Underwater Sunshine

By Adam Duritz/James Campion

What's Underwater Sunshine about?

A series of conversations between noted non-journalist Adam Duritz and his pal, author and music journalist James Campion, about life, music, and whatever comes into their large and incredibly handsome brains.

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Underwater Sunshine episodes:

03.19.2020
Live From Here! It’s Us!
With the coronavirus keeping us all sheltered at home, we decide to just do a LIVE podcast and just talk about whatever everybody wants to talk about. Zaniness ensues.
03.11.2020
Jordan Klassen + Claire Morales
Work in the studio is going really well and it’s giving us a chance to feature all these killer Garden Sessions. This week’s artist come from the far-locales of Vancouver, BC and Denton, TX. Dig the exotica!
03.04.2020
Wild Pink + Harmaleighs
I’m busy in the recording studio this week so we continue featuring October’s Garden Sessions. This week it’s two more great bands Wild Pink and The Harmaleighs. Dig this!
02.26.2020
Kid Sistr’s $1000 Dinner
We had an incredible Underwater Sunshine Festival in October and the Garden Sessions were amazing. This week’s podcast features performances and interviews with two of our faves: Kid Sistr and Matt Sucich. Dig it!
02.19.2020
Purple Reign 4 - 1999 Pt. 2
Welp. As the nation celebrates Part 2 of our 1999 podcast, I personally celebrate Day 2 of food poisoning. Although I’m less excited about one than the other, I recognize the humanity inherent in both. To paraphrase Edward R Murrow...good...
02.12.2020
Purple Reign Pt. 3 - 1999 Sides 1 & 2
We celebrate being slightly late celebrating the 20th Anniversary of 1999, a record which actually came out 38 years ago. This was an incredibly fertile period in the Purple One’s career and we bellyflop into it, splashing music over two...
02.05.2020
Purple Reign 2 - Controversy
After the critical acclaim of Dirty Mind(1980), Prince’s first real encounter with mainstream mass culture ends disastrously on the Rolling Stones Tour. In the wake of those experiences, he goes back to the studio and crafts the kind of response...
01.29.2020
Purple Reign Pt. 1
Is there any doubt in your mind what these next few podcasts are all about? We start at the beginning and take a deep dive into maybe the best there ever was. This motherfucker was simply VIOLACEOUS! Prince Rogers Nelson.
01.22.2020
Duck Soup
We get into our first Garden Sessions of the year, checking out October’s performances with Maria Taylor, The Accidentals, and Sarah Jaffe. It’s all kinda awesome. Oh yeah...and soup. We talk about soup.
01.15.2020
Jedi Nots
It’s Winter and we’ve been staying indoors so we talk about the movies and music we love lately and why Star Wars is endlessly frustrating.
01.01.2020
All The Friendly Ghosts Pt. 2
Part Two of our trip through the wonderful, tragic, and triumphant life of Daniel Johnston. Check it out!
12.18.2019
All The Friendly Ghosts Pt. 1
In the wake of some hard times, we examine the wonderful, tragic, and triumphant life of Daniel Johnston.
12.11.2019
Glitter In The Garden
We return with a Garden Session from the Spring featuring sets and interviews with the great Jesse Malin and Red Wanting Blue, who, as it turns out, are not from Canada, have never been from Canada, but have actually visited...
11.13.2019
Awesome Fuck Yeah Podcast
James & I convene onstage Saturday night at the Underwater Sunshine Festival to host a live podcast, answer your questions, pat ourselves on the back with microphones, and generally self-congratulate in front of an audience. Zaniness ensues. We love you...
11.06.2019
Festivus (for the rest of us) Pt 3
10.30.2019
Festivus (for the rest of us) Pt 2
The boys take another trip through the bands playing the Underwater Sunshine Festival, including a brand new Jordan Klassen tune and the very special reveal of a new Maria Taylor song called “Waiting In Line” featuring me, Adam, singing with...
10.23.2019
Festivus (for the rest of us) Pt 1
The Underwater Sunshine Festival is coming Nov 8-9 and we’re so excited to spend the next few weeks previewing the incredible artists who’ll be playing. C’mon! Check em’ out with us!
10.16.2019
How I Learned To Drive Pt. 2
Back for more checkered flags and a few bumps in the road. We talk about the later years as The Cars make a massive comeback, call it quits, and then get back together to make some really good music one...
10.09.2019
How I Learned To Drive Pt. 1
With apologies/acknowledgement to Paula Vogel’s brilliant play (which returns to NYC this coming Spring w/its original cast of Mary-Louise Parker & David Morse), we examine an entirely different life in Cars and say goodbye to one of our heroes.
10.02.2019
Bowling for Bricks
The boyz explore the work of Matthew Koma’s Winnetka Bowling League along with the new releases from a few other pals. It’s a good time. Trust me.
09.25.2019
Beth’s Beach Blanket Buffalo Babylon
Omigod. So much great music and none of it from 1969. Welcome back time travelers! Phones are smart and people are stupid and we’re finally home. (smile) Thankfully, the Music is always good no matter when we are.
09.18.2019
An Aquarian Exposition, Pt. 6
In which the boys finally wrap up Woodstock, somehow managing to cover a 3-day festival in only 6 weeks. What can we say? We’re talkers. Day 3 stretches into Day 4 with Edgar Winter, Blood Sweat & Tears, Crosby Stills...
09.11.2019
An Aquarian Exposition, Pt. 5
Day 3 at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair gets off to explosive start with Joe Cocker and never really lets up. We can’t help ourselves so we only deal with half of it in our penultimate Woodstock podcast. But...
09.04.2019
An Aquarian Exposition, Pt. 4
The seemingly endless 2nd day of Woodstock finally comes to close with a soul-baring Janis Joplin Set and a powerful close by the Jefferson Airplane book-ended around furious historic and impossible-to-top sets by Sly & The Family Stone and The...
08.14.2019
An Aquarian Exposition Pt 3
