MikeyPod

Podcasting about art and activism since 2005

Latest Episodes

  • Caroline Weinroth stands in front of a red curtain. Her right hand is extended forward and she is wearing a tiara and a sash with the words "Your Ideal"
    MikeyPod 350 | Musician Caroline Weinroth of Cinema Hearts
    Pageant Queen turned indie-rocker Caroline Weinroth joins me on the podcast this week to talk about Cinema Hearts, the band for which she serves as lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter. We talk about her experience as a contender for Miss Virginia, and how that experience inspired the band’s EP, Your Ideal. Caroline’s insight and openness …
  • Sugar Vendil sits on the floor leaning on a red toy piano, covering her right eye with her right hand. She is wearing a flowing white dress.
    MikeyPod 349 | Composer-Performer Sugar Vendil
    Composer-Performer Sugar Vendil joins me this week to talk about one of her latest projects, hyPerFormFest, a one day (for now) eclectic, boundary-free music gathering featuring Jerome Gillespie, Chloe Alexandra Thompson, and Jasmine Hearn. We listen to some of her magnificent music, chat about our changing relationships with social media as artists, and so much …
  • Portrait of Lavinia Jones Wright standing in front a colorful mural of a forest.
    MikeyPod 348 | Filmmaker Lavinia Jones Wright
    Lavinia Jones Wright‘s film project, Love All Alices, is the exact kind of thing that gets me fired up and inspired to the max. The finish line is a film, sure, but through my conversation with Ms. Jones I discovered the multiple layers of stage, video, community, and love that converge to tell the story …
  • Lotus Kay sitting outdoors at an animal sanctuary. There is a goat looking over her right shoulder.
    MikeyPod 347 | Author and Musician Lotus Kay
    Author and musician Lotus Kay returns to the podcast today to talk about her new book, Friends Lift You Up, and the original music she has been releasing since her last visit on the podcast. I loved chatting with her about the book and how writing it helped with her own healing and in navigating …
  • MikeyPod 346 | Comedian Annick Adelle
    Annick Adelle’s debut comedy album, “Between Two Worlds” will be released this Friday, and I was so proud to have a chance to chat with Annick about the project and the various ways Annick truly does exist between worlds. Be it the bridges between countries, genres, or genders, Annick’s creative voice finds an authentic space …
  • Mikeypod 345 | Author and Small Potato Ayun Halliday
    Ayun Halliday‘s book, Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto, landed in my lap at precisely the right moment in time. I invited her on the podcast to discuss the book, and how she strives to embrace the act of being creative just for creativity’s sake. I can’t wait for you to hear this conversation …
  • MikeyPod 344 | The Living Earth Show
    On this episode of the podcast, I chat with Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson AKA The Living Earth Show, one of the premiere contemporary chamber ensembles in the United States. We talk about their creative work, their brand new label, Earthy Records, and listen to some selections of their work, including a track from COMMANDO, …
  • MikeyPod 343 | Author and Filmmaker Miasha
    On this episode of the podcast I chat with author, filmmaker, producer and serial entrepreneur, Miasha. We talk about her book turned film Secret Society, her inspiration, the importance of telling LGBTQIA+ stories through a BIPOC lens, and so much more. MIASHA is a real powerhouse, and was an absolute pleasure to talk with! Don’t …
  • MikeyPod 342 | Choral Arts Initiative Founder Brandon Elliott
    My guest this week is Brandon Elliott, the Founder, Executive and Artistic Director of Choral Arts Initiative, an organization solely dedicated to bringing new music by living artists to life. We talk about his work with the organization, their most recent commission, From Wilderness, and how the gift of time and space deepened his understanding …
  • MikeyPod 341 | Harpist Emily Levin
    Harpist Emily Levin joins me on the podcast to discuss GroundWork(s), a commissioning project she founded to celebrate living composers through harp-centric commissions, and to pay homage to the communities that first supported them through hometown premieres. I chatted with Emily just days before the premiere of her first commission and felt so inspired by …
  • Jack Stafford
    MikeyPod 340 | Musician and Podcaster Jack Stafford
    Musician and podcaster Jack Stafford joins me on the podcast this week to talk about his Podsongs podcast, to chat about some of the music his interviews have inspired, and embark on a pretty deep (yet accessible) spiritual excursion. If there ever was a perfect guest for this here podcast, this is the guy! I …
  • MikeyPod 339 | Comedian and Musician Ian Lockwood
    Ian Lockwood joins me this week to chat about his latest EP, Not Like Other Girls, his brilliant videos, the idea of building art through community, and just so much more. Ian provides some great insight here about the way he creates his work and I can’t wait for you hear it! Podcast: Play in …