My Little Underground

On the latest episode of My Little Underground, I’m glad to welcome back Joe Stevens of Peel Dream Magazine! Listen as we discuss the pop band’s fourth album, “Rose Mose Main Reading Room” and the influence New York had on the LP. Joe also discusses evolving out of the shoegaze sound of their earlier work and not focusing on belonging to a particular sub-genre while maintaining a focus on melody a...

The latest episode of My Little Underground welcomes Andy Pastlananiec, the leading man behind the San Francisco jangle pop band, Chime School is on the show to talk up the new album “The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel”. Andy gets into recording the album in his own studio, the effects of gentrification as well as important music performance spaces in San Francisco that inspired the new album. “The...

This week on My Little Underground, my old friend from the Long Island music scene, Poly Vinylchloryd (Nick Bedo) comes on the show to discuss his two kraut/moog/psychedelic inspired new EPs; ‘Switched on Theremin’ (covers) and ‘Invisible intonation’ (originals). Nick also discussed his love performing in drag and beauty, his time hosting the WJFF 90.5 FM Radio Catskill show Electronic Hair Pieces...

Bay Area quartet, Aluminum are on My Little Underground to discuss their genre fluid debut album, 'Fully Beat' which sonically blends shoegaze with electronic music and conceptually deals with the defeating pressures of everyday life. Aluminum also talk up the growing Bay Area music scene, getting an Ameoba Music shout out, how they stay motivated given the current state of the world, and...

Homeboy Sandman returns to My Little Underground to discuss his new album, 'Rich II', his chemistry with producer Mono En Stereo, and manifesting love. The Queens bred MC also shared an interesting fact on his very high Fan Conversion Rate, news on an upcoming mixtape, plans for his label, Dirty Looks, and more! -- Listen to Homeboy Sandman: https://homeboysandman.bandcamp.com/album/rich-i...

Joe Trainor, the guitarist and on the rare occasion vocalist of Los Angeles noise-pop/shoegaze band, Dummy returns to My Little Underground to discuss the announcement of their sophomore album, ‘Free Energy’ out September 6th! We discussed Dummy evolving their sound, returning to Europe to tour, and their big album release show at The Lodge Room on September 7th! Joe also talked about the joys and...

New England punks Perennial released a new album ‘Art History’ and Chad Jewitt (guitar/vox) is on My Little Underground to discuss this creative body of work! Listen as Chad talks up the meticulous method of production and engineering on the new album, the thought process behind their street team, “The Perennial Organization”, their 20 minute set time limit and why ‘Art History’ was the album they...

Shana Cleveland returns to My Little Underground to celebrate the release of the new La Luz album, ‘News of The Universe’! Listen as she discusses the influence the 60’s Indonesian band Yanti Bersaudara and Soul Train had on La Luz, the continued focus on vocals in their production and Shana’s love of print media. ‘News of The Universe’ is also the first La Luz album on Sub Pop and Shana shares in...

This week on My Little Underground (@mlupod), Stephen Stec and Cynthia Rickenbach of Long Branch, NJ jangle-pop band, Lightheaded return to the show to discuss their debut LP, Combustible Gems, out now on Slumberland Records! Stephen and Cynthia discuss what they did right and where they may have went wrong with their first album, the positives and negatives of playing their release show in a reco...

Citronella Room Records supergroup, Don't Tell A Soul (Artisan P & Buster Wolf) are on My Little Underground to discuss the creative process behind the fantastic "DTAS EP" and the latest Buster Wolf project, "Bodega Rat". Buster Wolf also shares his unique inspiration for samples and insight on the direction for future releases. Both Artisan P and Buster Wolf talk up th...

On this episode of My Little Underground, my brothers Richard Arriaga and Michael "Smiley" Arriaga join me for a retrospective on our favorite video games of 2004! --- Follow My Little Underground: @mlupod My brothers make music: Michael's Music Richard's Music Michael and I have a wrestling podcast: The Wrestling Caucus #mlupod

On the latest episode of My Little Underground, I go through some of my favorite albums of 2014 to see how well they have aged! --- Playlist of tunes discussed! @mlupod #mlupod

On the 2024 premiere of My Little Underground, I reflect on the six year history of this show and share some albums I'm anticipating this year! --- Socialize with My Little Underground: https://www.facebook.com/mlupod https://twitter.com/mlupod https://www.instagram.com/mlupod/

On the 2023 finale of My Little Underground, Katherine Rye Jewell; Fitchburg State University professor, historian, and author is on the show talking up her new book, Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio . Listen as Professor Jewell and myself discuss our shared experience in college radio, the evolving identity of the medium, diversity issues, the punk origins of Newbury Comics,...

