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Bootlegged In Fresno: Synezra

 

Take one nerdyass blogger with a digital recorder. Then add a metal band from Madera playing at the re:FUSE Fest, back in early October and you've got another edition of "Bootlegged In Fresno".

And now, from the 2009 re:FUSE Fest and recorded in a small backroom at Joe's Steakhouse in Downtown Fresno, it's Synezra with "Attack Of The Agenda":

File Download: AttackOfTheAgenda.mp3

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*Synezra has a show coming up Friday at the Lucky 13 then they will be opening up for the Misfits at the Crest Theatre on Sunday:

Recorded For Fresno: Bako' Author Nick Belardes

So, Bakersfield author and website editor, Nick Belardes, has a new book out called "Random Obsessions". He's in Fresno this weekend to hang with Kopi on Friday morning. Then Saturday to do a reading at the Met (11:30 AM) and a book signing at Barnes and Noble at 2:00.

We were fortunate enough to catch up with Nick last night shortly after visiting our ArtHop (he was impressed) to talk about his new book, hockey, Fresno, music and more. Please have a listen by clicking this: nickinterviewrandom.mp3 (17856.3K)
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Recorded For Fresno: Spanish For 100

We are quite fond of audio on this blog. We also likey the music. So it would make sense for us to start adding to our podcasting nerdness with some music talk.

Kind enough to satisfy our audio geekery is guitarist for the Seattle band Spanish For 100, Aaron Starkey. Aaron talked to us from his Seattle home as he prepared for a mini West Coast tour that includes a stop in Fresno on Thursday at Audie's Olympic. The band is about to release a new album that was produced by Martin Feveyear (Kings Of Leon, Mark Lanegan, Jesse Sykes) and that sounds pretty big time to us.

Aaron talks about stuff like Seattle's music scene and how the locals and the media support that scene, life on the road for SPF 100, their new album, if the band has any Fresno connections and their Thursday show at Audie's.

Have a listen by downloading one of these:
AaronStarkeyInterview.mp3
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The Fresnan Presents: Dorktown Podcast #75

We should just let ya know that this episode of Dorktown is for the giving fans of Dorktown. That's because it gets a little self-serving as there are no guests, a lot of talk about the Dorktown Anniversary Show (with a Victory Jump interview), Dorktown's favorite "listener" is called, and there is a Star Wars related tangent that can only be enjoyed by the hosts... and of course there are too many bad words.

If you've always hated this show, you'll really hate it after this. But when you get to 75 episodes, self-serving and fowl language is bound to happen. So, you've been warned: It's NOT SAFE FOR WORK (or Dorktown haters).

>Download the show here: DorktownEpisode75.mp3 Or use the player below:

The Fresnan Presents: Flowing With Famous - 'Ask Paula' Edition

Mr. Fresno Famous, Famous Whitewater, and Fresno's Town Goob are back with another episode of Fresno's first podcast: Flowing With Famous. This episode, we are lucky enough to hang out with Fresno Bee writer Paula Lloyd. We talk about Paula's awesome Monday column, Ask Me, Fresno history, newspaper reporting and many more podcast-y things.

Download it: flowingwithfamous123.mp3

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The Fresnan Presents: Dorktown Podcast Episode 73 - The Patrick Contreras Band invades

Fresno musician, Patrick Contreras, has been making the Fresno podcast rounds and has finally stopped by Dorktown to visit with Bells, Becky and Mikey. But that's not the only guest, PCB drummer Jason and bass/keyboard player Quetzal are hanging too, along with Ms. Joey aka Lola La Chola.

We don't want to give it all away but the band will be talking about shutting down the Tower District (pretty much) June 20th and they play a new song live! Plus, Joey gives up some juicy Smog City gossip at the end.

FOWL LANGUAGE, MIC BUMPING AND LOUDNESS WARNING! There's a lot of it. Tell the kids "ear muffs" then listen to DorktownEpisode73.mp3 by clicking and downloading.

Or, you can use the player below:

Fresno Podcaster Syndicate: Strings, Baseball, Geeks, Gamers, Comics and Sweeds

Help your day go by a little faster by listening to the latest locally produced Fresno podcasts:

THE VIEW LOOKS GOOD FROM HERE FRESNO: It's Ed and it's Adam, with their 27th episode. They keep up their streak of good guests with Fresno's God of String: Patrick Contreras. The boys talk with Patrick about Fresno's music scene, shutting down part of the Tower District for his big show next month and more Fresno junk. GO LISTEN: Episode 27

THE REDWAVE: Damn, hosts Logan and Jim or ON it. They already have a break down of the Diamond Dog's WAC tourney victory and get us podcast listeners prepared for their NCAA match-ups. GO LISTEN: Dogs Advance Episode

GEEK MIIT: Vidcasting is what Nick and Paul bravely bring to Fresno's podcast table as they talk up some Wii, Twitter and iPhone geekness. GO LISTEN and WATCH: Episode 8

THE MARRIED GAMERS: This podcasting couple keeps cranking them out. Their 104th episode is jammed with the usual gamer talk like Wii Fitness, Need For Speed Nitro, Rock Band and more. GO LISTEN: Episode 104

STRANGERS WITH COMICS: A special guest, Brock Heasley, joins hosts Rob and Tony as they get deep into webcomics. If you ever wondered about them, you'll want to: GO LISTEN: Episode 81

DUMB DRUM: Yes! This episode is a Swede-ish orgie! Wait..what? It's a bunch a dudes talking about their "sweded" movies, not hot Swedish girls recording themselves doin' "stuf"? Ehhhh. You should check it anyway. GO LISTEN: Episode 17.

