As The Story Grows

Chapter 139: "From A Young Age" ...as read by Justin Mank

Justin's parents took him to see artists like Eric Clapton and U2 starting at the age of 10. As a teenager he started booking touring acts to come play St Louis. Not Waving But Drowning spent so much time on the road that they didn't get to write the record that would've been released by Solid State. None the less, the band has new material in the works, as well as a side project, and a solo effort from Justin!

Not Waving But Drowning on Bandcamp: https://nwbdstl.bandcamp.com/releases

Flow Clinic on Bandcamp: https://flowclinic.bandcamp.com/releases

Two Hands|One Engine on Bandcamp: https://2h1e.bandcamp.com/releases

Chapter 139 Music:

Not Waving But Drowning - "Everything vs Nothing

Not Waving But Drowning: "Somewhere Away"

Not Waving But Drowning: "Feeding The Half-Wits"

Not Waving But Drowning: "Bright Eyed and Bushy Tailed"

Two Hands|One Engine: "Rainbow Room"

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Chapter 138: "Might As Well Just Try It" ...as read by Lauren Rearick

Lauren Rearick has written CNN Opinion, Teen Vogue, The Fader, USA Today, Reader’s Digest, Travel + Leisure, Huffington Post, Bandcamp Daily and many others. She was the editor at Views & Voices, a magazine for women in Western Pennsylvania. In 2016, she received a Professional Keystone Press Award. But music is her passion so in 2013 Lauren launched The Grey Estate as a way to combat the marginalization of female and non-binary voices in the music journalism industry. Lauren discusses discovering independent music from The OC, throwing a SXSW "party", and taking a fresh approach to covering music.

The Grey Estates: http://www.thegreyestates.com/

The Grey Estates on Bandcamp: https://thegreyestatesblog.bandcamp.com/

Chapter 138 Music:

Ahem - "Sweet Tooth"

Kelly Clarkson - "Since U Been Gone"

Phantom Planet - "California

Oso Oso - "Reindeer Games"

Vomitface - "Mad Sugar"

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Chapter 137: "The Future Is Not What It Used To Be"... as ready by Bryan Patton

What's up everyone! It's the dawn of a new era here at As The Story Grows and I know that comes with some uncertainty about what the podcast will look like going forward. This podcast gives you the history of how I got involved in the podcast and what my goal is going forward. Short and sweet!

Bryan on Urban Achiever: http://www.urbanachievershow.com/bryan-patton

Echo Broke Alone (Bryan's music project): https://echobrokealone1.bandcamp.com/

Chapter 137 Music:

Hopesfall - "Waitress"

Slingshot Dakota - "Paycheck"

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Chapter 136: "Hand it down and walk away" ...as read by Trav

Hey gang. It is with both pleasure and sorrow that I am being interviewed on my own show. My very good friend Jeremy Hunt asked if he could flip the script and interview me. His timing couldn't have been more perfect. This will be my last podcast for ATSG and I'm going to be passing this torch over to Bryan Patton. I may pop in now and again (like when you go back and visit your friends at your old job) but moving forward the show is in the very able hands of Bryan.

It's time.

Thank you Jeremy for this interview. Thank you Bryan for the countless hours of help over the past two years. Thank you Stephen for helping me get this off the ground. Thank you to each patron who was generous enough to flip me a few bucks over the years. THANK YOU to every guest who's ever been on and every person who's ever listened. I love you. Take care. Bye bye.

Trav's homepage: http://www.mynameistrav.com

Jeremy's famed "QOHELETH" art-noise project: https://qohelethnoise.bandcamp.com

Chapter 136 Music:

Skid Row: "Youth Gone Wild"

Aletheian (Crutch): "Wounds Of The Tongue"

Solamors: "Calling Down The Sky"

The Houselights: "Boxcutter"

Half Bomber: "Trapped Inside"

The Satire: "Noize 2 Men" (not Trav on the drums)

Unteachers: "Fear Of Silence"

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Who? I love doing this show because sometimes I get to organically get to know someone who happens to be a fantastic musician. Score. Today we hear all about Andrew Colosimo, eastern Pennsylvania's diamond in the rough. Andrew used to front Sheep And The Shears which just at the height of momentum...didn't. Andrew moved along with life but quietly floated below the radar while building his new project called Kinzua. I can't say enough but I'll say that if I played the "Best Of The Year list game" I think this would make my cut. So proud of my fellow snarkastic friend, Andrew.

