Dave Collis and Mercedes Webb of Slow Mass join the show to talk about their new record Low On Foot, out now on Landland Colportage. We get into the creation of Low On Foot and the circumstances surrounding its release, from being recorded and ready to release to 4 years later when the record finally saw a wider release. Dave and Mercedes discuss their experiences finding music at a young age that eventually led them to pursuing their own songwriting. We of course connect on the music discoveries that were pivotal to each of their tastes, as well as the music they carry with them still.

Bands Mentioned:

Hop Along, Algernon Cadwallader, Dave Matthews Band, Cloud Mouth, Morning Arms, Wild Bell, Modest Mouse, The Killers, Muse, The Killers, Interpol, The Walkmen, Beastie Boys, Pinback, Blink-182, Elvis Costello, The Stranglers , The Jam, Led Zepplin, Cream, Yes, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Lucy Dacus, Dr. Dog, Mogwai , The Seeds, Duster, Q and not U, Black Eyes, Hella, Lightning Bolt, Death Cab For Cutie, Andrew Bird, Mitch Mead, Downward, Prize Horse, Pygmy Lush, Foo Fighters, Bellows, Snoozer, Spirit Of The Beehive, Lithuania, Minus The Bear, Spite House, Underoath, Hovvdy, Porches  

Have a question or suggestion for the show, email me at blake@lwylmusic.com.

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Marcus Joins the show for a fantastic conversation about his new album Take A Beat from his project Wrong Numbers. You may know Marcus from his drumming in the highly adored Pet Symmetry and the fast-growing Ratboys. Wrong Numbers contains fun flourishes and invigorating musical moments that I've come to expect from Marcus' other projects.

In this episode we get into Marcus' history within the Chicago music scene, meeting the people he would end knowing to this day, an insane mixed bill show from 2013 getting into electronic music hardware, developing his solo songwriting process, collecting musical ideas for the Wrong Numbers project, lots of production talk (cool), abandoning sp*tify, mindfully listening to music, modding old ipods, and more (if you can believe it)

Bands Mentioned

This is Lorelei

Boards of Canada

Aphex Twin

Venetian Snares

Radiohead

Fugazi

Bad Brains

Gorrilaz

Rush

Pinback

Fear Before The March of Flames

Heavy Heavty Low Low

Hotline TNT

Grace Notary is currently the brand marketing & partnerships manager at 16 On Center, a hospitality group that produces local festivals and represents Chicago’s most iconic independent music venues -  Salt Shed, Empty Bottle, Thalia Hall, The Promontory, and SPACE.

This was a wonderful conversation breaking out LWYL's usual artist interviews branching into the wider music industry. I was intrigued to learn about the ins and outs of Grace's work at some of Chicago's most prominent independent venues. I hope you learn something new!

Blake's Recommendation:

The new single by MSPAINT - Angel

Will Lindsay joins the show to talk about his new project Buying Fireworks In Indiana. I originally met Will through interviewing his other project Caracara back in 2022 while they were on tour in Chicago. Through some circumstances of fate Will found himself living in Chicago and since him and I have become fast friends. This chat encompassess Will’s journey of founding Buying Fireworks In Indiana, the creative challenges that have fueled it, how current and past experiences have helped from a new venture, tackling the abstract challenge of making art on social media, and of course the music that helped inspire it.

