This week on Snacky Tunes we feature an interview with the minds behind The Store, plus a live in-studio performance by Light Asylum. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Today on Snacky Tunes , an interview with Ari Taymor of Alma at the Standard in Los Angeles, plus a special live performance by Small Black. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
On this episode of Snacky Tunes , we feature an interview with Wes Avril of Guerrilla Tacos taped at Taste Talks Los Angeles, plus a live in-studio performance by Fletcher C. Johnson . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
This week on Snacky Tunes , Greg Bresnitz sits down with Lee Desrosiers, chef and manager at Achilles Heel in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Achilles Heel is a casual neighborhood bar built in and inspired by one of the old dock-workers bars of the 1900s that served nearby East River shipyards. The Darcys are an alternative pop duo from Toronto, Canada. Currently the band consists of singer and multi-instrumentalist Jason Couse and drummer / lyricist Wes Marskell. The duo is the group’s original core and...
This week on Snacky Tunes, we're live at ComplexCon with First We Feast to talk about their inaugural event. And in the second half of the show, we have a live in-studio performance from the band Day Wave. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
This week on Snacky Tunes we talk to Sophie Hunter of The Wellesbourne about bringing the English countryside to Los Angeles. We're then joined by Brooklyn quartet the Harsh Crowd to celebrate their new release. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
On this episode of Snacky Tunes , we visit the Eastside Food Festival, a gathering of the best of the best and rising stars from LA’s gastronomic scene. The festival supports local sustainability, featuring locally owned/operated businesses including over 30 local vendors including restaurants, celebrity chefs, caterers, locally owned brands, and more. With a focus on the evolving and diverse scenes of LA’s EastSide neighborhoods, the festival highlights all aspects of culture in our communities...
This week on Snacky Tunes, we talk liquid memoirs and a new book – Regarding Cocktails (Phaidon) – with Georgette Moger-Petraske and Theo Lieberman. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
This week on Snacky Tunes , host Greg Bresnitz is joined by Jacob Hadjigeorgis, owner of Jacob's Pickles, and his father George to talk Southern comfort food, beer, biscuits and...pickles! For the music portion of the show – Milwaukee-born, Brooklyn-based indie electro-funk duo French Horn Rebellion is comprised of siblings Robert Perlick-Molinari, former member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, DJ and indie remixer du jour (Beyoncé, Sia) and David Perlick-Molinari, producer of MGMT and owner of B...
We're back in London. This go-round we're in Shoreditch sitting with the crew behind Michelin-starred, The Clove Club, which also happens to hold the 26th spot on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list. Additionally, we'll hear all about the team's newest endeavor, a "Britalian" restaurant named Luca, opening next month. Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker then join us to talk balancing jokes alongside depressing songs. Just this past week, the award-winning British folk duo, known for their exquisite ...
This week we head across the pond to London to sit down with the team behind Jidori, Dalston's yakitori-ya that's winning diners over with charcoal-grilled skewers, well-made cocktails and a true welcoming spirit. We're also joined by Brooklyn rock quartet, Elliot & The Ghost--who recently dropped their latest single, "Turn Off Your Radar"--to talk all about late nights and living room records. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com...
Casa Apicii, by Chef Casey Lane, the Los Angeles-based chef who oversees The Tasting Kitchen, is a seasonal Italian restaurant inside a Greenwich Village 19th Century townhouse. Lane has teamed up with A Voce's Adam Nadel for his first East Coast project. Acid Dad is psych punk kids from New York, whose melodies haunt your brains and get inside your veins. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Located Inside the Grand Central Market in Downtown LA, Madcapra is a produce-driven, untraditional falafel shop created by Chefs Sarah Hymanson and Sara Kramer. Our falafel is made from organic, locally-sourced chickpeas from Koda Farms. We take a lot of pride in the quality of our ingredients and source as much of our product as possible from sustainable growers in Southern California. Why? Because vegetables. Cameron Orr is a looping artist that uses live-recorded layers of electronically aff...
Today on Snacky Tunes, we talk to Karasu founder Yael Peet, who tells us about her career change from art school (with dreams of cartooning) to the world of food, sharp knives, and putting twists on Japanese cuisine. Later, we hear intimate piano + vocals only versions of music by Charlene Kaye (KAYE), a New York-based artist who got her start singing with the indie rock collective known as San Fermin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19...
The season premiere of Snacky Tunes features Chef Luis Navarro and a live in-studio performance by the band PILL. Chef Luis Navarro has dedicated his career to learning and traveling through all of Mexico’s enchanting regions, from Veracruz, Mexico City, Yucatan, Baja California, and Oaxaca studying the craft of the local cuisine, and indigenous ingredients. He is currently the head chef of Lola's Mexican Cuisine in Long Beach, CA. PILL will be touring in Europe throughout the month of October. ...
This week's episode of Snacky Tunes features an interview with Michael Stolfe of Connie's Pizza in Chicago, as well as a live in-studio performance by Psymon Spine. Connie's Pizza is Chicago's best kept secret for delicious Italian dishes and of course, pizza. Much has happened since founder Jim Stolfe traded his prized 1962 Oldsmobile Starfire to open the first Connie’s in a small storefront on the south side of Chicago. They have opened new restaurants and expanded into frozen foods nationwide...
In this week's episode of Snacky Tunes, Greg Bresnitz talks to the gentlemen behind Cordobar, an Austrian wine bar in Berlin, Germany. Take it from them: Burgundy isn't the only place to grow grapes with a fine wine in mind. Then we're joined in the studio by singer/songwriter Monika Heidemann (stage name HEIDEMANN), who tells us all about her early gravitation to synthesizers and lets us hear it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/...
