Vinyl & Vision

Each episode has it's challenges in researching the chosen album by the guest. Some are not so hard. Maybe even easy. Others make you wish you were dead.

That's not saying that this is a horrible album. It's not. It's a great album by a great band. A mythical group that I think is fairly obscure. Obviously there are a great number of people that know and love Goblin, but even with that being said, how many of those...

This is one episode I found it hard to prepare for. It seems I have a string of them coming, but this is the first I tried to tackle. Slint's Spiderland.

Christ man, it's a difficult record, but me and my guest today, Sean Prior, had a great time trying! He's in a terrific band called Intercourse. They have a new album. Not necessarily like Slint, but there are some elements there. You should make up your own mind and ...

Ladies and gentlemen, I bring to you today, Ev Gold! The singer songwriter and guitarist for Cinema Cinema from Brooklyn, NY.

Ev was a great guest to have on for this show because, not only is enthusiastic admiration for this band and album, but he has first hand knowledge of being in Inner Ear Studios, where this album was recorded. And with revered engineer/producer Don Zientara for multiple recordings of CC. Don, also being the...

Today, Daniel Gene, of Pittsburg band, Mirakler, joined me live in the studio to discuss what kind of impact Metallica's Black Album had on his adolescent brain. To my surprise, this album of his choice was chosen because of more of a negative impact than the typical gushingly positive reason. Still intriguing. Possibly more just for that reason.

At the time of this recording, Daniel was on tour, but by they time you hear this...

We're back! After a short break, we're very happy to bring you David Schellenberg of the band Tunic from Winnipeg, Canada. In this episode, I share all that I could gather about Weezer's Pinkerton, jumble it up and put it up against David and Tunic's catalog and try to determine what similarities they have if any. If you'd like to try to reach the same delineation, I encourage you to listen to and/or buy all of ...

On this, our 100th episode, I couldn't be more excited to bring to you Justin Pearson! Founder of ThreeOneG Records. Member of bands such as Struggle, Swing Kids, Retox, Deaf Club, Dead Cross and many others. Justin has been on my short list for some time now, but I could never have imagined how this was going to turn out. Being that these interviews and the questions therein, are formulated through the context of the chosen al...

Very excited to bring to you Curran Reynolds! Curran is an exceptional musician who has been at it for more than half his life. From humble beginnings in rural Maine, to performing world wide with Today is the Day. This is a great talk that really goes in depth of Curran's history, life experiences and opinions, all revolving around the topic of discussion, Jane's Addiction's debut album, Nothing's Shocking. Curran&...

MIIRRORS started out between my guests, Brian McSweeney and Shawn Rios. The duo had been working together for many years before finally piecing together a cohesive 5 piece. Now fully formed and established they'll be hitting the road in support of their latest full length from Pravda Records, Motion and Picture. It's a great album full of moody balladry and sparkling hooks through a nuanced sonic landscape. At times smooth ...

I am honored to bring to you today, my conversation with Vashti Bunyan. Who is Vashti, you may ask. Well, she has a book out now, with a paperback release coming this fall, called Wayward: Just Another Life to Live. So, if you'd like to know all the details, I implore you to buy it here:

https://a.co/d/9XW5tuI

I'm not trying to support Amazon, I just can't find the publisher's direct website.

In a nutshell, Vashti ...

Hope you had your coffee, because my guest today, Scott Crow, is coming in hot! This is one of those high octane episodes that was so much fun to have. Scott really dug into the idea of trying to narrow down the idea of picking ONE album that could be considered integral to his understanding of music, and I think he made an excellent choice. Though we both agree to not care for the band U2 in the slightest, it does prove to be true...

Here's another monumental one! We're very honored to bring you Ivan Julian, the legendary guitarist for bands such as Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Matthew Sweet, Outsets, Shriekback and more! This helps connect a few of the threads in musical history that this whole show has been about. This was a great conversation focused moon an album important to Ivan, The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers, which is a bad mutherfucker of an al...

Things are evolving again. We're not completely changing format, but for the right guest and/or circumstance, I'll gladly bend the rules. Today's episode features my talk with Daryl Black Eagle Jamieson. Leader of the Eastern Medicine Singers which makes up more than half of the Joyful Noise/Stone Tapes recording artists, Medicine Singers. After I caught them, completely by accident, I was compelled to try to reach out and get them...

Here's something fantastic! Typically on this show we discuss an influential album with an artist that was influenced by it. But today we have Martin Bisi, to discuss an album that was an influence on him, but through helping to create it. Martin met Amanda Palmer in 2001 prior to The Dresden Dolls having even really fully formed. He followed their development over a year ultimately leading up to their, almost, year long stay at BC...

First episode of the New Year, and we're coming in hot! Bobby Matador of Oneida joins us today to provide some insight on what The Fall's Domesday Pay-Off Triad Plus! meant to his young musical development as well as what it means to him now. For those of you who might not be familiar with this weird, limited U.S. edition, it is essentially a version of Bend Sinister. That's only what I came to find out as this discussion unfolded....

Here we are having a little break from our typical format. This episode we speak with Chris X. Founder of Reptilian Records. A former record store turned record label which has been slugging away for about 26 years now. No small feat considering they started in the 90's during the largely anti-vinyl period of music to the now booming vinyl sales but sluggish, at best, production times. Chris has got a lot working against him, but h...

On this episode, we take you to beautiful, sunny California to speak with Alee Karim. Guitarist and vocalist for The Atomic Bomb Audition. Their new album, Future Mirror, is available now wherever you listen to music. The band's music tends to lean on the heavier side and is categorized as metal for the most part, but there's so much more to this band than just that. Just by listening to the first couple of singles, it's pretty cle...

Oh Man! This is one of those that really hits all the marks of what this show is all about. Mark C and his band, Live Skull, who have been hard at work as one of those bands that helped define the noise rock genre, is here to explain just that! Through a history lesson of music and art culture from one of the most intriguing era's of music and art from a guy who was living it, while digging deep into his thoughts on what was one of...

Daniel Kelley is the front person for Moral Panic from NYC. The weird part about getting to talk to artists about an album that was influential to them, is that sometimes they just don't line up perfectly. This pairing is fairly close, but the unique thing about Moral Panic is that they dance a line between traditional punk and rock. Almost verging on a noise rock element. Very cool stuff. We encourage you to take a listen for your...