FLOWING WITH FAMOUS: It's been a while but expect a new show next week. For now, there is the latest episode with wonderfull peeps from the past Fresno Film Festival. GO LISTEN: Flowing with Fresno Film Festival.

DORKTOWN: It's been a while for us on this one too, but the latest is still legit to listen to. Next up, Patrick Contreras and MsJoey. But for now, GO LISTEN: Episode 72.

Alright, you're up to date on your Fresno podcasts. If you know of one that posted a show recently and isn't on our list, email: mike@thefresnan.com or just leave a comment.

Fresno Podcasters Syndicate: Fill Your Ears With Fresno

Let's get caught up on Fresno's podcast scene, shall we?

BANDS ON POD: Robert Lee King returns with a special podcast devoted entirely to HateFX and their new album, "The Holy Frail." It's also special because it's, apparently, Robert's last show. Unfortunate because it's (or was) the Valley's only music dedicated podcast since Sound Pollution and Mike Oz's podcast, went away. Hopefully Robert can pull a Bret Farve and comeback. [Episode 20]

THE VIEW LOOKS GOOD FROM HERE, FRESNO: Do Adam and Ed like the new Beehive? Are they going to make a swede for the next festival? What did they think of the Roller Derby and Pecha Cucha? Are they into sneezing? What about the Rouge Festival? They're bootleggers now too? GEEEZZZ these guys do a lot of shit. Listen to it! [Episode 24]

THE DUMB: Never let a good podcast go to waste, that's what Dumb Drum says and that's why they went ahead and released their first podcast of the year so late. It would have been a shame to have buried this one because it's filled with geeky good talks about: Swede Fest, Blue Ray dominating, best movies of 2008, Fresno production studios, Wondercon and MORE MORE MORE. [Episode 16]

THE MARRIED GAMERS: Never has a couple been so right for each other. These two Gamer Love Birds, love them some gaming - no it's not a euphemism, they're into video games and they know their shit and they're married and they're awesome. You can hear it for yourself. [Episode 93]

STRANGERS WITH COMICS: Tony, Rob and Gabe team up again. They mostly talk about video games, bring in a guest from the Comic Book Roadshow and breakdown Battlestar Galactica. How is that comic book related? FRAK YOU, that's how it's related. [Episode 72]

THE OVERDUBS: A breakdown of The Overdub's Christmas show at UC Davis and we get to listen to some bootlegs from that show. More bands need to do this stuff! [Episode 27]

REDWAVE: Man, what happened to our women's Bulldog team in the NCAA's? The Redwave team was down in Los Angeles to cover it all. Plus some talk about the Diamond Dogs, football and they interview Coach Wiggins (nice work). [March 23rd Episode]

THE PULSE: Foodie guy, James Collier of Taste Fresno, South of Sunnyside, Creative Fresno, Future of Fresno and even here, visits the KFSR studios for the latest episode of The Pulse. James really needs to think of more websites to be on. [Episode for 3/21]

FRESNO BEE 'CASTS: I heard that the Central Valley Mom's had Fresno's Mayor in the studio, but I can't find it. Also spent about five minutes on FresnoBee.com, trying to find the polictal podcast and the sports podcast and gave up. Soooo, sorry, gotta look yourself for dem ones.

UPDATES: Our own obnoxious podcast, Dorktown, should have a new show next week and our kinda-half-ours podcast, Flowing With Famous, will have a new episode out this week. If there is a Fresno based podcast you think got missed, email me: mike@thefresnan.com.

Fresno Podcasters Syndicate: Nerdstrong in 2009

Time again for a roundup of what's been going down in Fresno's podcastsphere:

Strangers With Comics get into some nerdy hot podcaster on podcaster action by inviting DumbDrum's Brodiemash over to talk up some uber-comicbook-geekness [SWC Episode 64].

The View Looks Good From Here, Fresno doods know that a good guest often means a good podcast. This theroy is proven with their current episode as Greer from Rademacher and Elizabeth Dobson from Fast Forward Speed Dating, join Adam and Ed [TVLGFH Episode 20].

Redwave finally decides to break loose from talking about the lackluster football team to breakdown Fresno State's Spring sports. We say good decision [Redwave Spring Episode].

The Married Gamers will DO IT LIVE, on Saturday, but for now you can listen to their latest gamer podcast epic [TMG 83].

