Podcasts about Okkervil River

Here's a look at what was happening on the dance floor at Strange Brew in 2007 - with the likes of Fight Like Apes, Okkervil River, LCD Soundsystem, The National, Dan Deacon, Messiah J & The Expert, Yeasayer, The Shins, Modest Mouse, Los Campesinos!, Caribou, Battles, Super Extra Bonus Party, !!!, Sunset Rubdown, Cathy Davey, Hooray For Humans, Jens Lekman and more!

Special Guest Will Sheff, founder and frontman of Okkervil River, discusses his upcoming benefit for Whaleback Mountain and other exciting topics including a famous New Hampshire gas station. The subject of running is broached along with early 2000s music piracy. The Power Motion Picnic Hour community prepares for the Paris Games.

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2007. Show notes: In 2007, Jay had a kid starting kindergarten; that kids graduates from college soon Zeppelin played two reunion shows Separating the music from artists' bad behavior Daughtry had the #1 selling album of '07 Phil's non-top 5s: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, the National, St. Vincent, Jason Isbell, Okkervil River, Buffalo Tom, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Arctic Monkeys  Let's hear it for Dad Rock On Madonna's career Discovering music through commercials or movies Music services Jay's non-top 5s: LCD Soundsystem, the Dears, Tim Armstrong, Black Francis, Thurston Moore, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Ray Davies, Beastie Boys To be continued Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Can you write a song on an island? Dave talked about capturing the seeds of songs, mixing with Chris Shaw, signing Nataniel Rateliff, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, and Ween to Rounder Records, and finding inspiration in Native Instruments Kontakt. Get access to FREE mixing mini-course: https://MixMasterBundle.com My guest today is Dave Godowsky, a veteran in the music industry, having spent the past 20+ years in Management, A&R, and Artist Relations. On the label front, he served as Director of A&R for Rounder Records (where he discovered and signed artists including Nathaniel Rateliff and Delta Spirit) and GM at Partisan Records (home to artists like IDLES, Fontaines DC, and Deer Tick). On the management front, he served as VP for Danny Goldberg at GoldVE, managing the careers of artists including Against Me!, Okkervil River, Speedy Ortiz, and Cass McCombs. On the technology front, Godowsky handles all artist and industry relations for the pioneering audio tech innovator iZotope, and now Native Instruments, and Plugin Alliance .  A songwriter and producer himself, Godowsky has released three records, and co-written/collaborated with many others including Adam Duritz (Counting Crows), Lianne LaHavas, and Gene Ween (Ween). He has toured nationwide, including performances at major festivals and on the Late Show with David Letterman. Godowsky was named one of Billboard's "30 Under 30" and has been profiled by the Boston Globe for his industry and musical contributions. He currently lives with his wife and 18-month-old son in Maine. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! http://UltimateMixingMasterclass.com https://gracedesign.com/ https://www.native-instruments.com use code ROCK10 to get 10% off! https://lewitt.link/rockstars https://iZotope.com use code ROCK10 to get 10% off! https://www.adam-audio.com https://RecordingStudioRockstars.com/Academy  https://www.thetoyboxstudio.com/ Listen to this guest's discography on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0kydSMaB05NOHklabBVrH6?si=2299ff470a794d0b If you love the podcast, then please leave a review: https://RSRockstars.com/Review CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE SHOW NOTES AT: https://RSRockstars.com/438

Benjamin Lazar Davis joins the pod to discuss production, songwriting, multi-instrumentalism, cross-cultural collaboration, and the artist's journey. Be sure to stream his new single with Monica Martin "No Need To Reply" when it's released on Friday, Jan 12, 2024! And follow Ben on IG here You can find my music at: https://scoobertdoobert.pizza Benjamin Lazar Davis is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, arranger, composer and record producer. He is a member of several bands, including Okkervil River and Cuddle Magic. Davis attended New England Conservatory of Music. Davis's father Peter started being a musician at the age of five. Peter toured nationally and internationally with several groups, including a brief time with the Mamas and Papas. Like his son, Peter can play a variety of instruments ranging from banjo to clarinet to trombone. Davis's interest in Africa came through his father who spent three years in Malawi as a school music director. Davis has a brother and two sisters. He collaborates with his brother Tim on songs. In 2006 while students at The New England Conservatory of Music Davis, Alec Spiegelman, Christopher McDonald, Kristin Slipp, Cole Kamen-Green, and David Flaherty founded Cuddle Magic in 2006. The band is known for collaborations with many artists including Fred Frith, Ran Blake, the David Wax Museum, Larkin Grimm, Mike & Ruthy (formerly of the Mammals), Phyllis Chen, Joy Kills Sorrow. Individuals from Cuddle Magic have also performed with Bridget Kearney, Railbird, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Baby States, Ronald Reagan, Bird Fly Yellow, Margaret Glaspy, The People's Champs, Girls Guns and Glory, Lake Street Dive, Petal Shield, Split Red, Yapp! and The Superpowers Horns. Davis went to West Africa in 2009 and 2014 to study music. "The first time I went ...., I was studying awa drumming, which is like drum ensemble music for a bunch of different instruments." Davis is referring to a music tradition involving the djembe and dunun style of drums. In his first visit he heard of northern Ghanaian tradition of music called Bawa. In 2014 Davis traveled to Ghana with Bridget Kearney of Lake Street Dive and a former member of Cuddle Magic. They spent just over two weeks in the capital Accra, studying the traditional music of Northwest Ghana with master gyil player Aaron Bebe. They subsequently co-released an EP, BAWA, incorporating gyil music as source material. After leaving Ghana, Davis came down with typhoid and was very sick. When Davis and Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman) met in 2013, they found they both had an interest in Central African Republic Pygmy music. Davis co-wrote, recorded, co-produced and toured for the album Let It Be You (Reveal Records 2016) with Wasser. Ben is currently based in LA. Leave the studio to like, let everything happen. Close a door open a window kinda thing. Set Design by Max Horwich Podcast Produced by Beformer --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scoobertdoobert/message

Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, so glad to have you here once again. Our guest this week is Will Sheff, known for his solo work and years with the indie rock band Okkervil River. In this conversation, Sheff and host Jason P. Woodbury cover a wide stretch, examining how the indie rock landscape has changed and evolved over decades, exploring the spiritual core at the heart of his music, and hearing stories about his interactions with luminaries like Roky Erickson and Jason Molina. Transmissions is a part of the Talkhouse Podcast Network. Visit the Talkhouse for more interviews, fascinating reads, and podcasts, like Drifter's Sympathy, with Emil Amos of Grails, Om, Holy Sons, who will be our guest next week on Transmissions, and of course, No Way Out: An Oral History of Sunburned Hand of the Man, curated and produced by J Kelly Davis and presented by Aquarium Drunkard and Talkhouse.  Support Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions on Patreon.

Today's guest is writer Laura Snapes. Her work has been published by the BBC, Pitchfork, and NME, and she's the deputy music editor of The Guardian. We've been aiming to have her for Transmissions for some time now, and now we're so glad we've got this episode to share with you listeners, covering the psycho-geology of songs, the climate, varied definitions of the term “Americana,” and her recent listening: Julie Byrne, Be Your Own Pet, Róisín Murphy, and Jesse Lanza. Plus, the occult roots of Aphex Twin and what it means to "name" a nascent music genre. Transmissions is a part of the Talkhouse Podcast Network. Visit the Talkhouse for more interviews, fascinating reads, and podcasts.  Next week on Transmissions? Will Sheff of Okkervil River on Roky Erickson, Jason Molina, Bill Fay, and much, much more. Be well in the meantime, this Transmission is concluded. 

The Okkervil River frontman plays songs from his debut solo album in this mini-concert recorded live for World Cafe.

2006 was the year we moved the late night Strange Brew club from the Warwick to the Róisín Dubh, as we had expanded the venue and went late night seven weeks. This features Beirut, Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly, Islands, Phoenix, The Flaming Lips, Camera Obscura, The Pipettes, I'm From Barcelona, Midlake, Band Of Horses, TV On The Radio, CSS, Ratatat, The Rapture, The Hold Steady, The Decemberists, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, Joanna Newsom, Hot Club De Paris, Hot Chip, Peter, Bjorn & John, Okkervil River, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Album Leaf

As the sole consistent member, Will Sheff has built Okkervil River into one of the smartest and most beloved indie rock bands to walk the earth. This year sees the release of Nothing Special, his first solo record in his nearly quarter century long music career. The milestone, coupled with a seemingly endless pandemic, have afforded the musician plenty of opportunity to reflect on the world around him.In this conversation, we discuss empathy for those we disagree with, the drive to make music and the end of the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Will Sheff was a baby, he had a life-threatening illness that required him to have a tracheotomy. From that moment, he was always aware of being fragile and somewhat out of place in his body. He never quite fit in in the New England prep school culture he grew up in. His childhood was full of magic, however. He spent a lot of time in the woods, and when he looked up at the sky he felt the presence of the divine more deeply than he ever did in church. A lot of people dream of forming a band with their high school buddies and making it big. Will and his friends actually did it. Folk rock outfit Okkervil River released nine critically acclaimed albums and traveled the world together. You can read all about them elsewhere. I was most interested in how being the frontman of Okkervil River made Will into the performer and writer he is today.One of the most interesting questions that Will explores on his new solo album, ‘Nothing Special,' is how to remove ego from the album-making process, even as he puts his own name front and center for the first time. This question led us down paths of meditation and consciousness, drugs and religion, power and acceptance. This record creates impressionistic scenes as much as it tells stories. It is an expression of Will's higher self, tempered with humility. ‘Nothing Special' is bound to be a blessing.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

It feels like only yesterday that we finished all nine episodes of our Björk Retrospective series, yet here we are again with a brand new album from one of music's most idiosyncratic and enigmatic visionaries: FOSSORA! Join Jake, Jakob, and Ryley as they break down everything this bizarre and brilliant new record has to offer, and consider where it fits amongst all its established older siblings. Plus, on the note of returns, we also review the comeback record from screamo legends City of Caterpillar, MYSTIC SISTERS, the band's first new LP in 19 years and an absolute cracker fusion of hardcore, post-rock, and post-punk that left us thoroughly knocked for a loop. Watch the video version of this episode and support the channel on YouTube. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 2:20 A Tribute to Loretta Lynn 6:45 Phil Elverum's Best Record? 17:03 A Fantastic New Live Album 20:13 The Rebirth of Okkervil River 23:18 The Japanese Art-Rock Queen 25:29 New Albums from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ka, & Courting 34:22 Listening to Every Album Released in 1990 45:11 City of Caterpillar - Mystic Sisters 1:06:37 Björk - Fossora 1:56:18 Outro

