Podcasts about Poi Dog Pondering

In this interview episode of Seeing Them Live, Charles interviews singer BB from BB & The Honey. BB is an American singer and songwriter who has been an integral part of the Chicago music scene for 20 years.  Audiences say her voice is a blend of Brandy Carlisle, Janice Joplin, Patsy Klein, Stevie Nicks, and Amelda May. Her powerful interpretations range from blues, funk, soul, classic country to jazz, rockabilly, and classic rock. BB & the Honey have released a new EP of original songs called Reckless Heart, which is available on all major streaming platforms.BB reminisces about her first concert at age five, seeing Sean Cassidy at Navy Pier in Chicago, and shares memorable concert experiences with Mumford and Sons, contrasting them with a lackluster performance by Bob Dylan she attended in the early 90s. She discusses a formative experience in her music career when she and a friend were invited to join Arise Records after singing 'Amazing Grace' in a Chicago subway. This fortuitous event laid the groundwork for BB's extensive music journey, performing with various bands and writing a wide range of musical genres from blues, funk, soul, classic country, to jazz and rock. The episode also dives into BB's musical projects, from her early involvement with hip hop group Schmoov and the Family to later bands like Super D, The Jesters, and Seeking Wonderland. BB elaborates on how she transitioned into learning the piano during the COVID-19 pandemic, which allowed her to contribute more dynamically to her current band. BB & The Honey recently released a new EP called 'Reckless Heart,' comprising four original songs. The interview touches on the practicalities of their live performances, noting the flexibility in band size depending on the venue. BB delves into the recording process of the EP, aiming to capture the live energy of their performances. The episode wraps up with BB talking about their upcoming release party, their ongoing music journey, and where fans can find their music and live performance updates.BANDS: BB & the Honey, Bob Dylan, C&C Music Factory, Chicago, Full Moon Vixen, Groove X, Kris Kross, Lucinda Williams, Modern Day Romeos, Mumford and Sons, Poi Dog Pondering, Santana, Sean Cassidy, Seeking Wonderland, Stock Boy, Super D, The Dead, The Jesters, ZZ TopVENUES: Abbey Pub, Alpine Valley, Bacon Fest, beer fest in Kenosha, Baker House, Crystal Lake, Dole Mansion, Double Door, Goose Island, Hard Rock Cafe, Lake Como, Lou's Lounge, Mars Resort, Naperville, Navy Pier, Riviera, Riviera in Chicago, Ryman, Ryman Theater, Ryman Theatre, Sean Cassidy concert, Subterranean, Tinley Park, Walworth County Fair PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/SeeingThemLivePlease help us defer the cost of producing this podcast by making a donation on Patreon.WEBSITE:https://seeingthemlive.com/Visit the Seeing Them Live website for bonus materials including the show blog, resource links for concert buffs, photos, materials related to our episodes, and our Ticket Stub Museum.INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/seeingthemlive/FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550090670708

Dag Juhlin hasn't NOT been in a band since 1978. A mainstay since he formed The Slugs with his brother Gregg in 1983, Dag has wandered the Chicago music scene —ronin-style— lending his guitar prowess to bands like Poi Dog Pondering and, most recently, Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy's successful REM tribute tour. In between all the gunning for hire, Dag keeps himself busy with (among other things) solo records, his cover band Expo ‘76, a daily podcast with Steve Dahl, and the project closest to his heart: Sunshine Boys. If you want to know what it takes to be a successful working musician — check out this interview. PLUS: We pick the best solo Beatle tracks.

Mike Stephen gets an update on important education issues in the new year from Chalkbeat Chicago reporter Reema Amin, discusses the positive impacts of a few Illinois Department of Corrections programs with Jennifer Vollen-Katz, executive director of the John Howard Association, and previews an upcoming show by the local band Poi Dog Pondering with band founder Frank Orrall.

Hello friends! Producer, recording engineer, songwriter, musician, manager, and artist Mike Stewart is my guest for episode 1453! Mike is known for co-producing artists like Doug Sahm, Omar and the Howlers, Dead Milkmen and many others. He also managed bands like Poi Dog Pondering, The Gourds and more. He currently splits his time between Austin and Amsterdam and has started playing out here in Austin with his band The Mike Stewart Theory which features Jon Sanchez and Jon Dee Graham and is releasing his entire catalog of songs, one song every three weeks on Flak Records. Go to themikestewarttheory.com for music, show dates and more. Mike and I have a great conversation about his journey. I hope you enjoy getting to know him as much as I did. Let's get down!   Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you pod.   If you feel so inclined. Venmo: venmo.com/John-Goudie-1  Paypal: paypal.me/johnnygoudie

Today we'll catch up with Frank Orrall from Poi Dog Pondering. We'll learn how technology has influenced his music, the time spent on the Continent and the journey chronicled in his book from Hawaii to CBGB.

When you're good, and you're cool, everybody wants you.  Max Crawford has been charming his way into playing with loads of great bands with his warmth, ripping sense of humor and adventurous attitude.  He came by and shared generously  a few of his adventures in this realm of  music.  Not only is he a founder of an in-demand horn section called Total Pro Horns, he's played with Wilco, Poi Dog Pondering, and the Mekons just to name a few.  Come on in and be amazed and wildly entertained by this champion of a human and teller of great tales.

This week's guest is Earl Talbot. Earl is a renowned Drummer, Composer, Producer, and Music Instructor. He wrote and produced over 90 songs broadcast regularly on the Oprah Winfrey Show. His career includes performances with house music legends Derick Carter and Mark Farina, as well as touring and recording with Master Griots Dialy Mady Cissoko, Christian Bourdon, Poi Dog Pondering, The Chicago Sinfonietta, as well as scores of other artists and clients.  As a multi platinum recording artist, Earl has worked on songs from Maya Angelou's "Human Family Remix" with Tamarra Love, to Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy's production of "The Hush Sound" with Shawn O'Keefe. Earl wrote and produced 3 songs for Katt William's ‘American Hustle'.  His hit song "Yakalelo" with French sensation "Nomads" earned a Diamond Record for it's success throughout Central Europe and North Africa. EARL'S BIG FAT FIVE -Album - Back In Black Artist - ACDC Release Year - 1980 Key Track(s) - Back In Black Drummer - Phill Rudd - Album - Time Out Artist - Dave Brubeck Release Year - 1952 Key Track(s) - Pick Up Sticks Drummer - Joe Morello - Album - Moving Pictures Artist - Rush Release Year - 1981 Key Track(s) - YYZ Drummer - Neil Peart - Album - Glass Menagerie Artist - Billy Cobham Release Year - 1982 Key Track(s) - Observations and Reflections Drummer - Billy Cobham - Album - My Favorite Things Artist - John Coltrane Release Year - 1961 Key Track(s) - My Favorite Things Drummer - Elvin Jones HONORABLE MENTIONS - Album - Regatta de Blanc Artist - The Police  Release Year - 1979 Key Track(s) - Walking on the Moon Drummer - Stuart Copeland  - Album - Romantic Warrior Artist - Return to Forever  Release Year - 1976 Key Track(s) - Medieval Overture  Drummer - Lenny White - Album - Van Halen Artist - Van Halen Release Year - 1978 Key Track(s) - Runnin with the Devil Drummer - Alex Van Halen  - Album - By All Means Necessary Artist - KRS One and Boogie Down Productions Release Year - 1988 Key Track(s) - I'm Still #1 Drummer - (Sample, All the People- Cramp Your Style) - Album - Let's Dance Artist - David Bowie Release Year - 1983 Key Track(s) - Modern Love Drummer - Omar Hakim  - Album - The Game Artist - Queen Release Year - 1980 Key Track(s) - Another One Bites the Dust Drummer - Roger Taylor -  Album - Nightclubbing Artist - Grace Jones Release Year - 1981 Key Track(s) - Pull Up to the Bumper Drummer - Sly Dunbar For more information on Big Fat Snare Drum, check out www.bigfatsnaredrum.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok.

They say, “write what you know”. And in music, if you know something well enough to perfect its performance, that usually means you’ve absorbed the material enough to build upon it and make it your own. So let’s talk about Austin’s Adam Sultan. Sultan started off a singer-guitarist in the ’90s with Poi Dog Pondering […] The post Adam Sultan: “The Great Divide” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Dreamgirls, the Broadway musical based on the showbiz aspirations of legends like Little Richard, James Brown, Diana Ross and the Supremes, is about as perfect as a musical can be.It lands running with a wonderful percussive bongo beat and takes us on a roller coaster ride through the struggles Black entertainers faced in the past and how they changed the world for the better. The breakout song “And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going” became a #1 hit on the R&B Billboard charts when it was released in 1982 and launched Jennifer Holliday into superstardom.Our friend musician and actor Robert Cornelius is now playing the role of music producer Marty in the new production of Dreamgirls at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, NJ.BUY TICKETS: https://www.mccarter.org/As the nephew of Soul Train producer and host Don Cornelius, Robert was a regular dancer in his teens on the show and subsequently became an indie music fixture as a member of the alt-pop music group Poi Dog Pondering. Today musician Robert Cornelis joins us to look back on his amazing career, being part of Black music royalty and why Dreamgirls and Jennifer Holidays torch song “And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going” will never leave our hearts.

Hello friends! Musician, songwriter, writer, podcast host and one of my favorite guitar players around, Adam Sultan returns to the show for episode 1360! Adam is releasing an EP in the next couple of months and has dropped the first single, "The Great Divide", and it's available where you stream or download your jams. His podcast, Friends With Deficits is in it's 5th year and you can find it at friendswithdeficitspodcast.com  We have a great conversation about his tribute bands, Super Creeps (David Bowie) and Magnifico (Queen), his old bands, The Flying Saucers and Poi Dog Pondering, making his new EP with studio cats, his short stories, writing songs, the Friends With Deficits Podcast and much more. I had a great time catching up with my old friend. I'm sure you will too. Let's Get Down!   Find millions of songs and thousands of podcasts, AND audiobooks on Spotify. If you feel so inclined. Venmo: venmo.com/John-Goudie-1  Paypal: paypal.me/johnnygoudie

Robert Hecker in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.itsoktheband.com/ Played lead guitar and sang with Redd Kross from 1984 to 1991, and again from 2006 to the present, in addition to occasional on-stage reunions throughout the 1990s. He has also played guitar and sang with the band It's OK! since 1992. As of 2013, he no longer actively tours with Redd Kross, but continues to perform live with It's OK! It's OK! is/are: Robert Hecker (chameleon-voiced guitar guru, Redd Kross), Ellen Rooney (five-octave vocalist), Dennis McGarry (eight-string bass & three-piece suit), & Roy McDonald (drummer extraordinaire, The Muffs & Redd Kross). Individually, they can all stand as shred-lords, but collectively, they make a beautiful, hyper melodic (& harmonic) sound.  It's OK! have released four sixteen-song albums on Econoclast Recordings, each & every one of them a triumph of eclecticism. It's OK! have been compared to Queen, Guided By Voices, Poi Dog Pondering, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, the Ink Spots, the BellRays, & A Giant Dog, to mention just a few. “We like all different kinds & sorts of music, so we write all different kinds & sorts of songs.” The band are currently constructing their fifth album. 

