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I’m sitting in a busy, but oddly empty coffee shop on West Fulton Street in Chicago. It is called Jupiter Outpost. The barista is a beautiful young lady who looks like she could be Zoey and Emily Deschannel’s other sister. She’s wearing a sun dress although the day is overcast, cold and dreary. She’s a ray of sunshine, and I can’t take my eyes off her. God damn! I’m excited about this week’s episode! Talking with BILL GRAHAM from SKA BREWING about his early years and how throwing caution to the wind became their recipe for success has inspired me. […]

I wrote a few words about Tony Sly my first of many encounters with one of my heroes. I had not seen Tony in years, but we had been in contact a year or so back, trying to get him to come play some shows in Colorado. I reached out to him on facebook a while back, but sadly got no reply. I got to his personal facebook page and it says to me: “Friend Request Sent.” I am saddened that Tony will never be on my show, but I’m honored to have met him, once upon a time. “Making […]

We’re back baby! I took a few weeks off from the podcast. No real reason for the break, but it was nice. There just have not been that many shows coming through the area that I could attend that I was interested in doing interviews for.  It was a nice little break, but thank god we are back! Nothing like four weeks off to recharge and remember why you do this in the first place, right? I turn 31 on Friday, August 3rd. On Saturday, August 4th, We are doing a LIVE MOSTLY HARMLESS PODCAST at the Triple Nickel Tavern […]

The website has been quiet these last few weeks. Its been about a month since the Red Fang episode hit the web, but that does not mean I haven’t been working. My first article for AMP MAGAZINE, an interview with Trapped Under Ice guitarist Sam Trapkin about his rock n’ roll band: Diamond (or DMND), hit their website on Friday. You can check it out here:http://www.ampmagazine.com/38517/diamonds-sam-trapkin-talks-about-their-debut-vinyl-diy-filmmaking-recording-with-paul-leavitt-and-their-plans-for-the-future-by-damian-burford/ I have an interview with Teenage Bottlerocket about their new album as well as a very in dept interview with Tony Slyvester, the new lead singer of Turbonegro. Those should be in the next […]

Been working hard on many, many new projects. We’re going to be adding more content and interviews to the website in the coming weeks, so STAY TUNED! It looks like I’ll be writing for AMP MAGAZINE a lot more in the coming weeks. My interview with Tony Sylvester, the new lead singer of Turbonegro, should be in their next issue and I’ve got a few other writing opportunites in the works. Even stranger, an aquaintance asked me if I’d be interesting in doing a Spoken Word album? Bizarre! Who the hell would want that? Its been a strange trip, thanks […]

I have not done an interview in 5 weeks. I’ve been having a hard time finding the motivation, and the artists coming through Colorado have been a little off my scale. I have not been motivated in weeks to do any work on the show, and it has shown. I’m on day 5 of soberness, the longest stretch I’ve been on in MONTHS, and I feel better than ever and more energized and energetic to work on this show. The time off has been good. Regardless of the time off, word is spreading and our download count, despite only releasing […]

We have a sponsor for this week’s Episode! Please check out the mighty fine coffee from TONX.ORG! Thanks TONX! We also debut our new THEME song from our friends at BONER PARTY! Jarrod the mastermind of BONER PARTY is also in the Los Angeles band, Hiedi Askew. Check out the projects at: http://www.facebook.com/BonerPartyJams http://www.facebook.com/hiediaskewband Now you would think loosing my day job and getting a very nice severance package would motivate me to bust my ass and bust my balls working on this show. It is interesting because working the dead end warehouse job for the failed Dot Com I […]

I’ve been drinking waaaay too much since losing my dead end internet warehouse job, but its easy to do. I have a giant bottle of Jack Daniels. I work at a bar. I go to about 20 shows a month. And the booze just keeps on coming. So that’s why this week’s episode is coming in the middle of the day rather than at midnight. I have no real excuses. I’m just busy enjoying my massive amount of free time. The train has to come to an end, and that end is soon… Thank God! I got to meet my […]

We’ve got some exciting things coming up! This week CHEAP GIRLS! We got some awesome LIVE VIDEO of IAN GRAHAM playing some Acoustic jams for us, and on top of that, we have LIVE AUDIO from their show at the Marquis Theater. Pretty gnarly, right? Let us know if you want MORE of that kind of entertainment! Earlier this week we interviewed BROADWAY CALLS and talked about their new album. We were going to combine both interviews for one SUPER EPISODE, but I descided to wait a few weeks to get that episode up, and let it breath and grow […]

Its bizarre how things work themselves out. For the last year and a half I worked at a failing dot com company. The job wasn’t awful, but it was mind numbing in such a way that it hurt to slow down my brain to their operating levels. When I began working at this company, we would work ten hour days, four days a week. We were allowed to bring in our Ipods, and i had a slightly outdated 60gig IPOD with a broken screen. I quickly tired of the massive amounts contained on the device. I sought out something more, […]