As of this evening, if you visit the iTunes page for this podcast, it will appear as if there are no episodes available. However, if you subscribe to the podcast, you’ll actually get the latest episode and a full list of everything currently available in the RSS feed. It’s an odd software quirk brought on by my recent upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1, and hopefully, it will be fixed soon. If you’re a longtime subscriber in iTunes, though, hopefully you won’t notice a thing. (Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Bob. I might not have noticed the RSS feed was broken without your email.)
In the meantime, I’m fighting off a really bothersome cough this week, so you won’t hear much of my voice, but you will hear some great tunes from the new Sine Music compilation Cosmic Chill Lounge, Vol. 2, which is available in DRM-free formats from both iTunes and Amazon MP3. (It’s not on eMusic yet, but hopefully they’ll add it there soon.) Thanks to the folks at Sine Music for hooking me up with this compilation.
It seems my recent upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 has completely erased my RSS feed in Feedburner. I am looking into this issue and hope to have it fixed very soon. In the meantime, if you would like to download back episodes of Dave’s Lounge, go here.
UPDATE: I think the Feedburner RSS feed is fixed now, and all the missing files should get repopulated in iTunes before the day is over. Hopefully.
I will be attending the New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 14-16. If you live in Las Vegas, or if you’re a podcaster who is attending this event, and you’d like to meet up at some point during this weekend, send me an email, and we’ll figure it all out.
This will be my first trip ever to the city of Las Vegas, so if you have any advice or any recommendations for things I absolutely must see or do while I’m there, feel free to post a comment here. Thanks.
This week marks the third anniversary of Dave’s Lounge. Whenever I think about why I’ve kept this show going as long as I have, I think back to this scene from the indie film Groove:
Thank you all for your nods for the last three years. I don’t think I could have gotten this far without you.
This week’s playlist features several of submissions from artists around the world. If you’d like to submit your music to Dave’s Lounge, send me an email at daveslounge@gmail.com, and I’ll give it a listen.
So I’ve decided that the best way to avoid crashing this laptop is to stop loading it up with extra software. I purchased a second laptop last week and moved all my general purpose software there, while my old laptop will now be my digital audio workstation. I’m hoping this will help me avoid having to skip weeks because some software not related to the podcast’s production crashed this laptop’s audio system. I’ll put that stuff on the other laptop instead.
The laptop audio went haywire again last night. I am once again in the process of reinstalling Windows and other software. (I’ve gotten pretty good at it, too.) I should have things straightened out here by the end of the week, by which time Dave’s Lounge will resume its normal schedule.
I almost put another old episode in the feed here tonight, but I didn’t want to do that so soon after the last one. You can download past episodes here.
So after listening to episode #20 again, I decided to go digging in the crates — so to speak — and looking for more songs created by the MP3.com-spawned electronic music community back in the day. There was actually a lot of really good music being created during this period. Perhaps it deserves another listen.
By the way, about that World Soccer Daily clip at the end of the show: Honestly, I didn’t try to pass off All India Radio’s music as my own. Steven Cohen just didn’t quite get that Dave’s Lounge was a podcast that promotes other bands and not actually a band itself. He made a bit of a mess of it there. Sorry about that.
So I didn’t really have a show put together for this week, but I didn’t want to leave all of you empty-handed. So I thought it might be fun to take another walk down memory lane — something I did all the way back in Dave’s Lounge #20, where I looked back at the halcyon days of MP3.com and some of the electronic music communities that sprung up around it.
If you’re relatively new to this podcast, you might have missed this episode. Like all other back episodes not available on the feed, you can find it on the Dave’s Lounge direct download page.
There are a lot of familiar names in this week’s show. Sometimes it’s good to fall back on the familiar, though — especially when the music is this good…
As of this evening, if you visit the iTunes page for this podcast, it will appear as if there are no episodes available. However, if you subscribe to the podcast, you’ll actually get the latest episode and a full list of everything currently available in the RSS feed. It’s an odd software quirk brought on by my recent upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1, and hopefully, it will be fixed soon. If you’re a longtime subscriber in iTunes, though, hopefully you won’t notice a thing. (Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Bob. I might not have noticed the RSS feed was broken without your email.) 
So I’ve decided that the best way to avoid crashing this laptop is to stop loading it up with extra software. I purchased a second laptop last week and moved all my general purpose software there, while my old laptop will now be my digital audio workstation. I’m hoping this will help me avoid having to skip weeks because some software not related to the podcast’s production crashed this laptop’s audio system. I’ll put that stuff on the other laptop instead.
