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
ERIC MIKO FINDLAY (Seahaven)
Eric Miko Findlay has been with SoCal alternative/post-hardcore band Seahaven since they formed in high school (he actually started on bass and switched to drums after auditioning for his own band!) …
NATE MORTON (THE VOICE)
WE'RE BACK BABY! Our first of 2021 and features none other than NATE MORTON from the HOUSE BAND on THE VOICE!!
Nate grew up banging on pots and pans, idolizing Animal from the Muppets. Through studi…
BRENDAN BUCKLEY (PERRY FARRELL, SHAKIRA, TEGAN AND SARA, AND MORE) - OUR MID-SEASON FINALE!
Looks like we made it! Our final episode of 2020 is an interview with none other than BRENDAN BUCKLEY!
He’s a touring/recording freelance drummer based in Los Angeles, California. You may know him fr…
Clare Macdonald (Hillsburn)
Clare rips the kit (and the glock) with Halifax indie-pop superstars Hillsburn. Before dropping out of Humber, moving back home and joining a touring+recording band, she'd been considering a career i…
Tyler Zarzeka (Charlie Puth, Kiiara, Noah Cyrus etc)
Tyler is a session drummer in Los Angeles, California. He was raised on top 40 and classic rock in Sacramento, but it was a Blink-182 show in the early 00s that changed his life. Since then, he's tou…
LOEL CAMPBELL (Wintersleep)
We finally did it! People have been saying “you should get Loel on the show” since we started this thing. For listeners on the East coast (maybe Canada in general), this man needs no introduction. Fo…
Sean Winchester (Everclear, Buckcherry, Giants of Rome)
Sean Winchester is a Los Angeles studio & touring drummer with credits including Everclear, Buckcherry, Smash Mouth, Strung Out, Giants of Rome, Josh Todd and the Conflict, and more. A graduate of th…
Tucker Rule (Thursday, Frank Iero and the Future Violents)
Tucker Rule has been in the game for a minute. A hardcore kid from New Jersey who discovered underground music via skateboarding, he formed the band Thursday with his friends in order to open shows i…
Isaias Gil (Black Flag)
How does a kid from Houston, TX become the drummer for a legendary California punk band that’s been around longer than he’s been alive? What’s it like winning the Guitar Center drum-off? These and ot…
Back to School with Tim Crofts
"Timothy Crofts is a true 21st Century pianist. His main focus is improvisation and world music aesthetics. In performance, Timothy explores the full sonic capabilities of the acoustic piano through …
ANTIRACIST BOOK CLUB: "White Fragility" with James Brown
Change begins at home. Your faithful host and his younger brother (beloved MTL comic James Brown, known for his work with the iconic SQUAD LAUGHS) decided a few months ago to read a book on systemic …
KC Spidle and Meg Yoshida (Dog Day)
The new DOG DAY album is out THIS FRIDAY (Aug 14)! The first one in 7 years! We sat down with KC and Meg from the band to talk drums (they're both drummers and multi-instrumentalists, with such acts …
Pierre Cormier and Adam Mowery (Papal Visit)
Paypal Visit? Papa'll Visit? Is The Pope on the show? Elon Musk? Your dad? You'll have to listen to find out.
JK, Papal Visit are Pierre Cormier and Adam Mowery. A recording project that became a liv…
Chad Peck (Kestrels)
Chad is the singer and songwriter from the band Kestrels. Their new album "Dream Or Don’t Dream" comes out THIS FRIDAY, July 10, 2020. If you miss the "alternative rock" people made in the 90s, you’l…
Chris Murdoch (Souvenir, Word On The Street, xEnvisionx)
Chris Murdoch has been drumming in the Halifax, Nova Scotia hardcore scene since the turn of the millennium. By his own count, he's been in about 20 bands. He's played with Envision, Outtacontroller …
Dr. Benjamin Hardy (Willpower Doesn't Work)
Ben Hardy, PhD is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author. His blogs have been read by over 100 million people and are featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Cheddar, Big Think, and many ot…
AFTER DARK - A SONG OF ISENOR AND FRIER
What a world. If you need a break, here's over 2 hours of nothing really important. This episode was recorded way back on May 30th with Nova Scotian musicians, sweethearts and jokesters Corey Isenor …
AFTER DARK - THE MONTREAL REPORT with MICAH BROWN
We sat down with singer-songwriter, recording engineer and host's-younger-brother MICAH BROWN for a wide-ranging chat on bands, the east coast vs the big city and an exclusive live performance! (almo…
AFTER DARK: Neil Young Book Club with JASON OGDEN!
WE'RE BACK BABY! The Season 3 home opener is something a little different. HITMAKERS: AFTER DARK is our live TV show, happening every Saturday night at 11pm (Atlantic Daylight Time) until quarantine …
SEASON 2 FINALE! A BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY OF WORDS!
(Please don't sue us, Allen Klein or Tom Scharpling)
One for the true heads! Let's get (meta)physical! Where have we come from? Where are we going? We're going to borrow a descriptor from a Vice arti…