Rock Paper Podcast

I hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend and had the opportunity to spend some time with friends & family. Last week I caught up with my buddy Alan Shawgo for today's episode of Rock Paper Podcast. We get into some of his story of the early days of falling in love with photography to working with Fivefold. We also talk about his podcast To The West And Back that he records with his friend Nick.

Follow along with all things Alan Shawgo @shawgostudios on Facebook & Instagram or ShawgoStudios.com. Listen to To The West And Back on your favorite podcast apps or ToTheWestAndBack.com

On this episode you'll hear Fivefold "Hindsight." Be sure to check out the music video filmed & directed by Alan Shawgo.

Check out my friends at Friendship Brewing Company in Wentzville, MO with over 25 rotating taps for all your craft beer needs. They have a wonderful spot out there and huge patio. Perfect for enjoying a cold beverage with some good friends! Check out their menu with all sorts of delicious food like burgers, nachos & flatbread pizzas. Come grab some lunch or dinner, enjoy some live music and have a great time at Friendship Brewing Company! FriendshipBrewCo.com Live Music Wentzville: 6/1 Singo Bingo 6/2 Denver Wade Trent (7-10p) 6/3 Jeff Walchshauser (7-10pm) 6/4 Lauren Hoffman (1-4p). Live Music Flint Hill: 6/2 Buddy & Q 6/3 Josh Littig. June 2nd Soft Opening of brand new Flint Hill location with July 29 as the Grand Opening celebration!

The other day I sat down with Ed Akers of Local636. We recently recorded an episode of his show Local636 Podcast where I was the guest talking all about Rock Paper Podcast & Debbstock. Go listen if you haven't, now available on YouTube and all the podcast apps! It was time to flip the script and put Ed in the hot seat. We get into his story of getting involved with Local636, the podcast, his love of St.Charles and the festival celebrating all things St.Charles county with 636 Day!

Listen to Local636 on your favorite podcast app or in full video on YouTube! Follow along with them on Facebook & Instagram!

Join us at 636 Day on June 3rd with live music from Russo & Co, Inimical Drive, Steve Ewing, Claudia Rose & Curt Copeland & The Consequences. This is a FREE event! Details at 636day.com

Listen to Rock Paper Podcast on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple & Google Podcast apps or ROCKPAPERPODCAST.com

Check out my friends at Friendship Brewing Company in Wentzville, MO with over 25 rotating taps for all your craft beer needs. They have a wonderful spot out there and huge patio. Perfect for enjoying a cold beverage with some good friends! Check out their menu with all sorts of delicious food like burgers, nachos & flatbread pizzas. Come grab some lunch or dinner, enjoy some live music and have a great time at Friendship Brewing Company! FriendshipBrewCo.com Live Music: 5/18 Singo Bingo 5/19 Josh Littig (7-10p) 5/20 Steve Kyle (7-10pm) 5/21 Lauren Hoffman (1-4p). June 2nd Soft Opening of brand new Flint Hill location with July 29 as the Grand Opening celebration!

Today I'm thrilled to get to meet up with This Is Falling. This was first time officially meeting all the guys and I had so much fun with them. We deep dive into their brand new album TIFWAVE, stories behind some of the songs, the music video, Album Release Party and much more.

On this episode you'll hear:

• Retro Champ "A Place For My Head" ft Isaac Etter of This Is Falling
• Mango
• Sludgehammer
• The Hunt

Find more from This Is Falling wherever you get your digital music. Follow along on Facebook & Instagram!

See them LIVE

5/13 at Blueberry Hill Duck Room in St.Louis, MO for their Album Release Party with special guests Inner Outlines, Hard Graves & Facing Infamy

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Check out my friends at Friendship Brewing Company in Wentzville, MO with over 25 rotating taps for all your craft beer needs. They have a wonderful spot out there and huge patio. Perfect for enjoying a cold beverage with some good friends! Check out their menu with all sorts of delicious food like burgers, nachos & flatbread pizzas. Come grab some lunch or dinner, enjoy some live music and have a great time at Friendship Brewing Company! FriendshipBrewCo.com Live Music: 5/11 Singo Bingo 5/12 James Bertels (7-10p) 5/13 Buddy & Q (7-10pm) 5/14 Matt Walterscheid (1-4p).

Friday April 28th I took a ride downtown to see my buddies in Russo & Co headline their first St.Louis show at The Hawthorn with support from Mark Perkins & Redemption River. Before the show we set up a few mics in the green room to catch up a bit about everything they have coming up for the band. We also decdided to rip a little single mic bluegrass style version of an unreleased song live acoustic for the show!

On this episode you'll hear:

• Drink And Drive
• Prizefighter (Live Acoustic)

Find more music on your favorite streaming service!

See them LIVE:

5/14 at Old Rock House with Emily Wallace, Ryan Cheney & Meredit Hopping for Debbstock. Tickets at Tinyurl.com/Debbstock

6/3 at 636 Day in Frechtown/St.Charles, MO with Inimical Drive, Steve Ewing & Claudia Rose.

