Open Culture Podcast Collection Gets Some Play on Diggnation Podcast

in Uncategorized | December 27th, 2006

Since we’re talk­ing a lot about pod­casts these days, it seemed rea­son­able to men­tion that our for­eign lan­guage les­son pod­casts got a lit­tle men­tion on the lat­est episode (#77) of Dig­gna­tion, the week­ly pod­cast put out by Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, and Alex Albrecht. Our pod­cast col­lec­tion now has 1877 “dig­gs,” and so it got their atten­tion and gave them a good plat­form to goof on Kev­in’s com­mand of Ara­bic. You can check out the episode here — iTunes, Rss feed.

See Open Cul­ture’s for­eign lan­guage les­son pod­cast col­lec­tion.

World-Changing Ideas on Demand: Princeton’s “University Channel”

in Current Affairs | December 22nd, 2006

If you want to know what the world’s lead­ing thinkers are say­ing, you’ll want to check out the Uni­ver­si­ty Chan­nel. Orga­nized by Prince­ton, but access­ing mate­ri­als from oth­er major aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions across the world, the Uni­ver­si­ty Chan­nel puts online impor­tant speech­es made by promi­nent fig­ures, often com­ing from the world of pub­lic and inter­na­tion­al affairs. In recent weeks, just to give a few exam­ples, the Chan­nel has fea­tured Noam Chom­sky talk­ing about the cur­rent cri­sis in Mid­dle East, Chris­tine Todd Whit­man offer­ing her views on pol­i­tics and the envi­ron­ment, Peter Singer dis­cussing the ethics of food, and Vaclav Hav­el and Bill Clin­ton talk­ing togeth­er about the chal­lenges fac­ing new democ­ra­cies. Con­ve­nient­ly, all talks are avail­able in audio and video for­mats, both on iTunes (audio — video) and as feeds (audio — video). The Uni­ver­si­ty Chan­nel offers a great way to pack your iPod with talks that deal with the press­ing issues of our time.

For more uni­ver­si­ty lec­tures and cours­es, see Open Cul­ture’s Uni­ver­si­ty Pod­cast col­lec­tion.

Also see Open Cul­ture’s oth­er col­lec­tion: Uni­ver­si­ty Online Cours­es & Online Media

Cutting-Edge Physics on iTunes

in Science, Stanford | December 19th, 2006

This is hot off the press, so to speak. Today, Stan­ford post­ed a new pod­cast of a course called Mod­ern The­o­ret­i­cal Physics: Quan­tum Entan­gle­ment. It’s intrigu­ing on sev­er­al dif­fer­ent lev­els. First, it’s in video. Sec­ond, the course is pre­sent­ed by Leonard Susskind, who is gen­er­al­ly con­sid­ered the father of string the­o­ry, a con­tro­ver­sial inno­va­tion in physics that squares quan­tum the­o­ry with rel­a­tiv­i­ty and explains the nature of all mat­ter and forces. Now, when Susskind gets into quan­tum entan­gle­ment, he is sure­ly get­ting into some heady, cut­ting-edge stuff. But the good thing — and now for my third point — is that he has pre­sent­ed this course through Stan­ford’s Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies Pro­gram (where I work, just to put my cards on the table), and it was geared toward the gen­er­al pub­lic. And, to boot, it was the most pop­u­lar course in the pro­gram. You can find a slight­ly more involved course descrip­tion here.The pod­cast will be rolled out in week­ly install­ments, and the first is avail­able start­ing today. Since this is a video pod­cast, you should be able to watch it on your Ipod’s video screen if you have one of the lat­est mod­els. Or you could always just watch it on your com­put­er screen, with­in iTunes itself.

Feeds: You can down­load the course on iTunes here or access the RSS feed here.

50 Arts & Culture Programs to Add to Your Podcast Collection

in Uncategorized | December 16th, 2006

Our direc­to­ry of arts & cul­ture pod­casts is now 50 pro­grams strong. Here you’ll find smart cul­tur­al pro­grams
from NPR, The New York Times, MoMA, Salon, Slate and the BBC. And you’ll find pro­gram­ming orig­i­nat­ing from the US, the UK, Cana­da and Aus­tralia and even France.

The pod­casts are all high-qual­i­ty, allow­ing you to spend your time expand­ing your intel­lec­tu­al hori­zons. While this direc­to­ry includes links to pod­casts on iTunes, it also includes direct links to RSS feeds so that you can use the pod­catch­er of your choice. Plus, we have added links to the web sites of the indi­vid­ual pod­cast cre­ators.

Final­ly, the For­eign Lan­guage Les­son Pod­cast direc­to­ry was also updat­ed this week to include links to iTunes, RSS feeds, and the web sites of the pod­cast cre­ators. We’ll soon be sim­i­lar­ly updat­ing the News and Uni­ver­si­ty pod­cast pages as well. Have a good week­end.

Stanford on Your iPod: The Literature of Crisis

in Stanford | November 15th, 2006

Day after day, on cam­pus­es across the coun­try, pro­fes­sors impart invalu­able knowl­edge to stu­dents. And, some­what unfor­tu­nate­ly, this knowl­edge has been tra­di­tion­al­ly dis­sem­i­nat­ed only so far — which is to say not beyond the class­room walls.

We’re per­haps at the ear­ly stages of see­ing this change. Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty has recent­ly teamed up with Apple to pilot iTunes U — a vari­a­tion on the iTunes soft­ware pack­age that explod­ed into con­sumer con­scious­ness with the iPod rev­o­lu­tion.

Until recent­ly, Stan­ford has used iTunes U to make avail­able a series of one-off lec­tures, many of them extreme­ly worth­while. (If you have iTunes, click here to enter Stan­ford iTunes. If you don’t, you can down­load it from Apple for free.) But what’s new is the uni­ver­si­ty’s deci­sion to make full-fledged cours­es avail­able to the pub­lic. This quar­ter we’re start­ing to see that deci­sion bear some fruit. In iTunes, you’ll now find week­ly install­ments of a course called The Lit­er­a­ture of Cri­sis. Taught by Marsh McCall and Mar­tin Evans, two senior fac­ul­ty mem­bers, the course explores how cri­sis — dra­mat­ic per­son­al cri­sis and larg­er soci­etal cri­sis — have shaped the lives and writ­ings of major intel­lec­tu­als, from Pla­to, to Shake­speare, to Voltaire. Whether you live in Palo Alto, New York, or Ban­ga­lore, you can sub­scribe to this course as a pod­cast by click­ing here, and, each week your iPod should auto­mat­i­cal­ly down­load the lat­est install­ment. (If you don’t have an iPod, you can sim­ply lis­ten to the course on your com­put­er.)

Click to access:

Stan­ford on iTunes

Lit­er­a­ture and Cri­sis

The Quick Start Guide to Stan­ford on iTunes

If you want to sub­scribe to the indi­vid­ual RSS feeds rolling into Stan­ford on iTunes, just click here.

