The Who Cares Anyway Podcast

Sleepers bassist and founding member Paul Wendell Draper recounts the rise and fall of (for my money) the best band to come out of San Francisco in the late 1970s...even if they technically came from Palo Alto/Mountain View/Menlo Park. Draper takes us from his pre-punk days in the glam band Trigger to his early encounters with eventual Sleepers frontman Ricky Williams and then on through the rolle...

Sublime Frequencies co-founder Hisham Mayet joins the podcast to talk about his new(ish) record label, Bulbous Monacle, which focuses on "reissues dealing with the San Francisco Bay Area musical scene that was extant from the mid '80s to the late '90s," with a particular focus on Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 and associated acts. We talk about 1990s San Francisco and the scene around TFUL 282,...

In this episode, I talk to Lara Allen about her late teenage years in Cincinnati and Minneapolis, her early experiences in San Francisco (from joining Caroliner to visiting the reclusive composer and instrument-builder Robert Heilbuth), and life after the Scene, among other topics. Links, show notes, and music credits here . Get full access to Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco... at whocar...

In this special "interview montage" episode, I talk to legendary internet critic Mark Prindle about the origins of his website ( MarkPrindle.com ), our (almost) shared history at WXYC-Chapel Hill in the 1990s, our mutual appreciation for all things Amarillo Records, and the joys of discovering weird music in the early days of the internet. Links, show notes, and music credits here . Get full acces...

Recorded March 25 at Artists' Television Access in San Francisco. The main order of the speakers (following the introduction) is (1) Peter Urban ("The Pope of Punk," manager of Negative Trend, the Dils, etc.), (2) Dog Swan (Club Foot, Longshoremen), (3) Bill Gould (Pop-O-Pies, Faith No More), (4) Joan Osato (photographer/artist), and (5) Carolyn Fok (CYRNAI, Trial, Rhythm & Noise). https://who...

In this very special episode of the podcast, I talk to Trey Spruance (Secret Chiefs 3, Mr. Bungle, etc.). Show notes, links, and music credits here . Get full access to Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco... at whocaresanywaysf.substack.com/subscribe

Connecting dots from Toiling Midgets to Adam Parfrey, SF in the 1980s to Paris in the 1920s, and Harry Crosby to Aleister Crowley—not to mention the A-Hole, painting, Tenderloin jazz clubs, and 19th-century syphilis. Links, music credits, etc. here . Get full access to Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco... at whocaresanywaysf.substack.com/subscribe

A wide-ranging interview with writer/producer/all-around underground music veteran Joe Carducci, focusing on his experiences in Portland (circa 1977-1979) and the Bay Area (circa 1980) and his first-hand impressions of bands such as Flipper, the Sleepers, Toiling Midgets, and Minimal Man. He also connects a lot of the dots in terms of underground music distribution in those days, from Renaissance...