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When you spend too much time in the van, you get the road mania and Madison, WI rock band, Sunspot, gives you a front seat to theirs as they travel around the Midwest in their POS Ford van bringing you stories from the road, their lives, and whatever they Primary Format : Blogs Language : English Also Listed as: City : Madison State/Province : WI Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Sunspot Road Mania Podcasts Methings.com listings of Sunspot Road Mania Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 159 Sunspot in the Racine 4th of July parade, some classic cars in Reedsburg, and then hanging out in The Bastard Den.Download the SD version here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_159_sd.m4vv Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 159 Sunspot in the Racine 4th of July parade, some classic cars in Reedsburg, and then hanging out in The Bastard Den.Download the SD version here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/SunspotRoadManiaEp159SD-3410667-10381.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 158 Rocking out and hanging out in Chicago and Milwaukee for our first podcast of the summer of 2011!Download the SD version of the podcast here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/SunspotRoadManiaEp158SD-3270121-10381.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome to the Prozac World Looks like we actually are becoming a Prozac World, because we're getting our drugs into the water supply. Here's the article in National Geographic about Prozac being found in our Great Lakes and actually killing off bacteria there. We aren't just overmedicating our people now, we're actually doing it to our environment.I started thinking about this a few months ago when I read a great New York Times article about how psychiatry is becoming more about pharmaceutical adjustments than it is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Live From Space! Ben couldn't make our show in La Crosse on May 13th, 2011 because he was called on a mission to the International Space Station. But the show must go on, so we called some friends at NASA to set up a satellite link. Here's some of our favorite bits! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 157 Adventures in Madison, Racine, Merrill, Elcho, and Marshfield. Hoyer Guitars, motorcycles, special videotaping to make sure that Ben can still make it to our La Crosse show, recumbent bicycles, tornado damage, all our love to Sean Kingston, and a special appearance by Leo Laporte from This Week in Tech!Download the full SD version here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 156 A recap of the events of the past few weeks, including the Deus Ex Machina EP release party, a battle of the bands in Milwaukee, and some heavy metal welding of the trailer!Direct download is available here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_156.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 155 5 shows, 3 days in Austin, 48 hours in the van. Our most epic Road Mania yet as we journey to SXSW 2011 to play showcases for Tourbinder.com, WeAre78704.com, GoGirls.com, Good Day Austin on Fox 7, tour the Texas State Capitol, get destroyed by Nuclear Tacos, hail a pedicab, eat free on Rachael Ray, have some death metal pizza, and drink enough Lone Star and whiskey to kill a horse. Download the SD version here: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_155.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 153 Some highlights from our February Milwaukee and Janesville shows, a little rocking from The Everyday Motive, plus getting ready to record the first new Sunspot studio songs since 2009!Download the SD version directly here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm153sd-2846375-10381.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 152 Check out the action from last weekend's triple-header: Merrill, Polar, and Middleton after the Packers won the Superbowl... with the Udder Run snowshoe race in Athens as a special bonus!HD version available for download here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/Sunspot-Road-Mania-Ep-152.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 151 Van troubles in Rochester? Say it ain't so! Minneapolis rockers, Packers championships, Sunspot rehearsal- it's all here in the first Road Mania of 2011!Download the full SD version here: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_151.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 150 Happy Holidays from The Sunspot Christmas Party and Major Arcana DVD Release at The Frequency in Madison!Download the SD version here: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm150sd-2578837-10381.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Free Shipping and Giftwrapping at the Sunspot Store - Today and Tomorrow Only! Men's and Women's T-Shirts, CDs, and DVDs are all on sale and all guaranteed to get to your destination by Christmas if you order them by tomorrow afternoon! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep.149 Sunspot survives Snowmageddon 2010 with a show at Sugar River Lanes in Belleville, Saturday, December 11th. Our heroes also gives you a little peek at the making of Major Arcana, released this Friday, December 17th, at The Frequency in Madison!Download the SD version here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_149_sd.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Perfect" - Major Arcana Sunspot performs their previously unreleased song, "Perfect", as featured in their upcoming live concert DVD, "Major Arcana". A combination of theater, audience participation, multimedia stage show, and rock concert party, they hired local actors to film scenes in between songs and provided a story that linked the songs to each other as well as a tarot card for each track (hence the title, "Major Arcana".) The idea is that the main character was getting an online tarot reading and the cards ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 130 Day 3 of Tennessee! Live from Memphis. It's hot out and we make it hotter!The SD version us right here: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/Sunspot-Road-Mania-Ep-130.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 132 Hanging out with Madalyn from GoGirls and performing in Houston.Download the SD version here: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/Sunspot-Road-Mania-Ep-132.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 148 Daleks, spankings, naughty cakes, clever cakes, and a ton of birthday shenanigans!SD version available for download here: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/SunspotRoadManiaEp148SD-2475265.