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October 07, 2004
ICN segment: Songfight Intro
The audio file for this segment of the Independent Content Network (17 MB) is here 
Welcome to the ICN Podcast. I'm Roymond, and I'll be taking a tour of great independent music that's available on the web for free. This podcast is available as an RSS enclosure, so go to iPodder.org for the tools to automatically download this and other (no doubt) better shows to your iPod or mobile audio device over night. This is the start of what I'm calling the Independent Content Networks. It's really pretty cool, and I thought it would be a great way to turn people on to the free music that is legal to download and burn and share.
Today I'll try to guide you through some crazy stuff that goes on at Songfight.org, where on a weekly basis, a new song title is posted and anybody who wants to writes, records and produces a new song to that title - all within a week. They then send it in where the songs are posted to the site's homepage for all to hear. Voting takes place, and the winner gets the word "winner" next to their song in the archive. Meanwhile, a new title has been posted and it starts all over again.
In these Podcasts I'll introduce the best songs of the week and also dig out some gems from the archive. We'll talk with some of the songfighters themselves and hear about the stories behind the songs. Or maybe just about how it all came together the night before the deadline in a distorted, fuzzy blur.
Today we're listening to:
Max the Cat's Por Favor
Juan Carlos de la Cueva Castianeda Olivero's Por Favor
Lonbobby + M0bo1d's Violet Wants It Her Way
Jippers' Step Up
The Cow Exchange's Tri-State Area
Posted by roymond at October 7, 2004 11:13 PM