Worst Little Podcast

Ford Goodman joins us speaking about his crowd funded and nonprofit organization to bring professional live music performances to the people. From forthesong.org :” The “For The Song” Fund has been established by local Patrons and the ArrowCreek community to provide support for nationally-touring, critically acclaimed artists. We provide significant financial guarantees for private shows that fuel […]

This week we're back with our good friend and musical storyteller Breck Lee Durham. Also we welcome Carson City Shorts film festival organizers Lyric and Taylor of Silver State Storytellers. They're giving us the scoop on their upcoming sci-fi short film fest and competition Moon Rocks, where film makers create science fiction films between 5-9 […]

S15E14-Secret Monolith: Meet the Other Bigfoot Some of our favorite players in Reno, from bands Alphabet Cult, the Shames, Plastic Caves, gob, Scurvy Bastards and others, joined us for this weeks episode.  They're currently the band known as Secret Monolith, Cyril sings and shreds guitar, Leah sings and slays the bass and Darren pounds the […]

Technically still teenagers , 17 & 18 year olds who've been jamming together since they were 14 and tearing it up from Minden Nevada, this weeks guests, metalheads Butchered . Henry on guitar and vocals, best friend Mason on drums, new guy Phil (absent)on bass and late to the pod, Jeff also on guitar.   The […]

We had the great heavy metal rockers Weight of the Tide on our humble podcast and they didn't disappoint. Mark Moots' heavy guitar and powerful vocals, Marcus Mayhall's superb bass, Jason Thomas' masterful drums and absent from the show, Jes Phipps also on guitar and vocals, provided us tracks from their latest album What Pale […]

WLP’s Women’s March continues with a true blast from the past. Alex Grow, Kay Davis, and Natalie Jones are the Retro Radio Dolls. We laughed our asses off with these funny, talented and community-oriented singers. From their Facebook page: Retro Radio Dolls is an all singing, all dancing female close harmony trio showcasing a delightful […]

We're back with female fronted bands for Women's March! We have Korey Davis on drums, Chris Retallack bass, Michael Retallack & Nathan Retallack on guitars and on vocals and occasional instruments, Keely Nesbit! They are “It's Not Cute Anymore” based in Reno and Portola California.  The band was recently formed and have played a few […]

We're back! Celebrate ladies March with us as we welcome back for her third appearance the sultry songstress of the high desert, Gina Rose Waller. With a punk rock spirit and a soft approach, angelic whispers to an almost howl, her songs will break your heart, question life's purpose, opine on outlaws and a wild […]

This week we have the hilarious, sweet sassy sounds of punk drummer singer songwriter Cori Elba with Layla Moheimani on bass and Rob Elba, Cori's dad, on guitar.  Cori's comes to Reno from Truckee Ca, Layla too. Rob originally from Queens, now in L.A. California. Cori began performing at the Alibi open mic in Truckee […]

This weeks guests are brothers Conor & Evan on bass and guitar, and Travis on drums who together are the power trio known as Memory Circle. Smooth, funky, psychedelic, surfy, spacey soundscape songs that are musical jammy fun.  We listen to several demo recordings, get their origin story and talk a lot about movies and […]

S15E06 Sweet Decay- Rabbit Light Tapestry How sweet it is to be back with indie folk duo Sweet Decay.  CJ plays guitar and he and Autumn both sing in a beautiful powerhouse harmony. They're having a blast as Sweet Decay and since they are a couple they can easily practice write and riff together often. […]

This one's for all you lovers out there. Enter Candy all dolled up donning skull face make up and ripping the vocals. With seasoned blues man Chris on guitar. The man who totally loves fun, cool Keith on bass. On second guitar; the shredder young Jared, and drumming the heartbeat of the band, hailing from […]

We go hard again this week with power metal quartet known as OSTRACIZED Live  Ugo Daillarian (pseudonym) – vox, Kevin Passow – guitar, Tyrell Cruz – bass, and Filipendejo aka Kevin Montoya – drums.  Ostracized has been going for a while now, 13 years! And we haven't had them on the podcast?! Tyrell and Kevin M […]

This week we have hardcore metal punx; the scattering. Jim is the screamer and lyricist, Jason on guitar, Brian on drums, Josh also on guitar and Rash on bass. Human rights, human failure and autobiographical subject matter is where they're coming from. Hard, heavy, with flow and groove. The message delivered through intense heavy guitar […]

This week we have Chewbacca taking the lead host slot because our musical guest this week is One Ton Dually featuring our lead hosts and bestest buddies Nick and Rory on drums and bass. Rory also sings with Spike Ritchie and Stephen Barron on guitars. Being men of a certain age there is mostly a […]

That's right, first one up for 2025 is…drum roll… Last One Down! A punk quartet featuring Josh Watson on guitar & backing vox, Andy Harrison lead vox & guitar, new bass player Adam Coldwell, and rockstar drummer from Screeching Weasel and Suckapunch; Pierre Marchè, who wasn't able to make the podcast. That being the case […]

