Music

Ten of the best independent podcasts

The Beautiful Game
www.beautifulgamepodcast.blogspot.com
Three London-based football obsessives podcasting for like-minded souls.

Comedy 365
www.comedy365.co.uk
Recorded in a Crouch End pub, this very funny podcast has maintained a consistent presence in the iTunes podcast charts.

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Coverville
www.coverville.com
Popular thrice-weekly podcast by Brian Ibbotson in Colorado, who puts together shows made up of wacky cover versions. Ibbotson has limited agreements with a couple of US licensing organisations and geeks can follow a link from his site that explains the current rights state of play.

Downtown Soulville
http://podcast.wfmu.org
An hour of highlights from Mr Fine Wine’s impossible-to-duplicate collection of old soul 45s, possibly sidestepping the rights issue by playing music so obscure that nobody knows who owns it anyway.

Hungbunny
http://hungbunny.libsyn.com
If you have room in your heart for both Ennio Morricone and Aphex Twin, Hungbunny is for you. The keywords he’s selected as tags tell their own story: avant, garde, bob, dylan, wanker, SUV, loathe, traffic, Tooting.

New Comedy Radio
www.newcomedyradio.com
Comedy from the Angel Club in Islington.

The Onion
www.theonion.com
Thirty-second bursts of absurdly plausible spoof news. Bliss.

The Overnightscape
http://theovernightscape.com
Daily show from Frank Edward Nora that has grown steadily since its inception 418 episodes ago, despite the fact that he simply rambles on about places he's visited and other random thoughts. He’s obsessed by the number 209, apparently.

Ricky Gervais
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The ubiquitous and astute Mr Gervais deserves his podcast success, no matter how much his detractors may resent it.

Romeo’s Celebrity Crank Calls
www.Z100.com
New York late-night radio DJ invites his celebrity guests to make crank calls, then podcasts the results.