I had a great talk with Jay Aston of Gene Loves Jezebel. Here are some rough notes for the topics we covered: -Loves folk tunes…..Lots of older brothers…….60’s tunes……..Brian Wilson, Neil Young,…..Joni Mitchell……Drawn to a lot of Canadian artists…..Leonard Cohen….. -The journey is to be original and to be authentic -Key record stores…
I spoke with the immensely talented Lisa Said and here are some rough notes of what we discussed…… -Formative records= early Beatles, Cat Stevens, Paul Simon……..more folk in high school…….Elvis Costello and the Attractions from there………..CBGB’ punk phase after that………Velvet Underground, The Who, Neil Young, -Started wanting to play bass in a band……A…
On this episode of Liberty Music, I spoke to well regarded musician Gary Lucas of Captain Beefheart fame. We talked about early record stores when he began to dig music, the amazing backstory for how he came to be a part of Captain Beefheart, his latest project “The World of Captain Beefheart featuring Nona Hendryx…
Great conversation with Dan on a myriad of topics including the spanish civil war, fascist ideologies, playing with bands like MC5 and Godspeed You Black Emperor, etc. Here are some rough notes on what we covered and what you can expect in this awesome talk! -The Clash, Bad Brains, Black Flag, local bands…
Great interview with an incredible musician. Here are some rough notes from the conversation to give an idea of what we talked about. -Fifth release…..Record that day, arrange more complex racks and cut the next day……Overdubs from Nels Cline. -Fast sessions, spontaneous with good chemistry….. -Mike Watt feature……Well known stars but are…
For this episode of Bowks Talking Bouts, I spoke to elite camera man/ film maverick/ swag wizard Rob Duckworth. We talked about Bad Rap on Netflix and Bodied at TIFF, the competitive openess to battle rap, Rob bodying a battle rapper at a house party, the freestyles myself and Rob have dropped over the years, B Man’s…
Dylan Bowker from libertymultimedia.com had a great talk with hip hop artist, KOTD rep, and battle rapper Bishop Brigante. We talked about Michie Mee coming through his family member’s drinking spot to spit bars in the early days (0:40), his ties with fellow Scarborough hip hop artist Maestro Fresh Wes (1:45), the differences between…
I spoke to Heather Trost (Neutral Milk Hotel, Beirut, A Hawk and A Hacksaw, etc) and she has an awesome debut full length record ready to drop in early June. We talked about the key records of her formative years, international folk stylings informing her sound (1:46), projects that lead to Heather putting out her…
I had a great talk with Robin Black who was en route to TKO 38 during our phone call. Robin is calling those fights and we got into quite the in-depth breakdown about that amazing card that goes April 7th on UFC Fight Pass. We also got into the post-Fight Network content Robin has been…
This interview was done Sunday, March 19th. I had a great talk with one of my all time favorite MC’s about boxing/ mma crossover in the last few years, hip hop’s new globalist take versus the approach of repping your city, his early days battle rapping and how that compares to the…