December 11, 2024 • 56 mins
#151. Nona Invie raises their vocal game, Ben Hazlewood is too loud for Tokyo, Bear Hands wreck cars in the desert, and Ron shares new faves from Paul Spring, Haley Heynderickx, + 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.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You're a freak.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
You're heading for big trouble, trouble.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I just want to say.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Merry Christmass to you.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Youse will be whid, mine will be blue.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Holdly Schnike is the You're over.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's over.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
The music industry may be on its annual winter break,
but that ain't gonna stop me Ron Scalzo from sneaking
in eleven dope new songs for you to light years
on to close out twenty twenty four. Plus it's a podcast,
so you can listen to the seven years from now
and the music will still be dope. Independent mind that
is rapp and up its thirteenth year, which in podcast
seasons is like eighty two. And this season I've added
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this supplemental episode so I can give some flowers to
more than just one artist every month. Plus I get
to play DJ sip a little Spike Coco while I
dive deeper into these tunes. And I've got yet another
excuse to do one of the things I love to
do the most, recommend new music to music lovers.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hello Lover.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Twenty twenty four was a banner year for the podcast.
I picked up a title sponsor Distro Kid. More on
them later. I visited Nashville's legendary United Record Pressing, plus
had rad conversations with, among others, Alice merten, Sack's legend
Bill Evans, and one of my all timers, seegu Ross.
And I launched Eleven, which I put out on the
(01:45):
eleventh of every calendar month, featuring eleven new indie songs
by artists from around the globe. That's where you are Now,
you are here.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Five, six, seven eight.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Hello.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
December is usually a light month for new music, as
this country begins to turn its attention to that tired
Mariah Carey song and the holiday season begins around the
day after Halloween. But I've been blessed this month with
some abusive check ins from some great artists forthcoming, including
one of my more memorable twenty twenty three guests.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
But let's get the.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Motor humming with the band I had on the podcast
all the way back in twenty sixteen. Bare Hands hails
from my home city of Brooklyn, with a career spanning
nearly twenty years. Here's Dylan Rowe to tell us about
the song Carreck.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
So the last single that came out on our new record,
The Key to What is a song called Carreck. It
features an old friend of the band, Dan Barrett, who
has his own band called Have a Nice Life. They're like,
this really gothic, said core, crazy project that doesn't sound
a lot like bare Hands, but Carreck kind of has
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some depressing lyrical themes and.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We thought it would be a good fit.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
You know, we haven't done a lot of features in
Barehand's history, so to do it with someone who fronted
an old hardcore band that our bass player and drummer
played in was like pretty special blast from the past,
you know, full circle stuff. We made a really sweet
video for it out in the desert where we crashed
a bunch of cars. It was directed by our dear
friend Alex Maxwell, and it's just getting freaky out in
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the desert.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So yeah, I hope you guys enjoy.
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My ge back car drab golds had a home, just a.
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Good picture.
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You were smart, So.
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Can't just quit.
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I will not so bad to think of my die
and bad cord like you be.
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Waving my never love bad.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Drove into the room, buried on me. Then you lost
your nerves a few your bag seals take it all
in as a leaders.
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Long way only.
Speaker 10 (04:34):
John to.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Go the last word sold my masters, nothing matters of
joy first Rack and magoan.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Think of my ti bad cold John, my never loved.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
You think.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
To come?
Speaker 11 (05:17):
Excuse you?
Speaker 9 (05:25):
Think you never?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Drawing to the roads, drawing to the road eleven eleven.
Speaker 12 (06:05):
Eleven, greener more small, resumes to awake.
Speaker 13 (07:01):
The fire escape is cold. Find you out there sitting
in the shape of no plans to be made?
Speaker 14 (07:19):
And I'm all.
Speaker 13 (07:39):
Up in the gutters. Some finches made a nest and
they've seen a size of thread from the begin name,
but they're warnings was mixing with the sound of ice cream,
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trucks and hounds and local.
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Play.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh, I have been.
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Broken door, I.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Change my mind, don't.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Want you anymore?
Speaker 14 (08:30):
All is a slollen, easy day, slow, any easy day.
Speaker 13 (08:52):
Does anyone get the life that they deserve? The sentence
safe pens serve or the geest? And is anyone really
who they claim? And all the angels my middle namel fall, Oh,
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have been working towards.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I change my mind. I don't want you who anymore?
Hary is a slow.
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And easy dud, slow, an easy du slow and easy
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snow easy.
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What we do is if we need that extra push
over the cliff, you know we do, put it off
to a l lavin exactly.
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Little things, big feeling instead of cars, big screen chairs,
little siren, its little secrets.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Long time before I'll be leaving you.
Speaker 16 (11:13):
Let me in, let me see things, big eyes and
your song, skin, ugly curtains and sad bleats, dying in
the kitchen.