Ideas & Culture Podcasts

in Podcasts | November 1st, 2006

Ideas/Issues

• Alan Watts Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Alan Watts helped inter­pret and pop­u­lar­ize Asian philosophies/religions for West­ern audi­ences. These pod­casts give you access to his archived talks/public lec­tures.
• Big Ideas iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Big Ideas offers lec­tures on a vari­ety of thought-pro­vok­ing top­ics which range across pol­i­tics, cul­ture, eco­nom­ics, art his­to­ry, sci­ence. The pro­gram is pro­duced by TVO, Canada’s largest edu­ca­tion­al broad­cast­er.
• Bill Moy­ers Jour­nal iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Vet­er­an jour­nal­ist Bill Moy­ers returns to PBS with Bill Moy­ers Jour­nal, a week­ly pro­gram that takes a deep look at a wide range of sub­jects, includ­ing pol­i­tics, arts and cul­ture, the media, the econ­o­my, and impor­tant issues fac­ing democ­ra­cy.
• Bri­an Lehrer Show iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A sol­id pub­lic radio broad/podcast with excel­lent inter­views with many impor­tant thinkers. Comes out WNYC in NYC.
• CBC: The Best of Ideas iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A Cana­di­an pro­gram that explores every­thing from cul­ture and the arts to sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy.
• Com­mon Sense with Dan Car­lin iTunesFeedWeb Site
  • A blend of audio com­men­tary and news analy­sis by one of the lead­ing thinkers among today’s polit­i­cal­ly inde­pen­dent crowd. A fis­cal­ly con­ser­v­a­tive, social­ly lib­er­al approach to solv­ing prob­lems.
• Com­mon­wealth Club Radio Pro­gram iTunes Feed Web Site
  • The old­est radio pro­gram in the coun­try — dat­ing back to 1924 — this week­ly pro­gram fea­tures some of the most promi­nent speak­ers in the coun­try.
• Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions (Video) iTunes Feed Web Site
• Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions (Audio) iTunes Feed Web Site
  • You can get inside this elite body and hear some of what the world’s lead­ing politi­cians and polit­i­cal thinkers have to say.
• Deutsche Welle
  • Inspired Minds iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A col­lec­tion of por­traits on the world’s great thinkers.
• Enti­tled Opin­ions (About Life and Lit­er­a­ture) iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Host­ed by Robert Har­ri­son, a Stan­ford pro­fes­sor, this pod­cast is a week­ly lit­er­ary talk show that ranges broad­ly on issues relat­ed to lit­er­a­ture, ideas, and lived expe­ri­ence.
• FORA.tv Dai­ly FORA­cast
  • Audio: iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Video: iTunes Feed Web Site
    • In French, this pod­cast, led by the well known philoso­pher Alain Finkielkraut, fea­tures a pan­el dis­cus­sion on a dif­fer­ent cul­tur­al top­ic each week.France Cul­ture: Répliques iTunes Feed Web Site
• Get Illu­mi­nat­ed iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Boing Boing’s edi­tors inter­view cre­ative peo­ple with­in fringe cul­ture.
• Guardian Unlim­it­ed
  • Cul­ture on Guardian Unlim­it­ed iTunes Feed
  • Media on Guardian Unlim­it­ed iTunes Feed
• Forum with Michael Kras­ny iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Com­ing out of San Fran­cis­co, this pub­lic radio broad/podcast fea­tures excel­lent inter­views with major cul­tur­al fig­ures.
• In Our Time iTunes Feed Web Site
  • On this BBC pro­gram, the best minds explore the big issues that form the intel­lec­tu­al agen­da of our time.
• Leonard Lopate Show iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Com­ing out of WNYC in New York City, this pub­lic radio pod­cast offers dai­ly inter­views with a diverse col­lec­tion of great thinkers and talk­ers.
• Morn­ing Sto­ries iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Pre­sent­ed by WGBH in Boston, this pro­gram presents “unfor­get­table sto­ries by every­day peo­ple.”
• My His­to­ry Can Beat Up Your Pol­i­tics iTunesFeedWeb Site
  • Exact­ly what it sounds like; it puts cur­rent polit­i­cal events in a his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive and ana­lyzes the his­to­ry to allow us to under­stand our pol­i­tics.
• New York Pub­lic Library iTunes Web Site
  • An exten­sive col­lec­tion of cul­tur­al media pro­duced by one of the world’s great libraries.
• NPR: Intel­li­gence Squared iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Intel­li­gence Squared U.S. brings Oxford-style debat­ing to Amer­i­ca– one motion, one mod­er­a­tor, three pan­elists for the motion and three against. Past top­ics have includ­ed reli­gion in Amer­i­ca, Hamas, and Hol­ly­wood.
• NPR: Fresh Air iTunes Feed Web Site
  • The NPR favorite with Ter­ry Gross.
• NPR: Kop­pel on the News iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Like Night­line, but bet­ter.
• NPR Shuf­fle iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A dai­ly sam­pling of dif­fer­ent NPR pro­gram­ming.
• NPR Talk of the Nation Opin­ion Page iTunes Web Site
• Open Source iTunes Feed Web Site
  • This dai­ly pro­gram, host­ed by Christo­pher Lydon, uses the inter­net and inter­ac­tive tech­nol­o­gy to talk about the world. One of our favorites.
• Par­tial­ly Exam­ined Life - iTunes — Feed — Web Site
  • A phi­los­o­phy pod­cast by some guys who were at one point set on doing phi­los­o­phy for a liv­ing but then thought bet­ter of it.
• PBS Pod­casts iTunes Feeds
  • This gen­er­al col­lec­tion gives you access to all PBS pod­casts.
• Phi­los­o­phy Bites iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A British pod­cast fea­tur­ing inter­views of top philoso­phers and that delves into some essen­tial philo­soph­i­cal ques­tions — what is the mean­ing of life? what is the nature of real­i­ty? what is evil?, etc.
• Philoso­phers’ Cafe Feed Web Site
  • Com­fort­able sur­round­ings for vibrant street lev­el dis­cus­sions on burn­ing issues of the day. No for­mal phi­los­o­phy train­ing required; real life expe­ri­ence desired. Come ear­ly, stay late. Pre­sent­ed by Simon Fras­er Uni­ver­si­ty.
• Pub­lic Radio Pod­cast Cat­a­logue Web Site
  • This web site con­tains links to feeds for over 900 pub­lic radio pro­grams avail­able via pod­cast.
• ResearchChan­nel iTunes — Web Site
  • Based out of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton, the Research Chan­nel aggre­gates con­tent from many uni­ver­si­ties and research insti­tu­tions.
• Salon.com Con­ver­sa­tions iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Salon has a nice col­lec­tion of audio con­ver­sa­tions with fig­ures from the high­er ech­e­lons of the pop cul­ture world. David Lynch, Pedro Almod­ó­var, Amy Sedaris, the list goes on.
    • Also check out Salon’s Week­ly Down­load Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
• SALT — Sem­i­nars About Long Term Think­ing iTunes Feed Web Site
  • An award win­ning month­ly speak­ing series host­ed by Stew­art Brand and orga­nized by the Long Now Foun­da­tion, which hopes to pro­vide a coun­ter­point to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and pro­mote “slower/better” think­ing. The pod­casts fea­tures many well known thinkers.
• Start the Week iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A BBC pro­duc­tion, Start The Week “sets the cul­tur­al agen­da for the week ahead, with high-pro­file guests dis­cussing the ideas behind their work in the fields of art, lit­er­a­ture, film, sci­ence, his­to­ry, soci­ety and pol­i­tics.”
• TED Talks Video iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Talks from an annu­al con­fer­ence that brings togeth­er major thinkers and doers.
• The Chron­i­cle of High­er Edu­ca­tion: Inter­views iTunes
• The Econ­o­mist iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Audio con­tent from one of the high­er qual­i­ty jour­nals out there.
• The New York Review of Books iTunes Feed Web Site
  • The pod­cast from the biweek­ly book review and jour­nal of intel­lec­tu­al cur­rents.
• The New York Times Pod­casts (Main) iTunes Web Site (see web site for indi­vid­ual feeds)
  • A fair­ly large col­lec­tion of dai­ly and week­ly pod­casts from the major US dai­ly.
• The New York Times — TimesTalks iTunes Feed
  • Con­ver­sa­tions with peo­ple of note as well as NYTimes jour­nal­ists and edi­tors.
• The New York­er: Com­ment (iTunes — Feed)
  • A week­ly read­ing of the magazine’s well-known “Com­ment” essay.
• The Sound of Young Amer­i­ca iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Inter­views with impor­tant fig­ures in the world of pop cul­ture, arts, lit­er­a­ture and com­e­dy. A high­ly-regard­ed pod­cast.
• This Amer­i­can Life iTunes Feed Web Site
  • First-per­son sto­ries and short fic­tion from the award-win­ning show host­ed by Ira Glass.
• To the Best of Our Knowl­edge iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Inter­views with nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly-known guests with a pas­sion for ideas.
• Yes­ter­day is Gone iTunes Feed Web Site
  • “Yes­ter­day Is Gone” is Charles Binder’s per­son­al per­spec­tive about pol­i­tics, art, sci­ence, health, the past, the present, and what will prob­a­bly happen…now that Yes­ter­day Is Gone.