Will Lindsay is a musician and storyteller who’s spent the past decade chasing songs and dodging algorithms. He fronts the critically acclaimed Philadelphia indie-punk band Caracara, and before that, made noisy, joyful chaos as W.C. Lindsay. He’s toured the world, lost sleep in vans, and somehow managed to make music that people actually felt.
Now, he’s pouring all of that into Buying Fireworks in Indiana—a solo project that blends indie electronic music, cinematic video essays, and longform writing into something you can’t quite describe at parties. The project is a search—for feeling, for meaning, for stories that don’t disappear into the void of infinite scroll.
Shaped by years of DIY shows, overnight drives, and conversations in strange corners of the world, Buying Fireworks in Indiana is part travelogue, part love letter to subculture. It’s a living archive of underground music, fleeting moments, and people chasing something just out of frame.
Musically, the project lives between genres—in a space Lindsay calls “drum & bliss”—a blend of indie electronic, future garage, post-punk, and melodic drum & bass. It’s emotionally charged and built for movement: dancing, driving, drifting, disappearing.
The rest of the story unfolds in essays and videos—dispatches from the road, meditations on art and impermanence, and quiet glimpses of the collaborations that become the songs.
Buying Fireworks in Indiana is a listener-reader-supported project. If the music hits, if the stories get under your skin—becoming a paid subscriber is how you keep it alive. Premium supporters help ensure the next chapter is not only possible, but honest, wild, and worth doing.
In a digital landscape that can amplify and erase with the same swipe, Lindsay leans into the contradiction—making art that holds tension between nostalgia and progress, tradition and invention. Buying Fireworks in Indiana isn’t just his journey; it’s an open invitation to hop in and come along.

Links:

Web / Newsletter: https://buyingfire.works/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2fSit0fOVH1HGhF1u5cGSg
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@buyingfireworks
Insta / Threads: @buyingfireworks
PI.FYI: https://www.pi.fyi/u/buyingfireworks

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This was a great casual chat and I hope you’ll check out the new music Will has coming at the end of this month.

Seamus Kreitzer is the singer/guitarist for the twangy and jangly Disaster Kid, who just released an excellent new EP called Rare Bird. In this interview we discuss the inception and recording of this new record as well as the transitional point that it represents for the band. This was a very laid back conversation that veered into the inception of Disaster Kid, weekender touring, being from the Twin Cities (Minneapolis & St. Paul), which obviously led us to talking about The Replacements, and we of course talk about the music that Seamus loves.

Stream Rare Bird now!

Blake's Recommendation at the end of the episode is for the new Djo album The Crux

LWYL regulars, Matt Kistler and Jack Tecca join the show to countdown each of their 5 favorite records from the first 3 months of 2025.

We also discuss the albums that just missed our lists and what we are looking forward to this year.

Jack Tecca is a Chicago-based musician who performs under his own name as well as with his bands As A Ghost and Type Shit.

Matt Kistler is a Chicago-based musician and podcaster. Matt performs ambient music as Blood Pact Scout and plays in such bands as Jeff Schaller and the Long Way Home, This Page Intentionally Left Blank, Type Shit and others. Matt is also the co-host of the other music podcast in Chicago, Noise Floor, along with Troy Sennet.

Andrew Smith is a drummer, producer and one part of the legendary DIY venue Empty Bliss. You may know Andrew from his many, many bands from Chicago. From the intense blast beats of meth. to the alt-rocking of Footballhead, Andrew is a technician behind the kit - no matter the genre he's playing. In this conversation we talk about how he started playing the drums, the music that continues to inspire him, how he conceptualizes his playing in various projects, his experience living in a DIY venue, he shares his love for Swans and gives a beginner's guide, and much more...

Go listen to Andrew's bands and see him live somewhere around the world.

Andrew's upcoming shows:

Footballhead

> TONIGHT (4/4/25) San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger

> 4/5/25 Houston, TX @ Secret Group

>4/25/25 Chicago @ House of Blues with The Used performing the S/T 

Low Animal

>4/26 Chicago @ Beat Kitchen

Black Nail

>5/1 Chicago @ Empty Bliss

Modest Merch is a screen printing shop owned and operated by Mike Galati in Chicago, IL. Mike is a fixture of the Chicago DIY scene, having printed countless shirts over the past 13 years of operation. We get into Mike's story of being able to support himself by printing t-shirts for bands, what it was like getting started, the feeling of delivering a band's first merch item, discovering his favorite music, hot dogs, double dogs, combos and much more!

If you want to get in touch with Mike about merch you can reach him over email

modestmerch@gmail.com

The playlist Mike Mentioned (On Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Q6PASeKfYD8YlBU3000XS?si=8ef28c9f099d4f5e

Here's something different for you, a draft! Podcast regulars, Jack Tecca (As A Ghost, Type Shit), Matt Kistler (This Page Intentionally Left Blank, Type Shit, Jeff Schaller and the Long Way Home, Blood Pact Scout), and Zack Weiss (Aprés Pompeii) join the show to do a new format for LWYL. Our draft categories were inspired by recent podcast guests from the past year. We delve into all the nooks and crannies of our favorite Bands, Cities, More Bands, Movies, and a bonus category you won't want to miss.

