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After five days of Treefort Music Fest, we caught up with up-and-coming Boise artist McKenna Esteb to discuss core memories, influences, her first EP, where music is headed, and more!

Treefort Music Fest 2020 2021, or Treefort number nine, was a culmination of years of planning in the face of a global pandemic. For both event organizers, fans, and artists, it was a festival unlike any we could expect. Being mindful of social distance, wearing masks, we caught up with Idaho’s own punk-creative/semi-nerd-rock Slurm Flirty […]

In the midst of Treefort Music Fest in Boise, Idaho, a music festival nearly two-years in the making, standing on uncertainty in a global pandemic, we caught up (socially distanced and masked of course) with Seattle’s alt-pop/dream rockers Smokey Brights to discuss what it means to be playing live again, releasing an album in 2020, […]

This week we take on the challenge of discussing bands in the “lower print” of music festivals, and Greg gives his “dos and don’ts” of concert behavior. We ask: Can you really play the “what bands do you want to book?” game and come up with our own, completely unique, music festival. Bands as part […]

It’s the Ska Episode! This week the guys discuss Chuck Mangione, the Year That Shall Not Be Named, Pick It Up! – Ska in the 90s, Bad Time Records, and “Skaboom!: An American Ska and Reggae Oral History” (sense a pattern?) Ska episode tracks include: Jeff Rosenstock – Leave it In the Ska [26:30 – […]

This week we discuss two music festivals occurring within six months, breakbeat, the light at the end of the longlonglong darkness, and a little Barry Allen. Tracks we dive into: Pocket Protection – Paul P Sure [7:58 – 21:51] Paul Jacobs – Day to Day [21:52 – 32:14] Hotel California – Soothe My Soul [32:15 […]