The pocast Phil Collins from A to Z premieres

The first of six episodes of this podcast has been published! As the title says it's all about Phil Collins with Phil Collins and hosted by radio personality Matt Everitt. 

The following five episodes will be released one a week on Fridays. And here's the link:

http://www.philcollins.lnk.to/A-ZPodcast  

Donald Fagen on Walter Becker, the lawsuit and the future of Steey Dan

Hear this brand new interview with Donald Fagen on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast.

Dweezil Zappa on the Zappa vs Zappa spat

The place to hear it is comedian Mark Maron's WTF-podcast. Link here. Interview starts seven minutes in.

The Zappa name has been in the news lately thanks to, errrr... "diverse opinions" regarding financial matters among the Zappa siblings. Add a few lawyers and you get a downward spiral of a mess.

Zappa fans might find this interview interesting, even heartbreaking. Go give it a listen.

Donald Fagen guest on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane Thursday

Thursday October 24 Donald Fagen will make an appearance on the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania station WHYY's show Radio Times hosted by Marty Moss- Coane. Since his book Eminent Hipsters has just been released our guess is that a lot of the conversation will be about the book.

Tune in live at 11 a.m. (Check what time that is in your part of the world using this Time Zone Converter) or catch the podcast version after the fact. We'll add a link as soon as it is published.

More info and links here: http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2013/10/24/songwriter-donald-fagen/

UPDATE OCTOBER 25:

And here's another Donald Fagen radio appearance happening today (October 25):
On Point with Tom Ashbrook

Jon Herington podcast + article

Photo by Jon Gorr

Jon Herington is the guest in episode 46 of Friends of Dan Music Podcast. No, it's not Dan as i Steely Dan, but Dan as in Dan Miles. He's the host of the podcast.

Pop on over here and give the Jon Herington episode a listen and we're sure you'll find a few more among the other 45 podcasts you just have to listen to!

And Riveting Riffs Magazine has an article about Jon here.

Thanks to Ben Rose who shared the above links on the dandom.com Facebook page!

Jon Herington on Those Diner and Motorcycle Guys podcast

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/conxroad/2012/12/08/those-diner-and-motorcycle-guys-saturday-dec8th-2012

"Follow those eggs over easy riders as Those Diner and Motorcycle Guys host Garrison talks with Steely Dan guitarist Jon Herington about his new CD, "Time On My Hands." Diner of the Week profile: The Main Street Diner in Plainville, CT."

Donald Fagen on Sirius Radio and Michael Leonhart on Inside MusiCast

Two listening opportunities for the Steely Dan fan coming up in the next few days:

Tonight; Wednesday November, 21 Donald Fagen and Michael Leonhart will be on The Bob Edwards Show on Sirius Radio talking about the album Sunken Condos. To be able to hear it you need to be a subscriber to Sirius satellite radio or get a 30 day free trial subscription to catch it on the web.

The next must-hear doesn't demand you subscibe or sign up for anything. It will be freely available online:

Monday November 26 you can hear Michael Leonhart on the Inside MusiCast podcast. Go there now and check out the archived shows! Lots and lots of interviews - some of them Steely Dan related. The curent as-we-write podcast features guitarist Drew Zingg.

Steely Dan radio

Here's a show that aired January 10 and 11 on BZoO online radio. State Controlled Radio is a show hosted by Jon Kanis, and that week he devoted the full two hour show to Steely Dan. It's just part one of his Steely Dan marathon, as he promises to serve up part two in February.

Music and interview snippets mixed together make a great two hour show. If you missed it it's available as a podcast here until January 30, 2009.

Norwegian first: Download all Beatles music legally!

It's no big thing in the scheme of things, but NRK (The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) has just started uploading the 212 episodes podcasts of the series Vår daglige Beatles (Our daily Beatles) which aired in 2007.

Running between 5 and 8 minutes in length a presenter tells the story of a Beatles song with the song itself ending the poodcast. The quality of the podcast is a modest 128 kbps, but this is the first time that all Beatles songs will be available as a free, legal download.

Here's the address to the podcast feed if you'd like to practise your Norweigan:

http://podkast.nrk.no/program/beatles_komplett.rss

Note that the 212 podcasts will only be available for four weeks.

Here's NRK:s own text about the whole thing:

Some weeks ago, NRK - Norwegian Braodcasting - signed a deal with music rights holder organisation TONO in Norway. The new deal gives NRK right to publish podcasts of all previously broadcasted radio- and tv-programs that contains less then 70% music.

Podcast containing music may be up for four weeks, while our podcast without music stay up on our server forever.

One result of this deal, is that we now can publish “Vår daglige Beatles” - “Our Daily Beatles” in English - as a podcast.

In this series from 2001, journalists Finn Tokvam og Bård Ose tells the story of every single Beatles tracks ever made, chronologically. Each episode contains a 3 minute story about each track (sadly for our international visitors - in Norwegian) and the actual Beatles tune.

This is - as far as we know - the first time you can download the Beatles’ music legally. Neither iTunes nor Amazon have The Beatles in their music stores.

The first episodes are already in the podcast, available from this RSS-feed:

http://podkast.nrk.no/program/beatles_komplett.rss

All NRK podcasts are available at nrk.no/podcast

For more information about NRK - se our English about page. NRKbeta.no is NRKs Norwegian technology website with some occasional English articles.

Update January 7:
And the uploaded podcasts are down and none of the remaining will be posted. Why? Did The Beatles stop this? Nope, it was the way the agreement was written. NRK can only podcast shows that have been aired in the past four weeks, and as these Beatles shorts were broadcast back in 2007 they are way over the four week limit.

More on why the Beatles series podcast was pulled can be read here:

NRKBetas's blog entry.

New York Times article.

One way to get the podcasts online would be if NRK decided to rerun the series on the radio. But that will not happen according to NRK.