The podcast is back baby! Artist, musician, dear friend of the pod, Tae Won Yu is also back! Season Three of the TMpod begins now with episode 65. I certainly don’t need any special excuse to have Tae on the pod but I am very pleased to be able to have him on at this moment to celebrate the release of The Antiquarian Sticker Book: Imaginarium . The new third installment of his much beloved and successful series on MacMillan/Odd Dot. Tae and I talk about the book and his process and experience ga...
Nov 12, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 65
This week’s episode marks the return of pod favorite, old school San Diego ‘Slow Death’ punk and underground skate legend Andy Newton aka OMA aka Old Man Andy aka Lord Shanty. Our freewheeling conversation takes the listener back to his pre-punk teenage years when he was listening to Ted Nugent, ditchin’ school, skating drainage ditches and smoking ditch weed as a member of The Chula Vista Cruisers skate team. Andy breaks down the legendary spots that preceded the arrival of the first skate park...
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 56 min•Season 2Ep. 63
The pod is back! This episode I let you all in on what’s been going on, how it’s going now and where the pod is going in the future. I explain how a couple of months ago pod momentum and all creative practices were derailed by a series of unforeseen illnesses in the family. Life suddenly got very focused on my immediate reality and not much else. I share some of the practices and teachings that have helped me through this challenging time, specifically the guidance I’ve found in the straightforw...
Jul 28, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 63
I didn't plan on taking a pod hiatus but that's what happened! Feels good to be back with EPISODE 62 a conversation with my dear friend, author, bassist, DC Punk, Seth Lorinczi. Our conversation covers how his early fascination with the 70's Mod Revival led him to 60's garage rock and punk before discovering and becoming enmeshed in the very vital, now-legendary harDCore scene happening right in his own backyard. Seth tells us about reuniting as a teenager with his childhood best friend Tim Gree...
May 16, 2022•2 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 62
A short update on all things TraegerMethod and a springtime message of gratitude to all pod guests, listeners and supporters. Check out Jason's upcoming shows with Hutch Harris! new episodes COMING SOON! April 29th Astoria OR May 1st Portland @ Kelly's Olympian downtown Music: The Fartz 'You Got a Brain' Other music by jason
Apr 26, 2022•7 min
Freshly returned from his recent east coast Verbal Assault reunion tour, Pete Chramiec has returned to the TMpod as well. It is always a delight to catch up with Pete. Our conversation covers his experience on the VA 'two-er' (the band played two shows), his fear of having preshow diarrhea (he didn't!) and how wild it was for this 'humble carpenter' to take the stage again after all these years. We cover a ton of other stuff like house building, A-frames, my job at Amazon and the madness and tra...
Apr 02, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 61
Episode 60 is a conversation with west coast punk rock veteran and practicing therapist Pete Normal. Though we never met 'back in the day' our time spent in many of the same cities and our web of mutual friendships made talking with Pete feel like I was visiting with an old friend. In addition to our shared cultural and musical history we share a deep interest in mental health, personal transformation and spiritual growth. We talk about how his life in music and his interest in these subjects le...
Mar 22, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 60
Episode 59 is a conversation with my old friend Olympia based musician, artist, world / interdimensional traveller, Arrington de Dionyso . It was so good to sit down with Arrington in person in my painting studio a couple weeks back to record this conversation. I've long admired his singular, steadfast approach to art and music making over the decades we've been friends. His passion and creative fire shines through in everything he does and this light has been a consistent inspiration to me over...
Mar 06, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 59
My guest this week is Portland based singer, songwriter of insanely catchy punk music Hutch Harris. You know Hutch from his years fronting The Thermals and if you're hip, you are keeping up with his new solo music exemplified by his perfect Covid-era lofi bedroom LP ' Suck Up All the Oxygen'. During our conversation he also tells us we can look forward to listening to his new band Clear Rivers. We talk about Hutch's life in music and we get deep into his love of the TraegerMethod podcast. This c...
Feb 26, 2022•1 hr 58 min•Season 2Ep. 58
It's been a little over a month since our last episode, and it feels good to be back with a return guest: photographer, artist, roots DC/LA punk Cynthia Connolly. We talk about her new Minor Threat, Dischord House, 1982 photo box set release and the epic heaps of work, reflection and feeling that went into making the project a reality. Speaking of work, we also talk in depth about my new job at a local Amazon sortation center and how surprised I have been by how much I like it. We also talk abou...