6/11 at Busch Stadium for Boots At Busch

Follow along with Russo & Co on Facebook & Instagram.

Check out my friends at Friendship Brewing Company in Wentzville, MO with over 25 rotating taps for all your craft beer needs. They have a wonderful spot out there and huge patio. Perfect for enjoying a cold beverage with some good friends! Check out their menu with all sorts of delicious food like burgers, nachos & flatbread pizzas. Come grab some lunch or dinner, enjoy some live music and have a great time at Friendship Brewing Company! FriendshipBrewCo.com Live Music: 5/11 Singo Bingo 5/12 James Bertels (7-10p) 5/13 Buddy & Q (7-10pm) 5/14 Matt Walterscheid (1-4p).

I caught up with Luminal the other day to get to know a little more about the band. We talk about some of their recorded music, new music and upcoming shows! We also had fun talking about some of favorite people around town, favorite spots to eat and much more.

New music on the way! Follow along with them on Instagram @LuminalbandSTL

See them LIVE

May 9th at Platypus

June 4th at Splash Pad (House show)

June 6th at Platypus

July 28th at The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill

On this episode you'll hear:

• Parallels

Find more Luminal wherever you get your digital music!

Listen to Rock Paper Podcast on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple & Google Podcast apps or click PLAY

Check out my friends at Friendship Brewing Company in Wentzville, MO with over 25 rotating taps for all your craft beer needs. They have a wonderful spot out there and huge patio. Perfect for enjoying a cold beverage with some good friends! Check out their menu with all sorts of delicious food like burgers, nachos & flatbread pizzas. Come grab some lunch or dinner, enjoy some live music and have a great time at Friendship Brewing Company! FriendshipBrewCo.com Live Music: 5/4 Singo Bingo 5/5 Dennis & Brad O'Hagan (7-10p) 5/6 Steve Kyle (7-10pm) 5/7 James Jones (1-4p).

I caught up with members of One Way Traffic at Leah's home to sit and talk about their brand new album MOVE INTO THE OUTSIDE, the group's 2nd full album release. We talk about their recent album release party and possible live ablum recording, some stories behind the songs and get a sneak peek at the album. We also talk upcoming tour & festival season.

On this episode you'll hear:

• Operator
• Go Easy
• Painted Window

Find more One Way Traffic music on your favorite streaming service. Grab a physical copy at any upcoming shows!

See them LIVE:

4/27 One Way Traffic at New Terrain Brewing Golden, CO 4/28 One Way Traffic at ADOBO - Denver, CO 4/29 One Way Traffic at Beyond The Mountain Brewing Company Boulder, CO 4/30 One Way Traffic with Cameron Keeling & The Runaway Train live at Lucia Lawrence, KS 5/13 at Old Rock House with Arkansauce & Opal Agafia St.Louis, MO OneWayTrafficmusic.com for more info. Follow along with them on Facebook & Instagram. Check out my friends at Friendship Brewing Company in Wentzville, MO with over 25 rotating taps for all your craft beer needs. They have a wonderful spot out there and huge patio. Perfect for enjoying a cold beverage with some good friends! Check out their menu with all sorts of delicious food like burgers, nachos & flatbread pizzas. Come grab some lunch or dinner, enjoy some live music and have a great time at Friendship Brewing Company! FriendshipBrewCo.com Live Music: 4/27 Singo Bingo Best of Country 4/28 Josh Littig (7-10p) 4/29 Buddy & Q (7-10pm).

Ryan Cheney & Matt Benne return!! These two have become great friends of mine over the years of following their band Fivefold around the last decade. I always enjoy getting to catch up with them. In this episode we talk about Matt Benne getting into recording and producing music of his own now as a singer songwriter along with for Fivefold and others. We talk about brand new Fivefold music, their new Patreon and podcast! We also deep dive into some of Ryan's work like his new single dedicated to his wife called "Best Life" and we play one LIVE!

On this episode you'll hear:

• Benne "Livin On"
• Benne "Two Strangers"
• Fivefold "Amped Up"
• Fivefold "Lost Within (Re-Imagnined)"
• Ryan Cheney "Best Life"
• Ryan Cheney "Song For The Broken (Live Acoustic)"

Follow along with Ryan Cheney, Matt Benne & Fivefold on the socials. Fivefoldband.com. Find more of their music wherever you get digital music! Contact Matt for recording at ResolutionAudio.net

New Fivefold single "Feel Something" due out April 28th. Pre-Save today!

See them LIVE

5/14 Debbstock at Old Rock House with Ryan Cheney, Emily Wallace, Russo & Co and Meredith Hopping. Tickets at tinyurl.com/debbstock. All proceeds go to support brain cancer awareness & patients.

