Your hosts, the Long Island natives invite fellow Long Islander, musician Ryan Colt Levy and talk the genesis of musical love. We take it wayyy back to the beginning in this one and excavate our first memories of being moved by music. We dig up our first-evers, swipe away the secret shame of guilty pleasures and access an ancient trove of feelings. Why did we respond the way we did to music? What were our unrefined, gut-responses to early listening? Do some of your earliest memories tie back to particular songs or records? Do those songs still bear the same magic for you?

Music & movies in consort with each other?! What could be better? Ever deeper into cinematic and musical worlds, we recall music we discovered because of the films we loved. Worlds collide in the best possible way on the soundtracks that informed our young lives. What do songs do for film narrative and why do we long to take that experience with us? We differentiate between diegetec and non-diegetic scoring and we name the 80’s soundtracking champ and discuss how and why certain artists end up in certain films and/or on certain soundtracks. How did you alter the atmosphere of your youthhood hangouts? How did you score the film of your life?

Tara coins and shares her term “time-staining,” thereby sending Aristotle and guest Nathan Sloan (of We Tried We Failed podcast) into murky, often shark-filled vulnerable waters and we discuss which songs have retained a certain deeply personal, emotional quality for us. Do certain songs bear something super personal for you? Do you recognize something of yourself in certain musical movements or artists? Are your time-stained songs and albums mainly related to heartbreak as we discover many of ours were? We want to hear about some of your standout time-stained tracks/albums as this will be a topic we are sure to revisit, fans! Experience the Tara Dalton Effect in full force.

This week Aristotle and his foil/counterpart Tara get into the nature of (in)famous rivalries and counterparts, the essence of frontfolk, and attempt to outline the meaning of these things relative to popular musical acts. We ask ourselves AND YOU, the listener, if all rivals are foils to some degree. Are foils a necessary catalyst to creativity? Do you think that you could get anywhere close to the amount of air that DLR got when JUMPing in that classic vid or are you more of a Right Now kinda gal/guy? Who do you think you are, anyway?

The 90’s have come & gone, and in the meantime, what the heck happened to Spacehog? We talk hits, pressure to recreate hits, writing “whatever comes in through the window” & swinging (& sometimes missing) for the fences. Radiohead still makes us go all buttery at Madison Square Garden.

This week we talk integrity, betrayal, evolution, and DIY. We cast a hard eye on the discernable difference between organic artistic evolution and the monetary impetus for artists to change. How has the idea of selling out changed over time and who could be guilty of this musical “crime?” What does that term even mean in the present musical climate? How has growing an audience evolved? We take on our own 15 year old logic and we fight. We coin the term fractious. Tara falls off the swearing wagon, hard.

Tay Zonday appears and has an earnest conversation with Aristotle and Tara about his love of Star Trek, growing up smart, and not really feeling that human. It turns out, you don’t always get to decide what you’re known for.

Ever eager to reach out with gratitude to a beloved artist, her offer of a gift morphs into an adventure through LA to Ferndale Park where IO Echo (Ioanna Gika, Leopold Ross and Stormcloud of Swordsmanship, their dog) accept their quest and discover Tara’s gift of some art of her own. Through the collaborative efforts of Tara and Ioanna, this quest becomes a Fan Story IN ACTION! Don’t miss this one, Phanz

Aristotle gets jumped by Kyuss, Tara gets shut down by Counting Crows.