DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Fun by any means necessary- The birth of DIY culture" In opposition corporate rock and the dehumanization of arena rock and separating stars from their audiences. Mike Watt of the Minutemen (among others) counseled young punks…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The UK labels that saved 70's rock" Outside the record companies a new breed of entrepreneur was emerging to exploit this musical revolution: managers, promoters, booking agents, publicists. They were watching the fast-moving …

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Happy Music for Happy People" You’re driving down the road, listening to the radio and a song comes on that flips your happy switch. Immediately you’re in a better mood and ready to take on whatever the day throws at you. The …

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Inventions that changed music- Distortion" Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy",…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The 27 Club" The 27 Club has become one of the most elusive and remarkably tragic coincidences in rock & roll history. The term became widely known after Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994, with rock fans connecting his age to that o…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The Behind The Big Beat" My story of The Big Beat Music Podcast in words and music, our 100th episode. Here all about it at DJKingblind.com #podcastsonamazonmusic #podcast #music #rock #southern #rock #djkingblind #applepodcas…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The Science of Sad Songs" listening to “sad music” can actually make us feel better, as this 2016 article by David Nield for Science Alert attests: “A new study sheds light on what's going on inside our brains when we match ou…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The 10 Most Legendary Rock Clubs of all time" Rock clubs are frequently noisy, smelly, dark and cramped…and we wouldn’t have it any other way! Music history is born out of these crowded and smokey venues, where tomorrow’s mega…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Greatest Live Songs" Nothing beats seeing your favourite band live, but one thing comes close – a recording of that band at their peak, playing what is often their greatest hits, with the added energy that comes from live perf…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Inventions That Changed Music: The Synthesizer" The synthesizer, sometimes referred to as the “synth,” is a hybrid instrument combining the piano and electronic technology. It has been used in various genres of music — hitting…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The Fender Rhodes" The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Earworms" An earworm, sometimes referred to as a brainworm, sticky music, stuck song syndrome, or, most commonly after earworms, Involuntary Musical Imagery, is a catchy and/or memorable piece of music or saying that continuou…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The Slide Guitar" Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effec…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Music from the films of Richard Linklater" All film directors, from Alfred Hitchcock to Steven Spielberg, know that music can make a moment. But few filmmakers have used pop and rock songs to create movie magic as well as Rich…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "English is Overrated" If you go to another country and turn on the radio, you’ll stumble on an English song pretty quickly. Switching positions, your chances of finding foreign-language songs on an American radio station is pr…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The Greatest Year in Music- 1991" Perhaps, it’s part of our collective psychology to launch cultural sea changes at the turns of decades, centuries, and millennia — or maybe it’s just pure coincidence. Whatever the case, music…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Glyn John- Producer, Engineer, Genius" He launched his career during the British Invasion and never looked back. Producer and sound engineer Glyn Johns has worked on classic albums for such stars as the Rolling Stones, Eric Cl…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Songs about Musicians" Many artists are keen on sharing their musical influences with curious fans through a variety of ways—mentioning them during interviews, wedging names into liner notes etc. However, some musicians believ…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Best Debut Singles" A great debut single is the opening line in a conversation you never want to end, and hearing a band or artist get it right on their first try is one of the greatest thrills in music. In this episode we tal…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The Road to Punk Rock" This week is the story of rock music played by garage bands & others from the 1960s to mid-1970s that foreshadowed the punk rock movement. The phrase is a retrospective label; the musicians involved were…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat Music Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Label Story: I.R.S. Records" I.R.S. Records was an American record label founded in 1979. I.R.S. produced some of the most popular bands of the 1980s, and was particularly known for issuing records by college rock, new wave an…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Best songs of 2021" Many of the best songs of 2021 are on the best albums of 2021, . But of course there are many more: peaks of other albums, onetime collaborations, singles, random streams. Here are 15 memorable songs, a…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Under 2 Mins" Sometimes less is more, or at least when it comes to music. As a listener, you can’t beat a rip-roaring 90-second thrill ride in a souped-up tank rather than a track that trudges slowly for seven minutes, mea…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "This is where the horns come in" Horns deserves better. They have been slandered, degraded, downgraded to a nuisance. Its stature has fallen from the seemingly supernatural musicality of jazz legends like John Coltrane and…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Instrumental Gold" The instrumental was once a mainstay of the pop charts. In 1963 alone, there were 10 instrumentals that crashed the Top 10, from the Chantays’ surf -guitar classic “Pipeline” to the easy listening sounds…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The Hollywood Vampires Drinking Club" The Hollywood Vampires was a celebrity drinking club formed by Alice Cooper in the 1970s. The hazing to get into the club was to outdrink all the members. Cooper listed himself, Keith …

