ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Ensnared is a weekly live radio show, podcast, and music platform hosted by musician and comedian Sam Wolff on Radio Free Brooklyn.
The show sits at the intersection of conversation and discovery, featuring interviews with musicians, producers, comedians, and artists alongside a carefully curated mix of underground hip hop, indie rock, soul, jazz, electronic music, and beyond.
Beyond the studio, Ensnared expands into live tapings, performances, and curated showcases that bring the conversations into real spaces. By highlighting the people, records, and communities shaping independent music, Ensnared captures the energy of a living scene and invites listeners into the world behind the songs.
The show sits at the intersection of conversation and discovery, featuring interviews with musicians, producers, comedians, and artists alongside a carefully curated mix of underground hip hop, indie rock, soul, jazz, electronic music, and beyond.
Beyond the studio, Ensnared expands into live tapings, performances, and curated showcases that bring the conversations into real spaces. By highlighting the people, records, and communities shaping independent music, Ensnared captures the energy of a living scene and invites listeners into the world behind the songs.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
58 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
185 episodes
since Dec. 30, 2021
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Eddie Kam of Summer Fling joins us in the studio for this one. We talk about the band's chaotic summer schedule, from four shows over Labor Day weekend to a three hour vineyard set in the Hamptons, a rooftop gig in Bushwick, and a 1:30 AM set at an EDM festival in the Poconos. All while the sake is…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
We have Nick Gomez in the studio for this one. Nick just got back from touring with Haircut 100, Adam Ant and Squeeze, scored the film You Are Here, and somehow found time to build Dispatch, an email platform for independent musicians.
We talk about life on the road, scoring films, and why he dec…
We have Dominic Manna of Austin psych band Strange Lot in the studio for this one. Dominic talks about the band’s self titled album Strange Lot, nearly calling it quits, and finding a new direction through late night demos and working with Alex Maas of The Black Angels.
We get into the making of …
We have Outer Shapes in the studio for this one. Laura and C talk about how a two person band became a fully built creative world, from the way they shape their sound around elements like fire and water to the visual language of masks, costumes, comics, CRT videos, and character driven storytelling…
Ensnared Live! at For the Record with Mister Neth and Fox Frazier.
This was the first ever live recording of Ensnared, filmed in front of a live audience at For the Record BK in Greenpoint. Mister Neth and Fox Frazier joined us for a night of conversations, music, performances, and whatever else h…
We have Atlanta band Improvement Movement in the studio for this one. Recorded while the band was on tour, we get into how its members crossed paths through Atlanta’s DIY scene, local shows, shared connections, and eventually decided to make a band together.
We talk about the making of their new a…
Special bonus episode! We have Josh Klinghoffer back in the studio for this one. We get further into his approach to recording, performing, collaboration, and figuring out what actually matters when you’ve spent most of your life making music.
Josh talks about his work on A Drop In The Ocean and o…
We're joined by NYC comedians Julian Hewitt and Carlos Cruz in this one. A lively conversation about magic, stage fright, and the creative pressure behind comedy. The guys discuss performance, storytelling, bombing, self-editing, hypnosis, and the challenge of staying original while building a care…
We're joined with Anjali of Naval Grazer in this one. We talk about the band’s disco-punk-pop sound, her musical journey from Carnatic vocal training to Brooklyn’s DIY scene, and the creative partnership that shaped the project. The conversation explores songwriting, collaboration, burnout with soc…
We're joined by NYC comedian April Sickler in this one. We talk about unemployment, brainrot Instagram posts, tattoos, comedy bits we’ve been working on, and April’s love for water animals, which she seems to take very seriously. We also get into the the various thoughts that make it onto Instagram…
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