Hoping to do more fun formats like this in the future. I hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening!

More interviews next week!

Ryan Nolen is the singer/guitarist for the amped-up alternative rock band Footballhead. Ryan is a native of the greater Chicagoland area. Venturing briefly to California for college but eventually returning to Chicago, diving head first into the city's music scene. In this interview we discuss the songwriting prowess of Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind), being exposed to life changing music as a passenger, critiques of the inclusion of lettuce in burritos, defending butt-rock, 1-year of Overthinking Everything, New music and a lot more.

Do you Like This is a series hosted by Blake Correll and a guest exploring one of their favorite bands. Today Jack Tecca rejoins the show to hear about Blake's favorite band, Death Cab For Cutie. They listen through the tunes, discuss the history, and ask the question Do You Like This?

Listen to Jack's Episode exploring the Grateful Dead

Carlos Jimenez is a musician born and bred in Chicago. In this interview we talk about his love for soccer and the english premier league, connecting with music at a young age, playing music with the right people, Blink-182, Opening for No Pressure, New music from both of his projects, and much more...

Stay tuned at the end to hear about opportunities to see Demo Division and Majesty in Chicago

Something from left field cometh! It’s another draft episode. This time Blake and Jack are building a full 10-man starting lineup to face off on the diamond. Since this is musicians we are talking about, we need to take a few things into consideration. Your hosts take different approaches to selecting who will represent their teams on the grass and dirt. Blake takes a more conceptual approach, aligning the ideal attributes of each position to a musicians output and skill in their projects. Jack takes a more strategic and holistic approach to his team, building a forceful opponent.

Don’t worry, this is still a music podcast.

Hailing from the vibrant green forests of the Pacific Northwest Sydney Kamuda, who performs under the name Bigkid, joins the show.

A fellow Chicago transplant, Bigkid just released a brand new single "Billy" OUT NOW EVERYWHERE. In this conversation we trace the arc of moving to Chicago, finding community, releasing Bigkid's first EP Anecdotal , talk comedy movies that are worth your time, and discuss recent new adventures submitting a performance to NPR Tiny Desk.

We also get into listening habits and music discovery which gives way to a conversation about our mutual love for Death Cab For Cutie.

Case Lowe is an Executive Producer on the Q101 Morning Show with Brian & Kenzie. Case also hosts a highly informative interview show called A Case For... where he interviews emerging bands.

Case shares his thoughts about the utility of the radio as a tool for music discover, interviewing bands, growing up in Indiana, studying comedy and podcasting in college, pro wrestling and much more...

Do You Like This is a series host Blake Correll and a guest explore a band that one of them is passionate about. Today, LWYL regular Jack Tecca (As A Ghost) joins the show to convert Blake into a Dead Head. Surveying the landscape of studio recording and bootlegs, Jack takes Blake through the psychedelic, bluesy, and very tasteful world of the forefathers of Jam. Grateful Dead.

Do You Like This?

Leor Galil is a Senior Staff Writer covering the local music scene at The Chicago Reader, an independent alternative weekly newspaper that's been circulating since 1971. We discuss his history with The Reader, his journey in Music journalism, what still finds exciting about Chicago music in the present, why The Chicago Reader is worth saving, and more.

SAVE THE READER: https://donorbox.org/save-the-chicago-reader/fundraiser/leor-galil

Counting down our top 5 favorite movies!

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Eli Enis is a Podcaster (Endless Scroll, Violent Treatment) and Music Journalist with bylines in Stereogum, Revolver and Entertainment Weekly. Eli is currently working on a forthcoming book covering the story of Shoegaze, from the genre's earliest beginning to today. In this conversation we discuss writing v. podcasting, the pivotal period of 2008-2011 for metalcore and its relevance to today, we get deep into shoegaze, and much more.

