Bruce Webster

Sound in a small room

Here’s what’s feeding my ears these days – podcasts and music. How about you?

Podcasts

  • Up First from NPR – 15 minute headline summary, first thing in the morning
  • The Daily – a 30 minute NYT deep dive on a single topic
  • The Ex Files – Christiane Amanpour and Jamie Rubin, US an world view
  • Pivot – business and tech with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway
  • On with Kara Swisher – great interviews by a seasoned tech journalist
  • The Ezra Klein Show – a NYT podcast by resident progressive
  • Letters from an American – byHeather Cox Richardson, recording (1 day delayed) of her daily writings
  • Everybody in the Pool – Molly Wood interviews innovators in the climate tech sector
  • You’ll Hear This – excellent, slightly nerdy weekly look at “the best” album by 2 jazz pianists
  • hanging out with audiophiles – fun interviews with musician, sound designers
  • Sonic Talk – inside talk about music tech
  • Your Undivided Attention – discussions and interviews about social media and AI issues
  • Volts – fairly technical interviews about the electrification efforts
  • Escape Pod – great audio SciFi fiction stories
  • It’s A Thing – fun, pop culture trends with Molly Wood and Tom Merritt
  • Offline with Jon Favreau – a progressive take on tech from the Crooked Media gang
  • Hard Fork – tech (mostly AI) with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton
  • Podcasting 2.0 – a view into an independent effort to improve podcasting infrastructure, Value-for-Value model, etc.

Music – via Qobuz (my recent replacement for the evil Spotify). Latest listens.

  • Roy Hargrove – Hard Groove, Earfood
  • Tower of Power
  • Parliament Funkadelic
  • D’Angelo – Voodoo
  • Annie Lennox
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Tangerine Dream
  • Suzanne Ciani
  • Zoë Keating
  • Annie Haslam/Renaissance
  • Lake Street Drive
  • Jacob Collier
  • Return To Forever
  • Miles Davis
  • Earth Wind and Fire
  • RAYE
  • Billy Cobham
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Herbie Hancock
  • Terri Lyne Carrington

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