Cosmic Lion Radio

We are back this week with our tribute to Bobby Weir ! This career spanning reflection shines a light on all the corners of Bobby's illustrious, moving, epichol , and iconic life. From the first That's it For the Other One to Wolf Bros. From The Midnights to The National, we listen to it all.  Also this week, more fan voicemails !! Thanks to Seth Peagler from Heroes Aren't Hard to Find and HeroesC...

The Cosmic Lion Radio / Gratful Dead exploration contines this week as we look into the musical legacy of Phil Lesh, bassist for the Grateful Dead and BEYOND!! The Phil Zone is HUGE and we dive head(stock) first into it. From his college trumpet ensemble, to The Dead, Phil & Friends and all the way up to the Terrapin Family band, we look at Phil's entire lifes work. We also start diving into the v...

Welcom to the Grateful Dead season of Cosmic Lion Radio!!! It's the Deads 60th anniversary and Cosmic Lion Productions' 20th anniversary so we are doing whatever the hell I want, and what I want is to talk about the Grateful Dead. This ep we go era by era and cover the Dead from 1965 to 1995. The Prime era. I go into some history, play some killer jams and lay a basic overview of the career of the...

Cosmic Lion Radio is back and we have an absolutely amazing guest. Director and Producer of over 400 TV shows (Timecop, Heroes, Moonlighting) and films (Rock 'n' Roll High School, Get Crazy, Heartbeeps), Fillmore East employee, and Deadhead Allan Arkush joins us. We talk about his history as a music lover, seeing all the shows i DREAM about seeing, his friendship with Jerry Garcia, the fusion of m...

It's that thing of when you preview another Podcast in the feed of your podcast! Join Eli as he joins the amazing hosts Brad and Wes from 2001 A Space Podyssey in this special read through of the, oft forgotten, 2061: Odyssey Three. This is a subscriber only podcast on their patreon so join up there and enjoy the rest of their 2061 read through and as they go on to 3001 and beyond the infinite. Yo...

We are back and this week we have comic LEGENDS Stuart moore and Matt Howarth.   We sit down to discuss our new book Meat, written by Stuart, with art by Matt Howarth and published by Cosmic Lion. The book is based in the not too distant future where communication technology has brought us to the cutting edge but have we gone too far that we can't even recognize ourselves? Are we human or just mea...

Cosmic Lion Radio is back with the creative team behind G.H.O.S.T. Agents Outlaw Town and Mind Melt. Writer and creator Rocko Jerome, LEGENDARY ARTIST KEN LANDGRAF, colorist Meesimo and letterer, Eli Schwab. The team chats about the books, Ken's legacy and influence and a TON more stuff. Check it. For more: https://ghostagents.net/ The Kickstarter:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ghostagents...

Cosmic Lion Radio is BACK and we are getting our solo casting legs back on. We dive into what's been going on at CLP headquarters, talk about the new issue of Joe Matt's Peepshow, i show you a cool chat I had with Tim Heidecker about Joe on his show Office Hours about a year ago, I share a recording from the Vintage Synthesizer Museum and I play a ton of new JAMZ!!! We end the show with a tribute...

Cosmic Lion Radio returns with a super engaging new episode.  We are joined by featured co-host Manny Gomez and our super special guest, 10 time New York Times best selling author Michael Jan Friedman.  Michael has written over 30 Star Trek novels, the bulk of the DC Star Trek run and the main subject of todays show...the Star Trek X-Men Planet-X crossover book. Manny and I read this recently and...

This is 10 years since the first podcast mix I made. Happy ten year Anniversary to Cosmic Lion Radio!!!   It was at 8:08pm that night in 2011 that made the 8:08 Mix intent for a podcast, I just didn't know how to make a podcast yet. Here is that mix: https://www.mediafire.com/file/yay72ac5n38gswa/808_Mix_by_Cosmic_Lion.zip/file 10 years later and here I am.  Three podcasts and over 200 episode und...

We are back with a collective of amazing artists. Joyce, Julia and Shirls are multitalented, multimedia artists who create comics, paintings, wearable art, performable art, and are doing it in a new and creative way. We had a great time in this town hall setting picking up where we left off in a WhitCaff online panel about team works in comics, (Link below). Also this week we feature an esteemed p...

Cosmic Lion Radio returns with Tony McMillen!! Acclaimed author of Lumen, Augmented Fourth and the new collected Serious Creatures!!  Tony's work combines the behind the scenes world of Hollywood with 80's nostalgia in a way that ignites your senses and excites your youthful loves. Dig it! BACK TONY'S SERIOUS CREATURES KICKSTARTER: http://kck.st/2Zgmfr5 "Serious Creatures is the story of a teenage...