Books & Writ­ing

• Ama­zon Book Clips iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Lets you keep tabs on best­selling and up-and-com­ing authors.
• Barnes & Noble: Meet the Writ­ers iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A wide range of writ­ers dis­cuss their favorite books, influ­ences, and the rea­sons they write.
• C‑Span — After Words iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Inter­views with impor­tant authors of recent­ly pub­lished hard­back non-fic­tion.
• Gar­ri­son Keil­lor’s The Writer’s Almanac iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Each day Keil­lor reads a short poem or two and recounts what hap­pened on this day in his­to­ry.
• Gram­mar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Bet­ter Writ­ing iTunes Feed Web Site
  • I think the title says it all.
• Guardian Unlim­it­ed — Books iTunes Feed Web Site
• NPR Books iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A col­lec­tion of NPR author inter­views and book reviews.
• NPR Sto­ry of the Day iTunes Feed Web Site
• Poet­ry Foun­da­tion iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A dai­ly pod­cast fea­tur­ing high-qual­i­ty record­ings of poems, inter­views with poets, and poet­ry doc­u­men­taries.
• Ran­dom House Pod­cast iTunes Web Site
  • Lets lis­ten­ers check out excerpts from new book releas­es.
• Shake­speare-upon-iPod iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A series of 9 dis­cus­sions on, and read­ings from, Shake­speare.
• Simon Says iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A week­ly pod­cast on the books and audio books from Simon & Schus­ter.
• Slate Audio Book Club iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Crit­ics dis­cuss impor­tant and pop­u­lar books.
• The New York Times Book Review iTunes Feed Web Site
  • This fledg­ling pod­cast fea­tures the edi­tor of the NYT Book Review speak­ing about new­ly reviewed books.
• The New York­er: Fic­tion iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Each month, a New York­er fic­tion writer choos­es a sto­ry from the magazine’s archives for a New York­er Out Loud pod­cast.
• The Poet­ic Voice iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Houghton Mif­flin presents a month­ly poet­ry pod­cast.
• The Wash­ing­ton Post Book Review iTunes Feed Web Site
• The Writer’s Block iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Aired on KQED in San Fran­cis­co, this week­ly read­ing series fea­tur­ing writ­ers and per­form­ers of all stripes read­ing the lat­est short fic­tion, non-fic­tion, the­ater and poet­ry.
• Times Online Book Pod­casts iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Book pod­casts from anoth­er British dai­ly.
• Word for Word iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Pre­sent­ed by Amer­i­can Pub­lic Media, this pod­cast reviews the best of the nation’s recent speech­es.
• World Book Club iTunes Feed Web Site
  • World Book Club invites the globe’s great authors to dis­cuss their best known nov­el. This month­ly pro­gramme, pre­sent­ed by Har­ri­ett Gilbert, includes ques­tions by World Ser­vice lis­ten­ers.

Film

• BBC: Mark Ker­mod­e’s Film Reviews iTunes Feed Web Site
  • From the BBC, this pod­cast takes a no-punch­es-pulled look at UK cin­e­ma.

• NPR Movies iTunes Feed Web Site
  • NPR reports, reviews and inter­views on the movie front.
• Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val Pod­casts iTunes Feed Web Site

• The Treat­ment iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Film crit­ic Elvis Mitchell turns the tables and gives the “treat­ment” to some of the most influ­en­tial and inno­v­a­tive forces cre­at­ing movies and pop­u­lar art and enter­tain­ment.

Muse­ums

• Art Insti­tute of Chica­go Muse­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Expe­ri­ence the Art Insti­tute of Chicago’s muse­um through the words of artists, cura­tors, musi­cians, and edu­ca­tors.
• Met­ro­pol­i­tain Muse­um of Art iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A sol­id col­lec­tion of pod­casts from Amer­i­ca’s finest art muse­um. Includes read­ing by well known actors.
• MoMa iTunes Feed Web Site
  • The Muse­um of Mod­ern Art gives you pod­casts that let you hear artists and cura­tors dis­cuss mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art.
• MoMA Think Mod­ern Lec­tures iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Offers record­ings of artists, crit­ics, schol­ars and writ­ers shar­ing their knowl­edge of the muse­um’s art col­lec­tions as well as their views on comtem­po­rary art issues.
• Nation­al Muse­ums Liv­er­pool Feed Web Site
• Philadel­phia Muse­um of Art iTunes Web Site
  • The muse­um offers mul­ti­ple pod­casts. They’re all cen­tral­ized in iTunes, or you can find the indi­vid­ual rss feeds on the muse­um web site.
• SFMOMA iTunes Site
  • A notably strong col­lec­tion of muse­um pod­casts.
• Smith­son­ian Muse­ums
  • Hir­sh­horn Muse­um & Sculp­ture Gar­den iTunes Feed Web Site
• The Nation­al Gallery Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Pod­casts from the Nation­al Gallery art muse­um in Lon­don.

