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Episodes

April 6, 2021

Hilary Gleason

Hilary joins LP to talk about her humanitarian work that led to creating Backline. Backline's purpose is to connect music industry professionals and their families with a trusted network of mental health and wellness providers.
March 30, 2021

Faisel Durrani

Faisel Durrani stops by to talk about his company Looped, a state-of-the-art virtual venue that is innovating the live experience for both creators and fans.
March 23, 2021

Rudy Sarzo

Rudy Sarzo, whose lengthy musical career as an artist includes work with Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, and the Guess Who stops by to talk about immigrating from Cuba, growing up in Miami and New Jersey, and his early career.
Guest: Rudy Sarzo
March 16, 2021

Jonathan Stone

Jonathan Stone, co-founder of Rocket Songs stops by to give a lesson on music publishing and discuss how his company helps artists find great songs.
March 9, 2021

Florian Richling

Florian Richling, CEO of ForTunes stops by to talk about the importance of good data for artists and labels. ForTunes is a Music Data Analytics platform.
March 2, 2021

Mr. Soul

We hosted a screening of Oscar nominated "MR. SOUL!" and had director, Melissa Haizlip and music supervisor, Ed Gerrard join us for a chat about the film afterwards.
Feb. 23, 2021

Barrett Martin

Barrett Martin who's best known as the drummer for the Screaming Trees and Mad Season, sits down with guest host Jim Lane to talk about his new book.
Feb. 16, 2021

Dr. Lisette Garcia

Dr. Lissette Garcia stops by to discuss her new book, her 4 year silent meditation, social psychology, and her experience growing up in Texas along the Mexican border.
Feb. 9, 2021

Art Chang

Art Chang stops by to talk about his upbringing, education, career and road to becoming a candidate for mayor of New York City in 2021.
Guest: Art Chang
Feb. 2, 2021

Tyler Pinckard

Tyler joins LP to talk about Coffee Shift, a Silicon Valley start up that is focused on applying technology to shift the balance of power from corporations, back to the growers.
Jan. 26, 2021

Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos joined us for a live taping about his new book "Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year".
Jan. 19, 2021

David Whitehead

David Whitehead is a music manager who has worked with David Byrne, David Bowie, Helmet, Joe Jackson, Laurie Anderson, Luna, Hugh Laurie, and many others.
Jan. 12, 2021

Michael F. Schein

Michael F. Schein is our first guest of 2021. This episode was recorded live in December 2020 to celebrate the launch of Michael's new book that comes out January 12, 2021.
Dec. 21, 2020

Austin Arthouse Film Festival

Check out this BONUS episode featuring Giselle Marie Muñoz and Elizabeth Tabish, cofounders of the Austin Arthouse Film Festival.
Dec. 1, 2020

Hanif Abdurraqib

Poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib stops by to chat with LP about his podcast season on KCRW's Lost Notes, his writing, and his time in New Haven, CT and Columbus, OH.
Nov. 24, 2020

Ethan Clift - Tonic Labs

Ethan Clift chat with LP about Tonic Audio Lab's new songwriting companion, Lumos. Lumos helps songwriters capture more new song ideas than ever before and finish that list of partially-completed music riffs you've had for years.
Guest: Ethan Clift
Nov. 18, 2020

Dimitri Ehrlich

Dimitri Ehrlich joins LP to talk about how they've seen NYC evolve, mindfulness, writing for television, and their hip hop and rock n' roll experiences.
Nov. 10, 2020

Marc Brown - Byta

LP chats with Co-founder of Byta, Marc Brown. They talk about music consumption, recommendations, platforms they dig and how Byta is trying to solve pain points around "sharing music before it's on streaming services."
Guest: Marc Brown
Nov. 2, 2020

J Scott Christianson

J. Scott Christianson joins LP to talk about all things AI, machine learning, morality in technology, and social media. Humans interact with AI in many unknown places and Scott breaks it down.
Oct. 27, 2020

Phil Messier - Bopper

Phil Messier, founder of Bopper, joins LP to discuss the formation of his company, talking Montreal and their jazz roots.
Guest: Phil Messier
Oct. 20, 2020

David Gorman

David Gorman, Cofounder of 1021 Creative, discusses growing up in Detroit, record collecting, the roots of soul music, his time working with Rhino Records, and what makes a good album cover.
Guest: David Gorman
Oct. 14, 2020

Isabella Kelly - Kingdom of Mind

Isabella Kelly, founder of concert and live experience production company, Kingdom of Mind chats with LP about her start with events, how she was awarded Live Nation's Women Nation Fund, and launching Kingdom of Mind.
Oct. 6, 2020

Marco Collins - Radio Personality

Marco Collins joins LP to talk about music discovery, the Cocteau Twins, breaking artists like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Beck in the 90s, the British electronic scene, and more.
Guest: Marco Collins
Sept. 29, 2020

Dmitri Vietze - Music Tectonics

Dmitri Vietze stops to talk about growing up in Nashville and NYC, getting his start with music pr, launching rock paper scissors, and what to expect with year two of the Music Tectonics Conference taking place Oct 27-28, 2020.
Guest: Dmitri Vietze