GaragePunk Hideout

The GaragePunk Hideout is a social network, media center and blog portal for fans of the garage punk and garage rock music genres. The Hideout used to be home to GaragePunk Pirate Radio, a network of podcasts that has been producing episodes since August 2005, with a rotating roster of several independently produced programs. In May 2015, the podcast network split off from GaragePunk.com and is now independent of the Hideout.

The GaragePunk Hideout
Type of site
Music networking, news and media
OwnerDamos Kalaitzidis
URLwww.garagepunk.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJune 25, 2007[1]
Current statusActive

History

GaragePunk.com was founded on June 16, 2001, by St. Louis disk jockey and promoter Jeff "Kopper" Kopp, originally as the Web home for his now-defunct KDHX-FM 88.1 radio show, The Wayback Machine, and a discussion forum for fans of both the radio show and the music featured on it.[2] The site soon became an important resource for a worldwide community of garage rock, rock and roll, garage punk and surf music when a phpBB message board forum was launched on it in August 2002. In 2005 the decision was made to begin experimenting with podcasting, which was originally the idea of Bill Streeter, and soon after that, GaragePunk Pirate Radio was born.

In May 2015, Kopp sold the GaragePunk Hideout, including the associated GaragePunk Hideout Compilation Series, to Damos Kalaitzidis. Not included in the sale was the GaragePunk Pirate Radio podcast network, which now has a new home on a separate website.

The original GaragePunk.com Forums were closed on January 18, 2008 due to declining activity (a direct result of the rising popularity of social networking sites like MySpace), and the majority of the site's activities were transferred to The GaragePunk Hideout social networking site (a Ning network) which Kopper had launched in June 2007. The GaragePunk.com URL now redirects visitors to the Hideout, but the site also serves as an archive of the podcasts that were posted prior to January 1, 2010.

The GaragePunk Hideout

The GaragePunk Hideout was launched in the summer of 2007 as a social networking element for fans of GaragePunk Pirate Radio (then known as the GaragePunk Podcast Network), and as a replacement for the GaragePunk.com Forums, a phpBB message board.

The Hideout also features a number of separate discussion groups which members may subscribe to individually. Separate groups are dedicated to a range of global geographical areas, various rock-and-roll subgenres, and a range of other topics associated with the garage-punk scene. Other features include an events section for the promotion of club nights, concerts, garage fests and other related events, areas for the pooling of member's photographs and videos, and an online chat room.

GaragePunk Pirate Radio

In mid-2005, Kopper, with the help and encouragement of Lo-Fi Saint Louis videoblog founder Bill Streeter, launched "GaragePunk.com Pirate Radio," recruiting show hosts from the GaragePunk Forums message board to produce radio station-style podcasts for the network. Within six months, the network had enough separate programs to begin posting new episodes on an almost-daily basis. This network of podcasts has been producing regular episodes since August 2005 and presently features twenty-eight independently produced programs. Mostly produced at home by individual music fans (a small number are offshoots of local radio and college radio broadcasts), the network mostly focuses on obscure garage rock, primitive rock and roll, garage punk, but also extends to psychedelic rock, frat rock, protopunk, surf, rhythm and blues, rockabilly, swamp rock, broken blues, power pop, punk rock, new wave/no wave among other related genres. This ever-changing network of podcasts was integrated into the GaragePunk Hideout in January 2010, bringing everything together under one virtual roof.

The overall aim of the Hideout is to be the world's premier destination for fans of garage rock music online — old, new, underground or independent. One way they do this is by using GaragePunk Pirate Radio to broadcast this music to a large audience through the podcast medium, one that builds upon the traditional radio format which typically attracts a smaller local following.[3]

The GaragePunk Pirate Radio podcasts may be subscribed to as a whole, or each program individually, with new episodes arriving most weekdays.[4] Many individual programs now have over 50 episodes.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-22. Retrieved 2009-08-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Zaleski, Annie. "And the DJ-spinoff finalists are..." Riverfront Times. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  3. Zaleski, Annie. "The legalese surrounding Kopper's GaragePunk podcast". Riverfront Times.
  4. https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=78291999&subMediaType=Audio/

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