Meet Me in the City

Dan, Shawn, and Will are joined by Paige Beller and Brandon Hawk, who are the organizers of this year’s Dayton Music fest. They talk about DMF, past and present and what it’s like to run a music festival. This year’s Dayton Music Fest is on September 5th and 6th, across many venues in downtown Dayton. You can find the schedule, ticket information, and the lineup at https://www.daytonmusicfest.com Support local music!

Dan, Will, and Shawn talk with long time friend Seth Graham, Dayton resident and operator of the independent record label “Orange Milk Records”. They talk about Seth growing up in Japan, performing your in front of an audience, and having artists on your record label get popular. You can find Orange Milk Records on bandcamp here.

Dan, Will, and Shawn are joined by long-time friend of the show, graphic designer, and Dayton area music label owner Andy Ingram. They talk about founding the Dayton Music fest, writing music, and why owning a record label isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

You can listen to Poptek albums on bandcamp here.

https://poptek.bandcamp.com/

Poptek Records can be found here

https://www.poptek.com/

Dan, Will, and Shawn sit down with Kattie Dougherty, a long time member of the Dayton music scene and member of the bands Real Lulu and Somersault. Listen as they talk about doing things outside of being a performer, opening for a large audience that doesn’t quite vibe with you, and of course Dayton music.

Some pictures that Kattie was gracious enough to share with us. Context is in the podcast for these photos.

Will, Dan, and Shawn are joined by producer Sprinkle to talk in depth about some of their favorite albums.

First, easily the best music video from any record that was mentioned in this episode.

Next is a list of the albums that were named in this episode (minus the honorable mentions). We have attached a link that will take you to YouTube where you can explore these albums. Enjoy!

Neil Young - Comes a Time

MF Doom - Mm..Food

U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky

Prince - Sign O’ The Times

Slowdive - Slowdive

Prince - Purple Rain

Deafheaven - Sunbather

The Alarm - Strength

U2 - The Joshua Tree

Liturgy - Aesthetica

Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth

Counting Crows - August and Everything After

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

New Order - Low-Life

Full of Hell and the Body - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light

Concrete Blonde - bloodletting

Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter

Death Grips - the powers that b

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque

Will, Dan, and Shawn sit down with long time veteran of the Dayton music scene Ken Gross. Ken was a music promoter and was responsible for bringing many big name bands to the Dayton area to perform over the years.

Will, Dan, and Shawn sit down with veteran Dayton guitarist/songwriter Nick Kizirnis to talk about his relationship with music and the Dayton area music scene. Nick has recorded with The Breeders (“The Dirt Eaters”) and Tobin Sprout (Guided by Voices), opened for a wide-range of bands including The Pixies, Man or Astro-Man, Dick Dale, Guided by Voices, Dave Alvin, The Breeders and Fugazi.

More information about Nick can be found on his website,

https://nickkizirnis.com/

and you can listen to his music on his bandcamp, where it is also available for purchase.

https://nickkizirnis.bandcamp.com

Will, Dan, and Shawn sit down Juliet Fromholt, music director at NPR station 91.3 WYSO, long time Dayton resident, and host of the music programs Alpha Rhythms and Kaleidoscope. We loved hearing Juliet’s perspective and stories, WYSO being something we’ve listened to quite a lot of over the years.

We’ve been enjoying Novaphonic.FM, the 24/7 music streaming channel curated with a diverse array of music powered by Yellow Spring’s own 91.3 WYSO. You can listen online or at WYSO HD-2.

Juliet also hosts the "Attack of the Final Girls" podcast, which is about horror movies!

Will, Dan, and Shawn are joined by their good friend Nate McCorkle and discuss his career with Dayton’s own “Morella's Forest” (of which Shawn was also a member of) and his career in the Christian music scene. This episode was recorded in November of 2024, and was the second episode we recorded.

Will, Dan, and Shawn continue their conversation with Tyler Trent of Brainiac. Brainiac just finished touring the midwest, opening for the band Mogwai. We were honored to have Tyler come and talk with us, he has some amazing stories to share. We hope you enjoy it too!

Braniac live in Toronto on April 14th in Toronto. It’s awesome