Roadcase Podcast

We're finally easing into summermode this week with our last full interview of the season and this is a great one!  Proxima Parada's Nick Larson and Kevin Middlekauf have been friends since college in San Luis Obispo, CA, and have crafted a musical career together underpinned by the strong support of their fans and local community.  Now, almost ten years into this, they're on their...

It's summertime and Roadcase is rolling out its festival coverage starting with Pitchfork Music Festival, taking place in Chicago's Union Park this weekend, July 21-23.  To celebrate this unique gathering of amazing musicians, Josh talks to Nic Gohl and Shiraz Bhatti of Deeper as well as the multi-talented Sarah Tudzin of illuminati hotties. Both bands are Pitchfork Rookies and are looki...

Cosmic Country alert!!  This week's episode features Nashville's own cosmic guitarist, William Tyler.  William is a road veteran, having played guitar with Lambchop and Silver Jews, and has now been recording and playing music under his own name with a varied collection of his favorite musicians. William is as thoughtful and literate as he is a talented musician -- a perfect fit for the...

We're talking mental health this week with Chayim Newman and Zack Borer of Amber Health, a new venture designed to address the mental health crisis in the live music industry with broad-based solutions designed to ease the constant burden faced by the true road warriors out there working to present amazing live shows.  Chayim is a PhD in Clinical Psychology and Zack is a Marriage and Family C...

It has been a long road for Peter One from his humble beginnings in Ivory Coast, where he grew up not far from the administrative capital, Abidjan, all the way to Nashville and the stage of the Grand Ole Opry and The Ryman.  Having picked up a guitar at 17, then joining up with a schoolmate and fellow musician, Jess Sah Bi, Peter released his first album in 1985, Our Garden Needs Its Flowers, and...

After a brief three-year absence, Bumbershoot Arts & Music Festival is making its grand return for its 50th Anniversary. Taking place Sept 2 and 3 in Seattle, this unique Arts-forward music festival celebrates inclusivity and community, and we've got festival organizers Steven Severin and James Miles to talk to us about the focus and determination it takes to present an event on such a gr...

Born into a musical family and having grown up on both sides of the Atlantic, Lilly Winwood has thrived as a key Nashville songstress since she made Music City her permanent home, shortly after completing her studies in the UK. The daughter of British rockstar Steve Winwood (Traffic, Spencer Davis Group), Lilly enjoys a great relationship with her Dad, taking advantage of his experience and leanin...

Festival organizers Dusty Brooks and Dorian Domi have a unique partnership dating back to their one-time relationship as friendly competitors -- booking shows into competing Austin venues -- and have since joined forces to create Oblivion Access Festival (once known as Terror Fest) taking place in Austin, TX, June 15-18. Both native Texans and long-time Austin residents, these two powerhouses know...

When Izzy Heltai's Mom took him to Newport Folk Festival as a kid, Izzy would never have believed he'd be playing that very stage roughly a decade or so later, but lo and behold, dreams do sometimes become reality. But that road has not been an easy one for Izzy.  As a trans person, self-realization had been forced upon him in a very real and striking way. And as a young trans youth, Izz...

April was Sexual Assault Awareness Month and to help us shed light on this important issue, Maggie Arthur stopped by to highlight the amazing work she does at Calling All Crows to ensure sure that music venues are safe spaces for all.  Maggie recently joined Calling All Crows where she is now Director of the Here for the Music division. Prior to joining CAC, Maggie was at Resilience, a Chicago-bas...

Josh Lane, vocalist and frontman of today's featured guest, Thee Sacred Souls, describes music as "human medicine."  We couldn't agree more. Joined on this week's episode by guitarist Alex Garcia and bassist Sal Samano, Josh connects with Thee Sacred Souls' fans in a unique and down-to-earth way.  This trio of native Californians started out only a few years ago in 20...

Taylor Upsahl, who performs under the moniker UPSAHL, is an incredibly talented and driven young artist, who is not only super-innovative in her creative expression, but also does so while maintaining a fresh and disarming self-awareness. A resident of LA now for several years, Taylor has successfully and wonderfully created a compelling pop-rock lane that has garnered her legions of fans, despite...