If you enjoyed this episode please leave a rating and review.

New Morality Zine is a "Loud Music Label" run out of Chicago, IL.

In this interview Nick and I speak about running a DIY label in the current era of streaming, we also dig into how music lovers can use labels to find new music, and we determine if the radio is still relevant in music discovery.

On this episode Blake and friends (Jack Tecca and Zack Weiss) countdown their Top 10 albums of 2024. Stick around at the end for favorites from past LWYL guests.

What a great year for music it has been. Thanks to everyone who has tuned in for Interview and lists throughout the year. See you in 2025.

Guests featured at the end:

Ari Levin of Billy Joel Junior

Jake Wagner of Broken Left Foot

Rabi Valluri

Will Lindsay of Steady Hands, Caracara

Tanner Peterson of The Dallahatchee Boys and Broken Left Foot

Z Vazquez (Show Photographer)

Mike of GHOSTBEEF

Chicago-Musician Ari Levin joins the show! We discuss his band Billy Joel Jr.’s Rubberhose EP which was released in April this year, as well as new music that is in the works. Ari also goes deep on how he has learned to trust himself and his bandmates as the band has gone through member changes. We also get into some questions about his favorite music, what greatest hits he would compile in the event of the apocalypse, as well as some HALLOWEEN QUESTIONS.

This episode has it all. Enjoy!

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Zine-makers Matt & Jess join the show to talk about Brain Graffiti, a DIY focused zine that features artists from the scene as well as hosts shows. Matt and Jess maintain that Brain Graffiti is a purely physical endeavor, keeping as much of it off the internet as the can. We get to talking about the pros and cons of social media as it relates to music, as well as art in general. Matt and Jess also share their ambitions for the Zine. Have a listen.

Matt Kerner is the drummer of the Chicago-based math rock band Origami Button. In this episode, Matt shares his love for bands like Incubus and Deftones, how high levels of fandom can be rewarding, utilizing your influences, making the distinction between music as a passion and career, the origin of Origami Button and the source of the band's longevity which has led them to exciting support slots with scene legends like The Fall of Troy and The Used.

Zeltzin "Z" Vazquez is a Photographer and music lover from Chicago. Z has taken photos of your favorite band, almost guaranteed. I talk with Z about her first experiences going to shows, when she started taking photos, and we discuss the importance of documenting your scene. We obviously get into talking about emo and hardcore too.

Eric Centeno (Demo Division, Death of Massive Starts, X Will Mark The Place) is a life-long musician from Chicago. His band Demo Division just released a massive EP on New Morality Zine called Sunken Skin which features a cover photo by Z! Eric joins the show to provide all the Chicago lore.

Z's Website: zeltzinvazquez.com

Z on IG: https://www.instagram.com/zeltzin.vazquez/

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2024 has been off to a great start so I recruited my best music friends to talk about our favorite releases, so far. We count down notable release from across genres and discuss why they are standouts this year. Artists we cover include Frail Body, Beyoncé, Madi Diaz, Julien Lage, Liquid Mike... and so so so many more. There is overlap, there are far out pick, but all of it came out between January 1st and March 31st in 2024.

Blake Correll is your host, he also has his own band called Broken Left Foot which as of the spring of 2024 if recording its debut record, he is also the one typing this right now.

Jack Tecca is a Chicago-based musician who just released an EP with his multi-hyphenate, 2-piece, genre-bending project, As A Ghost.

Matt Kistler is the patron saint of the Chicago music scene, he also performs in a multitude of projects including Blood Pact Scout, This Page Intentionally Left Blank, Jeff Schaller and the Long Way Home and probably more. Matt also volunteers at CHIRP Radio, Chicago's premier listener-supported independent radio station, 107.1 on your dial and available online at https://chirpradio.org/

Mike (GHOSTBEEF) joins the show to talk about his creative process at his home studio. We talk about the impetuous of the GHOSTBEEF project and the realizations that brought Mike to embracing experimentation in the music he makes. We talk about ambient music and its connotations, as well as some of the personalities that it breed. We also have a lengthy discussion about Wesley Willis and other who have been lumped into the category of Outsider Music. the conversation takes some familiar avenues for LWYL and some not so familiar.

