Popular and unpopular International music on the radio. The Intercontinental plays international impurities from the intercontinent. Tune into the sounds of the Finnish Underground, Tuvan Rock, Asian Psychedelic, Russian Lounge, and Inuit beat boxing, etc.
Primarily hip-hop orientated with offshoots into all sorts of other things, I heartily recommend the Village Voice Status ain't Hood.
The notes for the latest episode:
It's pretty outside, so we don't know why we're doing this, but this week we've got cold, unforgiving new songs from Killer Mike, Keak da Sneak with Prodigy and Alchemist, Wire, and Nachtmystium.
In the darkness of the industrial we discover The great machine is dead But the music haunts us still. Noise and rhythm The dreaming of ghosts. Another eclectic cool adventure.
From haunting and seductive To downright nasty ALWAYS A thrill. Ankst, Nul, Cyvergence, Vertical Blanking Unit, Distimia, New Digital Sound and Men Without God
I've been listening to The Tragically Nameless Podcast for years, just because the author's taste is so radically different than my own. The archive is well worth it. The author is occasionally very silly, but he's young, and you have to give a man some wierdness over 192 episodes.
I miss the old tagline "Hardcore music, and angry ramblings, from a midwestern teenager". But I guess he's not a teen anymore, went to college elsewhere, and has mellowed a bit in musical taste.
Tiesto's Club Life is the only music podcast I listen to, but I have all of them downloaded on my iPod (and believe me, there's a boatload.) I'd link you to it, but I'm at work right now and don't have access to iTunes, but if you do a search for Tiesto, "Radio 538" should come up, and that's what you're looking for.
Radio Goethe: All German music. Out of San Francisco, Arndt Peltner does an hour every week. Genres vary: Metal, Rock, Electronic, Folk, Medieval, etc.
@Thermina thank you SO much for suggesting the Intercontinental. It is now my all-time favorite podcast. I'm sad that I can't get any of the past episodes though.
In my endless quest to expose the unknown: Bullets From The Belfry episode 11 up now at http://nbtdarkelectric.podomatic.com/ a super eclectic mix from cabaret to cold wave, electro to dueling banjo's! We got it all!!
@ben I clicked on the mad decent radio one, and was surprised to find the most recent episode was mixed by one of my really good friends Emynd. Ha. Small world.
It is a lot of music / live sound collage stuff with silliness, guests, and you can phone in:
"IN ORDER TO BE ON THE BROZONE, SIMPLY CALL 707-763-5210 ON SUNDAY NIGHTS AFTER 9PM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (0500 GMT) AND KEEP YOUR EARS OPEN AND YOUR FINGERS CROSSED. "
Makes good sonic wallpaper for other late night mischief, IMHO.