HITMAKERS
From Canada's East Coast. Drums and more. Your host has studied jazz, toured in an indie band, taught, DJ’d, barista’d, busked, once trained as a "Sales Architect" at a call centre on the advice of a guy who picked him up hitch-hiking. Before that, he was the bassist in a hard rock band for like 2 weeks. He tried smoking a cigarette on stage. It stung his eyes.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 74 minutes
- Episodes
- 71
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
WHY DON'T YOU GET A REAL JOB - "Never Enough"
IDK man, this one feels like a mess.
In which we take a look at our efforts and ask "is it enough?"
Oh, and- we organize our merch!
WHY DON'T YOU GET A REAL JOB - "Start Before You're Ready"
September = fall. Are you ready?
WHY DON'T YOU GET A REAL JOB - "This Is How We Learn"
Checking out venues for street performance; musings on "entertainment" gigs (vs "art"), social media strategy (yay) and the ECMA.
WHY DON'T YOU GET A REAL JOB - "Stop Pretending It Might Happen"
The world is a lot. The digital world especially. So I'm not gonna do that to you. If you want to know what's been happening (and didn't catch my one-man-band "Beauty and the Beast" drop on Instagra…
WHY DON'T YOU GET A REAL JOB - "Progress Is Not Linear"
This week, we take a look at what we've been avoiding, go to a music festival, go to the beach, and get a surprise visitor: Sir Anthony Hopkins.
WHY DON'T YOU GET A REAL JOB - "Stay Positive and Love Your Life"
This week, we are SPELLING IT OUT
The challenges are LEGION
And we are BUT ONE
fortunately, DEATH ALONE MAY STOP US ☠️
WHY DON'T YOU GET A REAL JOB - "What seems to be the problem?"
Sickness, stress, poor planning and psychedelia. All in a week's work.
WHY DON'T YOU GET A REAL JOB - Intro
Well, hello there!
It's been a while. How are you?
This is the audio from the intro episode of your humble host's new YouTube series "WHY DON'T YOU GET A REAL JOB?"
In which we explore the reality of…
HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR: DAN OZZI
OK, not really a holiday episode, but Dan's new book makes a great "holiday gift." As for the interview, it's real and it's spectacular.
DAN OZZI is a New York-raised, LA-based writer. He's got a new…
SEASON 3 ENCORE: SUNNYSIDE UPPERS on I LIKE YOUR STYLE WITH ELDER BRYCEN!!!
We're (momentarily) back baby!! On this EXTRA SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE, your regular HOST is the GUEST!! From March, in his other guise as SUNNYSIDE UPPERS on "I Like Your Style", a podcast hosted by El…
SEASON 3 FINALE: ADAM WARREN (WAANTS)
Our regular-season finale! Who better to cap things off with than longtime pal Adam Warren? Ryan and Adam first met as drum students in a university jazz program who shared an affinity for '90s skate…
JOSH POTHIER (SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, KUATO, DANCE MOVIE, MANY MORE)
Josh has followed his unusually keen interest in music from the outskirts of Yarmouth, NS, to a year in music school (where we first met), a slew of East Coast bands, two independent labels, the stud…
MATTY GRACE (CLUTTERED, FUTURE GIRLS, CENTURY EGG, MANY MORE)
Matty is a gal of many projects, much like your humble host. Accordingly, we kick off this chat by discovering that we both have ADHD! Well, technically it starts with gear and home recording. We tal…
DEWAYNE SHANKS (BOTFLY, CROSSED WIRES, FUTURE GIRLS)
dewayne is the groove machine behind halifax noise-rock stalwarts BOTFLY. that is, when he’s not ripping pop punk tunes with CROSSED WIRES or bummer punk with FUTURE GIRLS. he hasn’t been able to do …
DYLAN MOMBOURQUETTE (ALRIGHT ALREADY, CLUTTERED)
A classic episode!! Dylan is a punk rock brother-in-arms and a true lifer. We mean that literally. He started playing at 2 and doesn’t recall life before the drums. Drumming also got him through a ve…
BROHAN MOORE (KIWI JR.)
Brohan, uh, rips the tubs (that’s something people say, right??) for Toronto-via-Charlottetown indie-pop rifflords Kiwi Jr. Their sophomore album “Cooler Returns” has been a favourite of 2021. A litt…
ROB CROWELL (MIDLAND, DEER TICK, MATT MAYS AND MORE)
rob is a former classmate from his jazz saxophone days, and a fellow traveler in the halifax music scene. his own musical path has led him to nashville, tennessee, where he now drums with country sup…
MICHAEL FEUERSTACK
michael is one of our favourite singer songers. he’s got two new records out. “harmonize the moon” is gorgeous, meditative piece of work. and one of his many side projects, allstar instrumental combo…
EMILY ANNE (AXXION)
An AXXION-PACKED EPISODE! OK, that's the only pun we'll make. Emily drums for the Toronto metal band AXXION! She's a lefty! She started playing on a beat up Westbury kit as a 13 year old (respect), t…
TREVOR MURPHY + SLUICE EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE!!
Trevor’s been making music on the East coast for years. He's been in bands, runs an independent label, works as a publicist and hosted a radio show championing local music for a decade. He's been mak…