The Printer Pod w/ Basic Printer

The beloved Aaron Walters and I sat down for another pod to have a big ol' BP check-in. In case you have NO friggin' idea what ANYTHING is, Aaron has been a super longtime collaborator of BP - he's played in almost every show since 2015, had a say in every recording that's come out, and recently has been co-producing this next record with me. I called him in to sort of reflect...

Bea and I met at a sandwich shop she worked at long ago, and it only took me attending one show of hers to be totally sold on how amazing of a musician she is! Since then we have remained in contact despite our ebbs and flows of actually being in the same place (clumps of run-ins as she puts it!), but our mutual respect and friendship has remained constant. Which is so BEA! Anyhow, enjoy this grea...

Aaron Zvi Felder is a visual artist, comedian, and general pontificator. I've seen him do improv comedy many times, and even more times than that, I have listened to his podcast 'Audio Based Content', which is a podcast featuring long-form improv comedy scenes. Sometimes, I've even listened to episodes twice they were so funny. I'm honored to say that in light of this very...

Dang! Cassidy and I have been orbiting each other for a bit now. We'd see each other perform in a number of contexts, been in the same crowd many times, hold a lot of the same friends, and even collaborate with a lot of the same people. I had heard that Cassidy was a friggin badass forever now, and I finally got the courage to ask her to play a BP show. Her virtuosic skills and appreciation f...

Rye and I met at a battle of the bands in my hometown about...6 years ago? Crazy! He was a senior in high school then, and I was a senior in college. I thought he was insanely talented (because he is) and it led me to support his local shows and actually end up guest singing with his band the Goodfruits at a local venue called Cyber West Cafe (which was an awesome place that unfortunately closed r...

Boy oh boy where do I STAHT! Corrin and I are tight-ass friends both committed to music and developing communities around what we're doing. She's been doing it for way longer than me - in fact she sold 80,000 CDs of her first album on MYSPACE just by talking to people. She's helped me learn how to get my music out there more and she's a huge reason why this podcast exists and w...

New Year's? WHO CARES! The point is I have NEW PODCAST MUSIC and have a lovely interview here with Jacob Milstein. Hard to say when precisely I met him, but it was certainly through our mutual friend Mick (a past podcast guest). Jacob is a fascinating creature who's temperament i find to be inspiring and deft. He's a fantastic musician who's interested in directly connecting in...

Flesh Eater is a fledgling-ass band in Nashville that makes what might be loosely called 'experimental pop'. I came across them through the bassist Max, who approached me through a cold Facebook message to Basic Printer. We've all been friends ever since! Flesh Eater and BP had played a show together that I threw at the East Room in March of 2018, and since then we've been sure...

Ross Collier is an Omnichordist as well as an Omnichord aficionado, collector, and reseller. He has been a friend of mine for a while since he came over to buy a banjo off of my old roommate 2 years ago. We immediately resonated and I ended up giving him a synthesizer to go home with as well. Since then he has been an endless beacon of creativity and positivity and I have always been delighted by...

Episode fifty oh HALEEE. I have to say for the 50th episode and this marking a little over a year of doing this podcast, this episode couldn't be more underwhelming. There was little time and a lot to report, so I'm taking this episode to keep you updated on what's up in BP world as well as answer some questions that were posited in an IG story. Happy stupid holidays EH?

Happy show day to me! Being that I'm opening for the inimitably emotional Pepper tonight, I thought it might be commemorative to dig through some of my old diary entries from a since retired Tumblr blog account of mine. I read through an extensive and emo recounting of a week long trip I took, I talk through 4 prose-y vignettes I wrote, and also read through 5 poems of mine. If you want to di...

Pepper and I have had a kinship for a little over a year now, which is interesting to think about because it feels like much longer ago. We share a similarity in one key way - we are both emotional as all hell. What's more is that our music is an obsessive over-dictation of that truth. Since knowing each other we have both grown tons as musicians, and she is releasing her debut EP in a week a...

