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096 – Promotions: David Snowden
David Snowden of David Snowden Promotions, Inc. which does management and marketing of fan clubs, merchandise, license deals, and promotion of entertainment artists, including graphic design work is...
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097 – Dodson and Fogg: Chris Wade
Chris Wade is an author, songwriter, and primary architect of Dodson and Fogg, a progressive folk recording project featuring an impressive lineup of musicians that help showcase his songwriting...
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098 – Radioguy: Glen Harris
Glen Harris is a radio producer and award winning broadcaster for 1340 AM KWLE (The Whale) in Anacortes, WA. We talk to Glen about the art of radio production, engineering, and broadcasting, and his...
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073 – Carletta Sue Kay: Randy Walker
Randy Walker is the vocalist for the band Carletta Sue Kay, where he takes on the persona of front woman Carletta, adopting the name of his cousin who served time for attempting to fire bomb her...
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074 – Bay Area Music Collective: Starita
Michael Starita is a lifelong musician with over 15 years of experience as an engineer and producer. He started his career at the famous Hyde Street Studios in the late 90s learning from many of the...
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075 – Musical Affirmation: Far I Shields
Far I Shields is a singer, songwriter, artist, author, and green business entrepreneur. Far I talks with Music Life Radio about his various bands including Sacred Journey, his current solo work, his...
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076 – Three’s Country: Rose, Briney, Milner
Amy Rose, Doug Briney, and Josey Milner are all up and coming country music artists managed by Michael Stover of MTS Management group. We listen to each artist tell their story in three separate mini...
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077 – The Plastic Arts: Kyle Terrizzi
Kyle Terrizzi is a San Francisco Bay Area singer songwriter who performs under the moniker The Plastic Arts. Kyle talks to Music Life Radio about his background, growing up in Tucson, AZ, his move to...
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078 – Art of Life: Lynnee Breedlove
Lynnee Breedlove (aka Lynn Breedlove) is a visionary who has long been shaping revolutionary art. Lynnee was the front-person of the first American out dyke punk band, Tribe 8, which promoted queer,...
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079 – The Monster Show: Cookie Dough and DJ MC2
Cookie Dough and DJ MC2 are co-producers of the long running San Francisco drag production known as The Monster Show. The Monster Show started in the Summer of 2004 at Harvey’s in the heart of the...
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080 – The Bandit of Kabul: Jerry Beisler
Jerry Beisler is author of The Bandit of Kabul: Counterculture Adventures along the Hashish trail and beyond, a non-fiction, narrative history of the 1970s. Beisler also created and produced The...
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081 – On The Road: Final Curse
Thrash metal band Final Curse describes of their first tour, which turned out to be a spectacular disaster, but makes for a great story. Final Curse is Mike Plowman (vocals, guitar), Fernie ” Ferndog”...
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082 – Shineback: Simon Godfrey
Simon Godfrey is a prolific songwriter who has just released a solo album under the moniker Shineback entitled “Rise Up Forgotten, Return Destroyed“, and is also known for his work in the band...
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083 – Hillbilly Nationalists: James Tracy
James Tracy is an author, activist, community organizer, and former singer with the Bay Area band Space Masons. MLR’s Erik Core talks with James about his musical past, his current organizing...
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084 – All Seeing Eyes: Zachary James
Zachary James is a songwriter and front man for the Zachary James and the All Seeing Eyes band. We talk with Zachary and fellow band and soul mate Alexandra Starlight. Zachary James started his...
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085 – Fortunate Daughter: Thao P Nguyen
Thao P. Nguyen is a Artist, Activist, and Academic. She just finished up a solo performance run of her show Fortunate Daughter at Berkeley’s Impact Theatre. Erik Core talks to Thao about her...
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086 – Better Days: Clay Tarver
Clay Tarver is a guitarist, screenwriter, and author. We talk to Clay about his life, starting with both his bands Chavez and Bullet LaVolta, his work over at MTV, how he learned the art of...
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087 – Rubber Soul: Greg Kihn
Greg Kihn is a rock and roll musician, author, radio personality, and podcast host. We chat with Greg about growing up in Baltimore, moving to the Bay Area and forming the Greg Kihn Band in the 70’s...
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088 – The Art of Zen Zenith
Zen Tao-Journey Jimalric Stevensson-Zenith is a musician, and guitar instructor from San Francisco. We talk to Zen about his upbringing in an “unschooled” household, his education at the Musician’s...
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089 – Take You Round the World: Kyle and Carl
Kyle and Carl are two aspiring artist from Phoenix Arizona looking to make a big impact on the music community. They are two cousins who have been working together on music for 5 years now devoting...
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090 – Straight from the Heart: Carlos Guitarlos (1/2)
Carlos Daniel Ayala aka Carlos Guitarlos is a singer, songwriter, and guitar player extraordinaire. He picked up the guitar at age 10 back in 1960 and started writing songs, and has written over 7,000...
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091 – Straight from the Heart: Carlos Guitarlos (2/2)
Carlos Daniel Ayala aka Carlos Guitarlos is a singer, songwriter, and guitar player extraordinaire. He picked up the guitar at age 10 back in 1960 and started writing songs, and has written over 7,000...
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093 – Songs of the Resistance: Gunpowder
The band Gunpowder talks about their third album, Songs of the Resistance, out now and available for free on their website. Music Life Radio’s own Dan Sauter and Erik Core, aka Doc Sauter (Guitar)...
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094 – Guitar Ninja: Ralph Spight
Ralph Spight is a master guitarist, singer-songwriter, and best known for his work in the band’s Victim’s Family, The Freak Accident, and Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. After...
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095 – Lucid: Matt Stevens
Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and sampler to create multi layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His...
