My Little Underground

My Little Underground

My Little Underground is a podcast where Peter A talks with musicians, authors, media professionals, content creators and any other creative type! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mlupod/support

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May 31, 2024 20 mins

Shana Cleveland returns to My Little Underground to celebrate the release of the new La Luz album, ‘News of The Universe’! Listen as she discusses the influence the 60’s Indonesian band Yanti Bersaudara and Soul Train had on La Luz, the continued focus on vocals in their production and Shana’s love of print media. ‘News of The Universe’ is also the first La Luz album on Sub Pop and Shana shares insight on the purpose of record labe...

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This week on My Little Underground (@mlupod), Stephen Stec and Cynthia Rickenbach of Long Branch, NJ jangle-pop band, Lightheaded return to the show to discuss their debut LP, Combustible Gems, out now on Slumberland Records! Stephen and Cynthia discuss what they did right and where they may have went wrong with their first album, the positives and negatives of playing their release show in a record store, how they manage their soc...

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Citronella Room Records supergroup, Don't Tell A Soul (Artisan P & Buster Wolf) are on My Little Underground to discuss the creative process behind the fantastic "DTAS EP" and the latest Buster Wolf project, "Bodega Rat". Buster Wolf also shares his unique inspiration for samples and insight on the direction for future releases. Both Artisan P and Buster Wolf talk up their love of cassettes, future plans...

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February 23, 2024 68 mins

On this episode of My Little Underground, my brothers Richard Arriaga and Michael "Smiley" Arriaga join me for a retrospective on our favorite video games of 2004!

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February 16, 2024 32 mins

On the latest episode of My Little Underground, I go through some of my favorite albums of 2014 to see how well they have aged!

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January 20, 2024 19 mins

On the 2024 premiere of My Little Underground, I reflect on the six year history of this show and share some albums I'm anticipating this year!

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On the 2023 finale of My Little Underground, Katherine Rye Jewell; Fitchburg State University professor, historian, and author is on the show talking up her new book, Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio. Listen as Professor Jewell and myself discuss our shared experience in college radio, the evolving identity of the medium, diversity issues, the punk origins of Newbury Comics, plus the important influence Long Is...

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December 9, 2023 36 mins

December on My Little Underground means it’s time for Finals! Concert photographer, writer, and all around friend to the show, Conor Rooney returns for our annual recap of our favorite music of the second half of year. Listen to us talk about how we enjoyed the 2023 works of Homeboy Sandman, Foo Fighters, Hotline TNT, Don’t Tell A Soul, DJ Koze/Roisin Murphy, Danny Brown/JPEGMAFIA, and more! 

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Conor’s rich portfolio: 

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October 27, 2023 26 mins

This week on My Little Underground, New Jersey band Lightheaded is on the show to talk up their debut EP ‘Good Good Great!’ on Slumberland Records. Stephen Stec (guitarist) and Cynthia Rittenbach (bass and guitar) talk up establishing a relationship with the legendary Bay Area label, their thoughts on Romance and love from family friends, inspiration from The Cleaners From Venus, great Jersey bands and our shared love of The Vaseli...

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October 21, 2023 45 mins

This week on My Little Underground, radio veteran DJ Sandra Dee tells inspiring stories behind her experiences at Radio Disney and starting her genre-bending show, SweetBeatz on SUNY Old Westbury’s OWWR, Old Westbury Web Radio (my alma mater). We talked about Sandra getting pulled out of her comfort zone during her time at Radio Disney as well as her process of reaching out to artists to interview for her SweetBeatz show that airs ...

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October 14, 2023 23 mins

This week on My Little Underground, Samantha Campanile (vocals, guitar) of New York quartet, Sadlands! Sam talks up the debut self titled EP of Sadlands and provides an updates on her Samantharants solo project and her other band Answering Machine; who are playing FEST this year! Campanile also talks up the songwriting collaboration of Sadlands, shares some insights to the lyrics from the EP, gives inspiring perspective in balancin...

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September 30, 2023 42 mins

This week on My Little Underground is video game centric; talking some of the best games of 2003! My brothers Richard and Michael “smiley” Arriaga return to the show to talk up the games from 2003 that had a massive impact on us 20 years later! Listen as three brothers talk up how decades old games like Tony Hawk’s Underground, SSX 3, The Simpsons Hit and Run, WWE Smackdown!: Here Comes The Pain, Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando, ...

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September 23, 2023 27 mins

On the fall premiere of My Little Underground, Tallahassee based rapper, producer, photographer, Buster Wolf returns to talk up his new genre ambigous instrumental album ‘Jewel Cake’ along with video games he’s currently playing, his upcoming "Don't Tell A Soul" collaboration with his Citronella Room tag team partner, Artisan P and so much more! 

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July 29, 2023 27 mins

On an all new My Little Underground, my fifth ever guest, Kelly Moonstone (fka The Afr0dite) returns to talk up her new album ‘I Digress…’, lessons learned from her first tour, including cities that gave her the most love, pre-show rituals, and more! 

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July 22, 2023 27 mins

Lamark, host of the podcast Lamark After Dark is back on My Little Underground to talk about what differs this show from Lamark’s previous show The Fresh Movement. Lamark also talked about not being put in a box creatively, celebrities entering the radio/podcast space, questions submitted from the audience and more! 

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Best of ’23 - Midterms 


This week on My Little Underground, it’s my annual Midterms show where I go through some of my favorite music from January to July of this year! Concert photographer/music columnist and my good friend, Conor Rooney returns to My Little Underground to give his mid year music report as well. Conor also talks about his rapidly expanding concert photo portfolio and his upcoming trip to Ireland to shoot a Me...

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July 1, 2023 41 mins

Betty Taylor, who performs as Velvet Vision, returns to My Little Underground to talk up her debut full length LP, ’Together’! Betty discusses how she picked the singles for this album and evolving her live set. We also unpack some of the anti-capitalistic themes from ’Together’, the concept of guilty pleasures, her growing connection to the Santa Fe music scene, if she misses her radio show The Independent Hour and more! 

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June 17, 2023 30 mins

This week on My Little Underground, Dominic Sen returns to the show to talk up her new album ‘Apparition’, her novel that inspired the concept of this album, collaborating, her love of the Brooklyn venue Purgatory and more! 


Listen to Dominic Sen: 

https://dominicsen.bandcamp.com/album/apparition


Apparition Release Show 7/1 at Purgatory: 

https://dice.fm/event/623aq-dominic-sen-sadie-rachel-lime-1st-jul-purgatory-new-york...

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May 24, 2023 11 mins

This week on My Little Underground I had to record my thoughts on all of the albums coming out in June (and one last May album) that I'm eagerly anticipating!

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May 20, 2023 25 mins

This week on My Little Underground we go back ten years to talk up some great albums of 2013! This was a year of great rap team ups (CZARFACE and Run The Jewels), comeback albums (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Quasimoto, My Bloody Valentine) and tremendous debuts (Courtney Barnett, The History of Apple Pie, La Luz). I also compiled a playlist of all releases discussed which is linked below. Happy listening! 

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2013-ish Playlist:

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