The Overdubs begin the year with some of their music and a Sandpoint brother's [Overdubs EP 25] and then follow up that podcast by bootlegging themselves in Episode 26.

*Oh and don't forget this.

The Fresnan Presents: Dorktown Episode 67 - XMas Special

It's Dorktown Podcast's Christmas 2008 Episode. It's not safe for work, unless you work at a strip club. Use the player below or download this: Dorktown Episode 67

Some things found within:

-A Christmas Story kind of opening.
-Bells warns Mikey against dirty mall Santas.
-Winter Formal sex stories.
-Mikey over modulates a Victory Jump Christmas song and gives up.
-Is Gary Chereone taking over the defunct Cabo Wabo Fresno?
-More VH talk.
-HIGH HORSE: Glade's big ugly lying spokeswoman.
-Fonzy Eyyyyys.
-Rambling.
To listen, just play this:

Fresno Podcasters Syndicate: Fill Up Your Pod

Popping up every once in a while to remind you there's a pretty good stellar group of podcasters in town, working hard to entertain your ass for free. Some recently updated Fresno 'casts:

The View Looks Good From Here, Fresno: Ed and Adam have released their 18th episode with an interview with Death to Anders conducted at the Chicken Pie Shop. The dudes also have a post ArtHop music discussion, figure out how to spell molasses,  review the Beehive's birthday party and the Beehive in general. Episode 18.

Redwave Podcast: A couple big issues Redwave gets to touch on this episode: Pat Hill is staying whether you like it or not and the Bulldogs are going to the New Mexico *yawn* um the New Mexico *yawn* Bowl. It's no Cal Bowl. Go Listen.

Strangers With Comics: In Episode 57, the strangers may not talk about Fresno but they do talk about their favorite science fiction movies and characters.

The DUmb: Bryan Harley may not be in the studio but he calls in from the Save Mart Center to join the discussion that Brodiemash, Vince Cosentino and Michael Banti started about the Swedefest, recent movies, the Beehive party and more. Check out Episode 14.

The Married Gamers:  The happy gaming couple break down their top 14 games of the year and even give away some stuff. Gotta love a free show giving away free stuff. TMG #77.

That ought to be plenty of local podcast to tide you over until some more shitty fine local audio trickles out.

Fresno Podcasters Syndicate: Dumb and Flow

The continuing effort to pimp out Fresno's podcasts brings you the latest edition of FPS.

Flowing With Famous has returned with the usual hosts: local Rock Star and local Nerd. The Fresno Metropolitan Museum was foolish gracious enough to let us podcast in the museum, WHILE IT WAS OPEN. But, it made for some decent podcast as we get into discussions about Downtown, local music stores and so forth. Listen to it by clicking here: fwf117.mp3

Also released today, the latest episode of The DUmb. Hosts "BrodieMash" and Bryan Harley bring in Will Albritton and Robert Anaforian to talk about things like the Swede Festival, KS movies, baseball and general cool stuff. Go on over and have a listen.

Apparently Wednesday is the official podcast release day because a third one posted today: The Jen and Dave Show (formally The Jaded Visalian). So yeah, it isn't a Fresno podcast, but the couple is the Valley's most prolific podcasters, and that counts for something, dammit. Listen in on Episode 124.

If you know of a podcast with a recent release I haven't gotten to yet, let me know. And yes, I am aware of the Paper Boys and Sports Dudes podcast and the Mommy Cast, but they have the mighty Bee to pimp them. They don't need my little ass.

The Fresnan Presents: Dorktown Podcast #66

Welcome to what is known as the stain on Fresno's culture rug: Dorktown Podcast. Episode 66 is ready for downloading. It's not safe for work but perfectly fine for babies. What to expect:

• A little too much KISS and rambling open a podcast with.
• Old listeners have grown up and moved on.
• Good Fresno fake ID spots.
• Bells is glad the election is over.
• Downtown Bisla's was the best but The Sky Room is cool.
• The Fay Wray's get more Dorktown play.
• A Bell's HIGH HORSE.
• Fran Florez gets the Dorktown treatment.
• Fonzy Eyyys.

Listen to the podcast by clicking this: DorktownEpisode66.mp3

The Fresno Podcaster Syndicate: TVLGFH,F

That's right, The Fresnan is banning together Fresno's podcasters to form a syndicate. Now, I haven't told any of the other podcasters about this, but it's happening. Deal with it. And to get this syndicate started, I recently infiltrated Adam and Ed's podcast: The View Looks Good From Here, Fresno. 

So take a break from political junk and get on over there and listen to some nerds talking about stuff... like politics.

Bootlegged In Fresno: Flywright

Back again for another installment of our favorite segment: Bootlegged In Fresno. We secretly record a live song from a local band and stick it up here for you nice readers to download. Sometimes it sounds good, sometimes it sounds hella bootleggy. This edition we bring you the pop juggernauts: Flywright.

The song "Mr. Applegate" was recorded at Crossroads on July 9th 2008. Listen for a special appearance by Mike Oz, trying to pimp his blog.

Download/play: flywright.mp3