The Powered By Rock Podcast

Welcome to the 2022 Powered By Rock Music Awards Ceremony Presentation presented by Reverend Guitars and The DIY Rock Career. I’m Isaac Kuhlman, and I’m your host for this evening. I personally want to thank you for joining us to help shine light on the rock music scene and to celebrate the music from 2022.  I hope whether you agree with the selections and winners or not, that you go listen to the...

Hello and welcome to the Powered By Rock Podcast! I am excited because today, we have TWO incredible guests on our show as part of our Indie Spotlight series which will be a recurring feature at The Powered By Rock Podcast. First up, I will be speaking to the dudes from the Las Vegas based rock band White Noise about their new album Neapolitan, their live performances and whatever else I think to...

Hello and welcome to the Powered By Rock podcast where I am going to be speaking with Dave Cavallo of the Texas-based pop-punk band Dropped Out today. Dropped Out released one of the most incredible punk albums that I had heard in a very long time last year with their album Get Lost! which is what I consider to be the epitome of pop-punk at its finest. The band has been putting out music for almos...

Hello and welcome to the Powered By Rock Podcast! I am excited because today, we have TWO incredible guests on our show as part of our Indie Spotlight series that I wanted to make a recurring part of The Powered By Rock Podcast. First up, we will be speaking to Zhong from the Chinese-based rock band The Sino Hearts about the music, his incredible backstory and some other interesting questions. You...

Hello and welcome to the Powered By Rock podcast where I am going to be speaking with Johnny Marriot from the UK pop-rock/punk band Pet Needs today. Pet Needs had one helluva year last year as they not only put out their second LP entitled Primetime Entertainment , but they also toured extensively throughout the year with a major opening slot on Frank Turner’s 50 States in 50 Days Tour which is no...

Hello and welcome to the Powered By Rock podcast where I am going to be speaking with Andy Pohl who plays guitar in the punk band Tsunami Bomb, but he also runs the indie record label Sell The Heart Records. Andy can shred a guitar as well as discover and support great bands, and he even used to do a podcast himself called Question The Answers Podcast. He’s a man of many talents, and as far as the...

Welcome to Season 4 of The Powered By Rock Podcast We'll bring you the best stories in rock music with a focus on highlighting independent rock musicians and their music from all over the world. Rock music isn't dead. It's getting better and better. It's time to start paying attention again. With that said, let's get this party started! Intro Music: "Colorado" by Birds Love Filters

Hey there, it’s Isaac from Powered By Rock here to bring Brendan, Jarred and Rye from Mercy Music into the spotlight for a few minutes, and make them sweat with some on-the-spot questions. Welcome, guys. Are you ready to be put in the spotlight? 1 - Okay, I know during the Palapalooza Podcast you guys were asked to name some of your favorite Vegas bands, and that you kinda forgot some of the bands...

Welcome to the Season 3 Finale of the Powered By Rock podcast where I am going to be speaking with the Las Vegas rock band Mercy Music about so many things today. If you have followed this show for a while, you will know that Brendan was actually on the season finale of season 1 which was almost exactly one year ago today. So, I guess this is just going to be an annual tradition now. Well, in that...

Hey there, it’s Isaac from Powered By Rock here to bring Robbie and Jonny from the punk band The Moröns into the spotlight for a few minutes, and make them sweat with some on-the-spot questions. Welcome, guys. Are you ready to be put in the spotlight? 1 - If you were only going to have one shot to play one of your original songs for your favorite band to show them you are good enough to be on tour...

I am going to be speaking with the Calgary-based punk band The Moröns today about their new album The Book of Morön which I think is potentially the best punk album of the year, and we will also be talking about some of the other great things the band has been up to, their history, and why they think Canada is so damn punk these days. If you haven’t been paying attention, well, you probably need t...

Hey there, it’s Isaac from Powered By Rock here to bring Evan Bailey from the Sacramento rock band Oh Lonesome Ana into the spotlight for a few minutes, and make him sweat with some on-the-spot questions. Welcome, Evan. Are you ready to be put in the spotlight? 1 - Now, there are a lot of bands from California, but not necessarily a lot of famous ones from Sacramento. I know Deftones, Cake and Tes...

Hello and welcome to the Powered By Rock podcast where I am going to be speaking with the Sacramento indie rock band Oh Lonesome Ana about their incredible new album Megadeth Tee , the process for creating it, and so much more. I got the chance to hear about this band through a press release for their single “Rushing Lattice” that had a music video accompaniment, and just from watching that video,...