Some bands are sprinters; they release new material with impressive speed. But other bands are more like marathon runners, taking their time with each project. Canadian indie pop group Alvvays are the latter since their new album Blue Rev is their first in five years. In this week's Indiecast, hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen review marathoners Alvvays' latest release (25:27) as well as Björk's mushroom-inspired LP Fossora (36:42).The biggest music news of this week was a pleasantly surprising No. 1 single. It's Steve Lacey's R&B hit "Bad Habit," which dethroned Harry Styles' long-running "As It Was" No. 1 and it seems like a very organic ascent (45:58). In other news, indie music celebrated the 10th anniversary of a majorly influential album: Tame Impala's Lonerism. While the idea of celebrating album anniversaries is a relatively new phenomenon, it does encourage younger listeners to revisit classic albums in an age when we're constantly introduced to new music (:29).This week's Recommendation Corner (53:11) has Ian urging listeners to check out his recent interview with Will Sheff and his band Okkervil River's new album Nothing Special. Steven suggests Zach Bryan, a 26-year-old singer-songwriter whose 34-song LP American Heartbreak is one of the year's most sprawling albums.New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 108 here or below and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at indiecastmailbag@gmail.com, and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This special episode is a nice long interview with Will Sheff, a musician best known as the songwriter and frontman of Okkervil River. We talk about his new album Nothing Special, which is his first record under his own name, and why he decided to step away from the Okkervil River name. We get into some fairly deep stuff about music and creativity in this conversation; I think you'll enjoy it whether you know Will's music or not. All of the songs in this episode are from Nothing Special except for the first song, which is "Mary On A Wave" by Okkervil River.

For this week's main episode, Jake, Ryley, and Morgan are excited to review the newest album from podcast favorite band The Wonder Years, THE HUM GOES ON FOREVER. Also on the docket this week is Alex G's genre-bending new album GOD SAVE THE ANIMALS, plus we talk deep cut favs from Brand New, Okkervil River, and Mount Eerie, while Ryley shouts out under-the-radar new releases from the world of jazz, art rock, and the Editors' new Depeche Mode-aping banger EBM. Watch the video version of this episode and support the channel on YouTube. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 4:15 Brand New's Daisy is a Terrifying Record 18:51 The Underrated Discography of Okkervil River 29:43 Mount Eerie's Dawn is a Comfort Album 38:53 The Best Technical Death Metal Album Ever 41:15 Andrew Dominik's Transcendent Nick Cave Documentaries 44:57 Ryley's Recs: Makaya McCraven, The Comet is Coming, Beth Orton 50:42 The New Weezer EP Is Awful 56:48 The New Editors Album Is... Good? 1:00:43 Alex G - God Save the Animals 1:20:53 The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever 1:50:52 Outro

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including the return of Beth Orton, a solo debut from Okkervil River's Will Sheff, Miya Folick and more.Featured songs and artists:1. Courtney Marie Andrews: "These Are The Good Old Days," from Loose Future2. Beth Orton: "Forever Young," from Weather Alive3. Miya Folick: "Oh God," from 2007 - EP4. Hand Habits & Amelia Meath: "Under The Water" (Single)5. Will Sheff (feat. Cassandra Jenkins): "In the Thick of It," from Nothing Special6. Hammered Hulls: "Boilermaker's Notch," from Careening

"If I have one piece of advice to give, it would be to write something the moment you wake up." Will Sheff of Okkervil River likes a good writing ritual. He believes in writing every day, just as a professional athlete needs to practice every day.  But as you'll hear in this episode, he's also a firm believer in loafing. Sheff's first proper solo album, out October 7, is called Nothing Special. 

Dan Gedman might be the smartest dude I've ever had a sit-down conversation with, and he certainly has the deepest voice of any I can recall, which is a batshit combo if you're in to running metrics on how stupid you think you might be.Whew.What a chat, though. I've never gone into an interview thinking I'll be less prepared than my guest, but never did I imagine feeling dumber and less knowledgable than a guest who didn't prepare at all! Yyyikes.Anyway, Dan is a really awesome dude. He just is. I hate to distill it down to that, but -- if we're being honest -- that's all any guy wants...is to be known and remembered as an awesome dude.Now, I'm obviously not married to Dan, and I'm not his business partner, but he has always been the nicest guy I run across. He's an A+ host with fine-tuned hospitality skills. He's a funny fellow, and -- well -- goddamn it if he doesn't know the shit out of his music.Christ.Dan's a son and a brother and a husband and a father to three and a business partner and a music-savvy cat, but he's also just...he's doing it right. I think. You know...from the outsider standpoint. He runs this thing called Liquid9. I'm still not sure what they do. They might traffic Russian mail-order brides (Note: Joke! It's a joke! Take it easy...), but I think they produce music videos, among other sleek, industry kinds of things.Regardless, Dan's for sure a have-back.I felt humbled having him on, and -- while we covered a few records -- there're for sure more where that came from, and I'm legit' excited about what our next visit might look like. The ones we touched on today include the following:Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan (1975)Outlandos d'Amour, The Police (1978)Tim, The Replacements (1985)Copper Blue, Sugar (1992)Midnight Marauders, A Tribe Called Quest (1993)Illmatic, Nas (1994)Heartbreaker, Ryan Adams (2000)Is This It, The Strokes (2001)I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, Bright Eyes (2003)Black Sheep Boy, Okkervil River (2005)I'd be pleased as punch if you gave this conversation a listen. They don't get much better.One final note: I fuck up a lot on this thing.A lot.It's hard to focus on the questions and listen to the answers and keep the thing moving and be aware of the time and of every thing you have said on every other episode.Point being, I used to scoff like a little punk at podcasters for such things. And to hopefully make up for that, I want to point out my mistakes when I become aware of them. In this case, Dan wasn't the first guest with biological parents that're both still alive and together. Jason (episode #1) was, but...that was six months ago, and I'm an aging human.I'm far from perfect. Really far. If you know that and listen anyway, praise be to ye.Blessings.copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the intro/outro audio samples. They are both clips from "Next to You," by Poolside, off of their 2012 release called, Pacific Standard Time (c/o themselves).

