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I just paid far too much for some music. The Avett Brothers are excellent and I missed when they passed through town in 2007.

"Playing in clubs is cool but restricts you to how many people you can get into the venue," tells Air Adam, who is more commonly known amongst Manchester folk for his DJing and also amongst Flickr members for his photography. "And of course, you need to keep it 'danceable' so there's a lot of stuff which is difficult/impossible to fit into a set."

Adam is talking about his debut podcast. Launched in June 2009 and set for a monthly release, the self-titled recording exposes his raw passion and interest for Hip-Hop and provides interesting and educational insight that can be appreciated by avid followers or newcomers to the genre.

"It's really a way for me to share and get into discussions on music. I grew up in the pre-internet era - at that time, there was little if any Hip-Hop on TV or commercial radio, and so for a kid with a limited budget wanting to learn about it there were three main sources of music and info; tape swapping, pirate radio and magazines."

Adam hopes that his podcast can use the internet as a platform to rekindle the personal essence of sharing music, the way exchanging a mix-tapes with a friend would - exposing the music he likes and that we'd like to hear - rather than have music imposed on us for commercial gain.

Keen to show that he's not to be pigeonholed, and helping the podcast reach a wider audience, Adam continues, "There'll be a mixture of Hip-Hop and music more generally, 'underground' and 'commercial', the somewhat known and the utterly forgotten, new and old, the conscious and the ignorant, and the straightforward and the slightly bizarre! I hope you'll find it interesting and entertaining."

The Air Adam Podcast is available on a free subscription via podcast.airadam.com and also through iTunes Music Store. Episode Two of the podcast was released today.

OMG, this is one of the coolest things I have seen not just today, but possibly this whole year. This is Alcopopular 3.

Indie record label Alcopop Records are known for a number of things, including the release of their sampler albums in non-standard formats; first it was a 3" CD, second it was a cassette tape and third is a bottle and treasure map!

There's not much else to say about this; it's just so fucking awesome! Look at the picture! It's a treasure map in a bottle that delivers the following musical goodness:

1. Tellison - Wasp's Nest
2. Apples - Theo
3. David Gibb - The Oxfordshire Brigade
4. Stars and Sons - In The Ocen (piano version)
5. Town Bike - Cock Muff Bum Hole
6. Pulled Apart By Horses - E=MC Hammer
7. Stagecoach - We Got Tazers
8. Paul Steel - Psychedelia Smith
9. Unicorn Kid - Nuts n' Milk
10. Arrows Of Love - Prescriptions
11. Ice King of California - I Wouldn't Want To Do That All
12. The October Game - Cast These Waves
13. The Computers - Track Four

If you want to bag yourselves one of these, you can buy one for just five pounds from the Alcopop Store. Do it. Buy more than one and give it your friends - it's the perfect birthday / wedding / christening / divorce / funeral present - bound to cheer anyone up!

Today I'm going to the City of Salford for the music festival Sounds from the Other City.

There's a number of pubs, other non-descript buildings and even churches which will be hosting upcoming bands from all over country - and also a variety of improtue street performances. Last year I got to see such bands as The Old Romantic Killer Band, Darlings of the Splitscreen and Down the Tiny Steps.

I'm not prepared.

I'm pretty sure the battery in my Nikon D70 isn't charged, and I don't quite have time to charge it before I leave the house, so I'm going to post photos from my Nokia N95 8GB, live to the Sounds from the Other City photo album on Opera Community.

What's more, if you like Twitter, I'll also post a few updates on there. Just follow the #sftoc topic. I'll see if I can convince a few other people to tweet to this along the way.

Sir Mix-a-Lot Vs. SpongeBob SquarePants - SpongeBob Got Back (d)

I'm not even a massive fan of SpongeBob SquarePants but couldn't help but to sit in awe at this music video, hat-tip to Mark Hoppus.