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Friday Mar 13, 2015
Friday Mar 13, 2015
hello friends! i hope you're all doing well. if you live in austin, sxsw 2015 is upon us. i'm getting my head around this whole week. i'm playing with skyrocket tonight and tomorrow, then sunday i'll doing the beats delicious festival and things won't stop for me until next sunday... i'm gonna be talking to a lot of people. tune in over the next month to hear my conversations with bands from all over the world. ashley monical stopped by the other day to talk to me about her kickstarter campaign for her new album which ends on april 8th 2015. here's a link, check it out. ashley's kickstarter. ashley's a great artist, help her reach her goal!my guest for episode 360 is singer/songwriter/girl guitar school founder, mandy rowden! mandy just put out a new album called, these bad habits, produced by the great joe carroll. she'l be heading out on tour soon, so look for her coming to a town near you. mandy stopped by the other day and we had a great conversation about her new album, how she was almost a juror on my mom's murder trial, girl guitar, my gay socks, growing up a home-schooled baptist and much, much more. i hope you enjoy getting to know mandy. i sure did. let's get down!ciao! -jg
Tuesday Mar 10, 2015
Tuesday Mar 10, 2015
hello friends! i hope you're all doing well. i am. i ant to tell you guys about an event that we get to be a part of THIS weekend, beats delicious festival sunday march 15th at stonehouse villa in driftwood, tx. doors are at 1:30 pm and bands include, wild adriatic, angela perley, topher mohr and more. there will be local food and beverege vendors set up out there including real ale brewing, genius gin, cornucopia popcorn, simply delicious custom cakes and more. i'll be there interviewing bands for the podcast, so if you come out, say hi. here's the online invite rsvp and we'll see you there!my guest for episode 359 is jared leibowich from one of my favorite new bands here in austin, the zoltars! i came across the zoltars when i was looking for bands to have on during sxsw, when i found out they were from austin, i hit them up and had jared on. they have just released a new self-titled album available on happenin' records. they've done a good amount of touring and are about to hit the road again soon. if you're in austin for sxsw go to thezoltars.com and find out where they'll be playing during the festival. i absolutely love their music and i thoroughly enjoyed getting to know jared. i'm sure you will too. let's get down!ciao! -jg
Friday Mar 06, 2015
Friday Mar 06, 2015
hello friends! i hope you're gearing up for the weekend. america is blanketed in freezing weather. i hope it's not too terrible where you are, just terrible enough to get to stay home for at least a day. austin hasn't seen the sun in 7 days! that sucks. i know there are worse places with less sun and war and famine and things like that, but the missing the sun for 7 days also sucks. okay, just stay warm and remember to listen to "how did i get here?" there are hundreds of episodes to listen to. do it! have a good weekend. i'd like to thank christopher durst and lisa dahl from foster5.org and they talk about this incredible new non-profit helping low-income/at-risk kids with artistic proclivity. check it out!my guests for episode 358 are pop band, shivery shakes! i came across this band while looking for bands to talk to during sxsw. i heard their music, fell in love and invited them on the show. it turns out, i know william from another band he was in years ago called, zipper. anyway, i invited the guys over to talk about their journey, their dreams, their fears and much, much more. they brought me a vinyl copy of their brilliant new album, three waves and a shake, it's awesome. you should get it. they'll be performing 3 times during sxsw 2015, if you haven't seen or heard them, do yourself a favor. here's a link to their site http://www.shiveryshakes.com/ go. get involved. i hope you enloy getting to know shivery shakes. i sure did. let's get down!ciao! -jg
Tuesday Mar 03, 2015
Tuesday Mar 03, 2015
hello friends! i hope the world is treating you well. i'm good. i have a frantic week of rehearsals with multiple bands, shows with different bands, podcast stuff, dinner with rockers and more. i'm glad because this weather makes it easy to NOT go outside. to NOT got do stuff. and i've had kind of a cold since saturday. woke up this morning feeling much better and i'm ready to rock. are you?my guests for episode 357 are austin soul/funk institution, extreme heat! after 40 years of playing together, bruce spelman and mike barnes stopped by with a box of memorabilia, a quilt made of shirts from venues they've played, vinyl albums and their memories to tell the story of of their band, extreme heat. i've been seeing them for 30 of those 40 years. i still share the bill with them both, solo and with skyrocket and i still love seeing them play. this is a great story. mike and bruce came by and laid it all out, playing the armadillo, the crazy 80's, touring, taking a break, on stage heart attacks and much, much more. i hope you enjoy getting to know these legendary cats. i sure did. let's get down!ciao! -jg
Friday Feb 20, 2015
Friday Feb 20, 2015
hello friends! i hope you're all doing well. i'm feeling good. i've been busy as shit. for one, skyrocket played a show on tuesday in houston also, we have a big corporate show coming up the first week in march that we have to learn a bunch of songs for. the night before that i'm playing my first show back with johnny in the ladies room where i'm re-learning songs for that and i've been doing podcasts every day and booking sxsw.... things are crazy. no gig this weekend, but i'll be at the quiet company release show at empire control room on saturday. if you're going to that show, you should come out early and see wild adriatic. they play at 7:30. make a night out of it.my guests for episode 354 are full-on funk pushers, roxy roca! errol and taye make their second appearance on the show. they have big news, their debut album, ain't nothin' fancy, comes out next tuesday, 2/24/2015! if you live in austin, they have a record release next wednesday, 2/25/2015 at c-boys on south congress. they're also heading out on tour so look them up at www.roxyroca.com anyway, errol and taye came by and we got to talk about recording ain't nothin' fancy completely live, getting a new bus, how they use tito's vodka to get the funk out of their suits, their view on spotify and much, much more. i hope you enjoy our conversation. i sure did. let's get down!ciao! -jg
