This week on No Simple Road we are very excited to have Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D as our guest on the show. Stephen has devoted his life to understanding the profound wisdom and healing power that exists within each of us. Through our dreams and imagination, we are able to access limitless creativity and innovation, improved relationships, and ultimately our human potential. In his new book The Imagination Matrix, Aizenstat expands upon his world-renowned Dream Tending method to present a step-by-...
Nov 03, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 340
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes in collaboration with MELT PREMIUM MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES! Follow them on Instagram and DM them to let them know NSR sent ya and you'll get but 1 get one half off!!!! This week on the No Simple Road Weekly Rewind we discuss some concrete ways to manage the weight of everything that is going on ...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Welcome to the final episode of Cascade Equinox Festival Week on No Simple Road! This is the final installment in our Cascade Equinox week! Endings are always bittersweet and this one is no different. We talk about some of the non-musical elements of the festival and what we thought was some of the highlights from the vending, food, and ancillary elements of this festival. We even have a short talk with the N.E.S.T. creator, Nathaniel Greene Hogen (@naturedreamweaver). Next, we sit down with Egg...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Welcome to the second episode of Cascade Equinox Festival Week on No Simple Road! We start this episode by sharing a single moment that moved each of us individually during our time at the fest. It's so hard to pick just one but each of us shares a tidbit since it's those moments that make going to see live music so special. Then we take you to the green room where we spend some time talking with Lespecial and Portland's own, Small Million. Mel takes us home with a poem she wrote about her time ...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Welcome to the first episode of Cascade Equinox Festival Week on No Simple Road! In this episode we take you back to our live podcast on Day 2 from the Cosmic Drip stage with our very special guest Cam Herdt (@mistercam) of the Best Show Ever podcast! We go on a conversational journey drawing parallels between going to 'church' and heading to our beloved music festivals like Cascade Equinox. We hear what our experiences so far have been like, what we're hopeful for, set our intentions, and hopef...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 41 min
We are super excited this week to have visual artist Andrew Sax (@somesaxyart) as our guest in the No Simple Road Studio! Andrew has worked hard over the last few years creating some of the most compelling visual art for some of the biggest names in the scene. Bands like the trey Anastasio Band, Goose, Dogs In A Pile, and Spafford have all trusted Andrew to bring their music's vibe and feel to life through his art! Hailing from Philly, Andrew has grown up in the music scene and has a passion for...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 339
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes in collaboration with MELT PREMIUM MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES! Follow them on Instagram and DM them to let them know NSR sent ya for $20 off your first order!!!! This week on the No Simple Road Weekly Rewind we have Producer Cory in the NSR studio with us! Cory has been a integral part of the No Si...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 23 min
We are extremely excited to have Lucas Sacks, Director of Booking of The Brooklyn Bowl, joining us as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Lucas is a live events industry professional with over 10 years experience. Beginning as an intern at the Bowl in 2012, Lucas now books and oversees multi-departmental coordination of upwards of 700 concerts & music-related events per year for a space ranked annually with Pollstar's top 10 global club-sized venues. We had a blast talking with Lucas abou...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 338
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes in collaboration with MELT PREMIUM MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES! Follow them on Instagram and DM them to let them know NSR sent ya for $20 off your first order!!!! This week on the No Simple Road Weekly Rewind we celebrate the birthday of our Matriarch, the Queen of the NSR Family, Goddess of No Simp...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr
We are so stoked to have Portland's own, Sean McLean as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Sean has been playing in World's Finest since 2011 and has been all over the music scene sitting in with every band imaginable like Leftover Salmon, Umphrey's McGee, and Lespecial just to name a few. His prowess on both the guitar and Alto Sax are unmatched and his new band Sean McLean and The Vibetenders is set to take the scene by storm this Fall! We sit down in the studio this week with Sean to talk...
Oct 06, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 337
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes in collaboration with MELT PREMIUM MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES! Follow them on Instagram and DM them to let them know NSR sent ya for $20 off your first order!!!! This week on the No Simple Road Weekly Rewind we have a special guest on the ride with us... Sean Marmora, better known as @longstrangepu...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 11 min
We are very excited to have singer/songwriter Christian Lopez in the studio as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Rolling Stone says.. "as popularity in Americana rises, Lopez can connect the dots for many young listeners..” Christian Lopez is not merely riding the wave of Americana Music, the West Virginia native is bending it to its knees. With the will of his voice and the stomp of a steady beat, Christian Lopez is pioneering his own brand of Folk Rock. Hailed as an Americana wunderkind w...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 336
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes in collaboration with MELT PREMIUM MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES! Follow them on Instagram and DM them to let them know NSR sent ya for $20 off your first order!!!! This week on the No Simple Road Weekly Rewind we are joined by a special guest! Lisa Glassman of Active Potential! Lisa Joy, Musicians Pe...
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 48 min
We are super excited this week to have Leftover Salmon banjoy player Andy Thorn as our guest on No Simple Road. Andy never expected to go viral. But in 2021, he was in his backyard, playing an improvised banjo tune to a wild fox, when his wife caught the whole thing on video. The video made headlines around the world. Soon, Andy was interviewed on the Kelly Clarkson Show and A & E’s Neighborhood Wars. Even NPR’s Political Gabfest discussed the video. A New York Times writer called it “a mome...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 335
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes in collaboration with MELT PREMIUM MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES! Follow them on Instagram and DM them to let them know NSR sent ya for $20 off your first order!!!! This week on the No Simple Road Weekly Rewind we are feeling the closing of the season coming on! We talk a little about feeling tired bu...