The title of this podcast will only make sense if you make it to the extreme end of the podcast. But, trust me, it IS relevant. Casey Dayan from Under The Rug has always fascinated me while working with him. He always seemed like such a silly, quirky free spirit whose creativity just flows outwardly and fearlessly. A well-known fact about him is that his mom died not long ago, and that inspired a...

I can only give the hottest of damns when it comes to this episode. I interview a Basic Printer fan of 2 years - Jeff Elliott. Jeff had been aware of my music since 2017, but had not really been on my radar until recently when he was a more active supporter (for which I am very grateful). In our interactions, it came up that he was interested in being on the podcast, so I had to oblige. It was so...

Drunk Hug - it's a song I often refer to as "my favorite song I've ever written". I suppose it's best described as an "orchestral synth ballad." In my tenure, I've learned to try to challenge how vulnerable I can get on a song - but stating the first name of the person the song is about in the chorus was something I wasn't sure I was ready for. I'v...

Jake Knox dm'ed me on Instagram pretty much out of nowhere, and I was delighted to find out that he wanted to be on the podcast! So, EVIDENTLY, I obliged. Jake Knox is an indie electro pop musician that makes Owl City-ish songs and comes from a world of music academia by way of EDM touring. His music is neat and totes makes me understand my own music more, in an interesting way. Also - announ...

I met Ted through some pretty extraordinary circumstances. Now before you go off envisioning some sort of meet cute in a coffee shop, relax. Obviously it happened on Instagram. Anyway, we go over that story, which led us to immediately play a show together in July which was so perfect. Since then I've been curious to talk to Ted as the music of his project Miki Fiki is truly insatiable, and I...

The irony of today's pod is that Taylor and I met in a way that was relevant to a song she wrote, and one that we heavily discuss on this podcast. Her lead single, "Conversations", was about the shallow mundanity of networking in an 'artsy' city. What could otherwise be such an enriching & activating activity became one of malaise and nepotism, she found. In her phase...

Justin and I have had a long history! We played in two different rock bands in college, started a YouTube channel, he drummed on a bunch of Basic Printer tunes (one of which you definitely know), and he even shot and edited the Child Grows music video. I had him on the pod to talk about many things, but the centerpiece was "creativity". We talk about how the definition/identity of being...

Travis & I were brought together by Basic Printer, actually. He caught us at a SoFar show with no idea he'd be seeing an experimental synthpop band play. The next day, I saw his band. Months later, we played a show together. Whaddya know! After a night of burgers and metal music, we decided fairly spontaneously to record a conversation of ours - initially inspired by my talk over dinner r...

Jo is someone that I'd been peripherally aware of and consistently impressed by for years. However, we finally met in Feb of this year when we both played a huge show at Exit/In. Now, we are preparing to play a big show together at Mercy Lounge in Nashville on 9/26! I invited her over for a podcast so we could get to know each other a bit and just talk about some good 'ol music. I was su...

Ben Peverall is a songwriter who writes for a big and sophisticated backing band for his self-named project. It's kind of hard to explain his music - picture a cross between the proggy leanings of Little Tybee and Reign Of Kinda cross referenced against early 2000's emo attitudes such as Dashboard Confessional...but then filter all that with the regality of Grizzly Bear. Yeah, obviously...

Welcome to episode two of the Printer Pod subseries, 'Hella Personal Rants'. On these episodes, I mostly just talk about anything that comes to mind - usually pertaining to what's been going on in my personal life and my current emotional state. In this one, I talk about butt rock lyrics, a thing I made called the 'Time Machine List', and how I got back into running. I als...

James and I met in late 2017 on Facebook. Ya know how this goes. Pretty immediately, we set up a show in Columbus and had a great time. Since then we kept closely in touch and have paid attention to each other's outputs. I've been so regularly impressed by what James is doing and am mega inspired to level up after seeing all the things he does. He's coming down to Nashville to play...

This week I brought Aaron on to have a conversation about how the next record's been coming along. We touch on the process we're taking for making it, reference a lot of the themes that I'm attacking, and even drop a few song titles WOAH! Hope you dig dear Aaron here, please give it a listen so he knows he's LOVED and will come back.