It's the most wonderful time of the year and our last episode of the season.  Join us for music, merriment and our final conversation of the year.  Rory's youngest Billy was in studio but didn't really have much to say while the adults carried on for an hour.  He seemed amused.  We welcome our intern […]

This week we have another new band! They are called inpatient, and they rip.  Sophia Shortz on vocals and keyboard, on guitars and scream singing Jacob McCoy, also on guitar Christopher Profera, with Sky Powers on bass and Quinton Bunk on drums.  Hardcore punk riot girrrl with art rock vibes might be a decent description […]

Our guests this week are a new duo on the scene from lifelong Renoites, powerhouse singer Kelly Proud (Almond Mocha Music) on keyboard, and funky drummer Adrian Rodriguez (Doctors of Feel Good). Taking their name from a Facebook comment, their goals are to get people laid and kill every performance.  They live next door to […]

This week we reminisce with the original cast and Starfish the intern for a cozy episode with friends and music from Chewie's archive. He put together a show with bands on a 30-year-old flier for a barn burner in Susanville featuring 5 bands from Reno: Loadstar(exclusive for our Patreon members, patreon.com/worstlittlepodcast) who actually broke up right […]

A little bird told us that the  Good Luck MacBeth theatre had a fancy brunch fund raiser with music provided by Margy Ford and Steve Barron of the indie rock band Roxxy Collie. Due to an unexpected cancellation, their drummer and our host, Nick, thought it would be wonderful to hear one of his favorite acoustic […]

Season 14 episode 37! In a row?! Yup, that's right, we're back with late nineties Reno Britpop band; acrylic! Bill Conran and Robb Russo (Luke McMullan, Neil Edwards, Chris Davis, Steve Larkins, Gabe Larkins: not present) join us for literal coffee talk, the Cure's new album and remembering the 90's in Reno. Bowie, Love and […]

t's our annual Halloween show! So of course we have the spooky Reno goth rock band (the) Glitter Bats!  It's been a whole year since we had them on. If you're saying to yourself “isn't that one of Nick's bands?”, you'd be correct! Our weekly host is the drummer of the band. Lucky for us […]

Lyric Morrow fronts The Griefs, her band with her dad, Jeremy Morrow on drums and her boyfriend Will Shamberger on guitar. Yep, that Will Shamberger from the Will Shamberger band out of Fallon. Jeremy was a guest with his band Merkin way back in season one! He has been on a couple other times as […]

Our guest this week is the Reno punk rock power trio Hear You Me starring drummer Johnny, vocals, Carson on bass and Isaac on guitar and vocals. Fast and melodic, angsty and emotional. Super tight and fantastic gang vocals. In a few words, cool af. They are playing Sunday November 3rd at noon at the […]

We had this weeks guest Richie Panelli on a few months back with Tha INTOXXIKATED PEDEZTRIANZ as a guest m.c. and he had to bail early. We really enjoyed his style and input. So we booked him for a full show. Richie has been working on his music for years and has many facets to […]

This week on the pod, Dale Poune and Doug Sandall bring their high desert blues music to the Dogwater Studios. Both guys play acoustic guitar, both take turns singing songs and Doug plays the harmonica like Magic Dick from the J Geils Band.  Dale plays with Lacy J Dalton (including at the Grand Ole Opry!) […]

This week’s guest is a familiar name, the fantastic Kat Heart on guitar and voice and her new trio with one of our heroes from the Atomiks, Luke Hoffman on standup bass and newcomer to the Dogwater studios, Erick Graham on drums. They are called Feral Heart, and they click man. We talk about how […]

Our guest this week is a dear friend and crazy talented one man band, Paul Allen.  Reno indie acoustic outsider storyteller music with lyrics that are sometimes stark and bleak, humorous, trippy & a little heartbreaking . Paul has released his home recordings on Bandcamp and SoundCloud with Paul playing guitar and drums and double tracking […]

Blast off with the OG WLP cast from the past, into the Wild Wild West with Mr. Johnson & His Loaded Dice. Zack Johnson on guitar and vocals, standup bassist JP Hogfat, man of (lap) steel Jonah Winchester, and Luci Inferno providing the heat of the beat.  Known for covering the Misfits in a western […]

This week’s guests are young Renoites who play Americana pop punk, new to the scene but steadily growing a grassroots fan base.  They're fun. They might be singing about let's say, the end of the world, but their sound feels like a happy summer jam.  Jesse Green (Cryptillians former drummer) heads up the band on […]

This week Nick and Dogwater Dick talk about the film Nowhere Nevada. A locally made feature length movie written by Marianne “Marianarchy” Psota, turn of the century Reno arts and music promoter, writer, muse and conduit.  Eight years after her passing the script was given to David Richards who, with the help of over 100 […]

Drummer and dad Clay, bassist and buddy, Miles and singer songwriter guitarist Anabelle, all packed up the van in Fallon and headed west to Reno and the Dogwater Studios for an another great WLP episode. This indie pop outfit was born out of Anabelle's acoustic folk solo act that she started a mere four years […]

