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July 05, 2023 Brandon Hardesty of Bumpin Uglies
Interview with singer-songwriter Brandon Hardesty of Bumpin Uglies
Bumpin Uglies is an American punk reggae band from Annapolis, Maryland.
The band's music features a "melody-driven, free-spirited blend of ska, reggae, and punk with a strong focus on lyrics and crowd-pleasing grooves.
The band's influences are a mix of ska-punk and reggae drawn from pioneering bands Sublime Bad Religion, Reel Big Fish, and Goldfinger.
Tickets for Bumpin Uglies, C-Level, Joint Operation at Westsidebowl
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bumpin-uglies-w-c-level-joint-operation-tickets-590696538247

Bumpin Uglies Info
https://www.bumpinugliesmusic.com

49 min
June 28, 2023 Hoag & Bonesaw Kepner Of Two Player, & Full Service
TWO PLAYER IS AN AUSTIN-BASED POWER DUO FEATURING BROTHERS HOAG (DRUMS/LEAD VOCALS) AND BONESAW (GUITAR). FORMED IN 2018, THESE FORMER FRONTMEN OF FULL SERVICE COMBINE PROGRESSIVE RHYTHMS WITH EXCITING, COMPLEX LEAD GUITAR WORK AND DULCET VOCAL ACROBATICS, ALL DISGUISED AND PACKAGED INTO LEAN, SAVORY ARRANGEMENTS. IT'S A TOUCH OF MATH ROCK AND A SPOONFUL OF POP, WITH A LIVE PERFORMANCE THAT SHOWCASES THE BROTHERS' DEEP AND UNRIVALED CHEMISTRY AND MUSICAL ECCENTRICITY.

Two player's Info
https://www.twoplayermusic.com/

The Dream Recording Studio Info
https://www.thedreamrecordingstudio.com

Full Service's Info
https://www.youtube.com/fullserviceband

1 hr 38 min
June 21, 2023 Tracy Nelson
Iconic roots singer Tracy Nelson, who burst onto the Rock and Roll scene in the mid-1960s as lead singer in the San Francisco-based group Mother Earth and her legendary vocals on the classic “Down So Low,” will release her first album in over 10 years, Life Don’t Miss Nobody, June 9th on the BMG label. Joining Tracy are some of her favorite musical friends, including Willie Nelson, Charlie Musselwhite, Irma Thomas, Marcia Ball, Jontavious Willis, Mickey Raphael, and Terry Hanck. Life Don’t Miss Nobody was produced by Roger Alan Nichols with Tracy Nelson and recorded in Nashville and several other studios.
Tracy Nelson possesses one of the most powerful voices in American music and has emerged from a lengthy recording hiatus with the album of a lifetime, a musical self-portrait spanning her entire career. Life Don’t Miss Nobody is a 13 track collection that stretches back to her start as a guitar-picking Wisconsin teen playing coffeehouses, through an unparalleled career now in its sixth decade, singing blues, country, New Orleans R&B and gospel, and performing in storied music meccas in her epic, genre- busting musical journey.

Tracy's Info
http://www.tracynelsonmusic.com

1 hr 17 min
June 14, 2023 Kenny Werner
Kenny Werner has been a world-class pianist and composer for over forty years. His prolific output of compositions, recordings, and publications continues to impact audiences worldwide. In 1996 he wrote his landmark book Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within.
Werner has since created videos, lectured worldwide, and authored many articles on how musicians, artists, or even business people can allow their “master creator” within to lift their performance to its highest level, showing us how to be spontaneous, fearless, joyful and disciplined in our work and our life.
Kenny was awarded the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship Award for his seminal work, No Beginning No End. No Beginning No End is a musical journey exploring tragedy and loss, death and transition, and the path from one lifetime to the next. Utilizing over 70 musicians, Kenny’s third album for Half Note Records is an expansive composition featuring Joe Lovano, Judy Silvano, Wind Ensemble, Choir and String Quartet.
Born in Brooklyn, NY on November 19, 1951 and then growing up in Oceanside, Long Island, Kenny began playing and performing at a young age, first recording on television at the age of 11. Although he studied classical piano as a child, he enjoyed playing anything he heard on the radio. In high school and his first years of college, he attended the Manhattan School of Music as a classical piano major.

Becoming the Instrument
Kenny Werner has been a world-class pianist, composer, and teacher for 40 years. In 2010, Werner received the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for his seminal work, “No Beginning No End,” a musical journey exploring tragedy and loss, death and transition, and the path from one lifetime to the next.

