Chocolate and Chinato with Scott Witherow of Olive and Sinclair

Posted Fri February 12, 2021 from Liquid Gold

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For our Valentines episode this year, we cure loneliness by indulging in Chocolate and the magical elixir known as Chinato. Mike sits down with founder and chief chocolate maker at Olive and Sinclair, Scott Witherow. They discuss the process of making chocolate from scratch and the amazing tale of Scott’s stone grinder. Witherow also talks about his brand new milk chocolate, as well as his favorite chocolate pairing: Priorat wines of Spain.

Jess Backhus joins in on the Priorat discussion before diving into the delicious world of Chinato, complete with cocktail recipes and a deep dive on the process of making Chinato. Kenneth joins the fray with a new segment: “Musings on Boozings,” where he ties in Julia Child’s Valentines, the Queen’s new gin, and Jay Z.

Find Olive & Sinclair on the Internet:
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@oliveandsinclair on Instagram.

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Hear the companion playlist over on Spotify.

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Let’s Talk About Bandsplainer

Posted Fri February 12, 2021

It was recently announced that Spotify Studios launched a new original podcast series called “Bandsplain” – a program in which the host invites a different guest every episode to explain cult bands. This sounded oddly familiar because we here at We Own This Town are partnered with music journalist Olivia Ladd and her podcast Bandsplainer, a show in which she invites a different guest every episode to explain cult bands. If you didn’t catch it, they’re almost identical in concept and name.

To call the situation “unfortunate” is the least we can do. It’s a scenario in which Spotify, or producing agency Spoke Media, either didn’t do any due diligence on naming their new show or did do the research and didn’t mind that there was only one other show with the same name. “Bandsplainer” is not a copyright title nor is it a concept that is so inconceivable to believe that someone else could come up with it independently but it sure does feel like a dash of plagiarism from our perspective. Obviously, we love the idea of an insightful host breaking down the relevance of cult bands (that’s why we have the show!) but it sure would have been nice to see a big company go with a name that wasn’t so close to home. We’d err on the side of “honest mistake” but, in reality, it’s more likely they just didn’t care.

While we’d love to forge a campaign alerting Spotify of the transgression, it’s unlikely that a Corporate Goliath of that scale is going to change anything they’re doing because of a local podcast network. The best path forward is to remind you that Bandsplainer has been around for years and contains a load of quality episodes. Host Olivia Ladd is extremely thoughtful in the guests that she brings aboard and does an excellent job of covering the history and cultural significance of cult bands.

If you haven’t already, check out the shows Official Site, follow it on Twitter, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Overcast, even Spotify!) and dig into these fantastic episodes. We won’t tell you to tweet at Spotify Podcasts or Spoke Media but we also won’t not tell you to.

Bikini Kill
with Beth Cameron (Black Bra)

The Slits
with Olivia Jean

Patti Smith
with Elena Franklin (Reality Something)

Women in Country Music Special

Brandi Carlile
with Lorie Liebig

Lucinda Williams
with Heaven Honey

Devo
with Mark Campbell

Pulp
with Taylor Cole (Tayls)

Black Flag
with Zach Prosser (Z)

Animal Collective
with Patty Greer

Squeeze
with Charlie Zaillian

The Avett Brothers
with Collin Fidler and Luke Adamson

Death Grips
with John Connor Coulston

Brian Jonestown Massacre
with John Condit

Joy Division
with Alex Fowler

Checking in with Tony Escamilla (S.T.A.I.N. and Anti-Human)

Posted Fri February 12, 2021 from DRKMTTR Radio

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DRKMTTR Radio sits down with Tony Escamilla, from the solo project S.T.A.I.N. and Anti-Human, for a check in. They going to cover how making music has changed for them during COVID, navigating life as a high school aged person in our new isolated digital age, and we even go over a few music suggestions.

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S.T.A.I.N.
“#​*​(​022: FACTORY”

Scumpcorpse
“Blue Crystal Fire (Robbie Basho)”

Jhenetics
“Overwhelmed”

Divorcer
“Aspiring Mighty Exalted”

S.T.A.I.N.
“Shreds”

Star Trek: Remix! The Naked Time & The Naked Now

Posted Thu February 11, 2021 from Into the Wormhole

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Death by partying! Larissa and Lauren take on their second Star Trek Remix episode by comparing TOS’s “The Naked Time” and TNG’s “The Naked Now”. Both surprisingly early episodes, the ladies discuss why these stories would have been more successful if aired later in their respective series, the wonderfully ineffective hazard suits of TOS, and why they adore drunk Picard.

