April 28, 2025 • 51 mins
#158. Larry Peace-Love Yes becomes present in his body, SENNA preaches songwriting patience, AL1CE and X-RL7 collab on an animated adventure, and Ron shares new faves from Ya I Feel Ya, Sparks, + more.Sponsored by DistroKid. Get 30% off your membership at distrokid.com/vip/independentmindedSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
You're the one that should be worried. You're a freak.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You're reading for beg trouble.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
What's the good word?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
April Fools, ron Scalzo coming in just under the wire
to bring you eleven new songs from independent artists from
around the globe. Once upon a time, I promised I'd
get these bonus episodes of independent minded out on the
eleventh of each month, just to stay on brand. Then
I realized that I use the term on brand, so
I spent April eleventh flagellating myself instead. Then I waited
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for eleven good songs to be released, and here we
finally are. And besides, these episodes are timeless, just like
my haircut the past ocean of music discovery. Some of
you may even drift in years after this eleven episode
sets sail, And that's okay. If even one music nerd
out there discovers a band or an artist featured here,
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a few miles down the river, and Ronald has done
his job. Plus, if you're a musician yourself or a
fan of song craft, you'll get to hear some of
these stellar artists share the inspiration behind their new tunes.
And even though the bots have taken over. There are
still a handful of us humans out there willing to
spread the indie gospel without the aid of some corporate master,
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without an algorithm, and without an agenda. Yep, it's me
in about seven other people.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Five six seven, Hey, ken Hello.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I usually reserve the medal for later in these episodes,
but I'm too jazzed to share this one to two
punch of heavy tunes up top. Starting with German metalcore
band Senna, the single Hurricane embodies the chaos of the
mind and the struggle to find clarity within. It sounds
like just another Tuesday for me. Here's guitarist Marcel dur
(02:05):
To talk about a different songwriting approach to the opener
of the band's forthcoming debut album.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Hello guys, this is Myselle from Zena and I was
asked to say a few things about our song Hurricane.
It's actually one of the first songs we started writing
for the new record, and I think the second to
last we finished, which is not usually the case. So
usually we are really fast. We've just taking an idea
and going from there, and usually after only a few
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writing sessions we would have the complete song and usually
we wouldn't change much about it, but with Hurricane it
was really different. We had this intro and the opening riff,
and we knew right away this is going to be
the opener for the record. We knew it was a really,
really good song. We really liked how it sounded and
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the whole light behind it, so we also had strong
feelings about it being a single. Took a long time
to finish the song. We had a lot of parts
that we wrote and then we scrapped them, and also
we took ages finding the correct vocal lines for the
chorus and so on. So definitely showed me that it's
okay to take the time to go back to change
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things if they're not feeling one right, because that's kind
of you know what. Our fans also, they deserve the
best version of our songs and not just the fastest
versions we can put out. So really glad we took
the time with it. We worked on it, and in
the end, I think it's one of the strongest songs.
It's very very fun to play live, and yeah, I
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hope you enjoyed the song.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
So amazing.
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Oscoffecator's going through a book.
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With a thousand empty pages keep me in the time.
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That's not when we are God gat on fire.
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It's very.
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Our hurricane. Just start the line, Sam, you don't sing me.
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Then ye.
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Man staring up to Jo stay.
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So I'm gonna tip.
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a giant right out, go to.
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The hurricane, the stars, food of the bourn, racing me
the bud. You can see me the bird, So ta.
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me the so ja sound.
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So what's all?
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like the sky off the boat and let's forever and
that she comes a life and the.
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More said on some sum not to back. Man, I'm
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gonna get out.
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What an ud.
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Least got eleven.
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Anywhere feel gone.
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You'll be killed of about it.
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it to tell you my function.
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could tell I.
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those lies?
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about it?
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I can tell how.
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I say.
