Latest <musicandbooze> Podcast Episodes
Episode 159: Episode 159 - Thomas Moore IV
Music and Booze With Mo - April 22, 2024 00:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThomas Moore IV started out chasing $1 tips at the Superdome, and now leads the drink program at the Elysian Bar in New Orleans. Part of the Turning Tables program (which gives opportunities to black and brown bartenders), he graduated from churning out beers to becoming a mentor as wel...
Episode 158: Episode 158 - Claire Swenson
Music and Booze With Mo - April 08, 2024 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsClaire Swenson was a regular at iconic Minneapolis dive bar and music venue Palmers and eventually wound up on the other side, serving drinks to patrons who considered her "the new guy" for several years. Claire does online radio shows (sometimes from Palmers), plays the rubber chicken ...
Episode 157: Episode 157 - Millita Gonzalez
Music and Booze With Mo - March 25, 2024 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMillita Gonzalez grew up in a family of music bookers & club owners, so of course she started bartending at her dad's Latin dance club as soon as she could! (Her tales of conquering high volume crowds with only a blender are amazing.) She worked her way through Nashville and NOLA, catch...
Episode 156: Episode 156 - Adri Ramos
Music and Booze With Mo - March 11, 2024 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAdri Ramos is the bar manager at LA's Employee's Only and the founder of FLAG LA, a female led apprenticeship group to empower other women in the LA bar industry. She's a fan of moody vibes and great cocktails, and wanted to bartend so badly when she was young that she took classes befo...
Episode 155: Episode 155 - Sebastian de la Cruz
Music and Booze With Mo - February 26, 2024 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsSebastian de la Cruz of Bangkok's Tropic City loves to create a vibe with both his cocktails and his playlists, as being a DJ has been as much a part of his life as bartending has. From his humble beginnings as a barback in Stockholm (his mom got him the job!) to being inspired by the N...
Episode 154: Episode 154 - Ash Murray
Music and Booze With Mo - February 12, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAsh Murray, head bartender and main playlist maker at Meteor in Minneapolis, talks their journey through the world of coffee into the world of spirits by jumping from one top tier destination to another, finally landing in a music lover's bar owned by musicians. Not one to shy away from...
Episode 153: Episode 153 - Nick Sinutko
Music and Booze With Mo - January 22, 2024 00:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe're catching up with a previous guest, Nick Sinutko! He is currently a self proclaimed "mocktologist" (said very tongue in cheek) as he is leading the charge of n/a cocktails at Leucadia's Atelier Manna, and will soon also be creating drinks for skater Tony Hawk's latest enterprise, C...
Episode 152: Episode 152 - Han Suk Cho
Music and Booze With Mo - January 08, 2024 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHan Suk Cho composes music and alcohol free cocktails, passionately pursuing perfection with both. Her n/a contributions to the beverage menu at Kato in Los Angeles helped earn the spot a Michelin star, and she also has her own line of alternative sodas, Zero Proof. Han studied music co...
Episode 151: Episode 151 - Siobahn Jones
Music and Booze With Mo - November 27, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsSiobahn Jones is a queen at creating vibes musically and a speed demon behind the bar conquering a massive cocktail menu at Standby in Detroit, Michigan. While she hasn't started her DJ training (yet), she's been going to concerts since she was 4 and is the one to go to for any kind of ...
Episode 150: Episode 150 - Cara Devine
Music and Booze With Mo - November 13, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsCara Devine gives us the strong, sweet, & bitter (that's the name of her book!) story about her behind the bar (that's the name of her You Tube channel!) experience around the globe and at her home bar Bomba in Melbourne, Australia. There's also a lot of reminiscing about our club days ...
Episode 149: Episode 149 - Heath Gorenflo
Music and Booze With Mo - October 23, 2023 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHeath Gorenflo was a straightedge punk drummer forever, touring the US and playing the club circuit. When that lifestyle got old, they figured they'd sling rum & cokes to get by. Now they're at Baltimore's Dutch Courage, love bartending (and drinking in moderation), & are drumming again...
Episode 148: Episode 148 - Geoffrey Wilson
Music and Booze With Mo - October 09, 2023 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsGeoffrey Wilson bartends at Cane & Table in New Orleans to maintain his DJ & mentoring lifestyle. He's been bartending notably in Chicago, Phoenix, and Portland but it's his work with Turning Tables NOLA that he's most proud of - an organization teaching black & brown hospitality profes...
Episode 147: Episode 147 - Jerrold Khoo
Music and Booze With Mo - September 25, 2023 00:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsJerrold Khoo started bartending to pay for design school and support his hard rock band, but eventually he took those talents and became the cofounder of one of Asia's best bars with Stay Gold Flamingo in Singapore. Although his hair metal days are behind him, he applies the rock and ro...
Episode 146: Episode 146 - Andrew Whibley
Music and Booze With Mo - September 11, 2023 00:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAndrew Whibley, bartender and co-owner at The Cloakroom in Montreal, wouldn't call himself a DJ but he definitely spun hip hop records at parties and today oversees the musical mood at his bar (often lauded and listed as one of the world's best). His amari, bourbon, and beats obsessions...
Episode 145: Episode 145 - Garret Richard
Music and Booze With Mo - August 28, 2023 00:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsGarret Richard, co-author of the book Tropical Standard and Chief Cocktail Officer at Brooklyn's Sunken Harbor Club, has taken technique to a whole new level. On this episode (his second appearance on M&Bw/Mo!) he breaks down how the once lowly blender achieved superstar status, the cul...
