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Monday May 11, 2015
Monday May 11, 2015
Man after 72 episodes I finally figured something out. The sound this week is really good I think. It's not as hissy as normal. I am very proud of this one James Zametz stopped by and its always a good time when he comes over. Fort Worths funkiest always delivers! The show starts with a track from Grant Bloom called Young Man Blues. https://grantbloom.bandcamp.com/ Make sure to like Grants new outfit called Troody. You can here them May 30th at pop up fest.We talk a little about pop up fest. We also talk weather, aquaponic gardening, trees falling on houses and Prairie Fest. The middle track is from my man Tornup Evan Finley.It's a track he did with B'SWAX called Black Love and it is available here. https://tornup.bandcamp.com/The second half is more Pop Up Fest and Panther Fest including talk about a very very long slide that will run from downtown to Panther Island. We give a special shout out to Wes Word just because Wes is cool like that and we close with Hightower and their song Rain in Sunshine. https://soundcloud.com/hightowerband You can hear all 3 artist from this episode May 30th at Capps Park for Pop Up Fest. Its gonna be amazing. Like Keep Fort Worth Funky on Facebook. That just went over 5000 likes. Awesome! Follow on twitter too. Twitter.com/@keepFWFunkyThanks y'all enjoy!!
Friday May 08, 2015
Friday May 08, 2015
I have a special edition of LowDown with EdBrown for you today. Today we talk beer! Kerim Razack joins me and Edward Brown and we talk about his beer blog Doc Hop Head. You can find the website at http://www.dochophead.com/ We talk local breweries, community, and the different types of beers. Ed and Kerim talk about some of there favorite beers and favorite places to get beer. I manage to squeeze in some Smokey and the Bandit talk. Ed will sometimes write reviews for the blog and if you are a hop head too and would like to review craft beer for the blog all is welcome. Make sure you like Doc Hop Head on Facebook and contact Kerim. You can also follow him on twitter and Instagram at DocHopHead. Ed Brown suggested for the middle track we play Shotgun Friday and their song Velvet Hammer. https://shotgunfriday.bandcamp.com/releasesAfter the break Ed and I sit and talk about his cover story in this weeks Fort Worth Weekly. However when I went to post the episode the audio was gone. I cant locate it. What a drag. It's an interesting article about questionable spending practices and questionable hiring and firing practices in the Eagle Mountain School District. You can read the article here and I urge you to do so. http://www.fwweekly.com/2015/05/06/failing-grades/After I talk about the interview I did with Ed we close the show out with a new release from Svenny Baby Songs you've never heard.https://svennybabymusic.bandcamp.com/I hope you enjoy this one! I also tried something new and added a music bed to the discussion. Extra points if you can tell me what it is! As always thanks very much for spending some of your time listening.
Sunday May 03, 2015
Sunday May 03, 2015
This week on the podcast I have the one and only Matthew Blake also know as WhiskeyBoy. How many ounces of whiskey is to much whiskey is one of the many topics we tackled. The songs this week are the lost songs from last weeks pulled episode. Some of you have heard them but most haven't and the songs are so great that I at least wanted them to be heard. So to kick off the show we have Mean Motor Scooter Rhythm Of Love. The show starts off with talk about the big fight that apparently happened saturday night. We also talk whiskey, healthy living, podcast doing stand up comedy and Friday on the Green coming up May 8. The middle track is Jake Paleschic Easy Living. The second half we talk about Pop Up Fest May 9 at Capps Park. WhiskeyBoy wanted to talk about something a little heavier so we talk a little about Baltimore and somehow make our way to gay marriage and of course love. Its all about the love up in here. Make sure to check out WhiskeyBoy Radio and all of our other podcast brethren like The Jerry Jonestown Massacre, Atypical dfw podcast, EpicPodQuest, Robotuner's Insignificant Podcast, Off Radar Podcast and Porpoise Crispy Podcast. The last track is from I happy am. This track is from their visit to The Jerry Jonestown Massacre. Its called The Prophet and it's amazing!!
Monday Apr 20, 2015
Monday Apr 20, 2015
After spending time at open streets I could think of no better way to spend Sunday evening than with Nathan Brown and Tara Brown. These two, wow, just fantastic. She is a local stand up comic and Mom. He is a local musician who plays 80s info program music. They are both amazing at what they do. We talk 80s, kids, women's issues, an awesome super secret idea coming soon to fairmount, music and stand up comedy. The show opens with Nathan Brown and his tune Banana Seat Bike Chase. The halfway point we play some of Taras stand up. It's so great. She may be my new favorite female comic. Does it have to be female comic? Cant it just be comic? We discuss that too. Man we talk about a lot of stuff. I was super excited to meet them and they were cooler than I imagined. I hope you enjoy this. Check out her comedy and definitely keep an eye out for Nathan Brown. He will be having some new tunes out soon and we all wait in anticipation. The last track is called Snugglebug. A sweetly, maybe slightly inappropriate, song he wrote for Tara. Nathans music is very familiar but different than anything you will hear around town. Its pretty incredible what he is doing. There is plenty of music talk with Nathan too. Seriously folk these two are people you should know if you don't already. Check out their stuff. You can find some of Nathans tunes herehttps://soundcloud.com/nathanbrowninghamAlso follow Tara on twitter at Faux_Ma@twitter and like her Faux Ma page on Facebook. Thanks Y'all. Much Love
Monday Apr 13, 2015
Monday Apr 13, 2015
Jason Earll came over with some of his musician friends to do the podcast this week. We have Jason as the singer and songwriter 12 string guitar player. We have Timmy Crawford tickling the keys and doing back up. On lead guitar is Chris Allen Curtis and holding down the bottom is Pat Tremble on bass. The opening song is called blooming. Jason is a local Posi musician and we find out exactly what Posi is. We spend a little time with each one talking about the path that lead them to this kind of music. These guys have all attended or attend Unity Church of Fort Worth and or Harmony Fellowship of Fort Worth and so we spend some time talking church. We talk about some of our favorites in this community like KatsüK, Alan Rice, of course Paul John Roach and the always inspirational Melinda Wood Allen. The second song is a more intimate number with a touching story called Last Prayer. The dog, Willow, makes many appearances because her and Timmy became best friends. This podcast is full of positivity, love, music, pets, church and #DFWPosi. The last track is a catch number called So Easy to be Beautiful. I had a lot of fun with this one and any excuse to get on the inter-webs and shine a little light and spread a little love is a great excuse. Jason has a go fund me campaign going. He is trying to make a full length album. If you can help out please do so. I know he'd appreciate it.http://www.gofundme.com/jasonposiand you can hear some demos at https://soundcloud.com/jason-earll
Monday Apr 06, 2015
Monday Apr 06, 2015
Seth Reeves, frontman for the Siberian Traps, came by the house and sang 3 gorgeous songs and talk with me about everything from birth to death. The show starts off with a song called Phillip Sheridan. Wait till you find out who Phillip Sheridan is. The second songs is called Songs I Don't Write and again another wonderful story behind this track. We close with a touching song called Lights Keep Blinking which is a tribute to his late father. In this show we start with the birth of his daughter. We also talk about local music, coffee shops in Burleson. and Nashville. The episode ends with the death of his Dad. It wasn't intentional to have an Easter episode that covers endings and beginnings but I think it came out beautifully. I hope you enjoy it. Happy Easterhttps://siberiantraps.bandcamp.com/album/blackfoot
Monday Mar 30, 2015
Monday Mar 30, 2015
This week on the show is the one and only Doug Jason Funnie. With Joe Tacke tweaking the knobs and Zach Zanetich sitting in and taking notes I had the whole crew in tow. Thank goodness I did. At the middle break everything shut down and I feared I had lost the first half hour of dialogue. Having an audio engineer on hand, Joe along with Zach found the file and we were able to rescue the audio. With that in mind most of the conversation revolves around Doug Funnie (Nerdcore) newest album Homecoming. The show kicks off with Gotta Go. We talk about the first album Where is Doug Funnie?, and how our hero is on the lamb at the end of the album. The newest album is a continuation and we find Doug still on the run. We talk about the story line, some characters and the musical