On this FAN-tastic episode of the Printer Pod, a FAN interviews me about FANtastic WRIST! Hey real quick, are you picking up on those puns? I left them right there. Send me an email to confirm you understand. Anyway, I have a long chat with long time (and BIG time) Basic Printer fan Joe Kern who had some questions and theories about the album. I figured, hey, this could be a great way to celebrate the fact that this sucker is NOW on vinyl! Which, btw, if you want one, head to stuff.basicprinter.com and grab one! Hope you enjoy this chat...

Hooooo boy! Y'aint readin' that wrong. I had a delightful afternoon chat with one of my biggest musical influences Yoni Wolf. To those who dunno - Yoni has been an influential rapper, songwriter, singer, producer, and performer for decades now. He's made innovative, genre-bending music all along the way that hones in on his sharp, expertly crafted lyricism. These days, he's gotten into a mix of writing more original music and producing other artists. On this Good Friday, we celebrate the god himself with a nice convo about his experience as an artist and how to best present the emotional center of a song through writing.

Attxla is a singer, songwriter, and producer of some heavenly-ass experimental r&b pop music. I could barely even explain it to you, but it's heady, gorgeous, and insanely danceable and SINGABLE. I met Attxla through her being a fan of my music, and it took me one listen of her record to be immediately floored and addicted to her stuff. It is absolutely perfect. In fact, it was one of my most listened albums on Spotify this year - FACTUALLY! She made it into my Spotify wrapped. I was so pumped about her record "Ebb" and had heard it so many times that I was dying to have her on the podcast to talk about it at length while showing it off to you all as well. Seriously, listen to this perfect little album, it will fulfill you. Hope you enjoy this passionate conversation about one of my favorite records with its creator!

Hot dog. Alex Clayton, aka West End Ritos, has been in my musical Nashville rolodex for years now! I met him while playing a show at The Cobra and saw him around on the reg after that. When I booked Miki Fiki for a show with Spirit of the Bear, I was surprised to find that he was their new drummer! Positively blew my mind. And now, my mind is getting blown (what) again - because Alex has been working on some solo tunes and just released them yesterday. Had to have a chat with him about all this progression - SO I DID, and it was nice. Hope you love our convo!

Well well well. The Wrist is finally here...or should I say, it's finally on streaming. Technically it's been around for like 5 months already and if you REALLY wanted to listen to it, you could've. NONETHELESS. To celebrate the more 'worldwide' release of the record, I wanted to get a real, tough-as-nails '60 minutes' style interview to hash out all the grittiness of it. How does one do that? You intentionally hire a hard-hitting interviewer to wrench the answers out of you like a police interrogation. Did I do that? Not really. I hired the very genial Thomas Erwin of Niagara Moon to do it, knowing he'd be kind and interesting in his engaging with me. AND HE WAS! So, enjoy what I like to call 'the definitive Fantastic Wrist interview'...

CASSIDI is (in my opinion) an unapologetic pop artist from Utica, NY. Yes, you read that right! Utica! I thought that was the neatest thing. It turns out she comes from a long line of amazing artists from the area, and being such a force in a lower key city has its benefits - which is one of the main things we talk about on this pod, since I'm from Binghamton, NY (which is a similar existence...and also not far away). Anyhow, enjoy this lovely convo.

Matt is one of those people that you feel so immediately friendly and close to even though you barely know the person or have barely hung out. I say that because that's pretty much our situation. We met first in 2018 when he was interviewing me ahead of my show on tour in Binghamton, NY (my hometown) and it was interesting to know that there was someone out there that was interested in this uncharacteristic show happening in the area. Since then, I've kept tabs on him and have been really happy to see him forging a musical path up there and keeping it alive and innovative since I left. Makes me wanna go back! We talk about Binghamton and all things music for an hour here. Hope ya dig it.

Emily is a musician, composer, singer and songwriter based in Utah. In promoting our music more and more we naturally crossed paths online and found ourselves to have a great rapport with each other. We're both very interested in digging RIGHT to the meat of things when it comes to getting to know new people, so it was very easy for us to crack right into our past problems and current observations on how the world is run and how people get to know each other. Turns out our music respectively reflects our kind of expansive and indulgent creative natures - which was also a nice thing to discover. Enjoy this lovely convo!

Alayna Renae is a dear friend, Jazz singer, and activist in the Nashville area (originally from Kissime, Florida). We have been fairly tuned in to each other for most of our tenures in Nashville and enjoyed each others' performances many times over! I love Alayna's forward thinking approach to music and not feeling beholden to the tenants and pomp & circumstance of the genre she often is operating within (whatever that even means)...we had this convo a while back, maybe in June or July. I have to say, despite when this conversation was recorded, what we go over is as relevant as ever. So, enjoy this lovely convo with Alayna.

It's been 2 years in the making...you've been hearing about it left and right...but I'm finally here to tell you that the new album is available for preorder at basicprinter.com/fantastic-wrist-preorder

The podcasts have slowed a bit - I know it! I've been mixing this record and preparing it for mastering as we aim for a digital release in August! By preordering, you are first in line. Alright, printer out! See you soon with more stuff :)