Bandcamp: https://kinzua.bandcamp.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kinzuaband/

Sheep And The Shears "Grande Dame" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoE5SRHedvw

Chapter 135 Music:

Kinzua: "Marshes"

Sheep And The Shears: "The Grande Dame"

Kinzua: "Matterhorn"

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This chapter was edited by the quixotic Bryan Patton. Thanks Bryan! https://twitter.com/bryanpatton84

Yes, more Braid! We recorded just about 6 hours of conversation for the Frame and Canvas 20th Anniversary episode. And there was so much good stuff that we decided to give you a b-side episode. There are Braid tour stories, some insights into recording, and even a love story. More Braid isn't a bad thing!

Chapter 134 Music

Braid - "The Right Time"

The Lassie Foundation - "I Can Be Her Man"

Braid - "Jimmy Goes Swimmer"

Braid - "Bang"

Braid - "Do Over"

Fugazi - "Waiting Room"

Hey Mercedes - "Go On Drone"

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If you know this show then you probably know that Bryan and I are Braid fans. (That's Bob singing the theme song at the end.) Well back on April 7th, 1998 Braid had an album released on Polyvinyl Records called "Frame And Canvas". This is an important album to me and quite a few people, seeing on how this makes the top indie/emo albums of all time list again and again.

I was able to assemble all four members of Braid, their roadie Bicks, Matt Lunsford (head of Polyvinyl) and J Robbins of Jawbox (produced and mixed) all together under one podcast roof to discuss this album. I hope you enjoy this. And again, this would not have been glued together without the wizardry of Bryan Patton. Thanks to everyone involved. If you like this, hang in there. There were lots of leftovers from this huge seven-course meal.

https://www.facebook.com/braidcentral/

Chapter 133 Music: Every song from Frame And Canvas. Duh.

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This chapter was edited by the ever-proficient Bryan Patton. Thanks Bryan! https://twitter.com/bryanpatton84

Happy Easter! Say what you will about Chicago; the trains run on time. Dave Raymond returns to the show to discuss the new Hidden Hospitals album out on May 18th. We have engineered an inside look at the lyrics on another track by track adventure (c'mon with the train puns), we discuss the artwork and we solve the rest of all the world's problems. Check this album out on Spartan Records, and thanks to HH and Spartan for letting me leak some audio out for everyone: http://www.hiddenhospitals.com

Chapter 132 Music: Clips from the entire album "Liars"

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Photo: Jerry Shirts

Neil became a Christian at a Bible study in high school that set his musical career in motion. Neil became friends with members of Focused, Unashamed, Bloodshed and Havalina Rail Co. He was signed to Alarma Records before graduating high school, had a record deal with Stairwell and was in the right place at the right time to join Stavesacre at the height of their career. Neil's life is one crazy encounter after another and he was generous enough to take the time and share them with me.

Chapter 131 Music:

Stavesacre: "Night Town"

Stairwell: "Don't Let It End"

Stavesacre: "Island"

Stavesacre: "Blind Hope"

Stavesacre: "Rivers Underneath"

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If you know me at all you may have already heard that I'm kind of a Scaterd Few fan. Allan Aguirre has written a book based on Leviticus 23 and it's my privilege to help him get it out there. Allan discusses what the book is about, the challenges of writing and why he even decided to write in the first place. It's not a music-centric chapter, but when you get an opportunity to help somebody out that you've been listening to since you were thirteen...you do it.

http://planetbluemedia.com

This was my first Facebook live event with the podcast. You can watch Allan and I have this conversation at the Chameleon Church FB page: https://www.facebook.com/ChameleonChurch/?hc_ref=ARS8eXKCvltnw-kAo54egF5oN6FjeGHV1qHEhMp_vdEQBFK8RjbRW-ji64sAPuoNPSU&pnref=story

Chapter 130 Music:

Scaterd Few: "Shark Attack"

Spy Glass Blue: "One & Only"

Scaterd Few: "Wonder Why"

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