Merch Anslem Douglas (Who Let the Dogs Out) + Smoked Solid Dairy (anime punk band on Maui.) Music: Roots Connective by Yclept Insan Doggie (Who let the dogs out) + Stick Fight by Anslem Douglas Lost Sensations by Odyssee Smoked Solid Dairy Tidal Wav Master by Yclept Insan Also, Make sure to check out Yclept Insan's new EP on Soundcloud HERE A big thank you this week to Anslem Douglas, Crona Aukerman, Request Records, Sierra Jickling, Kent Irwin, and Steve and Rachael Holton. Buy Merch at vansoun...
Mar 20, 2017•15 min
Van Sounds Postcards - quick audio check-ins from somewhere else. #6 - Tijuana Jukebox, songs and sounds from a recent day trip to Mexico.
Mar 02, 2017•4 min
https://vansounds.bandcamp.com Download American Music This episode is dedicated entirely to a new compilation called "American Music." merch American Music presented by Van Sounds (podcast) and People with Bodies (band) Gato Negro - Tus Amigos Nuevos (Chile) Identidade Apagada - Decurso Drama (Brasil) Me Movo - Aloizio (Brasil) Finder - People with Bodies (USA) Crecer - Las Ligas Menores (Argentina) Memorias de Un Fracaso - Los Lagartos (Perú) Caught the Song - David Dondero (USA) Animales mal ...
Feb 07, 2017•19 min
Merch Store Talking various forms of presence with: Helen Fillmore who recently returned from Standing Rock, Jason Moore of Zero to Travel, & Brad Bynum of Elephant Rifle. Photo courtesy of Helen Fillmore Brad Bynum on stage - Photo by LUKA STARMER (intentionalrealities.com + @starmerl on IG) Jason Moore hosts the travel podcast ZERO TO TRAVEL and has recently launched the project TREKKING NEPAL You can subscribe to both on iTunes, or check them out through the links above. In early November...
Jan 05, 2017•26 min
July in Alaska. Mendenhall Glacier. Sleep above a bar. July in Alaska Music was a excerpt of "Peasant Song" by high sierra shadowlord, VOLCHITSA...
Nov 14, 2016•2 min
This election cycle seems louder than before. Small highway, crossing the Idaho/Washington border. Kent Irwin, Mark Nesbitt and myself are on tour with our band, People with Bodies, and we're packed into my pick up truck. Joe Exotic - 2016 Candidate for President of the United States of America. Protecting Nevada’s Children is the group that made these commercials - Hey, that's politics. On the way home, after touring in my pickup truck for probably way too long, the band bought a tour van. A 19...
Nov 01, 2016•16 min
On this episode, looking back. Tijuana, Mexico Japanese artist Yoko Honda creates imaginary versions of California's past. More cool work at @yokopium on Instagram Music: Snake Way - Maitro An unnamed track by me (Not online, I'll email it to you if you want it) Vampire - Dani Shivers 17 - Kent Irwin (Not online, comment and I'll email it to you) Summer Night - Esprit...
Sep 13, 2016•13 min
#4 in the Van Sounds Postcard series. This time, a quick check in from Poughkeepsie, NY. We set out on Black Creek in a small Craigslist rowboat but we didn't have any oars. So we made some. Patrick's out of a broken piece of particle board screwed to a wood rod and mine a grocery bag wrapped around a rake. Free Jazz $5...
Aug 17, 2016
São Paulo is a bed of coals right now for Experimental music, and has spawned a new genre called Samba Sujo or “Dirty Samba” - which is a mix experimental rock, punk and avant-garde, informed by one of Brazil’s national styles, Samba. Elza Soares"The Woman at the End of the World" Elza Soares is an iconic singer - like, a household name - and on this new record (A Mulher do Fim do Mundo) she is matched up with a band of young, experimental, cutting edge brazilian musicians. The woman at the end ...
Aug 05, 2016
This week I’ve got big news. I left my day job to focus on Van Sounds full time. I started the show 3 years ago, and have decided that this is what I want to do, so I’m gonna do it. On this episode I chat with some other musicians who also took the leap and went for it - including Joe Lally (Fugazi), Luciano Valério (Desmonta Records + MNTH), and Saundra Coutinho (Mercenarias + Smack). Joe Lally (press photo) Luciano Valério in São Paulo Coffee on the veranda (São Paulo) -- L-R Marcelo Florentin...
Jul 26, 2016•15 min
Subscribe #3 in the Van Sounds Postcard series. This time, a quick check in from Austin, Nevada.
Jun 06, 2016•2 min
Subscribe National Rock is a huge genre in Argentina. And to be honest, when hearing about it for the first time I was expecting British or American Style stadium rock sung in Spanish. But each person I talked to seemed prepared for that assumption. They’d immediately claim - It’s unlike rock from anywhere else. And sure enough, i think it is. "NO SE BANCA MAS " On my last day in the city, I went the military dictatorship museum with a handful of strangers. It was dedicated to the thousands of p...
May 19, 2016•15 min
#2 in the new Van Sounds Postcard series. This time, a quick check in from Rhode Island. Music: Still Here - Bryan Reynolds Photos by Billy Mack...
