When my daughter expressed an interest in learning the piano, we resisted the urge to buy her her own keyboard because, well, even older children lose interest in a new hobby sometimes. Instead, we passed on our 12-year-old electric piano keyboard from Yamaha that was gathering dust in my wife’s office. While my daughter did […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes After waiting several years, I finally got to see “Video Games Live,” and picked up some cool merch in the process. Image: Lisa Tate Nearly ten years ago, I wrote a story titled “A Geeky Mom’s Guide to the Orchestra” for a blog (International House of Geek) I was freelancing with […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Sailor Moon: The Super Live I took my kids to see Sailor Moon: The Super Live about three weeks ago, and I’m still not entirely sure what we saw – except that it was phenomenal. To tell the story from the beginning, I heard in passing that Sailor Moon: The Super […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute Image By Rebecca Angel Have yourself a Geeky Christmas. I do love inserting Christmas-themes into everything this time of year. In Geek-Twisting Holiday Songs, I looked up some funny parodies. I even put my hand to a few. You can listen to my pirate carol: No Ale, No Ale here. A […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Photo taken of The Nutcracker show we saw in Greensburg, PA, last year, by my 10-year-old on a phone. So, pretty good considering. It’s that time of year again: the perfect time to introduce your children to ballet. It isn’t usually hard to find a small, relatively local performance of The […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes My sister at a Paul McCartney concert a few years ago. Look at all those people FEELING it! Geeking out. What does that mean? It tends to mean having a large emotional reaction to something for which you have a deep, passionate enthusiasm. Reveling in esoteric details that you spout off […]
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Reading Time: 10 minutes The love of piano starts young in my family. Photo by the author. Just under forty years ago, I was in a state. The world was noisy and bright and cold and utterly overwhelming. I couldn’t deal. My kind and gentle parents tried their best, but when I fell into a […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Image: https://www.ramindjawadi.com Whether you’re a Game of Thrones fan or not, you know the iconic intro music. Ubiquitous on the internet, haunting in its tone, composer Ramin Djawadi’s music speaks to the soul of the show’s themes. Who Is Ramin Djawadi? Born in Duisburg, West Germany, Djawadi comes from mixed Iranian […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Queen in 3D, Image: The London Stereoscopic Company Queen in 3D is the latest book about the band Queen to hit shelves. Written by guitarist Brian May, it explores the history of the band in detail, but I was particularly interested in this book because of its unique feature, one given […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes A musical theater playlist that represents my life is probably a life dream come true. I always said that I wanted my life to have a soundtrack. Then I started thinking about the songs I sing at different times and that connected to me at various points in my life. It […]
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In this episode, Chokeules murders Monday, Illbotz rock the spot, and The Doubleclicks break our collective heart.
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Curse you, Facebook memories!
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It’s Valentine’s Day and romance is in the air! On this podcast, however, it’s mostly just idle threats and innuendo.
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A new year is upon us and an old one is nearly gone. Feel free to enjoy these tunes in the waning hours of 2016, and may 2017 find you and yours happy, safe, and well.
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Jingle along with a brand new episode of Radio Free Hipster: now with 100% more David Hasselhoff.
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In the immortal words of that adorable child from the Old El Paso taco commercial, “Why don’t we have both?”
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Meet me at midnight for a diabolical dance through the graveyard. Or, you know, maybe just listen to this podcast in your car or while you’re doing laundry or something.
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Consider this your first musical treat of the season—a sonic sugar rush for all my ghosts and goblins.
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With great new tracks from ComputeHer, Rae Sterling, and Boy Meets Robot, this edition of Radio Free Hipster is obviously your pre-Halloween treat!
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It’s really new Jesse Dangerously and really old MC Frontalot on this edition of Radio Free Hipster. I mean, there are other songs too–I was just attempting to establish a timeframe.
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After a lengthy hiatus, Radio Free Hipster is back with music and fun… and feelings–so many feelings!
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My voice is fading fast, and I only have a few words left, but I decided to share them with you.
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Do not adjust your headphones–I… I really sound like that.
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In this episode, we check out classics from Kirby Krackle and MC Frontalot and new hotness from Rock, Paper, Cynic and Lemon Demon.
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Unbeknownst to me, this episode somehow became all about journeys, both of the literal and metaphorical varieties. So come along with me on a musical voyage. And maybe bring a change of clothes just in case. I tend to get lost easily.
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Spring is here. At least on paper. In reality? Well, down here the weather is temperamental, to say the least–and a number of our friends out west are still experiencing snow. So what’s a podcaster to do? Simple; I improvise!
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I was recently reminded that this iteration of the podcast–Radio Free Hipster ver. 2.0, if you will–is now nearly a year old. And how do I mark this momentous occasion? By generally ignoring it and just playing some more nerd music. You know how I do.
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It’s Leap Day, and all bets are off here at RFH! Is this our weirdest episode yet? Kinda hard to say, as we’ve set the bar pretty high, but it’s possible. So give it a listen for Madonna covers, ambient chiptune grooves, a trip to Gravity Falls, and more on your extra-special extra day.
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In this episode, we celebrate Valentine’s Day with a selection of what I like to call “complicated love songs.” Marriage, divorce, classic literature, and home improvement–this show’s got it all!
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Come along on an angsty adventure through middle age with MC Frontalot, Selfhelp, Alexa Dexa, and me, you’re emotionally fragile host. That… that sounds like fun, right?
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