This week's episode of Snacky Tunes features an interview with Chef Curtis Stone, followed by an in-studio performance by B Boys. Curtis Stone is an Australian celebrity chef, author and television personality, nicknamed "The Quiet Terminator" by fans following his performance on The Celebrity Apprentice 3. He recently launched his ambitious new tasting-menu restaurant Gwen in Hollywood. Three psychos that came to be through fate by way of necessity, B Boys offer up to the world their sonic mani...
On today's Snacky Tunes , we spoke with three Berlin artists who use food as their medium of creative expression and connection to the community around them. 'Pepe Dayaw' is a work-in-progress. In this work lies a blend of folklores, precarious technologies and funky improvisations whose mission is to research and choreograph living designs and sociality. Formally educated in the University of the Philippines, University of Amsterdam, University of Warwick, the National Museum of Reina Sofia Mad...
This week on Snacky Tunes , Darin and Greg Bresnitz are back in the studio to interview Jameson Fink and Nils Bernstein of Wine Enthusiast Magazine the world’s largest periodical for wine and spirits. Fink is a two-time SAVEUR Blog Award finalist, and Bernstein has authored culinary content for Bon Appetit, Men’s Journal, New York Times, Hemispheres, and Kinfolk, among others. After the break, a live in-studio performance by Starchild & The New Romantic. Bryndon Cook, who records as Starchil...
This week's episode of Snacky Tunes features an interview with Rene Ramirez of Ray's BBQ in Huntington Park, CA, and a live in-studio performance by Harsh Crowd, a punk-inspired band composed of four 14-year-olds who formed in 2013 after meeting at Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls in Brooklyn, New York. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
In this week's episode of Snacky Tunes , Darin Bresnitz interviews Chef Greg Bernhardt of Paley, a restaurant in Columbia Square, the birthplace of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At the forefront of the California farm to table movement, Bernhardt serves a dynamic menu of seasonal and local ingredients in classic dishes with a modern twist – a nod to the inspiration behind the restaurant itself. The second half of the show features of live in-studio performance by OddKidOut, a 20 year old music pr...
This week's episode of Snacky Tunes features an interview with Shawna Dawson, founder of the LA Food Fest , followed by a live in-studio performance by the band Myrrias . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
On this week's Snacky Tunes , Greg Bresnitz is on location at Barrafina, an authentic Spanish tapas bar owned and operated by restaurateurs Sam & Eddie Hart in London's Soho. In the second half of the show, a live in-studio performance from the band Street Smells, a New York City Garage Psych Rock band named for the smelliest street on earth. They are Jonny Street, on guitar and vox, Ryan Street, guitar and vox, Jessi Street, bass, Vivi Street, drums, and Lala Street, synth,aux, and vox. The...
On this week's Snacky Tunes , Greg Bresnitz interviews Claire Wadsworth of the restaurant La Copine. La Copine began as a pop-up kitchen in 2009. Chef Nikki Hill partnered with singer-songwriter Claire Wadsworth in Philadelphia, where they started their business serving farm-to-table brunch on a food cart. In 2012, Nikki and Claire moved to California. Now living in Yucca Valley, they have opened their first restaurant in Flamingo Heights. After the break, a live in-studio performance by violini...
In the first half of this week's Snacky Tunes , Darin Bresnitz sits down with Austin expat Briana Valdez, owner of HomeState, a Texas kitchen in Los Angeles. The menu features Tex-Mex specialties such as migas and brisket tacos. After the break, we have a live in-studio performance by The Undercover Dream Lovers, the solo project of Brooklyn based artist and producer Matt Koenig. His first EP, While It’s in Style , was bedroom produced and self-released. Koenig wrote, tracked, and mixed all the ...
Bill Esparza, also known as Street Gourmet LA, joins us in the studio to talk about winning the James Beard Award for food coverage, Latin American cuisine, and how it all comes together in Los Angeles. In the second half of the show, the band Huh delivers a live in-studio performance. Huh are a heady, shreddy new rock band from New York City with a new EP and a new video. The four-piece creates thick, melodic sounds with whiffs of mid-'90s nostalgia and the occasional nod to Dad Rock. Onstage, ...
In the first half of this week's Snacky Tunes , Greg welcomes Raffaello Van Couten, Paul Kolbe, and Chef Marcellus Coleman of MID|NIGHTS Restaurant into the studio. Located in Williamsburg, MID|NIGHTS is the combination of a well executed food program, with a cocktail focused bar scene, that features outdoor seating, live DJ’s and a late-night menu. The second half of the show features WALL, a post-punk or no wave band (it's up for debate, according to their website) based in New York City. Tune...
In the first half of this week's Snacky Tunes , Greg and Darin catch up with Tracy Jane Young and Josh Grinker, the creative forces behind Kings County Imperial, a reinterpreted Central Chinese restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Rather than striving strictly for "authenticity," the menu is all about making an emotional connection between the food on the plate and the people who made it. After the break, we have musical guest Michael Daves, whose two-album set Orchids and Violence is out now o...
This week on Snacky Tunes , host Greg Bresnitz sits down with Kavita Meelu, who is one of the founders of Street Food Thursday. She has also developed a number of Berlin events, such as Burgers & Hip Hop and Mother’s Mother. After the break, Mike Edison and Mickey Finn, perform excerpts from Mike's new tragic-comic memoir, You Are a Complete Disappointment: A Triumphant Memoir of Failed Expectations . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://ar...