Now he has coalesced his knowledge into Becoming the Instrument, the highly anticipated sequel to his landmark book, Effortless Mastery, which revolutionized how musicians approach their craft.

In Becoming the Instrument, Werner shares how anyone can experience mastery, drawn from his experience as a musical master. It’s the guide for seeing the highest in oneself and others.

This new book is for anyone who wants to understand the fine art of mastery and how it applies to their own life. He brilliantly yet simply expresses how to lift one’s perceptions from the mundane to a higher plane and does it with a sense of humor.

The next level is attainable.

“Mastery is not perfection, or even virtuosity. It is giving oneself love, forgiving one’s mistakes, and not allowing earthly evidence to diminish one’s view of oneself as a drop in the Ocean of Perfection.” ‒ Kenny Werner

Kenny's Info

https://kennywerner.com/

1 hr 6 min
June 07, 2023 Mark Cousins
About Mark Cousins

Mark is a Northern Irish-Scottish filmmaker and writer. His themes are the inspiring
power of cinema, cities, walking, childhood, archives and recovery.
At the start of his career he made TV documentaries on childhood, neo-Nazism and
Mikhael Gorbachev. In the mid 90s he and the Edinburgh International Film Festival
showed films in Sarajevo to support its besieged citizens. His first book was
Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary (“Indispensible” - Times
Literary Supplement).
His 2004 book The Story of Film was published around the world. The Times
called it “by some distance the best book we have read on cinema.” Its latest edition
was published in October 2020. His 930 minute film, The Story of Film: An
Odyssey (“The place from which all future film revisionism should begin” - New York
Times), played in the major film festivals and cinemas, and has had an influence on
film education. Michael Moore gave it the Stanley Kubrick Award, it won the
Peabody Award, was BAFTA Scotland nominated, and received other prizes. In
2021 he added a sequel film, The Story of Film: A New Generation. It premiered
as the launch film of Cannes, was called “poetry in motion” by the Hollywood
Reporter, and “the soul of the festival” by Cannes director Thierry Frémaux. Empire
magazine called it “a poetic opus” and it was nominated for Grierson award.
Cousins’ first feature documentary, The First Movie, about kids in Kurdish Iraq, won
the Prix Italia. It was inspired by growing up in the Troubles in Northern Ireland and
his passionate interest in the role cinema can play in kids’ lives. In 2012 he was
nominated for the London Awards for Art and Performance and the Screen
International award. He was guest curator at the Eye Cinematheque in Amsterdam.
His next feature film, What is this Film called Love?, played in 20 countries, at the
ICA in London, and was nominated for Best Director by BAFTA Scotland. PJ Harvey
called it “revelatory and inspiring”. The rock band Maximo Park wrote a song inspired
by it.
In 2013 he completed Here be Dragons, a film about the vital role of film archives,
especially one in Albania. It won the main prize in the Romania Film Festival. In the
same year he made A Story of Children and Film, which was in the official
selection in Cannes. He curated Cinema of Childhood, a series of 17 films which
toured the UK and Ireland for a year and was supported by the BFI. He received the
Visionary Award in Traverse City and the Saltzgeber Prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
Then he made Life May Be, co-directed with Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari, and 6
Desires, an adaptation of DH Lawrence’s book Sea and Sardinia. Life May Be was
noted for its feminism and innovation and was called “transcendent and
extraordinarily delicate”. It won the Don Quixote prize. 6 Desires: DH Lawrence
and Sardinia, in which Jarvis Cocker plays the voice of DH Lawrence, had its world
premiere at the London Film Festival and its international premiere at Sundance.
Cousins had his first retrospective at the Wroclaw film festival. Others have followed
in London, Thessaloniki, Finland and Geneva.
Cousins’ The Oar and the Winnowing Fan was a takeover of the DazedDigital
website. His I am Belfast was his first full feature about Northern Ireland. It was
released by the BFI. Variety compared it to the great director Dziga Vertov. His
BBC/BFI film Atomic, a collaboration with the band Mogwai, played in Hiroshima,
near Chernobyl and Coventry Cathedral and at the Edinburgh International Festival.
He curated a season of films for the Romanian Cultural Institute and made a fiction
film, Stockholm My Love, (starring Neneh Cherry, released by BFI). He completed
Bigger than The Shining, a secret project, showable only in underground
circumstances, and wrote The Story of Looking (“Like a wise man looking at the
stars”, the Guardian; “Brilliant” the New York Times). It was nominated for the Saltire
Award for best non-fiction book.
Cousins’ The Eyes of Orson Welles world premiered in Cannes and received rave
reviews. His 2 hour, four-screen Storm in My Heart is about Hollywood sexism and
racism. His 14 hour film Women Make Film premiered at the Venice, Toronto and
Telluride film festivals, is narrated by Jane Fonda, Sharmila Tagore, Debra Winger,
Adjoa Andoh, Kerry Fox and Tilda Swinton, and is showing in many countries. The
Times called it “Exquisite, emotionally resonant and intellectually unassailable. Pure
poetry.” It won the European Film Academy’s inaugural Innovative Storytelling
award, and has led to the restoration of a series of films directed by women.
Two more recent films are The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, about the legendary
film producer – which premiered in Cannes 2021 and won the best documentary in
Spain’s Dias De Cine - and The Story of Looking, in which he filters the history of
looking through his own eye operation. Time Out called it “A rich cinematic journey
into the art of seeing and how it connects us with culture, ourselves and each other.”
It won the Best Non-Fiction Film award at the Seville Film Festival. Cousins recently
completed My Name is Alfred Hitchcock and The March on Rome, an Italian
Palomar production about Mussolini and Fascism, part-shot in Cinecitta in Rome and
starring Alba Rohrwacher. The latter premiered at the Venice film festival, was
called “entirely arresting” by the Guardian, won the audience award for Best
International Documentary in Brazil, and was nominated for a European Film
Academy Award. The former premiered at the Telluride film festival.
In 2022, his films were the subject of a multi screen film installation, Passé Présent
Futur, at the huge Plaza cinema in Geneva, and had a retrospective at the Biograf
film festival in Bologna. He premiered his first art installation, Like a Huge Scotland,
at teh Fruitmarket gallery, Edinburgh, and – along with Cate Blanchette and Sarah
Polley - was given the Outstanding Contribution to Cinema medal at the Telluride
Film Festival.
Cousins has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling, is
Honorary Professor of film at Queen’s University, was co-artistic director of Cinema
China and did The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams and A Pilgrimage, with
Tilda Swinton. He and Swinton also ran The 8 ½ Foundation, a two year event
which created a movie birthday for children. It was nominated for the Human Rights
Award. He was chair of the Belfast Film Festival and Docs Ireland. He was recently
given Portugal’s Aurelio de Paz dos Reis international award for Outstanding
Contribution to Cinema (2019), and the British Association of Film, Television and
Screen Studies Outstanding Achievement Award for his work in screen education
(2020).
Mark’s roles in filmmaking, education and advocacy have widened and deepened
with the years. He was an early adopter of small cameras and new technology to
evolve a business model for filmmaking which was sustainable, international and
creatively free.
He has walked across Los Angeles, Belfast, Moscow, Beijing, London, Paris, Berlin,
Dakar and Mexico City. He drove from Edinburgh to Mumbai, and loves night
swimming.

Mark's Info
https://twitter.com/markcousinsfilm
https://www.womenmakefilm.net/

1 hr 55 min
May 31, 2023 Vashti Bunyan
Vashti Bunyan is an English singer-songwriter. Beginning her career in the mid-1960s, she released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day in 1970. The album sold very few copies, and Bunyan was discouraged, and abandoned her musical career. By 2000, her album had acquired a cult following; it was re-released, and Bunyan recorded more songs, initiating the second phase of her musical career after a gap of thirty years. She subsequently released two more albums: Lookingaftering in 2005 and Heartleap in 2014.

Wayward, Just Another Life to Live
In 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and everybody she knew in London to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog, guitar, and her then-partner.

They made the long journey up to the Outer Hebrides in an odyssey of discovery and heartbreak, full of the joy of freedom and the trudge of everyday reality, sleeping in the woods, fighting freezing winters and homelessness. Along the way, Vashti wrote the songs that would lead to recording her 1970’s album Just Another Diamond Day, the lilting lyrics and guitar conveying innocent wonder at the world around her whilst disguising a deeper turmoil under the surface.

From an unconventional childhood in post-war London to a fledgling career in mid-sixties pop, to the despair and failure to make any headway with her own songs, she rejected the music world altogether and left it all behind. After retreating to a musical wilderness for thirty years, the rediscovery of her recordings in 2000 gave Vashti a second chance to write, record and perform again.

