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The 35 Minutes That Sum It Up Best: Motivational Karaoke, "Spring Training Eve"

Today while driving around South Austin, my iPod bringed me a blast from me past.  A 35-minute segment of Motivational Karoke, the WESN radio show that Chris Golwitzer and I painstakingly crafted from 2002-2005.  It wunt crafted.  It wunt no pain. Part 5 of "SPRING TRAINING EVE (2/22/04) just seemed to sum up what we were about. It starts with an interview with Ted Leo after he blew out his voice in Champaign and I finished the singing for him.  That ends with a clip of Babe Ruth with a fake swear word beeped in. We played Ted Leo quite a bit. A new song that's old now. A lengthy, lie-riddled microphone break, back-selling a lot of things that we used to play.  A tongue lashing of the DJs on before us. An explanation of what Google is and how to spell it, followed by the futile spelling of our very long impossible find website. We were doing Dream Warriorisms then because we were on from 12-2am at that time.  We went retro and pulled out a Motivational Karo

Semicids Be Alive... on Bandcamp.

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Ahead of the Feb. 11th digital release of “Recess,” the 1989 album by Bloomington/Normal punk rock band, Semicids, it has... well, been released on Bandcamp.com.  If you haven’t already (and I’ve already pimped this to many of you) go check it out.  Listen to tracks for free and feel free to purchase the album and support the release of more albums to widespread digital availability, and perhaps a future vinyl release. Purchase any of the tracks for $1 each, or for $7, get the entire album as well as two bonus tracks that comprise the bootleg recording of Semicids live at a 1990 house party in Normal, as well as a few photos and the gratification that you contributed to the cause. SEMICIDS on Bandcamp.com

Middle America Podcast

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EarScum is a global commitment, but the center of the universe is Central Illinois. I highly recommend Jared Grabb’s (⁦‪@scoutshonorband)‬⁩ new podcast. (309) KNOW-HIM #illinois Subscribe On iTunes  or where ever you get your podcasts.

(309) Ear-Scum Records’ 1st Release!

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(309) EarScum’s 1st Release! #BloNo #PunkRock Goes Live Feb. 11th! #LocalMusicHistory Give it a listen here: https://soundcloud.com/earscum/11-madness