MoxieTalk with Kirt Jacobs

The Melvins were formed in Montesano, Washington in 1983 by Buzz Osborne, Matt Lukin, and Mike Dillard. Lukin and Dillard left the band and drummer Dale Crover stepped in shortly thereafter. Osborne and Crover have been the Melvins' mainstays throughout their 29-year metamorphosis. To date, the band has released 27 original albums, numerous live full-lengths and far too many to count singles and r...

Checking in at six feet one inches and over 350 pounds, not to mention covered in tattoos, it's impossible to ignore Jason "Jelly Roll" DeFord in a room. And that's before his booming country-twanged voice enters the conversation. "I'm just a regular fat piece of white trash with some real people that relate," he loudly explains with a wide grin, sending everyone else within earshot into riotous l...

Learn Kirt's thoughts on what it was like to be a human being on Planet Earth in the United States of America-in the year 2020 A.D., including the 25 words he was able to add to his vocabulary, YOU MIGHT JUST BE SURPRISED!

An alternative rock band from Houston, Texas,  Junkbunny's spirited and irreverent deliverance spills from the speakers and all over the stage when JunkBunny comes around. Crafting rock hooks with an emotive resonance beyond their years, the scrappy riff-rock trio made their major-label debut before they could legally buy booze.

Dropkick Murphys formed in 1996 in Boston, MA. The band was originally just a bunch of friends looking to play music for fun. We started playing in the basement of a friend's barbershop and our goal was to blend the musical influences we had grown up with (Punk Rock, Irish Folk, Rock, and Hardcore) into one loud, raucous, chaotic, and often out of tune mix that we could call our own. To our surpri...

If you've ever heard a room full of people yelling "I hope your husband dies" in some harmoniously sloppy, drunken unison, you've probably stumbled into an Amigo The Devil show. Danny Kiranos, better known to the masses as his musical counterpart Amigo The Devil, has been challenging the expectations of traditional folk, country music purists, and rock/extreme metal fans alike with his morbid, yet...

It could double as the soundtrack for the Witching Hour. A brew of rough-and-tumble guitars, melancholy lyrics, and femme fatale vocal invocations, Dead Posey cast a sonic spell that is seduced as it scorched. The Los Angeles-based Band with Vocalist/Co-Producer Danyell Souza and Producer/Multi-Instrumentalist Tony F (formerly of Eve 6)-immediately enchanted on their debut 2018 release EP "Freak S...

THIS MOXIETALK FEATURES PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS' BASSIST-(DEREK ENGEMANN) & DRUMMER-(JOEY "BLUE" GONZALEZ) During 2011–2012, Anselmo wrote and recorded a solo album, titled Walk Through Exits Only with his backing band The Illegals. The album was released on July 16, 2013. In October 2017, the second album Choosing Mental Illness As a Virtue was announced, originally due in December but h...

For more than two decades, The Crystal Method has remained at the forefront of the worldwide dance music industry as pioneers of the big beat genre, innovators of the '90s electronica movement and current-day global ambassadors of the American electronic sound. Originally formed as a duo—alongside founding member Ken Jordan, who retired from the music business in 2016—The Crystal Method today live...

A blistering Rock Duo known for their highly energetic live show and incredibly full sound owed to their exhaustive multi-tasking. Cody Bowles drums and sings, while Kevin Comeau plays guitar and plays keyboards with his feet. ***DISCLAIMER*** *Due to the live nature of our Louder Than Life music festival coverage, & external circumstances  beyond our control,  the audio production in the followin...

Amanda Freitag is a judge on Chopped, has battled Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America, and she competed for the title of America's Next Iron Chef. When she was growing up in New Jersey, Amanda's passion for food was fostered by everyone from her grandparents to her high school home economics teacher. They encouraged her to pursue a cooking career and to enroll at the Culinary Institute of America in H...

Chef Rusty is the executive chef for Zac Brown Brand and host of the renowned pre-concert dinner party, the "Eat & Greet." Rusty's most recent accolade was securing a spot as a finalist on season 13 of Food Network Star while continuing to tour around the country with Zac Brown Band. While Rusty is not on the road, he is heading up new restaurants, Papi's Taqueria in Charleston, SC as well as Zac...