Vashti's Info
http://anotherday.co.uk//
vashtibunyan
Wayward, Just Another Life to Live. (Links to find Vashti's Book)
https://www.amazon.com/Wayward-Just-Another-Life-Live/dp/1474621937
https://www.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/titles/vashti-bunyan/wayward/9781474621939/

1 hr 14 min
May 24, 2023 Vivienne Aerts
Originally from the Netherlands, vocalist and songstress Vivienne Aerts is barely categorizable in genre or style. She plays in band formation, duo, and solo, supplemented with a synthesizer, loop station, and effects. Vivienne surprises, challenges, and tells stories. Her lyrics travel to the core of recognition, talk to the soul, and open a barrel of emotions. Heartbreaking, singing of happiness, sometimes humorous, she tells about the things that make life beautiful.
Typuhthâng
Vocalist, performer & composer Vivienne Aerts’ new album ‘Typuhthâng’ will be released in 2023. Together with 100 next-generation female musicians and in collaboration with Original Beans Chocolate, Typuhthâng’ aims to empower the female cacao farmers of Virunga State Park in Congo and replant the rainforest.
The initial pressing of 500 numbered exclusive copies comes with a bar of Femmes de Virunga Chocolate. The cover artwork is screen-printed on cacao pulp paper. The 36 pages interior booklet is printed on French paper and is designed and illustrated by Natalia Olbinski. In addition, you will get a sticker page with lips and beans.
Vivienne's Info
typuhth-ng
https://vivienneaerts.nl
VivienneAertsFanpage
vieffertje

1 hr 41 min
May 17, 2023 Sunny Drake
Sunny is a writer and creator of theatre and TV.
His inventive and award-winning theatre works have been presented in over 60 cities worldwide and translated into 6 languages. His wide range of audiences has spanned international arts festival goers, queers in underground warehouses, and seniors in regional theatres.
Sunny is also a proud trans artist.
Climate Change and Other Small Talk
This theatrical podcast is a worldwide tour for your ears - minus the carbon footprint and lost luggage. Audio dramas from 9 creative teams around the globe will entertain as well as explore our climate crisis. And maybe even what could get us out.
https://www.sunnydrake.com
41 min
May 10, 2023 Brenda Sauter Of The Feelies, & Wild Carnation
Delmore Recording Society is excited to announce the upcoming release of Wild Carnation’s
Tricycle as a Record Store Day 2023 exclusive on April 22. Tricycle is the long out-of-print
debut album from this New Jersey-based trio comprising Brenda Sauter (The Feelies) on vocals
and bass, guitarist Rich Barnes and Chris O'Donovan (Grey District) on drums and vocals. This
will be a limited 500 copy pressing on 12” Carnation White vinyl LP: Tricycle’s first release on
vinyl. It’ll come with a download code for the remastered album, demos, and a blistering live set
recorded in Hamburg, Germany January 27, 1997. The live recording features unreleased
originals and a selection of covers including Patti Smith ("Dancing Barefoot"), Ian Tyson ("Four
Strong Winds"), and The Grass Roots ("Wait A Million Years”). Tricycle will be released as a
download and via streaming platforms on April 28, including the original album, all the live
material, demos, etc.
Way back in the 1990s, a young Delmore stumbled into now-defunct NYC nightclub Wetlands
(during the sadly also now defunct, NYU Independent Music Festival), just as Wild Carnation
were about to begin their set. Having lived in NYC / Brooklyn / Hoboken the previous decade,
where countless mesmerizing gigs by The Feelies, Yung Wu, Trypes and Speed The Plough, all
with Brenda Sauter on bass, had been experienced, it was the chance to see her fronting her
new group that drew Delmore in.
A few songs into their set, it was apparent however that this trio was more than a Feelies
offshoot project, despite melodic similarities, and Brenda's cool vocals / presence. Wild
Carnation played raw, loud and fast (and occasionally out of control), with Rich Barnes’
distorted, jangly guitar lines perfectly colliding with Brenda's propelling bass notes, while Chris
O'Donovan kept it together, pounding the living hell out of his drums. It was a garagey, indie
rock mess, more reminiscent of Hib-Tone / Chronic Town era REM, and emergent New Zealand
bands like The Bats and The Clean, than The Feelies.
Delmore was smitten, and determined to sign them, despite the fact that the Delmore label did
not yet exist. In 1993, Wild Carnation's debut 7", "Dodger Blue" b/w "The Lights Are On (But No
One's Home)", taken from raw home demos recorded the previous year, became the second
Delmore release. A full-length album was then commissioned, and an evolving Wild Carnation
holed up at Mix-O-Lydian recording studios with engineer Don Sternecker (The Feelies, Speed
The Plough, Wake Ooloo) to record their debut full length, Tricycle, released in 1994. On
Tricycle, the pastoral quality of their most beautiful ballads was captured to perfection, while
retaining enough of the rawness of the live experience. Waves of critical acclaim followed, from
now defunct publications (CMJ Jackpot! Raygun, Trouser Press) followed, including this one by
Jack Rabid of The Big Takeover (Still going strong!), written for All Music Guide:
"While the hook line for this new local trio would have to be that bassist/leader Brenda Sauter
used to be a member of the later-'80s incarnation of the famous Feelies (and its notable
offshoot, The Trypes), even if you didn't worship at the altar of that group (and especially if you
did!), Wild Carnation is a revelation. While the persistent, pumping beat and hard-played jangle
guitars of most of the tracks here emanate from her previous band and from their forerunners,
the Velvets (especially), Television, and the Byrds - Sauter's beguiling voice is perfect for the
ultra-appealing pop hooks the group writes as well as the thoughtful lyrics she composes.
Trading the occasional Feelies drone for sugar-sweet melodies (yes!) and utilizing the pretty ring
of the guitars to maximum effect, songs such as Wings are the perfect pop confectionery, too
honeyed and delightful to miss capturing your bending heart and too consistently insistent and
edgy to be wimpy, kind of like Reckoning-era R.E.M. It's all so well captured with pristine
production, with balls to match the heart, too! And though the 12 tracks are largely cut from a
similar mode, all seem special just the same on their own. A truly shining, first-rate effort, along
with Lotion's and Nyack's early EPs and the last Flower LP, the best release to come out of a
New York group this decade, and exceptionally crafted at that! Do not miss."

