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Michael Stumm of The Lonesome High     [Use MEMBER's Player]

The self-titled album from The Lonesome High is a dozen songs for a dozen stars of the screen, from Danny Thomas to Willem DaFoe, and from Cookie Mueller to Spalding Gray. Stumm is an obvious movie fan and knew the last two personally. This fascinating interview was recorded 17 February 2008.

Grayson Capps     [Use MEMBER's Player]

Grayson Capps is a musician with a cameo and music in John Travolta’s movie, “Love Song for Bobby Long”. Capps tells the story of how the discovered script has a family connection and how the movie has impacted his career.  Meet this fascinating singer-songwriter in this 10 February 2008 interview.

Trey Gunn     [Use MEMBER's Player]

In this 3 February 2008 interview we meet the Warr touch guitarist, basic, and composer Trey Gunn. Trey tells us about working with King Crimson and finding the Warr guitar a necessary launching point to new musical instruments. Most interesting to me was to hear about the motivation and intensions behind the multimedia Quodia project.

Graham Reynolds of Golden Arm Trio     [Use MEMBER's Player]

Get past the bouncers and barricades and enter The Tick Tock Club in this interview with Graham Reynolds of Golden Arm Trio. We hear about providing music for A Scanner Darkly and stage productions. Reynolds also tells us how you, yes you dear reader, can extend and further define the multi-media Tick Tock Club crime jazz universe. This interview is from 27 January 2008.

Andrew  Low of The Jazz June     [Use MEMBER's Player]

In this 20 January 2008 interview, Andrew Low recounts the history of art-goth project The Jazz June. Jazz June release a CD/DVD to raise money for the Adam Gerhart Fund in order to offset the costs of treatment and for Gerhart. The Royersford label Universal Warning documented a reunion show for a CD/DVD set and we hear from Andrew about this release and Gerhart.

Arthur Barrow     [Use MEMBER's Player]

Arthur Barrow is all over “Joe’s Garage” and toured with Zappa in the late ‘70s. In this 13 January 2008 interview, Barrow recalls those times and working closely with Zappa, including leading the band in rehearsals as “Clonemeister”.

Norman Greenbaum     [Use MEMBER's Player]

In this 6 January 2008 interview, Norman Greenbaum reveals himself to be warm, friendly, funny and possessed of the excitement of his “Spirit on the Web”. The legendary songwriter recalls this history of his song “Spirit in the Sky” and
the adventures it and he have had.

Chuck E. Weiss     [Use MEMBER's Player]

In 1981, Select Records released a collection of Weiss’s demo songs titled, “The Other Side of Town”, and Weiss went from being song material and occasional collaborator to a solo artist. Weiss chose to remain in LA and for the next eleven years after releasing “The Other Side of Town”, ... (read more inside player window)

Heather Haley     [Use MEMBER's Player]

Old School and proud of it, poet Heather Haley recalls her involvement in the early Canadian punk scene with The Zellots in more. On the eve of the release of her Aural Heather CD of spoken word songs, Princess Nut, we also here how this is a progression of her earlier spoken word and song projects.

George Agassi - Terminal Sunglasses     [Use MEMBER's Player]

In this 9 December 2007 episode, we meet drummer George Agassi of Montreal’s Terminal Sunglasses. This avant-punk band put out its own LP over twenty years ago and it still sounds fresh, fun and feisty.  Terminal Sunglasses was compiled on Vol. 4 of the Shielded by Death  compilation and stands out in that collection for its originality.