Start The Music!

On this episode an interview with Willem of the dutch punk rock trio Antillectual. We talk about their track "Change the Standard" and the unusual, but very interesting route they took to spread their message. Mini documentaries, bike messengers and music videos! TRACK LISTING:  1. Odds and Endings - Freezing Cold 2. Broken - The Rocket 3. Reactors Leaking Radiation - Tarantula 4. Change the Standard - Antillectual  Full show notes on stmpodcast.com | Please rate, review and share! 

Less talk, more music! TRACK LISTING:  OHP Metal Cover - Not an Addict by K's Choice Glass House - Screaming Females High - Mongrel Dogs What You Carried Out - Arising From Cold Sheets - The Highdives Moving On - Parallel Lights Wanna - The Barren Marys  For full show notes visit stmpodcast.com

On this episode, we have an interview with the Alberta punk band Trashed Ambulance. We discuss small town shows, NOFX and the band's upcoming Canadian tour. CanCon! Thanks go out to Cythnia from Thousand Islands Records for helping set up the interview. TRACK LISTING:  1. Hung Up On Hope - Eternal Boy 2. Garbage Lungs - The Bare Minimum 3. Metronome - Trashed Ambulance Check out stmpodcast.com for full show notes!

On this episode, an interview with James 'Diamond' Williams from the Ohio Players who are releasing new music for the first time in thirty years! We talk drum machines, music these days, risque album covers plus music from France and Belgium. TRACK LISTING:  1. Stuck in Life - Fall Flavoured 2. Chain Reaction - The Rocket 3. A Story to Tell - Oh Weatherly 4. Reset - The Ohio Players Check out stmpodcast.com for full show notes!

On this episode, an interview with one half of the band Hunter Dumped Us Here and a discussion about genre, accents, adapting in live shows and solo acts becoming full bands. An hour of music and chat with no ads. Check it! TRACK LISTING:  1. Ticket to Rock - Daxx & Roxane 2. 5 Guys - Until We Get Caught 3. Lost My Name - Hunter Dumped Us Here Check out stmpodcast.com for full show notes!

On this episode an interview with Ron Saccoccio of Snubbed Records. We talk about the formation of the label, his band the Alements, working with Bill Stevenson of the Descendents and much more. Also an international assortment of music.  TRACK LISTING:  1. Doofus - Trashed Ambulance 2. Let Go - Primetime Failure 3. Rite to Hate - the Alements   Bonus: Stuck in the 90s - Primetime Failure Check out stmpodcast.com for full show notes!  

Another Canadian guest! Podcaster and drummer (among many other things) Steven Schapansky is on the podcast to talk all things Led Zeppelin, John Bonham, wedding cover bands and well, drums! drums! drums!   TRACK LISTING:  1. Brussells Bombs - The Persecuted 2. Morning - After Alice 3. Wrecking Ball - Mother Mother   Checkout stmpodcast.com for full show notes!  

Canadian author, Youtuber, and podcaster Sam Sutherland joins this episode to talk about his book Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk and the podcast he co-hosts Blink 155 that seeks to review all 155 Blink 182 songs.  TRACK LISTING:  1. Kill it With Fire - The Alements 2. Weather (Or Not) - Jody Valiant 3. Mountain Road - Atlas

Jon Ginoli, founding member (guitarist, singer-songwriter) of the openly gay rock band Pansy Division is on the podcast. We talk about touring with Green Day in 1994, MuchMusic and staying together for 26 years.  TRACK LISTING:  1. Fault Line - Audio/Rocketry 2. Juice Box Baby - The Regrettes 3. Deep Water - Pansy Division

Eight songs from eight different bands. When life happens, throw music at it.   TRACK LISTING:  1. I Feel Fine - Riddlin' Kids 2. Egg - The Garden 3. Drive North - SWMRS 4. Take Back the Power - The Interrupters 5. Pete Wentz is the Only Reason We're Famous - Cobra Starship 6. Rock n' Roll Lifestyle - Cake 7. More Than Rust - Night People 8. Reality TV - Mal Blum  

Director John Roecker joins me on the podcast this week to talk about Heart like a Hand Grenade, the film that documented the nine months he spent with Green Day while they made American Idiot as well as the black comedy musical Live Freaky! Die Freaky! and the concert DVD he directed and starred in for the the band The Network. TRACK LISTING:  1. Bulma - Farewell in Vegas 2. Night Clubbin' - Helta Skelta 3. Roshambo - The Network

This episode I speak with all four members of The Sold! and Bones about their coming together as a band, their new debut album "Full Circle Suicide" and the making of their music video for "I'm Right! You're Wrong!!". Plus the usual question roundtable. TRACK LISTING 1. Wednesday Night Melody - Bleached 2. Dark Black Makeup - Radkey 3. Bored in L.A. - The Sold! and Bones Bonus track: Fucked Up Baby - The Skulls (1977 CAN)   

