Recorded 02 March 2010

This episode of With A Voice Like This is a very special interview with Joanna Quargnali-Linsley of Toy Block Music and Misery Loves Co. about the March 4th preview of the EP Eats Paste to be released April 1st of this year.

Joanna tells us about the overall project and how it came about, how the charity Pager was chosen to receive a portion of the profits from the sale of the EP and some of the different experiences. A few of the artists who appear on the EP called in as well to talk about their part in the process (as well as tell a few stories) and best of all? I got to play clips from 6 of the 7 songs that will appear on the April 1st EP release. Here are the songs on the EP and their respective artists:

• Oh Susannah – artist is Arlen Ginsburg ( Website – Facebook Fan page) [Monica DaSilva - vocals (Website - MySpace page)]
• Wheels on the Bus – Olin Langley (MySpace page) and SpaceFace
• Crawdad Man - Austin Collins and the Rainbirds (Website – MySpace page)
• There was an Old Woman – Anna Soltys (Facebook Fan page – MySpace page)
• The Cat Came Back - Alex Sanders (Facebook Fan Page for The Texas Funerals – Facebook Fan page for The Quincy Not-So-Fine Arts Society) and The MeowTones
• Wynken, Blynken and Nod – Stereo Sinai (Website - Facebook Fan page – MySpace page)

And here’s the seventh track on the EP, just recorded two days before the show, so a mix wasn’t available.

• Alice the Camel – David Kav (Website - Writing the Rails Website)

GERD Links
For more information about GERD and Infant reflux disease , you can go to

• http://reflux.org/ – Home of Pager
• http://infantrefluxdisease.com

Other sites mentioned in the show

• I Wear Your Shirt
• American Specialty Toy Retailing Association (ASTRA)

One more thing…
If you’re listening closely in the show, I took it as a personal challenge to find a musical joke in the Toy Block Logo and I won. What did I win? A free copy of the Eats Paste EP. But I’m not going to keep it…Oh no, I’m going to figure out a way to give it away to a lucky listener. Got any ideas? Leave me a comment and we’ll see what happens.

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126 – Toy Block Music ‘Eats Paste’ originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 4 March 2010. Tweet This

Recorded 14 July 2009

In this episode of With A Voice Like This:

First listen to the new tracks I’ve laid down for my new show intro/outro. They’re very raw, so you get to hear them, see what you think and leave your thoughts on them. you’ll be hearing more of them soon, very soon, so get your two cents worth in now.

At Any Rate
More copyrights talk anyone?

• A few minor (but important) victories for YouTube in their class action suit  charging them with copyright infringement as seen in the cnet article. This doesn’t affect the Viacomm suit suit brought against YouTube directly, but does clear some of the infringement claims made.
• A Revisit to the Usenet issue. A member of the Podcast Gallery alerted me to the fact that AT&T was shutting off access to Usenet from their services on or around July 15 in this CrunchGear article. While in my opinion the article makes use of a little fact and a lot of fertilizer, it does let you know what’s happening with Usenet.

News You Can Use
Okay, News You Can Use is a little backwards this show. I’m asking for your help in regards to the website TalentTrove.com. I received a letter suggesting a link exchange from the Director of Marketing even including a link to where my link would be found. I give you a brief synopsis of my experience in researching them and I just really want to know what you, The Podcast Gallery think of Talent Trove. So take a listen and you can leave a comment, send an e-mail to contact@WithAVoiceLikeThis.com, or call the Comments From the Podcast Gallery voicemail line at 630.492.0487 and leave me a message (standard calling rates apply).

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106 – New Track, Old Copyrights and Talent Trove originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 15 July 2009. Tweet This

Recorded 20 November 2008

At Any Rate
Well, this was all about the Press Release. Here’s the wavlt-press-release-19-11-08 in PDF format, and here’s what it looks like live Chicago Area Podcaster And Musician Celebrates Anniversary With Release Of A Holiday CD.

News You Can Use
Here’s the information about any and everything on performing.

• Contest information, you can find the EP on Amazon.com and there’s a mystery place you can find the
• The next caroling gig – it’s on Black Friday at 6:00AM! Check the calendar.
• 4-AM in A White Christmas Holiday Revue in Egg Harbor, WI

4-AM
I play some clips that I’ve gotten done this week and see what you think of them:

• No Time
• Follow Me

One More Thing
I’ve decided to lower the price of the With A Voice Like This Christmas because of the way the digital distribution works and I felt it was the only way to be equitable with everyone involved, especially CD Baby. This presented an opportunity for me with the person who  immediately bought my CD at the higher price and what I decided to do about that.

Next week’s show will be recorded on Tuesday, November 25 because of the Holiday. Join me then live.

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078 – I wrote a Press Release and More originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 24 November 2008. Tweet This

recorded 24 July 2008

At Any Rate (00:00:32)
This episode takes a look at a tool I had seen trumpeted as a “copyright infringement assessment tool” PDTool, why I think it’s not a good tool and some much better alternatives for dealing with copyright infringement assessment as a new media person, Public Domain Music and the Podcasting Legal Guide.

4-AM (00:11:37)
This episode was also the official launch announcement of for http://4-AM.net, the official website for our a cappella group. A quick trip through the site, which took until the last minute before the show to get loaded (Ah the joys of downloading program patches when an app fails and conversion times) and it was ready to go by show time. Take a look, see what you think and let us know. Yay for it being launched!

Comments From the Podcast Gallery
Fellow Podcaster Kim Fenolio of the Girls NIght In Podcast shared comments in the show among the rest of the Podcast Gallery.