Episode 144: Episode 144 - Cheyenne Serene
Music and Booze With Mo - August 07, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsCheyenne Serene, bar manager of acclaimed New Orleans tiki bar Latitude 29, was once a bike messenger in Chicago but traded that for swampy NOLA dives. Their love of emo once drove them to pick up a guitar, but they were better at ukulele and tropical cocktails. We chat about meeting yo...
Episode 143: Episode 143 - Brandon Grilc
Music and Booze With Mo - July 24, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsBrandon and Kimberly Grilc moved to Kobe, Japan and soon realized they really missed tiki bars... so they opened their own! Brandon tells us about their labor of love, The Kazan Room, one of four tiki bars in the country. He discusses the challenge of erratic deliveries, curating the pe...
Episode 142: Episode 142 - Alexis Romero
Music and Booze With Mo - July 10, 2023 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAlexis Romero got his bartending start in his hometown of Tijuana, but eventually crossed the border to show San Diego what he could do. In TJ, he and his friends booked death metal shows. Now in SD, he creates electro beats. Find him making tropical magic at Mothership and on the barte...
Episode 141: Episode 141 - Cory Starr
Music and Booze With Mo - June 26, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsCory Starr got his tiki on bartending in Hawaii, took his skills to Chicago's Three Dots & A Dash, & then moseyed his way to Austin to become the beverage director of the incredible Tiki Tatsu-Ya. He tries plays metal when his daughter isn't demanding Bad Bunny. Check out his zombified ...
Episode 140: Episode 140 - Jen Ann Tonic
Music and Booze With Mo - June 12, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsJen Ann Tonic took her retro lifestyle and love of tiki cocktails and partnered up with her husband to bring Swizzle and Dallas Tiki Week to life in Dallas, Texas. Growing up in the Bay Area with a family that danced hula during the swing revival definitely influenced her taste in tropi...
Episode 139: Episode 139 - Meghan Riggs
Music and Booze With Mo - May 22, 2023 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAfter an attempt to crack the into music industry in LA, Meghan Riggs went back home to Boise, Idaho to a much more entertaining & educational gig as a shot girl at a dive bar. Now she's crafting beautiful cocktails at The Modern Bar & Hotel, putting Boise on the cocktail map while cont...
Episode 138: Episode 138 - Steen Bojsen-Moller
Music and Booze With Mo - May 09, 2023 00:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsSteen Bojsen-Moller started bartending in Auckland before sailing through the Caribbean, landing in London, going back to the islands, opening a bar back home in New Zealand, crossing over to SF and the Future Bars group while DJing and booking entertainment in art galleries, heading do...
Episode 137: Episode 137 - Chris Hannah
Music and Booze With Mo - April 24, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsChris Hannah stepped behind the bar at Arnaud's French 75 in New Orleans and became a bartending legend. He came to NOLA not only to work in these beautiful old places, but to live in a town where you could be anything you wanted to be, which for him meant a snazzy dresser, a blues conn...
Episode 136: Episode 136 - Remmington Pearce
Music and Booze With Mo - April 10, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsRemmington Pearce tends bar at Los Angeles music venue the Moroccan Lounge and is the guitar tech for L7, among other things. She's been a touring musician for over 10 years and fills in the blanks sneaking in craft cocktails when people ask for them. She also swears by the healing prop...
Episode 135: Episode 135 - Joey Houghtaling
Music and Booze With Mo - March 27, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsJoey Houghtaling, beverage director at Nickel City in Austin, was a record store guy and pop punk guitarist in Milwaukee until he realized that it wasn't going to pay the bills, but bartending might. After years of learning from old school bartenders and brand ambassadors, he traded tho...
Episode 134: Episode 134 - Janice Bailon
Music and Booze With Mo - March 13, 2023 00:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsJanice Bailon left her days of voiceover work and pop idol dreams in Hollywood to find her calling as a bartender in San Francisco. Despite being denied a post behind the bar due to her gender and stature, she worked her way into little dives and made it to the storied Bourbon and Branc...
Episode 133: Episode 133 - Xandi Gray
Music and Booze With Mo - February 27, 2023 00:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsXandi Gray has learned much behind the bar at the family business in Houston, The Spot (and the Spot EaDo). These lessons about community, culture, and self control are ones she applies to her musical career as she navigates her path to rising stardom in the R&B world. Check out her dri...
Episode 132: Episode 132 - Cale Brown
Music and Booze With Mo - February 13, 2023 00:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsCale Brown fell in love with rum & decided that he was going to use his Junglebird afro tiki nights at Dovetail Bar in New Orleans to remind people of rum's origins - black and brown labor. His efforts already have him traveling around the country competing and educating others. Music g...
Episode 131: Episode 131 - Ed Strohsahl
Music and Booze With Mo - January 30, 2023 00:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsEd Strohsahl runs the blenders (and more) at New Orleans Cuban style cocktail spot Manolito, but he has also spent a lifetime playing bass both for fun and for a living. As a 10 year old, he probably never guessed that his bass playing would take him all over the world, and as a twenty ...
Episode 130: Episode 130 - Rosey Mitchell
Music and Booze With Mo - January 16, 2023 00:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsLike so many bartenders, Rosey Mitchell faked her way into her first job, but found herself at London's legendary Milk and Honey and now is the Drink Development Queen (that's really her title!) at Three Sheets in the Dalston neighborhood. She loves peaches the fruit as well as Peaches ...
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