This episode I have an interview with Taco Hell drummer Max Qayyum where we talk DIY, the importance of playing your own city first, and promoting a band in this internet age. There's also music from Hunter Dumped Us Here and Youth In Revolt. Send me your recommendations! TRACK LISTING 1. Blue Treasure - Hunter Dumped Us Here 2. The Broken - Youth in Revolt 3. Girl Up (live) - Taco Hell

This episode Kat is joined by all four members of Shadow of Everest, the band that this very podcast played a track from on its very first episode. We talk about being a band in Atlantic Canada, Tool, existing outside genres and their new EP "Idle Hands". As well the track listing is full of bands from the Maritimes, who says they don't put out great music? TRACK LISTING:  1. Feel the Same Way Too - The Rankin Family (Nova Scotia) 2. Behind the Garage - Eric's Trip (New Brunswick) 3. Peter's Dream - Lennie Gallant (Prince Edward Island) 4. Idle Hands - Shadow of Everest (Nova Scotia)

The first episode of Start the Music without a guest, but have no fear because that half hour of talking has been replaced with twenty-six shiny minutes of music from across the genres. Take it on a commute, listen on a lunch break, there's something for everyone.  TRACK LISTING:  1. Fear - Americas Pastime 2. Back on Track - Counter Theory 3. I'm Right! You're Wrong!! - The Sold! and the Bones 4. Bumper Cars - Trapper Schoepp 5. Saturday Night - Johnny & the Razorblades 6. Time Heals - Arbors Lane 7. Russian Beers - Woodchuck 8. Warriors - Static Alice 9. There Goes my Baby - The Millwinders

This episode I'm joined by Corbett Redford, director & writer of the Green Day funded documentary film Turn it Around: The Story of East Bay Punk. We talk about 924 Gilman, being a first time director and about being a punk in the East bay area. There's some music too, all related to the film. Make sure to listen to the end for a song by supergroup The Armstrongs that you can buy on iTunes with proceeds going to 924 Gilman. TRACK LISTING:  1. We Are the One - The Avengers 2. Boyfriend Wanted - Pansy Division 3. Story - The Lookouts 4. If There Was Ever a Time - The Armstrongs

This episode of Start the Music! I get to geek out a little with Doctor Who composer Dominic Glynn. We talk about theme tunes, UK techno, and about being a musician spanning the bridge between analogue & digital. I also have the pleasure of playing one of his Doctor Who theme remixes that you will not want to miss.  TRACK LISTING:  1. Strange - Kill Devil Hill  2. Hung Upside Down - River Street Kings 3. Doctor Who Theme (Gallifrey After Dark Remix) - Dominic Glynn

For those of you who like Jonathan Coulton, Weird Al and comedy songs, you'll want to hear this... In this episode I talk to musician and cartoonist Peter Chiykowski, known on the interwebz as Rock, Paper, Cynic thus fulfilling my CanCon requirement at least twice over. We talk about Canadian comic conventions, the Weakerthans and John K Samson and how a comedy song is like an oil spill.* Credit to Peter for that metaphor. TRACK LISTING: 1. Movement - Riviera 2. Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys - Chasing Immortality 3. This Will Never End - Rock, Paper, Cynic

We're in the double digits and we're celebrating by playing music from one of my personal playlists this week.  My interview guest this episode has production credits which include work with Nine Inch Nails, Motion City Soundtrack, Blink-182, +44, The Cure, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers amongst many others... This episode I talk to Christopher Holmes co-producer of Blink 182's Neighborhoods & Dogs Eating Dogs about his journey getting into the music industry, being an engineer vs being a producer, working with Blink 182 and his upcoming soundtrack work. TRACK LISTING:  1. The Future Freaks Me Out - Motion City Soundtrack 2. East Jesus Nowhere - Green Day 3. Dogs Eating Dogs - Blink 182

This episode of Start the Music! I talk to Sam Eastmond, composer and one of the leaders of Spike Orchestra. We talk about music and community, being a band geek and the usual questions about first albums and first gigs. Find all you need to know about Spike Orchestra at: www.spikeorchestra.com I also give some details about episode 10.  Please leave a review and rate STM on iTunes and let me know what you think.  The full length interview with Sam is available on the website at:  www.stmpodcast.com TRACK LISTING:  1. Black Sheep - Abandin All Hope 2. Salaries & Wages - The Real McCoys 3. Life Inside - Spike Orchestra Interview introduction music is a piece of the track: Construction - Spike Orchestra