Fynn Grabke, one half of The Picturebooks, joins us on this episode of Performance Anxiety.  They’re a badass rock band with the badass stories to go with it. Fynn toured with his dad as a kid as he opened for Bon Jovi. This was before his dad was the vi.

Today we speak with the enigma, Ian Ottaway (note I said ENIGMA, not Enema, Ian!). He’s done everything. He’s hung out with Jeff Buckley, he writes poetry, he’s Ask iAN on the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club website, and he’s releasing an album, including a .

This week’s guest is Chris Maxwell. He’s lived more musical lives than most. Starting off on a guitar with no strings, he moved on to the pop band The Gunbunnies. Then moved to NYC and got a job booking acts for the famous club, The Knitting Factory. Fro.

This week we welcome Jack of all trades, Wharton Tiers. He’s done it all in the studio: recorded, produced, arranged, and engineered his own music as well as music from Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Quicksand, and hundreds of other bands. He’s recorded as th.

Have you ever heard a band that just seems to connect with you and you can’t pinpoint the reason? You just hear them and say, “YES!”? One of those bands, for me, is Medicine Boy. They hail from Capetown, South Africa originally, although they now live in.

This week we’re joined by Kirk Witt, Keegan Ferrari, & Matt Vallarino of Four Stroke Baron. I’m really excited about these guys because they sound like two of my favorite bands combined, but you’ll have to listen to find out who. They tell me how they di.

This week we feature the group Hackedepicciotto. If that sounds familiar, it could be for a few reasons. Danielle dePicciotto was a guest on an earlier show. Or maybe you recognize Alexander Hacke, from Einstruzende Neubauten (I apologize to Alexander & .

This week we speak with Emily Jane White. We go back to her dad’s days in the Merchant Marines and the time she got to travel with him, moving to France for her music, and playing some surf-punk. Emily talks about the underlying (and often unconscious) t.

This week’s show features actor, model, long distance runner, & business owner Obi Nwankwo. He broke records in track at Boston College, moved to LA and began acting & modeling. Obi not only discusses how he got into the business, but he also discusses w.

This episode of Side Projects is my Introduction to the band Swans. Founder Michael Gira was recently a guest and I did my first deep dive into the band for that show. But with the amount of material in their catalog, there was no way to absorb everythin.