The DJ Pod Cast

Katastro is a four-piece band from Phoenix, Arizona.

Featured Song Name: Stars

Katastro is a four-piece band from Phoenix, Arizona.

Featured Song Name: Stars

Known for their catchy, free-associating, indie pop-rock melodies, Mike Mains & The Branches invites diverse comparisons to acts such as Foster The People, Young the Giant, The Killers, and Arcade Fire —each comparison act a genuine facet of the band’s energetic and often soul-searching music.

Featured Song Name: Breathing Underwater

Known for their catchy, free-associating, indie pop-rock melodies, Mike Mains & The Branches invites diverse comparisons to acts such as Foster The People, Young the Giant, The Killers, and Arcade Fire —each comparison act a genuine facet of the band’s energetic and often soul-searching music.

Featured Song Name: Breathing Underwater

After moving to Chicago with a bunch of songs and 4-track recordings in 1999, Thomas Comerford founded and led the indie rock outfit Kaspar Hauser over a series of lineups and LP releases in the 2000s. By 2010, he was also playing “solo” shows with a number of backing musicians and releasing his own LPs, including Archive + Spiral in 2011 and II in 2014. The music, songs and singing on these LPs have been compared to the likes of Jeff Tweedy and Tom Waits (USA Today). Recently, he released his third solo LP, Blood Moon. Featuring Comerford’s baritone—and occasional falsetto—in the midst of largely acoustic or gently electric arrangements, 3-part backing vocals and duets, the music on Blood Moon recalls singing songwriters like Van Morrison, Kris Kristofferson and Leonard Cohen. On his June 2019 tour, Comerford will sing and play acoustic guitar, accompanied by Crystal Hartford (Hartford-Focht) on voice; Dan Ingenthron (Weepin’ Willows) on bass guitar; Kip Rainey (Golden Horse Ranch Band) on electric guitar, lap steel; and Erik Sowa on drum kit and percussion.

Featured Song Name: Lord of the Flies

After moving to Chicago with a bunch of songs and 4-track recordings in 1999, Thomas Comerford founded and led the indie rock outfit Kaspar Hauser over a series of lineups and LP releases in the 2000s. By 2010, he was also playing “solo” shows with a number of backing musicians and releasing his own LPs, including Archive + Spiral in 2011 and II in 2014. The music, songs and singing on these LPs have been compared to the likes of Jeff Tweedy and Tom Waits (USA Today). Recently, he released his third solo LP, Blood Moon. Featuring Comerford’s baritone—and occasional falsetto—in the midst of largely acoustic or gently electric arrangements, 3-part backing vocals and duets, the music on Blood Moon recalls singing songwriters like Van Morrison, Kris Kristofferson and Leonard Cohen. On his June 2019 tour, Comerford will sing and play acoustic guitar, accompanied by Crystal Hartford (Hartford-Focht) on voice; Dan Ingenthron (Weepin’ Willows) on bass guitar; Kip Rainey (Golden Horse Ranch Band) on electric guitar, lap steel; and Erik Sowa on drum kit and percussion.

Featured Song Name: Lord of the Flies

We aim to preserve unique atmosphere of our old landscapes that are currently changing with centralised themes around the city of Katowice, and it's agglomeration. We do it with a help of synthesis of a sound and picture, creating themes of lost time and decay of old architectural ideas like industrial manufactures, steelworks and buildings slowly turning into dust making way for new landscapes that are taking place of the ones that we used to know. Our equipment and forms of expression are not strict, they are selected to suit our current interests and a form of an expression, although we use industrial music, new wave melodic themes and analogue electronic music as our basis.

Featured Song Name: Lines

We aim to preserve unique atmosphere of our old landscapes that are currently changing with centralised themes around the city of Katowice, and it's agglomeration. We do it with a help of synthesis of a sound and picture, creating themes of lost time and decay of old architectural ideas like industrial manufactures, steelworks and buildings slowly turning into dust making way for new landscapes that are taking place of the ones that we used to know. Our equipment and forms of expression are not strict, they are selected to suit our current interests and a form of an expression, although we use industrial music, new wave melodic themes and analogue electronic music as our basis.

Featured Song Name: Lines

KOTA The Friend is a hip hop artist and musician from Brooklyn, NY. At an early age he found

his love for music and hip hop, R & B, Jazz and Soul music during the infamous 90's era. By the

time young KOTA was 8 years old he joined his school's music program and excelled as a

trumpet player. In high school KOTA was the leader of the trumpet section while teaching

himself to play the guitar and piano. During this time he also picked up two-weekend jobs to

build a home studio where he would record hip hop tracks as well as folk songs that were

accompanied by his guitar playing. After high school, KOTA would later go on to attend schools

for the performing arts. Mastering instrument after instrument, he is a guitarist, keyboardist, and bass player, now producing/writing his own music.

KOTA The Friend is a hip hop artist and musician from Brooklyn, NY. At an early age he found

his love for music and hip hop, R & B, Jazz and Soul music during the infamous 90's era. By the

time young KOTA was 8 years old he joined his school's music program and excelled as a

trumpet player. In high school KOTA was the leader of the trumpet section while teaching

himself to play the guitar and piano. During this time he also picked up two-weekend jobs to

build a home studio where he would record hip hop tracks as well as folk songs that were

accompanied by his guitar playing. After high school, KOTA would later go on to attend schools

for the performing arts. Mastering instrument after instrument, he is a guitarist, keyboardist, and bass player, now producing/writing his own music.