Introducing SpaceBrew Radio

Well, it finally happened. I finally branched out into the final facet of media into which I had not yet tapped: radio broadcasting. I’ve been on television, I’ve made records, I’ve written books, and I’ve been writing my life on this here site for some ten years now. But I’ve never had my own radio show. Well, now I do.

I don’t expect it to be anything big. I’d like to think we’ll get ten or fifteen listeners a week, but we’re really just here to have fun. So here’s the format: talk/rock. Nothing fancy. See, I don’t have an ASCAP or BMI broadcast license to play other people’s music. At least not yet. I don’t know if I’ll go there. I don’t need to get licensed so I can play music you can hear everywhere else. But I wouldn’t mind being able to play a song or two if we’re talking about it or something. Anyway, I may or may not grow into that.

For now, here’s what you can count on: Stout and I plan to broadcast a quaint little show every Thursday night from 9:00 to around 11:00. Sometimes it may only last an hour or 90 minutes. Other times it may go long. But if you’d be so kind as to set aside a couple of hours a week and give us a listen (and some support), we’d greatly appreciate it.

We’re not asking for donations or anything. Just listeners and feedback. We have a neat little email link where you can email us during the show. We’ll probably read it on the air. We may even read your name – unless you tell us not to. How cool would that be?

Anyway, like I said, nothing big. We have spent precisely no money on this thing. Just a little time and thought on coming up with some neat shit to talk about to hopefully keep you entertained for a couple of hours a week. Meh. It may flop, we may get bored of it, or we may just plain suck. But we’re gonna give it a go.

So if you tune in at 9:00, you’ll hear a Copperwound song playing. Since I own the copyrights to all my music, I can play the shit out of that. So I’ll start the show with a Cw tune – point being, if you hear the music around nine, you’ll know you’re not too late, and you haven’t missed anything yet.

We’re pretty excited about this. We’re putting a lot of effort into it. It’s very (very, really very) low-fi and cheap. But it works. You can hear us. And we don’t have DJ voices. I sound so gay on the radio you might think – well, that I’m gay. But I don’t care. We’re just having fun. Come check it out – in all its amateur glory!

Come hear the long pauses where I switch between music and get all the settings right to start talking! Come hear the great lengths of dead air as I try to figure out why I’m not being heard, to finally unmute my microphone! Come hear the broadcast completely shut down and go offline because the software we’re using is so cheap (free) that it continually dies! Well, that is true, but I won’t end the show like that. Just be patient and weather our technical difficulties until we figure this thing out.

Cool? Cool. Okay, so we’ll start tomorrow night (Thursday the 11th) at 9:00 CST. Hope you join us.

SpaceBrew Radio

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