Biography
The GaragePunk Podcast is a network of home-made, low-budget “radio show”-style programs that focus on wild and obscure garage rock, proto punk, surf, R&B, broken blues, powerpop, punk rock, new wave/no wave, noise, and trashy, primitive rock’n’roll from the past, present, and future. Our show hosts are ordinary people — music fans just like yourself. Not professional disc jockeys. We just have an interest in music and culture that is anything BUT ordinary. Wherever possible, you’ll be directed to websites where you can purchase the music you hear on our shows, although it’s likely that at least some of what shows up on our playlists here will not be commercially available. Unfortunately most of the older music featured on our podcasts are so obscure or hard to find that it is often difficult to track down copyright holders for each song, especially when we feature a daily podcast that’s produced by a team of DJs, each selecting music from their personal record collections. We feel that in these cases it is better to include this music than not, mainly because we are trying to expose this great music to a new audience, and with a new medium. It’s important to keep in mind that these are very low bitrate MP3s. The shows range from 64-80 kbps mono, which is a very low quality MP3, much lower audio quality than even a “good” sounding MP3, and way, way lower than CD quality. Our intent is not to subvert copyrights, but to feature interesting, royalty-free music that might otherwise never get heard, and to help promote the bands, musicians, and record labels creating it and putting it out.
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