Today’s episode brings you the last of our three part series of interviews while on tour sabbatical in New York City! And BOY what an epic episode we bring you this week with one of our favorite humans, Nick from the Philadelphia band: LUTHER. This interview has been in the works for nearly a year and a half, but finally far away from both of our homes we meet up in New York where Luther was opening for Anti-Flag, celebrating their 20 year anniversary. We wandered across the street from Webster Hall to a loud sports bar and continued to […]
Author: Dammit Damian!
You may know Damian as one of the Managers at The Black Sheep in Colorado Springs, Colorado. You might know him as the Former booking agent for The Triple Nickel Tavern in Colo Springs. Or maybe you've met him on the road, where he has Traveled with Drag The River, Two Cow Garage, Michael Dean Damron, Austin Lucas, Harrison Bergeron and The Rightaways.
38 – Worship This! Interview! We talk about their lives before this band, A-F Records, Why they work together, how they are NOT a Christian band and partying in THE BIG APPLE!
Are you a fan of bands that are in the same vein as Hot Water Music, Samiam, Polar Bear Club or Jawbreaker? If you are, welcome to your new favorite band! This week I’m proud to bring you my new best friends forever in the Akron, Ohio band: WORSHIP THIS! I first discovered Worship This while on a month long tour with Arliss Nancy. It was a humid, hungover Saturday afternoon at the annual Death To False Hope Records Fest in Durham, North Carolina at Motorco. The main auditorium was cool and comfortable with strong Bloody Mary’s. I sat down […]
37 – Adventures at Denver Comic Con 2013! Featuring: William Shatner, The Guild, Matt Wagner, Steve Wiebe, Anthony Montgomery, Amy Reeder, Jim Mahfood, Thomas Zahler, Sean Tiffany, Noah Van Sciver, Midspace’s Zak Kinsella & Nick Salmon & More!
Hello Friends! Boy do I have a great episode for you guys! Last weekend I was fortunate enough to end a wonderful month long tour as tour manager for Fort Collin’s Alt-Country/Punk band Arliss Nancy, by coming home to Colorado and experiencing the wonderful DENVER COMIC CON! What an experience. I got to meet so many wonderful and incredible people over the course of that weekend! It was a fantastic fun time that I will never forget. Rather than ramble on about the weekend (which I do in the actual episode! You can skip all that rambling and get to the goods […]
36 – Make Do and Mend’s James Carroll talks his early musical upbringing in Connecticut and how all roads led to Make Do and Mend.
THIS WEEK’S EPISODE OF THE MOSTLY HARMLESS PODCAST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DENVER COMIC CON! VISIT http://www.denvercomiccon.com for more information! I’m currently tour managing Arliss Nancy from Fort Collins, Colorado. I procrastinated long enough and did not get my passport in time to join the band in Montreal for Pouzza Fest. What did I do instead? I went to visit friends and family in New York City! While I was there I managed to do a few interviews! The first of those interviews was with James Carroll, lead vocalist and guitar player for Make Do and Mend. We talked a […]
35 – Octaves humorously talk about their early musical memories and Comic Artist Damian Willcox spills the beans on his cartooning origins
THIS WEEK’S EPISODE OF THE MOSTLY HARMLESS PODCAST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DENVER COMIC CON! VISIT http://www.denvercomiccon.com for more information! This week we bring you a JAM PACKED episode! We open the episode off with an interview with Calgary, Alberta Canada’s Damian Willcox, comic creator extraordinaire! Years ago, Damian created the cover of the now-defunct Mostly Harmless Magazine #2! We’re turning that design into a T-shirt and thought we would check in with Damian in Canada to talk about how he became the cartoonist he is today! Then we jump into the van with Octaves from Baltimore, Maryland after their May […]
34 – Dave Hause of The Loved Ones joins us from The Revival Tour to talk about having his father’s name, how traveling with Kid Dynamite influenced his musical career and more!
