photo to Paul Wellman

Co-creator of Santa Barbara's New Noise Festival!
Today on the show we have Jeffery Theimer, the man behind our yearly New Noise music festival in Santa Barbara, and I want to point out, the man who helped bring Run the Jewels to town. If you were there, you know how epic that was, one of the best hip-hop acts right now playing the FunkZone.
Over the last few years he's brought to town Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Jack Johnson, Fitz & the Tantrums, Black Lips, Ariel Pink, and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and a whole slew of others. If it weren't for him, a lot of us wouldn't have seen these acts.
Santa Barbara's music scene goes around in cycles and for a few years we'll have some really good promoters and bookers bringing amazing acts to town…then they kind of burn out. Or we have a plethora of bands and then suddenly we have none. Or we have a lot of places to go and see music, and then suddenly we don't.
But that's my view. What's Jeffrey's? That's what we get into in this interview, as well as tales of how we got to Santa Barbara from Oklahoma with a side trek to the UK. We also get to hear about the beginning of Pandora.com, the future of the Funk Zone, his first gig, Kids in the Hall, working at BBC Radio One and working for Steve Lamacq, the economics of the promotion business in Santa Barbara, and the effect of the West Beach Festival on events in Santa Barbara.
You can check out New Noise on the web at newnoisesb.com or on Twitter as newnoisesb.