This episode is part of Pledge Week 2022. Every day this week, I'll be posting old Patreon bonus episodes of the podcast which will have this short intro. These are short, ten- to twenty-minute bonus podcasts which get posted to Patreon for my paying backers every time I post a new main episode -- there are well over a hundred of these in the archive now. If you like the sound of these episodes, then go to patreon.com/andrewhickey and subscribe for as little as a dollar a month or ten dollars a year to get access to all those bonus episodes, plus new ones as they appear. Click below for the transcript Transcript Just a note before I begin, this episode deals with mental illness and with the methods, close to torture, used to treat it in the middle of the last century, so anyone for whom that's a delicate subject may want to skip this one. There's a term that often gets used about some musicians, "outsider music", and it's a term that I'm somewhat uncomfortable with. It's a term that gets applied to anyone eccentric, whether someone like Jandek who releases his own albums through mail order and just does his own thing, or someone like Hasil Adkins who made wild rockabilly music, or an entertainer like Tiny Tim who had a bizarre but consistent view of showbusiness, or a band like the Shaggs who were just plain incompetent, or people like Wesley Willis or Wild Man Fischer who had serious mental health problems. The problem with the term is that it erases these differences, and that it assumes that the most interesting thing about the music is the person behind it. It also erases talent, especially in the case of mentally ill artists. There are several mutually incompatible assumptions about creative artists who have mental health problems. One is that their music should be treated like a freak show, and either appreciated for that reason (if you're someone who gets their entertainment from someone else's suffering) or disdained (if you don't want to do that). Other people think that the mental illness *makes* the music, that great art comes from mental health problems, while yet others will argue that someone's art has nothing at all to do with their mental health, and is not influenced by it in any way. All of these positions are, of course, wrong. Mental illness doesn't stop someone from making great art -- except when it takes away the ability to make art at all of course -- people like Brian Wilson or Vincent Van Gogh are testament to that, and their best work has nothing to do with a freak show. But nor does it grant the ability to make great art. Someone with no musical talent who develops schizophrenia just becomes a schizophrenic person with no musical talent. But to say that mental illness doesn't affect the work is also nonsense. Everything about someone's life affects their art, especially something as important as their mental health. And the real problem with these labels comes with those artists who don't manage to develop a substantial body of work before their illness sets in. Those with real musical talent, but who end up getting put in the outsider artist bucket because their work is so obviously affected by their illness. And one of those is Roky Erickson, of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators. Erickson started his career aged fifteen with a group based in Austin, Texas, called the Spades -- and I hope that this wasn't intended as a racial slur, as the word was sometimes used at this time. Their first single, "We Sell Soul", released in 1965, shows the clear influence of "Gloria" by Them: [Excerpt: The Spades, "We Sell Soul"] That was a regional hit, and so their second single, the first song that Erickson had ever written, was recorded in the same style: [Excerpt: The Spades, "You're Gonna Miss Me"] But by December 1965, Erickson had left the Spades, and joined Stacy Sutherland, Benny Thurman, and John Ike Walton, the members of another band called the Lingsmen. They were joined by a fifth man, Tommy Hall, who became the band's lyricist, liner-note writer, and general spokesman, and who played an electric jug, creating an effect somewhere between bubbling and a wobble board. Hall started calling the group's music "psychedelic rock" in late 1965 after being influenced by Timothy Leary, and I've seen some people say he was the first person ever to use the term. The group released a rerecorded version of "You're Gonna Miss Me" on a small local label: [Excerpt: The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, "You're Gonna Miss Me"] That was released in January 1966, and later picked up by a larger label, International Artists, which was the home of a lot of Texan psychedelic bands, like the Golden Dawn and the Red Crayola. It spent most of the year slowly climbing the charts, eventually reaching number fifty-five -- the highest chart position the group would ever have. It was included on their debut album, The Psychedelic Sounds of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, released towards the end of the year, by which time Thurman had been replaced by Ronnie Leatherman on bass. The album's liner notes were written by Hall and had a large amount of advocacy for the use of psychedelic drugs -- as did the music itself, though some of this was a little more subtle, like the song "Fire Engine", where the line "let me take you to the empty place" was meant to sound like "DMT place", DMT being a psychedelic drug: [Excerpt: The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, "Fire Engine"] Around this time, the band crossed paths with Janis Joplin, who was a big fan of the group and who they tried to get to join them, but Joplin decided to move to California instead. Tommy Hall was a huge advocate for both the potential of LSD to open people's minds, and of the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski, and his enthusiasm for both showed up on the group's second album. Unfortunately, not all of the group were of quite the same mind, and Leatherman and Walton left early in the sessions for that album, Easter Everywhere, which was considered not quite up to the standards of the previous album, though Erickson and Hall's eight-minute long "Slip Inside This House" is a favourite of most of the fans. [Excerpt: The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, "Slip Inside This House"] Unfortunately, the band started to disintegrate. The core of Erickson, Hall, and Sutherland remained together, but various bass players and drummers came and went -- though one of the band's rhythm sections, Duke Davis and Danny Thomas, was good enough that the band's label got them to back Lightnin' Hopkins on his album Free Form Patterns. According to reports I've read, Davis and Thomas were both on acid during the session, but they still play solidly throughout: [Excerpt: Lightnin' Hopkins, "Give Me Time to Think"] Another potential bass player at this point was a roommate of Erickson's, who Erickson tried to get into the band but who Hall turned down. Townes Van Zandt later went on to rather bigger things. Erickson also started to have some mental problems -- apparently taking LSD literally every day for years is not great for you. And when he was arrested for marijuana possession, he decided to use his mental health as a way to get out of a potential ten-year jail sentence, by getting three years in a psychiatric hospital instead. He later claimed that he was lying about his problems and acting mad to get this sentence, but he had been having problems before then. Hall and Sutherland and their current rhythm section finished up a few demos, and the record label put out one final album made up of outtakes, plus a faked live album with crowd noise overdubbed on some earlier studio recordings, but with their lead singer in hospital for three years the band split up. Hall became a Scientologist and quit the music industry altogether. If Erickson *was* faking his illness when he went into the hospital, he wasn't faking it by the time he came out. Psychiatric medicine was still in its infancy then. It's far from wonderful today, but at least in general you can be relatively sure that the treatment won't make you worse. That wasn't the case in the late sixties and early seventies, and Erickson was forced through multiple sessions of electro-shock therapy. (To be clear, electro-shock therapy can sometimes be effective for some conditions when done properly and with the patient's consent. This wasn't either.) When Erickson finally got out, he tried to put his life back together, and formed a new band called Bleib Alien, later renamed Roky Erickson and the Aliens, who made hard rock records with lyrics about science fiction and horror themes like zombies, fire demons, medical experimentation, and two-headed dogs: [Excerpt: Roky Erickson and the Aliens, "Two-Headed Dog"] Erickson became a cult artist, cited as an influence by everyone from Henry Rollins to ZZ Top, and intermittently released recordings for the next few decades, but he spent much of the time dealing with severe, untreated, schizophrenia. There are many stories about this time that get shared, and are easy to find online, but which I'm not going to repeat here because they tend to be shared in a freak-show manner. But by 2001 he was placed in the legal custody of his brother . This kind of situation is often abused, but in Erickson's case it seems to have done him good. His brother got him legal and medical help, and helped him start finally receiving royalties on some of his records. There was a one-off fiftieth anniversary reunion of most of the living original members of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, and in 2010 Erickson released his finest album, a collaboration with the band Okkervil River, True Love Cast Out All Evil: [Excerpt: Roky Erickson and Okkervil River, "Ain't Blues Too Bad"] By all accounts the last years of Erickson's life were happier and more comfortable than any he'd had. He got to tour the world, playing for appreciative crowds, he got his schizophrenia under control, and he was able to live a relatively independent life, and to know that new generations of musicians admired his work. He died in 2019, aged seventy-one.

