ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
An eclectic podcast connected to the site SewYKnot.com, focusing mostly on music and musicians but also to lesser extent sports, arts, culture, policy and news. Hosted by long-time journalist Chris Parker (The Guardian, Variety, Billboard, Undark, Village Voice, High Times, LA Weekly). He's been writing about music for three decades and has interviewed hundreds of musicians, including big hitters like Ray Davis, Lindsay Buckingham, George Clinton, and cult faves like Mastodon, Neko Case, Conor Oberst, Joss Stone, M Ward and countless others. Has also interviewed 4 Nobel Prize winners. multiple senators, and several NBA MVPs,
Theme Music "So Why Not?" by Marvin Etzioni.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
64 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
6 episodes
since June 1, 2026
episodic
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We discus how the early eighties Los Angeles scene really designed the template for what became underground music culture and the careers and outside-the-lines existence is due to he and his peers. We talk about how Dream Syndicate ripped off the Stooges and other acts besides the Velvets. How ther…
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American Cultural; Critic living in England, Will Kaufman jumped the pond from New Jersey in the eighties for post-grad and liked it so much, he didn’t come back. He made fine use of that early education though, when he became a professor on American Lit and an expert on Woody Guthrie.
He’s just re…
The Zombies have one of the most extraordinary stories in all of Rock'n'Roll. They won a battle of the bands to earn a recording contract, and during that first session recorded the iconic "She's Not There" with its slinky bass line, cool organ sound and sweet 3-part harmonies. As it turns out, the…
We discuss Fite's course as an artist, how viral music success took him off the visual art path he was initially on and he followed that for a dozen years. We don't talk so much directly about his music as the ideas that generated the music. (On some level doesn't the music speak for itself?) We al…
David Dondero has been making music for 40 years, starting out as a drummer in the indie rock act Sunbrain, where he first started writing songs and singing. He played in This Bike is a Pipe Bomb while working in a little punk rock club and inspired by Simon Joyner began making music as a solo arti…
Dr. David Berri is a professor of economics at Southern Utah University and a past president of the North American Association of Sports Economists, He's written a half-dozen books (and authored or co-authored over 90 scholarly pieces) including most famously, The Wages of Wins: Taking Measure of t…
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