THIS WEEK’S EPISODE OF THE MOSTLY HARMLESS PODCAST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DENVER COMIC CON! VISIT http://www.denvercomiccon.com for more information! I’ll never forget the day that The Loved Ones came blasting out of my tiny little computer speakers and knocked me across the room. My roommate, then a computer programer for a Department of Defense subcontractor came home to tell me he spent the entire day surfing Myspace and discovered a little band with members of Kid Dynamite. He knew I’d like it, but he was wrong. I loved it. Over the years I’ve followed Dave Hause career from The […]
33 – POLAR BEAR CLUB’s Jimmy Stadt talks his early musical influences, and how acting and the art of becoming some else takes stage! All this and more!
THIS WEEK’S EPISODE OF THE MOSTLY HARMLESS PODCAST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DENVER COMIC CON! VISIT http://www.denvercomiccon.com for more information! Polar Bear Club are one hell of a band. Jimmy Stadt, lead singer du tour of PBR is on hell of a guy. I joined Jimmy backstage at the band’s April 10th stop at The Fillmore Auditorium with Bad Religion and The Bronx. I had known from previous interviews that Jimmy was super intelligent, well spoken young man. I was thrilled to find out how well we got along and the magnus opus of an interview that followed. Jimmy and I […]
32 – BAD RELIGION’s JAY BENTLEY talks fatherhood, childhood heroes, and how Suffer, No Control and Grey Race prepared him for TRUE NORTH
THIS WEEK’S EPISODE OF THE MOSTLY HARMLESS PODCAST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DENVER COMIC CON! VISIT http://www.denvercomiccon.com for more information! December 21st, 2012 came and left us with a wimper. The end of the Mayan calendar was to bring about the end of the world. All it brought me was a horrible hangover, as well as interviewing Jay Bentley, bass player of Bad Religion! I woke early on that faithful Friday morning. I has spent the evening eating and drinking heartily at a company Christmas party. That night I kept myself glued to the computer as I listened to True North over […]
THE ART OF AN INTERVIEW Damian interviews JAY BENTELY of BAD RELIGION, and give us advice on conducting a better interview!
I’ve been doing interviews with bands since I was seventeen years old. Over the years people have asked my advice in how they can do their own interviews. Most recently I interviewed Tom May from The Menzingers. Their tour manager, Scotty Bell, is a good friend of mine and wrote me telling me that Tom thought the interview was great and that my questions were “really gonzo-esque and off the wall.” Scott was thinking of interviewing bands and asked me for tips. As with the other, people who has asked, I wrote him a couple of thousand words about my […]
31 – THE ATOM AGE (Asian Man Records) & YALE STEWART Comic book creator of JL8 & Gifted
Today we bring you what will be the start of some new programming here at the Mostly Harmless Pod. We love comic books. We love Movies. We looooove Music! Why not combine our loves and showcase them to the world! So today we bring you an episode that combines our love of Punk/ska with Comics?!?! Our first interview in today’s episode is with YALE STEWART, world famous creator of GIFTED and of the critically acclaimed, award winning JL8! JL8 is of course the web comic that re-imagines The Justice League (Superman, Batman, Flash, Wonder Woman, Ect…) as eight year old kids in Day […]
30 – TURBONEGRO’s TONY SYLVESTER discusses his early beginnings and how they lead to his rise as the new singer of Turbonegro in this in-depth interview
“Sometimes dead is better…” is the lesson we’ve come to learn from Stephen King’s Pet Semetary, but try telling that to Turbonegro. Before the death rattle could settle in the Oslo, Norway death punk band’s throat, they have pounced back from extinction. But with any resurrection, there are bound to be some unexpected changes. This interview was originally published in AMP Magazine Issue #111. During the summer of 2012, I found myself suddenly unemployed and with a plethora of time on my hands. I sent my good friend and then AMP Magazine editor, Lisa Root, an email begging for work […]