On this week's Talkhouse Podcast we've paired up a couple of old friends and onetime tourmates, Sharon Van Etten and Jonathan Meiburg. This pairing was especially fun for me, since I had the pleasure of putting these two together in a different context many years ago, when I was editor of The A.V. Club: Sharon and Jonathan performed an amazing version of the Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks duet “Stop Draggin' My Heart Around” for the site's A.V. Undercover series. Seeing their faces together brought back that fun memory, and it was great seeing them reconnect. Van Etten is a singer and songwriter who's been making records for the past decade plus, growing and changing and taking chances in exactly the way you hope truly talented people will. Her amazing early records were quietly intense, very confessional affairs, but she burst from the seams with subsequent releases. In 2019, she released Remind Me Tomorrow, which brought in bigger sounds and colors and an entirely different kind of confidence to her songwriting and performance. She gives partial credit in this chat to producer John Congleton, who was recommended to Van Etten by none other than Jonathan Meiburg. Earlier this year, Van Etten released another incredible album called We've Been Going About This All Wrong, which puts into intense songs some of the feelings we've all been feeling the past couple of years. You know what I'm talking about. Check out “Mistakes” from that new album, and check out Van Etten on the Wild Hearts tour over the next few months, with Angel Olsen and Julien Baker.  Today's other guest, Jonathan Meiburg, is best known in the music world as the driving force behind the band Shearwater, which he started way back in the late ‘90s as an offshoot of his previous band, Okkervil River. But under this name, Meiburg has created a vast and varied catalog that combines his writerly mind with sometimes-moody, sometimes-joyous music. Shearwater just released their first album in six years: It's called The Great Awakening, and it's what a lazy podcast host might refer to as a return to form—or at least more austere earlier vibes. Don't let that six-year gap fool you, though: Meiburg has been plenty busy. He's got another band called Loma with the members of Cross Record, and they've got a third album on the way. Oh, and Meiburg wrote and released an incredible book called A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey, which rolls up history, science, and travel into one really beautifully written piece. (Around Talkhouse HQ, we like to brag that Meiburg has written a bunch of pieces for us over the years.) As you'll hear in this conversation, he's already started working on another book. Check out “Empty Orchestra” from The Great Awakening. As you'll hear, Van Etten and Meiburg are old friends who toured together long ago, but hadn't seen each other in person until very recently, when Van Etten's tour took her to Hamburg, where Meiburg is currently living. They talk about writing songs—and specifically about how gibberish can become lyrics, which I always find interesting. Meiburg remarks on Van Etten's transformation as a stage performer over the years, and they even chat about Sharon's son—specifically his relationship to the movie Cool Runnings. Enjoy. Thanks for listening to the Talkhouse Podcast, and thanks to Sharon Van Etten and Jonathan Meiburg for chatting. If you liked what you heard, please do follow Talkhouse on your favorite podcasting platform. This episode was produced by Myron Kaplan, and the Talkhouse theme is composed and performed by the Range. See you next time.