Speaker 11 (11:23):
Easy days, easy nights.
Speaker 17 (11:25):
Easy times, easy tame ras.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Tame, better days, better ride, better make them on count.
Speaker 17 (11:42):
Red light, science fiction, not tonight, No reasons, spending like
a solfa system, smoke, dancing off the sea, light, little fights,
little freedom, so long dances. Do you show questions as
you're the alter every time.
Speaker 11 (11:59):
The let me think, I believe it.
Speaker 17 (12:01):
The easy days, easy nice, easy times, easy times, time.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
At the days, better ride, better make a b bun.
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The easy day, the easy nice.
Speaker 18 (12:23):
I can be easy all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
All my life.
Speaker 16 (13:11):
Easy days, easy nights, easy times, easy.
Speaker 19 (13:15):
Times, type, better days, better ride, better make a all account, Let's.
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Go might go.
Speaker 20 (14:06):
Well, I couldn't believe the water I had told the
man and land distant talk may not do anything to
hear the rest?
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God what God? Well, I couldn't believe the wata tree
and had a leftor.
Speaker 21 (14:49):
That man on burnt distance one of the other herself, then.
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A hand fifty.
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Just try.
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In the soul sing let just move back.
Speaker 21 (15:39):
To the fastest horse said, will not get my gold.
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God.
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I couldn't believe that a person little bad stream of
door m u kind is getting lost, not.
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Even little, but swam the top sot a public just
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trnet can a song same? I just wants.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
You join.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
That was Redwood's Anxious God by Haley Hendricks off the
album Seed of a Seed, out now on Mama Bird Records.
Haley first got my attention with her twenty eighteen debut
release I Need to Start a Garden before That, straight
out of the UK, Blood Wizard and science Fiction off
the album Grinning William, out now on Sad Club Records.
(17:58):
The new release marks a fresh chapter for mister Wizard,
moving from the folk roots of his debut to a heavier,
more experimental sound. We heard Paul Spring's Slow and Easy Day,
the first track off his folksy new self released album
Kind of Heaven, and we kicked off the long set
with Bare Hands and car Wreck from the new album
The Key to What, out now on Cantura.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
If you can see yeah, the numbers will go to eleven.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Last summer, Nashville based musician and poet Jesse Daniel Edwards
came by the house for a memorable podcast interview. With
all due respect to Music City's original man in black,
Jesse came dressed for success, sporting black boots and a
bolo tie, with a pretty lady in tow and some
salami in his pocket for my new puppy, Brando JdE
(18:54):
is a true troubadour and he's back with a new
album of bombastic, operatic piano rock called Clap Trap Venus.
And when I asked him to send along some words
about his song only the Whales, I got a five
minute audio file that included a shout out to my dog,
an invitation to his house, an original poem, and some
wisdom on the state of the world. This is all
(19:15):
vintage Jesse. Here's a good chunk of that stream of
consciousness about his new music out now on Cavity Search Records.
Speaker 23 (19:22):
Greetings Ron and Brando, I assume you're listening as well.
Thinking finally of both you guys, I always forget that
you're in the neighborhood you know, I think of you
like this New York guy, but we're basically neighbors.
Speaker 11 (19:37):
Man.
Speaker 23 (19:39):
Shout out to music. We trust the Gang Cavity Search Records,
keeping a punk rock and diy as we all are
here living on the fringe, on the edge of the
edge of modern music, proudly undiscovered, proudly toiling obscurity, doing
the Lord's work, as you yourself are. We love our podcasts,
(20:02):
We love the people that are podcasting, the podcasters, and gosh,
it's the last bastion of freedom and soul out there.
Thanks for including only the whales. We grew up, you know,
in the day and age when there's a lot of
chattered about saving the whales, and back then, I didn't
know what that really meant. I didn't know what the
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problem was. I just figured, you know, whales live in
the ocean.
Speaker 19 (20:28):
We live on the land.
Speaker 23 (20:30):
What I need to be saved from. Only as I
grew up and figured out how it was all connected,
that I realized they need to be saved from us.
That right there is the trajectory of moving from igherance
towards information, and information was at a premium where I
grew up, as you know, we chatted before, growing up
sort of isolated. There was such a thin trickle of information.
(20:52):
By the time it got to us, that information was stale.
I was of old information. So moving from that place
to everything I've learned since through experience, albeit trading off
some innocence to gain that experience, moving towards information, realizing
that yes, yes, the whales need us, and now we
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need saving as well from our own destruction. I feel
like the whales would understand. The whales are on our side.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Man, the word is out.
Speaker 23 (21:24):
Things got to change all across the boarders. It's time
to get off of our asses and employer assets for good.