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The Story of Funk" Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul, jazz, and rhythm and blues…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "You're Fired" Although we think of rock bands as having no rules and leading a wild lifestyle (which is certainly true for many of them), that is not to say that there are no limits. Many musicians have been fired from the…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Greatest Music Cities- Los Angeles" Although best known for its film studios and Hollywood glitz, Los Angeles has long been a center of the music industry and is undoubtedly one of the best places to see live music in the …

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Halloween" Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31, and Halloween 2021 will occur on Sunday, October 31. The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfi…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Rock is Dead" The phrase “rock is dead” makes people angry. And this week we talk about how from an industry perspective, the genre has been eclipsed in all measures of popularity and profitability by pop, hip-hop, and EDM…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Philly Soul" Philadelphia soul is a genre of late 1960s–1970s soul music characterized by funk influences and lush instrumental arrangements, often featuring sweeping strings and piercing horns. The genre laid the groundwo…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Murder Ballads" Murder ballads have been around for a long, long time as a traditional form of poetry that exists to tell the story of a murder. First found in Europe a few hundred years ago, these poems and songs have sin…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "This is no sophomore slump" While many artists stumble on album number two, some have looked down the barrel without flinching. Many of those on this list have gone on to have storied careers. Being able to ignore expectat…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The New Wave British Heavy Metal" Of course, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal wasn’t born fully formed and clad in denim, leather, and studded bullet belts on that specific night. Rather, it was very gradually fostered …

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Label Story- Stiff Records" Stiff Records is a British independent record label formed in London, England, in 1976, Stiff Records was at the heart of the new wave, bringing the world artists as diverse as Elvis Costello, K…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "This is Sister Rosetta Tharpe" Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She was there before Elvis, Little Richard and Johnny…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "O' Canada" The music of Canada has reflected the diverse influences that have shaped the country. Indigenous Peoples, the Irish, British, and the French have all made unique contributions to the musical heritage of Canada.…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Song about Outer Space" Space-themed music is any music, from any genre or style, with lyrics or titles relating to outer space or space travel. Songs or other musical forms influenced by the concept of outer space have ap…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Art Rock" Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate r…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The Rolling Stones- Covered " In this episode we found the best bands covering the greatest songs from The Rolling Stones. From David Bowie to Etta James & all things in-between. Wanna find out more? visit www.djkingblind.…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Carolina Shag Dance Party" Though primarily confined to a small regional fan base, specifically to "Grand Strand" communities such as Myrtle Beach, Carolina Beach, and the Golden Isles of Georgia, in its early days…

"Afrobeat" Afrobeat is a music genre which involves the combination of elements of West African musical styles such as fuji music and highlife with American jazz and later soul and funk influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion. The term was coined in the 1960s by Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and ban…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Label Story: SST Records" SST helped to spearhead the nationwide network of underground bands that formed the pre-Nirvana indie-rock scene. The label presided over the shift from the hardcore punk that then dominat…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Bird songs in Summertime" A celebration of summertime in words and music. As we near a post pandemic world, this is our soundtrack to summer. Wanna find out more? visit www.djkingblind.com or search DJ Kingblind in…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Beatles Soul" The four Beatles all loved Soul Music, and would search the racks of Brian Epstein’s NEMS record shop for hidden treasures from the many American soul labels, hoping to find unheard gems. As Ringo Sta…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Motorik" Motorik is the 4/4 beat often used by, and heavily associated with, krautrock bands. a term long used by music critics to describe relentless ostinato rhythm, or simply from a combination of "motor" and th…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "Here come the Drums" Music is continually evolving, but one constant over the past hundred years has been that of the drummer. Have you ever tried to reimagine your favourite songs without the beats and breaks that…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "This is Brian Eno" Brian Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, visual artist, and theorist best known for his pioneering work in ambient music and contributions to rock, pop and electronica. A self…

DJ Kingblind presents The Big Beat online radio show Podcast- This week we talk about & play the best music in a themed Podcast called "The Best New Music of Mid 2021" Music has felt essential throughout the last year. It's offered us a short escape, or a way to make sense of our anxieties. In the best instances, an excuse to stand up and push asid…