podington bear is none other than chad of hush records
I am not sure I enjoy a mystery revealed. Here’s the story - “Anonymous musician Podington Bear made his musical den on the internet in the beginning of 2007, announcing he intended to write, record and release three songs a week, via podcast and blog. 156 songs total. During this campaign Podington Bear was spotlighted several times on National Public Radio and Wired.com, profiled on numerous blogs, selected as a “Best New Podcast of 2007″ by iTunes Music Store editors, and more recently over a dozen of his tracks could be heard sprinkled across the second season of This American Life on Showtime. On June 24th, a little later than first planned, he released song #156, entitled “Graduation”. Also on that day, Portland label HUSH Records issued a 10 CD box set collecting these songs, as well as the tenth CD as a standalone, entitled simply The End.”
Then it was revealed that Podington is Chad Crouch. Have a listen to ‘Proof’….oh the irony.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
a TEN cd box set? WOW. TEN cd’s has got to be a record for a box set, no? In your face, Eric Clapton!
you go, Chad.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
Hey, have you heard of a band called Noah and the Whale? They’re pretty cool, some sweet indie folk, you can check ‘em out on Myspace –> http://www.myspace.com/noahandthewhale
November 19th, 2008 at 12:38 am
10 cds x 15.6 songs/cd = 156 songs ‘/. 3days x 52 weeks to the power of …umm… 10 or so…. tracks w/ a cool range of laid back moody sounds and beats and breaks.