Sundry

• Car Talk iTunes Feed Web Site
  • An NPR clas­sic.
• The New York­er Car­toons iTunes Feed.
  • Catch ani­mat­ed ver­sions of The New York­er’s famous car­toons.

Free Audio Books: Non-Fiction

in | October 21st, 2006

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Down­load hun­dreds of free audio books, most­ly clas­sics, to your MP3 play­er or com­put­er. Below, you’ll find great works of non-fic­tion. Click here to see our our com­plete col­lec­tion of 550 Free Audio Books. Also please see our relat­ed col­lec­tion: 800 Free eBooks for iPad, Kin­dle & Oth­er Devices.

• Amis, Mar­tin — “Phan­tom of the Opera”
• Aris­to­tle — Poet­ics (MP3 down­load)
• Aris­to­tle — Pol­i­tics (MP3 down­load full zip file)
• Aris­to­tle — Physics
• Augus­tine, Saint — City of God (full zip file)
• Beard, Charles — His­to­ry of the Unit­ed States, Vol­ume 1 (full zip file)
• Beard, Charles — His­to­ry of the Unit­ed States, Vol­ume 2(full zip file)
• Beard, Charles — His­to­ry of the Unit­ed States, Vol­ume 3 (full zip file)
• Beard, Charles — His­to­ry of the Unit­ed States, Vol­ume 4 (full zip file)
• Berke­ley, George — A Defence of Free-Think­ing in Math­e­mat­ics (Free MP3)
• Chan­ning, Edward — A Short His­to­ry of the Unit­ed States (full zip file)
• Con­fu­cius — The Say­ings of Con­fu­cius (MP3 full zip file down­load)
• Dar­win, Charles — On the Ori­gin of Species by Means of Nat­ur­al Selec­tion (MP3 down­load full zip file)
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• Descartes, Rene - Dis­course on Method (MP3 down­load)
• Descartes, Rene - Med­i­ta­tions on First Phi­los­o­phy (full zip file)
• Dick­ens, Charles — A Child’s His­to­ry of Eng­land (full zip file)
• Doc­torow, Cory — Con­tent: Select­ed Essays on Tech­nol­o­gy, Cre­ativ­i­ty, Copy­right and the Future of the Future (Streamed)
• Dou­glass, Fred­er­ick — A Speech to the Peo­ple of Rochester, New York on the Hypocrisy of Slav­ery (MP3 down­load)
• Dubois, W.E.B. — The Soul of Black Folk (MP3 down­load)
• Emer­son, Ralph Wal­do - His­to­ry (MP3 down­load)
• Ein­hard, The Life of Charle­magne (full zip file)
• Ein­stein, Albert - Rel­a­tiv­i­ty (Var­i­ous options)
• Emer­son, Ralph Wal­do — The Essays of Ralph Wal­do Emer­son (iTunes)
• Gib­bon, Edward — The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1. (Lib­rivox col­lec­tion of MP3’s)
• Gib­bon, Edward — The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 2. (Lib­rivox col­lec­tion of MP3’s)
• Gib­bon, Edward — The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 3. (Lib­rivox col­lec­tion of MP3’s)
• Gib­bon, Edward — The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 4. (Lib­rivox col­lec­tion of MP3’s)
• Grant, Ulysses S. — The Per­son­al Mem­oirs of Ulysses S. Grant (iTunes)
• Hard­ing, Samuel - The Sto­ry of the Mid­dle Ages (iTunes)
• Hen­ry, Patrick — Give Me Lib­er­ty or Give Me Death (MP3 down­load)
• Hen­ry, Patrick - Speech Address­ing the Vir­ginia House of Burgess­es; Rich­mond, Vir­ginia; March 23, 1775 (MP3 down­load)
• Holmes, Oliv­er Wen­dell – The Foun­tain of Youth (mp3 down­load)
• Hux­ley, Aldous — The Vision­ary Expe­ri­ence — (MP3 stream)
• James, William – The Moral Equiv­a­lent of War (mp3 down­load)
• Jef­fer­son, Thomas – The Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence (mp3 down­load)
• Lessig, Lawrence – Free Cul­ture
• Lin­coln, Abra­ham – Get­tys­burg Address (mp3 down­load)
• Macauley, Thomas – His­to­ry of Eng­land (iTunes Lib­rivox)
• Machi­avel­li, The Prince (mp3 down­load)
• Marx, Karl – The Com­mu­nist Man­i­festo (full zip down­load)
• Mill, John Stu­art – Util­i­tar­i­an­ism (mp3 down­load full zip file)
• Niet­zsche, Friedrich – Ecce Homo (full zip file)
• Niet­zsche, Friedrich – Beyond Good and Evil (mp3 down­load)
• Niet­zsche, Friedrich – Thus Spoke Zarathus­tra (full mp3 down­load)
• Niet­zsche, Friedrich – Twi­light of the Idols (full zip)
• Paine, Thomas – Com­mon Sense (mp3 down­load)
• Pla­to — The Apol­o­gy of Socrates (stream/download)
• Pla­to – The Repub­lic (mul­ti­ple for­mats)
• Roo­sevelt, Theodore – Span­ish-Amer­i­can War: The Rough Rid­ers in Tam­pa (mp3 down­load)
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques — A Dis­course Upon the Ori­gin and the Foun­da­tion of the Inequal­i­ty Among Mankind (full zip file)
• Rus­sell, Bertrand – ABC of Rel­a­tiv­i­ty: Under­stand­ing Ein­stein (read by Derek Jaco­bi)
• Rus­sell, Bertrand — Why I Am Not a Chris­t­ian (read by Ter­rence Hardi­man)
• Smith, Adam – A Wealth of Nations Book 1 and Books 2 & 3 (full zip down­load)
• Strath­ern, Paul — Niet­zsche in 90 Min­utes (YouTube Stream)
• Sun-tzu – The Art of War (mp3 down­load)
• Thore­au, Hen­ry David – Walden (mp3 down­load)
• Thucy­dides, The His­to­ry of the Pelo­pon­nesian War (mp3 down­load)
• Toc­queville, Alex­is de – Democ­ra­cy in Amer­i­ca Part 1 and Part 2 (full zip down­load)
• Var­i­ous – The Fed­er­al­ist Papers Rss Feed
• Var­i­ous – The US Con­sti­tu­tion Stream
• Voltaire – Can­dide (mp3 down­load)