#150 Especial G.Land para nossos boieiros. Pedro Müller competiu no primeiro evento da ASP em G. Land como convidado. A história por trás do convite é, no mínimo, inusitada e você escuta nesse episódio do Boia como aconteceu. João Valente, Bruno Bocayuva e Júlio Adler aproveitam para colocar a conversa em dia com o campeão brasileiro de 1989, sobre tamanho de pranchas em ondas perfeitas, ratazanas, um trem desenfreado e Kelly Slater, vencedor do evento e responsável pela derrota do Águia em 1995. Temos indicação de livro no almanaque e delirante participação do senhor supremo dos túneis balineses, o Orixá Tico Cavalcanti. Invocamos Rick Werneck, fotografo extraordinário, para jogar luz na primeira (primeira!) ida do Tom Carroll para G. Land! Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe dos Okkervil River dá o pontapé inicial e Flesh of My Skin do Keith Hudson apita o final. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boia/message

His voice echoes as he speaks. The walls are entirely empty ahead of a big move, but Jonathan Meiburg has carved out enough time to sit and speak. We get into the subject of caracaras fairly quickly. They're strange little birds in the same family as falcons – though they sport personalities more in line with a crow or a raven. Meiburg was so taken by the creatures he devoted several years to penning a book on the topic. But he's forever returning to music, be it projects like Loma, Okkervil River or his primary act, Shearwater – the latter of which is set to release its first LP in six years. Due out in June, The Great Awakening might be the band's most ambitious original work to date.

In this episode: scamming hotels; when touring gets tough; thin profit margins; the brutal real estate market; signing to a label. Interviews with: Ben Gibbard, Joel Hamilton, and Laura Dean. Featured tracks: "The New Year" by Death Cab for Cutie, "It Ends With a Fall" by Okkervil River, and "You Were My Fiji" by John Vanderslice.

Nothing to see here but your average January BikeRide on the the Radio. This week: Texas indie sounds from Joy Oladokun, a deeper classic from Ray Charles, a BR standard from Neko Case and an all out show stopper from Okkervil River that's literally about famous tracheotomies.

On today's episode, I talk to musician John Vanderslice. Raised in rural North Florida, Vanderslice was forced into piano lessons as a young child, and eventually picked up the guitar and started writing songs as a teen. After moving to San Francisco in 1989, John made three records as a part of the experimental band MK Ultra, including the critically-acclaimed The Dream is Over. His obsession with recording craft persisted: while working as a waiter at Chez Panisse in 1997, he opened Tiny Telephone Recording as an affordable outlet for the Bay Area's indie rock community. Between 2000 and 2014, John released 10 records on Barsuk, Dead Oceans, and Secretly Canadian, and collaborated as a producer and musician on records by Spoon, the Mountain Goats, Okkervil River, Death Cab for Cutie and Tune-Yards. Taking a break from his own recording, he became a full-time producer for a number of years, and in 2018, John decided to leap back into his solo career with full force, releasing a number of albums and EPs, the latest of which is a tribute to Dave Berman entitled "John, i can't believe civilization is still going here in 2021! Congratulations to all of us, Love, DCB" This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter.

A vocalista, guitarrista, compositora e fundadora do Heartless Bastards, Erika Wennerstrom, também é a dona da banda, que já teve três formações diferentes. A nova encarnação conta com integrantes do Okkervil River, My Morning Jacket e o White Denim. Eles foram convidados pra tocar no disco mais recente do Heartless Bastards, e tema desse episódio, o “A Beautiful Life”. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/musicacronica/message

A lifetime studying music and it's litany of influences converge in Matthew “Math” Judson's Demagogue's Delight  (1916 Records), with songs ranging from sweet song-of-the-summer earworms like “Magic” and the Arctic Monkeys-like pogo-inducing charisma of “Gunfire” and “Mind Over Matter'' to the wistful, soaring journey-within-a-song beauty of “Unanswered Prayers'' and “Out The Back”. Throughout, the album is punctuated by standout guitar solos and hooks galore and is a journey through self awareness and growth. Featured are contributions from Blake Atwell, Shreddward Brailliff (Bright Light Social Hour), Michael Patrick St. Clair (White Denim, Polyphonic Spree, Okkervil River), Travis Kennedy (The Deer, Electric Ladyland Studios) with mastering by Steve Marek (Monobody, NNAMDÏ, Tigran Hamasyan). Young Math Judson dove headfirst into music as a child in the Chicago area at the age of 9 when his parents kindly replaced his homemade tupperware drum set with a real one.  From there, he progressed to studying percussion and piano and joining marching band and drum line to jamming with friends in the basement while being nurtured by accomplished professors who had worked with everyone from Al DiMeola, Clark Terry to KC & The Sunshine Band. In college the lefty learned to play on the right handed guitar and played in a plethora of bands ranging from post-punk to funk and jazz fusion while honing his skills performing with professional Broadway performers like Anthony Rapp (Rent, Dazed & Confused) and Shoshana Bean (Wicked, Hairspray, Ariana Grande, Michael Jackson). After earning a degree in jazz studies, the artist moved to Austin with the band that would become The Pride in 2014 and launched a solo career while touring with The Digital Wild (members of Fort Never). That solo career conceived Demagogue's Delight, which showcases Judson's considerable skills and funnels them into a promising debut bursting with captivating single-worthy gems.Soundcloud | Bandcamp | WebsiteRecent Press: Fox TV Music In The Morning live performance | Austin American Statesman Review | How Did I Get Here Podcast |  New Noise Magazine | “Magic” KUTX Song Of The Day

The boys journey down the waterways of Austin, Texas this week as they delve into Okkervil River's emotionally charged third album Black Sheep Boy.

