My Youth on Record

My Youth on Record

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My Youth on Record episodes

  • #9 Live from Grandoozy Music Festival in Denver, CO. 2018
    We sent our amazing co-hosts to Grandoozy to capture stories about what music meant to festival goers when they were teens. From stories of redemption and healing, to learning more about the self through lyrics that touched their lives, our guests and hosts shared tales about the human spirit one sunny day in Denver at the largest festival the state of Colorado has ever seen.
    30 min
  • #7 Dan Aid of Authority Zero & Showtime’s SMILF: On punk, pop, accidents, triumph, and pink bunnies
    Our good friend Dan Aid stopped by the studio today. Dan is an artistic force - beginning his life as a musician in the 6th grade, and now making his television debut on Showtime’s SMILF. He has a special way of bringing us all into the heart of each story he tells. As he reflects on his early days of punk rock, we get a sense that there’s nothing this artists can’t and won’t accomplish
    26 min
  • #5 Kalyn Heffernan of Wheelchair Sports Camp: On hip-hop, pranking hospitals, and chaos
    We spoke with the amazingly rebellious and talented Kalyn Heffernan, frontwoman and creator of the indie political hip-hop jazzy funk ensemble, Wheelchair Sports Camp. Kalyn is a natural comedian, artist, activist, and teacher. An avid storyteller, Kalyn gives us her take on growing up with hip hop, and her early life as a queer rapper. She challenges the able-bodied community to examine their privilege. Just how accessible (or inaccessible) are our schools, our communities, and the music industry? Kalyn knows first hand.
    29 min
  • #3 Ben Roy of Spells & Those Who Can’t: On crust punk, the catholic church, and meow tracks
    When Ben walks into the room, it’s almost as if his heart is on the outside of his body.
    Just by being around him, you feel the depths of his emotions. He’s raw. He’s real.
    And truth telling matters to him. This year he’s been sharing his story of his own encounters with sexual abuse in the Catholic church. But as we learned in this interview, he’s been attempting to tell this story through his music since he was a teen. He shares that music with us in today’s episode. In true Ben style, to content of the music is very real and somewhat graphic, and is intended for audiences who have the maturity to hear the story.
    29 min
  • #4 Jeremy Salken & Dominic Lalli of Big Gigantic: On early computers, Fraggle Rock, and giving back
    It’s no question that Big Gigantic is….well….BIG. The music they make now didn’t exist when they were teens. So, in a sense, they began building the future of music before most of the world caught on. As they shared their earliest song with us, and memories about their early years of learning to use computers, we began to see just how ahead of the curve these two friends really were.
    18 min
  • #2 Neyla Pekarek of The Lumineers: On quartets, high school teachers, and misogyny in music
    Some of us have high school teachers we never forget for all the right reasons. The Lumineers vocalist, cellist, and pianist - Neyla Pekarek - tells us about that teacher, and how his influence changed her professional course. Tune in also to hear some early work from her Barbershop Quartet “Vogue,” and for a personal account of just how challenging it still is to be a women in the male-dominated music industry. (Neyla lest the Lumineers after this episode was recorded to pursue personal projects).
    24 min

About My Youth on Record

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Every artist starts somewhere. Some made music in their basements, and wrote love songs in their biology notebooks. Others were obsessed with that one mind-blowing band who seemed to write music just for them. At some point, they all felt inspired to make their own music. My Youth on Record (MYOR) is a podcast where artists share the music they created as teens, and the stories behind the songs. Host Shawn King from DeVotchKa, together with a featured teen co-hosts, take musicians back to the feeling of making music during their most awkward, vulnerable – and often most creative and raw – phase as novice music makers. Artists laugh, cry, cringe and hopefully learn something new about their own creative process as they take this musical trip down memory lane.