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That's Cleveland, Ohio's Cloud Nothings with That Prince lead singer
Dylan Baldy is an Independent Mind and alumni. We talked
about our mutual love of dogs Chili in MySpace all
the way back on episode forty seven. The single is
a new B side from last year's release Final Summer,
and it's got keyboards in it, which means it should
have been an aside before that. A double shot of
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hard rock from deutsch Land Wukan's latest single Irons in
the Fire off Long Branch Records has that throwback seventies
era sound, aided by the healthy lungs of lead singer
Francis Tabolski. It also features a theremin solo and an
absolutely dope base breakdown by Alexander Carlish. Well done, Mine,
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Frind and we kicked off eleven with Senna and the
song Hurricane from their forthcoming debut album Stranger to Love,
out May twenty third on Sharp Tone Records.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
If you can see, Yeah, the numbers will go to eleven.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Before they told me otherwise, I thought West Coast band
Yeah I Feel You was a new band and it
kind of is. Only consists of dudes who have been
making rock and punk for three decades. Here's two thirds
of if y to tell us about a new single
that created space for reconnection and more inspiration to keep collaborating.
Speaker 17 (15:08):
Hey, this is Ryan from Yeah Iphilia and Donald from
Yeah Aphelia.
Speaker 18 (15:12):
And we're here to talk about our new song, Totality Terrorized.
This song was written late last year as a bunch
of change was going on in my life, my father passing,
my career of thirty four years, that Vulcan was transitioning
and coming to an end, and this song was really
just therapy.
Speaker 17 (15:29):
We've been writing songs together for thirty years and collaborating.
Me and Ryan met at our little studio and I
cut Ryan running the song down a couple of times
on acoustic guitar, and then he did a handful of vocals.
We generally record these like that send them out to
our drummer, and he sent it back with a great
kind of dark backbeat, which I think set the mood
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for everything else. One thing I for some reason that
kept hearing a real melodic piano part, which I don't
think is very common for us song like this. All
Uh thunder Road put the dark guitars over the piano,
and I think it came out really unique.
Speaker 18 (16:06):
I think your basslines, all the layers that you added
really brought this song to life and took it to
a new place. And that really inspired the visuals for
the video. So the actual music video we created all ourselves.
Speaker 17 (16:19):
This is one hundred percent true DIY spirit. We do
everything ourselves, all the visuals, all the production, and all
the recording obviously all the songwriting, and we're excited to
share this with everyone.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Well, talking like the.
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Real we took a dangerous ride.
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We live way nicely, side.
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Alive call.
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Must read.
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Tootana hid with the blind, Tortala tarrid.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
What's up the well prescious sat with these minds. Who
they took deadis the bats?
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Who has a domino swam?
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We beat the true still going strong, have a deal
with the saying, come on the real line as they
know the real.
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It's black shallows, tortana hids, just change because.
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Jot down roun.
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What's that?
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And you talk about.
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To tell said listen to.
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The side, give the name the same.
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People stick, So don't tell me it doesn't do.
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Some I can.
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That.
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Don't tell me tell what's happening.
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Eleven eleven.
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Eleven, Well, it's all.
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Understand what you're saying, and you can't understand what they mean.
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I can confidently starting to drive to sound a sucking
down the telet on the sky makes a fling sound
in the sea because it can.
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Tail tail tail tail.
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free build lay because to slicks your position as you're
basking the rod scream.
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Tail tail tail taylor dail tail tail tail tailor. Man
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goes down to take to.
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Daylight daylight day.
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Day day.
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Day say day say say Man combs down to man comstall.
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What's your night songs eleven.
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I didn't know how deep it almost a bear her
greatest sound, that she could keep it all in.
Speaker 14 (23:23):
We'll never bother her, or big of a deal or
her lengths to con see it just how bad. We'd
go to parties and we'd laugh with our friends.
Speaker 20 (23:40):
We'd have some tricks, and now we'd ever pretend it'd
almost don't great the brother of at all.
Speaker 14 (23:46):
She's the bear of the pot, and she.
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Does have it all, have it all. So in the seys.
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Omaceptor, I was still very near child in the citys.
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Then I try to cut hees o fears.
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But then she seemed a little down, little aloud.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
I asked her what was rolled? It always looks out.
That's when she told me about it didn't work out.
Wish I had helped her out, but I didn't know
how Even.
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Child in the citys Then I try to cuteese on
a fairs.
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True in the sea, True in the sea.
Speaker 20 (25:31):
We were ecstatic, even though it would rain. We were
so frantic as we bite a resbee. Were we romantic coaches?