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092 – Winter’s Tavern: CJ
CJ is the soon-to-be new owner and proprietor of Winter’s Tavern in Pacifica, CA. Winter’s website tagline “No, Really, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC!” is no lie, they feature independent, original live...
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099 – Al Lujan: CLN/SBR/PNX
Al Lujan is a film-maker working on “CLN/SBR/PNX -True Stories of Chaos, Redemption, Hope and Punk Rock”, a documentary on sober punks, mostly musicians who share their experiences staying clean and...
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100 – Music Life Radio: One Hundred Episodes!
Come celebrate with co-producers Dan Sauter, Erik Core, and Josh Almond on 100 episodes of Music Life Radio. We talk about what inspired us to start the podcast, how we find people to interview, and...
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101 – Royalty Free: Ryan Camarda & Kevin MacLeod
An interview with Ryan Camarda (filmmaker) and Kevin MacLeod (composer) about the making film about a composer whose music has been used in many, many, many videos. Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin...
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102 – Pleasure VKTM: Steve Ricablanca
Steve Ricablana is well known as the bass player for the seminal San Francisco punk band VKTMS. The band formed in 1978, and no other band played the fabulous Mabuhay Gardens more than the VKTMS, but...
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103 – White Trash Debutante: Ginger Coyote
Ginger Coyote started the fanzine Punk Globe in July 1977, which started as photocopied pages but soon went to print media, and the magazine continues to this day in an online format. She is also the...
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104 – SilverTung: Speed Vincent
Speed Vincent from the modern rock band SilverTung is on the show. SilverTung have recently released a new version of their song “Never Too Late”, produced by David Ivory and mastered by Ted Jensen,...
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105 – Human Punk: Marco Thiede
Marco Thiede is the author of “Human Punk For Real”, the auto-biography about his discovery of punk rock music, and how it shaped his life. Marco grew up in Germany and describes his experiences...
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106 – Mother Earth: Tracy Nelson
Tracy Nelson is a singer who has a voice as deep as any mountain, and a soul as wide as any river. Most well known for her role in folk rock band Mother Earth from San Francisco, she harvests a rich...
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107 – Falling Again: Dauzat St. Marie
MLR talks to Singer/songwriter duo Mat Dauzat and Heather St. Marie, aka Dauzat St. Marie who have just released their debut EP “Falling Again” We talk to the pair about growing up in Louisiana,...
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108 – Disco Donnie Lemmon
“Disco” Donnie Lemmon, a veteran of the NW music scene, and founding member of “the Hardcount” “Guns of Nevada” and “Jack the Hotrod”. He is also in “Creedence Rising”, a tribute band to Creedence...
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109 – Modern Day Philosopher: Danny Lobell
Danny Lobell is a standup comedian, and host of Modern Day Philosophers podcast. He was the host and founder of the influential Comical Radio show, the first comedy podcast started in 2004 which...
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110 – Frost*: Jem Godfrey
Jem Godfrey is an Ivor Novello Award winning, BAFTA nominated musician and composer. He wrote and/or produced numerous top 10 hits with various pop acts during the 2000s and also scored four number 1...
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111 – Risk: Kevin Allison
Kevin Allison is the host of RISK! – a live show and podcast “where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share”. We found about this podcast and started binge listening to every...
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112 – Diesel Harmonic: David Denny
David Denny is a guitar maestro, singer, songwriter and recording engineer. He was a founding member of the 60’s psychedelic band Frumious Bandersnatch, went on to play guitar in the Steve Miller...
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113 – Step Into My Parlor: Stephen Carter-Hicks (Part 1)
Stephen Carter-Hicks is a classically trained singer who found his calling in the world of cabaret. Starting his career in show business through his talents as a wig and hair master, he worked on...
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114 – Step Into My Parlor: Stephen Carter-Hicks (2/2)
Pete Townsend and Stephen Carter Hicks Stephen Carter-Hicks is a classically trained singer who found his calling in the world of cabaret. Starting his career in show business through his talents as...
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115 – Timekode: Deni
Timekode is the solo project of a maverick of a woman called DENI. Deni is a Producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, video artist, record company owner & author. Deni received a bass guitar from...
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116 – Ben Goes to China
Ben Bongers (an opera tenor featured in Opera Stories: Ben Bongers – MLR 051) returns to Music Life Radio and speaks with Erik Core about his adventures while performing in China. The winner of...
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117 – Slackbone: Chris Korp
Chris Korp sits down with Music Life Radio’s Erik Core to discuss the “legend” of the band Slackbone. Slackbone was a Bay Area punk rock band formed by a group of baggage handlers, after purchasing...
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118 – The Blusiest Woman: Tia Carroll
Tia Carroll is a singer from Richmond, California, and has been performing the blues, R&B, and soul music for many years. She has often been compared to legendary female singers Tina Turner, Koko...
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119 – HeWhoCannotBeNamed
He Who Cannot Be Named has been playing punk rock for over 25 years, most of that time with the punk rock band “Dwarves”. An original member of this San Francisco based combo, he wrote or cowrote many...
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120 – Rock & Roll Redemption: Frank Castro
Frank Castro spent time in prison where he helped start an inmate-run music program. The power of music helped to change his life around by giving him something to care about, and other positive...
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121 – The Many Transitions of Johnny Truant
Johnny Truant is the vocalist for the band The Truants, a self-described “SAN FRANCISCO BASED POST-PUNK/WEIRDO ROCK BAND. WE ARE QUEER, DARK AND CONFRONTATIONAL, YET MOTIVATED BY THE JOY OF ROCK N...
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122 – Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
We speak to director and producer Corbett Redford of the documentary TURN IT AROUND: THE STORY OF EAST BAY PUNK which spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central...
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