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Music Podcast Collection — Classical, Jazz, and Rock

in Music | October 1st, 2006

Clas­si­cal

• An Inti­mate Tour Through the Music of Yo-Yo Ma iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Each episode of this pod­cast delves into the his­to­ry of his career, and what led him to record each of the tracks of his cur­rent release Appas­sion­a­to.
• Bach Pod­cast from Magnatune.com iTunes Feed Web Site
  • 60 free min­utes of Bach.
• Bach Fes­ti­val of Philadel­phia Feed Web Site
  • Live per­for­mances of J.S. Bach works per­formed by var­i­ous artists for The Bach Fes­ti­val of Philadel­phia.
• Boston Sym­pho­ny Orches­tra Con­ser­va­to­ry iTunes Feed Web Site
  • This edu­ca­tion­al pod­cast gives you an inside look at the sym­pho­ny. Cur­rent­ly you will find a two sea­son overview and record­ings of Beethoven and Arnold Schoen­berg.
• Clas­si­cal Per­for­mance iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Clas­si­cal music per­for­mances from WGBH’s Stu­dio One in Boston.
• Com­posers Date­books iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Amer­i­can Pub­lic Media’s Com­posers Date­book informs, engages, and enter­tains with time­ly infor­ma­tion about com­posers of the past and present.
• Dan­marks Radio — Mozart Sym­phonies Feed Web Site
  • For the cel­e­bra­tion of Mozart’s 250th anniver­sary, Den­mark radio offered pod­casts of nine Mozart sym­phonies by the Dan­ish Radio Sym­pho­ny Orches­tra. Since the web site is in Dan­ish, your best bet is to access these high qual­i­ty MP3’s through the feed.
• Deutsche Welle
  • Beethoven­fest iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Beethoven’s most famous sym­phonies per­formed by excel­lent young orches­tras and new com­po­si­tions by award-win­ning com­posers.
  • Clas­si­cal Mas­ter­pieces iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Six mas­ter com­posers, six sym­phonies, a star con­duc­tor and a lead­ing orches­tra are the main ingre­di­ents of this remark­able musi­cal feast.
• Gramo­phone Pod­cast Feed Web Site
  • A month­ly win­dow into the world’s most author­i­ta­tive clas­si­cal music mag­a­zine, fea­tur­ing an overview of the best releas­es, news, exclu­sive inter­views with lead­ing fig­ures from the music world, and lots of great music.
• New Clas­si­cal Tracks with Julie Amach­er iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Host Julie Amach­er pro­vides an in-depth explo­ration of a new clas­si­cal music release each week.
• Nax­os Clas­si­cal Music Spot­light iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A lead­ing clas­si­cal music label looks at new releas­es, as well as the per­form­ers and com­posers who make Nax­os’ record­ings.
• NPR Music iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Reviews, musi­cian inter­views, live record­ings from Morn­ing Edi­tion, All Things Con­sid­ered, and oth­er NPR pro­grams.
• Phil­har­mo­nia Orches­tra Video Pod­casts iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A month­ly series of video pod­casts takes you behind the scenes with the Phil­har­mo­nia Orches­tra, includ­ing inter­views with con­duc­tors, soloists and lis­ten­ing guides to famous pieces from the clas­si­cal reper­toire.
• Radio Swe­den: Mozart iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Swedish Radio has launched a Mozart Pod­cast to cel­e­brate Mozart’s 250th birth­day. They’ve been pod­cast­ing their own record­ings from the 1940–1950s of Mozart’s operas.
• The Con­cert iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and more from the Isabel­la Stew­art Gard­ner muse­um in Boston.
• The Music of Mas­ter­works iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Sony BMG Mas­ter­works pro­vides pod­casts fea­tur­ing inter­views with artists and upcom­ing releas­es.
• Wag­n­er Operas Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Fea­tures, among oth­er things, per­for­mances from the Bayreuth Fes­ti­val.

Jazz & Blues

• Bend­ing Cor­ners Feed Web Site
  • Bend­ing­Corners explores the groove with­in: acid jazz, afro-beat, bop, cool jazz, cos­mic jazz, dub, down­tem­po, elec­tro-jazz, fusion, future jazz, groove jazz, jaz­za­tron­ic, jazz dance, jazz-funk, jazz-rock, kozmi­groov, modal, phu­sion, pro­gres­sive, mod­ern, nu-jazz, soul-jazz, spir­i­tu­al, and world.
• Brook­lyn Jazz Under­ground iTunes Web Site Blog
  • A pod­cast look­ing at the Brook­lyn jazz scene. Part music, part inter­view.
• Chris­t­ian McBride Pod­casts iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Talks with and pefor­mances by bassist Chris­t­ian McBride. Includes some video clips.
• Detroit Jazz Stage iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A month­ly pod­cast fea­tur­ing the best in the Detroit jazz scene.
• In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond iTunes Feed Web Site
  • From Jazz mas­ters of past and present to emerg­ing new artists per­form­ing hard-bop jazz and fusion. Fea­tur­ing Inde­pen­dent Jazz artists from around the world. A pop­u­lar pod­cast.
• Jazz Cor­ner Innerviews Feed Web Site
  • Jazzcorner.com innerviews are vignettes with insight­ful com­men­tary, inter­est­ing sound bites and lots of great music with great jazz mas­ters and up and com­ing musi­cians. Each pod­cast ranges in time from 4 min­utes to more than an hour.
• Jazz in Chica­go iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Inter­views and infor­ma­tion about the jazz scene in Chica­go.
• Jazz Pod­cast from Mag­natune iTunes Feed Web Site
  • 60 min­utes of straight, high qual­i­ty jazz.
• NPR Piano Jazz Shorts iTunes Feed Web Site
  • For more than twen­ty-five years, pianist Mar­i­an McPart­land has wel­comed a stel­lar line-up of jazz artists for con­ver­sa­tion and impro­vi­sa­tion on her Peabody Award-win­ning pro­gram. Piano Jazz show­cas­es both acclaimed artists and up-and-com­ing per­form­ers.
• Pat Methe­ny — The Song X Podu­men­tary iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Gui­tarist Pat Methe­ny explores his influ­ences, record­ings, music and more on this inti­mate pod­cast series.
• Port­land Jazz Jams Pod­show iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Live jazz jams, inter­views with great play­ers, and instruc­tion­al mate­ri­als, all com­ing out of the Port­land jazz scene.
• Son­ny Rollins Pod­cast iTunes Web Site
  • A 12-part video pod­cast series to be released in month­ly install­ments. It intro­duces Son­ny Rollins, a major Amer­i­can jazz fig­ure, to new lis­ten­ers.
• Swing is in the Air iTunes Web Site
  • Although swing is some­thing of a focus here, this pod­cast com­ing out of Cana­da also looks at oth­er jazz forms.
• The His­to­ry of Chica­go Blues iTunes Web Site
  • Nar­rat­ed by Bud­dy Guy, this enhanced and exten­sive pod­cast takes you on a tour (geo­graph­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal) of Chicago’s rich blues tra­di­tion.
• The Jazz Suite Feed Web Site
  • This is a pod­cast ded­i­cat­ed to Jazz played by inde­pen­dent and indie artists that the major music labels have missed.
• The Night Pas­sage Jazz Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
  • An Eng­lish-lan­guage pod­cast com­ing out of Rome, Italy.
• The Tra­neu­men­tary iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A series of pod­casts fea­tur­ing the work of the jazz great, John Coltrane.