Day 2 at Woodstock finally starts to cook until the Dead arrive in all their acid-drenched glory and somehow manage to both break the stage and fry all the electronics at the same time, causing the world’s biggest rock concert...
08.07.2019
An Aquarian Exposition Pt 2
In which Day 2 at Woodstock begins more in fits and starts than anything else. The acoustic folk music of Day 1 was supposed to give way to the electric rock and roll of Day 2 but instead, the biggest...
07.31.2019
An Aquarian Exposition Pt 1
If you ever do something really cool and all your friends come over along with all their friends and a few hundred thousand friends of friends of friends so it’s basically the most people ever in one place and some...
07.17.2019
The Great Glaspy
If Scott Fitzgerald had heard Emotions And Math, his book might’ve had an entirely different heroine. We have...so we do. Margaret Glaspy is simply fucking amazing and we spend a podcast talking about just that.
07.10.2019
Awake In Zion
In which the boys reflect upon the brilliant visionary music of both New Delhi/London-based Prateek Kuhad and Brooklyn’s own Wilder Maker as seen through their performances on the last and first days of April’s Garden Sessions. We listen and discuss.
06.26.2019
The Bear Necessities
In which the boys can’t seem to stop having fun with Garden Sessions so this week we delve into Eric Hutchinson and Bear Cub. You’re gonna dog this. Or dig this.
06.19.2019
You Get What You Need
In which the boys talk to the completely awesome Kiley Lotz, the brilliant singer/songwriter behind Petal, check out her Garden Sesh, and then have an epic chat with the legendary Cyndi Lauper and her bandmates-for-the-night Hollis Brown all about growing...
06.05.2019
Avant Gardeners
James is out of town recording this week so we spend this podcast on Garden Sessions and interviews with Maria Taylor, Cameron McGill, and Ryan Hamilton. You’re not going to want to miss this one. We talk about stuff. PS....
05.29.2019
Superstar Trek III The Search For Spock
In which we talk not a whit about Spock, Dr or Mr, and instead concentrate solely on Superstar’s brilliant 1988 release Palm Tree, which is either their masterpiece or…well, not, depending on whether you simply happen to think some other...
05.22.2019
Jesus Christ……Superstar!
We continue the epic tale of the Bellshill Glasgow kids we began in the "Teenage Superstars" episode by taking a deep dive into the music of one of my all-time faves: Joe McAlinden and his amazing band SUPERSTAR. This is...
05.14.2019
It’s Onliest Rock n Roll
We stick with the Garden Sessions for one more week, this time featuring the incredible Twinspeak music of Ganessa & Tiffany James’ band Onliest, our interview with Roan Yellowthorn, and the wild visionary folk music of Teddy Thompson. You’re gonna...
05.10.2019
Skout’s Honor
We stick with the Garden Sessions but this time we begin by announcing one of the bands we discovered playing their Garden Session who are going to be playing the next Underwater Sunshine Fest in November...SKOUT! Plus we play the...
05.01.2019
Garden Party
We go back to the Garden Sessions and visit with the bands Fairhazel (from London by way of Boston), Wild Pink (straight outta Brooklyn!), and finish with our pal Taylor Carson (all the way from Portland, Oregon, which - oddly...
04.24.2019
Rock & Roll Stew
It begins with a breathtaking version of “Bleed” and goes from there. In order to get in the mood for the release of more Garden Sessions, the Sunshine Boys finally release the long awaited Sesh and interview with Stew &...
04.10.2019
Teenage Superstars
04.03.2019
Underwater Sunshine Dose
It’s time. One last look at a few artists playing the Fest and then...here comes the Sun! This week we check out Fairhazel , Amy Vachal, Eric Hutchinson, Wild Pink, and...Cyndi Lauper.
03.27.2019
The Underwater Get Down
In the next-to-Final week leading up to the Underwater Sunshine Festival April 5-6 at The Bowery Electric, the Sunshine Boyz take a look at the musical stylings of Ryan Hamilton, Hollis Brown, and Fort Gorgeous and then prepare to dive...
03.20.2019
Petal In The Canyonlands
In which the Underwater Sunshine Festival draws another week nearer and we dig into four more incredible bands traveling here to play from places like Pennsylvania and Ohio, from as close as Brooklyn here in NYC and as far away...
03.13.2019
55 Double Nickels On The Shine
We go deep on a few more artists playing the Underwater Sunshine Festival in April, this time shining the spotlight West Coast, then East Coast, and finally North to our friendly neighbors across the border. They’re coming from all over...
03.06.2019
Underwater Brooklyn and then some
In which the boyz begin the march to the Underwater Sunshine Festival by playing some of their favorite new music, including a Brooklyn band, a Brooklyn boy, and a few once and future Outlaws.
02.27.2019
The Gospels of Sam Cooke
In which James has a song he wants to play and I reveal some of the effects of Christian religious fervor on Jewish kids from Berkeley.
02.20.2019
Rod & Woody Pt 3 - Face/Off
In which all good things come to an end and the boys talk it through.
02.13.2019
Rod & Woody Pt 2 - Henry the Appendage
In which the boys revisit 1971, a banner year for Rod & Woody. Not many people can make three albums in one year. Honestly, I have trouble keeping up with one album in three years.
02.05.2019
A Rod, A Woody, and 5 Faces
It’s hard enough to make a great band. And it’s nearly impossible to make a great band which then makes a great record. So how the hell did Rod Stewart and Ron Wood manage to make TWO great bands together...
01.23.2019
August & Everything (after we get done talking ‘bout everything else)
In which the boys accidentally get off on a tangent and forget to ever come back. Plus...we release a new song just cuz we can’t think of anything else to say.
01.16.2019
Awesome Fuck Yeah Whatever
Well, my computer came back to life so we made salmon and ate it. Could this have any less to do with anything? Next week...revolutionary haddock!