Sep 18, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes in collaboration with MELT PREMIUM MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES! Follow them on Instagram and DM them to let them know NSR sent ya for $20 off your first order!!!! This week on the No Simple Road Weekly Rewind we are recapping our epic week in Denver and the whole Ophelia's appearance and live stream...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 32 min
This week on No Simple Road we are so excited to have the one and only Jake Eddy as our guest on the show! Jake Eddy is a bluegrass guitarist born and raised in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He began his musical career and lifelong addiction to the road playing banjo professionally at the age of fourteen with bluegrass-legend Melvin Goins. His guitar playing, which is primarily influenced by bluegrass and jazz, is showcased on his debut album of fiddle tunes entitled "Jake Eddy", which features su...
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 333
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes in collaboration with MELT PREMIUM MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES! Follow them on Instagram and DM them to let them know NSR sent ya for $20 off your first order!!!! This week on the No Simple Road Weekly Rewind we stop and remember back in 2022 when we had the honor of talking with James Casey at The ...
Sep 04, 2023•37 min
We are so stoked to have Haley Johnsen in the studio with us this week for No Simple Road! Haley is a Portland, Oregon-born musician with a knack for genre bending and hard-earned career path that is uniquely her own. Raised listening to powerhouse singers such as Brandi Carlile, Grace Potter, and Annie Lennox, her greatest inspirations become apparent in her stunning vocals, introspective lyricism, and cross-pollinated style of indie-pop, and Americana music. Haley has the type of showmanship t...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 332
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes in collaboration with MELT PREMIUM MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES! Follow them on Instagram and DM them to let them know NSR sent ya for $20 off your first order!!!! This week on the No Simple Road Weekly Rewind we have a conversation surrounding feeling a sense of accomplishment, relaxing into a futur...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 10 min
We are super excited this week to have returning guest Joe Moore of Psychedelics Today joining us on No Simple Road! Psychedelics Today is the planetary leader in psychedelic education, media, and advocacy. Psychedelics are set to disrupt the way humanity approaches healing and wellness, making way for a new paradigm in healthcare and cognitive liberty. We bridge scientific, academic, philosophical, societal, and cultural disciplines, covering up-to-the-minute developments and diving deep into c...
Aug 25, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 331
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes in collaboration with MELT PREMIUM MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES! Follow them on Instagram and DM them to let them know NSR sent ya for $20 off your first order!!!! We are back at it with The Rewind this week after being away last week because we were sick! We jump into a pretty heavy conversation sur...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 8 min
We are super stoked to have Cory Walker and Harry Clark of East Nash Grass joining us as our guests on No Simple Road this week! The band that would become East Nash Grass began to take shape by chance, as a weekly bluegrass night at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge. The gig leadership changed hands and players came and went over several years, and what started as a loose collection of pickers gradually solidified into a committed group of dedicated bandmates. They quickly became one of the top you...
Aug 18, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 330
This week on No Simple Road we are super stoked to have returning guest, Ed Durocher from Apollo Suns returning as our guest! Founded by Ed, Apollo Suns is a 9-piece instrumental collective from Winnipeg, Manitoba. The band fuses the influence of jazz, rock, and psychedelic music, to create their own unique sounds with the dance floor in mind. They have self-released three EP's: 'Each Day A Different Sun' (2017), 'Dawn Offerings' (2019), 'A Relationship Of Force' (Color Red, 2021), and were awar...
Aug 11, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 329
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes in collaboration with MELT PREMIUM MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES! Follow them on Instagram and DM them to let them know NSR sent ya for $20 off your first order!!!! This week on The Rewind we talk a little bit about how an attitude of gratitude is the elixir for a blue mood. Our mental spaces sometime...
Aug 07, 2023•1 hr 4 min
This week on No Simple Road we are so excited to have Nick Gerlach, co-host of Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast, Cult Leader, Musician, and Trivia Host, as our guest on the show! Nick has been playing music for years in bands like Sunquabi, The Wooks, Cosby Sweater, and others, writing trivia books, podcasting, and spreading the ultimate form of consciousness through his very own cult. We sit down with Nick to talk about: How Nick and Frasco began their co-host love affair. Some of his experie...
Aug 04, 2023•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 328
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes with the collaboration of The Edible Beats out of Denver, Colorado and couldn't make this happen every week without them! This week on The Rewind we recap the last weekend of String Cheese Incident shows and take you along with us as our landing gears touch down. Fresh in the afterglow of po...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 11 min
This week on No Simple Road we are super stoked to have Torrin Daniels of Kitchen Dwellers joining us here in the studio! Among the many natural wonders in Montana, Wise River runs for about 30 miles through the Southwestern region of the state, cutting through the mountains and flowing into the Big Hole River. Beyond being a favorite spot for fly fishermen, it remains etched into the topography of the land itself. Two hours away in Bozeman, Kitchen Dwellers equally embody the spirit and soul of...
Jul 28, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 327
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! We produce these episodes with the collaboration of The Edible Beats out of Denver, Colorado and couldn't make this happen every week without them! This week on The Rewind we have a special guest joining us here in the studio, Syd (our Daughter) Wynn! We begin with a conversation around growing up, parenting, rebelli...
Jul 24, 2023•56 min
This week on No Simple Road we are super excited to have Trevor Hall as our guest! Raised on an island in South Carolina, singer/songwriter Trevor Hall realized at a young age that music was more than just a passion - it was his life’s art. At sixteen, he recorded his first album. Shortly after, Hall left South Carolina for Idyllwild Arts Academy in California where he studied classical guitar and was introduced to the practices of yoga and meditation, which would greatly influence his life and ...
Jul 21, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 326
