December 26, 2004
Welcome to Zoe's Radio Show
Hello. I'm Ian and I'm Zoe's dad. Welcome to Zoe's Radio Show.
Once upon a time I got a call from someone named Dave who'd found his way to me via my friend J-Logic. He needed some tech help and Logic suggested me as the helpful nerd. I gave Dave a little bit of help and my email address. He used my email address to find his way to my weblog, where he stumbled upon a post regarding some mix tapes my (then 13) daughter Zoe had left in my car. Dave called me back and asked me if this was really a 13 year old's playlist. Indeed, I said. He was incredulous that a 13 year old knew who The Treepeople were. That's Mark Thompson's fault, I explained. The call ended there.
Dave called back the next day and said he couldn't stop thinking about the playlist and wanted to know if Zoe would be interested in doing a show on Little Radio. I said I didn't know but I'd ask her. I asked her. She said, "I dunno, would I?" I said, "I dunno, would you?" Zoe: "It sounds kinda fun." Me: "Yeah, it sounds kinda fun to me, too." Zoe: "OK." So I called Dave and said he could count us in.
So Zoe started her show Sundays at noon. We'd go down to Dave's studio, a cool spot right next to Fais Do Do in central LA complete with a Defender game, and Zoe would get her rock on. Many times she did the show without me, with Dave shuttling her back/forth to the studio.
Dave moved the studio out of Fais Do Do and over to Echo Park, which was a serious pain in the ass for us West Siders. I dunno what he was thinking, but I suppose you have to be a little cracked to run a pirate radio station to begin with. After a month he dumped that space, too, and we started doing the show from the home office, which is amazingly handy though a bit technically challenging at times.
At some point early on my wife's sister forwarded a link to Zoe's show to some folks at SPIN, where it got passed around the office and eventually turned into an article, written by the fantabulous Kate Sullivan, in the August 2004 issue (the one with The Pixies on the cover). From there it was picked up in a couple other places and overall the support has been outstanding.
Now it's 2005 and we're getting the show rolling for the new year with this new blog and all sorts of exciting nonsense going on. We hope you'll join us. Use the link at the right to add this to your My Yahoo! home page or your favorite RSS reader (or Podcast client).
Thanks very much to everyone for listening and caring. Keep on.
ian
Posted by irogers at December 26, 2004 12:11 PM
Comments
Hey I was just wondering if I could get a list of the songs from the 1-17-05 broadcast thanks jill
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at January 24, 2005 04:04 PM
Right on Zoe! Good taste in music and congratulations on your podcast.
Thanks.
Posted by: BWJones at January 11, 2006 12:31 PM
Found your site linked off of BoingBoing (the worlds best website) :)
Zoe, you're taste in music is way better than ANY radio station or most of the other podcasts out there, good work! Keep it up!
Posted by: Kripto at January 11, 2006 04:17 PM
So I come home for work and cook some food, come upstairs and get ready to veg for a while playing computer games. Then I am like ohh no I left my game computer downstairs, now I have the flu and I sure as hell dont have the engery to get it. So I pick up my mac and go to my fav website boingboing, and there you are and 1/2 and hour later I am like wow I am kinda glad I have the flu or I would be totaly missing out righ now. Rock on girl!
Posted by: Dharmabum at January 11, 2006 04:47 PM
fun! i got turned on to this just today from my wife's younger brother, who is a musician and studying sound production in south Finland. i cracked up when i heard Zoe complain about not having any new Built to Spill (!) to play for the 29 December show. they have been one of my faves for about 10 years. i often play them on my own shows on the local student radio here in Lapland. i also regularly burn their tracks onto mixed CDs for friends. i saw them a few years ago (in new york, alas not in finland!) and they were just great. Zoe clearly has impeccable taste!
Posted by: tundra at January 12, 2006 04:28 AM
Hey, rad show. One of my favorite podcasts for sure. Just wanted to let you know that Okkervil River is pronounced as if it would rhyme with Rocker Bills Liver, and not like Oak-er-vil.
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: glfelt at January 12, 2006 09:55 AM
Zoe you rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for playing music for us! I usually listen to underground hip hop and it is cool that you expose me to new genres of indie rock. Thanks Zoe! Thanks Ian!
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