We are back with Nick Cagnetti & Jamie Jones who's new crossover comic The Baboon & Pink Lemonade Jamboree is currently setting Kickstarter ablaze! Eli is joined by a panel of amazing comic creators including, Kasey Bouchard, Jerome Cabanatan, Ben Granoff & Rick Lopez. We are also joined by super-collector Ryan Cheshire. Join us for a round table discussion about comics creating, collecting, conce...

Join us for a very special Town Hall featuring cartoonist Jim Rugg. "Different is better than better."  Jim is an incredibly talented, versatile and creative creator who is constantly pushing the boundaries and creating new ways of presenting a comic. Jim is the author of Afrodesiac, Street Angel and artists of The Plain Janes. You probably know him from his YouTube show Cartoonist Kayfabe with Ed...

It only took three years but we're back!!! I've got some time on my hands so I thought I'd drop in the mix! This week we've got some great jams and some real radioin'. Segments, music, commercials, and more.  I want to really thank you for coming back to Cosmic Lion Radio.  Maybe that subscription has just been sitting there and you're like...when is he gonna do another?  Well, that time is now!! ...

We are back with Hip Hop/NerdSwag artist Manus! Manus and I first met a long time ago in Burlington VT, so it was awesome to catch up and see where we've been. We got to talking about his past, moving, when he started rapping and how all that lead him to the Nectar's stage and beyond. We'll hear some old tracks of his from the Burlington days and then some of the new bangers he is working on. Look...

Jim Mahfood is one of comics most gonzo voices and it's amazing to have him back on the show almost 4 years to the day after our first chat. His new comic Grrl Scouts: Magic Socks from Image comics will be released May 17th in all Comic Stores, so you gotta check it out. This ep we delve deep into what brought Jim back to his creation after 20+ years and about music and it's effect on life. We'll...

Open Mic night out on the town with Nick Wevurski. This week we follow up and coming comedian Nick Wevurski to his 23rd open mic. We'll find out what goes into his set, what it takes to take that first step and then we'll go hear his set and chat about it. Pretty fascinating night for me to see what it takes to take your jokes from the house to the stage. With a soundtrack of Burlington Vt Metal b...

Cosmic Lion Radio is back and live in the home of Brian Huskey. You might know him from such things as Childrens Hospital, Another Period, Veep, and the upcoming shows People of Earth on TBS and Mr. Neighbors House on Adult Swim. A true honor and the beginning of a new age here on Cosmic Lion Radio. Out and about, on the scene and in your face, face to face and in place. Brian's hospitality and sh...

We are back this week with amazing artist, writer, re-imaginer and Executive Producer of the new TMNT cartoon Ciro Nieli!! We had a serendipitous meeting out side of a Claypool Lennon Delirium show that lead to this amazing and informational episode. We got deep into Ciro's comic roots, his deep seated love of the Turtles and what inspires him and the new path of the Turtles. Also what moved his c...

We were somewhere around San Diego on the edge of the ocean when the comics began to take hold. This week we are back with our Gonzo round-up of the 2016 San Diego Comic Con. I was lucky enough to attend this year's con and work the Greg Horn Art booth. With my handy mic I was able to traverse the convention floor and collect some amazing interviews from some of comic's most interesting and legend...

We are back with Jamel Johnson, comedian and former co-host of my previous podcast "Podcast Classics." It's a pleasure to have Jamel on the show and to dive back into the sea of tapes we have amassed since our last meeting. Did you know that podcasting is over 100 years old? Did you know that Jamel's and my families have been podcasting together for most of those 100? Well it's true, all of it. In...

This week we are back, live in the studio with Dave "King Gum" Crosland. Dave was kind enough to have me over to his studio where I got to revel in the artistry throughout the interview. We got to talk about his artistic start with concert posters, his travels, some of the strange and unusual projects he's pitched for and much more. Dave also hand picked (how else do you pick stuff) all the music...

We're back with part 2 of the Fred Moore interview. This episode begins with the very show where Fred and I met, Sound of Urchin, Halloween 05 at Nectar's! We then get back into the Grateful Dead and Ween, all taped by Fred himself. This episode we also get a visit from very special guest Tim Heidecker ? Great Job! Also we'll take a listen to a song taped from the Invitational at John & Peters in ...

Cosmic Lion Radio is back but we moved!! We are now live from California and we're back with an amazing show! We re joined by Fred Moore, taper, musician and friend of New Hope Pa. In this first of two episodes "from the tapers section" we get to hear Fred's own recordings of some of his first shows taping two of the most pivotal bands in his life, The Grateful Dead and Ween. We'll chat about a mu...