We're back and live in the studio with rap rockers INTOXXIKATED PEDEZTRIANZ with Jordan Huss “Rellik 444” (MC and screamer), Johnny Fernandez (Evil Ash) guitar, Jimmy Guthrie (Machine Gun Vendetta) guitar, Dubl‘Z (MC) and featuring Reno hip hop legend Richie Panelli (MC) who came in for his collab with TIP.   These dudes tear up the […]

This week we have a special zoom call with lead singer and guitarist of United Defiance, Clinton Smith. Zooming in from Crockett California just a few miles away from most of his bandmates and rehearsal studio, Clinton shares his tales of being a lifelong punk rocker, 20 years with UD and his other band he […]

Welcome back worst little listeners! Five piece progressive metalcore group CYANATE join us this week for a truly brutal head banging thrash session.  With Jerad Mochel on guitar, Tim MacDonald on bass, Scott Schlingheyde also on guitar, Robert Landers on drums, headed by Dimitri Macouin lead vocals.  We hear tracks from their self titled debut […]

We're back from Rick's summer break and ready to pod the cast again! Back in the saddle with our new friends from Winnemucca, High Desert Habit. With Cassandra Luvlee on bass, “OG” Orin George on drums and Eric Mercado on guitar and vocal.   We get some tracks from their upcoming album recorded at Tin Roof […]

We had a cozy healing session with thee magic man himself Mr Larry Cooper.  Larry is a talented multi-instrumentalist whose musical hustles include being the bassist for artsy pop rockers Roxxy Collie and often sitting in with his homies in the Grimtones or maybe you've been blown away by his solo work. His debut solo […]

This week's guests are industrial dark wave songsters Voidsinger. Casey Fritz and Rob Pelikan's music is like Love and Rockets mixed with New Order and maybe a dash of Ministry's With Sympathy. Incorporating hip hop and grunge and just about any genre they like. They have made ten albums in a year and a half. […]

We are back with a brand new episode featuring dark wave goth vibers WITTIKKA. This trio consists of Daniel on guitar Dave on drums and computer programs, and James on bass and vocals. Dave points out that James is the visionary front man providing lyrics as well. James insists it's a group effort.  Their sound […]

This week we're celebrating Dads! Nicks dad Nick and Nicks grown kid Quinn Ramirez, joined by KOZZ's star DJ, Max Volume (Glenn Bailey) and his son, our friend Johnny Bailey of the ripping rock group Rigorous Proof shoot the shit about rock musicians, cars, podcasts, family upbringing and of course what being a dad means. […]

We had our friend Dennis McDonald on last year, where he came on the show and played us tracks from 6 of his favorite bands who have graced the Cellar Stage at Alturas bar on 4th street, Dennis' dream job here in the biggest little city. The episode was a hit, and some listeners wanted […]

95.1 FM KNVC is community radio programmed for the people by the people, headed up by Steve Funk and Will Houk who, much to our pleasure and invite, dropped by the Dogwater Studios to give us the four one one on what's happening with their totally rad homegrown radio station in Carson City.  For one […]

This week for our 550th episode, we have a personal hero of ours, family man, talented athlete, songwriter and brilliant guitarist Dave Berry of the well known rocking funk outfit Jelly Bread.  We first talked with him way back in the first season of the podcast, 2011, towards the end of his then band PufferBilly.  […]

This week we have a great zoom chat with Tyler Edwards from the NorCal metal group Greybush.  Tyler says the name is because they're men of a certain age and the changing colors not unlike the foliage in the fall. This isn't their first rodeo in the music scene and with age comes experience and […]

Holy shit! This week's guests hail from one of our musical sister cities, Nevada City California. With Tony on drums, “Poop”Nick on guitar and demonic vocals and Sage on bass. Devine Defecation are a tight dirty chunky Cookie Monster, stoner deathcore Heavy Metal thrash band,(I think that covers it) that are not to be poo […]

Our guest this week is a man of many names, Freddie Fretless on Facebook, Jerry Leon in real life and his musical moniker Winnemucca Brown. He hitched  his wagon all the way from eastern Nevada, take a guess where specifically. That's right we win more than a Mucca this week as joining Jerry is his beautiful […]

*we don’t know why but this episode disappeared, hence the repost. Enjoy! For our last installment of this year’s Women's March, we have our good friend and multi-talented queen of the scene, Rhiannon Box!  When she's not styling hair, heading up a theater company, creating award winning short films, or jamming with her band Stabby […]

MacNuggits: Phoning It In For Room a zoom Zoom! Kim, Nick and Dogwater Dick were all able to podcast from the comfort of their own phones or computers as did our guest Dan Abbott from the band Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits. These songs are all different genres mixed, telling detailed epic stories […]

For our last installment of this years Women's March we have our good friend and multi talented queen of the scene, Rhiannon Box!  When she's not styling hair, heading up a theater company, creating award winning short films, or jamming with her band Stabby Unicorn, you might catch her at a pinball tournament, or she […]

We're halfway through our Women's March and this week we're joined by our friend and local folk rock hero Kat Heart! We were going to have one of her bands (Sierra Sirens, Kat Heart and the Business) on but the stars just didn't align for that. Not to worry, Kat packed up her pedal board […]