Apr 18, 2016•1 min
Van Sounds contributor Kent Irwin ( howlsroad.com ) and I drive to Ely Nevada to interview 2 rappers, and get the feel of the hip hop scene in the middle of nowhere. Downtown Ely, NV I Interviewed former Sheriff Romero while he played a slot machine in the Hotel Nevada. Asocka, Tupac and Bone in McGill, NV. Links:: Howls Road MUSIC:: Church - Porteur No Shame + I'm Crazy - Young Creedo (Rapper #1) Symatree - Yclept Insan We R Strong 2 Gether - Asocka (Feat. Bone) (Rapper #2) China Town Neon - Te...
Apr 05, 2016•16 min
Donate Subscribe on iTunes This time on Van Sounds, an audio postcard; a super-quick check-in from somewhere else. After "Wish You Were Here" I figured I should start an open-ended postcard series. #1 from Montevideo, Uruguay. Music recorded on location....
Mar 15, 2016•2 min
(Wish I was there) In this episode: the postcard. A digital version anyway. Street Music Map - @streetmusicmap Whiskey Texas (Zine) - @Whiskeyoninstagram Idaho Explored - @Idahoexplored MUSIC Church by Porteur Wavey by Yclept Insan Memo-3 by Laid (not online) Filardo / Dredillah - Bite my Tongue - Silent Forever Dredillah Remix VAN SOUNDS: iTunes | Twitter | Soundcloud | Facebook...
Mar 03, 2016•11 min
Hey Folks, I'm very stoked that this week's episode is a swap with OG podcasters, The Dirtbag Diaries. They'll be playing a condensed version of the Dice Series, and I'm playing this episode (Crash and Burn). You can find them at www.Dirtbagdiaries.com Music - Intro: Church by Porteur Original music from the episode: Tell Me Something Brave by Klarka Weinwurm • Tortoiseshell by Oweihops • The First Waltz by Sound of Seventy Three • The Smoke by Home Video Outro: New Border by my band, People Wit...
Feb 05, 2016•18 min
"Where you coming from...?" "Where I've been." "Where else?" - Blue Highways, William Least Heat Moon "King of the Mountain." 2 hours into a mistaken shortcut. Near Happy Camp, Ca. "I've never really rolled the dice, as you say." - Mark Lucas, sitting in front of the Lost at Sea Memorial - Trinidad, Ca. The Gods poke their heads from the water. I throw the die into the ocean. It washes back to me. "2," it says. I start to take a picture but the next wave rolls in. I wait silently; it returns. "3...
Dec 16, 2015•11 min
PORTEUR !! A Paper Cup Band (Andrew Jansen//LOUD SUN) Arthur Howls - New cassette "Anarcho Jazz" coming soon. Jona Barish MIKE BRANCH - Rants from the Hill (Essays and sometimes Audio) Subscribe to Van Sounds on iTunes, yo, Pre-300,000 truck back in Stanley, ID....
Nov 21, 2015•19 min
We start day 4 in South Central Idaho. We pass Hemmingway's grave and wind up in a Montana bar with an 8 piece brass band. Then, we take an unexpected turn. River from the highway. Twin Falls, ID. The author. Ketchum, ID. Brian says good-bye. Links: Porteur SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES HERE...
Nov 05, 2015•12 min
We spend the night in Cathedral Gorge - a clay, dirt dreamscape - then head to the Hotel Nevada to hear a song by David Dondero. I dig into William Least Heat-moon's Blue Highways and find we've shared the same road. Sunset at church. Truck + Mountain LINKS HOME OF THE BRAVE episode Church - Porteur 1996 (Ectoplasm Remix) - doeTheGhost Layin' low in Ely, NV - David Dondero Dyin' Sun - Southnorth Twitter • Facebook • Soundcloud...
Oct 21, 2015•14 min
Part 2 of the Dice Series. We cross the nearest state border and drive across Nevada. Featuring two stories from the Little Ale'inn and a found book that would become the trip manifesto. The system:1 = North2 = East3 = South4 = West5 = Stay put6 = Cross the nearest state border. "That's what I tell everybody - watch the sky." -Pam, Little A'le'Inn “On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now, even the colors are changing.” — William Least Heat-Moon, ...
Oct 08, 2015•10 min
The Dice Series begins. For the next 6 episodes, middle school friend Brian Anderson and I will wake up every morning and roll a single di. Then, depending on the roll, we will drive in a certain direction for the rest of the day. The system:1 = North2 = East3 = South4 = West5 = Stay put6 = Cross the nearest state border. Day 1, Southbound. Mono Lake I climbed a pole. Mono lake in the background....
Sep 25, 2015•13 min
6 part series coming soon.
Sep 18, 2015
Billy Mack got a house, and then got 95 people to play a song about it. To hear all of the versions of The City Without Limits Theme Song, visit http://billymackcollector.bandcamp.com/album/city-without-limits-theme-song
Apr 01, 2015
In 2011 I went on a North American tour with a punk band, and quite two weeks early. This may be my only answer to the question, "Do you have any regrets?"
Mar 16, 2015•13 min
View Thomas' blog at: http://blackdogbicycling.blogspot.com/ Music in this episode: Church - Porteur John G. - Yclept Insan (http://holypagerecords.bandcamp.com/album/--2) Fronts - Laid Woke up in a Desert Valley - Scrambled Meggz
Feb 10, 2015•10 min
Tonight, we're hopping a freight train.
Oct 31, 2014•10 min
DIY legend Billy Mack tours New England.
Oct 28, 2014
Boat sounds. Rafting the Colorado River.
Oct 28, 2014•10 min
