Josh Almond – Producer. An artist and musician out of San Francisco. He has played electric bass for over 20 years in bands such as Obscurity, Without Warning, Random Eye, and Left Out Lamont – and lead guitar in Gunpowder. He has also done quite a bit of unreleased solo recording as well. The eldest son of two local visual artists, he has also continued on that path having done over 400 abstract paintings over the last ten years.
Travis Larson joins MLR producer Josh Almond to talk about his instrumental fusion rock group, the Travis Larson Band. Think of a musical stew mixing a thick brown Rush gravy with big hearty chunks of Steve Morse and a dash of Jeff Beck. Comprised of Travis Larson (guitar), Jennifer Young (bass), and Dale Moon (drums), TLB’s complicated […]
Dave Meros is an American bass guitar player, best known as the bassist for Progressive Rock band Spock’s Beard. Josh Almond of Music Life Radio interviews Dave about his background, including his time as bass player and tour manager for Eric Burdon and The Animals, and his musical career with Spock’s Beard. Dave’s main creative venture […]
Australian Pianist and Composer Richard Goldsworthy creates tranquil, melodic and uplifting music for Solo Piano. Josh Almond interviews Richard about his early life in rock bands, his stint as the Australian Elton John, his collaboration with soul singer Tarvin Watson, his solo performance work, and his thoughts on music as a healing art form. Richard […]
Bryan Beller is a bassist, composer, writer, solo artist, and contributing editor for Bass Player magazine. He has played with several musicians including Steve Vai, Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa), Dweezil Zappa, his wife R&B / soul singer Kira Small, and as member of the touring band Dethklok – from the Adult Swim show Metalocalype. Josh Almond interviews […]
Chuck Lindo‘s current projects include The American Professionals, and the indie rock band Actionslacks. Chuck hails from the St. Louis punk band The Nukes, the surf-inspired Jumbo Shrimp (featuring Dead Kennedy’s East Bay Ray and Klaus Flouride), and alt rock band Dryspell. In 2007, Chuck founded music house Jingle This with partner John Schulte. They […]
Gary Tubbs of the progressive metal band Tetrafusion speaks with MLR’s Josh Almond about his band. What is progressive metal – well in this case throw in some Dream Theater, a hearty scoopful of Rush, a dash of Live, a meaty chunk of Metallica, and mix liberally with Jazz, and Classical influences, and top of with […]
Cecilia Populus is the editor of the music magazine On the Tip of My Tongue (formerly of Ears and Mouth), which also used to be the name of the music performance and interview show on San Francisco Channel 29, Public Access Cable TV that she produced and directed. MLR talks to Cecilia about the trials and tribulations […]
022 – An Interesting Life: Jason Everman
002 – It’s Part of My Life: Tom Mulder
046 – Rabble Rouser: Bill Collins
036 – Tales of Tobolowsky: Stephen Tobolowsky
030 – Bobby Joe Ebola
073 – Carletta Sue Kay: Randy Walker
085 – Fortunate Daughter: Thao P Nguyen
062 – No Labels: Jack Conte
049 – Drummer’s Day: Steve Moriarty (1/2)
027 – Incompetech: Kevin MacLeod
