#18: Crash, Audio, Ingenting... Rebirth!

Apologies to anyone who had problems accessing our site and blog yesterday; we experienced a rare server hard drive failure that kept us out of the game for a while. The good news is that votes have been restored and we are fully functional yet again.

On Tuesday, we had our first radio interview ever. It was for a program called The Ride Home which originates out of station KOA in Denver, Colorado. According to their producer, the show is broadcast to 38 states and 3 countries. Yikes. Danny and Nina were both originally scheduled to call into the show together, but through some misunderstanding, only Danny ended up on air. Nina was actually phoned by the station at the appointed time, but when they got her on the line they just asked for Danny. When she gave them his number, they proceeded to hang up on her, leaving Danny to make the on-air realization that he was all by his lonesome.

That snafu aside, things went very well and it was actually a really fun interview. The show's hosts were great at keeping the interview moving, and what was originally scheduled to be a 5 minute piece ran well over 12 minutes before being interrupted by breaking news of a plane crash.

Here's how it went (MP3 download here, if you prefer):



Any feedback from our readers about the piece would definitely be appreciated since we're both very new to the interview game. Nina and I also spoke to a very nice reporter named Justin Ellis from Portland, Maine's Portland Press-Herald yesterday; if you live in the area, there should be an article in Monday's paper!

If you've ever wished you listened to more music sung in Swedish--it's not just for muppets, after all--then you should check out [ingenting], our favorite Swedish-language band. They've got a new record coming out this month called Mycket väsen för ingenting (which you can pre-order here) and have been kind enough to share a track with us. Download "Punkdrömmar" here.

If images are more your thing, here's the video for "Släpp in solen" from this year's Sommardagboken EP (psst, the photo up above is what the band actually looks like):



with love,
Danny&Nina