Cleveland Scene Podcast: No Sleep In The CLE Cleveland Scene Magazine

Today Justin sits down with Angie Hetrick. Angie is the Executive Director of Coventry Village and she also has her hands in a lot of other projects in Cleveland including booking the songwriting series at Luxe. On Saturday July 25th, the park in Coventry will be dedicated to legendary Clevelander and comedy mastermind Harvey Pekar. We talk about that event, Cleveland music and the always present eastside vs. westside battle. 

Justin sits down with Modern Electric Piano/Guitar/Vocalist Garrett Komyati. They talk about Cleveland, movies, movies from the 70s, Wes Anderson movies, oh yea and The Modern Electric

Today Justin sits down with comedian Mike Polk. Mike's all over the place doing standup, sketch and videos. We talk about his influences, how he grew up, whether to or not to be political publically and the lack of an abundance of female comics in Cleveland. 

Today on No Sleep in the CLE, Justin Markert sits down with Cleveland rock band Ottawa. In a year and a half Ottawa has accomplished quite a bit for a local band. We talk about the meaning behind their name, songwriting process, favorite local bands, and the philosophy that a good melody is a good melody even if it's a NKOTB song. 

Today we talk to Chayla and Ryan from the band Seafair who will be releasing their debut album at the Grog Shop on May 23. We play cuts from the record and talk about their journey as a band. Other music featured: Ottawa

In our second episode of the week (!) we sit down with Jimmy Graham. Jimmy is a fascinating comedian who is a part of the Accidental Comedy Club collective run by Ramon Rivas. While he'd probably make fun of me for saying this, his comedy is almost performance art, he pushes boundaries. He once won a comedy "contest" and burned with winnings in front of all the losers. He tells a great story about how he once incorporated a homeless man (?) into his routine.