This is a new one for us… thanks to our good friend Rodrigo De Sá (of Cowboy Cantor fame), we’ve been played on a podcast we didn’t even submit to! You can hear our appearance on AMPed here (click to play, right-click and “Save Target As…” to download):
http://media.libsyn.com/media/amped/AMPed187.mp3
This is episode 187 of the official podcast of The Association of Music Podcasting (AMP), which “promotes and supports the idea that independent musicians and podcasters are the best hope for you to hear exciting new music”. We’re on second, by the way. The show notes are here:
http://amped.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=502600
Champagne Socialist was previously featured on episode 59 of the Cowboy Cantor Podcast, and we’ve got the clip to prove it (once again, click to play, right-click and “Save Target As…” to download):
http://www.thehomeguard.info/archive/The_Home_Guard_on_Cowboy_Cantor.mp3
Hosted by the aforementioned Rodrigo de Sá, we believe that this series is actually the only podcast based in the mid-Atlantic archipelago that is the Azores. As such, the more observant amongst you may notice that this show is in the Portuguese language (so we had no idea where to edit it), making it the first non-English-speaking appearance for The Home Guard. We are of course extremely grateful for this chance to reach a whole new audience.
Many thanks one again, Rodrigo! You can download the latest Cowboy Cantor episodes from here:
http://cbcantor.blogspot.com
CD Baby, our Stateside distributors, have just undergone a major facelift and their site looks so much more impressive than before. It seems that there’s an artist page:
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/TheHomeGuard
which will give an overview of the band, plus links to the individual releases:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/homeguard
to which we will be adding our new album very soon. The next job is to update our content to fit in nicely with the sleek new look, but the artist login section is still not back up yet. Not sure why there are so many links down the left column, either.
You’ll notice that our good friend Ian Fleming took the time to post a review on our page (thanks again, Ian!). If you’ve got a spare few minutes, brief feedback would really help us immensely.
The name Dick Underdog may bring to mind at least three or four cartoon characters rolled into one, but in actual fact it’s the pseudonym of a Podcaster from Wakefield. His cleverly-titled “Route for the Underdog” show champions “the best new emerging & unsigned artists“, and I think you can guess where this post is heading (click to play, right-click and “Save Target As…” to download):
http://www.sebastiansinternetcafe.com/routefortheunderdog/routefortheunderdogep15.MP3
We’re the penultimate act on the show, coming in at around 23:40, but don’t skip straight there – have a listen to the other up-and-coming talent and marvel at how superior it is to what gets played on commercial radio! (Even if we do say so ourselves…)
Many thanks to Mr Underdog for playing our song. We urge you to show your support at his MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/routefortheunderdog