The Vineyard Podcast

A summer fun night, the barista lifestyle, and the scene of cover bands in Chicago. Paul Cherry Paul Cherry's Pure Grooves Commercial- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnPbyJyG1as Paul Cherry's Pure Grooves - Our Night (Music Visualizer)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC9Vraolnlk “Paul Cherry is a musician and DJ from Chicago who achieved some success after the release of his first LP Flavour in...

Working at Bruegger's Bagels, an ideal situation, and Spiritual Death Metal Jazz. Michael Montgomery (Durand Jones & The Indications, Okonski, Aaron Frazer) “Michael Isvara “Ish” Montgomery is an acoustic and electric bassist based in Brooklyn, NY. Michael has been a touring member of, among others, Durand Jones and the Indications, African-Psych outfit Sinkane, and has additionally performed with...

Song church, tapping into zero pressure, and new energy. Nydia Gonzalez “A lovely, overcast cut from California songwriter Nydia Gonzalez captures the tenor of her eponymous new EP. The record features members of Mapache, and captures a similarly sanguine side of the West Coast sound. Plaintive strums billow beneath Gonzalez’s melancholy ode to self-acceptance. The song is a perfect accompaniment...

Playing with Spoon in a Battle of the Bands, driving a U-Haul from Colorado to San Francisco, and cohesiveness. Kacey Johansing “Kacey Johansing’s latest album Year Away will be released July 28 via Night Bloom Records. In March of 2020, after learning that a dear friend’s life was coming to an end, Johansing sat down and in one sitting wrote the song “Daffodils”. An elegiac tribute to someone fac...

$7.00 coffee, picking locks, and sunglasses. Rayla Delanova (Delanova, SadGirl, Sam Blasucci) “Rayla Delanova is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter making music under the name Delanova. After deciding that music was her path of creative expression, she created a solid musical foundation with three years of bass lessons at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. While her primary instrument i...

Being a blank canvas, finding equilibrium, and accidentally locking a phone in a bookstore. Sam Burton Sam Burton - I Don't Blame You (Official Music Video)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16WJgPwAMys Sam Burton - Maria (Official Visualizer)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THkhJCbYvk0 Sylvie car accident fundraiser- https://www.gofundme.com/f/sylvie-car-accident-fundraiser?utm_medium=referral&ut...

Piano culture, experiencing a bass revival, and the basements of Burlington. Jonny Kosmo "Jonny Kosmo, the Los Angeles (via New England) registered therapist and home recordist is a card carrying expert in the shape of your desire & the horizon of meanings your dreams catalyze. In his briefcase lives his weapons grade kaleidoscope, a 1972 mayfair recorder, and a neatly folded pair of pants that fi...

The obscure hours, performing in the basque region and staying in the back of a cafe. Gabriel Fernandez (Levitation Room) Levitation Room - Scene For An Exit (Official Music Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVXJBSLwgcM “It just happened. Kind of like how humans crawled out of the slime and came into existence.” Excerpt from https://levitation-room.com Levitation Room: Bandcamp: https://levi...

House shows in Denton Texas, hard hangovers, and not being able to see out of the right side of a van. Ariel Hartley (Pearl Earl) Pearl Earl “IT’S DREAD” album: https://pearlearl.bandcamp.com/album/its-dread “Pearl Earl is an all-female rock band from Denton, Texas made up of Ariel Hartley, Bailey K Chapman, Stefanie Lazcano and Chelsey Danielle. The band was founded Summer 2014 by Hartley, Chapma...

Conception based teachings, the interactions between the bass and drums, and mastering alternate side parking. Adam Scone (Adam Scone, Scone Cash Players, The Sugarman 3) The Florida Room, Episode 6 - Scone Cash Players- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoFnbjkVhwo “Adam Scone is a Hammond Organ specialist. The sound of the Hammond will get inside of your heart and pound out some emotion. Scone tra...

Setting the tone on stage, sitting down at an Eagles concert, and playing soccer. Kate Clover Kate Clover - Cut The Wire (Documentary)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM83uwGtuVE "Kate Clover is a songwriter and musician from Los Angeles, California. From the local lineage of bands like X, Germs, and The Gun Club, to the glamorous destitution of the downtown streets, Clover is inspired by the cit...

Vintage equals broken, different flavors, and playing pre-noon shows. Scott Montoya (Soft Palms, Happy Sundays, Studios For Studios) Studios For Schools: https://www.ebay.com/usr/sstudiosforschoolss "Soft Palms, the brainchild of wife-and-husband duo Julia Kugel (The Coathangers, White Woods) and Scott Montoya (formerly of The Growlers), have announced the impending release of their self-titled de...

An early Pauly Shore story, mailbox money, and producing cool records with great songs. Kelly Finnigan (Monophonics, Kelly Finnigan) "Kelly Finnigan, the lead singer of Bay Area-based indie-soul auteurs Monophonics, has announced his debut solo album ‘The Tales People Tell,’ out April 26 on Colemine Records. Over the course of the album’s 10 new, original songs, Kelly channels a multitude of influ...

