Tuesday, September 30, 2008

A New JogTunes Indie Podcast Episode and New Running Music on JogTunes.com

I published another episode of the JogTunes Indie Podcast today. It's our second interval running session. The subtitle is Silver and Serendipitous because it's our 25th show and serendipity played a major role in my search for tunes from several sources.

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This is a 50 minute workout session with variations in BPM punctuated by speed bursts in the 180s. Here’s the breakdown:

On the Podsafe Music Network I found:

# Mayday Parade
# Yamasaki
# Angel
# Mr.427
# Sound and Fury


On the Runners World discussion thread, Good Indie Music, Morrisey suggested and I played:

# The National
# Iron & Wine
# The Dears


Sarathan Records fortunately sent me:

# War Tapes
# Peter Bradley Adams


Una Prosell of After Hours Music, out of Sweden, provided music for the speed segment by:

# doublePark

From Japan and Momo-J’s Far East Peach label comes:

# Amir Khan & Hideo Inai

Please go to the episode's web page for BPM info, links to bands, tune links to iTunes and Amazon, and purchase options.

The new running music on JogTunes.com includes tracks by

Deathcab for Cutie

Apple iTunes

DJ Khaled

Apple iTunes

Ne-Yo
(New Album)

Apple iTunes


Pussycat Dolls
and

Stereolab

Peter Andersson sent in some great "picks" for this month. I posted 4 tunes by 4 different artists. Check out Peter's fine running music website here.

All Sussed Out (Live) by The Almighty at 152 BPM



From Motorhead's new album, Motorizer, comes
"(Teach You How To) Sing the Blues" at 164.



She Wants Revenge sing "Written In Blood" which runs at 144.



And finally, Tom Petty and "It's Good to Be King" at 147 steps per minute.

I hope you enjoy these additions to our growing tunes list (presently over 1000 tracks) and my latest podcast episode. Please send comments to comments at jogtunes.com.

Meanwhile, the best of running.

Dr. Bob

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Mama Mia Album and Jonas Brothers Tunes on JogTunes.com

I just posted a bunch of great running and workout tunes on JogTunes.com from the album of the movie, Mama Mia. See the tunes on our list, the album on iTunes (US) and the album on Amazon.The BPMs range from 100 to 171 -- great for walking and running!

Mama Mia Album iTunes

The Jonas Brothers' new album, A Little Bit Longer, has 12 songs that are all great for working out. I posted 2 of them on our home page. Both are 156 BPM.

Apple iTunes.

Album at Amazon/MP3

Our veteran contributor and consultant, Peter Andersson, sent me a great new list from which I posted tunes by:

George Harrison
Airbourne
Scar Symmetry
Skew Siskin
Smash Mouth
Will Smith
Anberlin.

The links take you to their songs on JogTunes.com with the BPM data and links to iTunes and Amazon/MP3.

See Peter's admirable BPM rated tunes list and commentary on his website here.

Here's some commentary from his latest email:

On Airbourne: Possibly the best AC/DC clone band to come along since the original AC/DC, and they're from Australia too.

On Anberlin's "Readyfuels": Readyfuels" is another candidate for my Top 50!

I hope you enjoy these additions to our tunes list. By the way, with these new tunes, I've passed the 1000 mark for songs by label artists.

Meanwhile, best of running!

Dr. Bob