Live from daryl’s house

Daryl Hall’s free monthly web show Live From Daryl’s House started in late 2007, after the artist came up with the idea of “playing with my friends and putting it up on the Internet”. The show has since been praised by Rolling Stone, SPIN, Daily Variety, CNN, the BBC, and music blogger Bob Lefsetz, all of whom have referenced Live From Daryl’s House as an exemplar of an established artist reinvigorating his career by collaborating with established colleagues and newer performers and posting the results online, exploiting the web to sustain and expand a loyal fan base by-passing the traditional media outlets such as radio & music TV which have a very narrow playlists. In addition to monthly collaborative performances there are links to Daryl’s own itunes, facebook and twitter pages and viewers are encouraged to leave comments – which a surprisingly large number do.   

The webcasts themselves feature an eclectic mix of established performers such as Joe Walsh, Toots and the Maytals, Todd Rundgren and Matchbox 20’s Rob Thomas, along with relative newcomers such as Minus the bear, Canadian techno-rockers Chromeo, and British singer-songwriter Rumer. 49 of the previous 62 episodes can still be accessed under the archive tab, and run for anywhere between 27–60 minutes. The programmes, which comprise a blend of the guest and the host’s compositions as well as the occasional blues or soul standard interspersed with conversation, can be viewed as a programme or by individual tracks.