You may hear the shuffling of pages. I had a
poem I was going to read to you, but I
don't know where it is. It's a poem. It's a
book of about three hundred different poems. All right, you're
going back in time again, aren't you? Since you can
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no longer travel any other way? I wonder do we
know each other there? And do you seek to save
the world or end it? I will be traveling too,
the only way that I know how forward, one day
at a time.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Must remember to.
Speaker 23 (22:00):
Catch up with you tomorrow. Well, much not my friend.
He's love to you and hopefully we'll hang out together.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Suit.
Speaker 15 (22:22):
None of this is my fault.
Speaker 24 (22:26):
Doors is broken before I got here.
Speaker 25 (22:29):
I am just like here.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I haven't really tried what that.
Speaker 11 (22:36):
Use well.
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Willard in public school and aunt ev.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
But I'm still sorry for a time, even though I
know there's nothing on the US.
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Side, only worlds conceit.
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All of this is my fat the wordless beautiful before
week On't.
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You are just like me?
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Stuff bound and dissess how.
Speaker 11 (23:31):
Much to grow?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
The prosort but they are the can.
Speaker 16 (23:38):
I don't have a car Christian, but I'm.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Too popular at the time.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
What do we even thinking?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Living Amason?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Only the children can.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Save us, Only the Whales By Jesse Daniel Edwards from
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the new album Clap Trap Venus, out now on Cavity
Search Records. You kind of feel like jd E should
be opening up from us or Queen Yeah. Side note,
I stepped outside to get the mail the other day
and there was a package on my steps from Jesse
containing both his albums on vinyl and his poetry book.
An unsolicited and classy move, but not surprising considering the source. Eleven,
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New Zealand born Ben Hazelwood has a great accent, so
you can barely catch it when he sings his infectious
power pop. Ben's new singles an anthem about self expression
and social etiquette. Here he is to tell us about
why he's too loud for Tokyo.
Speaker 26 (25:26):
So the idea for too Loud for Tokyo came from
a trip to Japan. My manager and I were on
the streets and we were talking at our normal level,
which was far too loud and was offending a lot
of the Japanese people around us. They got me thinking
about a lot of the stupid things that I've done
in my youth in the past, and how those inappropriate
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things made me look now looking back at how much
I've grown as a person, just wondering what those people
really think of me and what happened back then. So
we wrote a song about all the mistakes that you
make by kind of china stand out and maybe not
the best way sometimes. The song also touches on really
owning those mistakes because they are part of who you
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have become, and feeling self empowered by that to kind
of have the confidence to move forward in a different,
more positive direction.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
From causas.
Speaker 27 (26:22):
Does my partier, my money back, varm was on the
street set and heart attacks.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
How much you thought these many acts? I think they
could come.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
If you're money from if you're warning from me instead?
I got.
Speaker 25 (27:02):
Deep, I love your money minute.
Speaker 27 (27:11):
Talking come back, were all the love the summit that.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
You are the one s come back to me?
Speaker 11 (27:30):
A child?
Speaker 9 (27:32):
I still talking and.
Speaker 11 (27:33):
Don't step to me, Sun.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
Let me know it's mister Pep talking talking about how
about back?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
You know how works around?
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Sounds like you've got.
Speaker 28 (27:42):
Too many around you feel around from.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Honest Now instead.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
Steady.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Ben, Hazelwood and too Loud for Tokyo the new single
out now. Ben recently moved to New York and if
he was too Loud for Tokyo, likely fitting perfectly in
the noise filled Rotten Apple. I got five more coming
out of the break, including a shoegaze debut from an
up and coming UK band, that a surf rock from
Asbury Park, and some shimmering ambiance from a Minneapolis composer.
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Page n Hello.
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They've already put out two buzzworthy EPs and now UK
Shoegazer's Oversize are releasing their debut album on the Sharp
Tone label in early twenty twenty five. You can hear
the all nineties influences in the band sound from the
Pixies to the Smashing Pumpkins and as a gen x
or I won't complain. Here's singer Sam McCauley to tell
us about the album's title track, Vital Signs So Well.
Speaker 29 (30:53):
Vital Signs is technically the title track of the album.
It was originally written as an album closer. I remember
whenning when it came to us, I thought it was
like under an hour we had written this song. I
was getting super excited because it had such a unique
feel within our catalog, especially with the extra production such
as the drum loops, saturated guitars that we went quite
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heavy on the effects with.
Speaker 30 (31:17):
It just created such a vibe.
Speaker 29 (31:19):
Like much of the rest of the album, the song
revolves around the journey of grief and the acceptance of loss.
We felt the lyric Vital Signs was perfect to summarize
the whole album through that journey of grief.
Speaker 31 (32:07):
Shoes so to say, anything, shot, some s, s everything, one, two.
