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Record nerd Harry Portnof started Greenway Records, revived Reverb Appreciation Society, and now leads Levitation's label operations - today we discuss the elaborate vinyl variants and the clear passion for music the Levitation festival inspires. Topics Include: Harry Portnof runs Greenway Records, Levitation, and Reverberation Appreciation Society labels. Dad blasted southern rock and Allman Brothers at excessive volumes throughout childhood. Discovered dad's CD collection, dove deep into classic rock discographies. Taught himself guitar in high school after getting kicked off tennis team. Found grandmother's records in attic with broken turntable playing in mono. Mesmerized by grooves holding information, felt more futuristic than digital files. Got Project turntable in college, started seriously collecting vinyl records. College dorm had file sharing programs to download everyone's music collections. Became obsessed with seven-inch singles and exclusive B-side hunting on Discogs. Studied accounting, got CPA, worked Manhattan while spending money on records. Brooklyn DIY scene 2010-12: Death by Audio, Glasslands, 285 Kent venues thriving. Third Man Records inspired with collectible releases, impossible to get from New York. Playing in surf rock cover band The Midnight Snacks around Long Island. Started Greenway with friend Joey's pop punk band, 300 hand-screened seven-inches sold. Online forum of ten new labels supporting each other, Greenway only one remaining. Artist Dan Curran created lino cut covers for first thirty Greenway releases. Met LA Witch outside Music Hall, promised European tour records in two months. LA Witch success led to more touring bands wanting Greenway releases. Met Levitation founder Rob Fitzpatrick backstage at Desert Daze festival in California. Pandemic hit, launched Levitation Sessions producing concert films with thirty bands. Suddenly working with dream artists like Ty Segall and The Oh Sees. Levitation started as Austin Psych Fest in 2008, became major three-day festival. Flash flood disaster canceled festival one year despite bands and fans arriving. Austin's psych legacy rooted in 13th Floor Elevators and Rocky Erickson era. Levitation Sessions are filmed concerts; Live at Levitation are actual festival recordings. King Gizzard bootleg program allows labels to press their live shows freely. Learned vinyl manufacturing hands-on at New Jersey plant, experimenting with color pours. Most proud of Frankie and the Witch Fingers KEXP recording for Record Store Day. Market tightened post-pandemic, had to adjust pressing quantities and strategy accordingly. Creates regional variants for Australia, UK, EU retailers using Precision Record Pressing. High resolution version of this podcast is available at: www.Patreon.com/VinylGuide Apple: https://tinyurl.com/tvg-ios Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/tvg-spot Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/tvg-amazon Support the show at Patreon.com/VinylGuide
Justin Conigliaro is a singer, writer and lead guitarist of Brooklyn-based punk rock outfit Up For Nothing. Founded in 2001 in the days of The Temple in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn DIY staple, Up For Nothing has gone on to tour all over the United States releasing 5 albums including the band's most recent “Escape Route”, released through San Diego, It's Alive Records. I've known Justin longer than almost anybody I've had the privilege to call friend. It started with my high school ska band playing with them at Arlene's Grocery, and our friendship has transcended many eras of our lives; nights that include seeing countless bands, long van rides to other states, excursions to The Fest in Gainesville, FL, and more times seeing The Bouncing Souls than I could ever try to count. I still have the ticket stub somewhere of the time I got to see them open for Sum 41 at Union Square institution, Irving Plaza. We talk movies, music, New York sports, the unhealthy side of nostalgia, and just a million things. Grateful that Justin is the podcast first reoccurring guest and unless I do something stupid to mess up our friendship, it won't be the last! Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you stream your baloney! Follow Justin and his bands on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/justin_conigliaro http://www.instagram.com/upfornothingny http://www.instagram.com/paper__lanterns http://www.instagram.com/coveryouridols Check out Up For Nothing's albums on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/1S0TrTCRFfmkFPumkOFJPH Follow me on the things: https://www.instagram.com/ianirarousso https://www.threads.net/@ianirarousso https://www.tiktok.com/@ianirarousso https://www.twitter.com/ianirarousso See me perform stand-up comedy live, maybe order a shirt? https://www.ianirarousso.com #TheIanIraRoussoShow #TIIRS #UpForNothing #Punk #PunkRock #Sublime #NYSports #MiamiHeat #WarpedTour #TheFestFL #Movies #Rancid