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The Ragcoats – “I Need Your Love” [Premiere]

Posted Thu February 11, 2021

Appropriately unveiled just days ahead of Valentine’s, we’re happy to premiere The Ragcoats first single, “I Need Your Love,” taken from their forthcoming full-length record due out this summer on Cold Lunch Recordings. This raucous dose of southern psychedelia is the perfect soundtrack for wooing your partner, especially if you’re partaking in some mind-altering mental enhancements (I’m talking `shrooms, folks).

The tracks pounding garage rock guitars and howling lead vocals are set against a bed of gentle ooh’s and aah’s that unfurl into a massive layered wall of sound. It’s a quick 2 and a half minutes but there’s no wasted time here as the band induces a euphoric jangle begging the listener to let their inhibitions go.

It’s no surprise the band came together at the Adams, TN camping festival Bobfest; an altogether appropriate meeting grounds for like-minded individuals to bond through the aforementioned mental enhancements (again, shrooms). Additionally, it’s clear that the band has spent a significant amount of time playing together live, as the energy captured here could only come from a band firing together on all cylinders.

“I Need Your Love” is a striking introduction that comes with a anticipatory reminder that when live shows start back up again, The Ragcoats should be at the top of our collective lists.

236: Going Off Book

Posted Tue February 9, 2021 from WOTT Music

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Working our way through a massive backlog of Nashville area music that only grows exponentially every time there’s a Bandcamp Friday. Fourteen tracks are all queued up in this episode for a solid hour of local area offerings across pop, indie, hip-hop, electronic, ambient and other. I’ll let you decide which fits into which category. Enjoy!

As always, there’s more music from every artist on this show to be enjoyed so be sure to follow No Stress, Bear in the Campsite, Rainsticks, Reaux Marquez, Da Real A1yo, Chuck Indigo, Aaron Lee Tasjan, The Marvelles, Joe Pisapia, Maiden Mother Crone, bloopr, blaqspace_, Nashville Ambient Ensemble and Other Nothing directly for updates on their latest projects.

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No Stress
“Freedomlove”

Bear In The Campsite
“Started a Fire”

Rainsticks
“Moss Curtain”

Reaux Marquez
“Big Fish (feat The Blackson)”

Da Real A1yo
“Thinking About You”

Chuck Indigo
“Outta My Way”

Aaron Lee Tasjan
“Computer of Love”

The Marvelles
“Buried Treasure”

Joe Pisapia
“On the Other Side”

Maiden Mother Crone
“Empty Hills”

Bloopr
“Nisus”

Blaqspace
“letit[go]”

Nashville Ambient Ensemble
“Conversion”

Other Nothing
“Joy”

“Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music. Cover Image: Reaux Marquez.

Egg Cream and the Ramos Gin Fizz

Posted Fri February 5, 2021 from Liquid Gold

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The content remains highly carbonated as we continue to focus on classics of the soda fountain era with Darcy O’Neil. This week we focus on the Egg Cream and how it inspired the most decadent of egg cocktails: the Ramos Gin Fizz.

Cocktail correspondent Jessica Backhus drops a Ramos riff recipe featuring Mead, while Honeytree Meadery’s Dru Sousan goes over his Egg Cream technique from his days at the Pharmacy in Nashville. Darcy O’Neil provides some historical reference on the sub-genre of egg creams, while Kenneth Dedmon joins in to bid good riddance to the infamous soda, Tab. He also gives an update on the most famous soda parlor in Nashville, the soon-to-be-reopened Elliston Place Soda Shop.

Follow Darcy O’Neil on Instagram at @farmfoodfeast.

Follow Honeytree Meadery on Instagram at @honeytreemeadery.

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Music by Upright T-Rex Music.
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Selections from Nashville’s #BandcampFriday

Posted Fri February 5, 2021

If it’s not clear yet, we are huge fans of Bandcamp. It’s a music streaming platform designed from the ground up to actually assist in the turbulent task of making money as an artist. As we’ve noted many times before, streaming platforms like Spotify or Apple Music definitely have their role in exposing an artist to an audience but Bandcamp really seals the deal when it comes to generating income. It may sound wild to say in 2021 but there really are music fans that want to buy and own their music.

Over the course of 2020 and into 2021, Bandcamp has reserved the first Friday of the month for Bandcamp Friday, a day in which their waive their revenue share and give 100% of funds to the artists. This started as a way to help out creative folks during COVID and has blossomed into something of its own Internet Event.