Speaker 32 (35:08):
Three, four, five, six, seventy nine, ten, eleven. Eleven's the
number for me, don't you seriously? Eleven's the number for me? Oh,
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he don't.
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I'm chopped in the spot it nowhere un now don't
where high fought.
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Just a point of bot bitches rid softly t.
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But you couldn't say.
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You couldn't say it said what you are. The this
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side is side is.
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The sure let's getting way.
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Son took out the stray so reason.
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And that's why it all think soutions to change.
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O fox fo Hi.
Speaker 10 (39:19):
This is Arthur Arbez and you're about to listen to
my track Take It Easy from my new album Arthur
Arbez and the Flaming ARBs. Take It Easy is what
I call a sixties teenage bubblegum dancehole rock and roll
thrillogy suite that induces a vitigenous status. A song reels
through teenage dangst and an existential love dilemma culminating in
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surf guitar wipeout chaos. The majority of the track was
recorded live, with the band only having rehearsed it a
couple of times before we went into the studio. I
find it is always best to try and record a
song just on the verge of actually knowing how to
play it, so there is always a onto, a spontaneous
magical mistake, and the plane is always at its most fresh.
Speaker 9 (40:12):
Scratching up.
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And the body fancy Wells bus is broken.
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And this holl.
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The general you rideing bo it is a ship.
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And you're riding at riding.
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When free.
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Dreading, the singer said, made the sub.
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Sub six.
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Let wall, stretching out your woy to the side.
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I love the sun, shot off, I'm the old bounce.
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Off the groom, w.
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Young lady change.
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And ben jns my love owy.
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S wow yam.
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What's your name?
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Son?
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Eleven of yours see.
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The stuff of my differents.
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Of yours, ze world.
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Out each trainment set on t.
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As longs let's go he s come Mexico. You can
along the tickets. Probably you will never be free room,
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Open up yours see the world.
Speaker 28 (46:41):
From different lands, Open up your areas, see the world.
Speaker 24 (46:54):
So take which change had said on the plane, watch
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take and see out in the work.
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The eyes.
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Take a ten yearsands and thunds. I know you want
to be kift to let you are to be sure
travels Tuesday.
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Open up youras, see the world.
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From different levels, Open up your.
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Aura, see the world, see world.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
That's art d Echo with the Traveler from the album
Serene Demon Out February twenty fifth on paper Bag and
you got a double shot of art there. Before that,
I played Arthur Abes and the song take It Easy
off the new self released album Arthur Abbes and the
Flaming Abes. We heard from the New Zealand born singer
songwriter who's offered a unique cocktail of sixty sunshine, bubblegum
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pomp and psychedelic surf rock on his third album out
now as Barry Park's Love Seat. Pete gave us Body
of Mine off their new self released indie rock album Alamo,
and I kicked off the long set with Vital Signs,
the title track from the forthcoming album by Oversize. It's
out February twenty eighth on Sharp Tone Records.
Speaker 11 (49:52):
If you can see Yeah, the numbers will go to eleven.
Speaker 5 (50:03):
Minneapolis singer and composer Nonah Nva make shimmering ambiond music
that layers acoustic piano with Since submerging us in an
ethereal landscape, Here's Nona to take us out in a
meditative state with their new song Forget My Name off
the aptly titled album Self Soothing. It's out February twenty
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eighth via Boiled Records. Happy holidays, everybody, stay warm, and
we'll see you next time.
Speaker 11 (50:29):
Hi.
Speaker 30 (50:29):
This is Nona Forget My Name as a song that
has taken a few different forms over the years. For
this version, I brought Andrew Broder a pretty sparse demo
that just had piano in my vocal stacks. He created
these strings that transformed it into the really lush world
that sets the tone for the rest of the record.
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Col Davis added beautiful upright based textures and cool poly
chased sacks, glides and octaves. At the end of the piece.
After getting all the instruments recorded, I felt inspired to
retrack the vocals. It felt appropriate to rise to the
intensity that they had brought the song to. Cole Sachs
creates this sort of emotional call and response, At least
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that's how I.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
Feel listening to it.
Speaker 30 (51:15):
Thanks for listening. I appreciate it.
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Kaing mona Frozen Time.
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You fell soo.
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Kaing mona Frozen Time.
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Ba by story.
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Long only cansermer.
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Where m hm.
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Oh, gon't make cancerfer.
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It's you.
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Fool gain.
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By fool looking.
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But full again, but reach for a warmer sun and
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found you there homing you lost this Melody.
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An easy pa love only?
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Can sabar.
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Ay with.
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Love only?
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Can sabar.
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Is o.
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Buge b.
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B b.
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Horgin b.
