The Rawkwardness Podcast

Ep.62 - Claire Knight “Sacred Rage”

In our second to last episode of the season, Rose, Terence, and Tony chat with Australian DJ/Producer Claire Knight about B12 shots, music trauma, riding in a private jet with Rihanna, sacred rage, and reality TV. Stick around for an EXCLUSIVE look at her new single!
Claire Knight on Spotify and Instagram
Fingertips 
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
Courtney Taylor-Taylor of The Dandy Warhols
Our interview with the Dandys
The Odditorium/The Old Portland Wine Bar
The Breeders
Trusted Housesitters - pet sitting
Adelaide, AUS - City of churches, Napa of Australia
Grace Tame - victim advocate in South Australia - gag order
Shane Shepard - Bad Shapes 
On tour with Rihanna
Filter Magazine
Rolling Stone and Spin Magazine - wanting to know everything about the artists I love
The Shins, Broken Bells
Oh Inverted World - making of 
Chuck D from Public Enemy is one of her favorite interviews
Robert Pattison was a great interview
Kristen Stewart
Twilight - final film - Breaking Dawn part II
Tim Tams
Suki Waterhouse - She and Rob just had a baby
Union Line
Miike Snow
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Howling Bells/Waikiki
The OC Soundtrack
Dickie (Union Line) - Richard Theisen
Wolf & Cub - Adelaide band
Crystal Castles
Daft Punk
White Stripes
Royksopp
Purple Sneakers
EMI/Capital Records DJ competition - She Can DJ
Alison Wonderland
The Death Set - Aussie band in New York
Dan Walker from Death Set - who she’s working with in New York
Ninjasonik 
The Flat in Brooklyn
Chocolate Sundays night - encouraged her to try and succeed
Her laptop stickers
User Friendly
Cat Marnell - author - How to Murder Your Life
Vice - Amphetamine Logic
The Iggy Azalea problem
Gwen Stefani
Blondie
“I’m the Rick Rubin”
Below Decks: Down Under
Sacred Rage 
Fox Violet - Good Girl
The evolution of “Just a Girl”
One-Party Consent
Holy Wars

Ep.61 - tomemitsu “Toe-May-Meet-Sue”

This week Rose, Terence, and Tony talk to superchill bedroom pop artist tomemitsu about screamo, post-modern geography, and the LA indie scene circa 2011. Stick around to hear what happens when you swear in a middle school talent show.
Tomemitsu on BandCamp, Spotify, Instagram
Dream 2 on Vinyl
Tomemitsu with Steady Holiday on Spotify
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
Atriata on YouTube
Free Camp on BandCamp - indie rock/motown, like Fitz and the Tantrums, but lofi
Basement Babies on BandCamp - Fleetwood Mac meets Sonic Youth - opened for Ramona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel, Puro Instinct (song with Ariel Pink) - backing band for James Ferraro, opening for Real Estate
Steady Holiday on Spotify
Mountain Bay/Los Altos, CA 
 Ibanez bass 
Sublime, Dire Straits song
You Don’t Know How it Feels - Tom Petty
Les Claypool - Primus, NOFX, Rancid - bass role models
Screamo 
Epiphone Les Paul Special
Atreyu - the band and the character
Gibson SG Burgundy (cherry)
Saved up and got a Marshall half stack
Peavey Butcher 
It goes to 11
Playing acoustic - Nick Drake, Daniel Johnston, Pedro the Lion, Joan of Arc, American Football 
Skeeter (like the character from Doug) - pop punk - high school girlfriend and drummer from Ground ZeroH
The Bluest Eye - music video with different scenes from the book - Bob Dylan one where he rips off the paper - in 7/4 time - I wish we had that video
Elliot Smith trying weird chords
Went to USC for college
Post-Modern Geography - how place and urban planning effects the population - tapped into empathy
Pat Taylor bass genius - Magic cards,  Cap’n Jazz
Cossack - band on Strike Through Records 
Local H - Bound for the Floor
Math Rock
Tool - Aenima
Got a sync for an ad for Dickies, but fizzled after Pat graduated - touring bassist for Noah Cyrus! House band for American Idol
The Echo 
Pehrspace
The Smell
Echo Curio
“The FYF block”
Bob Odenkirk
Taix
Echo Country Outpost
Non Plus Ultra
Silverlake Lounge
Bootleg
Spaceland
The Monday night residencies - Echo, Satellite, Bootleg
 Jaws of Love residency
First CD Nirvana Nevermind - something in the way
Butch Vig - how they recorded that song
Edendale Grill
Bellwether
The Weezer song with the female harmonies

Ep.60 - Omotola “The Tangible Has Value”

Rose, Terence, and Tony talk to singer/songwriter/producer Omotola about Limewire, her transformative period of working at Urban Outfitters, her emo era, and the “neural synapse moment” of realizing she could harmonize with herself on her parent’s tape recorder, all guided by sifting through a box of old mix CDs and concert tickets. Stay tuned for which CD has been stuck in her car since 2013, and Tony’s favorite Spice Girl.
 
Omotola on BandCamp, Spotify, Instagram
Omotola with Ryan Hahn and Jaws of Love
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
Limewire
The Beastie Boys
Bon Iver
Limp Bizkit “Chocolate Starfish” - Rollin’
Break Stuff
Paula Cole - Where Have All the Cowboys Gone
Taking Back Sunday
Linkin Park - Reanimation
Mandy Moore - So Real - Candy
Royal Canoe CD that got stuck in the car
Better Than Ezra (Good)
Urban Outfitters
An incredible Wikipedia article about the evolution of FYF/Fuck Yeah Fest - includes venues and line-ups
Groupon
Postal Service @ Madonna Inn
Fresno/Clovis, CA
Britney Spears - performing on a swing
K Fed
TRL
Warped Tour
Save Mart Center 
Smash Mouth - All Star - our episode with Ryan Hahn
Jon Batiste
Basquiat exhibit LA
Myspace the sad graveyard that shows you all the songs you can’t play anymore
Cuppa Joe’s coffee shop/venue - all ages
Always wanted to be in a band since Spice Girls
Spice World is a great movie - hot take
Taylor Swift is that now (for girls)
Ying Yang Twins “Wait (The Whisper Song)”
Celine Dion
Cursive
AIM - AOL Instant Messenger
ICQ
IRC - had to have all three instant messaging programs
Cold War Kids
 Local Natives
Friend Bar, Tenants of the Trees, The Satellite
Our episode with Okey Dokey - Aaron Martin - “LA is Gasoline City”
Cosmic Love - Florence & the Machine
GarageBand - the ultimate Toshiba

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