This week on I Want You To Know—It’s a mailbag show, I answer your pressing questions like: Do I still wrestle with insomnia? What was my happiest childhood moment? Rivette or Rohmer? And why do I diss David Bowie sometimes? And many more!

Also, we have new music by The Kerosene Hours, For Joris, Sunny Moonshine and Indigo, and a world premiere by Ssleepiing Desiress

This is a remix episode. We are reprising and remix the episode with guest Katy Atchison (she's since released a coloring book!!)

Katy and Nero initially discussed the fall of nightlife in San Francisco, notably Edinburgh Castle. Since this episode has aired--"The Castle" has officially closed. Thus, Katy and Nero added some thoughts and memories about the old pub.

Musician/Writer Gabriel Ramos of Ssleeping DesiresS and Nero discuss Eno's 40 Infallible Tricks For Successful Songs

1. Mindless dives and absurd jumps (steel guitar, whammy pedal)
2. Sonic hooks (Telstar, the snare on 'she drives me crazy' fyi, Del Shannon instrumentals)
3. Lap-steel or Hawaiian guitar (or anything else slide and unsquare)
4. Sliding up or down to the right note (appoggiatura) (24 hours from Tulsa)
5. Lyrical Rhythm guitar (eg Nile Rodgers, Carlos Alomar)
6. Klaus Dinger beat (motorik)
7. Handclap patterns eg 'Carwash' (invitations to listeners)
8. Male humming (cf Jordanaires)
9. Frozen reverb
10. Sounds of the real world
11. Heterophony
12. One unchanging note harmonies and parts
13. Bass riff (funk) (Melvin Dunlap: Express yourself'
14. Impossible singing (Minnie Riperton)
15. Long high note (I will survive)
16. Big melodic intervals ('Mingulay', 'Somewhere over the rainbow'). Stamina
17. Scale confusion - eg Tiny percussion instruments loud in the mix (fingernails on table)
18. Instrument shadowing singing ('Love will tear us apart again')
19. Unexpected, unusual chord in otherwise normal context
20. Call and response ('Did you ever get one of those days')
21. Male falsetto voice (Chris Martin)
22. Low female voice (Sonia Tavares, Kitty Lester, Nomcebo Zikode JERUSALEMA
23. Sing along scat (EDDIE HOLMAN/ COLDPLAY)
24. Vocal rhythm accented on drums
25. Riffs and multi riffs and heterophonic riffs (SEX MACHINE)
26. Brass stabs (FELA)
27. Parts of songs introduced by name 'and all the coloured girls go.."
28. String entry - soft cloud over straight lines
29. 3/4 - find the three-ish beat and somehow incorporate
30. Appoggiatura
31. Sudden change of space (RAF Judy Nylon Patti Palladin)
32. Trademark songs ('Return to Sender' 'from a jack to a king' )
33. male and female voices an octave apart
34. insistent one note bass ('Everyday people')
35. try playing it on an Omnichord (eg change minor chords to relative majors)
36. Insanely fast tempo
37. Low pass filter (makes things darker)
38. Speaker simulator (or real)
39. Something backwards
40. Use the edges of things

This week on I want you to know—I talk with actor, singer, performer, teacher-Darby Vincent

Darby and I discuss the winding road to becoming a performer and want kind of opportunities it brings, she also reflects on the influence of her family, and the influence she has now on young performers.

Plus, Darby brought a bunch of tunes and artists I was not familiar with, and some classic artists in a new contextI

RERUN: Here's a summer episode from last year. Jeff, Annie, and Nero make a summer mixtape--they explore their process, and talk summer jams.

Are you ever out and about in the world and you spot one of those people who expertly dress to a specific period? Doesn’t it make you wonder—how much research has this person done? Is the easy to them? And, where is this inspirations sourced? Are they a profoundly superficial person (to quote Warhol). I don’t mean that as an insult.

But sometimes you encounter someone with such a distinct sense of aesthetic you ask "where does it all come from?" My next is an artist, an expert in many things, and her road to visual expression is varied…it contains multitudes.

I want you to know my friend Jess

In a world fueled with the most precious moments, an aspiration to do the most pretty and perfect thing, a place where your mind takes precedence over your body—my next band is the escape you need. Because sometimes you just need to get fucked….

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A special 4th of July show. Some songs to accompany the dismantling of the USA, and some audio fireworks for the dark sky in your mind. (Don’t do fireworks, they scare the pets)