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Big Thanks to the artists who shared stories and music
with us on eleven Special thanks to Anna I Tell
All Your Friends, Brad at Big Machine, Alex at in
Music We Trust, and Shane at Adam Splitter for connecting
me with their bands. All music on Independent Mind that
is used with permission of the artist, artist management, and
or artist promotional team. You can check out this episode's
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me online at Baldfreak Music, and subscribe and leave a
kind review at all the podcast places. Independent Mind it
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always was and still remains a bald Freak Music production,
and me I'm still Ron Scalzo.
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You're a national, You're a freak.
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You're the one that should be worried.
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You're a freak.
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You're heading for big trouble, trouble.
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I just want to say.
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Merry Christmass to you.
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Youse will be whid, mine will be blue.
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Holdly Schnike is the You're over.
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It's over.
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The music industry may be on its annual winter break,
but that ain't gonna stop me Ron Scalzo from sneaking
in eleven dope new songs for you to light years
on to close out twenty twenty four. Plus it's a podcast,
so you can listen to the seven years from now
and the music will still be dope. Independent mind that
is rapp and up its thirteenth year, which in podcast
seasons is like eighty two. And this season I've added
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this supplemental episode so I can give some flowers to
more than just one artist every month. Plus I get
to play DJ sip a little Spike Coco while I
dive deeper into these tunes. And I've got yet another
excuse to do one of the things I love to
do the most, recommend new music to music lovers.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hello Lover.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Twenty twenty four was a banner year for the podcast.
I picked up a title sponsor Distro Kid. More on
them later. I visited Nashville's legendary United Record Pressing, plus
had rad conversations with, among others, Alice merten, Sack's legend
Bill Evans, and one of my all timers, seegu Ross.
And I launched Eleven, which I put out on the
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eleventh of every calendar month, featuring eleven new indie songs
by artists from around the globe. That's where you are Now,
you are here.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Five, six, seven eight.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Hello.
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December is usually a light month for new music, as
this country begins to turn its attention to that tired
Mariah Carey song and the holiday season begins around the
day after Halloween. But I've been blessed this month with
some abusive check ins from some great artists forthcoming, including
one of my more memorable twenty twenty three guests.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
But let's get the.
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Motor humming with the band I had on the podcast
all the way back in twenty sixteen. Bare Hands hails
from my home city of Brooklyn, with a career spanning
nearly twenty years. Here's Dylan Rowe to tell us about
the song Carreck.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
So the last single that came out on our new record,
The Key to What is a song called Carreck. It
features an old friend of the band, Dan Barrett, who
has his own band called Have a Nice Life. They're like,
this really gothic, said core, crazy project that doesn't sound
a lot like bare Hands, but Carreck kind of has
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some depressing lyrical themes and.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We thought it would be a good fit.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
You know, we haven't done a lot of features in
Barehand's history, so to do it with someone who fronted
an old hardcore band that our bass player and drummer
played in was like pretty special blast from the past,
you know, full circle stuff. We made a really sweet
video for it out in the desert where we crashed
a bunch of cars. It was directed by our dear
friend Alex Maxwell, and it's just getting freaky out in
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the desert.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So yeah, I hope you guys enjoy.
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My ge back car drab golds had a home, just a.
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Good picture.
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You were smart, So.
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Can't just quit.
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I will not so bad to think of my die
and bad cord like you be.
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Waving my never love bad.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Drove into the room, buried on me. Then you lost
your nerves a few your bag seals take it all
in as a leaders.
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Long way only.
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John to.
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Go the last word sold my masters, nothing matters of
joy first Rack and magoan.
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Think of my ti bad cold John, my never loved.
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You think.
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To come?
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Excuse you?
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Think you never?
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Drawing to the roads, drawing to the road eleven eleven.
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Eleven, greener more small, resumes to awake.
Speaker 13 (07:01):
The fire escape is cold. Find you out there sitting
in the shape of no plans to be made?
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And I'm all.
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Up in the gutters. Some finches made a nest and
they've seen a size of thread from the begin name,
but they're warnings was mixing with the sound of ice cream,
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trucks and hounds and local.
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Play.
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Oh, I have been.
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Broken door, I.
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Change my mind, don't.
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Want you anymore?
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All is a slollen, easy day, slow, any easy day.
Speaker 13 (08:52):
Does anyone get the life that they deserve? The sentence
safe pens serve or the geest? And is anyone really
who they claim? And all the angels my middle namel fall, Oh,
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have been working towards.
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I change my mind. I don't want you who anymore?
Hary is a slow.
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And easy dud, slow, an easy du slow and easy
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snow easy.
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What we do is if we need that extra push
over the cliff, you know we do, put it off
to a l lavin exactly.
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Little things, big feeling instead of cars, big screen chairs,
little siren, its little secrets.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Long time before I'll be leaving you.
Speaker 16 (11:13):
Let me in, let me see things, big eyes and
your song, skin, ugly curtains and sad bleats, dying in
the kitchen.
