Above The Basement - Boston Music and Conversation
211 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsAbove the Basement offers casual and candid discussions with musicians, artists, producers and others from Boston and beyond. Conversations will inform and entertain listeners with experiences from those shaping Boston's music community and for whom music is a passion. You will hear their stories, hardships faced and overcome...
and why they love what they do.
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Episode 189 - Red Shaydez
October 21, 2021 17:09 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBRed Shaydez! OK let’s talk some sh**t! Sorry for the potty mouth. Just trying to introduce my next guest appropriately. Red Shaydez is a Do it your-selfer whose name I have heard countless times over the past few years. She is a busy woman and talent. A hip-hop artist, producer, videographer, public speaker, educator, and youth mentor, Red has been nominated and/or won several Boston Music Awards including Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, 617 Session artist of the year...
Episode 188 - Justine Covault -Red On Red Records
October 06, 2021 22:16 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBRight when I first started ATB in 2016, emails asking to be a guest were few and far between. One of the first requests I ever got that year was from my next guest, who I never actually met until this past summer. Musician Justine Covault had herself just started her band Justine and The Unclean. She’s someone who gets stuff done. From co-founding female-fronted rock festival WhistleStop Rock to starting a monthly residency at The Plough And Stars with 'The Mess Around', Justine has ven...
Episode 187 - Linnea Herzog
September 09, 2021 16:35 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBLinnea Herzog is someone you don’t miss when you walk by her. Or see on stage. And I would surmise at her day job as a neuroscientist at The Broad Institute, you can’t miss her there either. Musicians are smart. But some are smarter than others, especially when you get a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University where Linnea studied how taste and spatial information are processed in the rodent hippocampus. Linnea is actually our second musician/scientist we’ve spoken to at The Broad...
Episode 186 - JJ Gonson
August 05, 2021 14:40 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBI saw my first show at Once Ballroom in Somerville a few years ago, entering the building, wondering if I just walked into a bar mitzvah, or as JJ Gonson first thought when she saw the room for the first time, a high school prom. But on the raised stage I saw the band, Dada. That was only the first time among many. Mostly I was there for the infamous Boston Emissions Rock and Roll Rumble, where the place transformed into a community of music fans and bands who supported each other and the m...
Episode 185 - The Suitcase Junket (Part Two)
July 29, 2021 15:47 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBMatt Lorenz, AKA The Suitcase Junket. Many sounds come from this one-man band. Sounds from actual suitcases, from guitars found in the trash to any number of odds and ends Matt procures, invents, and salvages. He is an inventive and talented guy. I took a trip out to western MA to chat with Matt in his recently almost finished studio to talk about, well, a whole bunch of things - his latest album The End is New, his upcoming show at the Sinclair in Cambridge MA on August 6th, his life b...
Episode 184 - The Suitcase Junket (Part One)
July 29, 2021 15:34 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBMatt Lorenz, AKA The Suitcase Junket. Many sounds come from this one-man band. Sounds from actual suitcases, from guitars found in the trash to any number of odds and ends Matt procures, invents, and salvages. He is an inventive and talented guy. I took a trip out to western MA to chat with Matt in his recently almost finished studio to talk about, well, a whole bunch of things - his latest album The End is New, his upcoming show at the Sinclair in Cambridge MA on August 6th, his life b...
Episode 183 - The Wolff Sisters
July 22, 2021 16:26 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBWhen COVID first hit Boston and we were sequestered in our hobbit holes, we decided to offer a window for everyone to see and hear live music for a musical respite from the pandemic. One of our guests on this program that we called #TogetherAtHome was the awesome Wolff Sisters. These three sisters and musicians, who are also fellow 2020 Boston Music Award winners for Americana Artist of the Year, invited me into their home to chat about their last album Queendom of Nothing. But their most...
Episode 182 - Knar Bedian
July 08, 2021 14:21 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBI was very happy to sit with Knar Bedian, Founder and Editor in Chief of Sound of Boston music blog. I discovered Sound of Boston before I started Above The Basement and I am a huge fan. I asked Knar on in the early days of ATB and she politely refused. But I kept at it and finally got her on the show. Knar loves Boston, and like many of us, she wants to make sure people know how amazing and vibrant the Boston music scene is. But even beyond that, as a proud Armenian-American, Knar is a...