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Brooklyn DIY-pop legend Softee is on the podcast! Topics of discussion include Softee's new single, "Come Home," astrology, her acting background, collaborating with a series of esteemed actors and filmmakers on their music videos, including Eliza Scanlen and her fiancée Machel Ross, and more! ✨ MORE ABOUT SOFTEE ✨ Softee (she/they) is a queer DIY pop artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work is a kaleidoscopic exploration of wrought emotion, tinged with influences as sundry as Robyn, Janet Jackson, and the pure, unfettered melodrama of 80s pop. She has shared stages with Linda Diaz, Sir Babygirl, Blaketheman1000, and Francesca D'Uva. Her latest album, 'Natural,' will be released in May. ✨ KEEP UP TO DATE WITH SOFTEE ✨Web: https://www.softeepopstar.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/softeepopstar/Twitter: https://twitter.com/SofteepopstarYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOSh4N4rm6DMscIDItlydpQ✨ CONNECT WITH IZZY ✨YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv6SBgiYCpYbx9BOYNefkIgWebsite: https://agrrrlstwosoundcents.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/agrrrlstwosoundcents/Twitter: https://twitter.com/grrrlsoundcents
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This episode of The Culture Journalist is free for all our listeners. For the full version of every episode — plus essays, monthly culture recommendations, and more — sign up for a paid subscription. If you were alive in the late '90s, chances are there was an entire chapter of your life that was soundtracked by Eve 6's “Inside Out” — you know, that insanely catchy, angst-filled “heart in a blender” song that, starting in 1998, was ubiquitous on the radio and during Saturday trips to the mall. Nearly 25 years later, the Southern California alt-rock giants are back in the zeitgeist, though for decidedly un-nostalgic reasons: The band's Twitter went viral in late 2020 (possibly the only good thing to happen that year) when, seemingly out of nowhere, singer and guitarist Max Collins began using it to serve up unfiltered, hilarious cultural and political commentary.Subsequent offerings have ranged from cold-tweeting politicians to ask them if they “like the heart in a blender song,” to razzing other late-'90s rock stars (looking at you, Stephan Jenkins and Steve Albini), to thoughtful commentary on fair pay for musicians and roasting the centrist Dems. It's been an unlikely hit, and in addition to releasing new music with Eve 6, Max now pens an advice column with Input Mag and has become something of a rock n roll, post-Bernie public intellectual.We've been wanting to interview Max for a long time, but recently found the perfect excuse: Emilie and Max both wrote an article about John Hinckley Jr., the sexagenarian singer-songwriter who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s in a bid to impress the actor Jodie Foster. He wounded four people, including the President, and was eventually found not guilty by reason of insanity.On July 15, Hinckley finally became a free man after over four decades of restrictions and court-mandated psychiatric care. Max, who is a big fan of Hinckley's music, got him on the phone for his first interview after his unconditional release. Around the same time, Emilie got commissioned to write an essay about the cult fandom around Hinckley and his stripped-down, romantic folk songs, which have garnered him nearly 30,000 subscribers on YouTube. She wanted to examine the fascination with Hinckley's music in the context of the complicated legacy of “outsider music,” a term popularized by WFMU DJ Irwin Chusid in the early 2000s to describe self-taught musicians with unusual backstories (and sometimes psychological disabilities) creating outside the bounds of the traditional music industry. Think: Daniel Johnston, The Shaggs, and Wesley Willis. It's basically the music equivalent of the (similarly othering) category of outsider art.But then a planned series of tour dates Hinckley booked this summer sparked a bunch of controversy online — especially after The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute issued a statement condemning his return to the stage. After the shows got canceled, the piece evolved into an exploration of how the long-running Brooklyn DIY venue Market Hotel, one of the stops on Hinckley's so-called “Redemption Tour,” became a target for the conservative media outrage machine, exemplifying the Right's increasing embrace of the very same cancel-culture tactics it loves to accuse the left of using. What does the controversy around Hinckley's foray into live music tell us about the state of the discourse? Is there such a thing as forgiveness, and redemption, in the middle of a culture war? And how in the world did Eve 6, a band we all grew up watching on MTV, end up reentering the chat as one of the funniest and most influential voices on left-wing Twitter? Much like in his column, Max is a generous and thoughtful conversationalist and was kind enough to indulge our extremely long list of questions. Along the way, he also got deep about some of his own experiences with mental health, including navigating a form of OCD, and why perhaps the appeal of so-called “outsider music” is that we all feel like outsiders in a way sometimes. Love this episode and want to help us produce more of them? Do us a solid and sign up for a paid subscription.Follow Eve 6 on TwitterListen to Eve 6's latest EP, grim value. A little birdie tells us we can expect the first missive from the band's next release in a couple of months.Read more by Max“John Hinckley Jr. speaks: ‘I'm trying to not dwell on the past'” (with Mark Yarm)“The Eve 6 Guy has advice for an angry COVID long hauler”“The Eve 6 Guy on how to cope when the world's on fire”“Miserable? The Eve 6 Guy offers tips for kicking depression in the ass.”Read more by Emilie“The no redemption tour” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theculturejournalist.substack.com/subscribe