Doug Stone talks to jazz musicians about life, music, recent and upcoming performances, equipment and current events on this Tenor Talk Podcast recording. A different jazz musician is featured in each episode.  This episode features Nate Lepine and was recorded March 13, 2020. Tenor saxophonist Nate Lepine has been a regular fixture of the Chicago jazz, improvised music and rock scenes since the early 1990s. Known to date primarily for his work as a go-to sideman, he has appeared on over three dozen recordings by a wide range of artists including indie mainstays Cursive and Iron and Wine, and alt rock outfit Poi Dog Pondering. While ably lending his instrumental voice to these and many other popular projects, Lepine, whose true calling is jazz, has spent years cultivating his own music, building a repertoire of original compositions and performing frequently on the circuit of Chicago jazz clubs as an improviser. In the fall of 2014, the time had come to document the culmination of those efforts, and Lepine assembled a first-rate quartet to record ten of his compositions at Strobe Studio in Chicago. The result of that two day session is his long awaited debut album as a bandleader, Vortices.Learn more about Nate here: https://www.instagram.com/natelepine/https://www.facebook.com/natelepinemusic/ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7kMuikSH6hb4DCdI4KDTasHJftaAPcrU Let's connect: Website: https://www.dougstonejazz.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dougstonejazzsaxophone/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089874145057 If you want to learn more about jazz improvisation and be part of the Doug Stone Jazz community get on our email list! https://www.dougstonejazz.com/about Head over to the Doug Stone Jazz Shop for some fun jazz merch: https://www.dougstonejazz.com/product-page/just-play-the-changes-long-sleeved-shirt #dougstonejazz #jazz #podcast #musicianlife #musicians #tenorsaxophone #jazzmusicians #jazzinterview #musicianlife

In this episode, we speak with veteran Chicago musicians, Mark Vickery and Paul Mertens about their latest collaboration, Cosmic Bull and their new album "Hangin in the I.P."

Mike Stephen chats with Rebecca Ginsburg, director of the Education Justice Project, about the impact of providing higher education opportunities for those who are incarcerated in Illinois and then talks with Frank Orrall, founder of Poi Dog Pondering, about nearly 40 years of making music and the band's new album.

Seems I wrote too soon about FB fixing the "TAGS"!  This post was denied three times with activated posts for the artists...allowed now, notice no active "TAGS"!  “100% Random Access Play Selection!”  is tomorrow's, Wednesday's, Flavor Of The Day!  No Rules!  No Regulations!  No Restrictions!  Just three nonstop hours of Power Pop, Rock, Soul, Rhythm & Blues!  The BELOW list is what happened in hour three of “Album Tracks Aplenty!”  The Music Authority Podcast... listen, like, comment, download, share, repeat…heard daily on Podchaser, Deezer, Amazon Music, Audible, Listen Notes, Google Podcast Manager, Mixcloud, Player FM, Stitcher, Tune In, Podcast Addict, Cast Box, Radio Public, and Pocket Cast, and APPLE iTunes!  Follow the show on TWITTER JimPrell@TMusicAuthority!  Please, are you listening? Please, are you sharing the podcast?  Please, has a podcast mention been placed into your social media?  How does and can one listen in? Let me list the ways...*Podcast - https://themusicauthority.transistor.fm/   The Music Authority Podcast!  Special Recorded Network Shows, too!  Different than my daily show! *Radio Candy Radio Monday Wednesday, & Friday 7PM ET, 4PM PT*Rockin' The KOR Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 7PM UK time, 2PM ET, 11AM PT  www.koradio.rocks*Pop Radio UK Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 6PM UK, 1PM ET, 10AM PT!  April 4, 2023, Tuesday, page three……@Continental - 07 Man In Blue [Hello] (@Rum Bar Records)@First Class & Coach - My Oh My [Neon Hip]@Peter Green - Feel My Love [Velvet Blues]@Cindy - August [Why Not Now?]@The Decibels - 04 - Walk Away [When Red Lights Flash] (koolkatmusik.com)@The Dogmatics - Sister Serena [EST 81] (@Rum Bar Records)@Ransom and the Subset - 07 - Don't Remember What Was Her Name [Perfect Crimes] (@Futureman Records) (koolkatmusik.com)@Poi Dog Pondering - 07_Licked All The Sugar [Keep On Loving Each Other]@Joe Normal - 07 Summer Jobs [Public Works] (@New Jersey Phonograph)@The Crushtones - 04 - Don't Ask Why [Not No More - EP]@Bubble Gum Orchestra - On the Run to Something [Sugar Notes BGO 14] (@Michael Lain)@Ed Ryan - Trial By Fire [A Big Life]@Moon Dancer - 04 - Paper Heart [Redrawn - A Tribute To The Pencils] (koolkatmusik.com)@The Happy Somethings - 07 The Present [A Gathering of Sorts]@The Methods - 04 Revolution [July 24, 2001 Integral Studio Demo]@Star Collector - 09 Cross My Heart [Attack, Sustain, Decay... Repeat]@Paul McCann - 06 - Where Has the Music Gone [Alter Ego] (koolkatmusik.com)@Chris Church - 07 Over And Out [Radio Transient] (@Big Stir Records)@William Duke Presents – Thank You [Quatro]

Was just sitting on the patio with my wife and our dog while the music was rolling.  Watching birds and listening to the sounds of nature.  There truly is music everywhere!  The Music Authority Podcast...listen, like, comment, download, share, repeat…heard daily on Podchaser, Deezer, Amazon Music, Audible, Listen Notes, Google Podcast Manager, Mixcloud, Player FM, Stitcher, Tune In, Podcast Addict, Cast Box, Radio Public, and Pocket Cast, and APPLE iTunes!  Follow the show on TWITTER JimPrell@TMusicAuthority!  Please, are you listening? Please, are you sharing the podcast?  Please, has a podcast mention been placed into your social media?  How does and can one listen in? Let me list the ways...*Podcast - https://themusicauthority.transistor.fm/   The Music Authority Podcast!  Special Recorded Network Shows, too!  Different than my daily show! *Radio Candy Radio Monday Wednesday, & Friday 7PM ET, 4PM PT*Rockin' The KOR Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 7PM UK time, 2PM ET, 11AM PT  www.koradio.rocks*Pop Radio UK Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 6PM UK, 1PM ET, 10AM PT!  March 14, 2023, Tuesday…paragraph two…Poi Dog Pondering - 02_Free & Easy [Keep On Loving Each Other]Joe Normal - 02 Setbacks [Public Works] (New Jersey Phonograph)@Bubble Gum Orchestra - She's So Cool [Sugar Notes BGO 14] (Michael Laine Hildebrandt)Ed Ryan - Take Away Everything [A Big Life]The Poppermost - 11 - Til Your Luck Runs Out [Redrawn - A Tribute To The Pencils] (koolkatmusik.com)The Allrightniks - Stay With Me [Hard To Believe]The Happy Somethings - 01 Worried Fools [A Gathering of Sorts]Star Collector - 09 Cross My Heart [Attack, Sustain, Decay... Repeat]Paul McCann - 07 - The Voice of Reason [Alter Ego] (koolkatmusik.com)The Tearaways Station ID TMAThe Tearaways - No Love Lost [And For Our Next Trick] (Dirty Water Records)Heatwaves - I Do, I Do [Complete Recordings 2017-2020] (Rum Bar Records)Chris Church - 05 I Think I Think I Like You [Radio Transient] (Big Stir Records)The Successful Failures - 06 It Is The Rain [Wrong Together] (@FDR Music)]@Cherry Fez - 06 It Wasn't Meant To Be [Honeycomb Tearoom]Phil Angotti - 10 I Don't Know [Once Around Again]The Shang Hi Los - Stay [Kick It Like A Wicked Bad Habit] (Rum Bar Records)Maryen Cairns - 03 Mary Reibey [Seven Songs from Seven Albums]Ryan Hamilton with @Jessie Wagner - 05 On The Edge [Haunted By The Holy Ghost] (Wicked Cool Records)@Dropkick - 05 It Could Finally Happen [The Wireless Revolution]Floral Portrait - 07 Sunset Stroll [Floral Portrait]

Frank Orrall is the creative head of long-running, and currently Chicago-based, alternative music collective Poi Dog Pondering, who self-released Keep On Loving Each Other earlier this year. CHIRP DJ and Features contributor Mike Nikolich caught up with Frank to talk about his band's latest album, their journey to Chicago from Hawaii, and how his diverse influences have impacted the band's sonic evolution over time. "All of a sudden, there were people, from Europe mostly, but [elsewhere as well], they were adopting acoustic instruments but with a punk mentality, and that's really how we started. Early on, people would say, "Oh, [you're] kind of a Neofolk band." But we weren't looking at it that way." - Frank Orrall, on the origins of Poi Dog Pondering's sound. Produced by Mike Nikolich Photo Credit: Frank Orrall

Frank Orrall of Poi Dog Pondering joins me for a chat at award-winning distillery, FEW Spirits (918 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL).   Poi Dog started 2023 off with their tenth full-length album, “Keep On Loving Each Other.” The messages within are exactly what we all need to hear at this point in our shared history… and the songwriting and musicianship are world class.   Frank and I talked through most of the songs on the new album, as well as plenty of other topics. He's an absolute delight, and it was a pleasure to chat with him again. __ Car Con Carne is sponsored by Suburban Roofing and Siding, a family-owned company that provides interior and exterior home remodeling services, offering services to the Chicagoland area. Their staff has more than 40 years of collective experience.   Roofing, siding, windows, gutters...they do it all! Call their friendly team to get started today!    Call 224-677-6149 or visit SuburbanRoofingandSiding.com   __   Car Con Carne is also sponsored by Ninety Days in the 90s: A Rock N Roll Time Travel Story    Ninety Days in the 90s: A Rock N Roll Time Travel Story is the ultimate novel about the '90s and Chicago's music scene.   Join record store owner Darby on her trip back to 1990s Chicago as she jumps on the Grey Line to time travel back to her carefree twenties, soaking up all the pop culture and rock n roll nostalgia you could ever imagine.    https://90daysinthe90s.com/  

Violin virtuoso Susan Voelz recently released a fantastic album, “Trust the Waves Will Hold You,” a collection of unreleased Poi Dog Pondering songs that she fleshed out and made whole. Discussed in this episode: *Background on “Trust the Waves Will Hold You” *The “gateway drug” that is the song “Oyster” (listen to this as soon as you can; you'll love it) *The appeal of the violin, and what it might take to broaden it *The impact of Chicago on Poi Dog Pondering *The creative and friendly relationships that drive Poi Dog *Susan's next solo release (it sounds super cool) __   Car Con Carne is sponsored by Ninety Days in the 90s: A Rock N Roll Time Travel Story. It's the ultimate novel about the '90s and Chicago's music scene.   Join record store owner Darby on her trip back to 1990s Chicago as she jumps on the Grey Line to time travel back to her carefree twenties, soaking up all the pop culture and rock n roll nostalgia you could ever imagine.    Get a signed copy at 90daysinthe90s.com

Welcome back my friends to Ep. 151 of the InObscuria Podcast! This week your rock n' roll grave robbers once again explore all things FUNKY! Let your body move and your asses groove as we get down with some badass funk rock! So cut your lava lamps on, slip into some velvet and your highest platform boots, and jump on the train! Can u dig it?!What is it that we do here at InObscuria? Besides eating poptarts, we exhume obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. In this episode we take a listen to all 3, as we move n' groove our way through funk-infused rock n' roll. This genre has a special meaning to the hosts, as they themselves have dabbled in this funkdafied landscape throughout their musical journeys. Songs this week include:Butterbrain – “Family” from Butterbrain(2007)Dumpstaphunk – “United Nations Stomp” from Where Do We Go From Here (2021) Ugly Kid Joe – “It's A Lie” from Motel California(1996)Ugly Americans – “Captain Lubritron” from Stereophonic Spanish Fly (1996)Thelonious Funk – “Holy Water” from Renaissance EP (2020)Electric Boys – “The Sky Is Crying” from Groovus Maximus(1992)Yolk – “Carpet” from Caution: Social Prescriptions May Cause Side-Effects (1995)Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/inobscuria/og-shopCheck out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/