Hello and welcome to the Powered By Rock podcast where I am going to be speaking with one of the most important people in the rock music scene in Southern California right now, Rob Castellon of Wiretap Records. Rob founded Wiretap Records about 8 years ago, and has built it into a solid independent label that routinely pumps out great release after great release with some of the best bands in punk...

Hey there, it’s Isaac from Powered By Rock here to bring the Milwaukie punk band Bad Year into the spotlight for a few minutes, and make him sweat with some on-the-spot questions. Welcome, guys. Are you ready to be put in the spotlight? 1 - As a punk band from the Midwest, I am curious who is each of your guys’s favorite Midwest punk bands outside of your own band? 2 -  Wisconsin is known for a fe...

I am going to be speaking with the Milwaukie based punk band, Bad Year today about their band, their upcoming new music, and the state of midwest punk rock these days. The band has released two EP’s to this point with a couple of singles as well since forming in 2019. Obviously, in hindsight that meant that right after creating the band, they had to take a massive hit from the pandemic. So, the ba...

We are taking an episode to have a bit of a celebration AND to also speak to a fellow soon-to-be-podcaster and music promoter, Brad Nunnery from Signal Chords Home of the Underground! Brad does a lot to help promote rock bands, and I can’t wait for his podcast to launch in the new year. It’s a Friday upon this recording, and I figure that’s as good as any time to crack open a beer and just have a...

Hey there, it’s Isaac from Powered By Rock here to bring George Pajon Jr. from the Black Eyed Peas and Cairo Knife Fight into the spotlight for a few minutes, and make him sweat with some on-the-spot questions. Welcome, George. Are you ready to be put in the spotlight? 1 - You have traveled the world and played probably every size stage imaginable. What was the single coolest show you have played,...

I am going to be speaking with a veritable music making machine whether he is pumping out hits and getting Grammys with the Black Eyed Peas or whether he is going hard in his hard rock band, Cairo Knife Fight, George Pajon Jr. is a highly respected musician with a ton of credits to his storied career. You may not recognize him, but you will definitely recognize a lot of the music he has put out ov...

Hey there, it’s Isaac from Powered By Rock here to bring Ken Haas from Reverend Guitars into the spotlight for a few minutes, and make him sweat with some on-the-spot questions. Welcome, Ken. Are you ready to be put in the spotlight? 1 - Who was your favorite band to play with over the years? 2 - You play with J. Navarro who is known as the lead singer of Suicide Machines how did that project come...

I am going to be speaking to Ken Haas from Reverend guitars today. Reverend Guitars is celebrating their 25th Anniversary this year, and it’s pretty safe to say that if you are a guitar player you have probably heard of them by now. Ken is the CEO of Reverend Guitars, and he also plays in J. Navarro and the Traitors, the Polka Floyd Show, and Zimmerman Twins as a guitarist and vocalist. He’s not j...

Hey there, it’s Isaac from Powered By Rock here to bring Mario from Nights Like Thieves into the spotlight for a few minutes, and make him sweat with some on-the-spot questions. Welcome, Mario. Are you ready to be put in the spotlight? 1 - You have been creating music AND making videos for a very long time. Your actual dayjob is in the field of making videos, commercials, and other video media. Bu...

I am going to be speaking with Mario Rivera from the San Diego band Nights Like Thieves today. I got to know Mario a bit over the past year since I saw them play a frosty show here in Vegas in January, and they have been putting out some rocking tunes this year that always sound great. Mario even created our Season 3 Trailer for this podcast which was awesome. We will be digging into the music of...

Hey there, it’s Isaac from Powered By Rock here to bring Punk Roquette into the spotlight for a few minutes, and make them sweat with some on-the-spot questions. Welcome, Emilie. Are you ready to be put in the spotlight? 1 - Starting out with a tough one, say someone will give you $10 million dollars if you can only listen to ONE punk album for the next 6 months and you can’t listen to ANY other m...

I am going to be speaking with the Quebecois punk rock personality Emilie Plamondon also known as Punk Roquette today about the recent surge in Canadian punk music and how she has become a bit of a punk celebrity and featured singer on some of the recent releases that have come out over the past few years. She also plays in not one but TWO bands, and still has a full time job. I’m thinking her lov...