Season 3

Dec. 21, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Austin Arthouse Film Festival

Check out this BONUS episode of Spot Lyte On featuring Giselle Marie Muñoz and Elizabeth Tabish, cofounders of the Austin Arthouse Film Festival. The festival takes place from 12/26-12/31 and LP discusses what to expect for the 2020 event.

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Dec. 1, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Hanif Abdurraqib

Poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib stops by Spot Lyte On... 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.

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Nov. 24, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Ethan Clift - Tonic Audio 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.

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Nov. 18, 2020

Spot Lyte On...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.

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Nov. 10, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Marc Brown - Co-founder of 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."

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Nov. 2, 2020

Spot Lyte On...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. This is a pretty timely discussion with the …

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Oct. 27, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Phil Messier - Bopper

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

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Oct. 20, 2020

Spot Lyte On...David Gorman - 1021 Creative

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.

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Oct. 14, 2020

Spot Lyte On...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.

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Oct. 6, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Marco Collins - Radio DJ - KEXP

Marco Collins joins LP on this episode of Spot Lyte On 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.

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Sept. 29, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Dmitri Vietze - Founder/CEO of rock paper scissors

Dmitri Vietze stops by Spot Lyte On 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 …

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Sept. 22, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Joe Satriani

Joe Satriani stops by Spot Lyte On to talk about growing up in Long Island, moving to San Francisco, getting breaks with Mick Jagger and launching a solo career. Don't worry, they also talk about Joe's love of guitar.

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Sept. 15, 2020

Ari Rosner, Erick Beavers and Brad Robertson on How I Spent My Summer…

What did you do with your summer? Learn how Caltech college senior, Ari Rosner developed an algorithm to help compute the proper social distancing layout for schools and other spaces. And how Erick Beavers and Brad Robertson launched and developed …

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Sept. 8, 2020

Lyte, Prism.fm, VEEPS.com, Antone's and Disco Donnie on Doing More Wi…

Prism.fm hosted a panel featuring folks from Lyte, VEEPS.com, promoter Disco Donnie and legendary music venue Antone's discussing how the live music community is being supported by tech coming our out COVID.

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Sept. 1, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Jorma and Vanessa Kaukonen

On this episode LP sits down with one of his heroes, Jorma Kaukonen and his wife Vanessa. Talking about the creation of Fur Peace Ranch, virtual concerts, Jack Casady, revisiting songs from Jefferson Airplane, and Hot Tuna. Oh and they …

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Aug. 25, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Alan Goldfarb

On this episode, LP sits down for a chat with wine journalist, Alan Goldfarb. They discuss growing up in Brooklyn and the impact that sports writers he read as a kid had on his career.

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Aug. 18, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Erin Barra

LP sits down with the multi-faceted teacher and performer, Erin Barra to talk about her new role as Director of Popular Music at Arizona State University, Beats by Girlz, and how to build a modern studio.

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Aug. 11, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Ronnie Schneider

On this episode of Spot Lyte On, LP chats with Ronnie Schneider about his days on the road managing tour finances with the Rolling Stones, standardizing modern artist tour economics with their 1969 tour, working for ABKCO, and the Altamont …

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Aug. 4, 2020

Spot Lyte On...Ted Cohen - TAG Strategic

Welcome to Season 3 of Spot Lyte On featuring technology pioneer Ted Cohen. In this conversation, LP discusses Ted's history, the early days of CES, the early days of the digital music industry, and more.

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