Episode 181 - Avi Salloway
June 01, 2021 23:23 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBLike so many of the Boston musicians we have talked to, Avi Salloway from the band Billy Wylder is a very thoughtful guy who has learned that as an activist, you need to understand how to be an ally. Avi just released a new EP called Whatcha Looking For and we were fortunate enough to hear a few tunes from it. He has played music around the globe, from working with Israeli and Palestinian youth to develop creative nonviolent tools for social change with the Non Profit organization Heartb...
Episode 180 - Juliana Hatfield
April 15, 2021 15:02 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBJuliana Hatfield! If you did not know, Juliana is a Boston native and still resides in the city. You may see her finishing up her 10…ok maybe 5k run if you can pick her out from the crowd of masked runners. She likes the anonymity and this isolation in the time of COVID fit her very well – or at least it didn’t change much for her - as she is a restless artist and will always find something to do with her creativity. With 26 or so albums under her belt, 19 of those solo studio album...
Episode 179 - Oedipus
April 02, 2021 13:54 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBBoston Radio and WBCN legend, Oedipus, is someone who seems to have said yes to everything. Oedipus got his start as an intern in college radio in the 70’s and worked his way into the WBCN family, creating the Boston Radio powerhouse that BCN became. With his cutting-edge pink hair and his love of punk and new wave music, the musicians that made up the Boston bands like DMZ and The Real Kids, many of whom slept on his floor in his small Beacon Hill apartment, paved the way for other ...
Episode 178 - Jennifer D'Angora and Ed Valauskas
March 18, 2021 14:57 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBWhat is a Jamoke? Is a chump a jamoke? We really have no idea. But we love the question and will begin using the word Jamoke on a regular basis. These are the deep questions we dove into when talking with Jennifer D’Angora and Ed Valauskas. Plymouth native Jennifer D’Angora, also known as Jenny Dee, has been on the Boston music scene long enough to be in more bands than we can count. The Dents, Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents, The Downbeat 5, and the fantastic group of musicians that mak...
Episode 177 - Destiny Claymore
March 12, 2021 19:11 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBWe first heard of Destiny Claymore in an article on Vanyaland and then in another piece by the great Jed Gottlieb in The Boston Herald. A Boston triple threat with an incredible, unique voice and dancing chops, Destiny had a pretty great 2020 - despite COVID. She appears in the upcoming film Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds and not too long ago was also in The Expecting with AnnaSophia Robb. In addition, she was able to release her album Pretty to rave reviews. Not bad for a COVID-filled 2020...
Episode 176 - Tall Heights
February 25, 2021 14:31 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBWe think what makes our conversations interesting is the face-to-face we always have and actually required at one point. We used to say no to virtual conversations. But we aren’t idiots, as far as you know, and we are still chatting with our guests virtually because of the evil COVID, and while we are not fans, we still at least get to talk with great musicians who turn out to be great people as well. Two fellas who fall into those two descriptions are Paul Wright and Tim Harrington from t...
Episode 175 - Neighbor - Part Two
February 05, 2021 16:20 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBPart Two! Fans of Phish, Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, these fans are all great. But nothing compares to the fans of the homegrown Boston band Neighbor. Whether that is hyperbole or not (Ron will need to find the definition of that word in a dictionary), the fellas in Neighbor would argue that they do have the greatest fans in the world. Neighbor is Richard James, Dan Kelly, Dean Johnston (aka The Dux), and Lyle Brewer. Four guys who serendipitously came together either as childhood frie...
Episode 174 - Neighbor - Part One
February 04, 2021 17:43 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBFans of Phish, Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, these fans are all great. But nothing compares to the fans of the homegrown Boston band Neighbor. Whether that is hyperbole or not (Ron you can find the definition of that word in a dictionary), The fellas in Neighbor would argue that they do have the greatest fans in the world. Neighbor is Richard James, Dan Kelly, Dean Johnston (aka The Dux), and Lyle Brewer. Four guys who serendipitously came together either as childhood friends or were d...
