Never Records Podcasts

Never Records Podcasts

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  • Never Records 96
    “You can’t play your own band on your radio show.”, my co-worker scolded me in response to last week’s episode about the band I was in in the nineties called Thumper. She’s absolutely right, I really shouldn’t play my own music, but after our reunion show on July 12th, I was so giddy that I wanted to share what was once such an enormous part of my life in the hopes it would further illuminate how Never Records originated.
    So at the risk of further breaking the rules of radio propriety, today’s episode about a another band I was in in the early 2000s, a band called The New You.
    Featuring:
    The New You
    Homesteads
    The New You
    Memorial Day
    The New You
    Silver Foil
    The New You
    Too Much Earth
    34 min
  • Never Records 95
    This past week, a band I was in Thumper reunited to play a club called The Beachcomber in Wellfleet on Cape Cod. Formed in the early nineties at Tufts University in Boston, Thumper went on to release 4 albums and tour the United States and Canada. The band has been described as part of the Third Wave of Ska music but as you are about to hear ska was just one of an eclectic number of influences that included punk, hardcore, metal, and reggae.
    We were misfits, irreverent, satirical, theatrical and mischievous. We deliberately tried to evade description, but above all we took our music very seriously. At times its virtuosic and at other times hard to listen to. In spite of ourselves we sold over 20,000 records and often played to audiences that numbered well into the hundreds.
    Featuring:
    Thumper
    Holy Roller
    Thumper
    Burn Baby Burn
    Thumper
    All Fall Down
    Thumper
    Backstabber
    25 min
  • Never Records 94
    This past week, my old friend Damon Locks asked me to cut records for a project he was working on. Damon and I met over 30 years ago at ART CENTER, a Summer magnet program for art students in the Washington DC area. Damon went on to become the singer of one of my favorite Chicago bands, Trenchmouth, and has since had a very successful art and music career.
    As an artist in residence at a high school in a neighborhood in the Southwest Side of Chicago, Damon had recently coached students to create a series of radio dramas that were based on sci-fi visions of the future. As I’m working on a time capsule to send vinyl records into the future the timing couldn’t have been more perfect. I asked Damon to introduce himself and the project.
    Featuring:
    Future Radio Plays
    From the Students of Sarah E Goode Stem Academy, Chicago
    32 min
  • Never Records 93
    This past week I had what could best described as a Back To the Future moment. A temporal deja-vuz where I found myself reliving a resonant moment that bridged a thirty-year gap.
    Back in the 1980s I was in a band called The Reply, and what started as a bunch of 14 year olds playing dress up and posing in front of mirros turned into a way of life, an ethic of seeing and experiencing the world.
    Feat:
    The Reply
    Razor Sharp
    The Reply
    All Good Things
    The Reply
    Billy
    The Reply
    Remember
    29 min
  • Never Records 92
    Never Records allows me to completely immerse myself in a place like Kansas City and feel what it is truly like to live there. I can’t tell you what a gift it was to cycle familiar streets, to be a local at Los Alamos Market Y Cocina, to run into friends at Town Topic at 2 in the morning, to got my favorite laundromat which was decorated with vinyl record decals, to share in the songs and stories of hundreds of talented people, and to feel the gratitude and warmth from everyone who came through Never Records.
    There we were that Sunday evening in Kansas City. We came together to celebrate the end of a project that brought us together as friends, collaborators, and fellow artists. As I sat on the rented peacock embroidered couch I had tears in my eyes as a string of performers payed tribute to the spirit of Never Records. I’ll never forget that night.
    Artists Featured:
    Jenna and Martin and friends
    Closing Night Performance
    Lorna Kay’s One Night Stand
    Closing Night Performance
    Kelly Hunt
    Closing Night Performance
    Conor O’Kane
    Crossroads
    34 min
  • Never Records 91
    After 5 months of episodes, we are nearing the end of dispatches from Kansas City. There are still many recordings to share, but I’m feeling the urge to end this chapter in the story of Never Records. I dedicated last week’s show to bluegrass. While the traditional scene is flourishing, I didn’t want to leave you, dear listener, thinking that this was all Kansas City had to offer. As I’ve shared before, this town is experiencing a renaissance of sorts and I discovered a diversity in the music scene that would rival a city two and three times it’s size.
    Music Featured:
    (w)Omen-Potion
    Mysterious Clouds-Lunar Duel
    Ryan Radecki-Ocean State
    Jason Buice-Spaceship
    28 min
  • Episode 90
    KANSAS CITY: I recently saw a cool video from KC on one of my social media feeds of a music shop full of fiddle players jamming while a luthier cleaned and restored a double bass. This video epitomizes Kansas City to me, an open jam in a remarkable space. The roots music scene so open, so welcoming and supportive to musicians of all abilities and ages.
    Artists Featured:
    Grassfed - Sometimes The Silence
    Chris Devictor - Honey Come Back Home
    Tiny Flowers - untitled
    Under the Big Oak Tree - Honey Bee
    31 min
  • Episode 89
    KANSAS CITY:
    In Kansas City I discovered humble and modest songs that spoke about the trials of life in a very direct and poignant way. Today’s episode is dedicated to four musicians who inspired me through their poetry and music.
    Artists Featured:
    Julie Bennet Hume - Garden
    Steve Sterner - 43 Days
    Joy Zimmerman - How Long
    Mark Valladares - Indian Made
    26 min
  • Episode 88
    KANSAS CITY:
    I turn to music as I so often do in these moments for solace and inspiration and beauty. And so I’ve put together a lovely set of music for you today. Three women songwriters and singers who will help further enchant this Spring. Through their voices we will be redeemed in the magic way that song has to uplift our lives.
    Esther Rose - Without You
    Arabella Arabella - Jealous Guy
    Lily B Moonflower - Midnight Song
    22 min
  • 87: Tashi Dorji
    KANSAS CITY:
    In Kansas City I hosted five live shows and today I’m going to play one of these gigs for you. The experimental composer, radio dj, and piano repair expert Shawn Hansen, proposed that I host the touring musician Tashi Dorji. I jumped at the chance for Tashi Dorji has an amazing reputation as an international experimental guitarist.
    29 min

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Never Records is a combination recording studio and record shop, setting up in locales throughout the world. The sole proprietor, interior decorator, and engineer is New York-based artist Ted Riederer. Inspired by his own redemptive education at a young age inside the walls of a local record store in Rockville, Maryland as well as the field recording projects of Alan Lomax, Riederer devised his unique community art installation in the early part of this century and has been replicating it with regional variations throughout the world since 2010.