Stuff for good times to the kind. Now I can
see how I was blind.
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In the styesus Homer, I was.
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Want to try that.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Drowned in a Sea of Tears is the new single
from legendary indie duo Sparks. Their new album Mad Exclamation
Point is out May twenty third on Transgressive. If you're
a fan of unconventional rock and roll, I strongly recommend
the twenty twenty one documentary The Sparks Brothers. Before that,
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Orbit with Daylight their first song in Forever. Orbit had
a minor hit with the single Medicine all the way
back in nineteen ninety seven, mostly thanks to some love
on MTV two. This, for those who don't know, was
an alternative universe where you watch videos on television instead
of YouTube or instead of not at all. Daylight reunites
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Orbit's classic lineup, and there's some promise of a self
produced full length album coming on Lunch Records, plus a
reunion show in Boston at the Crystal Ballroom on May thirtieth,
and our triple shot of Oldies but Goodies started with
Yeah I Feel You and the song totality Terrorized. I
got five more coming out of the break, including a
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Hello.
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Sure, my tastes trend towards more aggressive styles of music,
but Ronnie's got a sensitive too. The gentle twang of
an acoustic guitar, the swell of a soft scynth has
been known to tickle my fancy. And speaking of sensitivity,
let's kick offside B of the podcast with some philosophical
wax from Portland. Self described multidisciplinary artist Larry Peace Love Yes,
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once known just as Larry Yes, has amped up the
peace and the love on his forthcoming album Everyone on
His Planet Is Family. By my account, Larry's shares studio
time with no less than seventeen guest musicians on this record.
He plays, among other things, the baritone ukulele, and he's
here to share some cosmic words about his album's first single,
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be Present.
Speaker 22 (29:41):
Hey, ron thank you so much, for asking me to
talk about be Present. I recorded that song while I
was in Nashville. Now it's working this really really hard
job where I was helping do an installation at the
airport there for this awesome artist.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
But it was like.
Speaker 22 (30:00):
Sixteen hour days and I would go home with my
friends we were working on the show. We had a
little place to stay, a little airbnb. It was really nice,
and I would just play my baritone ukulele. I just
started thinking about just working. I was working so hard,
trying to make money, you know, living, But I was
also like I just wanted to live and be present
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in my body. I had just become a big fan
of this beautiful band called the Be Present Art Group,
So I was thinking a lot about being present.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 22 (30:36):
And life is full of illusions, so much pain, so
much confusion. We must be here now in this beautiful moment,
even though it seems like it's a really hard moment,
it's a truly beautiful moment if you want it. Yeah, baby,
you can't give yourself away for free, but you can't
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live own for the money, you know what I mean?
Life is for the living, the loving, and the giving
our true selves completely and though you know we're never
going to know all the secrets of this world.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Maybe, just maybe, I think.
Speaker 22 (31:16):
If we're lucky and if we reach further, we'll find
our way to love.
Speaker 23 (31:22):
You can give leoset holy fall three, but you can't live.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
On with all the money. You can't know what's come.
But you see, you must be present in that.
Speaker 24 (31:52):
Ill play for the living, loving and giving love, true
self exmpletely.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
No, not but no secrets of this room. May be
just may find no way to.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
The world is folk love wonders may be leave We all.
Speaker 23 (32:42):
Between the legends and be leafs. The birds sing song,
hunger and been stony.
Speaker 24 (32:55):
We all know nothing and at the same time we
know every sickle than out the life.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
It's full of a loose shs, so much pain, so
much confuse.
Speaker 24 (33:10):
Make my spin give them up, saying for give up
bamily trees.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Just be.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
Now and let's.
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What afu a moment?
Speaker 8 (33:28):
So what iful moment? If we own it. You can't
give me up sag for week four free.
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You can't live my wall.
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The fo my money.
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You can't know.
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What's come to bud ju.
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See, you must be.
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Present, Yeah, many.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
But.
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Out a light it's for the living, about loving and
give up true myself excpletly you know, never know the
secrets of this room.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Maybe believe it just made me by going to love.
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If wereity.
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What two, three, four, five, six, seven, eighteen eleven.
