Concert Pipeline

Episode 411 of Concert Pipeline featuring Vonda Shepard, in which we talk about singing for Nancy Pelosi, making music with her husband Mitchell Froom who has produced her albums since 1999, covering “River” by Joni Mitchell with Robert Downey Jr, her extensive work on Ally McBeal including producing 500+ songs and singing the opening songs, having a duet with Randy Newman, and touring with Jackson Browne. Vonda Shepard is playing Feinsteins at the Nikki in San Francisco on July 14 and 15. This episode also features a review of Blink-182 at Golden 1 in Sacramento as well as a few songs from the show. 

Episode 410 of Concert Pipeline featuring Lance Lopez, in which we talk about his dad’s friendship with Elvis, and how it helped give a foundation for his love of music, his girlfriend Lady Katy Ramirez, who is a sword swallower, participating in the Rock Legends Cruise with Two Wolf each year, getting to jam with Prince, his Flying V guitar, and his new album “Trouble is Good,” out July 14. The episode also features a review of Eric Hutchinson’s 15 Year Anniversary show of “Sounds Like This” from Sweetwater and a few songs from the show.

Episode 409 of Concert Pipeline featuring Jill Andrews, in which we discuss her early fandom of Janet Jackson, the creative process behind her first band, The Everybodyfields, writing her first book “Thirties: The Album in Portrait and Prose,” the balance of male and female vocals in a band, writing a song about her son for her first solo album “The Mirror,” new music coming from Hush Kids, and her new album “Modern Age,” our August 18. Jill also performed her new single “Wrong Place, Wrong Time” for the podcast!

Episode 408 of Concert Pipeline featuring Josie Cotton, in which we discuss being a fan of James Brown and having him in her song “Disco Ball,” how she was impacted by the cultural divide around her song “Johnny, Are You Queer?,” her use of comedy in writing, playing a Halloween show with Shannon and the Clams, having a comedy radio show in Texas and how that parlayed into her music, and her new album “Day of the Gun.”

Episode 407 of Concert Pipeline featuring Great Northern, in which we talk to Rachel Stolte about staying in Napa to record new songs, playing BottleRock last year and this year, recording their debut album “Trading Twilight for Daylight,” which led to falling in love with her husband Solon Bizler, playing a show with Rage Against the Machine, and recording “Into the Sun” in Simlish for Sims 2.

Episode 406 of Concert Pipeline featuring Sid Simons, in which we talk about growing up on the Beatles, the challenge of making friends when we were young and had to move, growing up in a family that is in the arts (film, modeling, music), getting his start making music in Shanghai, playing livestream shows during Covid, playing SXSW, touring Europe with his old band Beechwood, transitioning from his previous band name GIRL SKIN to a self-titled band, and his new album “Beneath the Brightest Smiles,” out June 23. Sid also played a song he wrote for his brother off the new album, “The Stanley Song” for Concert Pipeline.

 Episode 405 of Concert Pipeline featuring Skating Polly, in which we chat with Kelli Mayo about their new double album “Chaos County Line” out June 23, playing shows in San Francisco and Europe, recording covers and podcasts for fans on Patreon, recording their “Kick” video in Wayne Coyne from Flaming Lips’ bathtub, their “Ugly Pop” documentary by Henry Mortesen, and their upcoming tour, including a date in Albany, CA on Monday, May 8.

Episode 404 featuring The Rocket Summer in which we chat with Bryce Avary about his new album “Shadowkasters (out May 12), the genius of Chris Farley, tattoos, working w Jim Wirt on “Do You Feel”, touring w Sonny Moore (Skrillex), touring w The Format (covering “Mint Car” by The Cure, playing a bowling alley w Steel Train, playing in Japan with Radiohead and standing side-stage for their performance, and how he is able to be a private person, but writing about deeply personal things.

Episode 403 of Concert Pipeline featuring Marc Broussard in which we discuss his new album “SOS 4 - Blues for Your Soul,” the impact of hitting #1 on the Billboard Blues album charts, recording at Sunset Sound studios, working with children making the “Cuttin In” video, the excitement of signing to Island Def Jam and knowing down the road that he needed to part ways with the label, playing pranks, the importance of jiving with his bandmates, and his east coast tour.

Episode 402 of Concert Pipeline featuring Forty Feet Tall, in which we talk to singer Cole Gann and drummer Ian Kelley about their newest EP “Tunnel Vision,” covering “Shout” by Tears for Fears, having a song in an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie that they haven’t seen, side bands (Holloway and A Fish in the River), showering with beer, and their recent tour.