What's Underwater Sunshine about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Underwater Sunshine episodes:

Live From Here! It’s Us!

Jordan Klassen + Claire Morales

Wild Pink + Harmaleighs

Kid Sistr’s $1000 Dinner

Purple Reign 4 - 1999 Pt. 2

Purple Reign Pt. 3 - 1999 Sides 1 & 2

Purple Reign 2 - Controversy

Purple Reign Pt. 1

Duck Soup

Jedi Nots

All The Friendly Ghosts Pt. 2

All The Friendly Ghosts Pt. 1

Glitter In The Garden

Awesome Fuck Yeah Podcast

Festivus (for the rest of us) Pt 3

Festivus (for the rest of us) Pt 2

Festivus (for the rest of us) Pt 1

How I Learned To Drive Pt. 2

How I Learned To Drive Pt. 1

Bowling for Bricks

Beth’s Beach Blanket Buffalo Babylon

An Aquarian Exposition, Pt. 6

An Aquarian Exposition, Pt. 5

An Aquarian Exposition, Pt. 4

An Aquarian Exposition Pt 3

An Aquarian Exposition Pt 2

An Aquarian Exposition Pt 1

The Great Glaspy

Awake In Zion

The Bear Necessities

You Get What You Need

Avant Gardeners

Superstar Trek III The Search For Spock

Jesus Christ……Superstar!

It’s Onliest Rock n Roll

Skout’s Honor

Garden Party

Rock & Roll Stew

Teenage Superstars

Underwater Sunshine Dose

The Underwater Get Down

Petal In The Canyonlands

55 Double Nickels On The Shine

Underwater Brooklyn and then some

The Gospels of Sam Cooke

Rod & Woody Pt 3 - Face/Off

Rod & Woody Pt 2 - Henry the Appendage

A Rod, A Woody, and 5 Faces

August & Everything (after we get done talking ‘bout everything else)

Awesome Fuck Yeah Whatever