Corey Dargel’s latest album,  Someone Will Take Care of Me, deals with somewhat unusual disturbances in the human psyche with an abundance of empathy and compassion. He joins me on this episode to talk about his process with writing this music and why he is drawn to write the way he does.

Music:
Everybody Says I’m Beautiful
Impotent Teeth
Castration
Sincerely Yours
Everybody Wannabe

Links:
Corey Dargel
New Amsterdam Records
Andy Melton, my personal Lord and savior.
Gavin Castleton’s Kickstarter Page

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I’m joined on this (fifth anniversary) episode of MikeyPod by Lee Hall, who is the Vice President of Legal Affairs for Friends of Animals and the author of several books, most recently On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal Rights Philosophy Down To Earth

Thanks, as always, for listening to the show – especially to those of you who have been listening since the very beginning!

Music:
Stars and Stripes Forever – Matmos
The Sexual Politics Of Meat – Consolidated
Someone You Need – Howard Jones

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In this episode, I sit in New York City’s Christopher Park with Robert Conroy of the duo Misty Roses. Have a notepad on hand while listening to this show, so many references and influences to check out! My netflix queue got a solid work out ofter talking to Robert.

The songs:
Dreaming of Delphine from the album Villainess
Starry Wisdom from the album Villainess
Innsmouth Jewelry from the album Monster Zero
Nicht Plus Ultra from the album Villainess

Buy music from Misty Roses on emusic, iTunes, or your favorite music seller!

Also, I’m curious about how you guys like this type of interview show as opposed to the regular musiconly type shows. Does the sound of the city add a nice ambiance or do the honking horns make you want to chew ground glass. I would love some feedback! Thanks!

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Gavin Castleton joins me on this episode of MikeyPod to talk about his latest full length, Home. I am so excited to share this interview with you because I am just amazed by this album, even more so after talking to Gavin about his process. Listen to the show, and then buy it and tell all of your friends. This shit needs to be heard! Many thanks, as always, to my sweet cyber-soulmate, Angela Poe, both for turning me on to Gavin’s music and for arranging the interview.

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Reuben Butchart talks about his residency at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center and his new video for the song Come and Play.

Reuben at work during his Watermill residency

Links:
Reuben Butchart
iTunes link for the album Golden Boy
Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center
Henry Hinterland

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On a very special episode of MikeyPod, the musical improv group Veal kindly let me sit in on one of their rehearsals. We talk about their process for creating musical comedy on the fly, they take me through their warm up process and create an opening number before my very eyes.

Please accept my apologies for the heinous sound quality during the song Holy Water. Yeah, sound is bad, but it was too hilarious to cut from the show.

Find out more about Veal on Facebook, MySpace and YouTube or see them live on Dec 13th at 10:30 at under St. Marks

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Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito and publisher Christopher Adams visit the show to talk about Joi’s new book of photographs, Freesouls.

Also:
A brand new Halloween track from Gavin Castleton, Since 1968 which is released on iTunes today. This track is popping up all over the place today including Buzznet and RCRD LBL. Thanks to my pal Angela Poe for introducing me to Castleton’s music!

Music:

Since 1968 (The Overclock Orchestra Remix) -Gavin Castleton
Fortune – Kristin Hersh
Leaving – Dirty on Purpose

p.s. please excuse the current lame layout of my site, I am still recovering from the site having been hacked. It will look prettier soon, I promise!

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I got to chat with Paul Doucette (Matchbox Twenty) in the bluhammock music office this afternoon about his new project The Break and Repair Method. Here lies our conversation, along with a few tracks off the album which won’t be available till Sept 16th.

Music:
You Won’t Be Able To Be Sad
This City (Is Bound To Do Us In)
Life Gets Beautful

Many thanks to Ralph Cutler and Christina Duren from Ariel Publicity for setting everything up for me!

In other news, I have decided to make MikeyPod a weekly music only podcast. In the next month or so I will be setting up another podcast feed for everything else. This last year or so in NYC has been such a learning time for me, and a struggle in so many ways, but at last I am feeling like I am where I want to be– loving the city and ready to get my activist self moving again. It always felt so awkward to try to cover both passions in one place: music and social justice. Many times the two intersect, of course, but it makes more sense to me to branch out in this way. Stay Tuned!

p.s. Don’t forget about Meat Free Radio for all of your vegan and vegetarian needs.

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Jamie Moffett joins me today to discuss his film The Ordinary Radicals.

About the film:

In the margins of the United States, there lives a revolutionary Christianity. One with a quiet disposition that seeks to do “small things with great love,” and in so doing is breaking 21st Century stereotypes surrounding this 2000 year old faith. The Ordinary Radicals is set against thie modern American political and social backdrop of the next Great Awakening. Traveling across the United States on a tour to promote the book Jesus for President, Shane Claiborne and a rag-tag group of “ordinary radicals” interpret Biblical history and its correlation with the current state of American politics. Sharing a relevant outlook for people with all faith perspectives, director Jamie Moffett examines this growing movement.

Music: (courtesy of Potter Street Records)
Girard Ave – NevereveN
Try on Life – Jes Karper

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This afternoon, I interviewed filmmaker Jamie Moffett about his upcoming film The Ordinary Radicals. The topic of Christianity and Homosexuality came up, which prompted him to send me this clip from the film. It is part of an interview with with author/ speaker/ general bad-ass Shane Claiborne.

Look for my interview with Jamie on Monday.

[tags]Jamie Moffett, Shane Claiborne, Jesus, Homosexuality, Mikeypod, podcast, gay, The Simple Way, The Ordinary Radicals[/tags]

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