Speaker 12 (35:01):
Eleven's the number for me, don't you seriously?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Eleven's the number for me?
Speaker 9 (35:08):
A oh at all my feet tam.
Speaker 25 (35:24):
Numbing speak, don't smile, say long said, I know they
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don't try.
Speaker 8 (35:59):
A cold.
Speaker 12 (36:03):
Night trolly, I gay, I gained on.
Speaker 9 (36:54):
A little sympathy, okay, is from.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
The balcony.
Speaker 9 (37:08):
It might be to come and will it kill.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Me for a little uncom for a little company, for
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a little.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
Just a little company.
Speaker 8 (37:59):
If it's not love, what is it? What is it?
Speaker 14 (38:01):
If it's not love? If it's not love, what is it?
Speaker 8 (38:05):
What is it? If it's not love? Something hit me.
Speaker 14 (38:12):
All of a sudden, I started to feel better. There
must be something in the air now.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
If it's not love, what is it?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
What is it?
Speaker 14 (38:28):
If it's not love? If it's not love, what is it?
What is it? If it's not love?
Speaker 15 (38:44):
It could have been another type of drug's love love love.
Speaker 14 (38:53):
Could have been another type of truck It's love.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Queen's New York's Wan Waters with his new single if
It's Not Love. Wan first got my attention with his
trippy and charming, multi lingual twenty twenty three album, Wandering Rebel.
His new one, which I think has pronounced mad Love,
it's spelled MVD, Moved to Love is out June twenty
seventh on Captured Tracks. Before that, another old fave of mine, Oakland,
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California's Madeline Kenny and her new single All I Need
from her forthcoming album, Kiss from the Balcony, out July
eighteenth on car Park Records, and we kicked off the
set with Larry Peace Love Yes and Be Present from
the album Everyone on This Planet His Family, out May
twenty third on Nate Deane Records.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
What we do is, if we need that extra push
over the cliff, you know, we do put it up
to an event exactly impressively.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Bearded hippie Paul McDonald lives just down the road for
me when he's here in Nashville at least, which is
almost never. McDonald is a touring dynamo, and since I
last saw his energetic blues rock set at the Five
Spot a couple of years back, the American Idol alumni
has performed not once, but twice at the Grand Ole Opry,
a rite of passage for anyone who's ever strapped on
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a guitar. Paul's back in the studio too, with a
new single and a new album to follow this summer.
This one's called What's the Point?
Speaker 26 (41:00):
Baby spent old lay in bad taking angels, and Sili
said bad.
Speaker 8 (41:05):
I can't remember all the things.
Speaker 26 (41:07):
She said, but I remember her telling me, have been
thinking too much trying to her? You don't never loads
too right where you are?
Speaker 8 (41:20):
What's surpri what's the part of it all? What's surprise?
What's sprite of it all?
Speaker 27 (41:32):
If we all gotta died, it's all got iron and
then body bonny bonn Bard again, what's supply?
Speaker 8 (41:41):
What's the part of it all?
Speaker 27 (41:46):
All outs we've been awaiting to fast. Everything physical is
just in a leadership, it's their future is the pads
are we chosen?
Speaker 8 (41:56):
And we do him to choose.
Speaker 26 (41:58):
Nothing is created and the thing's destroyed. Well aside, just
avoid what's surprise?
Speaker 8 (42:06):
What's supply of you?
Speaker 3 (42:11):
What's surprise?
Speaker 8 (42:13):
What surpride of you?
Speaker 3 (42:17):
If I'd got that, it's all that I.
Speaker 26 (42:19):
Am lived with, brought it by fucking what's surprise?
Speaker 8 (42:25):
What suppl of you all? I mean, I'm.
Speaker 26 (43:09):
Moppy Finally, Angels serve, I can't remember for the conversation
even talking bal.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
And Paul McDonald and what's the point from his forthcoming
album so Long to the Dark Side out July eleventh,
on episode one six of Independent Mind that I talked
with the UK musician and animator Mike Evans, who, much
to my delight, turned me into a cartoon for a
cyberpunk pixel art web series.