Humor and the Abject has a special treat for all you screedlers out there: an interview with Japanther co-founder Ian Vanek. He’s about to release “Puppy Dog Ice Cream,” a new book all about Japanther’s 13-year run, published by Outlandish Press. We talked about buzzing, vibing, and dancing; Brooklyn DIY in the mid-00s; one-man motorcycle/sampler tours; the rainy charm of the Pacific Northwest; blissing the fuck out; playing a show in a castle with Penny Rimbaud of Crass (who bit them); how to make your band a sculpture, and a whole lot more. The outro music is Ian’s current band HOWARDIAN, reworking a Genesis classic. Pre-order your copy of “Puppy Dog Ice Cream” today: https://www.outlandish.press/store/p/puppy-dog-ice-cream-the-story-of-japanther
This week on the show Damian reconnects with the godly Kevin Morby! Sit in as the two discuss the pivotal roll punk played in his musical development & the glory days that were the late 2000's Brooklyn DIY scene. NOT TO BE MISSED & Check out Kevin's latest album, "Oh My God", on Dead Oceans. Also Touched On: Having to battle Blink 182 to get Green Day Matt Skiba joining Blink 182 and a 6 grade dream comes true Nirvana not being your gateway band And thus begins: “The Reality Era” of MTV Asian Man Records setting you on path No Music in the house No punks in the suburbs of Kansas City Dropping out of school Moving to New York Going to be a opening scene from Law And Order the 3rd wave of The BK Indie boom the Vivian Girls!!! The greatness of Cause Co-Motion: the Jonathan Fire Eater of the 3rd Wave NY 2000'S DIY & MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
Vagabon singer-songwriter Laetitia Tamko speaks with Kyle Meredith about how her self-titled, sophomore LP wound up with a very different sound. Tamko explains how a lack of community amidst a disappearing Brooklyn DIY scene left her with an opportunity for a chosen isolation. She discusses working with bathroom choirs, writing in French, and the expectations from being a multi-cultural artist. Tamko also gives the story behind a song originally written for Tegan and Sara, and her newest single: a grunge-driven song for the soundtrack to The Turning. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Brooklyn DIY spot Pet Rescue is celebrating its 5th anniversary, so founder Brian LaRue is here to talk to us about the history of the venue as well as what’s in store for the future. Also, old friends Mancino return with new music after many years away! 00:00 - // StereoactiveNYC / BTRtoday ID // 00:40 - // Welcome / About Mancino // 02:23 - “Bad Things” - Mancino 05:55 - “Hetchie Hutchie Footchie” - Mancino 08:55 - “People We Meet” - Mancino 12:40 - “L’Amour (or Less)” - Mancino 17:17 - “Monster Trucks” - Mancino 20:18 - “I Am Building An Ark” - Mancino 25:18 - // About Pet Rescue // 26:58 - “Lame” (BTR Live Studio, 2018) - Powersnap 29:51 - // INTERVIEW: Brian LaRue on Pet Rescue // 61:05 - “Machine” - Oxenfree 65:04 - “Midnight Expectation” (BTR Live Studio, 2018) - The Black Black 68:11 - // Outro + Disclaimer // 70:48 - // Finish.
Happy Pride! We close out June with our guest Clark Hamel. We talk about his journey of self-discovery as a trans man, Brooklyn DIY, and NYC Pride; and we joke about the questions you shouldn't be asking trans folk.
On the latest episode of the Talkhouse Podcast, Greta Kline (Frankie Cosmos, aka my absolute favorite current band) and Lætitia Tamko (Vagabon, who released one of the best records of 2017) catch up backstage at the Pitchfork Music Festival 2017. The friends and occasional collaborators talk the ins and outs of being mid-level indie musicians in today's musical climate — working your own merch, fans' frequent lack of physical boundaries, managing oneself, how to engage with corporate sponsors, and much more. They also take in Tegan and Sara's deep knowledge of the Brooklyn DIY scene, breaking edge in Paris, and finding wisdom in Kimya Dawson's LiveJournal. Check it out, and subscribe now on iTunes or Stitcher to stay in the loop on future episodes of the Talkhouse Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored in part by Shure. Big thanks to Pitchfork for hosting Talkhouse at the festival. —Elia Einhorn, Talkhouse Podcast host and producer @eliaeinhorn Today's episode was recorded, mixed and co-produced by Mark Yoshizumi.
Ho99o9 has come back to TOAP to set a wrong right. Years after losing their previous conversation to the Arizona desert, theOGM and Yeti Bones sit down with Damian to talk all things punk... again. From the importance of the Brooklyn DIY scene, to European Papa Roach fans not getting it, to getting kicked off the Warped Tour after the first show and so much more: don't miss this oneAlso, don't miss Ho99o9's new single: "Incline"Also, don't miss Ho99o9 on tour this fallSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy