The Sonic Rub is your place to hear Authentic Sound. Join host Floyd Turbonic for a monthly podcast dedicated to conducting time travel experiments through the use of rare and obscure audio recordings.

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Episode #1: New Orleans.
(7 November 2005). In the premiere episode, The Sonic Rub visits New Orleans during the early 1990s. Our experiments with sound and time travel put us among the cafés and crowds.  Listen to street musicians, hang out with a lonely traveler in his hotel room, and wander the French Quarter through a host of other audio fragments gathered for this first podcast.

Episode #2: New Orleans (con't)
(13 November 2005). In this episode, we continue to explore the soundworld of New Orleans during the early 1990s. We float and listen, experimenting further with sonic temporal relocation. We encounter strange instruments, musicians playing outdoors, the sounds accompanying mundane conveyance, and ever more audio fragments.

Episode #3: Vibrations in the Roaring Winter Dusks
(31 December 2005). In this episode, we ring in the new year by travelling to a stage at Naropa University in Boulder, CO on August 9, 1975 for a reading of Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Used with permission from the Naropa University Archive Project, maintaining their creative commons license. Visit the Archive for access to over 300 hours of audio recordings devoted to "enhancing appreciation of post-World War Two literature and its role in cultural criticism and social change."