Hosted by Sam — two hours a week spent asking people what music has done to them.
with Garrett Howitson
Two hours on punk — both the sound and the posture, and whether it can survive being defined. Do artists give up punk once they sign a record deal? Garrett makes the case for anti-establishment as something more considered than contrarian, and along the way talked me out of an idea I'd been carrying about the word angsty. His dad stopped by the studio partway through, which turned the conversation somewhere neither of us planned.
Listen nowwith George Wright
Started the show playing some recently discovered favorites while I waited on my long-awaited guest — George Wright, a former roommate, current buddy, and avid Grateful Dead listener. We get into long car rides with the Dead, rap and when to listen to it, how bluegrass runs in his blood, and where our sentiments toward music come from.
A solo show, four days after Blevins put out their single "Bully." Three brothers I grew up with — Brandon, Kevynn and Dillon — writing, producing, recording, mixing and mastering everything themselves between San Marcos, Austin and New York. One hour on what they've made and what it's like to watch people you've known your whole life build something this epic.
with A.V.G
Story telling, boats in the ocean, beauty in the mundanity - this is the Taylor Swift Special. Her writing encompasses the female human experience for A. Do people show us reflections of ourselves? The universe nudges you towards the right people... an invisible string. It's clear the existence of two beautiful female minds in this episode.
with John Boydston
KDPI's new general manager knows the history and he knows the people who made it — where a record sits in the lineage, and who the person behind it actually was. The episode lives where those two meet: how knowing an artist's life changes what you hear in their work, and how radio has been the thing carrying both along. Plus nostalgia, whether the songs that found you first keep their hold, and what music turns into once you're a dad.