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The GaragePunk Podcast Network is a leading social network
Social network service
A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of a representation of each user , his/her social...

, media center and blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

 portal for the garage punk
Garage punk
Garage punk is a fusion of garage rock and punk rock. It is fast-paced lo-fi music characterized by a dirty, choppy guitar sound—usually played by bands who are on independent record labels or who are unsigned...

, garage rock
Garage rock
Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

 and primitive rock n roll
Rock N Roll
-Personnel:*Ryan Adams - Bass, Composer, Costume Design, Guitar, Keyboards, Multi Instruments, Vocals, Vocals *Billie Joe Armstrong - Vocals *Melissa Auf der Maur - Vocals...

 musical genres. With a strong international following the site receives an average of 18,500 hits per day and the associated Ning
Ning
Ning is an online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks, launched in October 2005. Ning offers customers the ability to create a community website with a customized appearance and feel, feature sets such as photos, videos, forums and blogs, and the service layers in...

 social network has over three thousand registered members. The Podcast Network has been producing regular podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

s since August 2005 and currently features twenty-six independently produced programs. It is also one of the few "Featured Podcasts" in the music category of the iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

 Podcast Directory.

History

GaragePunk.com was founded on June 16, 2001, by St. Louis (MO) disk jockey and promoter Jeff “Kopper” Kopp originally as the web home for his now defunct KDHX-FM 88.1
KDHX
KDHX is an award winning, independent, non-commercial, listener-supported community radio station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States located at 88.1 MHz FM offering a full spectrum of music along with cultural and public affairs programming since 1987...

  radio show, The Wayback Machine, and a discussion forum for fans of both the radio show and the music in general. The site soon became an important resource for a worldwide community of garage rock
Garage rock
Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

, rock ‘n’ roll and garage punk
Garage punk
Garage punk is a fusion of garage rock and punk rock. It is fast-paced lo-fi music characterized by a dirty, choppy guitar sound—usually played by bands who are on independent record labels or who are unsigned...

 fans through its, now abandoned, extensive message board forum.
In 2005 the decision was made to extend the site with an audioblog, an idea which eventually evolved into the production of podcasts;


“This was all done with two major goals in mind: First and foremost, we wanted to try to do more to expose the music that we think is good (as well as featured on my radio show) but that most people have never heard simply because they don’t seek it out, have never been exposed to it before, or can’t hear my show for one reason or another. Secondly, to encourage each and every one of you to support your local independently owned record stores, mail-order sites, and especially the indie labels that produce the vast majority of music featured here...” Jeff “Kopper” Kopp


The GaragePunk.com forums were shut down on January 18, 2008, and the majority of the site’s activities were transferred to The GaragePunk Hideout social networking application. The original GaragePunk.com now largely remains in order to distribute and archive the podcasts and offers a variety of GaragePunk merchandise. The Podcast network itself ceased to exist as of New Years Day 2010, owing to the birth of his son, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a recessive X-linked form of muscular dystrophy, which results in muscle degeneration, difficulty walking, breathing, and death. The incidence is 1 in 3,000 boys. Females and males are affected, though females are rarely affected and are more often carriers...

. However, its programmes still continue independently.

The GaragePunk Hideout

The GaragePunk Hideout was launched in the summer of 2007 as a social networking element of The GaragePunk Podcast Network, and as replacement for the antiquated GaragePunk.com Forums, a phpBB
PhpBB
phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. The name "phpBB" is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board...

 message board. Hosted on the Ning platform, The GaragePunk Hideout allows music fans, bands, musicians, DJs and promoters to network by creating personalized profile pages, sharing music, photos and videos, and posting discussion threads, messages and blogs.

The Hideout also features a number of separate discussion groups which members may subscribe to individually. Separate groups are dedicated to a range of global geographical areas, various garage-punk subgenres, and to a range of other topics associated with the garage-punk scene such as B-movie
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

s, trash culture, photography, 'zines
Fanzine
A fanzine is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon for the pleasure of others who share their interest...

 and radio shows, and rock ‘n’ roll graphic design. Other features include an events section for the promotion of club nights, concerts and other related events, areas for the pooling of member's photographs and videos, and an online chat room.

GaragePunk Podcasts

In mid-2005, Kopper, with the help and encouragement of Lo-Fi Saint Louis videoblog founder Bill Streeter, launched "GaragePunk.com Pirate Radio," recruiting show hosts from the GaragePunk Forums message board to produce radio station-style podcasts for the network. Within six months, the network had enough separate programs to begin posting new episodes on an almost-daily basis. The now renamed "GaragePunk Podcast Network" has been producing regular podcasts since August 2005 and presently features twenty-six independently produced programs. Mostly produced at home by individual music fans (a small number are offshoots of local radio and college radio broadcasts), the network mostly focuses on obscure garage rock
Garage rock
Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

, primitive rock n roll
Rock N Roll
-Personnel:*Ryan Adams - Bass, Composer, Costume Design, Guitar, Keyboards, Multi Instruments, Vocals, Vocals *Billie Joe Armstrong - Vocals *Melissa Auf der Maur - Vocals...

 and garage punk
Garage punk
Garage punk is a fusion of garage rock and punk rock. It is fast-paced lo-fi music characterized by a dirty, choppy guitar sound—usually played by bands who are on independent record labels or who are unsigned...

 but also extends to psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

, frat rock, proto punk, surf
Surf music
Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Orange County and other areas of Southern California. It was particularly popular between 1961 and 1965, has subsequently been revived and was highly influential on subsequent rock music...

, R&B, rockabilly
Rockabilly
Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating to the early 1950s.The term rockabilly is a portmanteau of rock and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music that contributed strongly to the style's development...

, swamp rock, broken blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, powerpop, punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

, new wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

/no wave
No Wave
No Wave was a short-lived but influential underground music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City. The term No Wave is in part satirical word play rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre...

 amongst other related genres.

The overall aim of the network is to be the world’s premier destination for garage rock
Garage rock
Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

 music online — old, new, underground or independent. The GaragePunk Podcast Network broadcasts this music to a large audience through the podcast medium, one that builds upon the traditional radio format which typically attracts a smaller local following.

The GaragePunk podcasts may be subscribed to as a whole, or each program individually, with new episodes arriving most weekdays. Many individual programs now have over 50 episodes.

The list of current active programs is as follows [as of January 2011]:
  • The Big Enchilada
  • Cheap Thrills
  • The Desperate Hour
  • Down & Out Down Under
  • Florida Rocks Again!
  • Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll
  • GaragePunk Surfcast
  • Get Drunk & Play Records
  • Haunted Shack Theatre
  • The House of Wild Delights
  • Kicks From the Boot
  • Lost in Paradise
  • The Mal Thursday Show
  • Mojo Workout
  • Mystery Action
  • Nasty Grind
  • Noise Annoys
  • RadiOblivion
  • Rat Surf Radio
  • Reverend Beat-Man's Dusty Record Cabinett
  • Rock 'n' Roll Rampage
  • Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
  • Sonic Nightmares
  • South Bay PORK Podcast
  • Ugly Things on the Radio
  • Way Past Cool
  • You Got Good Taste
  • Young and Crazy

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