Author Grady Hendrix dropped in on The Record Player for what became one of our favorite chats to date. Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson is the album that Grady brought along to discuss with Jeff and Matt.Released in 1990, Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye features an all-star cast including R.E.M., the Jesus and Mary Chain, Poi Dog Pondering, John Wesley Harding, Julian Cope, ZZ Top, Bongwater, Butthole Surfers and many others. They all pooled their musical talents in support of Austin singer-songwriter Roky Erickson (13th Floor Elevators) who was dealing with hard times. The album helped to spark a renaissance for his career, with Erickson eventually making his return to recording and playing live. Producer Bill Bentley revisited his experiences of working on Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye in a 2017 article celebrating a vinyl release of the compilation. He went on to mount a second tribute to Erickson which was released on Light in the Attic in 2021.About Grady:Grady Hendrix used to be a journalist, which means that he was completely irrelevant and could be killed and turned into food at any time. He is one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival, but he is not responsible for the bad parts of it. For years he was a regular film critic for the New York Sun but then it went out of business. He has written for Playboy Magazine, Slate, The Village Voice, the New York Post, Film Comment, and Variety. He has a hard time making up his mind.He is very, very beautiful, but if you ever meet him, please do not let this make you uncomfortable. He does not judge.The New Yorker once ran a short profile of him, and this means that when the time comes and they are lining people up for the Space Arks he will be guaranteed a seat ahead of you.Okay, so you can read everything in full at Grady's website. He's a funny guy. A number of his books have been optioned for movies and television, including My Best Friend's Exorcism, which you can now watch on Amazon Prime and he's got a new book coming in early 2023, which we discuss briefly in our conversation.The Record Player:Please rate and review our podcast wherever you might be listening. It all helps and we appreciate your ears and thoughts!If you're enjoying these episodes, please consider joining our Patreon. Become a member of the Record Club to receive early access to our conversations, plus bonus interviews and additional materials related to the program. Thanks so much for your support!

Glass Eye represented the very best of what Austin, TX had to offer, which at the time also included “SNAP!” staples like the Reivers, the Wild Seeds, and Poi Dog Pondering. And whenever Glass Eye came to L.A., Deirdre welcomed them with open arms and a sincere appreciation of their own bent nature. Their third session from February 1990 captures the band at its zenith: a tightly-coiled blast of nervous energy, delivering their best performance yet.

Drummer Steve Goulding has brought his crisp, distinct style to more great songs than you may realize. As a member of Graham Parker and the Rumour, he played on Howlin' Wind through the classic Squeezing Out Sparks. He demonstrated his reggae chops on Elvis Costello's “Watching the Detectives” and powered Nick Lowe's Jesus of Cool/Pure Pop for Now People while earning a songwriting credit on “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass.” He had one high-profile performance with David Bowie, and since the mid-‘80s, with a break and a Poi Dog Pondering stint thrown in there, he has been driving the many beats of the Mekons. Goulding takes us through the up and downs, breakups and reunions, colorful personalities and overbearing producers, with great humor, candor and, of course, a steady hand.

02:27 - Beyonce 03:27 - Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, PA (Nancy Wilson) 04:10 - Freedom Theater, Philadelphia, PA (Black Nativity) 04:30 - Prince Theater, Philadelphia, PA (Me and Mrs. Jones/Lou Rawls) 04:54 - WXPN-FM, Live@the World Cafe, Philadelphia, PA (David Dye) 05:13 - King Sunny Ade, Bobby Caldwell, Bell Biv DeVoe, Karla Bonoff, Boney James 07:03 - Weezer/Pixies 07:20 - The Soundstage - Baltimore, MD 08:30 - Facebook Events 09:22 - Groupon (Todrick Hall/Prince Tribute Band/Heart/Weezer/Pixies) 10:01 - City Winery, Philadelphia, PA (Bokante/Roosevelt Collier) 10:35 - The Peabody, Baltimore, MD 10:40 - John Hopkins, Baltimore, MD 10:43 - Ram Head Inn, Annapolis, MD 10:56 - The Power Plant, Baltimore, MD 11L44 - Genesis (without Peter Gabriel) 11:54 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (Genesis) 12:41 - Janet Jackson 12:50 - KRS-1, Taylor Swift 13:32 - Insta-charge 13:44 - Rams Head Inn, Annapolis, MD 14:16 - Royal Farms Civic Center, Baltimore, MD 14:54 - Paul McCartney 17:17 - Steven Tyler 18:05 - Baltimore Blues Society 18:20 - Ultra Nate' - Deep Sugar Parties 19:29 - Genesis (without Peter Gabriel) 24:29 - The Hamilton, Washington DC 25:13 - Downtown Silver Springs, MD 24:43 - The 9:30 Club, Washington DC (Agnes Obel) 25:59 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (Capital Jazz Festival/Isaac Hayes) 29:05 - Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA (Sonny Rollins) 29:08 - The Dell East, Philadelphia, PA (The Dells) 29:14 - Live @ the World Cafe', Philadelphia, PA (Angelic Kidjo) 29:34 - Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA (Hall & Oates) 29:57 - Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA (Ornette Coleman) 34:06 - Meet Up 35:15 - Steely Dan 35:30 - Ryan Adams 35:35 - Paul McCartney 36:53 - The Cars 37:16 - The Hamilton, Washington DC (Shemekia Copeland) 39:20 - The Counting Crows 40:06 - The Philadelphia Phillies 40:12 - War 40:56 - The Dell East, Philadelphia, PA (The Dells) 42:36 - Prince/The Time/Vanity 6 45:46 - Caesar's Casino and Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey (Natalie Cole) 45:57 - The Tower Theater, Philadelphia, PA (Natalie Cole) 46:50 - Set List.com (Jeff Warehime/Paul McCartney/Hershey Park, Hershey, PA) 48:21 - John Legend/Sade/My Friend Al 49:30 - The 9:30 Club, Washington, DC (Living Colour) 50:29 - Poi Dog Pondering, Los Lobos, Kathleen Edwards, Todrick Hall 51:00 - Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Ray Charles, James Brown, George Clinton, Mick Jagger, Elton John 51:42 - Smokey Robinson, Candi Staten, Ben E King, Gladys Knight 52:37 - The Gettysburg Movie Theater, Gettysburg, PA (Beverly Hills Cop 2) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/somethingcame-from-baltim/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/somethingcame-from-baltim/support

Max Crawford has been a revered and respected member of the Chicago entertainment community for over 30 years. He's a sought after trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist who's played with Wilco, Poi Dog Pondering, Archer Prewitt, The Waco Brothers, Scott Lucas & The Married Men, and even Willie Nelson. He's also a long time bartender at the Metro — perhaps you've been served by him once or twice at a show. And oh, yeah! He also helps operate the scoreboard at Wrigley Field. He's a goddamn Chicago treasure and we were thrilled to have him on the podcast. And then Gabe asked him a question…

WGN Radio's Dave Plier talks to Frank Orrall and Dag Juhlin of Poi Dog Pondering about their return to Ravinia and their upcoming album.

This one is for all you baseball fans. Josh Kantor is a former Chicago resident and current organist for the Boston Red Sox. CHIRP DJ and Features contributor Mike Nikolich caught up with Josh to talk about the saga that resulted in him becoming the owner of Nacy Faust's organ, an instrument that she used to delight White Sox fans for many many years. The story starts with an auction and culminates in a cross-country tour featuring Kelly Hogan of the Decemberists, Max Crawford of Poi Dog Pondering and Robbie Fulks player Gerald Dowd. Also in this interview, Mike and Josh cover Josh's work with Hot Stove Cool Music and his many rock band side projects. "Keep the repertoire current, keep updating, keep learning the new pop songs, it's more work than just kind of sticking to what you already know. But it's well worth it." - Josh Kantor Produced by Mike Nikolich Image: Adam Glanzman

Set sail on Episode 13, Season 1 of the Love Boat, the worlds greatest romantic comedy drama television series of all time! In this episode we follow an all star cast that includes Bob Crane, Kathy Bates, Dori Brenner, David White, Robert Hayes, John Rubenstein, Rosemary DeCamp, Don Defore and Bruce Solomon as they deal with emotional reunions, undeserved opportunities, imposters, cosmic c@#k blocks, and inappropriate kisses. See Ryan Murphy live with Poi Dog Pondering at Ravinia in Chicago on July 23. Find show dates and more here: http://www.platetectonicmusic.com/ We also encourage everyone to find our Instagram page Lovin' The Love Boat to enjoy the super cool video messages from Isaac himself Mr. Ted Lange! And much more. Thanks for listening to the podcast and joining us on this voyage and by all means consider subscribing to the show as well as Paramount+ so you can watch the episode with us. We promise you'll be glad that you did. * Be sure to check out Istvan's other amazing podcast for kids and families, Istvan's Imaginary Podcast available everywhere podcasts are found. * Find and Follow our new Instagram profile here: @lovin_the_love_boat * And follow Istvan on Instagram: @iamistvan or on his website: www.istvansongs.com

Nick talks with musician Dag Juhlin about his work with bands, The Slugs, Poi Dog Pondering, and Sunshine Boys, his history with music, podcasts, TV, voice-overs, and more. Then Esmeralda Leon joins Nick to talk more about 90's movie songs, scary and gross food facts, and they taste test Barf Flavored Lollipops. And Nick's Dad Tells a Joke. [EP45]

As broadcast April 6, 2022 with plenty of beach vibes for the podcast trip in your mind to The Mighty Pacific.  Tonight we took our 2nd Round Trip with Dunia on flight TD068 with a trip to the Fijian capital of Suva, so to warm up we played a ton of chill beach vibes and lots of tunes from big names in the Pacific Islands, not just Fiji.  This one is especially for the silent pandemic victims who've just been stuck at work for over 3 years now with no travel whatsoever like us in the booth tonight.#feelthegravityTracklisting:Part I (00:00)The Electric Peanut Butter Company – DreamsLord Echo – Rhythm 77Liz Damon's Orient Express – Woota (Feelin' Good)Khruangbin – Time (You and I)Hot Rain – HawaiiCommon Kings – Lost In ParadisePart II (31:24)Jeremy Passion – LemonadeThe Beautiful Girls – La Mar (The Ocean)Surfaces – Palm TreesKolohe Kai – Ehu GirlThe Black Seeds – Cool Me DownFrank Orrall - Never Trade These Days Part III (68:00)Elena Baravilala - Keep On WalkingNatalie Raikadroka – Ciqomi AuJesswar (feat Pink Matter) – VenomFiji – Hey GirlSaimone Vuatalevu - Tucake MaiSakiusa Bulicokocoko – Sa I Levuka Ga Part IV (99:44)Paulini - Rough DaySantigold – Creator (vs Switch & Freq Nasty)Sakiusa Bulicokocoko - Lik Lik Tin FishCommon Kings – Today's A New Day feat MAYDAYLeessang (feat Ali)- BallerinoBAECHIGI – 마이 동풍 

