Gut Feeling

The latest episode of the Gut Feeling Podcast is an extended look at True Loves/Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio guitarist Jimmy James, who I’d profiled for the newsletter a couple of issues ago. There were a number of musical moments to our talk, which Jimmy punctuated with his prized Silvertone, and since the bulk of that didn’t quite fit the Q&A format, I’m posting the audio so you can get a feel f...

Photo by Mark PalmThe latest episode of the Gut Feeling podcast is an interview with Regional Justice Center drummer/vocalist Ian Shelton. The band’s beautifully brutal sophomore LP, Crime and Punishment, was released this week through Closed Casket Activities. Ian gets into formative experiences that impacted Crime and Punishment; discovering street punk through a library of burned CDs; whether o...

Photo by Andrew DennisonThe fourth episode of the Gut Feeling podcast is an interview with Sean Lande, lead guitarist and founding member of Strain, a dominant force in Vancouver’s hardcore scene during the mid to late ‘90s. Among other things, Sean gets into: how he fell into straight edge hardcore; embarrassing first band names; and recording Strain’s massively chunky Here and Now LP at Mushroom...

Photo by Lindsey Wallace (IG)This month’s Gut Feeling podcast is an interview with Adam Mitchell, a mainstay of the Vancouver underground who currently plays with post-punks Spectres, alt-pop quartet Tilted, and d-beat mashers Madness Cartel. The talk bounces between what it was like to be touring the U.S. with Spectres last March as COVID restrictions really started to ramp up across the world, a...

We’ve got another Gut Feeling podcast interview on deck this week, and it’s a doozy! The talk is with Jesse Gander, a longtime member of Vancouver’s music community as both a performer (d.b.s., Needles//Pins, Uptights, Operation Makeout, Black Rice, Ghost House, and more) and a prolific engineer/producer. Jesse gets into how he first got interested in the recording arts, from experimenting with hi...

Joshua Brown (left) and Sean McCabe, outside of 924 Gilman. Berkeley, CA. 1998. Photo: Travis Keller (IG)Hey! I’m doing things a little differently this week, and premiering the Gut Feeling Podcast. This first episode is with Joshua Brown, a currently Victoria, B.C.-based musician who came up through Philadelphia’s early ‘90s straight edge hardcore scene, playing bass in Flagman, Crud is a Cult, a...