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Easy days, easy nights.
Speaker 17 (11:25):
Easy times, easy tame ras.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Tame, better days, better ride, better make them on count.
Speaker 17 (11:42):
Red light, science fiction, not tonight, No reasons, spending like
a solfa system, smoke, dancing off the sea, light, little fights,
little freedom, so long dances. Do you show questions as
you're the alter every time.
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The let me think, I believe it.
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The easy days, easy nice, easy times, easy times, time.
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At the days, better ride, better make a b bun.
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The easy day, the easy nice.
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I can be easy all the time.
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All my life.
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Easy days, easy nights, easy times, easy.
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Times, type, better days, better ride, better make a all account, Let's.
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Go might go.
Speaker 20 (14:06):
Well, I couldn't believe the water I had told the
man and land distant talk may not do anything to
hear the rest?
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God what God? Well, I couldn't believe the wata tree
and had a leftor.
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That man on burnt distance one of the other herself, then.
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A hand fifty.
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Just try.
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In the soul sing let just move back.
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To the fastest horse said, will not get my gold.
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God.
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I couldn't believe that a person little bad stream of
door m u kind is getting lost, not.
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Even little, but swam the top sot a public just
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trnet can a song same? I just wants.
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You join.
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That was Redwood's Anxious God by Haley Hendricks off the
album Seed of a Seed, out now on Mama Bird Records.
Haley first got my attention with her twenty eighteen debut
release I Need to Start a Garden before That, straight
out of the UK, Blood Wizard and science Fiction off
the album Grinning William, out now on Sad Club Records.
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The new release marks a fresh chapter for mister Wizard,
moving from the folk roots of his debut to a heavier,
more experimental sound. We heard Paul Spring's Slow and Easy Day,
the first track off his folksy new self released album
Kind of Heaven, and we kicked off the long set
with Bare Hands and car Wreck from the new album
The Key to What, out now on Cantura.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
If you can see yeah, the numbers will go to eleven.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Last summer, Nashville based musician and poet Jesse Daniel Edwards
came by the house for a memorable podcast interview. With
all due respect to Music City's original man in black,
Jesse came dressed for success, sporting black boots and a
bolo tie, with a pretty lady in tow and some
salami in his pocket for my new puppy, Brando JdE
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is a true troubadour and he's back with a new
album of bombastic, operatic piano rock called Clap Trap Venus.
And when I asked him to send along some words
about his song only the Whales, I got a five
minute audio file that included a shout out to my dog,
an invitation to his house, an original poem, and some
wisdom on the state of the world. This is all
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vintage Jesse. Here's a good chunk of that stream of
consciousness about his new music out now on Cavity Search Records.
Speaker 23 (19:22):
Greetings Ron and Brando, I assume you're listening as well.
Thinking finally of both you guys, I always forget that
you're in the neighborhood you know, I think of you
like this New York guy, but we're basically neighbors.
Speaker 11 (19:37):
Man.
Speaker 23 (19:39):
Shout out to music. We trust the Gang Cavity Search Records,
keeping a punk rock and diy as we all are
here living on the fringe, on the edge of the
edge of modern music, proudly undiscovered, proudly toiling obscurity, doing
the Lord's work, as you yourself are. We love our podcasts,
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We love the people that are podcasting, the podcasters, and gosh,
it's the last bastion of freedom and soul out there.
Thanks for including only the whales. We grew up, you know,
in the day and age when there's a lot of
chattered about saving the whales, and back then, I didn't
know what that really meant. I didn't know what the
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problem was. I just figured, you know, whales live in
the ocean.
Speaker 19 (20:28):
We live on the land.
Speaker 23 (20:30):
What I need to be saved from. Only as I
grew up and figured out how it was all connected,
that I realized they need to be saved from us.
That right there is the trajectory of moving from igherance
towards information, and information was at a premium where I
grew up, as you know, we chatted before, growing up
sort of isolated. There was such a thin trickle of information.
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By the time it got to us, that information was stale.
I was of old information. So moving from that place
to everything I've learned since through experience, albeit trading off
some innocence to gain that experience, moving towards information, realizing
that yes, yes, the whales need us, and now we
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need saving as well from our own destruction. I feel
like the whales would understand. The whales are on our side.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Man, the word is out.
Speaker 23 (21:24):
Things got to change all across the boarders. It's time
to get off of our asses and employer assets for good.
You may hear the shuffling of pages. I had a
poem I was going to read to you, but I
don't know where it is. It's a poem. It's a
book of about three hundred different poems. All right, you're
going back in time again, aren't you? Since you can
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no longer travel any other way? I wonder do we
know each other there? And do you seek to save
the world or end it? I will be traveling too,
the only way that I know how forward, one day
at a time.
