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Caz Gardiner, 2019 Wammie (Washington DC Area Music Association) nominee for best Soul Artist/Group, grew up listening to jazz, Caribbean music, soul, blues, rock, mod and punk. Jorge Bañales is a musician and photographer born in Montevideo, Uruguay and now resides in Washington, D.C. We talk about Caz and Jorge performing shows for a happy hour via live streaming from their living room, some gre...

David Zaidain likes KISS for the music not the make-up, he shares with you in this episode two of his musical creations and you can hear him flip the script on Alex and Don when David asks them about their show and their future plans and purpose. Special shout out this week to Jackie, Antonio and Lauree at WERA for keeping the machine going during these times. Recorded in July 2020 with masks. Our...

https://bensenses.bandcamp.com/ Ben Senses is a post-hardcore artist from Washington, D.C. It is the project of local artist Cameron Pulley, who has been performing live original music since 2009. Ben Senses is part of a new generation of Washington, D.C. post-hardcore artists, inspired by the ethos of 1985's Revolution Summer, but asserting themselves with their own sound and storytelling. We tal...

What are the duties, challenges and opportunities when you are an opening act? Sound off, let us know your opinions.

Recorded pre-pandemic. We have a great chat with Ruth about finding your voice, the importance of bombing on stage, working with a boisterous crowd and how to deal with a lover who has a request you aren't super excited about. Listen to learn the benefits of micro-dosing folic acid and wonder to yourself what that buzzer sound was all about. As always our sensational musical bed is provided by the...

Don't stay home this time! Recorded pre-pandemic, Eric tells us the best part about an open mic. The atmosphere he tries to cultivate there, his philosophy of improvement and how it influences his music, life and beer brewing; and we drink a fair amount of beer. Come listen to us get loose and say some things...lovely, silly, controversial and maybe truthful things. Well always truthful. Listen to...

Here is a band called The Buzz talking about all the things they do, well most of the things they do...ok, ok. They talk about SOME of the things they do. They also perform songs, talk about what brought them to music performance and what keeps them excited; they also reveal a special untapped market for live music they have found. Could be relevant if we ever get to hang around together in large...

www.mensstoryproject.org/ Jocelyn Lehrer, ScD is Founder/Director of the Men's Story Project and affiliated Senior Research Associate at the University of California-San Francisco Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Lehrer's work focuses on the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV/AIDS, and the promotion of healthy masculinities and...

Global citizen and neo-folk singer Eli Lev is making the world a smaller place, one song at a time. Eli pens hymns for everyday enlightenment—songs that resonate because they're heartfelt, earthy, and offer wisdom culled from self-discovery. In two years as a full-time musician, Eli has built a robust profile through wowing audiences each time he picks up a guitar. He has opened for national names...

Adriana-Lucia Cotes wanted to break all the rules, so she did and continues to do so and will keep doing so as long as she can dance too. We hear all about Adriana's first taste of the spotlight; an interview on TV with hard hitting questions on her favorite color and numbers, classic gotcha journalism on the way to school one day. We enjoy this story as well as some classic Don puns..."it's a coo...

Shady Rose is a treasure of DC Music. They are charming, thoughtful; an artist with an incredibly beautiful soul matched by an equally beautiful voice. Check out the full interview on our MixCloud page. https://www.mixcloud.com/StageCraft/ *Photo credit Roxplosion @fat-kneel https://lightmare.bandcamp.com/album/dream-glitch

Louie Palu, is an award-winning documentary photographer whose work has appeared in festivals, publications + exhibitions internationally. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant + is a 2011-12 Bernard L Schwartz Fellow with the New America Foundation. He is well known for his work which examines social political issues such as human rights, con...

In his own words, he's an expert, a crank, a busy-body, perhaps even a know-it-all and he runs with the "tribe that can't stop thinking about stuff". A micro-episode with our new pal Buck Downs, click and listen to his story, then we are all working together for success, this we do believe! Buck is a poet, he is a writer and a consultant and his office looks exactly like you would imagine, it's th...

DMV veteran Buck Downs shares his stories with us; we discuss the importance of having a process, finding your circle of friends for sharing of ideas and feedback, life fucking with you, sending out 200 postcards a month and beginning to create again after experiencing break downs. On September 11th, Buck will be reading at Zed's Cafe and September 18th at PHILALALIA. http://www.zedscafe.com/ http...

Chelsea and the C.C.B.C. talk issues of gender and race; economical realities of D.C. and their desire to help members of the troupe make a livable wage through performance.

Our friend Chelsea Short interviews Dainty Dandridge, Che Monique and Chris Jay of the Chocolate City Burlesque and Cabaret about their mission to preserve and diffuse the art and history of Black Burlesque, Cabaret, Sideshow and Variety, as well as create safe and accessible spaces for Black performers and audiences. They also touch on different audiences within the DMV, playing dive bars and the...

Matt Dembicki is the founder of the D.C. Conspiracy, a comic creators' collaborative in the DMV. He's the editor of the Eisner-nominated and Aesop prize-winning Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection and has also won acclaim for his nature graphic novels, Mr. Big and Xoc. We talk to him about the free comic magazine Magic Bullet, his passion for writing about the environment and co...

Down with the Bastards, Up with the Party! Chrissy and Jason from Jack on Fire talk about the inspiration and real life pain and bullshit for a few of their songs like "Burn down the Brixton", I'm Not Your Fucking Baby" "Condos" and "Andy Harris Needs to Smoke Some Weed". Serious issues make for sass and shaking your ass. Makes you laugh otherwise you would have to cry.

Dominic Fragman is an exceptionally talented percussionist who studies under the tutelage of Paul F. Murphy and Dr. Cecil Taylor. Dominic's passions are playing, learning and spreading the wisdom of how to be more open to improvisation, how to open yourself up to the possibilities within your creativity and how the drums are as important of a compositional instrument as the piano. This was an eye-...

They want to make you dance, they want to make you squirm so you better bring some dance shoes and an emotional tarp because you might just hear a song that makes you think "is this about me?" Jason and Kristina of Coup Sauvage sit down with Chelsea Shorte and talk about using anger as inspiration, the DMV music scene, the song Requiem for a Mountaintop and what the House of Sauvage is and the lin...

DMV photographer E. Brady Robinson shares her story on publishing her book Art Desks, how she keeps her head and heart on the same axis, what inspires her, how D.C. is great for creative types and where it could be better. We also have a special guest co-interviewer, DMV based nocturnal garden photographer Amanda Kleinman.

John Masters of Harness Flux talks to us about listening to vinyl, people's issues with streaming music and the differences in playing house shows, the Black Cat and Galaxy Hut.

Writer, director, producer and host of the Picture Lock show, Kevin Sampson. Kevin is passionate about diversity, celebrating the DMV for having the best talent today in independent filmmaking and helping others create their art and be accepting of feedback to make it better. Special thanks to our new interviewer and a guest from our last season, Chelsea Shorte.

Loved talking to Paul and Mason of Catscan! They muse about people talking during their shows, their desire to be two - one man bands, their successful Kickstarter campaign and being the Larry David's of the DMV music scene. You also get to hear a track off their new album Challenger Deep and Alex asks for help in showing the power of the podcast. https://www.facebook.com/catscanboys http://thecat...

Fan of friendship, cookies, working hard and email marketing; it's the aggressively jolly, extremely talented and beautiful spirit Louisa Hall. Includes a special live performance of her song "Internet Love Song".