Welcome to Roadcase!! Talya Elitzer is the co-founder of Godmode, a Grammy-nominated artist development company and label whose clients include Channel Tres, JPEGMAFIA and Yaeji. Talya started out in the mailroom at William Morris and then moved on to Senior A&R at Capitol Records where she looked after artists such as Katy Perry, Sam Smith and Beck. At Godmode, Talya takes young and fresh talent that do not necessarily fit into "pre-existing formats," and guides them along their way with as...
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 102
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! For this first episode of Season 3, we are super-psyched to have on the show Faye Webster, an extraordinarily talented artist, songwriter and vocalist. Her latest album, I Know I'm Funny haha, is a soulful and striking album of profound emotional content and gorgeously layered textures of sound. Faye is a very private person but at the same time connects deeply with her myriad fans with an honest, direct and disarmingly thought...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 101
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!! Please join us on this landmark 100th episode of Roadcase for an amazing interview with Tom Blankenship of My Morning Jacket to conclude our Season 2!! We are so psyched to have had this awesome conversation with Tom, who plays rocking bass in one of the greatest live bands out there today. My Morning Jacket has just come off the road after their first extensive touring in over four years -- ...
Dec 24, 2021•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 100
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this expansive and in-depth chat with Travis Book of The Infamous Stringdusters, which has won a multitude of awards, including the Grammy in 2018 for Best Bluegrass Album, and is currently nominated for the Grammy for their album, A Tribute to Bill Monroe. Having just come off their mega-successful Fall tour, The Stringdusters have new album, Toward the Fray, which is set to be released into the world on February 1...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 99
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this killer, rock-infused interview with Chris Vos, who is recently coming off The Record Company's Fall tour on the heels of their third album, Play Loud, released into the world on October 3. Chris is an LA transplant and Wisconsin native with huge heart; his mega-passion for rock and roll runs deep and true, with a musical upbringing and a DIY spirit that he brings wherever he goes. Rock and blues comes from the ...
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 98
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this interview with the uber-fascinating Jay Sweet, who not only runs the Newport Festivals Foundation, but is also the Executive Producer of Newport Folk Festival, one of the country's premier music events. Jay is a super-engaging personality whose love and enthusiasm for live music is legendary. Newport Folk Festival is world renowned for its unique vibe, and Jay is best known for creating an environment which pro...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 97
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this fun conversation with Ben Atkind, drummer of the band GOOSE, who is also celebrating the release of a new EP with his side-project Elephant Proof. Ben attended the Berklee School of Music to study Drum Performance and has been on a continuous and determined pursuit of his musical dreams from very early on in his life. Now, with Goose's soon-to-be legendary meteoric rise in popularity during Covid and beyond, Be...
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 96
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this fun conversation with Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz. Sadie is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her first releases which became the foundation of Speedy Ortiz and has issued a new, re-mixed album entitled The Death of Speedy Ortiz & Cop Kicker... Forever. Available now on streaming services, the physical version of the anniversary album will be available on January 28. Sadie is also at the helm of her indi...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 95
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this wonderful conversation with Jenny Lee of the band Warpaint. Jenny is releasing her first solo effort since 2015 in the form of three 7" singles, all adorned with original artwork by Jenny herself, who has also created Jenny Lee Singles Club, where she shares her thoughts on each song with fans who in turn exchange their ideas and feedback with her. The 7" single Newtopia/Clinique is available now and Tickles/He...
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 94
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this fascinating conversation with Ethan Miller of Howlin' Rain. Ethan is as prolific as he is talented and hardcore, and has a new album, The Dharma Wheel, released in October of this year. Howlin' Rain has been together for upwards of 15 years and during that time, Ethan has also steered several other projects including Heron Oblivion, Feral Ohms and Comets on Fire -- all of which rock very hard, but all in very d...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 93
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this special interview with blues rock superstars and Grammy nominated artists Rebecca and Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe. This amazing musical team is truly a family effort; they love and nurture their sister bond both onstage and off and are currently winding down a nationwide Fall tour on the heels of several amazing recent albums produced during the pandemic, including their 2020 effort Self Made Man. Also in 2020, ...
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 92
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this special interview with Devon Allman. Devon is fresh off a summer tour with Allman Betts Band and is primed and ready to talk about all things Allman, including the upcoming Allman Family Revival tour that kicks off in late November 2021. Devon is an intriguing human with a super compelling story about his relationship with his father, Gregg Allman, with whom he had no contact until Devon was well into his teena...
Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 91
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this conversation with the amazing and extraordinarily talented guitarist, Yasmin Williams, whose unique fingerstyle and percussive techniques on guitar is a sight to behold. Yasmin began playing guitar early in her young life, tapping and plucking the guitar strings while tapping her feet as well to keep the rhythm. It's a stunning demonstration of virtuoso playing, fully demonstrated on her most recent album, Urba...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 90
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this great conversation with Vaughn Hunt of Acid Dad, whose uber-cool neo-psych and post-punk vibes can be heard on their latest album, Take It From the Dead on Greenway Records and Levitation's The Reverberation Appreciation Society. Acid Dad's sound nods to the great psychedelic bands of the 60s and 70s, and their live performance vibe recalls the groovy 60s ballroom shows full of visual excitement and stellar psy...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 89
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this stellar conversation with the amazing and talented Bette Smith, whose latest album, The Good, The Bad and The Bette is produced by Matt Patton of the Drive-By Truckers and has been massively lauded for its hard-driving soul sounds and soaring vocals. Bette had recently been on tour with Kenny Wayne Shepherd and the Drive-By Truckers, and her live performances are explosive; but beyond her captivating stage pres...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 88
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this conversation with Marc Myers, noted journalist and author of the new book, "Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders and Fans Who Were There," out now on Grove Press. Marc is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, where he writes about music and the arts. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed books Anatomy of a Song and Why Jazz Happened, and posts daily at...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 87
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this intriguing conversation with the spectacular Holly Bowling! Holly is a classically trained pianist whose improvisational work is legendary and well known in the jam band community, due to her painstakingly accurate transcription of Phish jams as well as her gorgeous piano renditions of Grateful Dead's music. During the Covid lockdown and subsequent show-hiatus, Holly created the "Wilderness Sessions," a collect...
