Dirt from the Road with Brett Newski

Indie-rock legend and front-person of HEARTLESS BASTARDS sits in to talk about worst jobs before music, tripping in the amazon, and what happens after this life in a human body.   Erika has a new single called "Revolution" available on all streaming sites.  More on Heartless Bastards and Erika: https://www.erikawennerstrom.com/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/BrettNewski1

Rolling Stone writer Andrew Leahey guests to talk about what it's like to make a living as a music journalist AND a touring artist in 2020. Surviving the music industry and the times where touring is no longer a viable living.  Support the podcast: patreon.com/brettnewski1 More on Andrew: https://andrewleaheymusic.com/

Jon Shaban (the SHABS) sits in to discuss the intense lockdown in Cape Town, as well as what it's like to tour and make a living as a South African indie artist.  More on the SHABS: https://theshabs.com/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/BrettNewski1

Newski illuminates on the quarantines great ability to tame all FOMO & boost our ability to be present. Travels thru the great midwest to play a few socially distanced outdoor shows.    Support the pod:  https://patreon.com/brettnewski1   More:  https://brettnewski.com/

Longtime road-dog and Milwaukee legend Willy Porter is on!   Willy and I podcast in the woods and talk about upgrading mental health, career highlights/lowlights, the future of live music, and the feeling when you get a bad album review.   More on Willy:  https://willyporter.com/   Support the podcast by joining Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/BrettNewski1  

Anxiety hacks, avoiding social media, boosting morale, finding purpose.  Get Newski's Guide to Defeating Anxiety: https://brettnewski.com/newskinewsletter   Support the pod: patreon.com/brettnewski1    

Myles Coyne sits in to chat life on the DIY punk rock touring circuit. He talks about running out of money in California, encountering a glory hole, sleeping in vans with five men, & enlightening a racist punk band in Michigan. Shoutouts to John Davey, TEMPLE, Tiny Moving Parts and Cursive. Support the Pod: patreon.com/brettnewski1

The band tours the deep south and gets weird in Florida. They stay with an alligator hunting man. Spatola attends an exorcism.  Donate a band sandwich: https://www.paypal.me/brettnewski Support the pod: https://www.patreon.com/BrettNewski1 Grab a tour shirt: https://brettnewski.com/merch

Miles and Brett chat about combating hecklers, bar brawls on tour, playing the long game and how to survive the apocalypse. Support Miles: https://www.milesnielsen.com/music Support the pod: https://www.patreon.com/BrettNewski1

Miles Nielsen guests! He is the frontman for Rockford, IL rock band Miles Nielsen and the Rusted Hearts. He is the son of Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen. Miles has toured the planet and plays over 100 shows per year. He also has a band with his father called "The Nielsen Trust". Support the pod: https://www.patreon.com/BrettNewski1 More: https://www.milesnielsen.com/ https://brettnewski.com/

Newski addresses current events before the episode. Spatola goes off! Full rated R stories from his high school adventures: fights with teachers, co-workers hooking up in the gym office, worst bully stories. Enjoy!  Support the podcast: https://patreon.com/brettnewski1 More: https://brettnewski.com/

Newski teams up with Irish backing-band FOX JAW and tours the country. He wakes up deaf in a wet tent in Ireland after a party disaster.  Newski's brother Ben sits in as co-host. The brothers discuss their collegiate basketball careers and fights in practice.  Support the Pod: https://www.patreon.com/BrettNewski1 More: https://brettnewski.com/  

First live pod ever! Newski and Spatola answer fan questions. Newski gets a $10 endoscopy in a budget Vietnam hospital. Spatola's friend gets busted by his grandma for watching "prono". Learning to drive stickshift in downtown Johannesburg, S Africa.  Drummer problems and road bloopers. Plus, learning the music business and making a living on the road.  Support the pod: https://www.patreon.com/Bre...

Newski lives in Vietnam for two years and tell all: motorbike crashes, Saigon road rage, getting robbed, and smoking nicotine out of a car muffler in a rice field.  Brett works as his brothers makeshift agent and gets him signed to the ASEAN pro basketball league.    Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/BrettNewski1 More on Brett Newski: https://brettnewski.com/

Hollywood! The land of shattered dreams! Newski crashes on the floor of a hard drug dealing couple, visits Skid Row, smokes a cone joint with Jenny Lewis, & tours with fellow Milwaukee band Violent Femmes. Spatola co-hosts this one. Travel. Los Angeles. Music. 

Brett encounters a deadly soccer match in Buenos Aires, meets Pablo Escobars right hand man, and slides down an ash rock volcano in Nicaragua. Sketchiest episode to date. Travel. Music. Comedy. 

The fellas tour the midwest and discuss getting into the Green Bay Packers locker room, playing a house concert for an angry divorced couple in Michigan, sitting in with Barenaked Ladies.  Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/BrettNewski1 Site: https://brettnewski.com/

The land of shattered dreams! Los Angeles Brett meets Shaq and Kobe...plus San Francisco punk squat failure and Scientology mothership encounters. Travel. Comedy. Music.    Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BrettNewski1 Official site: https://brettnewski.com/podcast

All gigs in Brussels shut down after the Paris attacks, except Newski's. The band tours around Belgium and encounters odd characters and hilarious lodging. Travel. Music.

Brett goes on tour with his childhood heroes, Better than Ezra along the east coast. Travel, Music, Comedy, Adventure.  

American musicians face a Police shakedown at the Swiss border, stay in a pube ridden hotel, and perform at Blueballs Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland.