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January 09, 2005
Podcast Review: The Podtridge Family
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4 stars
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http://www.podtridgefamily.org/
Format: music tracks with short intros
Content: tracks of family produced music
Rating: 
What I'm going to do: subscribe
Typical Length: 10 - 15 minutes
Maichael Lehman should be familiar to TNNPR readers; he was previously reviewed for Michael Lehman's Podcasting from SoftwareLand. What you may not know is that Michael is also a musician of some accomplishment, as are (some of?) his children.
This time Michael's offering up some of this family music for our consumption. He and his children Lyndzie Taylor and Daniel DuBois each play their own style of music, and often write the music as well. The Podtridge Family podcasts so far have been a single track from each of the artists, and all the tracks so far have been granted full podcasting rights.
Michael plays rock and roll. His lyrics are thoughtful and his melodies catching. Daniel plays in a punk band named Argyle (pretty funny name for a punk band - makes me think of socks) [link is pretty dated, I think]. What I've heard of their music is driving and filled with typical punk attitude. Lyndzie also plays rock, but her own kind, very different from Michael's. Her vocals are great and her writing strong.
The overall quality of the podcast is good - Michael's intros to the tracks are clear and the overall balance between music and talk is fine. The recordings of Michael's and Lyndzie's tracks is good, but the quality of Argyle's tracks leaves a little somthing to be desired, though still listenable. Track lengths for the music is not given (rant), and the file and track meta-data is satisfactory for viewing in media players or in Windows (although I encourage Michael to use the ISO 8601 Date format).
All in all, The Podtridge Family is well worth a listen, both to support podcast-friendly (and podcaster-created) music and because the music is worth a listen on its own. Michael indicates on the web page that he's planning on a podcast every week; he hasn't lived up to that yet, but hopefully he'll catch up soon.
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Posted by cori at January 9, 2005 10:06 AM