Speaker 28 (43:42):
X r L seven XR seven is a cyberpunk animated
YouTube web series and music project. It's a mix of comedy,
social commentary, and original music, following a fictional band called
XRL seven in edge charals and tribulations in the music
industry and a cyber punk dystopian world, and features tons
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of really awesome musicians from the alternative music scene, people
like Please Starly, Esthetic Perfection, Craig Owans of Chiodos, Jimmy
year In of Minus Self Inteligence, Lauren Babbick I could
spiel lights off, and of course the legendary incredible sco
of Return to Earth to if you've heard of.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Him, I've been back to voice the character of program
on XRL seven a few times since then, and in
addition to being Mike's true labor of love, the show
serves as an outlet for him to cohort with artists
like me on new music that typically accompanies each new
animated episode.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Will You Get With the Program?
Speaker 12 (44:40):
Will You Get With.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Mike's latest collab is with La based dark wave band Alice, who,
in the spirit of their cyberpunk aesthetic, spell their band
name with a one instead of an eye. Vocalist Tosh Cox,
guitarist Scott Landis, and our old mate Mike are going
to take us to eleven with some words about their
latest Pixel Party and the accompanying song they cranked out
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anti pop star.
Speaker 11 (45:10):
Hi, this is Tash from Alice.
Speaker 29 (45:12):
My name is scotland Is, and yeah, it's a really
exciting collaboration. This is something we've never really done before,
where you know, someone sends us basically like a pre
written song or sketch you know what might give us.
Was like, definitely like a fully realized arrangement with like melodies, lyrics,
vocal styles and everything. It was like a really great sketch.
Speaker 11 (45:33):
He originally approached us about not only doing this song,
but also me voicing the character MS Cleo with Mike,
it's always an immediate yes. It's such a joy to
collaborate with Mike. I absolutely love and respect what he
does as an artist, a musician, and such a visionary Truly,
it was.
Speaker 29 (45:52):
A really cool experience being able to bring our sort
of approach and technique to a holy new, brand new
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Speaker 11 (46:03):
To get to sing a song that I feel like
has a very powerful and important message, which to me
is about going against the grain and about stripping away
the layers of perfectionism, especially in the entertainment industry, and
to be completely and unabashedly unafraid to be who you
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are and to express that.
Speaker 29 (46:26):
You know, my first thought when I, you know, approaching
this song, especially with the screaming elements, I've been listening
to a lot of like sleep Token and specifically Poppy Too.
For some reason, it sort of just came to mind,
and I just was like, I really like want to
sort of be inspired by some of these influences in
some of our recent music and productions, and so I
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had a chance to really experiment and play around with that. Thus,
you know, I broke out the h string guitar and
did some like really heavy, really fun riffage for this song.
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Thanks to the artist who shared stories and music with
us on eleven. All music on Independent Mind. It is
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April Fools, ron Scalzo coming in just under the wire
to bring you eleven new songs from independent artists from
around the globe. Once upon a time, I promised I'd
get these bonus episodes of independent minded out on the
eleventh of each month, just to stay on brand. Then
I realized that I use the term on brand, so
I spent April eleventh flagellating myself instead. Then I waited
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for eleven good songs to be released, and here we
finally are. And besides, these episodes are timeless, just like
my haircut the past ocean of music discovery. Some of
you may even drift in years after this eleven episode
sets sail, And that's okay. If even one music nerd
out there discovers a band or an artist featured here,
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a few miles down the river, and Ronald has done
his job. Plus, if you're a musician yourself or a
fan of song craft, you'll get to hear some of
these stellar artists share the inspiration behind their new tunes.
And even though the bots have taken over. There are
still a handful of us humans out there willing to
spread the indie gospel without the aid of some corporate master,
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without an algorithm, and without an agenda. Yep, it's me
in about seven other people.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Five six seven, Hey, ken Hello.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I usually reserve the medal for later in these episodes,
but I'm too jazzed to share this one to two
punch of heavy tunes up top. Starting with German metalcore
band Senna, the single Hurricane embodies the chaos of the
mind and the struggle to find clarity within. It sounds
like just another Tuesday for me. Here's guitarist Marcel dur
(02:05):
To talk about a different songwriting approach to the opener
of the band's forthcoming debut album.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Hello guys, this is Myselle from Zena and I was
asked to say a few things about our song Hurricane.
