The Printer Pod w/ Basic Printer

For this week, I go through 5 albums that I absolutely love lately. The albums are... Clarence Clarity - No Now Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy Tobacco & Aesop Rock - Malibu Ken Boy Eats Drum Machine - Hoop & Wire Lemonade - Pure Moods I hope you enjoy digging into my taste a little more, and I hope I showed you one of your next fave artists!

Boy oh boy (eats drum machine)! Boy Eats Drum Machine is an indie artist who fuses turntablism, saxophone playing, and playful homegrown production into expressive pop collages. He has been one of my all-time favorite artists since college and I've taken enormous influence from him. After a number of peripheral interactions over Instagram, I managed to convince him to come onto the podcast fo...

The headline is not a joke. I interview a real, actual forest troll named Scufflemöss Treemen. Confused? Not sure why, I feel I was pretty clear. Incredulous? Well, that I'd understand. To be succinct, Scufflemöss is a forest troll that lives in the outskirts of Nashville, is a fan of metal, holds a weekly livestream show called 'Bedtime Stories' (of which I was a guest), is a gener...

I met Anna at a BBQ like 2 years ago, and then I kept running into her because we had a lot of overlapping circles of friends. At that same BBQ, we ended up playing a 10 person wide drinking game where it got HELLA crazy, so I guess we bonded a little bit then too. Since, she's been on my radar and I've seen her book gig after gig at SoFar's and Rudy's Jazz Room, to be specific...

Celeste is an album I made in 2014, and my most legitimate effort before I moved to Nashville - it featured a session drummer, my best mixing, and represented myself well up to that point. There was also a decent theme for the record - the cosmos, and my puny relationship to it. I discuss this since-hidden record, share song snippets and explain my influences and headspace I was in while making th...

I wrote this record from 2012 - 2013, and it is the theoretical soundtrack to a video game that doesn't exist. It's also the first record that has drumkit (played by me) and real strings (sometimes played by me, mostly by Jake Bellissimo. Great person). Had a great time revisiting this one and re-figuring out the lore that I wrote with Snore Captain. Hope you love! You can download this...

As a delayed reaction to a breakup from years prior, I wrote this album while suffering panic + anxiety attacks under the summer sun in upstate NY. With college ending and no friends around to find comfort in, I was forced to learn to be better and get over my issues, because I couldn't talk to the girl and I couldn't go back and time to fix anything. This album is an erratic exhale of t...

This week as a part of the Printer Preludes series, I recount a minimalist record I made in 2012. I like this record a lot and I remember it meaning a lot to me at the time. This record marks the start of when I started to get truly personal in my music. 

Installment two of the subseries 'Printer Preludes' (basicprinter.com/printer-preludes), this episode is about my second record ever created, 'Abstract Trust.' More rooted in an electro-rock territory, this record was where I started to formalize my talents and introduce more acoustic/performed elements into my music. You can download the record for free at basicprinter.com!

Today marks the beginning of a 6 part series called "Printer Preludes." I will be unveiling old records that I have recorded and since banished to a vault. These records were made when I was less sharp and a lot more emotional, if you can believe it. The debut episode, this one, features my first record I ever made in 2011 called Poor Ian, a concept record about a reclusive, broken soul....

I went on tour last week and was sure to take a series of field recordings, voice memos, and interviews of characters along the way.

I met Jess once a couple of years ago and we had not hung out since, but had kept in touch lightly on the internet. Observing her tunes and general attitude, I grew to be more curious about her work and philosophies, so I invited her on! We talk a lot about social media, doing what you want in music, and beauty standards...

In this week's podcast I deconstruct the closing track on my latest record Good Weird - Headbang. This is actually a super old song that had already been released, but is no longer listenable online. I go through the older version of the tune and talk about what elements I carried over to the new, released version, and why. This is one of my most calculated tunes, and one of my most darkest -...

I met Christine & Jamie through Christine's old blog Nashville Offbeat, and ever since we have had a delightful working relationship and hilarious friendship. Listen to us discus entrepreneurship, the media, comic books, being creative, and whether or not you'd want your arms to be made of enchiladas or muffins. Yep, you read that right.

Niagara Moon is the indie pop project of Thomas Erwin, a friend of mine. His music is honestly some of my favorite and most listened-to music. He runs a podcast as well, so we decided to have an extra long conversation and then split it in two where we could each host half of the podcast! To hear the rest of the conversation, hop over to his podcast at niagaramoonmusic.com. :)

Carly is a dear friend of mine from years ago. While we did meet in around 2013, we weren't actively friends until 2015. We have sung together many times and she has frequently sung backup for BP. She is also the funniest woman I know, most likely. We talk about how we have disguised our personal intentions through cosmic songwriting, our histories, and we even perform a few little ditties.

kate.'s guitarist reached out to me last year to play a show with them, which I found to be a little odd because they seemed to be so pop. What would they want to do with weird old me?! As I started to meet and talk with everyone involved with project, I realized that we have similar attitudes to making music - saying what you need to say, being alternative about your approach, and ignoring t...

A few weeks back I polled my e-mail list to get questions to be answered on this podcast...I answered 'em. Some of the topics included involve: Musical guilty pleasures, my first show, my 'math' brain, and Ryan Adams.

I met the Pep boys offhandedly in a teensy basement a few weekends ago whilst catching another set from one of my fave local bands Madame Butterfly. I had seen part of a Peppermint Boys set before, but didn't get the chance to be properly blown away. Once I caught up to their recordings, I was floored, intrigued, flabbergasted! So hastily, I asked to hang with them and have a long conversatio...

Aaron has been referenced on pretty much every podcast up to this one, and for good reason. He has been around since the formal inception of BP and has helped produce almost all of the works and has performed in every iteration of the band thus far. He has participated in every tour as well, and is currently co-producing the next record which is in the works. We talk about beer, cooking, musical p...

I met Neonstorm whilst touring through Pittsburgh in 2018 - BP opened up for a band that Chris (aka Neonstorm) was in called The Alfomega. This led me to listening to Chris' solo record and I was blown away by how good it was - so I figured i'd get him on the podcast to dig in further. We talk about the music of nature, lost media, and how social media brought us together.

Daniel Sauls has been someone that I've been aware of and have interacted with many times now and we like a lot of the same stuff. He is a percussionist, producer, and lover video games. Incorporating all of these interest and skills, he has played in many different formats for many different artists, his most acclaimed being Lauren Daigle (as of late) where it led him to being the first pers...

Laura Epling is a violinist who played on Basic Printer's first EP (Track 6 - Regal Sprint). Since then she has begun to build her career, of which includes arranging and recording strings for Moon Taxi (popular band)! We talk about why she likes gin and her roots, and how she has fun proving people wrong just by doing well in her craft. She also paralyzes me by asking me who I love.

In this new series, I deconstruct the story, songwriting, instrumentation and production that went into making my song "Good Weird". Giving a new thing a try that sounded mega fun to me. Let me know how you like and what song you'd like to hear deconstructed next.

Levi Gordon (aka Skeleton at the Feast), rapper extraordinaire and general wordsmith and smart and emotive man, was my first friend in Nashville. I interview him on what makes rap great, why we should speak our truths and live in an empathetic way, and I also play a remix that I made of one of his older tunes.