The Rawkwardness Podcast

Ep.59 - Lucas/Heaven “These Guys Were Real Freaks”

On today’s episode, Rose, Terence, and Tony talk to Texas-born, genre-blending multi-instrumentalist Lucas/Heaven about public libraries, the cultural significance of DJ Screw and his screw tapes, and information theory as it relates to music. We got some good stories about the Houston music scene in the 2000s, and a 3 week psychedelic life journey that opened him up to writing. 
 
Lucas/Heaven on BandCamp, Spotify, and Instagram
Drank - TPain Cover
KCRW Today’s Top Tune - Every City Has a Rhythm
Grandfather Child on Spotify - Ride That Train
Heaven the Dude on SoundCloud and Spotify
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
Fat Tony on SoundCloud and Spotify
Satin Hooks on Spotify
The Turkeys - they had rules: wouldn’t play unless there was a keg, all the songs had to do with turkey - Party Fowl, Get Basted in the Face - Butt Rock
LA Public Library Resources
LA Central Library
Peavey Bass
Tejano/Conjunto music in the garage
Santana, War, Hall & Oates on the roadtrip - favorite bands
Bird and the Bee Hall & Oates tribute album
Stan Getz 
Sade, Anita Baker
1991 was an incredible year for music:  Pearl Jam - Ten, 
Nirvana - Nevermind, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Weezer - Blue Album
Geto Boys
Master P and Cash Money Millionaires
DJ Screw - important to Houston music - slowing down/diabolical
Got big selling tapes out of his house - made people custom mixtapes, “Screw Tapes” - folk music, in a way
The Screw Shop - in Houston - a ton of CDs of his
University of Houston has an archive of DJ Screw! - the librarian who organized that inspired him to become a librarian!
Sippin ‘Lean 
Alvin & the Chipmunks speeding up tape
Relic guitar that got past around the Houston scene - BC Rich Warlock he played that only in this band
Joe/Yppah
Double Wish - Fever Dream (favorite alt rock band in OC) - Yppah remix
Saw The Boredoms at the La Brea Tarpits - 88 drummers on 8/8/08
Sacred Steel (movie) - steel guitar in gospel music - House of God Pentecostal Church
Harmonium - Terence’s music
Robert Ellis
Geoffrey Muller
Chet Faker, Com Truise
Love AC/DC and the slash
Information theory - data transforms into information and that transforms into knowledge
Every Breath You Take by The Police
Forgotify - an index of tunes on Spotify that have zero plays
Echo Park Rising
Scribble in Highland Park

Ep.58 - Blond in Car “Crisis of Mojo”

This week we sit down at the very fancy W Hotel in Hollywood for a very fancy chat with Blond in Car, about late-in-life career changes, first tattoos, loving your daughter, and running out of fucks to give. Stick around for some tea about casting for film, ageism in music, why we have to thank her for one of the most beloved cult intellectual properties in popular culture.
 
Blond in Car on Spotify, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
Robin’s famous syncs - Look at Me with Kali J - Step into Darkness by Dubkiller
Robin Schorr Film Producer - Script interview
Ella Vos on Spotify and Instagram
Analog at The Hutton Hotel in Nashville
Sage and Serpent Tattoo - Nashville
Shure Sm7b microphone
Bluebird Cafe
BNA Carpet
Casey Kasem’s Top 40
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Paramount Theater Oakland
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
McCabes 
Hollywood Bowl
Karen Carpenter
Beach House
CMAT - on tour with
Quarters of Change - collective age of 30
Jared Leto level soulful eyes are a dime a dozen
The Omnichord
Runyon Canyon
Asheville NC
KCRW 
KEXP
Marc Muller - Played pedal steel with Bruce Springsteen
Dan Wilson - write the music you wish existed and let that be your guide
Casablanca was passed on many times 
Helped get Buffy the Vampire Slayer greenlit - Joss Whedon
Buffy Trailer
Paul Reubens’ death scene from Buffy
Gail Berman - WBTV
Charli XCX rap style - “Brat”
Nine Inch Nails creepy - fuck you like an animal (American Horror Story)
“High Gummy Girl” - Stoner daughter 21

Ep.57 - Ryan Hahn (Local Natives) “He Loved Wearing the Speedo”

