Hosts Julie Slater & Jason Friday chat with LA-based composer/songwriter Emily Greene. Born in Miami, she went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston...Emily spent many years on the road touring with her own music, and with bands like Passion Pit and Riothorse Royale...She has two new songs "Husband Song" and "Show Me" - and she's done the music for TV shows Station 19, Superman & Lois, and Maniac...and she wrote the score for the film "All The World Is Sleeping" - check out the song "Let Me Be the One."

Emily talks about all of her passions: friendship, photography, art, museums, visual art, animals...Julie and Jason talk about their dog that died and the tattoos they got...Emily talks about her pup...and how we don't know how much time we have left...what is life about???...Julie and Jason talk about not getting another dog anytime soon...Emily talks about growing up knowing music - and how music came easy for her...her parents were musicians/instruments around the house all the time...Emily talks about writing her first song as a kid (and how it was pretty much her stealing "Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister)...her side project Kissy Girl with her friend Pascal...how she always loved music...how Emily has done a lot of collaborating and writing for TV and film...how Emily "likes songs" in general and "songs" bring her the most joy...how she doesn't feel like herself when she's not working on songs...the complexity of writing music for TV and film...the kinds of shows she's played...the musical chemistry you have with people...Jason talks about his brother Sean who is also a musician (Sean is in the band Dead Sara)...we chat about the dark years of Florida and how terrible Florida is (where Emily is from...hold up, she's not from Florida, she's from Miami!!)...how LA is nothing like Florida...Emily also loves the desert and thinks its like the sea...Julie talks about the worst time in her life living in Florida...the best thing in Florida was shot-gunning Old Milkwaukee's on the beach...Emily talks about going to the Berklee School of Music in Boston...after Berklee, Emily moved to NYC...Julie talks about her old band Plankton....being banned from the club the Continental...how's she's played all sorts of venues...Emily playing Lollapalooza with Passion Pit...how fun it is to have people who pack your gear...Emily playing keyboards in Passion Pit...learning sound design...how playing solo now is helping her really find her voice, even though she loves collaborating bit time...how Emily misses playing shows...Julie and Jason talk about their own show at No Vacancy June 12th opening for SYML for an 88.5 the SoCal Sound benefit show (details coming soon)...Jason is upset about how he played "Down in a Hole"....Emily coming to Julie's radio station 88.5 the SoCalSound and playing some songs...how Emily loves jazz along with bandmates...how COVID has made her feel the emptiness of not playing...Emily is excited to be showing herself again...

IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE...FIND OUT MORE ABOUT EMILY...what artist would she tour with (living or dead) if she could choose...what is the one thing she brings on a rocket ship to the moon...the one thing she loves about Los Angeles (um...hello, is this thing on)...btw, the desert isn't part of LA...what line from a song would be her epitaph...what advice she would give her younger self about living her dreams...

And don't forget the AFTERPOD where Julie & Jason talk about Emily Greene after she leaves the room.

Check out Julie's chat with Emily for 88.5 the SoCal Sound in Los Angeles here.

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