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Powered by RedCircle Izzy Heltai is brave, curious and charismatic about the world. He realizes how fortunate he is in life to come from and thrive in a supportive community which began for him in Brookline, Mass with immigrant, mathematician parents. “They didn’t come from much, but they worked really hard so their kids could…

I was on a panel about music podcasting at NonComm this year with Joni Deutsch (moderator, WFAE), Elizabeth McQueen (KUTX) and Jessi Whitten (OpenAir). If you’re interested in learning about what public radio thinks about podcasting and where it’s going, this is a very interesting panel to listen to with some very good brains sharing…

Powered by RedCircle Livingston Taylor has managed to carve out an impressive and interesting career as a successful songwriter and extremely effective professor of stage performance at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Younger brother to the very famous James Taylor, this is an interesting and vast conversation with a fascinating man. To be honest,…

Powered by RedCircle Jenna Nicholls was the imaginative kid who was friends with trees and believed furniture was alive. Raised in Western Pennsylvania, she was raised on jazz, classical and Irish music. Her music is reflective of the golden age of radio and The Great Depression. Her lyrics put people in a place visually and…

Powered by RedCircle Cinematic, multi-talented, mystical/magical, human-songwriter Ethan Gruska is a grounded and extremely likable person. Ethan’s 2017 Slowmotionary, for me, was a personal lifesaver during a hell of a year. He may have come across your radar through his indie band The Belle Brigade with his sister Barbara. Life after that band has consisted…

Powered by RedCircle It is wonderful to have songwriter Marissa Nadler on the pod! Ethereal, goth, ambient and gauzy are often used to describe her sound. She has collaborated with musicians like John Cale, Sharon Van Etten and black metal band Xasthur. Starting out as an artist, Nadler attended Rhode Island School of Design as…

Powered by RedCircle I have always really liked Jonatha Brooke. Her songs are sharp, joyful and wise. She’s one of those writers who always knows what to do, which is the basis for why we like pop music. Her songs take you to the place you wanna go while still hitting vulnerability and insight. I…

Powered by RedCircle Magic musical human wonder Jocie Adams (Arc Iris) is a very funny, grounded and kind person IRL; on stage she is a mystical badass alien superhero who expressively emerges from a giant vagina at the start of her live shows while wearing a gold bodysuit. Jocie started music pretty young on piano…

Powered by RedCircle Erin McKeown has been queering the folk world for over two decades with her unpredictable and relentlessly unwavering superhuman musical gifts. McKeown has also made it a point to go hard in whatever she touches: school (she was high school valedictorian and went to Brown University), electric guitar and in the last…

Powered by RedCircle Bill Deasy is one of Pittsburgh’s big 90s success stories due to his band The Gathering Field scoring a record deal in 1996 with Atlantic Records. While they only released one album on a major label, the band and Bill have remained a mainstay in the Pittsburgh region and beyond. Deasy’s authentic…