For this episode of the Poverty Research and Policy Podcast, we hear from Professor Amy Castro about the concept of Basic Income, and what she and her team are learning from data coming in from pilot projects around the country.  Professor Castro is Founding Director of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research and an Assistant Professor of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. --- Transcript:  Judith Siers-Poisson: Hello, and thanks for joining us for the poverty research and policy podcast from the Institute for research on poverty at the university of Wisconsin-Madison. I'm Judith Siers-Poisson. For this episode we are going to be talking with Professor Amy Castro about the concept of Basic Income, and what she and her team are learning from data coming in from pilot projects around the country.  Professor Castro is Founding Director of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research and an Assistant Professor of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Castro, Thanks for joining us today. Amy Castro: Thanks for having me. Siers-Poisson: What do we mean when we talk about a guaranteed income? What is it and what is it not? Castro: Yeah, it's a great question because there's a lot of terms that are floating out there in the public imagination that also in the literature. So, there's three basic terms that pertain to this body of work. First is UBI or Universal Basic Income, and that's the one that people are probably the most familiar with given Andrew Yang's presidential run. UBI is exactly what it sounds like. It's universal. It's an unconditional amount of cash that goes to every single person in a city, a state, a town, a county, whatever that jurisdiction may be. We actually have not had a UBI experiment here in the United States because obviously universality know would apply to everybody. We have not had that yet. Second is basic income. Basic income is again an unconditional amount of cash that is given to a group of people, and it's enough to cover your basic needs. The third category, which is primarily what I study, is guaranteed income. It's not enough money to cover your basic needs but is a fixed amount of cash that's recurring, so you can rely on that money coming each month each week, whatever that cadence may be. And I think that's key about all three of these categories. A characteristic that carries across all is the unconditional nature of it, meaning you receive that cash because you're human, you don't receive that cash because you fit a means test criteria or because you are doing something like participating in a workforce force training program or a financial literacy program. You receive that cash because you are because you exist. And that's really the ethos behind guaranteed income or basic income. Siers-Poisson: And it seems like that point is what distinguishes it from, say, what people used to lump under the umbrella of welfare in the past. Castro: Exactly. And I think that that's why, you know, on the one hand, people are so excited about this idea. And then on the other hand, why there is so much backlash, right, is that we truly are talking about giving away money, no strings attached. And traditionally here in the United States, when we talk about the provision of cash or goods to people who are struggling to make ends meet, we layer it with all sorts of restrictions as to how that money can be spent and who can have access to it. And what's attached to those restrictions are social constructions ideas that are not rooted in reality, they're rooted in ideology most of the time around race, class, gender, marital status. And they're used as ways to shame and blame people who access these programs. And it really serves as a social deterrent for people to access them. In contrast, basic income or guaranteed income functions completely differently. If you're enrolled in one of these programs or pilots, you receive it because you're human. And the idea is that people know best what they need and what their households need. And secondly, if we think about need, right? So like financial scarcity or financial need, needs fluctuate from month to month and cash is the only benefit that's flexible. So if needs are flexible, we want to have something that's dynamic to match it. And cash is really the only thing that does that in comparison to something like food stamps or SNAP, which can only be used for restricted items such as food that fits a pre-set list that's set by a bureaucrat. Siers-Poisson: So you just explained that this goes to people because they're people, not because they qualify in some way, but then who was targeted for these guaranteed income programs? Castro: Yeah, it's a great question. So, you know, it's a fancy way of saying it would be what is the recruitment criteria, right? Because we're running experiments scientifically. So we are designing and studying these programs to see what happens when you provide people the money. So one of the big questions that we get any time we're running a new pilot—and right now we're running or at various stages of running twenty-eight pilots across the US at my center—is who gets the money right? And so that's a complicated process that for us happens across three different sets of stakeholders. First, we have our community-based stakeholders, which is what the community wants to set as far as eligibility criteria. Second, you know, elected officials who may or may not be working with us and that are really spearheading the program and helping to kind of get it off the ground. And then third, those of us within the research space trying to determine how do we best leverage this project to answer research questions so that we are informing policy with data. So that recruitment criteria really varies for us from state to state and from location to location. I would say the majority of the projects we're working on right now are focused on people who are struggling to make ends meet. Oftentimes, they have children in the household, and oftentimes there are people who have had some type of a pandemic-related incident with their work: their hours being cut, something to that effect. But that's a general statement of each pilot is slightly different. Siers-Poisson: I want to get into the nuts and bolts of how this works, but first, I want to touch on something that you just said and that's getting feedback from the communities that you are in. And I think that especially the communities that we're talking about are communities that have maybe historically been treated with less respect in the ways that they are given support or help, if they are at all. When you also layer on things like systemic racism and the history of understandable distrust of systems, how do you go in and build those relationships that are necessary to have any hope of being successful? Castro: That's such a great question. You know, first I'll own, before I say how, and sort of jump to say how we resolve that problem, or we try to resolve that problem, because I'm by no means saying that we fix it. The first thing I just want to own is that, you know, as a scientist and as somebody who has social work training, this is the hardest part of my job. You know, it's really easy as a scientist to stay in a position of control. And that's how we're trained, is that you hold your research design so tightly. You are the expert, you know, best it needs to happen. You determine the hypotheses, you determine the design and it is in your hands. And it is very comforting, right? You can lean back into your methods training, lean back into your degree, lean back into your institution or your brand, and label yourself as the expert and that feels very safe. But the more you involve the community in your design, the more you are letting go of really being in control. So when we think about the posture of science and the posture of how we engage with community stakeholders, it's crucial that we sort of hold our integrity as a scientist in one hand while on the other hand, being willing to relinquish control to some degree to involve community voice in the process. And when we look back through social science, we see, you know, decades of places where we've been unwilling to do this and we start measuring things, designing programs and policies, without the community input. And then we wonder why it doesn't work. This happened with TANF, or Welfare to Work as we designed this program, assuming it would work without bothering to think, “Hey, what happens if you expect the mom to work and take three busses to get to the other side of a city?” That literally makes absolutely no sense, right? So I will say that at the outset, it's the most rewarding part of what I do. It's also the most terrifying because it means I'm not in a position of control. As far as how we resolve it, there's no way to do it that's going to make everyone happy. I'll own that from the start. But a couple key steps. First is making certain that we are involving ourselves from the very beginning of a project with community-based stakeholders and organizations who know their community well. So this means doing that legwork of meeting with CBOs, nonprofits, and also the constituents themselves and the people who receive benefits from those programs to understand best how a program ought to be designed. So in some cases, we involve people in giving us feedback on how we design that recruitment criteria, or another way of putting it who gets the money, and getting that feedback. And then crucially, another way that we involve community stakeholders is in release of findings. So in Stockton, for instance, all of that data that's been released on spending that people can see, that is seen by a group of focus groups of community stakeholders that are not elected officials, that are not people in power. They're regular humans who get to see that data first and work with us to think about how we display this data to the public. Siers-Poisson: So let's get down to those nuts and bolts of how these programs work. First of all, how is the amount decided on? You did say that guaranteed income is not supposed to provide for all expenses, but even given that, it seems like the cost of living in different parts of the country or even parts of a state would need to be taken into consideration. So how do you find that that amount that is going to give you some kind of results that mean something? Castro: That's a great question, and it's one of our most vexing open research questions. So first, Stockton was set at $500 a month. The rationale behind that $500 a month is that the question of whether or not you can absorb a $400 unexpected shock or financial emergency is a standard question or threshold within economic mobility research and something that's standard in a lot of our large datasets. So it sort of made sense to start there. A lot of other cities who have built on the Stockton model have kind of just lifted that amount of money because that's what Stockton did. We have very limited control as to deciding the disbursement amount. And of course, those things are also restricted by the amount of funds that are available to a given pilot. However, some of our larger places and bigger cities with higher cost of living like, for instance, the L.A. area, we're talking about $1,000 a month. So it's really an open question for research and for policy as to how should we adjust unconditional cash based on cost of living. It's not something we have a good answer to yet, and I'm hoping that we will within the next three or four years because, yeah, cost of living is different from one state to the next, from one city to the next. And that's absolutely something that needs to be taken into consideration when we're talking about moving from pilot to policy. Siers-Poisson:  So Stockton, which is the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, or SEED, I believe, as you said, that was the first pilot of this specific type of guaranteed income program. How did it come about? Why Stockton? Castro: So it's incredibly interesting. So first, Mayor Michael Tubbs really spearheaded the launch of that project in partnership with Economic Security Project. So Economic Security Project or ESP, which is headed up by Chris Hughes, former cofounder of Facebook, and Natalie Foster, they had been sort of looking for a city that was interested in potentially testing this idea. Now everyone is kind of running to try find a basic income pilot but go back to 2017, 2018, people are like “you are crazy. You're going to give people money? No strings attached? That's absolutely nuts.” And here's Mayor Tubbs, who you know is, I believe the youngest, if not one of the youngest, who's 26 years old, elected as mayor in Stockton. You know, Stockton had nowhere to go but up. They had experienced the worst that capitalism has to offer. They were once the foreclosure capital of the United States, while also absorbing the cost of housing from the bay area. So it made it sort of an ideal spot to test this idea because one, you had a mayor who was interested and willing to try anything right, willing to take the risk. But second, it really is a bellwether location. And when we think about sort of the way that risky lending has really dismantled the middle class and resulted in tremendous losses in wealth, particularly for, you know, Black and Brown households, Stockton was an ideal place to test policy proof of concept because it really kind of fit that Venn diagram of all these, these different forces that are really contributed to the loss of wealth, the United States. Siers-Poisson: So you had, I think it's fair to say, a visionary young mayor who was interested in trying this. So where did the money come from? Castro: The money came from two kind of different categories. So first, you have the disbursement money, so the money that actually goes to the people. That funding came primarily from the Economic Security Project, along with a number of other philanthropists who donated, smaller family foundations, and also some individual donors. And then the science—this is crucial because this is a model that we, we maintain across all the things that we're working on—the funding for the science came from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. And so we really like to keep a strong firewall between those two sides. So there's not coercion. So, RWJF, you know, really to their credit, specifically, the evidence for action arm of RWJ, really took a chance on our project and funded the research side. So the evaluation dollars were coming from sort of that traditional form of funding. Siers-Poisson: And so how many people were enrolled, and do you think of them as people or as households? Castro: Oh, great question. Yeah. So we tend to talk about sort of the findings at a household level simply because that's how people live, right? They live in networks, they live in households, but the money is not going to specific household, it's going to a specific individual in the household. So we had 125 people in the treatment group, which is another way of saying the people who got the $500. And then we also had a control group who were taking all the same surveys, participating in the same interviews as the treatment group, but not getting the cash so we could compare one group to the other. Siers-Poisson: When did it start and how far along are you now? Castro: So the research ran for two years. Our last payment was in February of this year. So we had one full year of pre-pandemic data or disbursements and then one year of payments during the pandemic or after. We've only released the first-year findings. The second-year findings, that is the total findings, will be released to the public in late spring of 2022. Siers-Poisson: What were the key findings from that first year in Stockton? Castro: So we really saw changes in three key areas. First was income volatility. One of our driving research questions is can guaranteed income disrupt income volatility, which is your money going up and down each month, which really locks people out of financial instruments and being able to plan for the future. We saw less income volatility in those who were in the treatment group in comparison to control after one year. We saw that that sort of stabilization in family finances allowed families to plan for the future. So in the treatment group, after one year, we saw that monthly income volatility really dropped. And one of the ways that we look at that is asking this question: “Can you pay for unexpected $400 emergency expense with cash?” At the beginning of the experiment, in the treatment group, only 25% said that they could do that, along with the control. And after one year, those receiving the cash, 52% of them said they could absorb a $400 unexpected shock, while only 28% of those in control said that. Now this finding is really important because on the face of it sort of obvious, right? If you give people more money, they're going to have more money. But what's key to understand about this is two things. First, that liquidity in the household allowed people to both plan while also absorb the unexpected things that happen to all of us: the flat tire, the missed shift at work, the unexpected copay, which then tends to spill over in a household and cause strain elsewhere in the budget. Second, that liquidity was really pooled across fragile family networks, such that stabilizing those resources in one household actually had a spillover effect into other families where they normally would borrow money and food for those households, which is really key and interesting. And then the second area that we saw big shifts was in our second research question, which was ‘How do changes in income volatility impact health and well-being?” And what we found was that people receiving the cash were less anxious and depressed, both over time and compared to the control group. They reported improved emotional health and well-being, energy over fatigue, again, both over time compared to the control group. Now key, Judith, it's still staggering for me to even think that this is one of research findings is that at the beginning of the experiment, almost everyone in treatment control met the clinical criteria for either anxiety or depression, as measured by some pretty standard measures that we all use at the doctor's office. Most of us have taken these. And so what we saw was that after one year, we saw that treatment group move from meeting that clinical criteria for mild mental health disorder into the category of likely to be well, and that did not happen in the control group. And all we did was provide people with unconditional cash, which is fairly extraordinary. Then finally, our last question was “How is guaranteed income generate agency over one's future? Are we seeing people have greater control and self-determination?” And the biggest finding that we had here was around employment. So, you know, we've talked a lot about assumptions around poverty, and those are certainly very politically driven. And one of the criticisms we often get is “well if you give people cash, they're going to stop working and they'll just quit their jobs en masse,” which is kind of silly if you think about it, because you can't live off of $500 a month anywhere, let alone California. And what we saw in the treatment group was that at baseline, 28% of people in the treatment group were fully employed and after one year, 40% were fully employed, and we did not see that same shift in the control group. Literally the opposite of what politically we're told will happen if you give people cash. And again, when we leaned into our mixed methods design and followed up with qualitative data to understand, OK, how did this happen and why? It was really interesting. Two things that happened first was that the cash removed material barriers to seeking employment that people could not address prior. So in many instances, people who moved from knitting together multiple part-time jobs to one full-time job literally couldn't take a shift off of work to even apply for another job, and the cash allowed them to do that. So it removed some material barriers: cost of transportation, being able to skip work. So if you think about it, it takes time to apply for full-time jobs and you're not guaranteed that you're going to get it. And there's also that protracted period of going through H.R., resigning one position and starting another. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, you literally don't have time to do that because financial scarcity generates time scarcity. And so really, removing those material barriers allowed people to apply for positions that they knew they were eligible for and just couldn't didn't have the time to do. Second was an increased capacity for risk taking. So what we saw was several months into that first year of treatment, as people's anxiety dropped, as their scarcity dropped, they had more bandwidth to breathe and really plan for the future. So being able to set certain goals for themselves and take risks knowing that they had the cash to fall back on. So those are both a material thing, you know, as well as a cognitive capacity thing and really sort of being able to reimagine what they wanted for their future. Siers-Poisson: You were able to see how people were using the money by tracking the purchases. And actually, we should say people received the funds on a monthly basis and a debit card, right? Castro: Correct. So in Stockton, the $500 was disbursed each month on a prepaid debit card. So that debit card was reloaded each month right in the middle of the month, and we chose that date. I think it's a crucial thing that gets lost oftentimes in kind of the excitement around guaranteed income is the timing of the money. So most social safety net programs, specifically SNAP benefits or food stamps, they run out by the second or third week of the month. And so what you see is food security at the front of the end of the month and by the end of the month, families are really scraping to get by and having to borrow from friends and family simply to feed their kids. So we intentionally chose the middle of the month, you know, we're really looking to disrupt income volatility, your finances going up and down consistently within the home. So that was kind of chosen to smooth that piece over. Siers-Poisson: So what have you learned from the format of this, that on a debit card, you can see exactly where money was being spent and how much? What are you seeing? Castro: First, I'll say, what's happening with the spending data or how people are using the money, is not one of our primary research questions. We don't really care. I have to be totally honest with you. I mean, how people spend the money is not a research focus of ours. We're far more interested in how spending the money impacts people's lives and impacts their health and well-being. However, again, we echo back to what I said prior. The community is certainly interested in how the money is spent. And when we talked with those focus groups, specifically a group of housing activists who live in Section 8  housing, they were insistent. I mean, absolutely insistent that we were release spending data. And when we asked them why, rather than saying it was because they thought it should be monitored, it was because they had such faith in how people who looked like them would spend it. They said, “No, we want the world to see exactly what it's like to struggle to make ends meet. And we know exactly how low-income moms and dads are going to spend this money,” which is why we took that step. So, you know, the thing around on the spending data first, you know, most of the money went to food. So approximately 40% of the money that's tracked each month on that debit card went directly toward food purchases. And then the next category after that, I believe, was big box stores. And we're talking about things like utilities. Now key, a large portion of the money was transferred off of the card each month into cash or into other bank accounts. And this is the beauty of a mixed-methods design is you can follow up with families to determine why they did that. So when we followed up with people to sort of figure out like, “Hey, what's this about transferring the money into cash,” it was really interesting. Several things first, like I said before, Stockton experienced the worst the capitalism has to offer. They were targeted consistently for risky lending schemes. They still are. Scams are really prevalent in the community, so they had no reason to trust us whatsoever. So the community is sitting there like “I'm constantly targeted with risky things. Why would I trust you?” So people would quickly move the money off the card into an account that they know and that they trust where it felt safer. And then also, you know, a lot of folks are still conducting their everyday lives in cash. So spreading cash around family networks, paying babysitters, things to that effect. Siers-Poisson: I wanted to go back to that focus group being adamant about releasing those results because I'm guessing that they, and other people who are living similar lives to theirs, are very aware of those critics. The people who say, you know, they can't be trusted, they're going to spend it on alcohol and drugs. Do you think that was part of it too? Not just that they were confident that their cohort was going to spend it responsibly, but they wanted to be able to show people like, “Look, this is who we are, not who you think we are.” Castro: Yeah, that's a beautiful way of putting it. I mean, without question, is that they really wanted people to see, you know, so less than 1% of the money on the card that's tracked each month, meaning sort of those merchant codes, these are the same codes that we all have on a normal debit card, you know, went to alcohol and cigarettes. Now, is it possible that people pulled the money out in cash and actually spent some money? Yeah, I'm sure they did. You know, like I bought wine last night, like, don't we all do this? This is a whole kind of point of giving money—that they can be human. But yeah, like they were adamant that they wanted people to see what it was like and they were really clear. And saying, “there are these stereotypes that people have about families who are struggling to make ends meet, and this is a chance for us to show the world really that what it's like to be me.” And I have to say, that group was not just that group, but there are several that we worked with. The challenge of relinquishing control and giving them a true voice in the process has been one of the best decisions we ever could have made as a research team because I wouldn't have chosen to do that. I'd have just chosen to leave it be, not talk about it, not step out into that space. And they really have the confidence and the boldness to say that that we had an ethical obligation to do so. And I think they were right. Siers-Poisson: Have you seen any negative effects in in the data? Have there been any unintended consequences that you, you wish hadn't happened? Castro: That's a great question. Some of that we'll be talking about more as we release the full report. I'd say the number one sort of unintended consequence that would definitely have a negative impact has been interaction with benefits. So this is not just been true in Stockton, this has been true across all the other pilots that we're working with is that within the United States, our social safety net is very punitive. We have something called a benefits cliff, which means that for every dollar that somebody receives, we pull back some of their benefits. So families constantly are in this horrific calculation. “If I take this, you know, I want to take this extra shift at work because I need the cash and because I don't want to lose my job. But if I do that, I might lose my benefits.” And so you're constantly making this calculation, which leaves over less cognitive capacity for other things like goal setting and well-being. That's one issue. But second, it means that families are constantly trapped or penalizing them for working more. So what this meant in Stockton and across all these unconditional cash experiments is that we sometimes have to tailor our recruitment criteria and design to make sure that people aren't losing benefits. So we in many instances where people were randomized into the treatment group to receive the $500 they showed up for the onboarding. They went through the informed consent process and realized, “I'm at way too high of a risk for losing my health insurance, or my housing voucher or my SSI,” and just felt like “I'm too vulnerable. I can't take the risk.” So that is an unintended consequence that we haven't resolved yet. We do our best, but it's one that we're consistently contending with, and it's incredibly frustrating. And what ends up happening is that all of our data is about the people who are willing to take that risk or who were able to take that risk versus those who were forced because of the benefits flip issue to not enroll in these experiments in the first place. Siers-Poisson: I have to say on a human level that I would assume that would be crushing to someone who thinks that they're going to be able to take part in this and then realize it's too much of a risk. Did you get any feedback on it? Castro: Oh man. Yeah. Yes and no. I mean, on one hand, yes, there's times it's crushing and right now my center is embarking on a huge clinical trial with low income cancer patients, and it's a far more vexing issue in that experiment than the other ones. So, yeah, like at times, it is totally crushing. I think what's even more sobering was that people weren't surprised. You know, those who had to decline or who didn't bother were like, “well, of course, the systems turned again. Why would this work in my favor? The world's not set up for me. I don't matter. Government doesn't see me.” It was like, “yeah, of course. Of course it went that way.” And so we had a little bit of both. Siers-Poisson:  One of the things that I was thinking about, especially when you said that the Stockton experiment dispersed its last round of funding earlier this year. Do we know what happens when a program ends and those people who for a couple of years have that regular influx of cash no longer has it? Castro:  Yeah, it's a great question. You know, it's something that we're still sort of obviously collecting data on for all the experiments that we run, we collect data for six months after and then in some cases, there's administrative data that goes on for many years. So I can't give sort of an empirical answer to that quite yet. What I will say is, from a values perspective, this was something that we had to resolve as a team when we were building out Stockton early on, and there really wasn't anything to go on and asking ourselves the question like, “what does it mean to extend hope to somebody and then pull it away?” Like, “How dare you?” Is that even just, is that ethical?” And when I felt caught on that and my team felt caught on that, we went to our Associate Dean of Research, Dr. Solomon, who's a brilliant social work researcher. And she kind of got in my face a little bit, honestly. And she said, “Amy, you are a social worker. What is wrong with you? If you trust people to spend the cash, and to be able to enroll in the experiment, programs are closing on folks all the time. You don't trust them to weather the end?” And it was one of the most profound things of mentorship that I could receive at that moment in time, because she really challenged my biases. Like, I had this bias like people couldn't handle it. And that's not to say that there's not harm that's caused when something ends. But, you know, what Dr. Solomon pointed out, was the poor constantly having things pulled out from underneath them. There's tremendous resilience there. How dare you assume that they'd be worse off? Why don't you wait and see what happens? So right now, we're waiting to see what happens. Siers-Poisson: You talked earlier about how much of a paradigm shift this is of giving people money, trusting them to spend it as they need. And to me, there's definitely an element of trying to restore some dignity to life for people who have, in many cases, had that taken away from them and respecting them and their choices. How do you see efforts like this working to change the narrative about people living in poverty? Castro: Oh, I mean, it's crucial. Right, so here's the thing scientists tell terrible stories, we're bad at it. If we were better at communicating with the public, people would be vaccinated and COVID would be a little less right now. Right. We're bad at telling stories, we're good at staying in our ivory towers and measuring things. To me, it is without question crucial that we that we deal with narrative. So when we look back throughout U.S. history, we know that when policy windows open and we design new poverty alleviation methods, or we design new policies that really move the needle, we have two things that happen. One, we have consensus on data. So we actually know how to design a good program based on what's happening. And that's colleague to colleague, data to data, right? But then second, we see a shift in public mood. And if you do not tackle that public narrative around deservedness, around shame, around blame and you don't deal with public mood, all you do is migrate shame, blame, and assumptions about race and class from one social program to the other. So one of my driving concerns right now, as guaranteed income programs and conversations take off across the country, is making certain that we are keeping our eye on that narrative change work and not assume that this is some sort of silver bullet that's going to get rid of hundreds of years of racism in the United States, because it's not going to. If we don't do that narrative change work, we're just going to migrate the myth of the welfare queen off of TANF and onto guaranteed income. How do we do that? We're still working on it. But what we do know is that privileging voice, privileging community voice in the process, definitely helps us with this, along with dealing with a lot of things like discourse analysis and leading into narratives and putting people's stories out there in the press and in measured ways where, you know, if you want to change the narrative, change the narrator. It doesn't need to be me being the one who's in front of the mic all the time telling those stories. Siers-Poisson: You said earlier that Stockton was the first pilot project, and there are so many more going on right now that you have a hard time keeping track of how many. So what does success look like as these programs are kind of mushrooming around the country? Castro: I mean, everybody sort of defines that a little bit differently. For us within the center, we define success as first of all, were we able to design and experiment with integrity? So were we able to answer the research questions that we set out to answer with the design that we implemented? That's first and foremost, success. Second, to answer on a values perspective, really, we're pretty clear about what we're trying to do. We want to see policies on unconditional cash. Now again, that is not a silver bullet. But what I think success would look like to us as a center is having policies and unconditional cash that are informed by science, informed by data, and not just informed by somebody's good idea. So for us, we really want to see this movement from pilot to policy, but that those policies are evidence based and that they're rooted in science and rooted in real people's lives. Siers-Poisson: Professor Castro, thanks so much for sharing your work with us, and we'll definitely be looking forward to talking about the results from that second year of Stockton. Castro: Yeah, happy to. Thanks for having me. Siers-Poisson: Thanks so much to Professor Amy Castro, Founding Director of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research and an Assistant Professor of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. If you would like to learn more about pilot programs around the country, check out the website for Mayors for a Guaranteed Income. That's at mayors for A-G-I dot org. The production of this podcast was supported in part by funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, but its contents don't necessarily represent the opinions or policies of that office, any other agency of the federal government, or the Institute for Research on Poverty. Music for the episode is by Poi Dog Pondering. Thanks for listening.  