Rock

• Beat­legs Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Fea­tures rare inter­views or behind the scenes clips, fol­lowed by a rare out­take or live per­for­mance that few have heard before.
• Bea­t­les Minute iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A pod­cast com­ing out of Philadel­phia that gives you short, dai­ly tid­bits about the band.
• Bob Dylan Pod­cast iTunes Web Site
  • Pat­ti Smith hosts music and con­ver­sa­tion about Bob Dylan. His friends, ear­ly influ­ences and col­lab­o­ra­tors dis­cuss their close rela­tion­ships with Dylan, the sto­ries behind his great­est songs and oth­er mem­o­rable moments of his career. Jour­nal­ists and biog­ra­phers add crit­i­cal insights and pro­vide his­tor­i­cal con­texts.
• Bono: The Rolling Stone Inter­view iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Jann Wen­ner leads a long and wide-rang­ing inter­view with the lead singer of U2.
• Elvis Costel­lo: The First Ten Years iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Elvis Costel­lo looks back at the begin­ning of his music career.
• George Har­ri­son: Liv­ing in a Mate­r­i­al World iTunes
  • A look back at George Harrison’s 3rd solo album. Includes talks with artists who played on the album.
• John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Inter­view iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Con­duct­ed by Jann Wen­ner (the founder of Rolling Stone Mag­a­zine) this famous 1970 inter­view with John Lennon was con­duct­ed short­ly after The Bea­t­les’ bit­ter breakup. Run­ning over 3 hours, it is one of Lennon’s most exten­sive inter­views, touch­ing not just on the breakup, but also on art and pol­i­tics, drugs, Yoko, pri­mal ther­a­py and more.
• John Lennon: The Lost Lennon Tapes iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Orig­i­nal­ly pre­sent­ed by West­wood One in 1988, this pod­cast presents a col­lec­tion of Lennon’s pri­vate tapes — tapes that include ear­ly record­ings of The Bea­t­les, radio inter­views with John, demo tapes, chron­i­cles of the Dou­ble Fan­ta­sy record­ing ses­sions, and pri­vate moments at home.
• Pet Sounds 40th Anniver­sary Pod­cast iTunes Web Site
  • The Beach Boys look back at their album that is con­sis­tent­ly con­sid­ered their finest and an impor­tant one in the rock tra­di­tion. The pod­cast includes 15 tracks.
• Rolling Stone: Best New Bands (Video) iTunes
• The Beach Boys: The Warmth of the Sun iTunes Web Site
  • Nar­rat­ed by The Beach Boys them­selves, this pod­casts looks at the band’s artistry and com­plex lega­cy.
• The Elvis Pres­ley Pod­cast iTunes Web­site
  • This pod­cast, which fea­tures musi­cal excerpts and inter­views, revis­its the King’s unpar­al­leled musi­cal career.

Also see our col­lec­tion of Mp3 Music Blogs.

• An Aquar­i­um Drunk­ard: Based in Los Ange­les, this eclec­tic audio blog “bridges the gap between con­tem­po­rary indie and vin­tage garage, psych-folk, coun­try, New Orleans funk, R&B, soul and every­thing that falls in between.”
• Brook­lyn Veg­an: Here you get a New York City-cen­tric, most­ly-music blog that focus­es on report­ing music news, live show reviews, tour dates, and, yes, MP3’s.
• Cacoph­o­nous: A clas­si­cal music MP3 blog.
• Chrome­waves: Along with the rumi­na­tions of a self-con­fessed indie rock geek, you get an “MP3 of the Week” that fea­tures a ran­dom or not-so-ran­dom cov­er song.
• Daytrot­ter: Gives you “exclu­sive, re-worked, alter­nate ver­sions of old songs and unre­leased tracks by some of your favorite bands and by a lot of your next favorite bands.”
• Des­ti­na­tion: Out: A jazz blog focus­ing on rare or out-of-print music. Typ­i­cal­ly pub­lish­es twice a week, and leaves songs avail­able for about two weeks.
• Dis­co­belle: A Swe­den-based music blog that posts sin­gle tracks and remix­es and occa­sion­al­ly exclu­sive mix­es from DJs all around the world.
• Done Wait­ing: Part film, part music with MP3s.
• Elbows: A meta col­lec­tion of great music blog posts, which col­lec­tive­ly pro­vides you a snap­shot of what’s going on in the new genre of audio/music blog­ging.
• Fluxblog: One of the old­est and most com­mon­ly cit­ed MP3 blogs, this site posts two MP3s every week­day along with more relat­ed infor­ma­tion.
• Goril­la vs. Bear: One of the big­gies worth check­ing out.
• I Guess I’m Float­ing: A good music blog with a good sprin­kling of MP3s.
• Idol­a­tor: Maybe this sum­ma­ry will help: “When the inter­net came, we over­threw the pasty white tastemak­ers, the duplic­i­tous music mar­keters and the man­u­fac­tured pop idols. And then they all came back. This is Idol­a­tor. We’re so dis­ap­point­ed.”
• La Blo­gotheque: A well-regard­ed French lan­guage MP3 blog.
• Large­heart­ed Boy: A “music blog fea­tur­ing dai­ly free and legal music down­loads as well as news from the worlds of music, lit­er­a­ture, and pop cul­ture.”
• Marathon Packs: Writes about and lets you lis­ten to inter­est­ing songs, to para­phrase the sites self-descrip­tion. Keeps audio files post­ed for two weeks.
• Moist­works: An audio blog start­ed in April 2004 (mean­ing it has a track record) that gets updat­ed Mon­day through Fri­day.
• Motel De Moka: A dai­ly blog post­ing eclec­tic playlists, includ­ing indie rock, acoustics and ambi­ent.
• My Old Ken­tucky Blog: What’s new and hot in indie rock, pop, folk and hip-hop.
• Noth­ing But Green Lights: An MP3 blog that keeps track of indie, elec­tro, folk & pop, all from the UK. The site only posts tracks that the inter­net is giv­ing away for free, or ones that have been grant­ed per­mis­sion.
• Prod­uct Shop NYC: Although not exclu­sive­ly an MP3 blog, you do get some MP3s worth your time here.
• Said the Gramo­phone: Launched in 2003, the site is among the first MP3 blogs and it offers a dai­ly sam­pler of “real­ly good songs,” although all songs are removed with­in a week or two of post­ing. The blog comes out of Cana­da.
• Six Eyes: An MP3 blog by Alan Williamson.
• Skat­ter Brain: A most­ly indiepop music blog.
• So Much Silence: MP3s a plen­ty.
• Soul Crates: Your home for soul MP3s.
• Stere­ogum: A pop­u­lar gos­sipy blog about the indie music scene. The site often posts MP3s of new music, plus offers record reviews, announces tour dates, and cov­ers music fes­ti­vals.
• The Hype Machine: The Hype Machine tracks and aggre­gates a vari­ety of MP3 blogs. Anoth­er meta approach.
• The Music Slut: A com­pre­hen­sive music blog with oodles of MP3s.
• Trrill: Anoth­er good clas­si­cal music audio blog.
• WFMU Beware of the Blog: An MP3 blog run by WFMU, an inde­pen­dent freeform radio sta­tion broad­cast­ing out of NYC.
• Who Needs Radio?: We believe in music, not mon­ey. We’re here to keep your ears alive.
• You Ain’t No Picas­so: A good music blog with a very nice blogroll and MP3s too.

