Posted by Bryan at August 16th, 2007
I’m thinking of changing the format of my show, to enable me to do it more frequently.
While I’ve always found ways to incorporate music from other groups into the show, what if the “they” in “theynow” referred not only to They Might Be Giants, but also to the people they influence. I joked around with Jonathan Coulton on an earlier episode that he and John Hodgman and Sarah Vowell and TMBG and Jon Stewart were all part of an ultra-liberal illuminati cabal bent on world domination. Maybe “they” refers to the entire cabal.
And also, musicians whose style is at least sometimes reminiscent of TMBG like, say, Lemon Demon or songstowearpantsto.com, etc.
The thing about Theynow up to this point is that I let the content decide when the show gets released. There’s not always a lot of recent TMBG content that would make sense to play on the show, especially considering my rule of not playing recordings that are currently for sale.
That’s really as far as I’ve thought on the subject. What do you think?