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 86
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this fascinating look into the life of Dori Freeman. Her fourth album, Ten Thousand Roses, was just released on September 10 and shows Dori in an entirely new light. We explore the ways this album is a departure for her, what it means to raise a daughter as a touring musician and how Dori overcame her early battle with stage fright. Living in the small Southwest Virginia town of Galax, Dori has the benefit of being ...
Nov 03, 2021•54 min•Ep. 85
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this in-depth interview with the always fascinating Tom Freeman of the band Covey. With Covey's recently released album, Class of Cardinal Sin, Tom presents an extraordinarily personal view of his life, fears, triumphs and the issues he struggles with or on a more basic level, thing that just really, really annoy him. Tom's level of vulnerability in speaking to his own issues takes a serious level of courage, but he...
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 84
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this informative conversation with Tara Perkins of Hard Line Management. Tara got her start in the DIY world of the Pacific Northwest by managing live festivals in the early 2000's then began managing her first tour with the band Gossip when she took them around as support on Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Tour in 2007. Talk about starting off big! But Tara learned the trade along the way -- in true DIY fashion -- by as...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 83
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this super chill conversation with Conor Murphy of Foxing whose fourth album, Draw Down the Moon, was released this summer. Conor is a gem of a human who really speaks from the heart about a variety of subjects: we cover the band's stellar live performances, the current and future direction of Foxing as well as how the band managed during the show stoppage. We also bat around ideas concerning existential dread and t...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 82
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this informative chat with Lincoln Foley Schofield. Lincoln is a musician, talent booker, promoter and also the founder of SHOWX, a "social media for musicians platform." SHOWX allows performers and artists to book their own shows, sell their own tickets and route their own tours in a collaborative manner -- and most importantly, to retain the emails of those that purchase tickets. Lincoln, who formerly promoted sho...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 81
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this fascinating conversation with Andrew Marlin of Watchhouse, formerly known as Mandolin Orange, whose latest album entitled "Watchhouse" was released earlier this year. Andrew is a super chill human and this conversation ran really deep as we talked about his profoundly personal songwriting and the cathartic effect it has had on Andrew both in writing his songs but also in putting them out there for fans to hear ...
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 80
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this inspirational and informative interview with Ric Leichtung, owner of concert promoter Ad Hoc Presents, and co-founder of non-profit NYC Nightlife United. Ric is a tireless promoter of diversity in all that they do, and with NYC Nightlife United, Ric is not only helping those in the live music industry in New York City who were hit particularly hard by Covid, but also promotes diversity by striving to support an...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 79
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this very illuminating conversation with Nashville artist, Amelia White. Amelia's latest EP, 11 A.M., with Brett Ryan Stewart is a sonically challenging and gorgeous work fueled -- as are all her works -- by Amelia's lifelong passion for songwriting combined with tons of life experience. We explore the broad range of topics playing a part in Amelia's fascinating and profound career including her struggles with addic...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 78
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this info-packed episode with the very chill Ambrose Kenny-Smith of The Murlocs, whose latest album, Bittersweet Demons, is a gorgeous and deeply personal work filled with tales of confronting life's difficulties and working through them to get to the other side -- very apt for our current times. Ambrose is a super hard working musician devoted both to The Murlocs as well as the massively popular King Gizzard & ...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 77
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this really cool conversation with the super-chill Rick Maguire of the band Pile. Rick is a major road warrior, having played 1000s of shows in the US and around the world throughout his over a decade long career as the main protagonist in Pile, whose studio albums are masterworks of creativity and unique song structure. Pile's most recent album, released in August of 2021 entitled "Songs Known Together, Alone," is ...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 76
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this episode and catch some cool Rockabilly vibes with Lara Hope, whose band, Lara Hope & The Ark-Tones just released a sweet new album, "Here To Tell the Tale." Lara has toured extensively with her band and has shared billing with such huge luminaries as The Blasters, The Brian Setzer Orchestra and Reverend Horton Heat; Lara has achieved some serious accolades in her career and was the winner of the 2017 Amerip...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 75
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this fun and insightful conversation with Tim Showalter of Strand of Oaks. Strand of Oaks' new album, In Heaven, produced by Kevin Ratterman and featuring Carl Broemel and Bo Koster of My Morning Jacket, is due out Oct 1 and is an extremely personal work built on tragedy, loss and renewal. Tim is a multi-faceted artist and human, and he explores with Josh the various ups and downs in his own personal life, but most ...
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 74
Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!! Join us for this epic conversation with the one and only Dom Flemons, The American Songster. Dom is a Grammy-winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and actor whose scholarly approach to his music only enhances his extraordinary technical talents as a virtuoso musician. In this interview, Dom talks to Josh about his background and growth as a touring musician and imparts upon us his profound knowledge of the America...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 73