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Must remember to.
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Catch up with you tomorrow. Well, much not my friend.
He's love to you and hopefully we'll hang out together.
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Suit.
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None of this is my fault.
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Doors is broken before I got here.
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I am just like here.
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I haven't really tried what that.
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Use well.
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Willard in public school and aunt ev.
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But I'm still sorry for a time, even though I
know there's nothing on the US.
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Side, only worlds conceit.
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All of this is my fat the wordless beautiful before
week On't.
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You are just like me?
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Stuff bound and dissess how.
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Much to grow?
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The prosort but they are the can.
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I don't have a car Christian, but I'm.
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Too popular at the time.
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What do we even thinking?
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Living Amason?
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Only the children can.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Save us, Only the Whales By Jesse Daniel Edwards from
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the new album Clap Trap Venus, out now on Cavity
Search Records. You kind of feel like jd E should
be opening up from us or Queen Yeah. Side note,
I stepped outside to get the mail the other day
and there was a package on my steps from Jesse
containing both his albums on vinyl and his poetry book.
An unsolicited and classy move, but not surprising considering the source. Eleven,
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New Zealand born Ben Hazelwood has a great accent, so
you can barely catch it when he sings his infectious
power pop. Ben's new singles an anthem about self expression
and social etiquette. Here he is to tell us about
why he's too loud for Tokyo.
Speaker 26 (25:26):
So the idea for too Loud for Tokyo came from
a trip to Japan. My manager and I were on
the streets and we were talking at our normal level,
which was far too loud and was offending a lot
of the Japanese people around us. They got me thinking
about a lot of the stupid things that I've done
in my youth in the past, and how those inappropriate
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things made me look now looking back at how much
I've grown as a person, just wondering what those people
really think of me and what happened back then. So
we wrote a song about all the mistakes that you
make by kind of china stand out and maybe not
the best way sometimes. The song also touches on really
owning those mistakes because they are part of who you
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have become, and feeling self empowered by that to kind
of have the confidence to move forward in a different,
more positive direction.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
From causas.
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Does my partier, my money back, varm was on the
street set and heart attacks.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
How much you thought these many acts? I think they
could come.
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If you're money from if you're warning from me instead?
I got.
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Deep, I love your money minute.
Speaker 27 (27:11):
Talking come back, were all the love the summit that.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
You are the one s come back to me?
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A child?
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I still talking and.
Speaker 11 (27:33):
Don't step to me, Sun.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
Let me know it's mister Pep talking talking about how
about back?
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You know how works around?
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Sounds like you've got.
Speaker 28 (27:42):
Too many around you feel around from.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Honest Now instead.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
Steady.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Ben, Hazelwood and too Loud for Tokyo the new single
out now. Ben recently moved to New York and if
he was too Loud for Tokyo, likely fitting perfectly in
the noise filled Rotten Apple. I got five more coming
out of the break, including a shoegaze debut from an
up and coming UK band, that a surf rock from
Asbury Park, and some shimmering ambiance from a Minneapolis composer.
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They've already put out two buzzworthy EPs and now UK
Shoegazer's Oversize are releasing their debut album on the Sharp
Tone label in early twenty twenty five. You can hear
the all nineties influences in the band sound from the
Pixies to the Smashing Pumpkins and as a gen x
or I won't complain. Here's singer Sam McCauley to tell
us about the album's title track, Vital Signs So Well.
Speaker 29 (30:53):
Vital Signs is technically the title track of the album.
It was originally written as an album closer. I remember
whenning when it came to us, I thought it was
like under an hour we had written this song. I
was getting super excited because it had such a unique
feel within our catalog, especially with the extra production such
as the drum loops, saturated guitars that we went quite
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heavy on the effects with.
Speaker 30 (31:17):
It just created such a vibe.
Speaker 29 (31:19):
Like much of the rest of the album, the song
revolves around the journey of grief and the acceptance of loss.
We felt the lyric Vital Signs was perfect to summarize
the whole album through that journey of grief.
Speaker 31 (32:07):
Shoes so to say, anything, shot, some s, s everything, one, two.
Speaker 32 (35:08):
Three, four, five, six, seventy nine, ten, eleven. Eleven's the
number for me, don't you seriously? Eleven's the number for me? Oh,
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he don't.
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I'm chopped in the spot it nowhere un now don't
where high fought.
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Just a point of bot bitches rid softly t.
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But you couldn't say.
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You couldn't say it said what you are. The this
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side is side is.
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The sure let's getting way.
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Son took out the stray so reason.
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And that's why it all think soutions to change.
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O fox fo Hi.