styles represented. We talk about Nerdcore as a genre and try and find the roots of it. MC Frontalot is in the conversation as to who the godfather of Nerdcore may be and is featured on the middle track called Need Your Help. We also talk about ( or attempt to ) the differences between Dallas Fort Worth and Denton when it comes to hip hop, nerdcore, or rap. I share a little about Saturday night at the Cellar Fort Worth, get into a weird metaphysical loop (we're all connected man) and just generally had a blast on this one. Doug Funnie is a fantastic rapper, an excellent writer, creative genius when it comes to mixing video game music with his tunes, and the last song we play wraps up who he is and what he is about. It is called Homecoming and I know you will dig it. You can find all his albums at https://dougfunnie.bandcamp.com/
Tuesday Mar 24, 2015
Tuesday Mar 24, 2015
Callie Dee is a Hip Hop guru. She hosted a Hip Hop show, did local showcases, blogs and now books national acts. I was lucky enough to sit with her and learn about local hip hop. Bodega Brothers kick off the show with Bout that Life and the middle track is Baconomics, Turkey Bacon (WhiskeyBoys favorite) and we close with the most perfect of jams by Hologram Dagger called Beneath the above. We talk about Dallas Fort Worth and Denton, family and the Southside Pirate. Sorry it's so short. Im at lunch right now and will have a complete description with links in the next couple of days. I sure hope you enjoy this. I really had a blast and learned a lot. Like the 4 elements of the hip hop scene. What? Listen to find out!
Monday Mar 16, 2015
Monday Mar 16, 2015
The show kicks off this week with Blank-Men Radio Silence and then Zach Danger (Eagle Bones)and I sit and chat with Steve Watkins. Steve Watkins writes local concert reviews for DFW.com. You have probably read his stuff at some point. I thought it would be cool to have someone on who reviews local shows, but Steve is much more than that. He is a photographer, a journalist and a really interesting dude to sit and chat with. We start off local with some history and he talks about the coffee shop on Berry he used to own and some of the folks that came through playing music. We have a great talk about how much we miss The Frisky Disco and how important their scene was along with Animal Spirit, The Breakfast Machine, and Panic Volcanic. We talk about Gollay, KatsüK and an interesting conversation about activism and music. The middle track is by Mountain Kid called Kallipolis and the second half of the show we go more national, global even, and we talk politics, religion and wiener dog races! Seriously the second half was so much fun for me. I don't do it to often but we hit it all. Hillary Clintons email, #47traitors, OU, gay marriage, christianity, the Pope, and of course the upcoming presidential election. Then an awesome story about a trip he took with Sharon Pate to see dachshund races. We also spent time on photography as well but not as much as it deserved but this thing is already 2 hours. Check out Steves page Panther City Visual Arts. He does amazing work, both with local bands and street art. Both digital and film. Steve is a really cool cat and I think you are going to enjoy hearing him on the show. Thanks so much for listening!! The closing track is Error of Metabolism Bike Chain
Friday Mar 13, 2015
Friday Mar 13, 2015
Meet Edward Brown. Ed is a contributing writer for the Fort Worth Weekly and wanted to come on the show periodically and discuss an article he has written for the Weekly. I couldn't be happier to accommodate. On the first installment we use the first half of the show to discuss the Fort Worth Weekly. The FW Weekly has evolved into an award winning publication and we talk about Ed and his role there. The second half we get into the article Ed wrote for the Weekly called Scared O'Cats about Trap, Neuter and Release and how the city of Bedford is taking no input from the community and is not only not adopting TNR, but being downright hostile to anyone who may try to get the city to reconsider. I think this is important because many cities and neighborhoods have feral cat issues. Its important how we treat such a matter. Its also extremely important that the city and elected officials listen to and represent the heart, mind, and soul of the community. It would mean a lot to me and everyone involved if you would share the article, get active, and support groups like Panther City Feral Cat Coalition, Mid City Mid-Cities Community Cats and TCAP Texas Coalition for Animal Protection. We close the show with a track from Jetta in the Ghost Tree called Silhouette. Here is a link to the articlehttp://www.fwweekly.com/2015/03/11/scared-o-cats/