Show overview
Danger Third Rail! has published 4 episodes during 2021. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 3 min and 4 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 5.3 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Travis Briggs.
From the publisher
Listen to the latest audio creations from Danger Third Rail, from odd experimental snippets to demos of full fledged punk songs. Chiptunes/electronica too! dangerthirdrail.substack.com
Latest Episodes
Star Star
Hello again, it’s been a while. I know I’ve already posted a song called You’re A Star to this podcast/email/blog thing that you’re reading now. I know that in fact, it was the very last song I posted, oh so many months ago.But I just wrote a new electronic instrumental song and when I went to name it, I almost called it “Star Child”. I’m pretty sure David Bowie has a copyright to that (yes I know, you can’t copyright titles). Either way, that seemed too trite, so I went with the altogether sillier Star Star. I think it’s pretty good, so I wanted to share it straight away. This is the first time that a song I wrote will be making it’s worldwide debut on this podcast. Amazing!As always, thanks for listening. And if you like what you hear, feel free to reply, I think it goes directly to me. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dangerthirdrail.substack.com
You're A Star
This is the second track from my Danger Third Rail EP Radio Machine. It was released in August 2018 (omg I haven’t released any “professional” music since then!)I wrote this song largely about the online communities of Mastodon, "where you can be just who you are". I also was vaguely thinking of the different semi-underground communities that congregate around DNA Lounge here in San Francisco. I like the piano part in the intro a lot, it reminds me of Closing Time by Semisonic. Actually the whole track does.I recently submitted this song on Submithub and it wound up being included in this Spotify Indie Rock playlist. Very cool!As always, thanks for listening! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dangerthirdrail.substack.com
What Will It Take (Demo)
This song would probably be attributed to “Travis Briggs” rather than “Danger Third Rail” if I were to properly publish it. It’s just a demo, which means it’s not fully fleshed out either in instrumentation or performance.Here’s what I wrote on my songs.travisbriggs.com website when I published this one: For once I went back to a song that I started earlier this month and I'm glad I did. I already had the vocal melody, but I added the lyrics and recorded the vocals.Hope you enjoy, and if you know someone who would like songs like this, feel free to forward this email and have them subscribe.I also think you can reply directly to the email and I might get the reply. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dangerthirdrail.substack.com
Pink Fluffy Cloud
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Actually, listen to it anyways! This is the title track off my first professionally produced single of the same name, Pink Fluffy Cloud. It’s available on Spotify/iTunes/Google/Amazon from dangerthirdrail.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dangerthirdrail.substack.com