The Redscroll Podcast

Gerosa Records opened over 37 years ago now in Western Connecticut - this month we talk to Brian and his son Brian (referred to as Junior on the show and generally in their shop). We talk about the rollercoaster of the record business over those years.  The Brians Gerosa We talk about how Gerosa Construction (elder Brian's father's company) figures into a couple pretty neat facts in music history....

Damon Marzano joins us this month to talk about his journey through myriad music industry positions from working at a few record stores - most notably Phoenix Records in Waterbury - to Apple to Google... to his current label Noize In The Attic Records . [gallery columns="2" size="medium" ids="7123,7122"] We talk about what we're all listening to. Damon talks about working with Mick Jagger.  We tal...

Here it is - the end of the year favorites podcast including lists by each staff member here at Redscroll! The podcast has a clip from each album.  It's a fun listen! Whoops... mostly music! [Lists are alphabetical - no particular order otherwise. Some of Josh's and Rick's lists got tacked on at the end with fun text to voice notes.] First off,  these are things we loved enough to release and Josh...

John Zaccaria writes music as The Knife Kickers. Friends fill out the band; it is a rotating cast with John at the center. Ryan Prushinski helped with the latest record that is set to come out in early 2024. Ryan played drums on just over half the songs (he also drums in Doom Beach who've been on the pod before; click here for that ) and produced/engineered the recording of the album.    We talk t...

Justin aka Studebaker Hawk joins us this month on the podcast. Justin is a record dealer who also runs / promotes some record fairs and is also a DJ who also runs a label with the team at Peace & Rhythm and also has a 45/7" subscription service called The Drop. (Links to all that stuff below.) Justin does all this stuff while keeping up an active traveling itinerary and splitting his time between...

Undergrounds Record Cafe opened under a year ago (about 8 months) in Oakville, CT.  https://undergroundsrecordcafe.com/ We are joined this month by Nick & Dean - the owners of this new hybrid café and record shop. Dean has been shopping with us basically since we opened and his son Nick used to tag along and get lost in the racks (or go over to the sports memorabilia shop and come back to wrangle...

Anonymity reigns within the dark realm of black metal. We interviewed an entity known to us here as Ajna. Ajna healms Forest Thrall and plays in Vengeance Sorcery, Cerberus, Sravana, Cemetery Lights and likely more currently active and some that are at this time conceptual acts.  We talk about the Vengeance Sorcery experience of playing Nuclear War Now Fest in Tijuana, Mexico. Ajna goes into depth...

FaFa joins us this month on the podcast. The full band! Allie, Alex, Kevin & Ren!  We talk about what we're all listening to. We talk to Ren about the closing of the WamLeg (she & Andreas owned it most recently; formerly Wallingford American Legion). We talk about some food and general Wallingford and general CT hot spots. Oh yeah, and playing music and what brought these particular individuals to...

This month we had a chat with Matt Westfall, owner of Counter Weight Brewing Co. We've known Matt for years through music (going to punk shows in our youth) and Counter Weight has been a venue for music here and there since it opened (originally in Hamden and now in Cheshire). It's also where we hold an annual record fair (coming up in October again).  We talk about how Counter Weight is ramping u...

This month on the podcast we're joined by Senti & Vaughn of Ephyra - a collective of 7 folks releasing metalcore that sounds 20 years displaced! Really wild to take a listen for the first time and think this is not from that original era this takes heavy influence from.  We talk about all the bands currently on the label and all the members of the bands and who plays what in which. Tight group pla...

Ross Wightman performs and teaches and builds and makes/creates/composes. A classical double bassist who came to Connecticut through a program at Yale, Ross now finds himself traveling in the tri-state area weekly for work between NY, NJ and CT and seems to enjoy it! The Water Feature and Fiddle Henge are two instruments Ross has put together from scratch! We talk about all that and what led to it...

We talked with Matty, Nicholas & George of Shirese this month! Lots of real CT insider talk in this one. I tried to insert context when needed. The New Hawaii, Popeye's Garage, the Osbourne House and more DIY spots of yore! Rock and Roll gets heralded as well as some jazz fusion. Good times.  Shirese has a new record and played a great show at Cafe 9 in celebration of its release so we talk about...