Episode 173 - The Devil's Twins
January 29, 2021 18:44 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBWe had a remote conversation with the Boston band The Devil’s Twins, who we’ve wanted to have on for a while. We do not like remote conversations, but we did find it was better than having them in person with masks on. First of all, it is obviously safer to do it remotely, and also it is much more difficult to have a face to face when you can’t even see their faces. So, we will continue to be remote until it is safe to see people in the flesh. That said we were lucky enough to have on ...
Episode 172 - Danielle O. Johnson
January 21, 2021 20:02 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBWe sat with DJ, entrepreneur, and the first black woman to own a digital radio station, Ms. Hot Sauce – AKA Danielle O Johnson. This is probably the most raunchy episode we have ever done, which isn’t really saying much because, well, Ron and I are kinda like saints without the two required miracles. But we do have some inappropriate language in this episode, so block your child's ears as you listen and make this episode go. crazy viral! Danielle started Spark FM just this past year and s...
Episode 171 - U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo
January 14, 2021 16:09 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBBoston born U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo got her start at Wally’s Jazz Café when she was tricked into performing her poetry in front of an audience by her friends. But her journey reaches much farther than the great Wally’s. U-Meleni spent her youth in Zimbabwe and she credits her late mother as well as her grandmother for her gift of empathy and expression. Since Wally’s, she has gone on to perform internationally as a poet, singer, speaker, and educator. In addition to her artistic endeavor...
Episode 170 - Jonathan Abbott
December 30, 2020 20:58 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBAnyone who grew up in the Boston area in the '70s will remember the GBH theme music that played on our TV sets while we sat 10 inches away from the TV and watched Sesame Street or the always hip kids show Zoom. No, not the Zoom we all use today, but the 1972 Zoom. That iconic music (which you will hear on the episode) is embedded in our brains, and we are happy to say it is still being used to this day by GBH (formerly WGBH). We had the great opportunity to speak with GBH President and C...
Episode 169 - Twisted Pine
December 17, 2020 21:17 - 54 minutes - 50 MBChuck had a solo conversation with the great New England band Twisted Pine. He sat with fiddle player Kathleen Parks, mandolin player Dan Bui and bassist Chris Sartori not too long ago. We missed Twisted Pine's newest addition, Anh Phung, who plays flute in the band, but she is safe at home in beautiful Canada. But we did get to talk about her behind her back - all nice things of course. Twisted Pine is one of the most acclaimed young string bands in the Northeast. These fine musician...
Episode 168 - STL GLD - BSO
December 10, 2020 19:09 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBIn early November we ran across an article in the Boston Globe about a collaboration between the Boston Hip Hop group STL GLD and The Boston Symphony Orchestra. The headline alone caught our interest – the BSO is collaborating with a hip hop artist? We were so interested. We watched a music video that they put together and it blew our minds. The song itself, "With Me," from STL GLD's 2019 album "The New Normal” is an amazing piece, made even more incredible by adding talent from some BSO m...
Episode 167 - Kemp Harris
December 03, 2020 18:10 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBIt has been an insane few weeks, which is an understatement to say the least since that could apply to the entirety of 2020 if not the last four years. We don’t mean to lay our politics out there, but whatever your beliefs, 2020 can’t end soon enough. Luckily, we were able to talk to the multi-talented Kemp Harris to bring a little light into this terrible year. Kemp is a quintuple threat – actor, songwriter, composer, singer, storyteller – and we are probably missing a few other talent...
Episode 166 - Clint Conley
November 19, 2020 16:18 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBMission of Burma has been called, and we quote, "...one of the most important American rock bands of the last 20 years." That quote may be a bit dated, as now it may be 40 years, but either way, Clint Conley may find that to be hyperbole. But the fact remains that bands like The Pixies, Pearl Jam, Moby, REM, Nirvana and Throwing Muses (to name just a few) list Burma as a major influence, it is hard to argue with that moniker. In 1979, bass player Clint Conley, along with guitarist Roger Mil...