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This is Arthur Arbez and you're about to listen to
my track Take It Easy from my new album Arthur
Arbez and the Flaming ARBs. Take It Easy is what
I call a sixties teenage bubblegum dancehole rock and roll
thrillogy suite that induces a vitigenous status. A song reels
through teenage dangst and an existential love dilemma culminating in
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surf guitar wipeout chaos. The majority of the track was
recorded live, with the band only having rehearsed it a
couple of times before we went into the studio. I
find it is always best to try and record a
song just on the verge of actually knowing how to
play it, so there is always a onto, a spontaneous
magical mistake, and the plane is always at its most fresh.
Speaker 9 (40:12):
Scratching up.
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And the body fancy Wells bus is broken.
Speaker 9 (40:33):
And this holl.
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The general you rideing bo it is a ship.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
And you're riding at riding.
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When free.
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Dreading, the singer said, made the sub.
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Sub six.
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Let wall, stretching out your woy to the side.
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I love the sun, shot off, I'm the old bounce.
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Off the groom, w.
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Young lady change.
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And ben jns my love owy.
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S wow yam.
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What's your name?
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Son?
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Eleven of yours see.
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The stuff of my differents.
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Of yours, ze world.
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Out each trainment set on t.
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As longs let's go he s come Mexico. You can
along the tickets. Probably you will never be free room,
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Open up yours see the world.
Speaker 28 (46:41):
From different lands, Open up your areas, see the world.
Speaker 24 (46:54):
So take which change had said on the plane, watch
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take and see out in the work.
Speaker 9 (47:44):
The eyes.
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Take a ten yearsands and thunds. I know you want
to be kift to let you are to be sure
travels Tuesday.
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Open up youras, see the world.
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From different levels, Open up your.
Speaker 28 (48:21):
Aura, see the world, see world.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
That's art d Echo with the Traveler from the album
Serene Demon Out February twenty fifth on paper Bag and
you got a double shot of art there. Before that,
I played Arthur Abes and the song take It Easy
off the new self released album Arthur Abbes and the
Flaming Abes. We heard from the New Zealand born singer
songwriter who's offered a unique cocktail of sixty sunshine, bubblegum
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pomp and psychedelic surf rock on his third album out
now as Barry Park's Love Seat. Pete gave us Body
of Mine off their new self released indie rock album Alamo,
and I kicked off the long set with Vital Signs,
the title track from the forthcoming album by Oversize. It's
out February twenty eighth on Sharp Tone Records.
Speaker 11 (49:52):
If you can see Yeah, the numbers will go to eleven.
Speaker 5 (50:03):
Minneapolis singer and composer Nonah Nva make shimmering ambiond music
that layers acoustic piano with Since submerging us in an
ethereal landscape, Here's Nona to take us out in a
meditative state with their new song Forget My Name off
the aptly titled album Self Soothing. It's out February twenty
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eighth via Boiled Records. Happy holidays, everybody, stay warm, and
we'll see you next time.
Speaker 11 (50:29):
Hi.
Speaker 30 (50:29):
This is Nona Forget My Name as a song that
has taken a few different forms over the years. For
this version, I brought Andrew Broder a pretty sparse demo
that just had piano in my vocal stacks. He created
these strings that transformed it into the really lush world
that sets the tone for the rest of the record.
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Col Davis added beautiful upright based textures and cool poly
chased sacks, glides and octaves. At the end of the piece.
After getting all the instruments recorded, I felt inspired to
retrack the vocals. It felt appropriate to rise to the
intensity that they had brought the song to. Cole Sachs
creates this sort of emotional call and response, At least
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that's how I.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
Feel listening to it.
Speaker 30 (51:15):
Thanks for listening. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
Kaing mona Frozen Time.
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You fell soo.
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Kaing mona Frozen Time.
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Ba by story.
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Long only cansermer.
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Where m hm.
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Oh, gon't make cancerfer.
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It's you.
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Fool gain.
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By fool looking.
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But full again, but reach for a warmer sun and
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found you there homing you lost this Melody.
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An easy pa love only?
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Can sabar.
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Ay with.
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Love only?
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Can sabar.
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Is o.
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Game ba.
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Buge b.
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B b.
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Horgin b.
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Big Thanks to the artists who shared stories and music
with us on eleven Special thanks to Anna I Tell
All Your Friends, Brad at Big Machine, Alex at in
Music We Trust, and Shane at Adam Splitter for connecting
me with their bands. All music on Independent Mind that
is used with permission of the artist, artist management, and
or artist promotional team. You can check out this episode's
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full playlist at baldfreak dot com slash podcast, and if
you're an indie artist or you represent one who wants
to be featured on Independent Minded, send music links alongside
your love note to run at baldfreak dot com, follow
me online at Baldfreak Music, and subscribe and leave a
kind review at all the podcast places. Independent Mind it
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always was and still remains a bald Freak Music production,
and me I'm still Ron Scalzo.
Speaker 1 (56:10):
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