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Major Arcana Trailer Sunspot's "Major Arcana" tour was about creating a completely new type of experience that's personal like a rock concert has the emotional weight of a musical, that's dynamic visually like a film, and has the depth of great literature. The band premiered the show at SXSW in 2010 and took it on a tour of America's East Coast, Midwest and South in the Summer.This DVD is the culmination of the tour and stage show. A complete live concert DVD, along with tour videos, deleted scenes, a commentar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Prozac Girl" and "Pretend" Sunspot on Late Night Madness April 1998 Hey, goatees are cool!This is the first televised appearance of us as Sunspot, as well as the first ever time we played "Prozac Girl" and "Pretend" in front of a crowd! April of 1998, and we'd just finished writing the bridge of "Prozac Girl" that day!I thought this would be the perfect day to put it up since we're doing a Major Arcana sneak preview tomorrow!Download the video here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/Sunspot%20LNM%20April%202008.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 146 Watch Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 146 in Celebrity & Showbiz  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.comPartying in Elcho, saying goodbye to Bambi, and getting ready for this week's big Halloween parties!Download the SD version here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm146-2344667.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 145 Sunspot has the weekend off, but Mike gets himself six feet under the Zombie Pub Crawl in Minneapolis while Wendy Lynn performs with rocker Mark Mallman during his epic 78-hour music marathon at The Turf Club in St. Paul. It's a Twin Cities rock/horror party!Download the SD version: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/SunspotRoadMania145-2281103.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 144 Sunspot video shoot, hanging out at old haunts, and discussing the extraordinarily talented musician, Jibbs.SD version here: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/RoadManiaEP144-2250957.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 143 Mike and Wendy visit the Rock Band Creators Workshop at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago. Will you be able to play some Sunspot on your Xbox soon? Watch the video to find out!YouTube VideoSD version here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm143sd-2215237.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 142 Rock show and dance party at Victory Lane in Merrill!SD version here: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_142_sd.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 130 Day 3 of Tennessee! Live from Memphis. It's hot out and we make it hotter! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 140 Madison. The Annex. Last day of the tour. No titles on this one because I need to reinstall iMovie, but you'll get the point. The real highlight is the entirety of "She's A Ho" live by Government Zero. I didn't want to put this up because it kinda made me sad that it's all over. That's alright, more adventures to be had soon.SD Version: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm140-2164065.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 133 Causing trouble in San Antonio at Augie's and then hanging out with 3 Kisses.SD Version: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm133sd-2186407.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 134 Oh, Austin!SD version: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm134sd-2186413.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 135 Sunspot invades the Big D and Willie Nelson's Truck Stop!SD version: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm135sd-2186419.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 139 Defying deadly rains in Rockford, performing in Freeport, and returning to Wisconsin!http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm139-2164487.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 137 Living on Tulsa time. A man on a bed of nails, three-point-two beer and some rocking!SD Version: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/SunspotRoadManiaEp.137-2163743.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania -Ep. 136 Hanging out in OKC, Iguana's Taco Tuesday Funeral, Tecate with our man, Elmo, high strangeness at the Hi-Lo, Styx party, Captain Eyeball and more!SD Version: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/SunspotRoadManiaEp.136-2163405.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 138 Sunspot vs. Food at Waffle House!SD version here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/SunspotRoadManiaEp.138-2164337.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 141 Sunspot fights the good fight in Waukesha!YouTube Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ0veq3diIoDownload the SD version here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm141-2163861.mov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 139 Defying deadly rains in Rockford, performing in Freeport, and returning to Wisconsin! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 138 Sunspot vs. Food at Waffle House! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 140 Madison. The Annex. Last day of the tour. No titles on this one because I need to reinstall iMovie, but you'll get the point. The real highlight is the entirety of "She's A Ho" live by Government Zero. I didn't want to put this up because it kinda made me sad that it's all over. That's alright, more adventures to be had soon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 137 Living on Tulsa time. A man on a bed of nails, three-point-two beer and some rocking! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania -Ep. 136 Hanging out in OKC, Iguana's Taco Tuesday Funeral, Tecate with our man, Elmo, high strangeness at the Hi-Lo, Styx party, Captain Eyeball and more! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 135 Sunspot invades the Big D and Willie Nelson's Truck Stop! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 134 Oh, Austin! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 133 Causing trouble in San Antonio at Augie's and then hanging out with 3 Kisses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 132 Hanging out with Madalyn from GoGirls and performing in Houston. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 131 Wild in Little Rock! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 130 Day 3 of Tennessee! Live from Memphis. It's hot out and we make it hotter! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 129 Hanging out in Nashville on our day off. Jem from Outrageous Productions gives us the first Big Elebra Award. We go out to see some bands and shenanigans ensue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 128 Nasty in Nashville! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 127 Play By Play Cafe in Cincinnati, a terrifying hotel in Kentucky, and our introduction to Cincy's Hudy Beer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 126 Losing our West Virginity in Wheeling! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 125 Sunspot misadventures in New York City! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 124 Summer Day at Two Boots in Bridgeport! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 123 It's raining men at Harper's Ferry! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 122 On the way to Boston! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 121 Alright, I think I'm finally getting the hang of editing and shooting on the iPhone 4. We had a really fun day but kind of a weird night at our Pittsburgh stop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 120 Flat tire on the trailer! Tragedy on the freeway! Acoustic "Soundcheck Song"! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 119 Major Arcana Tour Day 3 from Delavan, WI and a little night riding in the van.Direct download at http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm119-1881109.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 118 Some behind the scenes from Shank Hall at last night's tour kickoff during the Great Milwaukee Flood of 2010. I'm still working out exactly how best to shoot with the iPhone 4, so sorry if it doesn't look great yet, but we'll be shooting every day on this tour, so hopefully by the end I'll have it figured out!Direct download is right here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspotrm118-1877155.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 117 A little bit from Concerts on the Square in Wausau and an explanation of what the Major Arcana tour is all about.The direct download is right here: http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/SRM117-1873183.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Prehistoric Video : "Bleed Me Free" and "Young Love" - Shine 97 Concert Pleather, mohawks, sequins, and braces(?!) - Eat your heart out, Fashionistas! This may be the earliest video that we have on the web. It's from March of 1997 at a benefit concert in the Stock Pavilion at UW-Madison. This is before we called ourselves Sunspot and we hadn't even been playing together for a year yet. The sound quality is a little rough, it's a transfer from a VHS copy of a Hi-8 tape, and our friend, Kyle, had to keep coming onstage to help Wendy fix her bass drum (Hey man, th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Day (Longest Intro Ever) at WYOU We're taking a break for the next two weeks as we get the July shows ready to roll and we finish our preparations and production for the Major Arcana Tour, but we don't want to deprive you of the deep, deep, borderline nasty love that we have for you in the meantime. So, here's another video (this one's not Old School because it's not even a year past.)It's probably the longest intro to Summer Day we've ever done. We just kinda rolled with it because, well, we could. It was for WYOU's telet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Old-School Video : "Prozac Girl" WAMI Awards 2004 To tide you guys over this week between Road Manias, let's take a little trip in the Wayback Machine all the way back to the Aughts, all the way back to April 26th, 2004 at a a live performance for the 2004 Wisconsin Area Music Industry Awards. Picture Northern Lights Theater at Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee, WI. Picture a good deal of Milwaukee's music scene all dressed up, hanging out and getting lit up in one place. Picture a ton of old ladies smoking cigarettes and seducing the one-arm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 115 This episode includes a zen-like drive to Edgerton, Saturday MAMAs festivities, and the roaring after-MAMAs party with Government Zero and John Masino at The Annex!The high quality direct download is available here (~110 MB):http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_115.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 114 Another action-packed weekend with shows at Legends & Mifflin Street Block Party in Madison, and with Caroline's Spine at Howie's in La Crosse. This episode also includes backstage interviews with our friends in Sexy Ester and Shinobi Ninja! Special thanks to our friend Terrence for the Mifflin footage of us playing!The high quality direct download is available here (~73 MB):http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_114.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 112 Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 112Weekend of April 8-10: Tales from Waukesha, Racine, and Wisconsin Rapids. Learn the origin of the venue name "4 Stools Short"; learn how the band got their Thanksgiving turkey early.The high quality direct download is available here (~100 MB):http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_112.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot and Broadjam on Channel 27! Here we are featured on Channel 27 WKOW with the very cool Madison music company, Broadjam, as they get an award for being a "Business To Watch" in Wisconsin for 2010.Thanks to Jeff Angileri and check out the full story right here! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 111 A weekend complete with two Sunspot "all-nighters": Kathy's Pub in Rochester, MN and Siemers Cruise-In in Walworth, WI.The high quality direct download is available here (~55 MB):http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_111.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Some Sunspot SXSW 2010 Visual and Video Highlights Thanks to Derek Sivers from CDBaby for mentioning us in his recap of the SXSW keynote he delivered on Wednesday. Here’s where you can find a summary of Derek’s keynote speech as well as links to the advice on surviving music conferences including our video advice!)Our friend, Swami, once again took a crazy amount of pictures this year and here are just a couple of my favorites:All several hundred pictures can be seen at our man, Swami's, main site. http://www.swamistudios.comWendy has p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 108 Another update from the 2010 Austin trip. More van talk, Whataburger, footage from the 3/18 show at Aussie's, and an uff-da with Axiom and our Austin friends! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 107 The first leg of our Fifth Annual trip to Austin during SXSW, this episode may not be the most eventful but it's a real view of life in the van during an extended (21-hour) drive. Join us in the van as we roll through Iowa and Missouri, whilst doing some final preparations for our shows tomorrow & Friday. Note, the resolution is intentionally lower for this episode so we could upload it from the van. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 106 A short, sweet update from our show at Neighbors Social Club in "The Sha" (Waukesha, Wisconsin) on 3/13/2010. This episode includes show footage from both on-stage and audience vantage points, a quick discussion about upcoming travel plans, and an end-of-night "Uff-Da" sendoff!Special thanks to Charles Waschbisch for sending us his audience footage of "Mr. Foff"!The high quality direct download is available here (~50 MB):http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_106.