December on My Little Underground means it’s time for Finals! Concert photographer, writer, and all around friend to the show, Conor Rooney returns for our annual recap of our favorite music of the second half of year. Listen to us talk about how we enjoyed the 2023 works of Homeboy Sandman, Foo Fighters, Hotline TNT, Don’t Tell A Soul, DJ Koze/Roisin Murphy, Danny Brown/JPEGMAFIA, and more!  ---...

This week on My Little Underground, New Jersey band Lightheaded is on the show to talk up their debut EP ‘Good Good Great!’ on Slumberland Records. Stephen Stec (guitarist) and Cynthia Rittenbach (bass and guitar) talk up establishing a relationship with the legendary Bay Area label, their thoughts on Romance and love from family friends, inspiration from The Cleaners From Venus, great Jersey band...

This week on My Little Underground, radio veteran DJ Sandra Dee tells inspiring stories behind her experiences at Radio Disney and starting her genre-bending show, SweetBeatz on SUNY Old Westbury’s OWWR, Old Westbury Web Radio (my alma mater). We talked about Sandra getting pulled out of her comfort zone during her time at Radio Disney as well as her process of reaching out to artists to interview...

This week on My Little Underground, Samantha Campanile (vocals, guitar) of New York quartet, Sadlands! Sam talks up the debut self titled EP of Sadlands and provides an updates on her Samantharants solo project and her other band Answering Machine; who are playing FEST this year! Campanile also talks up the songwriting collaboration of Sadlands, shares some insights to the lyrics from the EP, give...

This week on My Little Underground is video game centric; talking some of the best games of 2003! My brothers Richard and Michael “smiley” Arriaga return to the show to talk up the games from 2003 that had a massive impact on us 20 years later! Listen as three brothers talk up how decades old games like Tony Hawk’s Underground, SSX 3, The Simpsons Hit and Run, WWE Smackdown!: Here Comes The Pain,...

On the fall premiere of My Little Underground, Tallahassee based rapper, producer, photographer, Buster Wolf returns to talk up his new genre ambigous instrumental album ‘Jewel Cake’ along with video games he’s currently playing, his upcoming "Don't Tell A Soul" collaboration with his Citronella Room tag team partner, Artisan P and so much more!  --- Listen to Buster Wolf:  https://b...

On an all new My Little Underground, my fifth ever guest, Kelly Moonstone (fka The Afr0dite) returns to talk up her new album ‘I Digress…’, lessons learned from her first tour, including cities that gave her the most love, pre-show rituals, and more!  --- Listen to Kelly Moonstone: https://kellymoonstone.bandcamp.com/album/i-digress Socialize with My Little Underground: https://www.facebook.com/ml...

Lamark, host of the podcast Lamark After Dark is back on My Little Underground to talk about what differs this show from Lamark’s previous show The Fresh Movement. Lamark also talked about not being put in a box creatively, celebrities entering the radio/podcast space, questions submitted from the audience and more!  --- Listen to Lamark After Dark:  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-lamark-after...

Best of ’23 - Midterms  This week on My Little Underground, it’s my annual Midterms show where I go through some of my favorite music from January to July of this year! Concert photographer/music columnist and my good friend, Conor Rooney returns to My Little Underground to give his mid year music report as well. Conor also talks about his rapidly expanding concert photo portfolio and his upcoming...

Betty Taylor, who performs as Velvet Vision, returns to My Little Underground to talk up her debut full length LP, ’Together’! Betty discusses how she picked the singles for this album and evolving her live set. We also unpack some of the anti-capitalistic themes from ’Together’, the concept of guilty pleasures, her growing connection to the Santa Fe music scene, if she misses her radio show The I...

This week on My Little Underground, Dominic Sen returns to the show to talk up her new album ‘Apparition’, her novel that inspired the concept of this album, collaborating, her love of the Brooklyn venue Purgatory and more!  Listen to Dominic Sen:  https://dominicsen.bandcamp.com/album/apparition Apparition Release Show 7/1 at Purgatory:  https://dice.fm/event/623aq-dominic-sen-sadie-rachel-lime-1...