BNB on Sound Opinions
Hear me yammer with my music-journo heroes on the long-running podcast.
When Band Name Bureau hit its 100th issue and fifth anniversary a couple months ago, I did something I’ve never done: I actually promoted it. I even wrote up a press release!
Having received roughly 23 million press releases in my time, I knew the chances of anything happening were slim, but I was thrilled to hear back from a place I really cared about: Sound Opinions.
Hosted by journalists and critics Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis, the show has been around forever, starting as a public-radio fixture and naturally expanding into a podcast. When I became a podcast devotee way back in 2009, it was one of the first shows I subscribed to. Jim and Greg were the music critics for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, respectively, and I looked up to them as a Chicagoan who also wrote about music. They were, and remain, two of the most knowledgeable guys around, and Sound Opinions is still great.
I was only hoping for a shoutout from Jim and Greg, and instead they interviewed me for an entire episode. It was legitimately an honor, so check it out. It’s very fun.
Semi-related: Sound Opinions producer Andrew Gill hosted and produced an excellent podcast called Rock That Doesn’t Roll, which drew upon his childhood in an evangelical home to examine Christian music. That’s a genre I find relentlessly cringe, but the show is really well done and illuminating. (And indie-rockers will wanna stick around for the episode with David Bazan of Pedro the Lion.)
BNB #105 will arrive next week. Probably.
Also coming soon: an interview with Coco Kinnon of Winona Fighter.
Below are links to the issues with bands I talked on Sound Opinions:
Lana Del Rabies:
Diarrhea Planet:
Ombiigizi:
Bikini Trill:
Screeching Weasel:
Winona Fighter:
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers:
Fartbarf:
Hoobastank:
Toad the Wet Sprocket:
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin:
