No Simple Road

This week on No Simple Road we are super stoked to have Leslie and Chelsea from The Goose Chicks Podcast as our guests. Leslie Mack is a long-time podcaster and jam-band aficionado. She previously produced & co-hosted Blackberry Jams presented by Ben & Jerry’s, an exploration of the intersections between the band Phish and Black Liberation. She brings a healthy obsession with Goose to the show as...

Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week on The Rewind we take you on a perilous journey from the snow-filled roads of Portland, Oregon all the way to the sunny beach of Cancun, Mexico! Mel and Aaron recap their journey to see Phish down Mexico way and...

This week on No Simple Road we are extremely honored to have Bob Bralove and Tom Constanten of Dose Hermanos as our guests! Though both came to prominence associated with the Grateful Dead, Tom as keyboard player from 1968 to 1970, and Bob as an engineer, programmer, and occasional performer from 1987 to 1995, this music is Dead-like only in its wide-open, wholly improvisational exploration of a v...

This Weekly Rewind is done in collaboration with The Edible Beats! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week on The Rewind things get heavy! We talk about the ways in which anxiety affects us, how we deal with our past traumas, and Aaron finds an answer...

We are so stoked to have LP Giobbi as our guest on No Simple Road this week! LP Giobbi is the forward-thinking, boundary-breaking artist disrupting dance music today. Widely known for her bass-rattling house beats and electrifying live performances, the Oregon-born, Austin-based legend in the making is a “creative multi-hyphenate” (Billboard): an inspirational producer, DJ, label owner, curator, m...

We're dropping into your Wednesday wtih a little something special! Our first ever Artist Spotlight! This spotlight is on Superblume! SUPERBLUME is a funky, booty-shanking jam band blossoming in Santa Cruz, California. With desire to inspire a world where everybody is free to be themselves, Superblume creates a live atmosphere of love, togetherness, and self-expression. Drawing inspiration from ja...

This Weekly Rewind is done in collaboration with The Edible Beats! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week on The Rewind it's all about friendship! We talk about what we think makes a good friend, what we think being a good friend means, how friendship...

We are super excited to have Brian Swislow and Richard Love of 'Object Heavy' as our guests on No Simple Road this week. Object Heavy is Northern California’s hardest hitting Soul sensation. While based in Arcata, this cast of musical characters has made waves up and down the North Coast of California, the Pacific Northwest, and various parts of the United States. Object Heavy has also been voted...

This Weekly Rewind is done in collaboration with The Edible Beats! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week's rewind begins with a conversation regarding The Big Game's Half-Time Show and what we think of the state of current mainstream entertainment. S...

This week on No Simple Road we are super excited to have Adam and Ian from One Time Weekend as our guests on the show. “We Groove - You Move” is the mantra of One Time Weekend - the innovative shred-funk Connecticut quartet bringing driving grooves with a melodic and progressive edge to the universe. One Time Weekend is known for their live shows - delivering a high-energy musical experience at ev...

This Weekly Rewind is done in collaboration with The Edible Beats! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week's rewind is starts off with a little of Mel's insights into how 2023 is going so far. We're only a little over a month in but she's got some insi...

We are so stoked to have Artist Graham Yarrington as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Graham is the artist behind the new 5-LP Box set 'Jerry Garcia Band - Pure Hampton 1991', posters for Phish, My Morning Jacket, and some of the most beautiful prints you have ever laid eyes on. This conversation immediately goes deep with Graham touching on subjects like struggling with depression and suici...

This Weekly Rewind is done in collaboration with The Edible Beats! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week we start off with a clip of the new feature 'Side Roads'! 'Side Roads' is being produced by Skydog (Producer Cory) for our Patreon supporters, an...

This week on No Simple Road we are super excited to have Maurice Tani as our guest! Maurice put on a cowboy hat and changed his life. The guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer has been a well-known name on the Bay Area music scene for several decades. He was the lead guitarist for Roy Loney’s post-Flamin’ Groovies band, The Phantom Movers, and spent almost 20 years in Big Bang Beat and the Za...

This Weekly Rewind is done in collaboration with The Edible Beats! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week we take a look at how as individuals our ideas of the perfect vacation differs and where each of us dreams of traveling to someday. Then, we take...

We are so excited to have Peter, Murray, and Scott from The Garcia Birthday Band as our guests for this 300th episode of No Simple Road! Garcia Birthday Band, based in Portland Oregon, isn’t your mother’s Grateful Dead cover band. Playing for over 20 years, GBB has evolved into something far deeper than the sum of its parts. The beating heart of the Pacific Northwest’s GD community, the band’s eve...

This Weekly Rewind is done in collaboration with The Edible Beats! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We're back again with another NSR Family Quiz Show hosted by the one and only Skydog Disciple! We have returning champion Mel competing against Apple and s...

We're super stoked to have 5 time Women's Disc Golf World Champion Paige Pierce as our guest on No Simple Road! Paige Pierce is a professional disc golfer from Plano, Texas. She has won 5 World Championships and 15 total Major Championships, and has been consistently ranked among the top professional women since 2011. In 2018 she broke the record for the highest PDGA player rating a woman had ever...

This Weekly Rewind and those to come are done in collaboration with The Edible Beats! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! In this week's rewind we talk about our new collaboration wtith The Edible Beats and what that means for us, having someone in your life...

We are so excited this week to have Parrish Gabriel and Matthew Rennick of Sicard Hollow joining us on No SImple Road! Nashville’s psychedelic punk-grass rockers, Sicard Hollow, grew up sick of any existing institution telling them who and what to be. Now, as they navigate adulthood, they’re equally tired of the music institutions telling them what their music should sound like—so they dunked it i...

We are so excited this week to have Jay Blakesberg and his Daughter Ricki as our guests on No Simple Road. Jay Blakesberg is a San Francisco-based photographer, filmmaker and public speaker whose work has appeared in numerous worldwide magazines including Rolling Stone, Guitar Player, Relix, Time, Vanity Fair, and countless others. He has photographed many musical artists, including the Grateful D...

Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! In this week's rewind we take a trip back through the last 12 months and talk about what our favorite and most impactful moments were for each of us. We end up on a tangent, as per usual, discussing what it actually takes...

We are super excited to have Ben Bloom and Grant Schroff of Polyrhythmics as our guests on No Simple Road this week! Founded in late 2010, Polyrhythmics was formed by Ben Bloom and Grant Schroff, who quickly gathered some of the most talented and highly sought-after performers in the North West to record an EP. The rest is musical history! Blending funk, rock, jazz, afro-beat, and more, Polyrhythm...

Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! In this week's rewind we hear from the crew about their perspectives as the year comes to a close, The Conductor shares some of his personal struggles over the last couple of months, we get a chance to catch up with Mel an...

We are super excited this week to. have Erik Yates of Hot Buttered Rum as our guest on No Simple Road. Erik spent his Bay Area youth trying nearly every instrument and style he came across. Piano lessons, saxophone quartets, garage bands and folk songs had all weaseled their way into his life by the time he hit high school. College in Portland, OR, where he studied music and writing, brought new m...