Coverville

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Coverville
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A 30-minute music podcast featuring rare, unusual and great cover songs, usually produced three times a week. Licensed with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC.
Hosting Brian Ibbott
Language English
 RSS MP3: http://www.coverville.com/index.xml
AAC: itpc://feeds.feedburner.com/CovervilleAAC
Updates Usually updated three times a week.[1]
Length Varies, but typically 35 minutes[1]
Debut September 2004
Genre Cover songs
Website http://www.coverville.com/

Coverville is a podcast featuring unusual covers of pop, rock and country songs by new and established performers. The show is produced and hosted by Brian Ibbott out of his home in Arvada, Colorado.[1] Coverville accepts advertising as part of the Backbeat Podcast Network.[2]

A website designer by trade, Ibbott found a way to satisfy his desire to be a deejay by creating a podcast featuring "rare, unsual or great" cover songs. [3] The first Coverville podcast was launched on September 28, 2004. Coverville passed episode #300 on March 4, 2007.[4]

Coverville "paved the way" for the legal podcasting of music: early in Coverville's history, Ibbott contacted major performance rights organisations (initially ASCAP and BMI) to license music for his podcast. In October 2004, Brian met with ASCAP and BMI to explain the technology and delivery methods behind podcasting, and they adapted their non-interactive license to include podcast licensing.[3][5] Ibbott was active in publicizing this information among other podcasters.[6]

In 2005, Coverville won Podcast Connect's People's Choice Podcast Award for music.[7] Coverville has been mentioned in articles appearing print and online publications such as Rolling Stone[8] and BusinessWeek Online.[3]

Contents

[edit] Features

A typical episode of Coverville has about six cover songs, and they are generally released on a three-per-week schedule.[1] Weekly features typically include a Sunday all-request show, trivia challenges (where Brian, with help from his wife, try to solve various name-that-tune type challenges), and the Uncovered Gem Of The Week, a track that isn't a cover, but that the host likes. It is common for an episode of Coverville to have a central theme. Common themes include:

  • Cover Story - An entire episode devoted to a single prominent artist, with a number of totally different covers of songs all originally by the same artist, sometimes also including the artist covering someone else in return. For example, the Depeche Mode Cover Story included six other artists covering Depeche Mode, but also included Depeche Mode lead singer David Gahan covering Roxy Music.
  • Originalville - An episode dedicated to playing the original versions of songs whose covers became famous, but whose original versions are relatively poorly known.
  • A Cappella - An entire show dedicated to a cappella cover songs.
  • Lost In Translation - An entire episode based on cover songs performed in a different language than the original.
  • Cover To Cover Interview - A show-length interview with someone, interspersed with their favourite covers or cover songs they've performed.
  • Coverville Countdown - A year-end countdown of all-time favourite covers, as voted on by listeners of Coverville. The 2006 top five were:
    1. Hurt, covered by Johnny Cash, originally by Nine Inch Nails
    2. Toxic, covered by Nickel Creek, originally by Britney Spears
    3. Hallelujah, covered by Jeff Buckley, originally by Leonard Cohen
    4. Lithium, covered by The Polyphonic Spree, originally by Nirvana
    5. Baby Got Back, covered by Jonathan Coulton, originally by Sir Mix-A-Lot
  • Coverville Idol - Much like American Idol, a contest wherein contestants create and submit cover tracks based on a given theme. For 2006, the winner was Walk Like An Egyptian covered by the a capella group No Strings Attached.
  • Degrees of Coveration - connections between various musicians. Where musician A does a song by musician B, then musician B does a song by musician C, etc...

[edit] Awards

  • "Best Music / Radio Podcast" in Podcast Connect's 2005 People's Choice Podcast Awards.[7]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d About Coverville from the podcast's website
  2. ^ Advertising on Coverville from the podcast's website
  3. ^ a b c Green, Heather (March 3, 2005). "Radio Days for Everyman". BusinessWeek Online. McGraw-Hill Companies. 
  4. ^ Coverville's 300th episode from the podcast's website
  5. ^ Borland, John. "Hopes for Legal Music Podcasts Rise", CNET News.com, June 16, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-04-26. 
  6. ^ Getting legal with your licensed-music podcasts, Ibbott's December 2004 message on a Podcast Alley forum
  7. ^ a b 2005 People's Choice Podcast Awards. Podcast Connect (2005). Retrieved on 2007-04-26.
  8. ^ Greene, Andy (April 20, 2006). "Download Now". Rolling Stone (#998): 68. 

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