Hello friends! Renowned bass player, singer-songwriter, Bruce Hughes returns to the show for episode 1118! You probably know Bruce as the blonde, curly-haired bass player with Bob Schneider, Poi Dog Pondering, The Resentments and Sly Curtis as well as his stints with Fastball, Jason Mraz, Cracker and many more. Bruce is also a prolific songwriter and is releasing his latest solo album, Late Night Polaroids on 1/21/22. The first single from the album, the infectious, "Sweet Children" is out now wherever you stream or download your jams. Go to brucehughes.com for music, videos and more. We have a great conversation about making Late Night Polaroids, songwriting, his history with The Resentments, Bob Schneider and Poi Dog Pondering, making videos, his time in the pandemic and much more. I always have a great time catching up with Bruce. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down! Get the chords and tabs for over a million songs at ultimate-guitar.com  If you feel so inclined. Venmo: www.venmo.com/John-Goudie-1  Paypal: paypal.me/johnnygoudie

Hello friends! Renowned bass player, singer-songwriter, Bruce Hughes returns to the show for episode 1118! You probably know Bruce as the blonde, curly-haired bass player with Bob Schneider, Poi Dog Pondering, The Resentments and Sly Curtis as well as his stints with Fastball, Jason Mraz, Cracker and many more. Bruce is also a prolific songwriter and is releasing his latest solo album, Late Night Polaroids on 1/21/22. The first single from the album, the infectious, "Sweet Children" is out now wherever you stream or download your jams. go to brucehughes.com for music, videos and more. We have a great conversation about making Late Night Polaroids, songwriting, his history with The Resentments, Bob Schneider and Poi Dog Pondering, making videos, his time in the pandemic and much more. I always have a great time catching up with Bruce. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down! Get the chords and tabs for over a million songs at ultimate-guitar.com  If you feel so inclined. Venmo: www.venmo.com/John-Goudie-1  Paypal: paypal.me/johnnygoudie

It's Independence Day Weekend, 1988. And Deirdre is celebrating the return of Glass Eye, her favorite independent act from Austin, Texas. They've just released their third album, “Bent By Nature.” But Deirdre's allegiance to the band went much deeper than a catchy title. For her, they represented the very best of what Austin had to offer, which at the time also included “SNAP!” staples like the Reivers, the Wild Seeds, and Poi Dog Pondering. Glass Eye's two principals, Kathy McCarty and Brian Beattie, say that whenever Glass Eye came to LA, Deirdre welcomed them with open arms and a sincere appreciation of their own bent nature.

02:27 - Beyonce 03:27 - Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, PA (Nancy Wilson) 04:10 - Freedom Theater, Philadelphia, PA (Black Nativity) 04:30 - Prince Theater, Philadelphia, PA (Me and Mrs. Jones/Lou Rawls) 04:54 - WXPN-FM, Live@the World Cafe, Philadelphia, PA (David Dye) 05:13 - King Sunny Ade, Bobby Caldwell, Bell Biv DeVoe, Karla Bonoff, Boney James 07:03 - Weezer/Pixies 07:20 - The Soundstage - Baltimore, MD 08:30 - Facebook Events 09:22 - Groupon (Todrick Hall/Prince Tribute Band/Heart/Weezer/Pixies) 10:01 - City Winery, Philadelphia, PA (Bokante/Roosevelt Collier) 10:35 - The Peabody, Baltimore, MD 10:40 - John Hopkins, Baltimore, MD 10:43 - Ram Head Inn, Annapolis, MD 10:56 - The Power Plant, Baltimore, MD 11L44 - Genesis (without Peter Gabriel) 11:54 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (Genesis) 12:41 - Janet Jackson 12:50 - KRS-1, Taylor Swift 13:32 - Insta-charge 13:44 - Rams Head Inn, Annapolis, MD 14:16 - Royal Farms Civic Center, Baltimore, MD 14:54 - Paul McCartney 17:17 - Steven Tyler 18:05 - Baltimore Blues Society 18:20 - Ultra Nate' - Deep Sugar Parties 19:29 - Genesis (without Peter Gabriel) 24:29 - The Hamilton, Washington DC 25:13 - Downtown Silver Springs, MD 24:43 - The 9:30 Club, Washington DC (Agnes Obel) 25:59 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (Capital Jazz Festival/Isaac Hayes) 29:05 - Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA (Sonny Rollins) 29:08 - The Dell East, Philadelphia, PA (The Dells) 29:14 - Live @ the World Cafe', Philadelphia, PA (Angelic Kidjo) 29:34 - Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA (Hall & Oates) 29:57 - Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA (Ornette Coleman) 34:06 - Meet Up 35:15 - Steely Dan 35:30 - Ryan Adams 35:35 - Paul McCartney 36:53 - The Cars 37:16 - The Hamilton, Washington DC (Shemekia Copeland) 39:20 - The Counting Crows 40:06 - The Philadelphia Phillies 40:12 - War 40:56 - The Dell East, Philadelphia, PA (The Dells) 42:36 - Prince/The Time/Vanity 6 45:46 - Caesar's Casino and Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey (Natalie Cole) 45:57 - The Tower Theater, Philadelphia, PA (Natalie Cole) 46:50 - Set List.com (Jeff Warehime/Paul McCartney/Hershey Park, Hershey, PA) 48:21 - John Legend/Sade/My Friend Al 49:30 - The 9:30 Club, Washington, DC (Living Colour) 50:29 - Poi Dog Pondering, Los Lobos, Kathleen Edwards, Todrick Hall 51:00 - Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Ray Charles, James Brown, George Clinton, Mick Jagger, Elton John 51:42 - Smokey Robinson, Candi Staten, Ben E King, Gladys Knight 52:37 - The Gettysburg Movie Theater, Gettysburg, PA (Beverly Hills Cop 2) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/somethingcame-from-baltim/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/somethingcame-from-baltim/support

Music aficionado Dag Juhlin of Poi Dog Pondering, The Sunshine Boys. Expo 76, Sonic 45 and ‘The Steve Dahl Podcast’ joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to break down this year’s inductees into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the glaring snubs over the years.

As broadcast April 7, 2021 with extra mileage for the podcast version of the show in hour 2.  In memory of Detroit native & long time Chicago resident Tim Baker, who passed away far too soon over the weekend.  Rest In Power, you will be sorely missed.  We marked Barbora's last night on our Round Trip Wednesdays with a reciporical trip to Chicago so Danno could show her around and reciporicate the first show where our Wednesday contributor showed us around.  Great trip through some early house music classics after the 7th anniversary of Frankie Knuckles passed on March 31.  We got in some blues as well and also noted some lesser-known more experimental crews that we like in part 2.  Bon voyage in Seoul, Barbora.  We will miss you dearly just like Frankie & Tim.#feelthegravityTracklisting:Part I (00:00)Frankie Knuckles – The House Music Anthem (12” vers)The Dells – No Way BackSkipworth & Turner – Thinking About Your LoveFirst Choice – Let No Man Put AsunderLoose Joints – Is It All Over My Face? (female vers) Part II (30:03)Buddy Guy – First Time I Met The BluesHowlin' Wolf – Red Rooster (alt vers)Chi-Lites – My First Mistake (Anthony Mansfield edit)Tim Baker – Zero GBeyond Luck feat Keter Darker – Nature's Meditation Larry Heard – Can You Feel It Part III (61:00)Robert Johnson - Sweet Home ChicagoEarl Hooker - Two Bugs and a RoachPoi Dog Pondering - All Saints Ascension (DJ Madrid & Peter Vogelaar remix)Poi Dog Pondering - rise up and walk Jamie Principle & Frankie Knuckles - Your LoveMr. Fingers -  Sands of Aruba Part IV (96:02)Cheeze - MangoJohn OFA Rhee - TO YOU FOR YOUBaekhyun ft Loco - YoungDEAN - instagramDEAN -  Bonnie & ClydeSURAN feat Changmo - WINE

Catch a “glimpse” of Sean Griffin's life (and hair) in his college days, when he saturated the soundwaves with anything but the top 40 during the heady hours of midnight-3AM daily. Sean is not only UUCC's Executive Director, he's also a devoted aficionado of indie, punk, and opera music. In this conversation, he shares memories from his college radio days with Sara and reflects on how music and the arts have connected and nourished him.  What Sean listened to back then Left Front Tire (leftfronttire.com) GWAR (gwar.net) Poi Dog Pondering (platetectonicmusic.com/poidogpondering) R.E.M. (remhq.com) Hootie & the Blowfish (hootie.com) Motörhead (imotorhead.com)    What Sean's listened to recently Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (nickcave.com) David Byrne (davidbyrne.com) Ray LaMontagne (raylamontagne.com) Madame Butterfly (metopera.org/discover/synopses/madama-butterfly) Turandot (metopera.org/discover/synopses/turandot)   Referenced in this episode Yes, David Byrne is really from Baltimore County! (baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-10-11-1997284003-story.html)  Sean's college radio station still exists, and you can still call the studio today (wusc.sc.edu) “Don't Give Up” (youtu.be/8LMB6K4rTGU) and “Let the Day Begin” (youtu.be/to2KasivROc) are great songs for cheering up late night callers who are having a tough time, according to Sean (trust him… he knows from experience