Complete Podcast Collection — Fill Your Ipod

in Uncategorized | October 1st, 2006

100s of cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al pod­casts. Email a friend about Open
Cul­ture.

• Arts & Cul­ture Pod­casts
• Audio Book Pod­casts
• For­eign Lan­guage Les­son Pod­casts
• News/Information Pod­casts
• Sci­ence Pod­casts
• Tech­nol­o­gy Pod­casts
• Uni­ver­si­ty Pod­casts — All
• Uni­ver­si­ty Pod­casts — Busi­ness School

 Learn to Use Pod­casts — Buy a New iPod (Ama­zon)

Music Podcast Collection

in Music | September 10th, 2006

Clas­si­cal

• Bach Pod­cast from Magnatune.com iTunes Feed Web Site
  • 60 free min­utes of Bach.
• Boston Sym­pho­ny Orches­tra Con­ser­va­to­ry iTunes Feed Web Site
  • This edu­ca­tion­al pod­cast gives you an inside look at the sym­pho­ny. Cur­rent­ly you will find a two sea­son overview and record­ings of Beethoven and Arnold Schoen­berg.
• Clas­si­cal Per­for­mance iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Clas­si­cal music per­for­mances from WGBH’s Stu­dio One in Boston.
• Com­posers Date­books iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Amer­i­can Pub­lic Media’s Com­posers Date­book informs, engages, and enter­tains with time­ly infor­ma­tion about com­posers of the past and present.
• Dan­marks Radio — Mozart Sym­phonies Feed Web Site
  • For the cel­e­bra­tion of Mozart’s 250th anniver­sary, Den­mark radio offered pod­casts of nine Mozart sym­phonies by the Dan­ish Radio Sym­pho­ny Orches­tra. Since the web site is in Dan­ish, your best bet is to access these high qual­i­ty MP3’s through the feed.
• Deutsche Welle
  • Beethoven­fest iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Beethoven’s most famous sym­phonies per­formed by excel­lent young orches­tras and new com­po­si­tions by award-win­ning com­posers.
  • Clas­si­cal Mas­ter­pieces iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Six mas­ter com­posers, six sym­phonies, a star con­duc­tor and a lead­ing orches­tra are the main ingre­di­ents of this remark­able musi­cal feast.
• New Clas­si­cal Tracks with Julie Amach­er iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Host Julie Amach­er pro­vides an in-depth explo­ration of a new clas­si­cal music release each week.
• Nax­os Clas­si­cal Music Spot­light iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A lead­ing clas­si­cal music label looks at new releas­es, as well as the per­form­ers and com­posers who make Nax­os’ record­ings.
• NPR Music iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Reviews, musi­cian inter­views, live record­ings from Morn­ing Edi­tion, All Things Con­sid­ered, and oth­er NPR pro­grams.
• Radio Swe­den: Mozart iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Swedish Radio has launched a Mozart Pod­cast to cel­e­brate Mozart’s 250th birth­day. They’ve been pod­cast­ing their own record­ings from the 1940–1950s of Mozart’s operas.
• The Con­cert iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and more from the Isabel­la Stew­art Gard­ner muse­um in Boston.
• The Music of Mas­ter­works iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Sony BMG Mas­ter­works pro­vides pod­casts fea­tur­ing inter­views with artists and upcom­ing releas­es.
• Wag­n­er Operas Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Fea­tures, among oth­er things, per­for­mances from the Bayreuth Fes­ti­val.

Jazz

• Bend­ing Cor­ners Feed Web Site
  • Bend­ing­Corners explores the groove with­in: acid jazz, afro-beat, bop, cool jazz, cos­mic jazz, dub, down­tem­po, elec­tro-jazz, fusion, future jazz, groove jazz, jaz­za­tron­ic, jazz dance, jazz-funk, jazz-rock, kozmi­groov, modal, phu­sion, pro­gres­sive, mod­ern, nu-jazz, soul-jazz, spir­i­tu­al, and world.
    
• Brook­lyn Jazz Under­ground iTunes Web Site Blog
  • A pod­cast look­ing at the Brook­lyn jazz scene. Part music, part inter­view.
• Chris­t­ian McBride Pod­casts iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Talks with and pefor­mances by bassist Chris­t­ian McBride. Includes some video clips.
• Detroit Jazz Stage iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A month­ly pod­cast fea­tur­ing the best in the Detroit jazz scene.
• In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond iTunes Feed Web Site
  • From Jazz mas­ters of past and present to emerg­ing new artists per­form­ing hard-bop jazz and fusion. Fea­tur­ing Inde­pen­dent Jazz artists from around the world. A pop­u­lar pod­cast.
• Jazz Cor­ner Innerviews Feed Web Site
  • Jazzcorner.com innerviews are vignettes with insight­ful com­men­tary, inter­est­ing sound bites and lots of great music with great jazz mas­ters and up and com­ing musi­cians. Each pod­cast ranges in time from 4 min­utes to more than an hour.
• Jazz in Chica­go iTunes Web Site
  • Inter­views and infor­ma­tion about the jazz scene in Chica­go.
• Jazz Pod­cast from Mag­natune iTunes Feed Web Site
  • 60 min­utes of straight, high qual­i­ty jazz.
• NPR Piano Jazz Shorts iTunes Feed Web Site
  • For more than twen­ty-five years, pianist Mar­i­an McPart­land has wel­comed a stel­lar line-up of jazz artists for con­ver­sa­tion and impro­vi­sa­tion on her Peabody Award-win­ning pro­gram. Piano Jazz show­cas­es both acclaimed artists and up-and-com­ing per­form­ers.
• Pat Methe­ny — The Song X Podu­men­tary iTunes Web Site
  • Gui­tarist Pat Methe­ny explores his influ­ences, record­ings, music and more on this inti­mate pod­cast series.
• Port­land Jazz Jams Pod­show iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Live jazz jams, inter­views with great play­ers, and instruc­tion­al mate­ri­als, all com­ing out of the Port­land jazz scene.
• Son­ny Rollins Pod­cast iTunes Web Site
  • A 12-part video pod­cast series to be released in month­ly install­ments. It intro­duces Son­ny Rollins, a major Amer­i­can jazz fig­ure, to new lis­ten­ers.
• Swing is in the Air iTunes Web Site
  • Although swing is some­thing of a focus here, this pod­cast com­ing out of Cana­da also looks at oth­er jazz forms.
• The Jazz Suite Feed Web Site
  • This is a pod­cast ded­i­cat­ed to Jazz played by inde­pen­dent and indie artists that the major music labels have missed.
• The Night Pas­sage Jazz Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
  • An Eng­lish-lan­guage pod­cast com­ing out of Rome, Italy.
• The Tra­neu­men­tary iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A series of pod­casts fea­tur­ing the work of the jazz great, John Coltrane.