Brenda's Info
http://www.wildcarnation.com/home.html
http://www.thefeeliesweb.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063570834484

1 hr 17 min
May 03, 2023 Dan Montgomery
Singer-songwriter Dan Montgomery will be releasing his seventh album Cast-Iron Songs and
Torch Ballads April 7. It was recorded at The Shack in the Back studio in Memphis, TN with
Montgomery and Robert Mache producing. It’s being issued on 12” vinyl LP, digital download
and via streaming services by Fantastic Yes Records.
It’s not unusual for an artist to signal a “return to their roots” a few albums into a career. Usually
this brings out mandolins, banjos, and variations of the folk tradition. Cast-Iron Songs and
Torch Ballads is NOT that.
After six critically acclaimed Americana albums later, Montgomery reconnected with the raw
rock he played in his youth. “I came into possession of a Danelectro, plugged it into an amp and
new songs immediately came pouring out. And they were songs with riffs. It was wild to
experience my current singer/songwriter self, meeting up with that Classic Rock kid from the
past. But it felt totally natural. I knew right away that I had to book time and cut an album with
my band while the moment was hot. And I did.”
Dan’s roots may not be folksy and down home but they are no less real. Coming of age in South
Jersey in the early Seventies, he cut his teeth gigging at dances and parties when he was fourteen.
“I was the youngest in the band,” says Montgomery. “The first songs I played on stage were by
Grand Funk, Bad Company, and Bachman Turner Overdrive. It was wild. At one of our gigs a
guy showed up with a gun because our drummer was fooling around with someone’s wife. And
he was only a junior in high school!” The time and the place were ripe for Dan to begin his
musical education, performing what is now called Classic Rock. “It was just new rock back
then, pre-Freebird rock. I loved it.”
Ultimately, Dan began writing his own songs and quickly found this environment to be unsuited
for his compositions. “I became really serious about lyrics and that flew in the face of dancing
and fist fighting so I began playing solo on the local coffeehouse circuit. It was great. I learned a
lot about folk and country songwriting and eventually, my electric guitar began to gather more
and more dust.”

Dan's Info
https://m.facebook.com/people/Dan-Montgomery/100058434918202/
https://danmontgomery.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/DanMont18783799
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8NqgqEFDkEw6Pn-HZF9Xqw
1 hr 24 min

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