Vinyl Obscurities from: The Isley Bros.,The Tagues, The United Travel Service,P.C. Ltd., Carlo’s Crown Jewel,Cozy Cole, Piccadilly Circus,Cucumber Jackson, The Lemon Pipers,Circle Jerks, Poi Dog Pondering,and more! as broadcast livevia 6160kc sw 11-28-20

On this episode of The Children's Hour, we explore balloons! We learn what makes the drifting hot air balloons stay afloat in the sky, and we learn the history of how balloons came to be a mode of transportation. We also hear the Balloonist's Prayer, and we take a trip in a hot air balloon with one of our Kids Crew members. Plus, we visit with the artists behind Airigami, who make giant sculptures and even clothing out of latex balloons. The kids in the Extinction Diaries talk about what happens when people release helium balloons into nature. Finally we find out about those mysterious white balloons that appear all over the world every single day, high in the sky. All of this is mixed with great music from Steve Pullara, They Might Be Giants, Roger Day, Tom Paxton, Bill Oliver, Frances England, Elena Moon Park and Poi Dog Pondering. The Children's Hour is supported by the Cultural Services Department and the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund at the City of Albuquerque. This project is supported in part by an award from New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. We also have support from Electric Playhouse and numerous foundations also support our work including the Infinite Gesture Fund, The Limestone Fund, and The Laughing Buddha Fund. Thank you to our listeners who contribute to us through the Paypal Giving Fund, Paypal, and by subscribing to our podcasts on Patreon. start timeend timedurationtitleartistalbumlabel 10-03-2020 09:00:2010-03-2020 09:04:4104:21Big BalloonSteve Pullara And His Cool Beans BandSpinning Tails2003 Cool Beans Music 10-03-2020 09:06:2610-03-2020 09:09:0602:40Where Do They Make Balloons?They Might Be Giants (For Kids)No!2013 Idlewild Recordings 10-03-2020 09:13:0610-03-2020 09:15:3602:30Big BalloonRoger DayReady to Fly2001 Roger Day 10-03-2020 09:15:5110-03-2020 09:19:2003:29Jimmy's Big BalloonDave RudolfWestward Whoa!2005 Moneytree Records 10-03-2020 09:19:2010-03-2020 09:20:0000:40Up Up and AwayHugh Masekela20th Century Masters: The Best of Hugh MasekelaThis Compilation 2006 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. 10-03-2020 09:24:1710-03-2020 09:27:4103:24Any Way The Wind BlowsSeth Hoffman2009 Class CD2009 Seth Hoffman Music 10-03-2020 09:27:4110-03-2020 09:29:5102:10Balloon-Alloon-AlloonTom PaxtonI've Got a Yo-Yo2019 Pax Records 10-03-2020 09:37:2710-03-2020 09:40:1502:48Toribio the Clown Gets His Groove BackHip Hop HoodiosAgua Pa' la Gente2004 Jazzheads 10-03-2020 09:41:1510-03-2020 09:43:5502:40Don't Release That BalloonBill Oliver, Glen Waldeck & The Otter Space BandHave To Have A HabitatBill Oliver 10-03-2020 09:43:5510-03-2020 09:45:5401:59The Balloon SongLittle Blue Globe BandIt's a Toddler's World2018 Ameiva Media 10-03-2020 09:49:2910-03-2020 09:51:4602:17Red BalloonFrances EnglandMind of My Own2010 Frances England 10-03-2020 09:51:4610-03-2020 09:54:4803:02Flying StarfishElena Moon ParkUnhurried Journey2020 Elena Moon Park 10-03-2020 09:55:3910-03-2020 09:59:2903:50FallingPoi Dog PonderingPoi Dog Pondering2008 Platetectonic Music

Frank Orrall is the founder, frontman / multi-instrumentalist for the 'Acous-tronic' Rock & Soul group; Poi Dog Pondering. He is also: Percussionist and Singer for the D.C. based outernationalists; Thievery Corporation. (His other side projects include: Palm Fabric Orchestra, Mourning Doves and 8fatfat8).

An interview with Chicago musician Paul Von Mertens, as well as the usual full throated ranting!  Paul Von Mertens is a Chicago-based composer/arranger and a performer on saxophone, flute, clarinet and harmonica. He has played and recorded with a variety of artists including Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Stereolab, The Sea and Cake, Poi Dog Pondering, Broken Social Scene, Wilco, and Mono. He has been a member of the Brian Wilson Band since 1999 and is currently musical director.Paul has written arrangements, orchestrations and performed for Brian Wilson's tour and Grammy-winning recording of "Smile," the Pet Sounds Tour, "Live In London," "Gettin' In Over My Head," "That Lucky Old Sun," "Wilson Reimagines Gershwin," "In The Key Of Disney," and "That's Why God Made the Radio" with Brian and The Beach Boys. Paul spent 2016 touring “Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary” worldwide, featuring performances with the Boston Pops. His arrangement of "Dvorak Re-mix Fantasy" was premiered at Orchestra Hall with Poi Dog Pondering and the Chicago Sinfonietta in 2005, and his "Carmen Remix" in 2007.Writing credits include music for Steppenwolf Theater, the Peabody Award-winning documentary "The Lost Children of Rockdale County" and "Merchants of Cool" for Frontline, and the long-running "Workplace Essential Skills" for PBS. Paul and his wife, Cynthia Von Orthal, have created original puppet musicals "Akuba's Dream," "The Yellow Wallpaper," "A White Heron" and "Tara's Story" for their own company, Von Orthal Puppets.

“Situation Chicago” is a new Chicago-centric benefit compilation put together by Quiet Pterodactyl that will turn over 100% of its sales to local venues. The artist list features names both big and small, including OKGO, Jeff Tweedy, Poi Dog Pondering and White Mystery. Organizer Trey Elder joins me tonight for Car Con Carne, sponsored by C&H Financial Services.

“Situation Chicago” is a new Chicago-centric benefit compilation put together by Quiet Pterodactyl that will turn over 100% of its sales to local venues. The artist list features names both big and small, including OKGO, Jeff Tweedy, Poi Dog Pondering and White Mystery. Organizer Trey Elder joins me tonight for Car Con Carne, sponsored by C&H Financial Services.

Rick and Dave interview Poi Dog Pondering guitarist and co-host of the Steve Dahl show, Dag Juhlin. [Ep23] The post MM Celebrity Interview – Dag Juhlin appeared first on Radio Misfits.

“Hardcore reinvention”: Poi Dog Pondering founder and bandleader Frank Orrall talks about learning to trust his instincts in the music business, his musical and culinary side gigs, and the challenges facing artists due to COVID-19. The post Ep 75 Poi Dog Pondering Frontman Frank Orrall appeared first on Midlife Mixtape .

Tenor saxophonist Nate Lepine has been a regular fixture of the Chicago jazz, improvised music and rock scenes since the early 1990s. Known to date primarily for his work as a go-to sideman, he has appeared on over three dozen recordings by a wide range of artists including indie mainstays Cursive and Iron and Wine, and alt rock outfit Poi Dog Pondering. While ably lending his instrumental voice to these and many other popular projects, Lepine, whose true calling is jazz, has spent years cultivating his own music, building a repertoire of original compositions and performing frequently on the circuit of Chicago jazz clubs as an improviser. In the fall of 2014, the time had come to document the culmination of those efforts, and Lepine assembled a first-rate quartet to record ten of his compositions at Strobe Studio in Chicago. The result of that two day session is his long awaited debut album as a bandleader, Vortices. The musicians Lepine chose to help him realize his vision – alto saxophonist Nick Mazzarella (Nick Mazzarella Trio), bassist Clark Sommers (Kurt Elling, BaSH) and drummer Quin Kirchner (Wilde Belle, NOMO) – were selected from the community of fiercely talented players that thrive in Chicago’s active jazz and improvised music scene. Each is a bandleader in his own right, and together they display uncommon versatility in their interpretation of Lepine’s eclectic originals. The quartet plays with a balance of virtuosity and soul all too rare in modern jazz, and Lepine has left plenty of room for each musician to contribute his personality to the material, while leading the way with his own distinctive, vocal-like tenor sound. There is a diverse array of musical content throughout Vortices, from carefully crafted counterpoint, to bass-driven grooves and catchy horn riffs, to freely improvised passages. This variety reflects Lepine’s aesthetic, which is informed by his travels as a journeyman, his devotion to the art and craft of playing the saxophone, and a passion for the jazz idiom itself. Lepine brings to bear his many years of experience in the music industry on this first offering under his own name, and it is plain to hear the wait was worth it.

A sold out crowd was on hand to witness a wonderful night of music at Classic Cinemas Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove as Poi Dog Pondering got the audience up and dancing right from the very first note. Here's Lin Brehmer's fantastic interview with Poi Dog Pondering's Frank Orrall as the two discuss the band's travels from Hawaii, to Austin, to Chicago, how Frank escaped danger from Hang Gliding, and much, much more!

Chicago’s Sunshine Boys (featuring Freda Love Smith of Blake Babies, Dag Juhlin of Poi Dog Pondering and Jacqueline Schimmel of Big Hello) will be releasing the politically-charged single “Infinity Girl” on Friday, Jan 10 and Jennifer Reeder (whose new film Knives and Skin opened at the Music Box Theatre Dec. 13) has directed a spectacular video for the track which will be released on Friday, January 17. The band will then embark on a short tour with Freda’s former Blake Babies band mate Juliana Hatfield and there is a show confirmed for Space in Evanston on Thursday, Jan 16. “Infinity Girl” will appear on the band’s sophomore album, Work and Love, which follows the critically-acclaimed debut Blue Music. Work and Love will be released on Friday, May 1 via Pravda Records.

What is Anthropology, and how does understanding human evolutionary history help us understand people today? The Children's Hour celebrates a year on the road exploring what makes us human at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. Recorded live at The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, we learn about human evolutionary history, and how we're related to our ancient ape ancestors. With great music by Wookiefoot, Poi Dog Pondering, They Might Be Giants, Wilman de Jesus, REM and more.  

One of the hardest working entertainers in Chicago. A member of Expo '76, The Sunshine Boys, Poi Dog Pondering, as well as a daily podcat with Steve Dahl, Dag was able to find some time to meet with us and talk about his career in music.

This week on The Children's Hour we go inside the Center for New Mexico Archaeology in Santa Fe, NM. The Kids Crew talk with scientists from the Center,  including anthropologists working in the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture's Laboratory of Anthropology, about what they do, and how the more than 8 million artifacts in the Center are used and preserved. Featuring archaeologist and musical guest, Marlon Magdalena from the Jemez Historic Site and Pueblo. Inside the stacks at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology With music by Jack Johnson, Green Chile Jam Band, Nas & Steven Marley, Robert Mirabal, Poi Dog Pondering, and Sheila Chandra.

You're probably sitting there right now wondering "What would it sound like if Echo and the Bunnymen made an outlaw country album?". This week, we do _even_better_ than that. Love Vigilantes, originally by New Order, covered by Poi Dog Pondering and by Iron and Wine. Requested by podcast listener Ken -- Thanks Ken! Outro music is Just Like Heaven by The Cure.