Chris Wood is going back to his roots, so to speak.  When not on the road or in the studio shredding amazing bass lines in his band The Wood Brothers, he's on his farm in British Columbia, Canada, tilling the land and getting his hands dirty! Amongst all that hard work, Chris has found the time to co-produce The Wood Brothers' latest album released on April 14, Heart is the Hero, recorde...

The Dynamic Duo of Eric Krasno and Stanton Moore, both Grammy winning artists, have finally joined forces with an album and a tour, and have come to Roadcase to talk about it all.  Both Krasno and Moore are highly-respected giants in the industry. Krasno is a founding member of Lettuce and Soulive while Stanton is a founding member of Galactic and Garage-a-Trois, and now they have produced an albu...

The Bright Light Social Hour founders Jackie O'Brien and Curtis Roush are here to talk about the Austin Psych Scene, their deep connection to live performance and their long-standing support of important social reform issues.  They'll also be hitting the road hard once again this Fall in support of their upcoming new album, Emergency Leisure, set for release on August 2.  Among the many...

Happy Birthday to the insanely talented blues artist Ally Venable, who turns 24 today! Ally, whose musical gift is deeply embedded in her soul, has been performing, singing and shredding for almost a decade now -- having first picked up a guitar when she was only 12 years old. Her latest album, Real Gone!, is a stunning collection of inspired songs and also serves as a fitting tribute to many curr...

For the past several decades, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams -- both together and separately -- have lived a life on the road performing music across the country and around the world.  Now over the past several years, this lovely couple has been playing music and traveling together, touring behind their new album, Live at Levon's!, representing the special time they have spent over the ye...

Sammy Rae grew up in a small Connecticut town where she attended an all-girls Catholic high school but that's just about where the conventional upbringing stops. Sammy realized that New York City -- specifically, Brooklyn -- was the place she needed to be. The Big City in all its spectacular diversity gave Sammy the platform and permission to be who she wanted to be and to explore her own per...

There's a reason drummer Scotty Zwang has an illustrious history of collaboration (Lotus, The Disco Biscuits, Umphreys McGee, and Soulive among others); primarily, he's got amazing chops as a drummer, but mostly, it's because he's just a great guy to have around.  Calm, cool, and relaxed, Scotty's been honing his craft practically his entire life. Having begun playing as a...

Nashville-based Caitlin Rose is on the show this week to bring us up to speed on her life, her current direction, and the creative forces behind CAZIMI, her long-anticipated new album -- her first in almost 10 years. It's been a long wait for her fans, and an even longer period for Caitlin herself, who describes the uncharacteristic decade gap as a "Sisyphean struggle" -- and that i...

It’s been quite the journey for Magic City Hippies — all the way from busking on the streets of Miami almost a decade ago to their current U.S. headlining tour. This amazing trio of friends: Pat Howard, Robby Hunter and John Coughlin, have all been on a crazy ride these past few years and have come to Roadcase to talk about it all. These guys are simply fun and endearing humans -- and have an impr...

Welcome to Roadcase!!  We are thrilled to welcome The Backseat Lovers to Roadcase for this awesome interview. Joshua Harmon, Juice Welch, Jonas Swanson and KJ Ward all grew up in Utah, where they still live, and are currently on an incredible ride of popularity and creativity -- hitting the road hard with their remarkable high energy and infectious brand of Alt-Rock.  These four friends are as clo...

Welcome to Roadcase!!  Dre Smith of Producing a Kind Generation is on the show this week, and this is an absolutely stellar interview!  PAKG has a new album coming out in April, and Dre talks to Josh about the myriad challenges he has faced in his life and as a result, how he came into his artistic expression fairly late. He has experienced horrible family trauma, and we discuss what impact his di...

Welcome to Roadcase!!  We're totally psyched to have Early James on the show for this Episode no. 170!  On the heels of his latest album, Strange Time To Be Alive, released last August, James embarked on his first headlining tour last Fall, and has not looked back. Once again produced by Dan Auerbach, who also produced James' first album, Singing for My Supper, James expands on his Ameri...

Welcome to Roadcase!!  We're super pumped for this exciting episode featuring Jeff Gorman and Jake Cochran of Illiterate Light -- a stunning duo who are noted for their dynamic and striking live performances with Jeff on guitar and bass pedals and Jake's unorthodox standing position at the drum kit, infusing an amazing energy into their live shows.  Their new album, Sunburned -- out now...