Today, February 5th, is the first Bandcamp Friday of 2021 and we’re doing what we always do; sharing a list of noteworthy releases that we hope you’ll consider throwing some dollars at. This list isn’t exhaustive by any means but it’s a place to start.

Things move fast on Bandcamp Friday, so we tend to get the word out via Twitter thread to provide a bit more detail. The list below will help you hop out to the individual releases.

Rainsticks – “Moss Curtain” (Official Video)

Posted Wed February 3, 2021

Asher Horton has always been a quietly busy individual. He’s released music as part of Fox Fun, as a member of Sun Seeker, under his own name, under side-project pseudonym Hot Car and two excellent albums under the name Rainsticks. The latest of which, October Onwards, propelled the project into new atmospheres of pop enjoyment and included guest performers Rodrigo Avendano, Austin Hoke, Spencer Cullum and Scott Schmadeke.

“Moss Curtain” comes early in the album tracklist and Horton tells us of the lyrics:

“…the song was written in my usual mode for Rainsticks songs which I’d consider a composite of scenes from my daily life (breakfast next to Circle K / awkward house show, bad PA) and more abstract, stream of consciousness imagery intended to invoke a particular mood.”

And strike a mood it does! The laid back 12-string jangle of the song fits perfectly with Horton’s light and poignant vocals. Visually, the official video depicts the full Rainsticks band (for the very first time!), performing in a woodland set and running around performing various antics. In summary, it’s delightful.

October Onwards is available on Bandcamp and streaming services. Follow @rainsticks4kicks on Instagram to keep up with all the latest Horton projects.

235: Fresh Yet Familiar

Posted Tue February 2, 2021 from WOTT Music

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By pure happenstance, we ended up putting together a playlist comprised entirely of artists that have been played on the show before in one form or another. That’s not to say we aren’t striving to hear all the NEW stuff out there but it just so happens a whole lot of the NEW stuff is from familiar names. We culled down a massive playlist to the 15 goodies you hear over the next hour but there’s plenty more to come. Enjoy another dose of phenomenal Nashville music.

As always, there’s more music from every artist on this show to be enjoyed so be sure to follow Tayls, Dungeon of Skeletons, Palm Ghosts, Mike Floss, Brian Brown, HGHR GRND / Quez Cantrell, Antler Shell, Les Ailes, Petty, The Chewers, Heavy Richard, Commander Keen, f_Forever, And the Boys and NGC 4414 directly for updates on their latest projects.

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Tayls
“Scarlet Letter”

Dungeon Of Skeletons
“Gonna Be Alright”

Palm Ghosts
“Blind”

Mike Floss
“So Many Words”

Brian Brown
“OnlyFans”

HGHR GRND
“Flowers (feat. Quez Cantrell, D.O.U.G.H., Bee Honey & Chris King)”

Antler Shell
“Change the Station”

Les Ailes
“Wrecking Ball”

Petty
“Through Your Mind (feat. Tim Gent & Gee Slab)”

The Chewers
“Twenny Twenny”

Heavy Richard
“Super Green”

Commander Keen
“Dark Age”

f_Forever
“cartier”

And The Boys
“My Favorite Song”

NGC 4414
“Zavitz”

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Harpooner – Live at Josh’s House

Posted Fri January 29, 2021

Cold Lunch Recordings is continuing to regularly publish their series of performance videos aptly entitled Live at Josh’s House (though, truth be told, this one was filmed Live at Scott’s House, not that it matters). If you didn’t see the debut Heaven Honey set, mark that one to watch later. Right now, dive into the latest release featuring Harpooner.

The 16-minute set features main-man Scott Schmadeke behind a piano and surrounded by a perfectly-absurd-but-oddly-appropriate number of candles as he performs stripped down renditions of various tracks from his forthcoming Cold Lunch release, In Two Minds.* These versions of the songs are particularly compelling because Harpooner is, generally speaking, a layered pop extravaganza – so it’s refreshing to hear Schmadeke’s voice front and center with such delicate accompaniment.

While we’re only two episodes into the Cold Lunch series, it’s becoming quite evident that the artists chosen aren’t afraid to bare a bit of themselves on camera. Over the course of a quarter hour, Harpooner lays himself out with a bare vulnerability that is rarely seen but always appreciated.

Be sure to follow the series on Youtube and treat yourself with a deep dive into the Harpooner back catalog.

In Two Minds is set for release via Cold Lunch in the future but it’s also available exclusively on Bandcamp right now for a limited time. So, if you want it, you can get it if you act fast.