Episode 165 - Ruby Mack
November 12, 2020 15:58 - 49 minutes - 45 MBWe had an opportunity to sit with Abby (Abs) Kahler and Zoe Young - two of the members of the feminist folk foursome from Western, MA in the Pioneer Valley, Ruby Mack. We were sad to miss their bandmates Emma Ayres and Abbie Duquette, but during the time of COVID, we are always happy to sit face to face albeit 10 feet away and masked to chat with talented musicians. We got heavy into their songwriting and their debut album Devil Told Me, which they just released in late October. Like so ...
Episode 164 - Mark Kates
October 29, 2020 17:24 - 53 minutes - 49 MBBoston native Mark Kates is the founder of Fenway Recordings and manages several bands, including MGMT, The Cribs, Mission of Burma, Doves, Swim Mountain and KUNZITE. He had been in the biz since he was a kid, signing a who’s who of bands over the years including Beck, Jawbreaker, Elastica, Alabama 3. When working for Geffen, he brought them Sonic Youth and also worked with Nirvana, Hole, Teenage Fanclub, XTC, Siouxsie and the Banshees, White Zombie. The list is CRAZY. Oh yeah, and he al...
Episode 163 - Erin McKeown - Part Two
October 22, 2020 18:06 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBWe took a lovely drive to western ma to sit alongside a flowing river with our new best friend Erin McKeown. OK, she might not be our best friend, but we certainly wish she was. Erin is a force of nature. A persistent welcoming smile immediately put me at ease. So much so that we talked for almost two hours. Which is why this episode is in two parts. We talk music, musical theater, writing, name dropping, COVID, hope, and other things too numerous to mention. Over the last few decad...
Episode 162 - Erin McKeown - Part One
October 22, 2020 17:56 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBWe took a lovely drive to Western MA to sit alongside a flowing river with our new best friend Erin McKeown. OK, she might not be our best friend, but we certainly wish she was. Erin is a force of nature. A persistent welcoming smile immediately put me at ease. So much so that we talked for almost two hours. Which is why this episode is in two parts. We talk music, Musical theater, writing, name dropping, COVID, hope, and other things too numerous to mention. Over the last few decad...
Episode 161 - Brandie Blaze
October 15, 2020 16:18 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBEvery time we ask someone in the music business what is the most exciting thing happening in music in the City of Boston, we always get the same answer. Hip-Hop. Not only has Hip Hop become the most popular music genre in the rest of the world, but Boston has become a hotbed of fantastic hip-hop artists like our next guest, Brandie Blaze. Brandie is nominated for Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the Boston Music Awards and is blazing (sorry) her own path with her powerful and energetic p...
Episode 160 - Chris Smither
October 08, 2020 14:57 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBEvery once in a while we get to chat with a Boston legend. Chris Smither is one of the most distinguished and authentic singer-songwriter/bluesmen over the past 50+ years. His soulful voice and excellent finger-style guitar playing is set to a heartbeat kept in time by his signature tapping feet. Chris moved to Boston from New Orleans back in the mid 1960’s and within hours of arriving he was on stage with Eric von Schmidt in Harvard Square at Club ‘47 (now Club Passim). Hanging out with ...
Episode 159 - Hilken Mancini
October 01, 2020 17:20 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBRon and I sat in the back room of 40 South Street in Jamaica Plain, buried in denim, and various other piles of vintage clothing with our masks over our faces on a beautiful day not too long ago. The proprietor Hilken Mancini had to leave every so often to take care of the front of the store, but we got in a great conversation. 40 South Street is a vintage clothing store owned by musician, punk rocker, entrepreneur, aerobic instructor and all-around amazing person Hilken Mancini. We firs...
Episode 158 - Lisa Bastoni
August 27, 2020 15:03 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBChuck drove out to Western Massachusetts to sit on Lisa’s front porch surrounded by chickens, a vocal rooster, two small children having an amazing time doing whatever small children feel like doing, bees and the occasional mouse to talk music, songwriting and Life in the Time of COVID. Lisa’s latest album How We Want To Live is a beautiful record that reflects her many life changes over the past few years. Her songs are a musical ‘thank you’ to her grandmother who introduced her to the gu...