This is the first interview I've conducted at an artists studio and it led to some interesting results. Mainly, Mike and I collaborated on the creation of an original track which you can hear at the end of this episode, or stream wherever you get your music. In this episode you can hear the experimentation that led to the final track as well as hearing mike explain his methods for creating music.

I hope you enjoy!

Christopher Royal King of This Will Destroy You joins the show to talk about their upcoming 10th Anniversary Show for the record Tunnel Blanket. This episode also coincides with a collaboration coffee that TWDY has available through Chicago cafe and roaster Metric.

We get to talking about the coffee collaboration, getting good coffee when you your internationally, my discovery of Chris' work, what Tunnel Blanket means to Chris over 10 years later, how Chris connects TWDY to ambient music, and much more.

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Singer/Songwriter Jeremy Nathan joins the show to discuss his new single LinkedInfluencer, available everywhere. Jeremy is one of my longest musical friendships. You may know him from his band Faintheart or maybe you’ve found him through his excellent songwriting project that bears his name. We talk about the new single, community & music, Kansas City, Coffee, therapy, and so much more. Have a listen.

Jeremy’s website: 

• Thisisjeremynathan.com

Articles mentioned at the end of the show:

• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/24/country-musics-culture-wars-and-the-remaking-of-nashville
• 
  https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

Michael Bingham of Spiritual Cramp joins the show to talk about the catharsis of performing live, trusting your own taste, and the songs of the band's debut self titled record out now on Blue Grape Music.

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Actor/Stand-up Comedian Tori Kilkenny joins the show to contrast and compare different performing styles. Tori and Blake talk about trading playlists, developing our own artistic material, and artistic intent.

Musician/Producer Riley Corbin (Faintheart, Jeremy Nathan) joins the show to have a different conversation than long-time listeners of the show may be used to. Riley and I talk about new years resolutions, our current music obsessions, and we get deep into the music biz (first for the show). If you are a fellow musician or just a curious music fan this is the conversation for you.

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Rabi Valurri is a fellow Kansas native and musician, currently living in NYC. Our conversation centers on music and the the effects of a place like Kansas on it.

I am excited to debut the first-ever full band Interview with Cold Gawd. I caught up with the band hours before their showcase at The Belasco in Downtown Los Angeles, California celebrating Dais Records 15 year anniversary. It is exciting to see the growth in the project since my first interview with Matt back in March of 2021. Since signing to Dais Cold Gawd released their sophomore record, played numerous west-coast shows, and played alongside Deftones, Freddie Gibbs and Turnstile at the annual Dios De Los Deftones - All while holding the shoegaze torch high. 

Cold Gawd's Sophomore record "Got Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here" has a controversial reputation within the online shoegaze community, namely the r/shoegaze. The band's controversy is not lost on Matt and the band, in some ways they revel in it. Despite detractors GGMTFOOH has found critical acclaim and excitement on sites like Revolver, Cvltnation and New Noise Mag. Matt and his bandmates share a mutual love for shoegaze and their collective vision to be the biggest shoegaze band ever. Cold Gawd's ambitions don't end there... Listen to my interview with Cold Gawd to find out what is next.

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Latest Episode of Catching Up

Harper Boyhtari joins the show to talk about Greet Death's new record Die In Love arriving June 27th via Deathwish Inc. I am very excited to bring this conversation with one of my favorite bands going. Harper and I get into the start of her and Gaval's songwriting partnership, her connection to Chicago, finding your voice and choosing the right words as a songwriter, Neil Young, Blink-182, Death Cab for Cutie, Jason Molina, and much more

From the jump when I discovered 2019's New Hell I was hooked with Greet Death's depressive distortion brought deeper with the vocal tag team of Harper Boyhtari and Logan Gaval. Greet Death knows how to take the listener on a journey, opting for asymmetrical song structures rather than repeating hooks. Three records in and Greet Death is taking their love for folk rockers like Neil Young to the next level, remaining noisy and heartfelt. Die In Love is a record of contrasts, its bright moments help to define the light from the dark. It might be their happiest record yet, but Greet Death is only giving a smirk.

