We speak to director and producer Corbett Redford of the documentary TURN IT AROUND: THE STORY OF EAST BAY PUNK which spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of Berkeley’s inspir

121 – The Many Transitions of Johnny Truant

Mar 17th, 2017 57h 32m

Johnny Truant is the vocalist for the band The Truants, a self-described “SAN FRANCISCO BASED POST-PUNK/WEIRDO ROCK BAND. WE ARE QUEER, DARK AND CONFRONTATIONAL, YET MOTIVATED BY THE JOY OF ROCK N ROLL. WE WILL MAKE YOU DANCE. WE WILL MAKE YOU

120 – Rock & Roll Redemption: Frank Castro

Jan 15th, 2017

Frank Castro spent time in prison where he helped start an inmate-run music program. The power of music helped to change his life around by giving him something to care about, and other positive events soon followed. Soon after he gets clean,

119 – HeWhoCannotBeNamed

Oct 31st, 2016 34m 9s

He Who Cannot Be Named has been playing punk rock for over 25 years, most of that time with the punk rock band “Dwarves”. An original member of this San Francisco based combo, he wrote or cowrote many of their songs, was voted guitarist of the

118 – The Blusiest Woman: Tia Carroll

Oct 2nd, 2016 1h 12m

Tia Carroll is a singer from Richmond, California, and has been performing the blues, R&B, and soul music for many years. She has often been compared to legendary female singers Tina Turner, Koko Taylor, and Aretha Franklin but she still has he

117 – Slackbone: Chris Korp

Jun 20th, 2016 1h 5m

Chris Korp sits down with Music Life Radio’s Erik Core to discuss the “legend” of the band Slackbone. Slackbone was a Bay Area punk rock band formed by a group of baggage handlers, after purchasing instruments from their local music shop who wa

116 – Ben Goes to China

Apr 30th, 2016 54m 50s

Ben Bongers (an opera tenor featured in Opera Stories: Ben Bongers – MLR 051) returns to Music Life Radio and speaks with Erik Core about his adventures while performing in China. The winner of Chinese Idol (yes, the Chinese version of American

115 – Timekode: Deni

Feb 27th, 2016 1h 1m

Timekode is the solo project of a maverick of a woman called DENI. Deni is a Producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, video artist, record company owner & author. Deni received a bass guitar from Marc Bolan (T.Rex) as a kid, and started off pl

114 – Step Into My Parlor: Stephen Carter-Hicks (2/2)

Jan 27th, 2016 1h 27m

Stephen Carter-Hicks is a classically trained singer who found his calling in the world of cabaret. Starting his career in show business through his talents as a wig and hair master, he worked on Broadway productions such as Tommy but soon fou

113 – Step Into My Parlor: Stephen Carter-Hicks (Part 1)

Dec 27th, 2015 1h 25m

112 – Diesel Harmonic: David Denny

Nov 1st, 2015 1h 40m

David Denny is a guitar maestro, singer, songwriter and recording engineer. He was a founding member of the 60’s psychedelic band Frumious Bandersnatch, went on to play guitar in the Steve Miller Band on and off for several years (writing one

111 – Risk: Kevin Allison

Aug 31st, 2015 1h 9m

Kevin Allison is the host of RISK! – a live show and podcast “where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share”. We found about this podcast and started binge listening to every episode. It’s a great mix of hilarious and

110 – Frost*: Jem Godfrey

Aug 17th, 2015 1h 7m

Jem Godfrey is an Ivor Novello Award winning, BAFTA nominated musician and composer. He wrote and/or produced numerous top 10 hits with various pop acts during the 2000s and also scored four number 1 records across the world, spending a combine

109 – Modern Day Philosopher: Danny Lobell

Aug 3rd, 2015 1h 3m

Danny Lobell is a standup comedian, and host of Modern Day Philosophers podcast. He was the host and founder of the influential Comical Radio show, the first comedy podcast started in 2004 which interviewed hundreds of comedians. In 2012, Danny

108 – Disco Donnie Lemmon

Jul 4th, 2015 1h

“Disco” Donnie Lemmon, a veteran of the NW music scene, and founding member of “the Hardcount” “Guns of Nevada” and “Jack the Hotrod”. He is also in “Creedence Rising”, a tribute band to Creedence Clearwater Revival, and has branched out into

107 – Falling Again: Dauzat St. Marie

Jun 15th, 2015 59m 12s

MLR talks to Singer/songwriter duo Mat Dauzat and Heather St. Marie, aka Dauzat St. Marie who have just released their debut EP “Falling Again” We talk to the pair about growing up in Louisiana, forming their band Hydrovibe, the move to Los An

106 – Mother Earth: Tracy Nelson

May 3rd, 2015 1h

Tracy Nelson is a singer who has a voice as deep as any mountain, and a soul as wide as any river. Most well known for her role in folk rock band Mother Earth from San Francisco, she harvests a rich history in rock, blues, and country, and is o

105 – Human Punk: Marco Thiede

Mar 27th, 2015 57m 51s

Marco Thiede is the author of “Human Punk For Real”, the auto-biography about his discovery of punk rock music, and how it shaped his life. Marco grew up in Germany and describes his experiences from the late 1970’s until today, where he has

104 – SilverTung: Speed Vincent

Feb 22nd, 2015 53m 34s

Speed Vincent from the modern rock band SilverTung is on the show. SilverTung have recently released a new version of their song “Never Too Late”, produced by David Ivory and mastered by Ted Jensen, and it just hit the Billboard mainstream roc

103 – White Trash Debutante: Ginger Coyote

Jan 31st, 2015 1h 12m

Ginger Coyote started the fanzine Punk Globe in July 1977, which started as photocopied pages but soon went to print media, and the magazine continues to this day in an online format. She is also the singer in the punk band White Trash Debutan

102 – Pleasure VKTM: Steve Ricablanca

Dec 26th, 2014 1h 2m

Steve Ricablana is well known as the bass player for the seminal San Francisco punk band VKTMS. The band formed in 1978, and no other band played the fabulous Mabuhay Gardens more than the VKTMS, but after a stalled attempt to get on a record l

101 – Royalty Free: Ryan Camarda & Kevin MacLeod

Nov 11th, 2014

An interview with Ryan Camarda (filmmaker) and Kevin MacLeod (composer) about the making film about a composer whose music has been used in many, many, many videos. Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod is a documentary about one composer an

100 – Music Life Radio: One Hundred Episodes!

Oct 6th, 2014 2h 47m

Come celebrate with co-producers Dan Sauter, Erik Core, and Josh Almond on 100 episodes of Music Life Radio. We talk about what inspired us to start the podcast, how we find people to interview, and tell lots of inside and behind-the-scenes sto

099 – Al Lujan: CLN/SBR/PNX

Sep 6th, 2014 52m 6s

Al Lujan is a film-maker working on “CLN/SBR/PNX –True Stories of Chaos, Redemption, Hope and Punk Rock”, a documentary on sober punks, mostly musicians who share their experiences staying clean and sober in an environment that is not conduci

098 – Radioguy: Glen Harris

Jul 31st, 2014 1h 19m

Glen Harris is a radio producer and award winning broadcaster for 1340 AM KWLE (The Whale) in Anacortes, WA. We talk to Glen about the art of radio production, engineering, and broadcasting, and his love for voice over work. We also hear many