The Steer

Joshua and Jeff talk to Andre Perry about listening to Kendrick Lamar live in Iowa City, making music in San Francisco, the nuances of The Grateful Dead, co-founding the Mission Creek Festival, and h…

Joshua and Jeff talk to Kyle Morton, Typhoon frontman Kyle Morton and noted solo musician, about reading history; growing up in Salem, Oregon; the nuances of good lyric writing, among other far-flung…

Music from the Kyle Morton episode of The Steer, as heard on www.Dublab.com and KZUT 99.1 FM Los Angeles. Tracks from Kyle's solo album What Will Destroy You are featured, as well as a few from Kyle'…

Joshua and Jeff talk to writer and performance artist Gabrielle Civil about Prince, Bjork, Solange, how to both define and come to terms with success, and her new book Experiments in Joy, longlisted …

Music from the Gabrielle Civil episode of The Steer, as heard on www.Dublab.com and KZUT 99.1 FM Los Angeles. Artists include Prince, Digable Plants, Bjork, Nina Simone and Solange, among others.

New Steer co-host Joshua James Amberson and Jeff Alessandrelli discuss the upcoming season of their music/writing podcast/radio show The Steer. 

The Steer says goodbye to Season 1 of the show and talks about what's coming up in Season 2.

Jeff talks to Mathias Svalina, poet and proprietor of the Dream Delivery Service, about deodorant, Michael Crichton, Mary Roach, Virginia, bicycling, solitude, being a college radio disc jockey, trav…

Music from the Mathias Svalina episode of The Steer, as heard on www.Dublab.com and KZUT 99.1 FM Los Angeles. Artists include UUVVWWZ, Boyracer, FKA Twigs and Shudder To Think, among others.

Jeff talks to ambidextrous author and artist Felicity Fenton about 21st century social media stratification and the potential for freedom, why Yoko Ono deserves all the praise she gets and then some…

Music from the Felicity Fenton episode of The Steer, as heard on www.Dublab.com and KZUT 99.1 FM Los Angeles. Artists include Yoko Ono, Sonic Youth, Liquid Liquid and Love, among others.

Music from the Patty Yumi Cottrell episode of The Steer, as heard on www.Dublab.com and KZUT 99.1 FM Los Angeles. Artists include Fiona Apple, Casino Versus Japan, Aphex Twin and Bill Callahan, among…

Jeff talks to acclaimed novelist and 2018 Whiting Award winner Patty Yumi Cottrell about fantasy league basketball, growing up in the suburbs, and giving Fiona Apple some possibly unwanted marijuana …

Jeff and Sunny talk with PDX writer, editor and Propeller Books publisher Dan DeWeese about Sade, George Michael, what the term oppositional defiance means both generally and in terms of his own life…

Music from the Dan DeWeese episode of The Steer, as heard on www.Dublab.com and KZUT 99.1 FM Los Angeles. Artists include Pink Floyd, Travis Scott, Sade and Willie Nelson, among others.

Music from the Maxine Hong Kingston episode of The Steer, as heard on www.Dublab.com and KZUT 99.1 FM Los Angeles. All of the songs are from Joe Kingston's album "Songs for Trixie."

Maxine Hong Kingston, winner of the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal, reveals a life without music, having no feeling for the sounds that mysteriously thrilled everyone around her…

Music from the Elisa Gabbert episode of The Steer, as heard on www.Dublab.com and KZUT 99.1 FM Los Angeles. Artists include Interpol, Peter Gabriel, Ratatat and Miley Cyrus, among others.

Jeff talks to Elisa Gabbert about her new book The Word Pretty, cancel culture, karaoke, growing up in Texas and nostalgia-as-musical-memory, among other topics.

Jeff talks to long time Fence Magazine editor Charles Valle about the details of editing a literary journal for 15+ years, musical taste as one grows older, and the cultural experiment that is Ian Sv…