Feb 19, 2022•1 hr 44 min
Episode 56 is a TMpod first: I'm dropping this one the same day it was recorded. This one is fresh out of the pod oven! My guest Portland based stand-up comic Nariko Ott is one of my favorite comics, a good friend and someone whose class conscious politics always resonate with me. Even though we're talking about the Jan 6th attempted coup and the rising fascist tide in America we still manage to have some laughs and share hopeful ideas about how to survive and win in our increasingly dystopian r...
Jan 07, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 56
Episode 55 is conversation with "Rock and Roll Jackie" Stewart of legendary west coast noise/experimentalists SMEGMA . She also makes music today as half of The Tenses with her partner and Smegma founder Ric "Ju Suk Reet Meate" Stewart . Jackie joined Smegma in 1983, ten years after the collective was founded in Pasadena, CA. but her west coast underground bone fides stretch back before the 'Summer of Love'. She tells us about seeing the Grateful Dead playing on a flatbed truck in the panhandle ...
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 55
TM pod is one year old ! This week we celebrate with a very special friend to everyone at the pod (me)... Nicky Thomas! Nicky was drummer extraordinaire behind 80's Dischord / DC legends Fire Party, great Seattle 90's band Mavis Piggott and today she plays with bay area mods Hard Left. As you'll hear there were many bands and collabs before and in-between these notables. Of course with a new covid variant on the way her current band isn't playing much but she tells us she's working on a memoir t...
Dec 04, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Season 2Ep. 54
This week’s episode is a transatlantic conversation with Sam Knee , UK based creator of the always impressive and seemingly endless ‘A Scene In Between’ instagram feed and author/compiler of the book by the same name which is available now in a new revised edition. Sam and I talk about his life in music and fashion beginning with his immersion in the UK’s early 80’s Mod Revival through his years in the Indie guitar pop/garage rock scene documented in the ‘A Scene In Between’ book, into his time ...
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Episode 52 is a conversation with brilliant Olympia-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Peter David Connelly aka The Mona Reels . His new album ‘Without Love’ is collection of songs that sound like classics you’ve loved all your life but are hearing for the first time. I just love it. We talk about the album and the creative process, we get into his history, arriving in Olympia in the early 90’s as a tween from Ellensberg, Wa. As a teen, he rejected the bustling local scene in favo...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Hello and welcome to TM pod SEASON TWO Episode 51 with my guest, the prolific, punk rock, political graphic art legend John Yates . John and I met in San Francisco in the late 80's when we both worked for Jello Biafra at Alternative Tentacles . We've been in touch off and on ever since and I've never stopped admiring his artistic output over the decades. We talk about our time together in that very vital era of SF music before and after the dawn of the 90's. Working at the label gave us access t...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 51
TM Pod is back after a two week break with a special two part Episode 50 featuring guest Ian MacKaye. Part two of Jason’s conversation with guest Ian MacKaye covers a very broad range of topics from the mystery of the cosmos to the difference between a Plymouth Scamp and Plymouth Duster (there isn’t much). It’s a fun conversation between two old friends. Thank you for listening! Music: Fugazi 'Great Cop' Coricky 'Woulda Coulda' TM pod Theme by Jason Support the podcast: Traegermethod Patreon Jas...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 50
TM Pod is back after a two week break with a special two part Episode 50 featuring guest Ian MacKaye. Part One of the conversation focuses primarily on the hardcore years of the early 80's. Ian shares memories of barebones tours with Minor Threat , road tripping in vans, buses and drive-away cars, crashing in punk houses and wild (and sometimes surprisingly quiet) punk shows. With a friendship stretching back to the mid 80's, "Birthday Twins" Ian and host Jason have more than just a birthday in ...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Episode 49 is a conversation with Jon “Quitty” Quittner. Listeners will remember Quitty’s previous appearance along with his Tight Bros From Way Back When bandmate (and last week’s guest) Sean Kelly on TM Pod Episode 30. That conversation focused on the phenomenon known as ‘ The Derek Tape’ This conversation Jason and Quitty discuss his earlier bands: Pinhead Gunpowder , Brent’s TV , Mukilteo Fairies , and Behead the Prophet N.L.S.L. The episode closes with a taped phone call made in 1990 betwee...
Sep 28, 2021•1 hr 36 min
This episode Jason talks with return guest Sean Kelly (Tight Bros From Way Back When, Derek Tape) about becoming a father for the first time two weeks ago. They also talk about Woodstock '99. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. Music: Capitol Punishment 'El Salvador' Code of Honor 'What Price Will You Pay?' No Labels 'Ego' TM Theme by Jason.