Episode 157 - Paul Hansen
August 06, 2020 18:04 - 56 minutes - 52 MBPaul Hansen is The Grownup Noise – a Boston band formed in 2005 with bassist Adam Sankowski – that has had an impressive list of members too long to mention. The Grownup Noise website says their name represents something to rebel against, like fear, complacency, the closing of your heart, the stress of bills etc. We can imagine the current state of affairs with COVID, the election and the financial and social hardships we are all experiencing, we would all like to rebel. Paul is doing his...
Episode 156 - Mistress Carrie
July 23, 2020 16:39 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBWith a name like Mistress Carrie, we might be forgiven if we were a bit cautious asking her on ATB for a chat. But we knew what we were getting into. Boston native Mistress Carrie is a badass. She was until recently a DJ for 22 years and the Assistant Program Director of Boston rock station WAAF.
Episode 155 - Cliff Notez
July 16, 2020 16:03 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBBoston Hip Hop artist Cliff Notez is another guest we had been trying to get on ATB for a long time. He’s a busy busy guy – writing, composing, teaching at Berklee College of Music and Emerson College, filming, sculpting, painting and according to WBUR in Boston, generally being one of the Boston arts community’s busiest multihyphenates. Which is an awesome word and we're not sure what it means, but we think we want to also be multihyphenates. Cliff also founded the media producti...
Episode 154 - Geoff Edgers
July 02, 2020 14:17 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBFor our first in-person but appropriately distanced conversation since COVID hit, we were fortunate to sit with fellow Bostonian, author, documentary filmmaker and National Arts reporter for the Washington Post, Geoff Edgers. We first came to know Geoff at a book signing of his recent book Walk This Way - Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever. Since then we kept seeing Geoff around town – at David Byrne's American Utopia show in Boston, in Quincy - the Quincy ...
Episode 153 - Corey SantOne DePina
June 25, 2020 16:19 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBWe first met Corey SantOne DePina at a Mighty Mighty Bosstones concert not too long ago with some of his students at Zumix, and we could tell right then that he was the real rock star of the evening. Zumix is an award-winning music and creative technology program designed to equip youth with the tools necessary to reach their full potential, while creating a safe space for youth to explore who they are and who they want to be. In addition to working at Zumix, Corey also started the Fogo Pr...
BONUS - Ashleigh Gordon
June 16, 2020 15:50 - 21 minutes - 14.4 MBThis is our second conversation with a former guest that we thought was important to have due to recent events. We spoke with Ashleigh Gordon - violist, activist and Artistic Director of Castle of Our Skins, a Boston-based concert and educational series devoted to celebrating Black Artistry through music. We talked to Ashleigh about how she’s doing with life in the time of COVID as well as her thoughts on the recent protests stemming from the murder of George Floyd.
Episode 152 - Ry Cavanaugh
June 11, 2020 16:33 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBThe COVID pandemic hit all of us quickly and our plans for the spring, summer and perhaps beyond, were scuttled. We know of many musicians who were planning to tour a new album and unfortunately they had to postpone, or in the case of Ry Cavanaugh of the amazing band Session Americana, cancel altogether. Hopefully we can change his mind about the tour, but at the very least we get to hear this beautiful album of songs that Ry gathered written by his late father George – also known as Bobby...
Anngelle Wood Bonus
June 09, 2020 14:57 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBWe wanted to catch up with a few of our previous guests to see how they are doing in this quarantine from which, thankfully, we are slowly emerging. I’ll have a few different guests on to talk about the current state of affairs in our city, including the protests and state of our country. So here is a conversation with Boston Emissions’ Anngelle Wood, where we catch up on the radio industry, what the new normal will look like for live music and how she hit the ground running once everything...
Episode 151 - Ben Reigle
June 04, 2020 17:21 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBOn one fine day back in early March, The ATB team drove out to Greenfield, MA to Great Spirits Tattoo to not only talk with musician and artist Ben Reigal, but also to get Chuck another tattoo! Chuck got a tattoo of a compass on the inside of my left arm. I think we can all agree that a compass is something that we as a country, as a society and as human beings need in our lives. We have all been struggling with life in the time of COVID, with many of us losing a friend or family member to ...