Here's Strange Brew #268 - Not Even Here - with gugai on 8radio.com - Soda Blonde, The Altered Hours, Dyvr feat Havvk, The Goon Sax, Ciaran Lavery, John Francis Flynn, Maria Kelly, Say Hi, Okkervil River, Royal Yellow, So Cow & Yenkee #strangebrew #8radio #gugai #try8radio Every Friday at 9pm & Saturday at 7pm on 8radio.com. https://linktr.ee/gugai

Original broadcast date September 15, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/09/binary-system-podcast-51-wtnv-93-big-sister/ It's an "On The Road" edition of BSP as Kathryn's recording from the wilds of Florida, land of...heat and...rain and...alligators? Yes okay she's sipping a glass of red wine from our parents' place, but still. We go through hardships for you. Anyway, we recap a Welcome to Night Vale episode full of dragons and stolen cars, and then talk about the Serial podcast, Wooden Overcoats, the final episode of Torchwood, and the latest update on our Doctor Who cosplay for New York Comic Con! The closing song was "Mary On a Wave" by Okkervil River. You can listen to episodes of Welcome To Night Vale right here. You can listen to episodes of the Serial podcast right here. And you can listen to Wooden Overcoats right here. If you want to follow along with Fanart Fridays, check us out on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter (and possibly Instagram!)

Han ganado en madurez pero no han perdido un ápice de frescura. Hablamos de Sexy Zebras presentando 'O Todos o Ninguno', un homenaje a la unión en época de enfrentamientos y en la que, a través de un toque muy a The Vaccines, hablan de lo que fueron y de lo que son, de la individualidad de su camino y de que, sin la demás gente, nada tendría sentido: donde va uno, van todos. Estrenamos también el remix que Buffetlibre ha hecho de 'La Canción del Verano', de La La Love You y escuchamos el homenaje de Chica Sobresalto a su tierra con 'Basandere' y el nuevo disco de La Habitación Roja, 'Años Luz'. DELAPORTE ft ANAJU – Clap Clap LOS BENGALA – Día de Mierda MÅNESKIN – Zitti e Buoni MODEST MOUSE - Leave A Light On CHICO JORGE – amalgama de miedo y furia. LA LA LOVE YOU – La Canción del Verano (Buffetlibre Remix) REME – Alvy In Annie Hall DUNCAN DHU – Palabras Sin Nombre SEXY ZEBRAS – O Todos o Ninguno CAROLINA DURANTE - Cayetano LA HABITACIÓN ROJA – Años Luz OKKERVIL RIVER – It Hasn’t Happened Yet JACK SAVORETTI - Who's Hurting Who (Michael Calfan Remix) CHICA SOBRESALTO - Basandere VEINTIUNO ft CHICA SOBRESALTO - Nudes VIVA SUECIA – La Voz del Presidente Escuchar audio

Here’s Strange Brew #261 - No Patience - with gugai on 8radio.com - Neil Dexter tells me about a song he loves plus The Next New Low, GRUFF RHYS, The Goon Sax, Okkervil River, Elephant, Maria Kelly, Dark Tropics, Louise Gaffney, Enola Gay, The Hitchers, Moxie & HAVVK. #strangebrew #8radio #gugai #try8radio Every Friday at 9pm & Saturday at 7pm on 8radio.com. https://linktr.ee/gugai

Here’s Strange Brew #260 - Until - with gugai on 8radio.com - Louise Gaffney tells me about a song she loves plus The Goon Sax, Okkervil River, Brendan Tallon, St. Vincent, Pretty Happy, Modest Mouse, Anna’s Anchor, Fears, Royal Yellow & Tracy Bruen #strangebrew #8radio #gugai #try8radio Every Friday at 9pm & Saturday at 7pm on 8radio.com. https://linktr.ee/gugai

We address listener correspondence about Kiss, plus a call from Justin Steiner about a clever song from Okkervil River. Episode editor: Jim Lenahan Become a Rockin' the Suburbs patron - support the show and get bonus content - at Patreon.com/suburbspod (http://patreon.com/suburbspod) Subscribe to Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com (http://suburbspod.com/) . Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes and share it with your friends. Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com (http://suburbspod.com/) Email Jim & Patrick at rock@suburbspod.com Follow us on the Twitter, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984. Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com (http://quartjar.bandcamp.com/) and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com (http://frankmuffin.bandcamp.com/) (c) Artie S. Industries LLC

This Steve-solo bonus episode is about artists with New Hampshire ties.  You may be surprised by who you hear in this show.  Includes the artists: Missing Persons, Ronnie Dio & The Prophets, Rainbow, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Godsmack, Mandy Moore, Matt Pond PA, Aerosmith, Okkervil River, Ray LaMontagne, The Dresden Dolls, Sorority Noise, Modified Behavior and RTZ.   On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio     * 5pm Friday *     * 10am Sunday *     * 8pm Monday * Stream live at http://209.95.50.189:8178/stream Stream on-demand most recent episodes at https://wbnh1051.podbean.com/category/suburban-underground/ Twitter: @SUBedford1051Facebook: SuburbanUndergroundRadioInstagram: SuburbanUnderground And available on demand on your favorite podcast app!  

Dan O'Brien (The House in Scarsdale, A Story that Happens) joins the podcast this week to talk about J R from a playwriting perspective. Lots of interesting insights in this episode, about theater, about the relationship between art and commerce in the book, and about GameStop. This week's music is "Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe" by Okkervil River. If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. You can watch the next episode on Wednesday, February 3rd where you'll also have the opportunity to ask questions, make comments, or correct inaccurate statements. Here's where you can find the complete reading schedule. Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester.