In this super-fun episode, Rose, Terence, and Tony talk to Local Native Ryan Hahn about memorizing the weekly top 40, sleeping on cardboard boxes on tour, and the influence of obscure Italian film scores of the 70s on his solo record.
Ryan Hahn on Spotify and Instagram
Local Natives on Spotify, Instagram, & YouTube
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching video - See if you can spot Terence!
Crash into Me - DMB - the panty dropper
Members of Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews dance meme
Z100 NY
Weezer Blue Album
O.A.R.
Phish
Our episode with Jaws of Love/Kelcey Ayer
Voxhaul Broadcast
The Union Line
Michael Jackson’s “Will You Be There” - from Free Willy
Garth Brooks - Entertainer of the Year - Stage antics
Friends in Low Places
Rick Dees and the Weekly Top 40
Joan Osborne - One of Us
Seal
Alanis Morrisette
Calling in a dedication on the radio
KROQ Furious 5 at 9
KROQ changes their format
Requesting the song they just played - Smash Mouth - All Star
At the Drive-In
Everything in its Right Place - Radiohead
Foo Fighters
Green Day
The Offspring
Jack FM
Indie 103.1 - how Phil found them!
Whiplash - JK Simmons
Beach Boys, The Zombies, Crosby Stills & Nash - learning harmony by trial and error
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog - all guitar teacher wanted to teach
Linkin Park - what he wanted to learn
Adrianne Lenker relearning her own song through YouTube tutorials
Hummingbird anniversary show at The Ford Amphitheater
Thursday, Juliana Theory, Further Seems Forever, Thrice
Metal Zone guitar pedal 
Warlock guitar
Glassjaw
Die Radio Die from San Diego
Noise Ratchet
Ben Gibbard, Elliott Smith
“Carry On” Crosby, Stills, and Nash
“Horse with No Name”
The Doors, Pet Sounds
Kings of Leon
Love Juice in Inland Empire
Sing Sing (the Hollister) - dueling piano bar
Chain Reaction
Hoagie Barmichaels - no hoagies
KROQ compilation CD - Flower of Roads (maybe on YouTube? Find it!)
The OC Soundtrack - they got something on an OC adjacent comp
DL-4 delay pedal - looked like The Riddler - basis of a lot of songs - everyone had one
Talking Heads
John Mayer kinda rips
Minus the Bear - On Spotify
Lifetime journey of finding the perfect clean tone:
Fender Twin amps
Roland JC 120
Playing through a Helix
U2 plays through a Helix - they have their own preset pack!
John Lennon - “I'm an artist, man. Give me a tuba and I'll get you something out of it.”
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Piero Umiliani - Mah Nà Mah Nà - 70s film composer
The Lodge Room
ETA - getting the ETA people to play live shows
Zebulon
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Jackie Brown - glimpses of the movie and soundtrack
Issac Hayes - on Spotify

Ep.56 - Talker “Lyrically it’s Kooky”

This week Rose, Terence, and Tony have a chat with angsty indie rock goddess Talker, about making an album for a fictional band at 7, how Avril Lavigne and Linkin Park informed the expression of certain predispositions, and how she definitely did not bring Mac De Marco a box of drugs at the Miami airport. Plus hear an as-yet-unreleased stripped down version of her song “Everything is Something I Never Saw Coming.” 
 
Talker on Spotify and Instagram
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
Cherryland - Creative Agency with Fiona Grey
Friendship on Spotify
Dolly Dagger
The Other Side
June Gloom Fest
WYO the band
Our episode with WYO
Avril Lavigne songbook
Folsom, CA - outside Sacramento - hardly a “prison town”
“Folsom Prison Blues” - Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash trail
American River
Taylor Swift - Tortured Poets Department
Our episode with Pete Molinari
Our episode with Daniel Brummel
1st 2 albums - “Let Go” by Avril Lavigne, “Meteora” by Linkin Park
Parents - Nirvana, Soundgarden, U2 - “Joshua Tree” (desert island top 5)
1st Concert - Hilary Duff
Mormon commercials - here’s another
Edie Brickell
Celeste Louise
Crimson Sky - a band of Christians
Slims in San Francisco - big solo show
Canadian guitar brand - Art and Lutherie
Two Door Cinema Club
The Satellite (video by Modern Time Machines) - Beck should buy it!!! Silversun Pickups
Planet Hollywood - the Silverlake version
Permanent Records, Zebulon
The Echo, The Regent, The Love Song
Lucas/Heaven
Spaceland - Mitchell Frank
Elliot Smith birthday tribute show/New Monkey Fundraiser
Gold Diggers - THEY HAVE A PARKING LOT
The Californians
The Bellwether
Play Like a Girl 
Sofar Sounds
Jeff Buckley - Gods and Monsters - 2 geniuses in a pod
University of Miami Frost School of Music - contemporary songwriting program 
Mac De Marco - definitely did not give him a box of drugs
Ariel Rechtshaid - Haim, Vampire Weekend
Dan Sadin
Mike Biggane 
Everything is Something I Never Saw Coming - STRIPPED DOWN VERSION NOT OUT YET

Ep.55 - Jessica Carter Altman “Life is Like a Dream”