On this episode, Mitch Mead comes on the show to discuss his debut record Opening Act, released on September 23, 2022. We talk about his Michigan origins, how he got started performing in Chicago and talk about the best way to open a show. 

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Latest Episode of Catching Up

LWYL welcomes very special guest Zack Weiss of Apres Pompeii. Blake and Zack compare notes on the years best albums and the ones that didn't quite make the cut. Check out the links below and let me know what your favorite album of the year is! 

See you in 2023!!!

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Most Recent Catching Up: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1yXP6qdkSnIOvQ7K8zbMg9?si=04d8c2a8fe644337

2022! What a year in music. Unfortunately not every record makes the top of my list, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna talk about it. These are 5 records from 2022 I think are worth your time going into 2023.

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On this episode, Blake reads a past review from the blog (link below), Talks about a classic record he just discovered and makes the case for why you should listen to Catching Up (link also... you know... down there.). THANKS

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Blake talks about his love of the band Low in light of the passing of drummer Mimi Parker + A review of the new face of power pop Dazy with their record OUTOFBODY (Out on Lame-O records).

New releases:

• Bruce Springsteen Only the Strong Survive OUT 11/11 via Columbia
• Soul Blind Feel It All Around OUT 11/11 via Other People Records
• Pile of Love Flake on the Future (EP) 11/11
• Dave Knudson Undo/Redo (EP) 11/11 via Seawall

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Jake Wagner joins the show to discuss The 1975 and their new record Being Funny in a Foreign Language, released October 14th 2022 via Dirty Hit. Jake is a Chicago performer who has graduated from Second City Conservatory and runs a weekly variety show at The Bughouse Theater called Everything is Fine. 

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Everything is Fine: https://www.instagram.com/everythingisfine_chicago/ 

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Tangents on merch, tallness and shoegaze phase in and out as Blake expresses his thoughts on the new record by Alvvays. Also in this episode, Blake goes over 3 albums out 10/21 that you should check out and Jimmy Eat World's new song "Place Your Debts".

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A review of Death Cab for Cutie's newest record Asphalt Meadows and recap of their recent show in Chicago,IL.

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LWYL Returns!

Albums:

Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed OUT 9/9 Triple Crown/Wax Bodega

Pianos Become the Teeth Drift OUT 8/27 Epitaph

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Sam Leyba (Coffee, Philosophy) joins Blake for a discussion about artists who stand on their own. Artists discussed Father John Misty, Bon Iver and Whitney Houston. End of Season 1!!! Look out for something new in the future. Thanks for listening

Can you believe we're halfway through 2025?

Lukas Skucas (Griefeater, Veisalgia, Bosses), Jack Tecca (As A Ghost) and I discuss basically evetything we've been listening in 2025.

Grab a pen and paper because we go through a lot.

Kristian Guenther (Artist, Coffee Pal) joins the show to talk about songs that tell a deeper story. Artists discussed Microwave, Brother Moses, and Frank Sinatra. Check us out on Spotify and Instagram. Call your siblings if you have them (if you don't, call someone else's)

Ryan Greenway (Evolutionary Biologist) joins Blake in a nerd out session about Post-Rock, Psych-Rock and Butt Rock. Bands Discussed This Will Destroy You, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Hinder. Check out our Official Spotify Playlists!

Joe Cirigani (Improviser and Musician) and Tony Lazzeroni (Improviser and Musician) join the podcast for our first ever 3 person episode! We talk about The Venetia Fair, Bruce Lee Band, Incubus and Foo Fighters. If you are looking for something a little out there this is it.  We explore music I personally am not involved with or am a strong fan of, just listen. Follow our playlist on Spotify. Follow us on instagram. Don't follow strangers.

Andrew Le (Chicago Friend, Musician, Music Fan) hops on the podcast to discuss music that just a little out there. Artists Discussed are Tera Melos, Laurel Halo, and Journey. Look out for Andrew's podcasts Would You Rather Plus & Do You Still Like Me?