podcast for free. I've never requested any money from you, my listeners. I'm going to now but not for me. The WFMU fund-raising marathon began on Monday and runs through next Sunday. WFMU is 100% listener-supported, which means that station accepts no money from advertisers or the government. It fully relies on its listeners' generosity for its continued existence. Please donate what you can and support freeform, independent radio. <br><a href="http://wfmu.org/marathon/pledge.php" target="_blank"><img height="156" width="150" src="http://wfmu.org/marathon/images/tl/insta_marathon_badge_150x156.png" alt="Pledge to the WFMU Marathon!" border="0" style="padding: 6px 6px 6px 6px; margin:0;"></a><br> Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 2/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Without Commentary | Seriously. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: What To Do | I suspect most of you listen to this podcast giving your full undivided attention, likely staring at a blank wall in your unclean, under furnished apartment. However, if you'd like to do something to occupy yourself while hearing the podcast, listener (NAME REDACTED) has some suggestions for you. All of these will be fine until your boyfriend comes home and he'll want to watch wrestling. You might be able to persuade to keep it on mute though, as whatever I happen to be playing on any given edition of this podcast is surely more tolerable than having to hear Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler. Incidentally, there's no truth to the rumor that the Unblinking Ear Podcast syncs up perfectly to Golden Girls ala Darkside of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: The Looming Apocalypse | Here's the first Unblinking Ear Podcast of 2012. Enjoy it while you can and as much you can since, according to the Mayans (who play such an important role in our culture), the clock is ticking. What do we have for you before impending doom takes us all? A couple of songs from recent releases, a few cuts from 2011 records which were brought to my attention via the "best of" lists of others but are still relatively "new" and a handful of older tunes that I thought would be a good idea to play for whatever reason. So it's pretty much the usual. But when the streets are running red with blood, you're going to miss the mundanity of normal life. Cherish it now, friends, Cherish it now. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Plausibly the Best of 2011 | The year is nearly over. But before we put 2011 in our rearview, let's take a moment (or roughly 47 and a half minutes) to reflect on the year that was. Below are selections from what I consider the best records of 2011. For those of you with obsessive compulsive disorder, don't fret. I'll be putting them in list form in the near future, along with many "honorable mentions." I welcome all agreements/disagreements, Either post them in comments section or tweet them at me. But before you work yourself into a frothy rage over my selections, do try and remember that these things are subjective. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 12/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Not Necessarily the Best of 2011 | It seems like every year, many major companies publish their best of the year list weeks before the year ends. (See example above.) We here at the Unblinking Ear prefer to be patient with such things. Also we like to procrastinate. The next edition of the podcast will likely feature what we've deemed to be the best music of 2011. The podcast below, however, might contain some of it as well. Which ones in particular? You're just going to have to wait to find out. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Business As Usual | Greetings loyal podcast listeners and accidental search engine stumblers! We hope you enjoyed our previous podcast featuring nothing but new music. It generated so much buzz around the Twitterverse, you'd think we were Brodus Clay or something. Alas, playing only music from new releases was a bit of anomaly. Instead, we've got our usual mix of new music, old music and new releases of old music. But I swear, it's good stuff, not a bunch of leftovers like so much congealed post-Thanksgiving mashed potatoes. And even if you don't think this current podcast is especially superior to the one prior, you can't deny that it's a minute longer. Enjoy! Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Zeitgeist, Baby | Here at Unblinking Ear HQ, we've noticed over the last couple of months a large amount of music press/internet babble devoted to deluxe reissues of albums that came out 20 years ago*. There's nothing wrong with that as we here at Unblinking Ear celebrate rock history as well and have also been known to have something of a 90s fetish. However, what use is nostalgia when it overshadows the vital work happening in the here and now? There has been such a deluge of terrific new releases over the past few weeks and months that we've been struggling to keep up. In fact, the amount of fine new records has been so great that we've decided to eschew the past temporarily and devote this edition of the podcast entirely to brand new music. With so much, so good coming out recently, it was actually rather easy to acompliish. The next podcast will surely feature some fine music recorded many years prior mixed with equally fine music of the present. But for now... dig the now. *Incidentally, the actual best album of 1991 was Eleventh Dream Day's Lived To Tell. