The Cris Kirkwood Podcast The Cris Kirkwood Podcast

One last episode. A very special one with our pal Abby Travis, one of the great bass players in the world. She's played with many great musicians and bands over the years from Beck to Elastica to the Bangles and the Go-Gos, who she will be playing with this summer. Come out and see her play when she comes to your town!

Cris converses with the lead singer of one of the first skate punk bands ever. Brian Brannon of JFA - also know as Jody Foster's Army. Brian tells about touring the country as 14 year old punk rocker, skating adventures, being the one time editor of Thrasher Magazine and what it is like to ride shotgun on a truck transport in Afghanistan as a reserve member in the Naval Reserves.

Our final episode of the Cris Kirkwood Podcast. I hope you've all enjoyed it. We did our best to entertain you. Dweezil Zappa. The son of Frank. A brilliant musician in his own right as well. His new record is the incredible Via Zammata. Here Cris talk with the son of one of his all time heroes about the new album, his extremely successful Zappa Plays Zappa tours and more.

Craig Parker Adams is our special guest as we end 2015. Craig is the owner of Winslow-Court Studios in Hollywood where we record most of our shows. Craig has produced many artists including Grammy winner Gaby Moreno and Grammy nominees the Alvin Brothers. He has also been the long time engineer for the Zappa family and today Craig explains how he first met Dweezil Zappa and reminisces about the great Frank Zappa. Intro is Teenagers by the Meat Puppets. Outro is an unreleased clip from the amazing film The Wrecking Crew courtesy of Denny Tedesco.

In today's special episode we discuss our love of all things Tarantino and end will an exclusive interview with Quentin's editor Fred Raskin. Raskin is known for editing three installments in the Fast and the Furious film series and Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and the upcoming Hateful Eight. Hateful Eight comes out on the 25th in glorious 70 MM and it is a must see for any film fan in that format.

Mark LeVine is a columnist for Al Jazeera America, an author, a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine and one of the world's foremost experts on the Middle East. He is also an accomplished rock guitarist and has played with noted rock and world beat musicians such as Mick Jagger, Chuck D, Michael Franti, and Doctor John. Intro music is Teenagers by The Meat Puppets, Outro is Believe by Ozomatli which was produced by Mark.