Noise Rock drumming ace Rock Savage of NY's Barkmarket talks the origins of the band, the NY scene in the 90’s, tours with Helmet, The Pixies, & Throwing Muses, the series of drums that’s he’s been gifted, found on sidewalks, (and even a case where he re-acquired the exact kit as the one he sold many years prior), the one way trek/tour with Poi Dog Pondering from Austin, TX to NY to play with Miracle Room ,living in the East Village since the late 80’s, his crazy industrial percussion set up with Miracle Room, reflecting on the process of recording the last Barkmarket record L Ron, playing with Phillip Glass’ son, what song led him to the drums, plus upcoming projects and his work with Worlds of IF. https://soundcloud.com/worlds-of-if Cameron Glass soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/sadvibesonly

One of Chicago's most beloved musicians, Frank Orrall of Poi Dog Pondering, jumps in the car in advance of his solo show at City Winery (8/2/18). City Winery is always a cool place to hang out. Go see a show there (like Frank Orrall solo). Or just go for the food and wine. Just go: 1200 W Randolph. This episode, sponsored by Boost Mobile, finds us talking about: Frank's "down" with duck tacos. "We're breaking the fish barrier tonight." City Winery to go? It's a Frank Orrall thing. I'm introduced to burrata cheese. WOW. There's nothing "rock star" about Frank (other than his rock star shirt). Frank's culinary "Chef Franc" identity, where he goes to people's homes, cooks for them, and plays for them. The time Poi Dog appeared on Letterman in the early 90s: "I was exhilarated... I was pretty reckless in those days... ." Frank used to be a Pesch-catarian, only eating Joe Pesci. "We don't know what we're eating, and we love it." Poi Dog's declaration of independence: "Pomegranate." With as many people who've played in Poi Dog through the years, how can Frank know for sure that I didn't play in the band at one point? Next year's the 30th anniversary of Poi Dog! I eat gazpacho without a spoon: Sexy. Are there songs Frank/Poi Dog ever get tired of playing? Frank/Poi Dog's relationship with Chicago. New Poi Dog music: On the way!  

There are any number of ways that you might know Dag Juhlin. Maybe you were a fan of The Slugs, the underdog, hard drinking, fist fighting band Dag co-founded with his brother, Gregg. Or maybe you know him from the innovative Poi Dog Pondering. Or his good-time party band of crack musicians, Expo 76. Or his new band, Sunshine Boys. Or his day job as one of radio legend Steve Dahl’s sidemen on his weekday radio show on WLS in Chicago. Or the daily podcast they do as well. There are any number of ways you might know Dag Juhlin and in our conversation, we talk about all of them. Plus Dag’s childhood “career” as a commercial actor, his Dad’s legendary career in the heyday of live television, his early day job stint at Sportsvision, and how it felt to get the call from his radio hero, Dahl, just in the nick of time. Also, later in the show, Sue Salvi has an unusual wish.

Jason Vargas is here, actual baseball is almost here, and Abbey Mastracco was here on a new Good Fundies! First, Roger said goodbye to Matt Reynolds (04:30) before the boys got into the Jason Vargas signing (09:20), realized it was a new episode of "That's Not What We Meant!" (11:15), and thought there is more optimism to the Mets then there was three weeks ago (21:00). Then, Mets beat writer Abbey Mastracco from NJ.com/NJ Advance Media joined in (29:30). She talked about Vargas' Dirtbag days (32:20), the difference between a Terry Collins spring training and a Mickey Callaway spring training (35:00), trying to solve the enigma that is Rafael Montero (43:00),Tim Tebow (46:20), her IMDb credit and Will Ferrell (50:00), Mike Scioscia (54:00), Wilmer Flores: Outfielder (56:10), Yoenis Cespedes and water (01:02:20), David Wright (01:07:00), not lying about PJ Conlon (01:08:00), if Mickey Callaway is for real (01:14:30), the perfect tagline for Twitter (01:18:30), Todd Frazier's unintentional imitation of one of the 'Friends' characters (01:23:20), which Met has the best beard (01:25:40), and practically everything else. In the mailbag, the boys were asked if Wheeler will get suspended for self-injecting bone medicine (01:35:30), who the best and worst Met in the Winter Olympics would be (01:37:10), their thoughts on a lot of teams tanking (01:40:00), which Met pitcher should start Opening Day (01:44:30), their thoughts on the Trump Jr shark photo (01:48:00), if Roger will ever not be 'The Other Guy' (02:01:00), and if Wilmer Flores is a better outfielder than Montero as a pitcher (02:03:15) If you’re a writer and have a baseball story idea, pitch us at goodfundies@gmail.com. If you want to donate to our Patreon to help us pay for good writing, and to get exclusive material some consider “neat”, you can find us at patreon.com/goodfundies Thank you to Poi Dog Pondering and 2Pac for the music.

Our guest in the Booth this week is the multi-talented Robert Cornelius. Singer, Actor, Songwriter, Band Leader, Educator, Activist, and Writer - he excels at them all! And...we learn that he can design and construct costumes as well. A long-time friend of the show, we were finally able to work it out with his busy schedule to have him on. Robert grew up on the South Side and studied theatre and psychology at Western Illinois University. When he came back to Chicago, he got cast in Rosencrantz & Gildernstern Are Dead at Stage Left. He quickly became a company member. Other highlights of his career include acting and designing costumes for A Member of the Wedding (also at Stage Left), and playing the lead in Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage at Madison Rep. Robert tells us about recent favorite acting projects, including appearing in a new play called Lottery Day by Ike Holter for the Goodman Theatre's New Stages project. Robert is also a successful musician, whose "unattainable goal" when he was young was to become a backup singer. When Poi Dog Pondering's band leader Frank Orall met Robert when both were performing in Brigid Murphy's Milly's Orchid Show, Frank asked him to come sing a couple of lines for a Poi Dog recording. Soon after, he was asked to join the group for a show outside of the Field Museum in Chicago. There were 10,000 people in attendance! Later he went on tour with the band for several years. Robert is still a proud member of the Poi Dog Pondering collective. They'll be performing five shows this December at City Winery in Chicago. Their live shows are joyous and not to be missed! On this episode, you'll hear a couple of short clips from one of Poi Dog Pondering's great albums, Pomegranate. Robert is the founder and leader of the musical group RC7, which started as a Soul and R & B cover band. Later, Robert started writing songs and they've produced a CD called To Your Soul. Both Poi Dog Pondering and RC7 have performed marvelous outdoor free shows at Petrillo Music Shell and at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, one with the Grant Park Music Festival's sublime orchestra. The great Don Cornelius, creator of Soul Train, was Robert's uncle. Robert and a friend won one of the weekly dance contests with a cash prize, but he had to give it back because it was his uncle's show. Still he earned a place as a regular (unpaid) dancer for 2 1/2 years. The legend King of Soul Sam Cooke was married to Robert's dad's step sister. So being around huge talent and fame was par for the course when he was growing up. Director of Arts Education for Victory Gardens Theater, Robert and his staff go into the Chicago Public Schools to bring theatre training and fun to 600 kids a year! Gary and Robert talk about Victory Garden's magnificent production of Tony Award winning musical, Fun Home, running through November 19. Watch a great short video that introduces you to some of the staff and advisors to VG here. Kiss Of Death: Roy Dotrice, who started acting when he was a POW in World War II, has an amazing story. After the war, he performed in hundreds of productions. He did audio book narration and was perhaps best known for his one-man shows, holding the Guinness Record for most non-consecutive performances (1,782) for Brief Lives, about John Aubrey until Hal Holbrook eventually beat that number with his portrayal of Mark Twain. Dotrice became part of the precursor to the Royal Shakespeare Company, and introduced baseball to his fellow actors. You won't BELIEVE the team he fielded. Mr. Dotrice was 94.        

On this week's show, ReZurXn Radio host DJ Dogbone has put together another eclectic mix of retro tunes including a rare gems from T-4-2, Missing Persons, Poi Dog Pondering and Adam Ant plus a whole lot more on The Second Wav. Be sure to like us on Facebook at TheSecondWav and check us out on our MixLR.com and Podbean sites. The "(v)" indicates classic vinyl track played on the 1200. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Far Gone and Out. The Jam - Beat Surrender (v)  Faith No More - We Care A Lot Gary Numan & the Tubeway Army - We Are Glass T-4-2 - Lover (3 1/2 Min. Turbo Mix) Romeo Void - Never Say Never Missing Persons - Bad Streets Berlin - Metro The Ocean Blue - Cerulean Poi Dog Pondering - Bury Me Deep (Special Version) The Smiths - That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore Adam Ant - Wonderful Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion

Leddie Garcia's s musical history includes touring across the US with Poi Dog Pondering for over 10 years.  Some of the artists he has played and recorded with include Santana, Gladys Knight, Liquid Soul, John Cruz, Ramsey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, Eric Benet and Barry Manilow. His musical affinity crosses all music borders from Pop Music to Jazz Fusion, with Brazilian, South Pacific Rhythms and Latin influences. Leddie’s adaptive approach to performing is a worldly hybrid of percussion styles blended into one. Since moving to LA, he has been a fixture in the music scene. He is the bandleader of Poluma a jazz fusion instrumental project, Soukie a retro funk soul band, and Leddie Garcia Friends a rock, jazz, rb project. His ongoing residencies are with Jason Joseph and The Spectaculars at Hotel Café, The Federal Affair at the Federal Bar and The Lexington Social Club.  Leddie performs with Hadrian Feraud Band, Adrian Hibbs Band, The Endangered and Ruslan Sirota Band. At the 2011 and 2012. Namm Show he played in legendary Leo Nocentelli’s band The Meters Experience with bassist Billy “Buddha” Dickens, keys Bernie Worrell, drummer Stanton Moore.

On April 25th, The Irish American Hall of Fame inducts nine new members at a black-tie gala at the Irish American Heritage Center​. Tonight, in part two of a three-part series in honor of this year's class of inductees, Tim and Mike kick up their heels and honor actor/director/singer/dancer and entertainer extraordinaire Gene Kelly​, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas​ Founder Mother Frances Warde, and the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)​ and founder of the Human Genome Project​, Dr. Francis Collins, MD, PhD. Tune in for music from Mr. Kelly and Dr. Collins themselves as well as from The Chieftains​ with Elvis Costello​, ANÚNA​, and Sting​, Tommy Sands​, Bruce Springsteen​, Mary Black​, Poi Dog Pondering​ and, in advance of her big show as part of the Salon Concerts Chicago​, Liz Carroll​. Join Mike Shevlin and Tim Taylor each Wednesday night from 8pm to 9pm on WSBC 1240 AM and WCFJ 1470 AM or on our website at www.windycityirishradio.com.

Poi Dog Pondering's Frank Orrall, Comedian and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Guest, Brian Babylon, and Field Museum artist in residence Peggy MacNamara sit down with host Elysabeth Alfano and chef John Manion of La Sirena Clandestina for a great Dinner Party!

Check out the highlights! Poi Dog Pondering's Frank Orrall, Comedian and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Guest, Brian Babylon, and Field Museum artist in residence Peggy MacNamara sit down with host Elysabeth Alfano and chef John Manion of La Sirena Clandestina for a great Dinner Party!

Join host Elysabeth Alfano as she goes behind the scenes in to the home music studio and kichten with the lead singer of Poi Dog Pondering, Frank Orrall.

Join host Elysabeth Alfano as she goes behind the scenes in to the home music studio and kichten with the lead singer of Poi Dog Pondering, Frank Orrall.

Join host Elysabeth Alfano as she goes behind the scenes in to the home music studio and kichten with the lead singer of Poi Dog Pondering, Frank Orrall.

Glass Eye represented the very best of what Austin, TX had to offer, which at the time also included “SNAP” staples like the Reivers, the Wild Seeds, and Poi Dog Pondering. And whenever Glass Eye came to L.A., Deirdre welcomed them with open arms and a sincere appreciation of their own bent nature.