Jamie Bissonnette is the James Beard Award-winning chef and partner of Boston favorites Coppa, an Italian enoteca, Toro, the Barcelona-style tapas bar, and Little Donkey, Cambridge's beloved neighborhood restaurant. In fall 2013, Bissonnette and co-chef and partner Ken Oringer brought Toro to New York City and received rave reviews from outlets like The New York Times and New York Magazine. The To...

"You should always get outside of the box," Samantha Fish says while discussing her boundary-breaking new album Belle of the West. "Challenging yourself is how you grow." After launching her recording career in 2009, Samantha Fish quickly established herself as a rising star in the contemporary blues world.  Since then, the charismatic young singer-guitarist-songwriter has earned a reputation as a...

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Brooke Williamson has carved out an impressive résumé full of leading roles and professional achievement, such as being the youngest female chef to ever cook at the James Beard House and winning Bravo's "Top Chef" Season 14 in Charleston. Although officially beginning her career at the young age of 17, Williamson always wanted to be a chef for as long as...

Award-winning writer and Louisville native Susan Reigler is the author of  Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide  (now in its second edition ),  and is a co-author of  The Bourbon Tasting Notebook  (with Michael Veach),  The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book  and  More Kentucky Bourbon Cocktails  (with Joy Perrine). Her other books are  Kentucky Sweet & Savory: Finding the Artisan Food...

Graham Elliot an award-winning chef, restaurateur, television personality and cookbook author. Elliot, a self-proclaimed "Navy brat" who has traveled the world and all fifty US states, has accrued many prestigious accolades including multiple James Beard Foundation Nominations. At age 27, Elliot became the youngest four-star chef to be named in any major U.S. city and was named one of Food & Wine...

As far back as she can remember, Joyce has had a passion for chemistry. She earned a Master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Louisville's Speed Scientific School, and for 15 years worked as a process engineer in industrial-scale distillation. She then spent a decade teaching high school chemistry and physics before her husband Bruce's dream of opening a distillery reignited...

At a time when most people feel constantly distracted by technology and barraged by the news, authenticity and straightforward honesty are paramount. There's something about the music of The Po' Ramblin' Boys that cuts right through the noise of the world and speaks plainly to the soul. Formed in the Smoky Mountains, The Po' Ramblin' Boys are at once exactly what you would expect and not at all wh...

Born in Chattanooga and now based in Johnson City, Amythyst Kiah's commanding stage presence is matched by her raw and powerful vocals—a deeply moving, hypnotic sound that stirs echoes of a distant and restless past. Accompanied interchangeably with banjo, acoustic guitar, or a full band, her eclectic influences span decades, finding inspiration in old-time music, alternative rock, folk, country,...

Matt is the chef/partner of the critically-acclaimed barbecue restaurant Pig Beach located in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Matt first earned his BBQ chops during his time working on America's highly competitive barbecue teams, Salty Rinse, receiving 2nd place medal for Whole Hog in 2015 and 1st Place for Best Sauce at the annual Memphis in May World Championship. Prior to opening his own restaurants, Matt w...

Chef Jose Salazar was born in Colombia South America and was raised in Queens NY. Chef Salazar got his start in restaurants as a bartender and waiter at some of New York's hottest establishments- among them, Donatella Arpia's Bellini restaurant. Although the front of the house is where he started, it was the kitchen that really caught his eye. This prompted him to enroll in the culinary program at...

Los Angeles, based Michael Voltaggio is the chef of the former ink.well concept, as well as Sack Sandwiches at LAX's Tom Bradley International. Beginning his career at the age of 15, Michael earned the prestigious Greenbrier apprenticeship at age 19 and went on to helm the kitchens at Dry Creek Kitchen and The Bazaar by José Andrés. Celebrated for having reinterpreted a new class of finer dining a...

Pearl Aday is a Honey-throated and soulful, and possessing a compelling growl full of grit and strut when she lets loose. Pearl follows up her critically acclaimed 2010 debut with her new release "Heartbreak and Canyon Revelry," ushering in a new dawn of California Country Rock. Joining forces with the venerable Jim Wilson, (longtime bassist for Daniel Lanois, Emmylou Harris, and leader of Motor S...