If you’d like to share your Comments from the Podcast Gallery, you can leave a voicemail at 630.492.0487 or send an e-mail to contact@WithAVoiceLikeThis.com and it will be shared on the show. Your viewpoint is always appreciated.

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062 – A Tool and A Launch originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 25 July 2008. Tweet This

The EP With A Voice Like This Christmas is now available through BuyMusicDirect. Simply click on the graphic above to go and purchase the CD.

And a new group on Facebook as well for the show:

The topics include the release of the With A Voice Like This Christmas EP, The new With A Voice Like This group on Facebook and an extended Comments From The Podcast Gallery.

I have

• A CD available for purchase at BuyMusicDirect.com
• A new group on Facebook for the podcast
• some ideas on the direction for the show, setting up some interviews

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Episode 041 – Day 65 – Oh What A Release It Is originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 4 January 2008. Tweet This

This episode’s topics:

The final version of The Wassail Song, the day’s issues , Ambiance in the recording, Ambiance on the Gig, Where I’m heading with I Saw Three Ships and a Comment from the Podcast Gallery.

I have

• Another song on Podsafe Music Network and BuyMusicDirect.com, bring the total to six, half way there
• A good idea of what I’m going to do with the section of I Saw Three Ships that has the ambient noise in it

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Episode 029 – Day 37 – the Ambience Factor originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 8 December 2007. Tweet This

Topics on this episode of ‘With A Voice Like This’:

The final four for the CD, play and discuss the completed version of Deck the Halls and the newest in progress The Wassail Song, Gig plans for the weekend, Comments from the Podcast Gallery.
I have

• Released Deck the Halls at Podsafe Music Network and BuyMusicDirect.com
• Ordered the last four songs from pdinfo.com for the CD
• Had to switch one of the four songs for the CD because it wasn’t available for purchase
• A cool caroling gig this Saturday night, opening for Carnie and Wendy Wilson, of Wilson Phillips fame

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Episode 027 – Day 35 – Another One in the Can originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 5 December 2007. Tweet This

Topics in this episode of With A Voice Like This:

The First Noel, God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen, Away in a Manger and We Wish You a Merry Christmas were the top four songs in the poll, The completed version of The Coventry Carol, Name That Carol, the answer to that musical question and of course, Comments From the Podcast Gallery.

I have

• I have my final four songs for the album and will order them tomorrow
• A completed copy of The Coventry Carol to be put out on PMN and BuyMusicDirect.com
• An almost completed other carol (I’m not spoiling the surprise on the Podcast)

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Episode 026 – Day 34 – Release and Catch originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 4 December 2007. Tweet This

A lot of things have lined up for today and I would be totally remiss not to take advantage of it and let it help fuel what I’m doing. First, the date, it’s December 1st (and a Saturday, bonus!). For some purists, this is the first allowable day to play Christmas music, so there will be an increase of web surfing for Holiday music. Second, I have three finished pieces that I can put on the site to show it’s more than just a one shot CD and Third, I have a commercially acceptable song in We Three Kings. The time to strike is here and let what I’ve done stand on its own two feet and power the rest of the project as well.

So off I go to SellMusicDirect.com [Edit: site no longer exists] to upload the music. Since I haven’t said anything since the beginning about this, I’ll recap a little. I have a PRO account with SellMusicDirect.com. This means I can put up to 6 CD projects in this account and they will not only sell downloads, but will also manufacture CDs on demand, as long as I’ve put together the CD and artwork. That way I can sell the CD without having to carry a minimum amount of inventory. Great deal for what I’m doing. I go into my account and start to set it up to sell The songs and I’m met with a Genre list that I classify the song. I was working first on We Three Kings and this is the list that I got:

Now there’s no Holiday genre and no A cappella genre, so the question becomes, what genre do I use? From what I’ve seen, most a cappella music usually get put in the jazz genre because the industry doesn’t seem to know what to do with it, so I’ll put it in Smooth Jazz. We’ll see how that goes, if I get any feedback based on a miscategorization. I also chose to have it listed as podsafe, though I may go back and change after rereading what the site’s definition of podsafe is. So now it’s out as a downloadable single at BuyMusicDirect.com [Edit: site no longer exists], as well as Christmas Angel and A Round For the Holidays.

I have

• Music available for purchase online

Day 31 – Marketing 101? originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 1 December 2007. Tweet This

On this episode of With A Voice Like This:

A Poll update, Making the choice to not let things affect you, heavy weights and dishware, Debuting We Three Kings in its finished form, talking about how I did what I did with it, Releasing it on the Podsafe Music Network, Comments from the Podcast Gallery (Where do you think I came up with the title of this blog entry, hmmmmm?) and News about this project and where it goes from here.

I have

• The finished copy of We Three Kings
• Posted the copy on the Podsafe Music Network

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Episode 023 – Day 30 – With A Voice Like This Who Needs Instruments? originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 30 November 2007. Tweet This

This weekend’s wrap up covered the week on Christmas Angel, which is now out on my Podsafe Music Network profile and my performance over the weekend as well. You can listen to Christmas Angel, the version that’s available to podcaster’s to use on their shows, jsut not as high a quality because it’s in mono and the version on the Podsafe Music network is in stereo. and of course, Comments from the Podcast Gallery.

I have

• Caught up with the blog and podcast postings I needed to do
• Fixed the muffled sound I was getting to the point that I find it acceptable
• An almost completed song that once done, It will be Tweeted that it’s out!
• A homemade Lemon meringue pie waiting for after the show.
• Relieved some of the pressure I’ve put on myself
• An edit ready recording of Christmas Angel
• A mixed version of Christmas Angel available online at the Podsafe Music Network

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Episode 018 – Day 25 Weekend Wrap up originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 25 November 2007. Tweet This