Our Three Songs: "Halfway Home" by TV On the Radio; "Lost Coastlines" by Okkervil River; "Beaumont" by Hayes Carll

Kathryn and Marlowe talk about their best and worst concert stories. They get into Jesse McCartney, Okkervil River, Rihanna, and strippers!

Dan O'Brien (The House in Scarsdale, A Story that Happens) joins the podcast this week to talk about J R from a playwriting perspective. Lots of interesting insights in this episode, about theater, about the relationship between art and commerce in the book, and about GameStop.  This week's music is "Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe" by Okkervil River. If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. You can watch the next episode on Wednesday, February 3rd where you'll also have the opportunity to ask questions, make comments, or correct inaccurate statements. Here's where you can find the complete reading schedule. Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester.

Here's the Strange Brew Guide to 2005 - the tracks that we played most in our third year. Strange Brew was still putting on live shows in the Róisín followed by the club in The Warwick. Good times. Featuring The Mountain Goats, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Spinto Band, Why?, Spoon, The National, Wolf Parade, Okkervil River, Low, Devendra Banhart, The Magic Numbers, Nada Surf, Hot 8 Brass Band, The Postal Service, Final Fantasy, Bright Eyes, Anthony & The Johnsons, Giveamanakick, We Are Scientists, The New Pornographers, Death Cab For Cutie, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Architecture In Helsinki, Broken Social Scene and LCD Soundsystem, M83 & Sufjan Stevens.

Here’s Strange Brew #239 - One For Regret - with gugai on 8radio.com - Kyoto Love Hotel tell me about a Arthur Russell song she loves, plus music from Proper Micro NV, Saint Sister & Lisa Hannigan, Tandem Felix, The Spinto Band, Okkervil River, Paddy Hanna, The Notwist, Micheál Quinn, Nealo, Lost Horizons & Porridge Radio, Quinton Brock & Squarehead. #strangebrew #8radio #gugai #try8radio Every Friday at 9pm & Saturday at 7pm on 8radio.com. Spotify - open.spotify.com/user/gugai www.strangebrew.ie www.facebook.com/strangebrewgalway www.twitter.com/@strangebrewirl gugai@strangebrew.ie

This week on Rounding Down we talk about Pink Floyd's masterpiece, "Animals" and how it relates to current politics and much more. Plus, Sigh reveals his belief that therapists must have couches large enough for the therapist to lie down on, a strange idea that makes no sense! We brush off the dust and rust, and Chid is told he smells bad by his son. Sigh also explains that he eats pizza in the shower. This is canon. Follow us on Twitter: @CHIDSPIN / @SighFieri / @RoundingDownRate and review us on iTunes. Send us MONEYYYYYY. Support the show (https://cash.app/$roundingdown)

This week its business as usual for two well established indie bands: Dr. Dog release their 10th album Critical Equation to critically low critical opinion...And the cheese stands alone for Okkervil River's Will Scheff; the only remaining original member, on his latest record In the Rainbow Rain. Next, on The Radio Cure! Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/123363873/playlist/0rOSAI5oDTOnv2ai3rNWBM?si=X89q1Kq0Qgyz0y27hx3DJg Link to the music and reviews: https://www.theradiocurepod.com/blog/2018/5/8/okkervil-river-dr-dog

Okkervil River - Pulled Up The Ribbon - from the 2018 album In The Rainbow Rain on ATO Records.Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the end of the band's previous tour, Okkervil River leader Will Sheff returned to a Bob Dylan lyric that he's always circled back to: "He not busy being born is busy dying". With rebirth in mind, Sheff gathered a new group of musicians and created a new musical mindset that eventually evolved into the Austin, Texas band's eighth album, Away. Joining Troy Nelson in the KEXP studios, Sheff and his bandmates display a band that sounds intriguingly reborn and hungry for adventure once more. Recorded 10/8/2016 - 4 songs: Okkervil River R.I.P., The Industry, Judey On A Street, Unless It's KicksSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Okkervil River's new record, "Away," is out this week. In honor of the release, here's an extended cut of our interview with frontman Will Sheff, which includes some live cuts from Okkervil River's last record, "The Silver Gymnasium."

New guests arrive in town. Plus, a bake sale the elementary school, the start of football season, and changes at the Night Vale chapter of the NRA. Weather: "Mary on a Wave" by Okkervil River (okkervilriver.com) Music: Disparition, disparition.info. Logo: Rob Wilson, robwilsonwork.com. Produced by Night Vale Presents. Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. More Info: welcometonightvale.com, and follow @NightValeRadio on Twitter or Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff talks about how identity and artifice inform music. Yoni Wolf discusses doubt, discipline, and paying his mortgage.

This week, flying the ship solo, Kevin plays us new tunes from Okkervil River and Iron & Wine. We'll rediscover Aimee Mann, and we'll celebrate debauch label, Farmageddon Records.

This compact special edition of the Noise Pop New Music Podcast exclusively features tracks from bands playing the Second Annual Treasure Island Music Festival. This month features Saturday headliners Justice as well as Okkervil River, Sao Paulo's CSS, Seattle's Fleet Foxes, San Francisco's Or, The Whale, plus more! Playlist: CSS- Rat Is Dead (Rage)- Donkey- Sub Pop Records Or, The Whale- Call and Response- Seany Records Fleet Foxes- White Winter Hymnal- S/T- Sub Pop Records Foals- Balloons- Antidotes- Sub Pop Records Okkervil River- Lost Coastlines- The Stand Ins- Jagjaguwar Records Justice- Phantom Pt. II- Cross- Vice Records