Jonathan Coulton In-Studio!

Mar 09

Early in the morning after rawking as the opener for They Might Be Giants, Jonathan Coulton was kind enough to come by our studios.  We’ll air the in-studio with him on March 24, but you can listen now:

[audio:http://sparetherock.com/CoultonMarch2012.mp3|titles=Jonathan Coulton on Spare the Rock]

And you can watch the (partial) video for “The Princess Who Saved Herself” (the first performance ever other than actually recording it for Many Hands):

And for Mr. Fancy Pants:

This has been a pretty cool week.

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They Might Be Giants In Studio!

Mar 08

We had a great time hanging out with They Might Be Giants this afternoon (they’re at the Calvin tonight! You should go!).  We’ll air our chat on March 17, but if you want to listen now:

[audio:http://sparetherock.com/TMBGMarch2012.mp3|titles=TMBG on Spare the Rock]

And you probably want to listen, since it has music (including a crazy minor key version of Dr. Worm) and news about the next kids’ stuff they’ll be doing!  (Like, news you haven’t seen anywhere else, I’m pretty sure.)

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Uncle Rock! Saturday!

Mar 08

Who’s ready?  I’m ready.  Saturday morning, 10:00, Flywheel in Easthampton, the triumphant return of Uncle Rock.  Plus, free pancakes!

Suggested donation of $5 each or just $10 for a whole family!

(He’s signing holiday songs in that picture.  Probably not at Flywheel.)

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Quick Interview with John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants

Mar 06

On my regular (grownup) shift on the River on Sunday, I did a short interview with John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants.  They’ll be on the station Thursday afternoon before their show at the Calvin (don’t have tickets yet? get ’em now), and we’ll record an in-studio with them to air probably on March 17.  You can listen to Sunday’s interview here:

[audio:https://sparetherock.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Flansinterview.mp3|titles=Flans Interview]

Jonathan Coulton is opening the show, and we’ll be getting him in the studio too.

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Spare the Rock, Spoil the Tacos. Or something.

Mar 05

If you’re a fan on Facebook (and you really should be), you may have seen this already, but just to be sure we get all of you RSS-only folks: We’re moving to Austin, Texas in August.  I’m joining a law firm there as senior counsel (and leaving teaching).  We’ll get to spend a chunk of summers in Minnesota, as the firm is based there.  We’re super sad to be leaving the Valley, but excited about being nearer family both in the South and the Midwest, and about being in the amazing city that is Austin.

I plan to have the radio show continue in one form or another, possibly (probably?) syndicated — meaning you’ll have the opportunity to try to get a station that’s local to you to carry it.  Or maybe we’ll find a station in Austin that wants our weird little show.  But I really don’t know.  We only made the final decision a week ago, and the next steps for the radio show were on the back burner until we knew for sure.  So, there will be more news.

By the time we move, we’ll have been doing the show for seven years — the first year and a half or so on Valley Free Radio, and since then on the River (also still broadcast on VFR).  I would never have expected to be doing this show for anything near that long, but I am utterly thrilled that we have.  And I’m equally thrilled that both kids really want to keep doing it.  So we’re going to do everything we can to make sure that happens.

Thanks to all of you for listening, making music, rocking, emailing, and so on.  You’re the best.

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