Ratio Sessions: Small Brown Bike performs “In Need of Everything” at Ratio Beerworks.

Mostly Harmless has teamed up with Ratio Beerworks, Soda Jerk Presents and 8 Houses Down for The Ratio Sessions. The Ratio Sessions are a slightly different spin on the Npr Tiny Desk sessions, Daytrotter or Punks In Vegas acoustic video sessions. We took the idea of  intimate acoustic performances and decided to invite all our friends out to enjoy in the fun. It’s a great cross between an in-store appearance, meet and greet & a video series. Plus it’s a fun excuse to do some pre-show day drinking. Our friends over at BrooklynVegan.com have premiered the latest video with Small Brown Bike! Back […]

123 – LIVE: “Dates from Hell” with Comedian Cody Spyker & Musical Guests The Windermeres!

MOSTLY HARMLESS LIVE: “Dates from HELL: Stories of Romance gone wrong!” Guests include Comedian Cody Spyker ,  & musical guest: The Windermeres!! Recorded in front of a “studio” audience at Mutiny Information Cafe in Denver! This episode is brought to you by Ratio Beerworks, who were on hand during the event pouring their beers Repeater & Domestica! In this month’s live episode, Damian and the gang get weird and awkward while discussing first dates, bad dates and have fun talking about the perils of dating. The talk is followed by a short game of Mad Libs! This live event features stand up by […]

122 – David Williams, bestselling photographer of Men With Cats! Live from Tattered Cover

DAVID WILLIAMS, the author/photographer of the New York Times Bestselling book, Men with Cats is the guest on this week’s Mostly Harmless Podcast! This was a LIVE recording of a Q&A hosted at the Tatter Cover in Denver! This episode is brought to you by Ratio Beerworks! I first became familiar with David and his work through our hundred thousand mutual friends! I had become a big fan of the music video David directed for the band Sleeping Weather, not to mention his most excellent portrait work! Even better, David and I had previously been published together a few years earlier […]

121 – Live from DINK: Historical/Biographical Comics with Nate Powell, Box Brown, Ben Towle & Joel Christian Gill

MOSTLY HARMLESS LIVE FROM DINK: Process of Historical Comics and Their Icons with Nate Powell, Box Brown, Ben Towle & Joel Christian Gill! This episode is brought to you by Ratio Beerworks and Dink: Denver’s Comic & Art Expo! It’s not everyday you get to sit back and chat with some of your all time favorite comic book creators and talk about their craft, but that’s what I got to do at DINK! I hosted the Process of Historical Comics & Their Icons (short for Biographical Comics)and chat with some of my current favorite comic creators; Box Brown (Andre the Giant), Nate Powell […]

Dammit Damian Visits Walker Stalker Denver fan Convention. John Carroll Lynch, Zach Galligan, Irone Singleton & Madison Lintz interviews

Hey all! So I got a random phone call from my friend, Kevin Hulse aka HeadAboveHeart photography last Sunday morning. It seems he had a media badge for Denver’s Walker Stalker fan convention! The pass granted interviews, but Kevin didn’t have anyone to do those interviews with him! I was of course super hungover from the night before of running a show at Illegal Pete’s and not prepared, so what else is new! I grabbed my tape recorder, drank a few bloody marys and headed out to the National Western Stockade where they were hosting this fan event. We headed down and […]

120 – LIVE: Revenge of the Nerds with The Ghoulies, Mallory Wallace & Xander Kreed!

MOSTLY HARMLESS LIVE: “REVENGE OF THE NERDS!” Guests include comedian Mallory Wallace, wrestler & Lucha Libre & Laughs Tag Champion Xander Kreed (tagging in for Dink Comic & Art Expo’s Charlie LaGrecia!) & musical guest: THE GHOULIES! Recorded in front of a “studio” audience at Ratio Beerworks in Denver! This episode is brought to you by Ratio Beerworks and the inaugural Dink: Denver’s Comic & Art Expo! In this month’s live episode, Damian drinks too much while the gang discuss their embarrassing & empowering stories of growing up in the Nerd culture! Then how they took their love of nerd culture and found success and happiness in their lives! […]

119 – ALLOUT HELTER. Denver’s hardest working punk band talks about their upcoming tour with 88 Fingers Louie, Hard work and what makes the band tick.

Denver’s ALLOUT HELTER are our guests on this week’s Mostly Harmless Podcast! This episode is brought to you by Ratio Beerworks & DINK: Denver’s Independent Comics and Art’s Expo! The boys in Allout Helter have been around for over 8 years, slowly plugging away at becoming one of the most hardworking bands in the Colorado music scene. That hard work has been paying off with the band pulling opening slots on Denver’s Riot Fest, and allowing the bands to open shows for The Bouncing Souls, Propaghandi, Alkaline Trio and oh so many more! Next weekend, March 31st & April 1st & 2nd sees the […]

118 – NAKED RAYGUN’s JEFF PEZZATI! Jeff talks about the upcoming Naked Raygun album, their legacy, Parkinson’s Disease, and more!

JEFF PEZZATI lead singer of NAKED RAYGUN, THE BOMB and member of BIG BLACK is on this week’s Mostly Harmless Podcast! What?! What?! Jeff Pezzati joins us from Cobra Lounge to chat about his life in Naked Raygun, their new album and the band’s legacy. We also chat with Jeff and his wife Kristen about their health, living in the country and oh so much more! Special thanks to Heather West of Western Publicity & Riot Fest for setting up this interview. Special thanks to Cobra Lounge and All Rise Brewing company for making me feel at home in Chicago! This […]

117 – Heather West of Western Publicity & Riot Fest talks about the art & life of a music publicist!

HEATHER WEST, owner of Western Publicity and publicist for RIOT FEST is on this week’s Mostly Harmless Podcast. Heather West has the best stories. She’s done a little bit of everything in the world of entertainment, but first and foremost she is a storyteller. Meet her backstage at Riot Fest or at a concert and she’ll regale you with the best stories of her time in the entertainment world. I decided I wanted to meet and I wanted  her to tell her own story in this week’s podcast! We talk about how she became a publicist,  her time at Victory Records, […]

116 – 88 Fingers Louie – Denis Buckley & Dan Precision (Part Two of Two)

Denis Buckley and Dan Precision of  88 FINGERS LOUIE are the guests on this week’s second episode with the Chicago band! Make sure you listen to the first episode with Denis and Dan!  Episode Two of Two! While in Chicago for two sold out Loved Ones shows at the Cobra Lounge, Damian travels all the to Simon’s Tavern to drink beers and chat with Denis and Dan from 88 Fingers Louie. The three of them chat for three hours over many, many beers. They drink several beers and chat about being mentors, parents and tell fun stories of their life and […]

115 – 88 Fingers Louie – Denis Buckley & Dan Precision (Part One of Two)

Denis Buckley and Dan Precision of  88 FINGERS LOUIE are the guests on this week’s episode in the first of two episodes! Look out for part two next Monday with Denis and Dan! While in Chicago for two sold out Loved Ones shows at the Cobra Lounge, Damian travels all the to Simon’s Tavern to drink beers and chat with Denis and Dan from 88 Fingers Louie. The three of them chat for three hours over many, many beers. They talk a little bit about everything including how they discovered punk rock in Chicago as young men and how that […]