Tuesday Feb 17, 2015
Tuesday Feb 17, 2015
hello friends! i hope you al had a wonderful valentine's weekend. i had a good weekend, but as you'll hear in the intro, a sad valentine's day. skyrocket played some fun shows this weekend and we had some good laughs backstage. speaking of shows, i have a show coming up in a couple of weeks with my all-girl band, johnny in the ladies room. it's a great garage rock band featuring me, kathy valentine, dominique davalos and christina comly. we're playing on friday, march 6th, 2015 at lambert's in austin, tx. here's a link to the event page, johnny in the ladies roommy guest for episode 353 is the amazingly talented and insightful, taylor muse from quiet company! this is taylor's 3rd time on the show and i think the conversations keep getting better. quiet company has a new album, transgressor, coming out NEXT tuesday 2/24/15 on modern outsider records. the album is gorgeous. once again, taylor is working out his life in song and once again, it is a beautiful and transformative experience. i hope you enjoy our conversation that ranges from everything to current music, seeing bands, making transgressor, making peace with your demons and much, much more. i hope you enjoy our conversation. i sure did. let's get down!ciao! -jg
Tuesday Feb 10, 2015
Tuesday Feb 10, 2015
hello friends! i hope life is treating you well. things are good here. i've been booking sxsw 2015 podcast interviews. it took me a week! i've reached out to a ton of bands and i've heard back from around 18 so far. not bad. i'll be confirming days and times over the next 3 weeks. that's always a weird juggling act for me. my friends, wild adriatic are moving to austin on friday. i'm pretty excited about that. they're an amazing band. if you live in austin, if you love rock and roll, do yourselves a favor and find out where they're playing and go see them. my guest for episode 351 is my dear old friend, stephen doster! stephen just released a new solo album, arizona, a couple of months ago, he toured england in support of it and now he's bringing the release shows stateside starting with a record release show in austin at strange brew lounge side on saturday, february 14th at 9:30. if you live in austin, get out and see this brilliant artist and one of my favorite songwriters/musicians/all-around dudes. i hope you enjoy our conversation. i did. let's get down!ciao! -jg
Friday Feb 06, 2015
Friday Feb 06, 2015
hello friends! i hope you're all doing well. i have the weekend off from skyrocket and i am looking for some shows and whatnot to get into. i might go see podcast faves, the rocketboys tonight. i've been booking guests for sxsw 2015. it seems early, but it's just around the corner. i mean, can you believe it's already a week into february. shit! time flies.my guest for episode is singer/songwriter and recent nashville resident, joanna barbera! this is joanna's second time on the show. i caught up with her when she was in austin a few weeks ago, playing some shows and recording with mike mccarthy. we have a great conversation about moving and getting her groove on nashville, dating, writing songs and much, much more. i love hanging with joanna and i'm sure you will too. let's get down!ciao! -jg
Tuesday Feb 03, 2015
Tuesday Feb 03, 2015
hello friends! i can't believe it's already february... can you? i hope you're doing well. things are good here. still doing this "song a day" thing. it's pretty hard to keep up. i fell behind over the weekend and now i'll be writing songs every day until feb 27th. all good. i need it pretty badly. do you write songs? what do you do to get everything kickstarted? do play some games? do you do something special? share it with us at the facebook page . we'd love to know.my guests for episode 349 is ghostland observatory frontman and now leader of aaron behrens and the midnight stroll, the amazing aaron behrens! i have been a fan of ghostland observatory for years, then i saw aaron did a solo project, i checked it out and reached out to him. he knew the show and was happy to come by and chat. we have a great conversation about growing up in a small town, finding music, ghostland observatory, touring like mad, being a dad, opening his own studio and much, much more. i had a great time getting to know aaron. i'm sure you will too. let's get down!ciao! -jg
Friday Jan 30, 2015
Friday Jan 30, 2015
hello friends! i hope you're all doing well. i'm good, but it's been a crazy week. i started this songwriting game with my friend cory where i have to write a song every day until february 25th. it's pretty crazy, but i've written 5 songs this week! i've also done 6 podcast interviews, played a solo show and i'm playing with SKYROCKET! tonight (fri 1/30/15) at hanover's in pflugerville and in houston at the continental club tomorrow (sat 1/31/15). anyway, i'm glad i'm playing this songwriting game. as soon as i write some good ones, i'll post them on soundcloud and let you know.my guests for episode are austin's premier e.d.m. band, GOBI! this is GOBI's second time on the show. they have a fantastic new album, gold on black ice that comes out february 10th. you can pick up a copy before it comes out at their record release on february 7th at holy mountain in austin, tx. we have a great conversation about the making of gold on black ice, playing edm in austin, how they play shows and much, much more. i have a great time talking to phil and dunny. enjoy!ciao! -jg