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November 15, 2004
Podcast Review: The Rock and Roll Geek Show
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4 stars
, I subscribe
, Podcast Review
Format: radio show
Content: talk, rock and roll
Rating: 
What I'm going to do: subscribe
Typical Length: 25 - 35 minutes
Michael Butler from The Rock and Roll Geek Show is a Rock and Roll geek in the absolutely truest sense of the word. He knows more about Rock and Roll than any other 5 people I know. Plus he seems to have lived (to be living?) the Rock and Roll life-style, at least to much greater extent than I ever did. All together, this pedigree means that Michael puts together one of the best music podcasts out there, and as far as I know the definitive Rock and Roll 'cast. Michael also has the distinction of being the first podcaster I ever heard.
Audio quality is good - the RnR Geek show is encoded at 96 kbps, which I think is a great bit-rate compromise. Michael's delivery has really improved over the last few weeks as he's been regularly podcasting and learning. He seems to have gotten a lot more confidence in his abilities, and it shows. Michael's been using a variety of string quartet tributes to various rock and roll bands as an underscore, which is pleasant, unobtrusive, and extremely appropriate. His transitions into and out of the musical tracks are handled nicely.
Michael usually tells us a little about what's going on his life, plays a few really good rock and roll tracks, and has some rock and roll news (this week in rock history kind of stuff). He's been stretching his limits and doing some interviews and including some new content. Michael seems concerned about listenership, but judging from the number of positive comments on his site and the quality of the podcast, I think he'll probably have more worries about bandwidth than about a lack of listenership. The Rock and Roll Geek Show
site covers what he talks about in the show; I'd like to see more links to other content there so that we could learn more about what he's talking about or playing.
The Rock and Roll Geek show is ocasionally not work- or child-safe, but not too bad. The meta-data on the Rock and Roll Geek shows is good; his filenames contain the info I need, and the mp3s show me what I need to see on my portable. Michaels does not list the track lengths on his podcast [rant].
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P.S. Heineken folks, listen up. I would drink more Heineken if you sponsored this podcast!
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Posted by cori at November 15, 2004 06:15 AM