Q&A’s, playing soccer on top of a parking garage, and the magic powers of the Mediterranean. (Shannon and The Clams, Hunx and his Punx, Shannon Shaw) "It wouldn’t be wrong to say that Shannon & the Clams was formed by accident. Just outside the invisible borders of Oakland’s warehouse music scene, Shannon Shaw was absorbed in studying illustration at California College of the Arts, a 100-year-old...

Energetic magnetism, a 1909 prairie house, and train showers. Cornelia Murr “Cornelia Murr was born in London and resides in California as a dual citizen, but spent much of her childhood moving through the United States, from Colorado to Massachusetts, California to New York City and upstate New York. Working with producer Jim James of My Morning Jacket on her 2018 debut album Lake Tear of the Clo...

Providing an emotional reaction, going dark every now and again, and habitual line steppers. Victor Benavides (Los Yesterdays) Los Yesterdays "Who Made You You?" OFFICIAL VIDEO- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TJJz8klYoE Los Yesterdays "Nobody's Clown" (Official Video)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvJTEct-gUw Los Yesterdays "Time"- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7rGlg2ps2E “Los Yesterdays o...

A mosaic maze of 40 ounce bottles, outdocumenting the audience, and a crazy brunch show. Cory Hanson (Wand, Cory Hanson) "The western themes of Cory’s previous Pale Horse Rider, made flesh in the form of an electric band, lashed with gleaming guitar strings to tracks whose gnarled, proggy path only climes to the top of the listener’s Compulsion Index. From steel to synth, from old-school ballad to...

A collection of compartmentalized work, the maestro level, and accepting kindness. Jared Mattson (Mattson 2, Jared Mattson) Jared Mattson - "Burn Down Babylon" (Official Music Video)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4amcRDuAWw Jared Mattson - "Please Come Here"(Official Music Video)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIfCdp965g0 "Like many debut solo albums from musicians in bands, Jared Mattson’s...

Sounding Halloweenish, a psychedelic Bar Mitzvah, and hanging out in the El Pollo Loco parking lot. Wyatt Blair (Wyatt Blair, Lolipop Records, Mr. Elevator and the Brain Hotel) "Lolipop records has been semi-revolutionary multi-cultural conglomeration of punk kids, loveless teen dreams & pop enthusiasts trying to change the world! Lolipop is far more than just a independent record label, it is a g...

Doing what feels good, letting go of attachment, and bringing the blades on tour. Ben Schwab (Sylvie, Golden Daze) "Last month, a new band called Sylvie — featuring Drug Dealer’s Benjamin Schwab alongside Marina Allen and Sam Burton — announced a self-titled debut EP on Terrible Records. At the time, they shared a song called “Sylvie,” but it wasn’t a case of a band writing an eponymous song. Rath...

Records with no covers, Law of attraction, and accounting for vibe. Lars Finberg (The Intelligence, Lars Finberg) “Lars Finberg, confirmed genius guy and poet laureate of sunken 21st century Rock, acts as manager in perpetuity of THE INTELLIGENCE, primary vehicle for his prolific creative swirl and a project that has taken on new shapes across myriad trials and shifts. The project began in his Sea...

AI weed, working the graveyard shift at Subway on Sunset Boulevard, and fighting a man in a cowboy hat. Dylan Sizemore (Frankie & The Witch Fingers) “Bubbling up from the psychedelic tar pits of L.A., Frankie and the Witch Fingers have been a constant source of primordial groove for the better part of the last decade. Formed and incubated in Bloomington, IN before moving west to scrap with Los Ang...

Forgetting going to a concert, Performing in a graduation robe on stage, and going deep into the Midi world. Cole Berliner (Kamikaze Palm Tree) Kamikaze Palm Tree and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard USA Residency Tour Tickets: https://www.axs.com/artists/1112986/kamikaze-palm-tree-tickets "Seven years back, Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner emerged fully formed from the wilds of San Francisco as Kam...

Quiet validation, feeding an inner flame, and lacing an inner logic. Marina Allen "Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Marina Allen's sound is difficult to categorize. Her music is intricate, fierce, soulful, mesmerizing, warm and bold. Drawing from influences as varied as Joanna Newsom, the Beach Boys, loft jazz, Meredith Monk and the New York avant-garde, Joni Mitchell, Karen Carpenter, Karen Da...

A classic trajectory, teaching French, and well known Craigslist bands. Alice Sandahl (La Luz) "On solo debut Bright and Blue, Alice Sandahl (La Luz) excavates with unvarnished vulnerability themes of loss, grief, and hope for the future with keyboard-driven music that combines pop, jazz, and the Great American songbook—Nina Simone meeting Harry Nilsson in a smoky bar anywhere in the world." Excer...