The Wandering Wolf Podcast with Yoni Wolf

124- Greg Saunier (Deerhoof). Greg, Yoni, and Yoni’s brother Josiah meet up outside of a Cincinnati Deerhoof show to discuss recording, mixing, and producing on an extreme budget, touring on a extreme budget, chaotic work flow, touring with Red Hot Chili Peppers, keeping things fresh as an aging band, staying even keeled, and Greg’s youth in suburban Maryland in the 80’s. This episode is sponsored by Sudio headphones. Go to goo.gl/jV5F4k and enter “wandering” during checkout to get 15% off your new headphones!

123- Gabby Smith (O (Eskimeaux)). While on tour together, Gabby and Yoni get together in Boston, backstage at the Sinclair, for a talk. They discuss Gabby’s upbringing in New York, changing her band name from Eskimeaux to O, the idea of trying to find her Tlingit birth family, her musical beginnings, Gabby’s Brooklyn music scene, and her writing process.

122- Josh Carter (Phantogram). On a trip to LA, Yoni heads over to Josh’s bungalow for a hang. They get into a long conversation about work routine, writer’s block, Phantogram’s ever evolving process, songwriting conventions, various collaborations, drugs, weed in the studio, working in big studios vs. working at home, and Josh’s beginnings with music.

121- Sam Herring (Future Islands, Hemlock Ernst). Sam and Yoni meet up while Sam is in Cincinnati to pay a festival. They talk about Future Islands’ writing/recording process, pre-Future Islands band Art Lord and the start of Future Islands, the genesis of Sam’s rap career as Hemlock Ernst and some recent collaborations, and growing up an isolated fat kid in small town North Carolina.

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120- Astronautalis 3 (Andy Bothwell). Andy and Yoni get together backstage in Columbus, Ohio for a talk. They discuss Astronautalis’ tour of all 50 states, politics in America and abroad, China, Dubai, and Andrew Jackson’s many duels.  

119- Rabbi Matt Rosenberg. Yoni and childhood friend, Matt, get together in Seattle to catch up on each other’s lives. They discuss growing up Messianic, Matt’s career path and being a young-ish Messianic Rabbi, grace and joy, Trump and Clinton, homosexuality, and extroverted spirituality.