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Episode 47 Jason catches up with his ex-wife, Los Angeles raised, former Olympia punk, now fellow Portlander Star Athena . The two talk about Star's experience growing up in Los Angeles. Raised in a westside apartment down the hall from Punky Meadows , frontman of Casablanca recording artists Angel. Her brother Heath played in many LA bands, doing a stint with Angry Samoans among others . She talks about how as a teen going to punk shows she was repulsed by the sexual violence and harassment she...
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 47
TM pod 46 is a first for the podcast in three ways: it is the first episode recorded with a guest face to face, it’s the first one recorded outdoors and it’s the first time Jason has talked with singer, writer, podcaster, and OG Riot Grrrl Allison Wolfe . The two old friends cover her formative years in Olympia, where they met in the mid 90’s. They explore Allison’s multi-decade, ongoing run fronting more than half a dozen punk bands beginning with her ground zero Riot Grrrl band Bratmobile thro...
Aug 30, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Episode 45: Jason speaks with acclaimed writer, musician and martial artist Eugene S. Robinson . Listeners will recall his previous appearance on TM pod ep. 38 which explored the enigmatic late 80’s/early 90’s bay area Rollins doppelgänger Mark Sperry . This time Jason focuses on Eugene’s incredible life story: his days as a kid coming of age on the gang dominated streets of Brooklyn, his teen years split between the discotheques and punk clubs of 70’s Manhattan, to his long and legendary career...
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Episode 44 is a conversation with Los Angeles based writer, stand-up comic, competitive kettle-bell athlete and old school East Bay punk (via Arkansas) Bucky Sinister . The conversation begins by revisiting a subject explored in prior episodes, the late 80’s / early 90’s SF Henry Rollins-doppelganger Mark Sperry, who was a friend of his in that period. He offers insight and shares his admiration for Sperry. The two get into Bucky’s biography, his discovery of punk rock, his move from Arkansas to...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 44
This week Jason talks with TM pod regular, Pete Chramiec about the recently announced Verbal Assault reunion shows scheduled to take place Sept. 2021 in New England. Pete shares his concern that the newly surging Covid-19 Delta Variant may lead to the postponement of the dates but as of now they are very much a go. He talks about his recent trip back east to practice with the band and how much fun it was to revisit their set after a silence of 30 years. The two get deep into the reeds with talk ...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 43
This week Jason talks with Fernando ‘Ferny’ Cruz Jr. about his formative musical years with San Diego (more specifically Chula Vista) hardcore madmen Run For Your Fucking Life. The band cut a swath of music and mayhem through endless house parties, desert generator shows and clubs from 1994-2001. The 2019 passing of their beloved singer Jason Weedon has inspired the remaining members to reissue their classic self titled LP this summer on 31G records. Ferny tells us about the trials and tribulati...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 42
The last time this week’s guest Brian Walsby and Jason talked was in December of 1985 at a show in Northridge after Brian took an impromptu turn as the singer for The Descendents when Milo was delayed making it up from San Diego where he was going to college. This conversation is the two catching up on everything that has happened in their lives in the subsequent 36 years since that evening, leaving out nothing ...Maybe a few things were left out but all the most important stuff was covered like...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Episode 40: Jason catches up with legendary west coast punk rock photographer Alison Braun about her prolific work capturing the fire and fury of So Cal punk in the 80’s and Seattle metal/grunge at the beginning of the next decade. Her photographs published under her punk nickname ‘Mouse’ were a ubiquitous sight in the pages of MRR and Flipside and can be found on many classic record sleeves and inserts of the era. Like her contemporaries Ed Colver, Gary Leonard and Robbie Robinson, Alison’s wor...
Jul 12, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 40
TM pod 39 is a conversation with Jason's old friend since teenage years, San Diego punk and fellow Leading Edge fanzine maker Greg Lipman. The two talk about Greg’s life as an expat in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam where he has made his home for the past decade. He describes what life has been like through the Covid-19 epidemic and what its like today under lockdown as the country deals with the arrival of the Delta variant. About a half hour into the conversation the two trip down So Cal punk memory...
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Episode 38 is a BONUS companion follow-up further exploring the mystery of late 80’s / early 90’s Bay Area writer, spoken word artist, musician and Rollins doppelgänger Mark Sperry . A topic introduced in episode 36 by Jason and guest Martin Sprouse . It seems the two are not alone in their enduring fascination with the lengths Sperry went to in that era to fully adopt the style, attitude, sound and even tattoos very similar to those of Henry Rollins . The homage was so complete it transcended m...
Jul 07, 2021•51 min
