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- Yesterday39 min
Lost in the ’90s, Found on Vinyl: Matt Devine and Ventilator
Some records become classics. Others disappear into the cracks of music history, waiting for someone to rediscover them. Welcome to The Sharp Notes Podcast. I'm Evan Toth. Back in 1996, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Matt Devine released Reseda Spleen under the name Ventilator. Recorded largely at home on a secondhand Tascam tape machine, it was a wonderfully idiosyncratic collection of power pop, alternative rock, and homemade sonic experimentation. It arrived on CD, earned a ...
- 1 weeks ago55 min
Drew Ryder Smith: The Long Road to The Deep End
Drew Ryder Smith has been around music for a long time, even if you’re only hearing his name now. He grew up between Middle Tennessee and Muscle Shoals, got into radio while he was still a kid, worked for Sam Phillips, became a professional songwriter in Nashville, and eventually had one of his songs recorded by Merle Haggard. Along the way, he spent years writing and producing for other people, learning the strange little machinery of how songs move through the music business and, every so o...
- 2 weeks ago23 min
Benny Sings on "22 Durnham Dew", Family, and the Beauty of Being “Boring”
Benny Sings has spent more than two decades refining one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary pop music. The Dutch singer, songwriter, and producer has a knack for creating songs that feel immediately familiar—warm keyboards, melodies in soft-focus, touches of soul, jazz, R&B, and 1970s singer-songwriter pop—while often hiding something far more complicated beneath the surface. That tension is at the heart of his latest album, 22 Durnham Dew. Written during a period of significa...
- 3 weeks ago59 min
Eddie Brigati of The Rascals: Live at The Sharp Notes
On this episode of The Sharp Notes, we’re doing something a little different. We recently welcomed Eddie Brigati of the Rascals to The Sharp Notes at Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey for a live conversation in front of an audience of about 50 people. It was a wonderful night—part interview, part celebration, and a chance to hear some remarkable stories about New Jersey, the Rascals, songwriting, recording, family, and a lifetime in music. What you’re about to hear is that conversatio...
- Oct 7, 202639 min
Peter M. Bernstein: Ghostbusters, Elmer Bernstein, and the Art of Film Music
There are certain film scores that become so closely associated with the movies they accompany that it’s hard to imagine one without the other. Elmer Bernstein’s music for Ghostbusters is one of those scores: playful, eerie, sophisticated, and somehow able to take the supernatural seriously without ever forgetting that the film is a comedy. My guest on this episode has a particularly unique connection to that music. Peter M. Bernstein is a composer, orchestrator, arranger, and the son of lege...
- Sep 4, 202640 min
Tiny Vinyl, Big Idea: Neil Kohler and Jesse Mann on the 4-Inch Record
Record collectors have never exactly demanded convenience. We like shelves, sleeves, turntables, careful handling, and we have the occasional mild panic over a fingerprint. So perhaps Tiny Vinyl makes perfect sense. At just four inches across, these playable records shrink the familiar vinyl experience into something portable, collectible, and undeniably fun and maybe even adorable. The catalog already stretches from BTS and Olivia Rodrigo to Bob Marley, the Rolling Stones, and beyond. Founde...
- Aug 20, 202643 min
Henry Rollins on The Cramps, Gravest Gravy and Why Records Still Matter
There are records that disappear because nobody wanted them, and then there are records that somehow manage to wait nearly 50 years for the right moment to arrive. Gravest Gravy belongs firmly in the second category. In October of 1977, the Cramps entered Ardent Studios in Memphis with Alex Chilton and recorded a body of material that would help define the earliest version of the band. Some of those recordings became the group’s first Vengeance Records singles and later appeared on Gravest Hi...
- Jul 29, 202642 min
Anthony Mason on Alchemy and the Art of the Interview
There are interviewers who ask questions, and then there are interviewers who understand that the question is only a doorway to something bigger. Anthony Mason has spent decades walking through those doorways for CBS News, sitting across from presidents, artists, musicians, actors, writers, and people who have lived right up next to history’s major events. But for many of us, Mason’s work has been especially meaningful in the world of music. His conversations with artists like Bruce Springste...
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