This week Emily and Andrew chat scotch, new jobs/bands, new pedals (including additions to the trade up game), and Blooming Onions. Then, they dig into the topic of the episode — are you entitled to a performer’s time after a show? Are performers jerks if they don’t stick around? Are local band members jerks if […]
Last weekend, Emily’s favorite band made their return to Seattle after five years. The band is The Hold Steady, and she and Andrew got to grab lunch with their guitarists Tad Kubler and Steve Selvidge the day after one of their shows. They talk about black cats, the evolution of their pedal boards, amps, evolution […]
Emily’s excited to be featured on the She Shreds Magazine website again, this time for a topic covered way back in one of the first episodes of the podcast — flying with a guitar! In it, she talks about the overall law when it comes to flying with guitars, the different rules of each airline, […]
This week Emily AND Andrew chat with Sadie Dupuis from Speedy Ortiz! The group talk pets, allergies, therapy, cats, guitars, and studio experiences. Twerp Verse, Speedy’s third album and first with Philadelphian Andy Molholt (Laser Background) on second guitar, is urgent and taut, adding surprising textures like Linn drums and whirled guitar processing to their […]
This week we talk about a super serious current event: Gibson DESTROYING GUITARS!!! We chat with Sam Miller from Deering Banjos, a man who has some experience with quality control and absolute instrument destruction, about what this really means. Is instrument destruction reasonable? Should those guitars have been donated? How many guitars are really too […]