Blog House Meets Indie Radio

Last night on WRIR I hosted the Mixtape Mixtape show. Normally listeners or volunteers submit the mixtapes, but since I was subbing and out/loop with submissions, I found my own mixtape online. That and I love me some online mixtapes-- I had been anticipating a chance to share some of my faves with Richmond.

I conceived last night's show as a shoutout to my favorite music blog Discobelle, and I featured a mix submitted to Discobelle back in May, by the Swedish group Stockholm Syndrome. I also threw in several original remixes that had been posted to the site.

(Unfortunately the recording of my show didn't take, otherwise I would have posted it.)

I plan to do more shows like this in the future featuring other cool music blogs that post mixes/remixes.

I think in the past the legality of broadcasting mixes without permission has been questioned; however, I feel like people who post to blogs would be happy about it. Yes the mixes are often exclusive, but still. Even recording the radio broadcasts, the mixes still contain voice breaks, PSA's for fire safety, etc. And more importantly I'm giving shouts out to the blog.

With situations like this I keep running into whether I should open up dialog with the people I'm shouting out. I should, yes. Can o Worms, yes, but awesome opportunities.

TBC.