It's actually one of the first songs we started writing
for the new record, and I think the second to
last we finished, which is not usually the case. So
usually we are really fast. We've just taking an idea
and going from there, and usually after only a few
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writing sessions we would have the complete song and usually
we wouldn't change much about it, but with Hurricane it
was really different. We had this intro and the opening riff,
and we knew right away this is going to be
the opener for the record. We knew it was a really,
really good song. We really liked how it sounded and
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the whole light behind it, so we also had strong
feelings about it being a single. Took a long time
to finish the song. We had a lot of parts
that we wrote and then we scrapped them, and also
we took ages finding the correct vocal lines for the
chorus and so on. So definitely showed me that it's
okay to take the time to go back to change
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things if they're not feeling one right, because that's kind
of you know what. Our fans also, they deserve the
best version of our songs and not just the fastest
versions we can put out. So really glad we took
the time with it. We worked on it, and in
the end, I think it's one of the strongest songs.
It's very very fun to play live, and yeah, I
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hope you enjoyed the song.
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That's Cleveland, Ohio's Cloud Nothings with That Prince lead singer
Dylan Baldy is an Independent Mind and alumni. We talked
about our mutual love of dogs Chili in MySpace all
the way back on episode forty seven. The single is
a new B side from last year's release Final Summer,
and it's got keyboards in it, which means it should
have been an aside before that. A double shot of
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hard rock from deutsch Land Wukan's latest single Irons in
the Fire off Long Branch Records has that throwback seventies
era sound, aided by the healthy lungs of lead singer
Francis Tabolski. It also features a theremin solo and an
absolutely dope base breakdown by Alexander Carlish. Well done, Mine,
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Frind and we kicked off eleven with Senna and the
song Hurricane from their forthcoming debut album Stranger to Love,
out May twenty third on Sharp Tone Records.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
If you can see, Yeah, the numbers will go to eleven.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Before they told me otherwise, I thought West Coast band
Yeah I Feel You was a new band and it
kind of is. Only consists of dudes who have been
making rock and punk for three decades. Here's two thirds
of if y to tell us about a new single
that created space for reconnection and more inspiration to keep collaborating.
Speaker 17 (15:08):
Hey, this is Ryan from Yeah Iphilia and Donald from
Yeah Aphelia.
Speaker 18 (15:12):
And we're here to talk about our new song, Totality Terrorized.
This song was written late last year as a bunch
of change was going on in my life, my father passing,
my career of thirty four years, that Vulcan was transitioning
and coming to an end, and this song was really
just therapy.
Speaker 17 (15:29):
We've been writing songs together for thirty years and collaborating.
Me and Ryan met at our little studio and I
cut Ryan running the song down a couple of times
on acoustic guitar, and then he did a handful of vocals.
We generally record these like that send them out to
our drummer, and he sent it back with a great
kind of dark backbeat, which I think set the mood
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for everything else. One thing I for some reason that
kept hearing a real melodic piano part, which I don't
think is very common for us song like this. All
Uh thunder Road put the dark guitars over the piano,
and I think it came out really unique.
Speaker 18 (16:06):
I think your basslines, all the layers that you added
really brought this song to life and took it to
a new place. And that really inspired the visuals for
the video. So the actual music video we created all ourselves.
Speaker 17 (16:19):
This is one hundred percent true DIY spirit. We do
everything ourselves, all the visuals, all the production, and all
the recording obviously all the songwriting, and we're excited to
share this with everyone.
