Red Line Roots

You could go an entire lifetime and never come across another artist like John Mailander. His musical voice resting on the precipice where beauty meets power. His even temperament balancing the sheer…

Scott Hirsch: Love is Long

As we head into a very tenuous 2022, maybe it will help you to know about a great album that was released in 2021! 

Scott Hirsch’s Windless Day is a fantastic record for step…

Joe Troop: Making Mistakes

When Joe Troop talks about cancel culture, he isn’t talking about the right wing folks who don’t want any books in school about gay people or racism. He’s talking about the …

This has to be one of my favorite conversations that I have been lucky enough to have as part of this podcast. Alisa Amador is an amazing musician and shares so much insight into her work on this epi…

Oliver Wood: Always Smilin’

My first concert of 2021 was in June, seeing The Wood Brothers and Ryan Montbleau at an outdoor show at Shakori Hills. Right after that, I got to chat with Oliver Wood abou…

It is truly amazing when an artist can use the same tools for decades and continue to create vibrant, urgent, singular work. If there’s any musician that I know who fits this description, it’s Charli…

You ever hear that David Foster Wallace graduation speech, “This is Water?” It follows from that joke where two fish are swimming along and one says something like, “The water’s great today,” and the…

Allison Russell has written a beautiful album. “Outside Child,” was largely written while on tour with Native Daughters--Allison’s collaboration with Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, and Amythyst Kia…

Well, it has certainly been a while since our last episode dropped, but Ken is back with a very special discussion with Cary Morin.

The last concert I saw out in the world before this pandemic closed …

I think the only kind of conversations Kamara Thomas has are wide-ranging. She is a musician, artist, activist, and community builder, and she brings all of those roles to our conversation for this e…

It’s hard to think of a band that has come out of New England recently that has shapeshifted and evolved more than Twisted Pine. The group has seen some personnel changes recently but, from its found…

For episode 13 of the podcast, Ken catches up with Libby Rodenbough. While many may know her from her excellent band Mipso, today she is here to dig into her into her fantastic solo record, “Spectacl…

Today on the podcast, Brian talks with singer-songwriter Avi Jacob. A relentlessly honest songwriter, his songs been lauded as 'beautifully crafted' and 'sublime'.

He is currently on the front end of …