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old School Sunspot: "Freakshow" in Milwaukee, WI 8/21/2004 I recently unearthed this video of us performing at Shank Hall in 2004. We opened for Chicago band Redshirt and had a great time performing at the legendary venue. Interestingly, the two shows we have done at Shank Hall were both in 2004; the other show being on Valentine's Day with our friends Rainy Day Crush. Hopefully we'll get back there again one of these days because it's a nice stage with great sound... and who doesn't love playing in front of the wee Stonehenge?!You can download ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 102 A quick update from rehearsal!The direct download is available here:http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_102.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old School Sunspot Video: "Step On It" at Harley Fest in Thiensville, WI 6/24/2000 That's right friends, we had to put the Wayback Machine into overdrive to get this footage. It was taken when we played at the Harley dealership in Thiensville, WI for Milwaukee Bike Week.Watch carefully to see a special appearance from our friend "Spider", who repeatedly told us to turn down and ultimately unplugged us because he "didn't like music". Such sweet, sweet memories!You can download the full video here:http://sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_2000_harleyfest.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Audiosurf video Thanks to Dustin for this recording of him playing a video game called Audiosurf set to the track of "Uncanny Valley".Here is the concept (as detailed on the Audiosurf website):Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose.You earn points for clustering together blocks of the same color on the highway, and compete with others on the internet for the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 101 The first Sunspot Road Mania of 2010! We're taking press photos and hanging out at Market Square Theater (thanks to them for letting us shoot there, see a movie there soon!) Thanks to Devious for taking the shots, being patient, awesome, and a very talented friend! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old School Sunspot Video: Wyatt's Torch Aurora, CO Jan. 7, 2007 "When The Revolution Comes" Sunday night in a Denver suburb at the beginning of January? You bet we'll be there.Thanks to Barb from Sweet Revenge Management for taping the show and sending it to us and thanks to the dearly departed Wyatt's Torch for hosting a great night to finish off one of our most fun tours.You can download the full video here: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_wyatts_torch.mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 100 At long last... We proudly present the 100th episode of Sunspot Road Mania!This episode features a retrospective of the past year. We had so many exciting and fun events that it was honestly very difficult to boil down to a 10-minute episode. But the process of reviewing the year was great and reminded me just how lucky we are to be surrounded by incredible people and places!Enjoy the video and feel free to comment with your favorite Sunspot moment from 2009!If you want, you can download ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Path of Most Resistance" Pop-Up Video It's "Path of Most Resistance" all done up VH1-style. You can download the song, purchase the album, and check out the full lyrics at http://sunspot.bandcamp.com/track/path-of-most-resistance. You can download the Pop-Up at http://www.sunspotmusic.com/sunspot_path_of_most_resistance_popup.mp4 or view it on YouTube directly at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CqKGemQeKoIf you're looking for the original video, you can watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOucORr1ks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old School Sunspot Video: Meat Market This one's even older than last week's, but just in time for the holiday, here's another one from the vaults. "Meat Market" is the first actual music video we ever released (thanks to our man, Steve Concotelli for putting it together!) from our first album, Radio Free Earth. Live, we usually dedicate it to Bullwinkle's (a wonderfully sleazy dance club in Madison that the aforementioned Steve introduced me to on underage night when I was still in high school), and we didn't know at the time ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Change The World Old-School Video I almost forgot we had this one. Wendy's first video editing project was a mash-up of some of our live performances throughout the late 90's set to "Change The World" from our first album, Radio Free Earth. We sent this tape out to booking agents right around the turn of the century and I thought you guys might enjoy a trip down Memory Lane with us.I just got a decent Elgato video capture card, so I'll be going through the VHS collection and putting up "classic" stuff as I find it!I think I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "My Own Worst Enemy" Live at The Annex Here's a live version of "My Own Worst Enemy" from the Maximum Ink Halloween Spooktacular at The Annex.I had a wardrobe malfunction, so I guess my costume went from ROTJ Luke to the Rancor Keeper!Thanks to Joe Guerilla for the great footage! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pop-Up Videos for "Grand Guignol" and "More Than My Degree" For all the people that missed their World Premiere on the WYOU telethon awhile back, here's our versions of Pop-Up Videos for a couple of the videos off the Singularity album. Let us know if you enjoy them and we'll make some more soon! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Songs That Actually Terrify Me For Halloween Halloween is almost upon us and I absolutely love it. From the horror movies at the theater to slutty nurse costumes to bobbing for apples (the forerunner of the choking game?), as humans, it feels like we need to embrace our dark nature sometimes. And nobody does destruction like humans do destruction. We're awesome at being awesomely bad to each other, it's built in. For all the wonderful things that we can do, we're equally matched by the horrible. At Christmas, we celebrate our generosi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 99 Some September snapshots with Sunspot stopping by Eau Claire, UW's Engineering Hall in Madison, and Cudahy - with some music by Velvet Dog from Milwaukee.Download it here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 99 Some September snapshots with Sunspot stopping by Eau Claire, UW's Engineering Hall in Madison, and Cudahy - with some music by Velvet Dog from Milwaukee.Download it here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TONIGHT: Tuesday 9/15/09 at The Frequency with MARK MALLMAN! The day is finally here!Tonight we will be putting on a rare TUESDAY night show in Madison, and for good reason: Minneapolis rocker Mark Mallman is in town!If you haven't had the opportunity to see or hear Mallman, here's a sneak peek of one of his new singles:and here's another one that I love:If that's not enough to convince you, I have a personal testimonial. I saw Mallman perform in June at The Frequency on a Sunday night, and let's just say he gave new meaning to "giving 110 percent" ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot featured in latest Film101 podcast Make sure you check out the latest Film101 podcast , they feature some tracks off our new CD and DVD, but it's also a fun listen if you love movies! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Place Like Home Everyone wants to escape their small town, everyone thinks they're a fish out of water or a man out of time.But sometimes the last place you want to be is the place where you belong the most.This one has a Police meets U2 meets Weezer vibe.Lyrics and download available at: http://sunspot.bandcamp.com/track/no-place-like-homeOr download the full video by clicking here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 97 Sunspot performing at Noah's Ark, hanging out at Memorial Union Terrace, and East Towne Mall the weekend of July 25th, 2009.Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/Sunspot%20Road%20Mania%20-%20Ep.%2097%20(Medium).m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Torchwood starts tonight on BBC America! Just wanted to send out a reminder to everyone that the new Torchwood starts tonight at 8pm on BBC America. I cheated and watched the first one (but I'm still DVRing the BBCA version) and I can tell you that it is indeed, the best Torchwood ever. It's a definite "quantum leap" in quality.To jog your memory back a little bit, here's a video we made last year using some of our favorite scenes from Season One with the demo version of our song, "Alive Day". I was thinking of putting the new ver ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 95 Sunspot partying at The Majestic July 15th opening up for Cowboy Mouth. The song "Tell The Girl Ur Sorry" from their set is in there as well. You can view this sweet baby in HD on YouTube right here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opening for Cowboy Mouth at the Majestic! I'm really excited to play The Majestic tonight because this will be our first show at the club and I heard that it's a great venue (but I haven't been inside it since Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie came out and I had to spend most of my time babysitting my drunk friend, Jeff (who eventually ended up back in his dorm sitting in a recliner in the elevator telling people that he was Captain Kenda of the Starship Elevatorprise), so I can't wait to see what they've done to the place.) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 94 Sunspot on the way and back from an undisclosed location as they talk about their new CD/DVD, Singularity, and prepare for their upcoming shows.Direct download is right here: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/Sunspot%20Road%20Mania%20Episode%2094.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hypnogogic Here's the video for our latest single, "Hypnogogic", about the state between waking and dreaming. The split seconds where your dreams seem solid and appear in the real world. Full lyrics and the MP3 is available for download at http://sunspot.bandcamp.com/track/hypnogogic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 93 Sunspot at the Madison Area Music Awards 2009, celebrating their award for Video of the Year, and discussing the release of their new CD and DVD on June 12th, 2009.You can download the full movie file right here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Roadmania Playlist on YouTube I've created a playlist with all of the video RoadMania's thus far. They're ordered according with the newest ones first... The earlier (audio only) ones are not in the playlist yet, but I'm working on that.Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 92 Here we go on the way and back from The Terminal Bar for our show on May 2nd, 2009. It's our first experiment with an HD podcast (at least the YouTube version, the downloadable version is a more reasonable resolution!)Download it right here! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reminder: MAMAs voting ends tomorrow, Tues 4/28! Just a reminder that voting for the Madison Area Music Awards ends tomorrow!If you haven't already cast your vote, you can sign up athttp://www.themamas.org/Your $5 donation will go to an excellent cause of School Music Programs! Anyone can vote - you don't need to live in Madison.Once again,this writeup on 77Squareabout our video for "Sweet Relief" includes some in depth information about the video...And here's the video itself, nominated for 2009 Video of the Year:Thanks again for your s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trashy Hot Video Here's the video for our song, "Trashy Hot". It's a first-time experiment, we handed out some video cameras to our friends and had them record us live doing one take of the song at our show on March 28th at The Frequency and then we put it all together.Thanks to Wyatt Bowman, Steve Harrington, Jeff Klahn, Dave Conner, and Matt Apps for their fantastic camerawork!Watch Trashy Hot in Music  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.comDownload the full-quality version here. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Dig Your Grave" - LOST Video Here's something to keep the LOST party going even after the show is done tonight and since next week there's no new episode, here's a montage video of my favorite character from LOST, John Locke, set to our song, "Dig Your Grave". Warning: ***MAJOR SPOILERS*** for every season of the show up until the fifth! Download the song at http://sunspot.bandcamp.com/track/dig-your-grave and of course, ABC and Touchstone own all the copyrights to the footage from LOST, no infringement is intended. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Wikipedia Error Ever I was just thinking the other day that I didn't remember the last time I read something completely bonkers on Wikipedia. Until today.I watched this video and then I didn't remember Malibu very well, so I looked up his entry on Wikipedia.Here's my favorite part: In addition, McBee (ie, Malibu) has trained in karate at the Billy Blanks World Karate Studio, and hand-to-hand combat and swordsmanship with Anthony DeLongis. He has been known to characterize his time at the Massachuseets Institut ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 91 Sunspot in Polo with Axiom. April 4th, 2009.Click here to download the episode directly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 89 Sunspot arriving in Austin this morning after the 19 hour straight drive! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cold Slither Up until an hour ago, I never thought I would see what might be the greatest episode of GI Joe ever. I heard the title song of the episode in a dream last night and this morning I randomly Googled it and there it was. The episode in its entirety on youTube. Oh frabjous day!Cobra, you see, ran out of money and needed to find a way to pay back their creditors, so Zartan and The Dreadnoks form a band called Cold Slither and they use subliminal messages to get the song to Number One.However, as ... 