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Drowned in a Sea of Tears is the new single
from legendary indie duo Sparks. Their new album Mad Exclamation
Point is out May twenty third on Transgressive. If you're
a fan of unconventional rock and roll, I strongly recommend
the twenty twenty one documentary The Sparks Brothers. Before that,
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Orbit with Daylight their first song in Forever. Orbit had
a minor hit with the single Medicine all the way
back in nineteen ninety seven, mostly thanks to some love
on MTV two. This, for those who don't know, was
an alternative universe where you watch videos on television instead
of YouTube or instead of not at all. Daylight reunites
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Orbit's classic lineup, and there's some promise of a self
produced full length album coming on Lunch Records, plus a
reunion show in Boston at the Crystal Ballroom on May thirtieth,
and our triple shot of Oldies but Goodies started with
Yeah I Feel You and the song totality Terrorized. I
got five more coming out of the break, including a
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nice stretch of Happiest Hippie Acoustic Fair from Portland to
Oakland to Queens and a pixel inspired collaboration composed by
a dude who turned me into a cartoon. Don't hit
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Sure, my tastes trend towards more aggressive styles of music,
but Ronnie's got a sensitive too. The gentle twang of
an acoustic guitar, the swell of a soft scynth has
been known to tickle my fancy. And speaking of sensitivity,
let's kick offside B of the podcast with some philosophical
wax from Portland. Self described multidisciplinary artist Larry Peace Love Yes,
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once known just as Larry Yes, has amped up the
peace and the love on his forthcoming album Everyone on
His Planet Is Family. By my account, Larry's shares studio
time with no less than seventeen guest musicians on this record.
He plays, among other things, the baritone ukulele, and he's
here to share some cosmic words about his album's first single,
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be Present.
Speaker 22 (29:41):
Hey, ron thank you so much, for asking me to
talk about be Present. I recorded that song while I
was in Nashville. Now it's working this really really hard
job where I was helping do an installation at the
airport there for this awesome artist.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
But it was like.
Speaker 22 (30:00):
Sixteen hour days and I would go home with my
friends we were working on the show. We had a
little place to stay, a little airbnb. It was really nice,
and I would just play my baritone ukulele. I just
started thinking about just working. I was working so hard,
trying to make money, you know, living, But I was
also like I just wanted to live and be present
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in my body. I had just become a big fan
of this beautiful band called the Be Present Art Group,
So I was thinking a lot about being present.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 22 (30:36):
And life is full of illusions, so much pain, so
much confusion. We must be here now in this beautiful moment,
even though it seems like it's a really hard moment,
it's a truly beautiful moment if you want it. Yeah, baby,
you can't give yourself away for free, but you can't
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live own for the money, you know what I mean?
Life is for the living, the loving, and the giving
our true selves completely and though you know we're never
going to know all the secrets of this world.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Maybe, just maybe, I think.
Speaker 22 (31:16):
If we're lucky and if we reach further, we'll find
our way to love.
Speaker 23 (31:22):
You can give leoset holy fall three, but you can't live.
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On with all the money. You can't know what's come.
But you see, you must be present in that.
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Ill play for the living, loving and giving love, true
self exmpletely.
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The world is folk love wonders may be leave We all.
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Between the legends and be leafs. The birds sing song,
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We all know nothing and at the same time we
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Just be.
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If wereity.
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don't try.
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If it's not love, what is it? What is it?
Speaker 14 (38:01):
If it's not love? If it's not love, what is it?
Speaker 8 (38:05):
What is it? If it's not love? Something hit me.
Speaker 14 (38:12):
All of a sudden, I started to feel better. There
must be something in the air now.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
If it's not love, what is it?
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What is it?
Speaker 14 (38:28):
If it's not love? If it's not love, what is it?
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It could have been another type of drug's love love love.
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Could have been another type of truck It's love.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Queen's New York's Wan Waters with his new single if
It's Not Love. Wan first got my attention with his
trippy and charming, multi lingual twenty twenty three album, Wandering Rebel.
His new one, which I think has pronounced mad Love,
it's spelled MVD, Moved to Love is out June twenty
seventh on Captured Tracks. Before that, another old fave of mine, Oakland,
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California's Madeline Kenny and her new single All I Need
from her forthcoming album, Kiss from the Balcony, out July
eighteenth on car Park Records, and we kicked off the
set with Larry Peace Love Yes and Be Present from
the album Everyone on This Planet His Family, out May
twenty third on Nate Deane Records.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
What we do is, if we need that extra push
over the cliff, you know, we do put it up
to an event exactly impressively.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Bearded hippie Paul McDonald lives just down the road for
me when he's here in Nashville at least, which is
almost never. McDonald is a touring dynamo, and since I
last saw his energetic blues rock set at the Five
Spot a couple of years back, the American Idol alumni
has performed not once, but twice at the Grand Ole Opry,
a rite of passage for anyone who's ever strapped on
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a guitar. Paul's back in the studio too, with a
new single and a new album to follow this summer.