Rose, Terence, and Tony interview Jessica Carter Altman about writing musicals with her brother, performing at the Kennedy Center with her mom (Wonder Woman Lynda Carter), and the way life continues after a profound change. Stick around to hear how grief can be both a noun and an adjective, in the same song!
Jessica Carter Altman on Spotify and Instagram
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
The Troubadour
Wonder Woman - Jessica’s Mom Lynda Carter
Performing Everly Brothers with Lynda Carter
Performing with Mom at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Andre 3000’s flute record
99 Luft Balloons
The Artist’s Way - creator vs editor
Jason Lehning
Lennon Stella - Golf on TV
Hunter S Thompson - “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
Bonnie Raitt - I Can’t Make You Love Me
BBMAK
Tyler Hilton
Back Here - BBMAK
Tennessee Whiskey
The Band - Mat Dauzat - guitar - Dauzat St. Marie - plays for Seal
Hotel Cafe
Michael “Fish” Herring - plays with Christina Aguilera
Brandon Brown - Pastor Funk
Gold Diggers
Alex Burke - just wrote a musical
Mortified
Flex the bass player

Ep.54 - Nik Ewing (Chewing/Local Natives) “It’s All About Format”

Rose, Terence, and Tony talk to Nik Ewing all about format, and how it shifts, as well as cassettes and liner notes. Plus we get to hear about how Nik joined Local Natives.
Chewing on Spotify and Instagram
Chewing Inc - chewinginc.com
Buy “Songs for Linnea” on Vinyl
Local Natives on Spotify and Instagram
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
W Hollywood Hotel
Griffith Observatory
!!! (Chk Chk Chk)
Album Covers
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Yeasayer
Chillwave
The Entertainer 
Matchbox 20
Every Rose Has it’s Thorn
The future is tiny
Tool
The Mars Volta
AFI
Bright Eyes
Indie 103.1
When the President Talks to God
Pop Etc
Rooney
Evan Voytas
Tapedeck Mountain
Brandon Schwartzel
 

Ep.53 - Work “Islands”

Rose, Terence, and Tony talk to Julio Tavares and Joe Zizzo of WORK about Long Island, the mental health challenges of tour life, and their musical meet-cute. Stick around for a sneak preview of their new track "Islands," which comes out this Friday, October 4th.
Work on Spotify and Instagram
LLIIKKEEAAGGHHOOSSTT on Spotify and Instagram
The Sleeping on Spotify and Instagram
As Tall As Lions on Spotify and Instagram
Skycamefalling on Spotify and Instagram
Bob Moses on Spotify and Instagram
Odesza on Spotify and Instagram
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
W Hotel Hollywood
Long Island, NY
Levittown - first suburb in America 
The Mars Volta - Guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez 
Viv Albertine - Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys memoir
The Slits
Chance the Rapper
PGA Tour Jacket
Aaron Copeland School of Music
Brand New
Taking Back Sunday
Long Island Hardcore Scene
Envy on the Coast
Soundwave Festival Australia 
Rock and Roll Movers
Dillinger Escape Plan
The Buzzcocks
Madison Square Garden
Folsom Field
The Gorge
Sunny Day Real Estate
Santigold
Bo Burnham mental health
Post Malone
Everything In It’s Right Place - Radiohead
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Ethiopian Jazz
Hyper-pop
Rage Against the Machine
Kramer vs Kramer
Twisters
Lime Light New York
Tunnel
Dance Hall
Show Me Love
Sand Storm
The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Hip Hop Hurray

Ep.52 - Johny Fisher & Aaron Martin (Okey Dokey) “Hoarding Husbands”

This week Rose, Terence, and Tony get somehow both silly and deep with Aaron Martin and Johnny Fisher of Okey Dokey about trying to impress girls with the wrong genre of music, smoking weed with your parents… or someone else’s parents, and good naturedly trolling famous people at South by Southwest.
 
Okey Dokey on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
Sol Cat on Spotify 
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
Waymore Guest House and Casual Club
Make a Wish Foundation 
Bonnaroo
Breatharian 
Quiznos - the weird commercials with the spongmonkeys
Furby
Hutton Hotel
Dave Matthews Band 
Jack Johnson
Oasis
Campfire scene from Barbie
Caddo Indian mounds
Rivers of Babylon by Sublime
McLovin
Belmont University
The Flying Burrito Brothers
CMJ
Zella Day
Jive Talk the band
Our episode with Jive Talk
Bootleg Theater
Pianos in New York
Animal Collective concept 
Lindsey Jameson - Ben Folds Five 
The Love and Terror Cult - Charles Manson’s record that drove him crazy
The Love and Terror Cult - Aaron’s old band
Johny’s step dad on Spotify
MK Ultra
Teletubbies
Pharrell & Usher - at SXSW 
Jim James 
Forecastle Festival
Kings of Leon - legendary Bonnaroo cocaine performances
The fedora moment
The Orwells
Burger Records
Ira Glass quote
Justin Beiber’s Yummy 
Father John Misty
Jam in the Van
Eric Andre
Leon Bridges
St Paul and the Broken Bones
Tiny Tim
Larry David
Donna Summer cancellation
Jonathan Rado - made an album with him
The Killers
Weyes Blood
The Lemon Twigs
Groundwork Coffee
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Jeepers Creepers 2
Monk with Tony Shaloub
Harry Terrell - Still Woozy - played on their record
Magic City Hippies - on the same tour
Kim Possible
 Foxygen 
Haim