Lumpy (Andrew Wojcik) from the Daze label, King Nine, Sanction, Out for Justice and a bunch of bands joins us this month. We talk about the bands briefly. We talk about starting and running a label since 2019. And we talk about coffee and pizza. If you had ever wondered what it would be like if we hosted a food podcast this is as close as we get! We talk about how great CDs actually are and what m...

This month we talked with Greg Thomas of Silver Bullet Studios , End and myriad musical projects. We talk about some of the music we're listening to and Greg drops lots of teasers on upcoming recordings. New With Honor. New Murmur. Will the Risk Taken album come out for the 20th Anniversary of the studio next year?! Should it?! Pressing questions that a select few forgot they cared about!(SIC) We...

It is time for our list of favorites from the past year! We asked everyone here at the shop if they'd like to submit a list and 4/5 of us did! Josh and I are joined by our shipping specialist Caleb and we also read from Caren's and Lexi's lists. We mention our releases from the past year at the top of it and finish off with some live shows we enjoyed. This is a music heavy / heavily edited show so...

Silas, Tate and Reena are The Problem With Kids Today. They're also a band of the same name (wocka wocka) .  We talk to them about all the usual musical topics specific to them and their band. We talk about Sesame Street, Dora and various early musical memories as well as Reena's vlogging dad and Tate's Miracle Legion connection and building a shed instead of getting a job with Silas and various o...

CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP (or Chopx7 for short or maybe even just Chop) joined us on the podcast this month. We talk about cybergrind, noise, where those meet and overlap for him. We talk about working with other folks on various projects. We talk about how the Chopx7 Tik Tok became as big as it is! College. Shows. Music. Conversation, as usual, stretches out from all that.  All the links...

Nicole and Jeremy Braddock own and run Hardcore Sweet Bakery out of Watertown and their satellite location in Southington. Beyond the bakery, which grew out of a cupcake food truck, they also do community outreach programs like a book club, baking classes and a variety of events including the upcoming Punk Rock Flea Market on October 23rd at the Southington Drive-In.  We talk about how they've gro...

This month brings a return guest in Zach Rowden and a new guest in Austin Larkin. Together they perform as Red Yellow Blue Green Black. Definitely go back and listen to the Zach and Henry (Tongue Depressor) podcast if you hadn't yet! For this episode we focused more on Austin as we had yet to dive into his musical background.  We of course also talk about lots of things we're listening too. Austin...

Kick out the jams, nutmeggers! Killer Kin rocked with us this month. Motor city infected conversation for sure - even if it's at times French or French Canadian.  Chloe and Matt are the real deal when it comes to rockin'!  Matt & Chloe of Killer Kin We talk about some of our favorite rock doc's and local venues. Rock dominates the talk for sure.  Check it out.    Links: https://killerkin.bandcamp....

Tried a new thing this month, we interviewed 2 bands at once! Fatal Sacrament and Inexorable Flesh are 2 bands that are friendly with each other though the music comes off as mean as it comes - straight ahead death metal done well! We talked to Chad of Fatal Sacrament and Jacob and Kurt of Inexorable Flesh.  We talk about working around work and where we live to make a project work. We talk about...

On this month's podcast I, Rick, talk to Seven of Revenge Body. It's a rare instance (so rare it hasn't happened before) where Josh is not on the show. Woah! We talk about what we've listened to and do include a list from Josh.  We talk about the origins of Revenge Body and Chopin and Depeche Mode (recorded before Fletch's passing - RIP). Sibling noise. Found object welding sculptures. An older in...

This month we're joined by Ryan and James of DOOM BEACH ! From a band they named when they themselves thought very little of the band and its place in their lives to a band they've made a big part of their lives and now take some pride in crafting the sound of we talk about that journey and the process of the band and how that evolved. We talk about music we're all listening to. We have a good tim...

Jeff joins us on the podcast this month to talk primarily about his project, FiFac. Electronic music production with a wide genre base beyond bass and improvisation. We talk about the FiFac internet presence (and the odd Twitter relationship / rivalry with CT Verses! It's almost entirely positive - spoiler!). The release show on April 8th at Never Ending Books vol. 2 in New Haven is discussed (inf...

Deathwalker of Nihil Invocation and Vengeance Sorcery joins us this month on the Podcast. We talk about black metal and more black metal and what we're listening to and how Deathwalker records and what led him to this path and how the backwoods of Connecticut are just as isolated as could be.  And more of course - not least of which is the signing of the 2 mentioned bands to Nuclear War Now! Relev...