Rock

• Beat­legs Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Fea­tures rare inter­views or behind the scenes clips, fol­lowed by a rare out­take or live per­for­mance that few have heard before.
• Bea­t­les Minute iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A pod­cast com­ing out of Philadel­phia that gives you short, dai­ly tid­bits about the band.
• Bono: The Rolling Stone Inter­view iTunes Feed Web Site
• Elvis Costel­lo: The First Ten Years iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Elvis Costel­lo looks back at the begin­ning of his music career.
• George Har­ri­son: Liv­ing in a Mate­r­i­al World iTunes
  • A look back at George Harrison’s 3rd solo album. Includes talks with artists who played on the album.
• John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Inter­view iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Con­duct­ed by Jann Wen­ner (the founder of Rolling Stone Mag­a­zine) this famous 1970 inter­view with John Lennon was con­duct­ed short­ly after The Bea­t­les’ bit­ter breakup. Run­ning over 3 hours, it is one of Lennon’s most exten­sive inter­views, touch­ing not just on the breakup, but also on art and pol­i­tics, drugs, Yoko, pri­mal ther­a­py and more.
• John Lennon: The Lost Lennon Tapes iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Orig­i­nal­ly pre­sent­ed by West­wood One in 1988, this pod­cast presents a col­lec­tion of Lennon’s pri­vate tapes — tapes that include ear­ly record­ings of The Bea­t­les, radio inter­views with John, demo tapes, chron­i­cles of the Dou­ble Fan­ta­sy record­ing ses­sions, and pri­vate moments at home.
• Pet Sounds 40th Anniver­sary Pod­cast iTunes Web Site
  • The Beach Boys look back at their album that is con­sis­tent­ly con­sid­ered their finest and an impor­tant one in the rock tra­di­tion. The pod­cast includes 15 tracks.
• Rolling Stone: Best New Bands (Video) iTunes
• The Beach Boys: The Warmth of the Sun iTunes Web Site
  • Nar­rat­ed by The Beach Boys them­selves, this pod­casts looks at the band’s artistry and com­plex lega­cy.

Also see our col­lec­tion of Mp3 Music Blogs.

• An Aquar­i­um Drunk­ard: Based in Los Ange­les, this eclec­tic audio blog “bridges the gap between con­tem­po­rary indie and vin­tage garage, psych-folk, coun­try, New Orleans funk, R&B, soul and every­thing that falls in between.”
• Brook­lyn Veg­an: Here you get a New York City-cen­tric, most­ly-music blog that focus­es on report­ing music news, live show reviews, tour dates, and, yes, MP3’s.
• Cacoph­o­nous: A clas­si­cal music MP3 blog.
• Chrome­waves: Along with the rumi­na­tions of a self-con­fessed indie rock geek, you get an “MP3 of the Week” that fea­tures a ran­dom or not-so-ran­dom cov­er song.
• Daytrot­ter: Gives you “exclu­sive, re-worked, alter­nate ver­sions of old songs and unre­leased tracks by some of your favorite bands and by a lot of your next favorite bands.”
• Des­ti­na­tion: Out: A jazz blog focus­ing on rare or out-of-print music. Typ­i­cal­ly pub­lish­es twice a week, and leaves songs avail­able for about two weeks.
• Dis­co­belle: A Swe­den-based music blog that posts sin­gle tracks and remix­es and occa­sion­al­ly exclu­sive mix­es from DJs all around the world.
• Done Wait­ing: Part film, part music with MP3s.
• Elbows: A meta col­lec­tion of great music blog posts, which col­lec­tive­ly pro­vides you a snap­shot of what’s going on in the new genre of audio/music blog­ging.
• Fluxblog: One of the old­est and most com­mon­ly cit­ed MP3 blogs, this site posts two MP3s every week­day along with more relat­ed infor­ma­tion.
• Goril­la vs. Bear: One of the big­gies worth check­ing out.
• I Guess I’m Float­ing: A good music blog with a good sprin­kling of MP3s.
• Idol­a­tor: Maybe this sum­ma­ry will help: “When the inter­net came, we over­threw the pasty white tastemak­ers, the duplic­i­tous music mar­keters and the man­u­fac­tured pop idols. And then they all came back. This is Idol­a­tor. We’re so dis­ap­point­ed.”
• La Blo­gotheque: A well-regard­ed French lan­guage MP3 blog.
• Large­heart­ed Boy: A “music blog fea­tur­ing dai­ly free and legal music down­loads as well as news from the worlds of music, lit­er­a­ture, and pop cul­ture.”
• Marathon Packs: Writes about and lets you lis­ten to inter­est­ing songs, to para­phrase the sites self-descrip­tion. Keeps audio files post­ed for two weeks.
• Moist­works: An audio blog start­ed in April 2004 (mean­ing it has a track record) that gets updat­ed Mon­day through Fri­day.
• Motel De Moka: A dai­ly blog post­ing eclec­tic playlists, includ­ing indie rock, acoustics and ambi­ent.
• My Old Ken­tucky Blog: What’s new and hot in indie rock, pop, folk and hip-hop.
• Noth­ing But Green Lights: An MP3 blog that keeps track of indie, elec­tro, folk & pop, all from the UK. The site only posts tracks that the inter­net is giv­ing away for free, or ones that have been grant­ed per­mis­sion.
• Prod­uct Shop NYC: Although not exclu­sive­ly an MP3 blog, you do get some MP3s worth your time here.
• Said the Gramo­phone: Launched in 2003, the site is among the first MP3 blogs and it offers a dai­ly sam­pler of “real­ly good songs,” although all songs are removed with­in a week or two of post­ing. The blog comes out of Cana­da.
• Six Eyes: An MP3 blog by Alan Williamson.
• Skat­ter Brain: A most­ly indiepop music blog.
• So Much Silence: MP3s a plen­ty.
• Soul Crates: Your home for soul MP3s.
• Stere­ogum: A pop­u­lar gos­sipy blog about the indie music scene. The site often posts MP3s of new music, plus offers record reviews, announces tour dates, and cov­ers music fes­ti­vals.
• The Hype Machine: The Hype Machine tracks and aggre­gates a vari­ety of MP3 blogs. Anoth­er meta approach.
• The Music Slut: A com­pre­hen­sive music blog with oodles of MP3s.
• Trrill: Anoth­er good clas­si­cal music audio blog.
• WFMU Beware of the Blog: An MP3 blog run by WFMU, an inde­pen­dent freeform radio sta­tion broad­cast­ing out of NYC.
• Who Needs Radio?: We believe in music, not mon­ey. We’re here to keep your ears alive.
• You Ain’t No Picas­so: A good music blog with a very nice blogroll and MP3s too.