Episode 150 - Ghost GRL
March 12, 2020 17:10 - 56 minutes - 52 MBOur first visit to the Boston Music Awards a few years ago was an eye opener and introduced us to many new and established Boston Artists we had not yet seen or heard. That was in the earlier days of this podcast. At one point, a lone musician with a guitar took the stage and began playing. Gianna Botticelli (aka Ghost GRL) stopped us in our tracks. With her haunting, ambient guitar and ethereal voice, the entire room paid attention. It took us a few years to finally get her on ATB, bu...
Episode 149 - Porsha Olayiwola
February 28, 2020 03:21 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBIf you did not know, the City of Boston has a Poet Laureate. The job maintains that the appointed poet must be a significant fixture in Boston's cultural and artistic arena. The Poet Laureate may learn, teach, and embody the great literary traditions of Boston. If embodying the great literary traditions of Boston means you are a rock star 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion who is a writer, performer, educator and curator who uses afro-futurism...
Hallways Episode 002 - Patty Griffin
February 20, 2020 16:46 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBYou’ve hopefully heard us talk about a new project we have in partnership with the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame – a podcast called Hallways. If you haven’t been to the FARHOF, you should check it out. You can visit FolkAmericanaRootsHallofFame.org for information, but basically The Hall is housed in the Wang Theatre in Boston and it celebrates the history of Folk, Americana and Roots music through displays, memorabilia, artifacts, multi-media, lectures and concerts. As much as any...
Episode 148 - David Bieber
February 13, 2020 17:58 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBIf you have ever been to the Verb Hotel, or perhaps seen the recent documentary WBCN – An American Revolution, or hopefully visited the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame at the Wang Theater in Boston, you have seen artifacts gathered by Mr. David Bieber. David hails from Cleveland but has lived in Boston since he moved here to attend BU as a journalism major in 1968 – right at the beginning if the reign of WBCN. From there he went on to work for WBCN, as well as WFNX, and The Boston Phoeni...
Bestor Cram: JFK - The Last Speech
February 08, 2020 15:48 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBWe met with Bestor to talk about JFK - The Last Speech – the very last public speech John F. Kennedy gave before he was assassinated three weeks later. We were fortunate to have a special guest Roger Hirschberg join us who was actually present at Amherst College when JFK gave the speech. It made for a great discussion. For more episodes, please visit www.abovethebasement.com
FTBNL/Hot Stove Cool Music
February 03, 2020 15:26 - 8 minutes - 5.71 MBAbout a year ago we had the great opportunity to speak with Baseball Writer’s hall of famer and longtime musician Mr. Peter Gammons at his annual event celebrating the Peter Gammons College Scholarship. This scholarship, which allows Boston and Chicago area high school students a cash scholarship to the college of their choice has sent 150 Boston and Chicago area students to college by awarding them over $600,000 in scholarships. But this wonderful foundation is only one piece of the puzzl...
Episode 146 - Bestor Cram
January 17, 2020 22:27 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBBoston documentary filmmaker Bestor Cram founded and also serves as creative director for the Boston-based documentary film and museum production company called Northern Light Productions. He has had films screened at Sundance Film Festival, The Boston Film Festival, The Austin Film Festival, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, The Woods Hole Film festival and many others. Titles include the film How Far Home about the dedication of th Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C., B...
Episode 145 - Chadwick Stokes and Sybil Gallagher
December 19, 2019 19:50 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBWe sat with Sybil Gallagher and her husband Chadwick Stokes from the band DISPATCH – aka The Biggest Band No One Has Ever Heard Of. This despite the huge following and many, many loyal fans they continued to have even after a long hiatus that began in 2004. Just before that hiatus - that is now over, Chadwick Stokes started another band out of Boston called State Radio which allowed him to continue his personal musical journey as wel l as satisfy his itch to be more vocal on social issues....
Episode 144 - Charles Laquidara
December 05, 2019 01:35 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBWBCN legend Charles Laquidara and also the infamous Dwayne Ingalls Glasscock joined us for a conversation at the recently opened Woods Hill Pier 4 in Boston. This just a week before Charles as well as Red Sox Hall of Fame pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee take the stage at The Wilbur Theater in Boston on Tuesday, December 10. So many of us listened to WBCN on our morning commute joining Charles on his program The Big Mattress. Charles was part of a family of DJ’s and personalities at BCN that...