The Who Cares Anyway Podcast

A new podcast series from the makers (uh, maker) of The Who Cares Anyway Podcast.Interviews with musicians and artists from around the world on making music in the digital age, Metal, electronic, experimental, and gray areas in between. Available wherever you get your podcasts and at fatalstrategies.substack.comMusic credits: Blind Idiot God, "747"Terminal Sound System, "Gridlike"D

In this, the final episode of the podcast, I am joined by David Costanza and Anne Speroni, who have played together in several different bands, including the Whitefronts (1982-1987) and Art of Flying (1998-present).We follow their story from Santa Barbara (where the Whitefronts formed) to San Francisco (where they relocated c. 1985) to Questa, New Mexico, where they built their own

Composer and all-around audio wizard James Goode joins the podcast for a weird and wide-ranging discussion. A mere sampling of the topics discussed:growing up in Provincetown, Mass.playing the tape recorder (his first "instrument")meeting the Residents (sort of)joining Faxed Headnot joining Carolinerstudying music at Mills Collegecollaborating with prog keyboardist Roger Powell (fo

From his website: "Matt Wallace is an American record producer born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who started out making records in his parents' garage in the early 80s. He attended UC Berkeley intending to teach, but pursued producing full-time after graduating. Some of his most notable work is with Faith No More, The Replacements, O.A.R., and Maroon 5. With over 30 years of experience, he

With this episode, we take a slight detour to the Detroit, Michigan, area circa 1985-1987. Odell's band Spahn Ranch hailed from this area, but they recorded their one and only LP—1987's Thickly Settled—in the Bay Area with Eric Cope (Glorious Din) acting as co-producer.Here, Odell recounts his first encounters with Eric, Glorious Din, and the zine Wiring Dept., along with his m

Esteemed Friend of the Book Bill Gould joins the podcast to talk about LA, the Vats, Geordie Walker and Killing Joke, Flipper, MTV, and American Zen.Links, music credits, and show notes: https://whocaresanywaysf.wordpress.com/2024/02/13/wca-podcast-ep-20-bill-gould/Order the book:Amazon: https://amzn.to/3SYLTvB | Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/91315/9781915316059 This is a pu

The multifaceted Mark Gergis takes us through a few decades' worth of his wide-ranging travels (musical and otherwise), from growing up in the East Bay and discovering Negativland in 1985 to co-founding Mono Pause with Peter Conheim in the early '90s to traveling throughout Southeast Asia and the Middle East in the 2000s and beyond.We also talk about his involvement with Sublime Fr

From ChristineShields.net:Christine Shields is an artist and musician from Northern California. She grew up in various locations, most of them rural, from the Central Coast to the Sierra foothills.... At the age of 17 she moved to San Francisco, attended the Art Institute, and played in her first band as a drummer. Her creative life, built around necessity and imagination, has take

We begin with a brief flashback/rewind to the very beginning, as Joe answers a question I'd somehow never thought to ask before—namely, why "Truckin'" (of all songs)?From there, we fast-forward back to mid-1983 and then wind our way through the Joe's Second Record (1984) and Joe's Third Record eras (1985-1986), with Joe sharing his memories of seeing Gregg Turkington (and eventua

Part One of a two-part blockbuster with the man behind the Pop-O-Pies. Here, Joe takes us from New Jersey to San Francisco, from recording the original "Truckin'" demo to putting together a live band, from landing a local college radio hit to signing with 415 Records, from touring the East Coast to meeting Courtney Love and hanging out with Jerry Garcia -- and more.Show notes, link