5/20 Ryan Cheney at Millpond Brewing

5/21 Ryan Cheney at Vintage Wine Bar

Check out my friends at Friendship Brewing Company in Wentzville, MO with over 25 rotating taps for all your craft beer needs. They have a wonderful spot out there and huge patio. Perfect for enjoying a cold beverage with some good friends! Check out their menu with all sorts of delicious food like burgers, nachos & flatbread pizzas. Come grab some lunch or dinner, enjoy some live music and have a great time at Friendship Brewing Company! FriendshipBrewCo.com Live Music: 4/21 Denver Wade Trent (7-10p) 4/22 Steve Kyle (7-10p). Also Saturday 4/22 2pm is their Wentzminster Dog Show! Proceeds of the dog show go to support On My Way To Furever Rescue.

Matt F Basler returns! This time he brought along his management Col. Dylan Clubb to sit in with us. We talk about his newly found authentic version of himself and finding a home in country music. He's currently working on a brand new Country album and we talk about some of the songs and play a couple live acoustic!

See Matt LIVE

May 13th at Off Broadway in St.Louis, MO for his Album Release Party with Yard Eagle & Blond Guru. Tickets at offbroadwaystl.com

On this episode you'll hear:

• Incomplete (Live on Rock Paper Podcast)
• Tryin (Live on Rock Paper Podcast)

Find more from Matt F Basler on your favorite streaming platform or buy CDs, Shirts & more at MattFBasler.com. Follow along with him on Facebook, Tik Tok, YouTube & Instagram.

Check out my friends at Friendship Brewing Company in Wentzville, MO with over 25 rotating taps for all your craft beer needs. They have a wonderful spot out there and huge patio. Perfect for enjoying a cold beverage with some good friends! Check out their menu with all sorts of delicious food like burgers, nachos & flatbread pizzas. Come grab some lunch or dinner, enjoy some live music and have a great time at Friendship Brewing Company! FriendshipBrewCo.com Live Music: 4/13 Singo Bingo: I Love 80's 4/14 Buddy & Q (7-10p) 4/15 Jeff Walchshauser (7-10p).

One of my favorites, singer songwriter Bobby Stevens returns! Bobby has a brand new album titled GLAD YOU PICKED UP due out on April 7th. We sit down to deep dive into the album talking about some of the tracks, stories behind the songs & play one live acoustic! We also talk about wrestling, Jimmy Buffett and so much more.

Catch Bobby Stevens LIVE

April 8th at Central Stage in St.Louis, MO for Side Car's Album Release Party along with Prairie Rehab. Tickets at MetroTix.com

On this episode you'll hear:

• It's Margaritaville Somewhere
• Thanksgiving Day, Dayton, Ohio 2017 (Live Acoustic)
• You Deserve A Donut

GLAD YOU PICKED UP available wherever you get your digital music on April 7th. Download at BobbyStevens.bandcamp.com

Follow along with Bobby Stevens on Facebook & Instagram!

Listen to Rock Paper Podcast on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple & Google Podcast apps or ROCKPAPERPODCAST.com

Check out my friends at Friendship Brewing Company in Wentzville, MO with over 25 rotating taps for all your craft beer needs. They have a wonderful spot out there and huge patio. Perfect for enjoying a cold beverage with some good friends! Check out their menu with all sorts of delicious food like burgers, nachos & flatbread pizzas. Come grab some lunch or dinner, enjoy some live music and have a great time at Friendship Brewing Company! FriendshipBrewCo.com Live Music: 4/6 Singo Bingo: Soutlown 4/7 James Bertels (7-10p) 4/8 Steve Kyle (7-10p). Fish Fry Fridays all through Lent!

The other day I caught up with my buddies Matt Hitchcock & Phil Russo of Side Car. We enjoyed some Domino's Pizza and a few beverages from Topo Chico and took a deep dive into their debut record DINNER & A BOX OF WINE. We share some stories behind the songs, give a sneak peek a few tracks and play a couple live acoustic!

On this episode you'll hear:

• Baby Don't Give Me Those Blues
• The Sangamon (Live Acoustic)
• Ol 44
• My Best Friend's Girl (The Cars cover) (Live Acoustic)

DINNER & A BOX OF WINE is due out on April 1st. Join us at Central Stage in St.Louis, MO on April 8th to celebrate at Album Release Party with special guests Bobby Stevens & Prairie Rehab! Tickets at MetroTix.com

Be sure to follow along with Side Car on Facebook & Instagram!

Check out my friends at Friendship Brewing Company in Wentzville, MO with over 25 rotating taps for all your craft beer needs. They have a wonderful spot out there and huge patio. Perfect for enjoying a cold beverage with some good friends! Check out their menu with all sorts of delicious food like burgers, nachos & flatbread pizzas. Come grab some lunch or dinner, enjoy some live music and have a great time at Friendship Brewing Company! FriendshipBrewCo.com Live Music: 3/30 Singo Bingo: Best of 2020 3/31 Steve Kyle (7-10p) 4/1 Matt Walterscheid (7-10p). Fish Fry Fridays all through Lent!