It’s been some time in the making, but the new podcast is finally here.

You can call it a special edition, ’cause there’s a holiday-inspired motif. Some may find it pretentious and interminable. Those people can go stuff a stocking.

The theme this time around is *spirituality* in music. That doesn’t mean I’ve chosen a bunch of religious songs; far from it. The tunes in this batch were picked due to how they make me feel, which is markedly different from other material. Some challenge my assumptions of faith-based music. Others simply crack me up. A lot of it is pretty personal.

Brooke and I are going to DC tomorrow. I hate flying and am convinced of my fiery demise. If I don’t make it, you can play this podcast at my funeral.

Oh, and Happy Holidays!

The Contrarian’s Corner – Episode III: The Reckoning

PS: We saw GWAR on Saturday, but I’ll probably write about it in the paper rather than here. My column needs some serious padding this week.

Casey Rea was the Seven Days music editor from 2004 until 2007. He won the 2005 John D. Donoghue award for arts criticism from the Vermont Press Association.

29 replies on “New Podcast!”

  1. maybe i should shave my beard. haha. casey please take a photo. and i want to hear that BB cover. carl and the passions – so tough is a really nice album. often overlooked and underrated.VU are awesome. i really started appreciating them only kinda recently although ive had the nico / VU LP since high school. speaking of VU, i asked for the john cale – new york in the 60’s 3cd set on table of the elements for xmas. i hope i get it. super burnin’ stuff. speaking of burnin’, listening to the alex neilson / richard youngs – road is open life. pretty great. heavy and messy and psychy and droney. im trying to weave my way through youngs’ massive discography and figure out which things i like.

  4. Greg would and will always kick my ass in the beardo dept. Dunno how far I’ll get, with it anyway. Hope they let me on the plane, tee-hee!Say, thanks for listening! It was a weird one. Next episode is gonna be “Elektrik Psych,” so that should be a lot fun.The VU were (and still are) a pretty goddamn important band to me. But I still think LR is a bit of a prick. Actually I shouldn’t say that; he’ll start commenting here!

  5. BEARD-A-THON 2007: Casey Rea vs. Greg DavisGreat podcast Casey; I nearly pissed myself on your line about Dennis Wilson!I forgive you for the slam on VU! 🙂 He does seem like a dick from a lot of his interviews, but most of my heroes seem to have that affliction. I guess I try not to judge because it must be tough to be A) a celebrity and b) a “genius” whose every word is analyzed & critiqued.In this context, it makes since that guys like Dylan in the late 60’s became so cryptic and confrontational towards the press–the less you say, the more mysterious and ambiguous you are. It keeps the audience wanting more.

  6. I’m working on what I think is a real nice cover of “Hold on dear Brother” right now. And I’m – gasp! – growing a beard. should be pretty grizzly by the time I get back from DC. Well, kind of.

  8. Don’t you dare apologize! You may be the first person, in the entire history of writing about popular music, to use the word “cute” in conjunction with Lou Reed. You should fix yourself a rewarding eightball. On second thought…

  9. Sorry. It was the first one I found.I think Lou just sounds kinda drunk all over that album. Laughing, slurring etc. It’s cute.

  10. Leave it to Neil to post an a capella MP3. “Beginning to See the Light” just makes me all twitchy; it’s almost an involuntary thing. Lou must be having a similar experience singing it, what with all his weird hoots and hollers. It’s like gettin’ that old-time relijun, which is partly why I chose it.

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