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His Wikipedia entry states that "he's seen a live show every night since Christmas 1996" Either way, I found him fascinating and someone else must have too, because he's the subject of a new documentary.Here's a few photos of the man in action and here ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 86 Here's the new Sunspot Road Mania that we recorded on Sunday on our way back from a great weekend in Northcentral Wisconsin.You can download the full file right here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tunguska Here's the video for our song,"Tunguska".Click on the title to download it directly at 640x480 quality.For anyone unfamiliar with The Tunguska Event (and are wondering just what the Hell the simile is in this tune), please check out this link for more information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best iPhone games yet I'm not a huge mobile gamer (except I'm a little addicted to Connect Four), but I just downloaded a couple of awesome iPhone games that I think are a couple of the best ones I've played yet and a great value for a buck.First, is Light Bike. It's the Tron Light Bike race on your iPhone. Ummm... if that's not enough to sell you, I don't know what is. The single-player version is free, but the one dollar version lets you race other iPhones on your Wi-Fi network (awesome). There's a two-player ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neanderthal "Music" The National Museum of Wales has commissioned a composer to envision and recreate the music of Neanderthal Man to accompany a new exhibit on early humans (and our hairier cousins) and it sounds awesome. Of course, you can click this link to hear what we thought Neanderthals used to "stone" to [sic].Music plays such a weird role in today's society. Between advertising, radio, background music at the mall, videos (or lack thereof) and high-falutin' orchestras, it's everywhere, all the time eq ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 85 Sunspot back at Smart to record the first three of 2009's singles with Eric Katte of www.raw-tracks.comSunspotmusic.com is still down so we don't have the full quality MP4 up yet, but here's the YouTube video. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almost Proof That Martians Are Real (But They're Tiny and Harmless) “Methane is a product of biology. For methane to be in Mars’ atmosphere, there has to be a replenishable source.“The most obvious source of methane is organisms. So if you find methane in an atmosphere, you can suspect there is life.“It’s not proof, but it makes it worth a much closer look.”Just a heads-up for the coolest news on this frigid day.Until I heard this song, I always thought that Mr. Stefani was making a comment on capitalism with "Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow" in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mike Playing bass for Britney Spears' Toxic on Raving Rabbidz TV party for wii. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mike Playing bass for Britney Spears' Toxic on Raving Rabbidz TV party for wii. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mike Playing bass for Britney Spears' Toxic on Raving Rabbidz TV party for wii. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mike Playing bass for Britney Spears' Toxic on Raving Rabbidz TV party for wii. 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Patrick McGoohan was so cool thatIron Maiden wrote two songs about him(including one with one of thefastest single foot kick drum hits I've ever heard.)And I was just watching aLostepisode last night that reminded me a lot ofThe Prisoner, ("The Man Behind The Curtain" finally kind of reveals who The Island's Number One is.) Anyway, I loved that show when I was a kid.And even with all of its cheesiness and special guest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Headbanging Is Hazardous To Your Health I guess I'm really living on the edge then.Headbanging puts rockers at risk of brain damage.For real. You have to read the story, the scientists who did the survey even say that "Adult-Oriented Rock" music is more safe! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 83 On the way back from Minneapolis and Eau Claire, January 4th, 2009.Click here for the direct download and click here to subscribe to Sunspot Road Mania in iTunes! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Smith Who? Alright, since I’ve been asked about this a few times today (as the self-proclaimed biggest Doctor Who fan in Madison. I know a couple people who might try and give me a run for the money but I’ll take all comers) , my first reaction to Matt Smith as the the Eleventh Doctor wasn’t a good one. Number one, he’s only twenty-six. I’m older than The Doctor, for Christ's sake. That’s weird but it probably has to happen to fan at one time or the other. If you were a kid in 1963 you wer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Name Is Bruce The iPhone doesn't do distance well, but the movie was a great slice of cheese and the Q&A was side-splitting. He's in The Cities this weekend, you won't be disappointed! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot on Film101 Our friends in Dane101 featured Sunspot in their Film101 podcast that just came out. They also review the new James Bond movie. Take a listen and if you do, please thank them for playing Sunspot! The direct link is here:http://www.dane101.com/files/podcast/Film101_Episode_2.mp3 In other local movie news, Bruce Campbell (the star of Alien Apocalypse and Moontrap) will be at Sundance on December 3rd and I just got my tickets for the 9:30 show. The 7pm is all sold out except for two singles. B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 81 More from the end of the Road Rally. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 80 More from the TAXI Road Rally in LA! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thrill the World recap Alright.. I know I already posted the video of my Thriller dance experience, but I just uploaded a different video with better sound & camera angles, for your viewing pleasure:Here's a cool article from The Isthmus about the Madison Zombie Lurch that occurred the same day (click the Gallery image to see all the pics from the event). It was the first lurch I have attended, and I must say it was both a bizarre and ridiculously fun flashmob experience! I recommend trying it sometime.I posted s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thrill the World 2008 Madison, WI Video Here it is! Complete with countdown. It was a bit windy, but other than that a great day for some zombie dancin! Special thanks to Mike for videoing (I'll post the version from his camera later) and Dano from Axiom for taking pics (also more later)! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tribute to My Favorite Humans: Marc Singer I know that we're commonly associated with a love of Scott Bakula, and yes it's true, we do love that man. But I didn't really get into him until later. Ben was the one who watched Quantum Leap religiously when it was originally on, at the time I thought it was kind of a ripoff of Voyagers (I was fairly far off, I know that now.) I didn't start watching all the episodes until it was on Skiffy every night in the early part of the Aughts.But when I was a the gym this morning, Watchers 2 was o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Mountains of Madness? Are the Old Ones responsible for this Antarctic mountain range that should not be? Well, if not, at least they might find The Thing. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can read the whole Lovecraft story for free at this site. (And if you don't get The Thing, then here's that original story to read as well.) It's one of his best and creepiest works and it's awesome that all this is in the public domain now, so that you can read it for free (not that it's not worth money, but since ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finally Real News - UFOs and Horror Movies More British UFOs! Those guys love to release their UFO files, where's the American ones? The first presidential candidate that decides to be honest about the military's relationship with aliens is the one that I'll give my vote to. (I know about Dennis Kucinich story and that is ballsy of him, too bad he's not my cup of tea.) And here's some more great stuff about UFOs and American pilots being ordered to hunt them down over British skies during the Cold War.Here's a heads up that puts me ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Path of Most Resistance" Here's the video for the October single, "Path of Most Resistance", download a high-resolution copy right here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday geek reviews My favorite video since Thanks, Wendy, for the Weezer video and Amy in LaCrosse (from Sunshine Policy) for the Ultimate showdown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shirley Manson on Terminator TV show! I haven't had a chance to watch this show yet (but I'm planning on getting the DVDs over the summer), but if Shirley Manson from Garbage is going to be on The Sarah Conner Chronicles, it gives me one more reason to watch it. And it gives the show the first rock n' roll connection since Arnie was in a G n' R video. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dark Half Embryonic twin sister found inside nine-year old's stomach! Damn. Makes me think of one of my favorite Bruce Dickinson songs, too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reason Humanity Should Not Be Destroyed #8 Edwyn Collins battles back from two strokes to still perform live. When the only other news about music is who Amy Winehouse punched and which jail Weiland's going to be spending tonight in, it's nice to see actual uplifting music stories. Edwyn Collins had to re-learn all of the songs that he wrote after a severe brain hemorrhage in 2005.It's a moving story about the triumph of a man who teetered on the edge of death and came back. There's no irony to get in the way.Here's a video from his ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 78 In this episode, we do a quick "Hello" to the podience and talk a little about the upcoming show this weekend. The episode ends with a clip of Axiom performing "Neanderthal" at the Polo Room! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 76 Sunspot on the beginning of their trip on their way down to Austin for SXSW 2008! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 77 Sunspot drives all night and makes it to Dallas on the way to Austin for SXSW 2008! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why I've got a well... ...there's prescription drugs in our drinking water. Although, I have a ton of nitrates in my water (I even had to get a Culligan filter in order to buy the house because of the fertilizer the University is using in the experimental farmland next door.) I'm not one of the flouride conspiracy theorists but how many chemicals are our bodies evolved to handle when one substance comprises so much of our anatomy? And if that's not enough to make you not trust the authorities, the British (who ar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Machines that can read your mind Man, it's been bad news all week, so how about something that's real deal awesome. They've finally developed a machine that can almost read your mind. You heard me right, this machine is the first step on a path where a computer can visualise your dreams, take the images right out of your imagination and put them in a way other people can see them. How do you think this could revolutionalize art? Isn't art the physical manifestation (whether it's pictures, sound waves, movies, words, whatev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RIP Jeff Healey Jeff Healey was only 41 when he died last night. And I was just thinking about him this weekend too, when I was stringing up my guitar and it was on my lap I was thinking about playing it Jeff Healey-style (he was blind and learned to play with his guitar on his lap.)One of the first covers that Ben and I learned back in high school was his version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as well. And don't forget he was also the guy that rocked Patrick Swayze's joint in Road House! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Leap Day... Quantum Leap Day! We put together this little video to celebrate the party that can only happen once every four years and to honor our man, Scott Bakula! Don't forget we're having a Quantum Leap Day party at the Sunspot Headquarters in Madison tonight as well at 6:30pm. If you don't have a copy of Cynical, the album, "Scott Bakula" is on, you can get it on CDBaby or you can download the song right now from Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bird Boy Some weird shit from Mother Russia, this poor seven year-old can only speak in "chirps" because his mother left him locked up in a room with birds all the time. Poor guy was probably mentally ill and his mother didn't know what to do with him so she locked him up. Here's an interesting (albeit, kinda stupid) discussion on it that made me laugh a few times (especially when someone asks, "I wonder if he can really communicate with birds?" Like he's the frickin' Beastmaster! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Heidegger Paradox by Sunspot Video Here's a video for our song "The Heidegger Paradox". Thanks to The Guppy Effect and Mr. Robert's in Madison, WI for providing the party! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday Night Eclipse - Big Chance For Romance If you're looking for something special to follow up your V-Day to get some panties wet and some undies tight, there's a lunar eclipse tomorrow night. It's gonna be big and it's gonna be colorful and it looks like a perfect opportunity to get to Makeout Point.Plus, when you look at the sky, you never know what you're going to see! This is an eclipse that you don't need to poke a hole in a paper plate to watch, so I'm definitely going to be out there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Alive Day" Torchwood Video Alright, after watching all those awesome Doctor Who fan videos from season one a couple years back, I've wanted to make a fan video using one of our songs, but it was hard to find an appropriate song. We just finished a recording of a brand new song, "Alive Day", and I made a video for it from clips of Torchwood Season One. It's one of my favorite shows currently and I thought the subject matter of the song and the TV show fit perfectly.Please let us know what you think and if you dig the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simpleology / Onlinemusicfame.com Contest ENJOY! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cold After recording. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Farm of Dr. Moreau Hat tip to Tim for this article on breeding sheep who have human organs. He accompanied it with a comment on all the new jokes we'll be able to make about sex with sheep (not to mention the actual sex we'll get to have with sheep!) I've heard that idea before (not the sex, but the organs, well, I have heard about the sex, you know what I mean), but I didn't know how far along they were on the research. At this point, the ethics committees are still keeping a close eye on everything but you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Magical Murder Weird shit going down in Sioux City that reminds me of all of the Satanic Ritual Abuse horror stories we used to hear when we were little (well, I used to hear about them anyway.)Here's a little blast from the past, maybe I watched too many talk shows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On The Third Day of Christmas, My True Love Gave To Me... The Doctor Who Christmas Special is already on YouTube! In our secularization, most people forget that The Twelve Days of Christmas is more than just a song, it's a tradition to party for all twelve days, ending at The Epiphany. The biggest party occurred on the final, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare even wrote a play about it.)It's funny that as our traditions change, we're already back to work and the only thing that most people are looking forward to is getting obliterated on New Year's Eve a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ike Still Loves Ya, Baby His later life wasn't as glorious, but without him, none of us would be in business. I just didn't know that Ike Turner was 76! RIP Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 73 Sunspot stuck in the ditch before practice! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 7brrrrr On the way to Wausau and terrified!Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_72.m4a Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 71 It's an educational episode as we teach you how to change your oil at home as we change the oil in the Sunspot Van using Amsoil. Plus the usual lovable ridiculousness...Direct Download Link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_71.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOOOOOOOO! Jennifer Love Hewitt's engaged?! My adolescent dreams are shattered!Remember when she put out an album?Does every popular young actress since the late 90's have to become a singer as well? J-Lo, Meadow from the Sopranos, Lindsay Lohan, etc... I don't think Sarah Michelle Gellar did though. In other bad news today, there's also a claim that my man, Charles Bukowski, was a Nazi. I call bullshit on that one. He may have been a prejudiced old prick (which I'm sure he'd even admit to), but sympa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 68 Day 2 of the TAXI Road Rally at the Westin in Los Angeles.Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_68.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 67 Mike and Wendy in LA for the Taxi Road Rally, Thursday November 8th, 2007!Direct Download Link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_67.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 66 Sunspot taking press photos on State Street plus some of our favorites from the shoot! Special thanks to Devious for taking the pics!Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_66.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 64 Hanging out and rocking at the Southern Comfort Music Experience in Madison, WI on September 8th, 2007 and after JB's Speakeasy in La Crosse, WI on September 9th, 2007.Direct download link: http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_64.m4vEDIT: I didn't realize that I copied that clip to the beginning until after I uploaded it, I almost wet myself. Sometimes you get happy accidents... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 63 Rocking fucking socks off at the Reptile Palace on 8/24.http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_63.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 61 More general ridiculousness from us trying some Gmail contest at the Madison Music Foundry and then hanging out at practice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 59 Hanging out in Madison and Rockford the weekend of 7/19 - 7/21.Direct download link for the high quality version:http://www.sunspotmusic.com/roadmania/sunspot_rm_59.m4v Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep.35 Here's just us talking about our show on Saturday as well as discussing the details of our CD Release Party at Madison Avenue here in Madison on 2/23!Here's the MySpace of the band we were talking about in the podcast.http://www.myspace.com/garpiketheband Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 33 Part 2 Part two of two. Still sounds like space, unfortunately. I don't know about the MP3 converter on the Palm, it looks like the quality isn't there yet. But there's still some fun moments on the drive to Grand Junction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 33 Part 1 Part one of two. Still sounds like space, unfortunately. I don't know about the MP3 converter on the Palm, it looks like the quality isn't there yet. But there's still some fun moments on the drive to Grand Junction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 30 Part 2 I had to split these to podcasts into two, this is part two. I tried uploading it the other day and it didn't work, so I tried again before I fell asleep last night and it did. I just checked it out on Wendy's laptop and the files are cooked as fuck. It looks like doing podcasts from the Treo might be a little bit too far on the low quality end, might work in a pinch, but this isn't what we're looking for. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 30 Part 1 I had to split these to podcasts into two, this is part one. I tried uploading it the other day and it didn't work, so I tried again before I fell asleep last night and it did. I just checked it out on Wendy's laptop and the files are cooked as fuck. It looks like doing podcasts from the Treo might be a little bit too far on the low quality end, might work in a pinch, but this isn't what we're looking for. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 31 We did this one from the van yesterday and the upload worked, so here's us talking about the LA shows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website