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Going Live | It seems as though live podcasting all the rage of late. Marc Maron, Julie Klausner and Paul F Tompkins among others have recently hosted live versions of the podcasts to great acclaim and have netted millions of internet dollars in the process. In my ongoing effort to prove that I can imitate successful people, I'll be doing the same. This Saturday, I'll be hosting the first ever Unblinking Ear Podcast LIVE at the Diamond in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It will be much like my usual podcast, only instead of it being 45 minutes or so, it will run, I don't know, four to six hours. Other bonuses include: The songs I select will be played through a full sound system rather than your tiny computer speakers.Listening to said songs while drinking alcohol in the company of other living humans rather than alone in your dirty apartment, staring into the middle distance.The possibility of having a conversation with ME! (If you can get past my entourage.)Another difference is that I won't be talking in between set over looped RZA beats to back announce the songs. The good folks at the Diamond are fans of my podcast but when they play it in the bar, they find the talking distracting. What's that you say? That this is just a DJ gig and I'm trying to pass it off as something more grandiose and exciting? You've got a lot of nerve, hypothetical person. DJ Paul Bruno presents The Unblinking Ear Podcast LIVE! Saturday, November 5th @ The Diamond 43 Franklin St (between Quay St & Calyer St) Brooklyn, NY 11222 10 pm FREE! Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Last Year in the Demo | (My near future.) I celebrated my 34th birthday last week. Thus, it's my last year in the coveted 18 to 34 target demographic. This means that at this time next year this podcast will become totally irrelevant. It will more closely resemble on CBS procedural crime drama than a place to hear exciting new music. Better listen while you can! Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: More Songs About Bowling and Prozac | Back to our regularly scheduled programing. After our biannual "punkquinox" edition of the podcast, it's been a whole month since we've rolled out a "normal" podcast. Thus, we've had a lot of new music to catch up on, and there's a whole bunch of it on this podcast. Hear it and know what the kids* are listening to. *The kids are apparently much more likely to (still) be listening to Alien Ant Farm. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Autumnal Punkquinox 2011 | The equinox arrives in just a few days, which means it’s time for one of our special all vintage punk rock editions of the Unblinking Ear Podcast. I know that even at this late date, some of you still have trouble wrapping your head around the whole punk thing. Hopefully, this report from 20/20 news magazine below help you get a handle on it. No word on if Hugh Downs sold the Lewd and Rude Kids records featured to supplement his social security income. (Via WFMU and Dangerous Minds.) Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Avenue Obstructed | Earlier today, WFMU's Evan "Funk" Davies (pictured left) commented on the post for my previous podcast that the download link was broken. I don't know exactly how this went unnoticed for two weeks (a fortnight!) by myself or my loyal listeners. It couldn't be that this podcast doesn't inspire the unmitigated devotion I assume it does, right? Nah. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: In Dreams | This young lady has dreams about the Unblinking Ear Podcast. If you dream about this podcast as well, I invite you to please share your dreams in the comments. Leave out no detail, no matter how filthy or freaky. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: All Grown Up | There's a lesson here. I think it's that if you commit suicide but leave your child with a lot of money, they may wind up using it for cosmetic surgery and awful text tattoos. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: The Plus Means Better | (Are you in Darby's circle?) This is the first podcast I'll be promoting through posting in Google+, which, as far as I can figure thus far, is like a less user-friendly version of Friendster. But there are circles for some reason. In any case, I'm sure the folks at Google know what they're going and it should be every bit as successful as Google Buzz. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Vestigial Blues | The following Unblinking Ear Podcast is brought to you by antibiotics, without which I'd still be feeling great pain in various unnecessary body parts like tonsils and wisdom teeth. Instead of assembling this podcast, I'd be sick in bed having fever dreams. Granted, said dreams might be more entertaining than this podcast. But until technology gives us a device that allows others to see visual representations of our dreams ala Dr. Hugo Strange, this will have to do. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Unblinking Ear Podcast: Aaaaaand, we're back | Yes, after a short hiatus, the Unblinking Ear Podcast is back. Aside from a much needed facelift on the blog itself (hey's it's 2011!), there are a few minor changes to the podcast as well. First and foremost, I won't be doing the podcast weekly anymore. I'm going aim for twice a month. To make up up for the decreased frequency, the podcasts are going to be a bit longer as well. I think it's going to work out well. I already have a bunch of songs picked for the next podcast. More time and more care are probably a good thing. Anyway, give it a listen at let me know what you think. Download the latest The Unblinking Ear PodcastOr Subscribe via iTunes | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Better than Pod F. Tompkast.
There, I said it so you don't have to.
A Quietly Excellent Punk Podcast
The format is really simple. Two blocks of five to six songs, followed by a break down of everything you just heard, how to find it, and one bonus song to end the set. So what's so special about this podcast? It's almost four years worth of outstanding back logged punk/garage/indie gems. Paul Bruno manages to every time find some new band or old one from his massively extensive record collection that you want to check out and get their entire discography. It maybe simple, but it works so well, and is always top quality.
A mix of the familiar and the obscure
The Unblinking Ear proves its worth episode after episode by entertaining my ears with a tantalizing mix of bands I already have quite a bit of adoration for with bands I have to carefully listen to in order to learn the band name, track and recording. Listening is at times good for the stroking of my musical ego, but mostly it's a gentle prodding toward deeper exploration into the ever widening world of music past and present that would sadly be even less appreciated if not for the devoted unblinking ears of Paul Bruno.