This one's called What's the Point?
Speaker 26 (41:00):
Baby spent old lay in bad taking angels, and Sili
said bad.
Speaker 8 (41:05):
I can't remember all the things.
Speaker 26 (41:07):
She said, but I remember her telling me, have been
thinking too much trying to her? You don't never loads
too right where you are?
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And Paul McDonald and what's the point from his forthcoming
album so Long to the Dark Side out July eleventh,
on episode one six of Independent Mind that I talked
with the UK musician and animator Mike Evans, who, much
to my delight, turned me into a cartoon for a
cyberpunk pixel art web series.
Speaker 28 (43:42):
X r L seven XR seven is a cyberpunk animated
YouTube web series and music project. It's a mix of comedy,
social commentary, and original music, following a fictional band called
XRL seven in edge charals and tribulations in the music
industry and a cyber punk dystopian world, and features tons
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of really awesome musicians from the alternative music scene, people
like Please Starly, Esthetic Perfection, Craig Owans of Chiodos, Jimmy
year In of Minus Self Inteligence, Lauren Babbick I could
spiel lights off, and of course the legendary incredible sco
of Return to Earth to if you've heard of.
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Him, I've been back to voice the character of program
on XRL seven a few times since then, and in
addition to being Mike's true labor of love, the show
serves as an outlet for him to cohort with artists
like me on new music that typically accompanies each new
animated episode.
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Will You Get With the Program?
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Will You Get With.
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Mike's latest collab is with La based dark wave band Alice, who,
in the spirit of their cyberpunk aesthetic, spell their band
name with a one instead of an eye. Vocalist Tosh Cox,
guitarist Scott Landis, and our old mate Mike are going
to take us to eleven with some words about their
latest Pixel Party and the accompanying song they cranked out
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anti pop star.
Speaker 11 (45:10):
Hi, this is Tash from Alice.
Speaker 29 (45:12):
My name is scotland Is, and yeah, it's a really
exciting collaboration. This is something we've never really done before,
where you know, someone sends us basically like a pre
written song or sketch you know what might give us.
Was like, definitely like a fully realized arrangement with like melodies, lyrics,
vocal styles and everything. It was like a really great sketch.
Speaker 11 (45:33):
He originally approached us about not only doing this song,
but also me voicing the character MS Cleo with Mike,
it's always an immediate yes. It's such a joy to
collaborate with Mike. I absolutely love and respect what he
does as an artist, a musician, and such a visionary Truly,
it was.
Speaker 29 (45:52):
A really cool experience being able to bring our sort
of approach and technique to a holy new, brand new
you spank an idea, and also.
Speaker 11 (46:03):
To get to sing a song that I feel like
has a very powerful and important message, which to me
is about going against the grain and about stripping away
the layers of perfectionism, especially in the entertainment industry, and
to be completely and unabashedly unafraid to be who you
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are and to express that.
Speaker 29 (46:26):
You know, my first thought when I, you know, approaching
this song, especially with the screaming elements, I've been listening
to a lot of like sleep Token and specifically Poppy Too.
For some reason, it sort of just came to mind,
and I just was like, I really like want to
sort of be inspired by some of these influences in
some of our recent music and productions, and so I
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had a chance to really experiment and play around with that. Thus,
you know, I broke out the h string guitar and
did some like really heavy, really fun riffage for this song.
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As always, just truly grateful. I'm happy to get to
work with Mike connextor al Sadon.
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Big.
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Thanks to the artist who shared stories and music with
us on eleven. All music on Independent Mind. It is
used via written or verbal consent of the artist, artist management,
and or artist promotional team. You can check out this
episode's full playlist at baldfreak dot com slash podcast and
if you're an indie artist or you represent one who
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wants to be featured on Independent Minded, you can send
a hello and some links to Ron at baldfreak dot
com Sausage links preferred, Follow me online at bald Freak
Music and subscribe and leave a kind review on Apple
Podcasts and Spotify. Independent Mind it always was, it still
remains a bald Freak Music production and me I'm still
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