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Welcome to the Into the Lions Den Podcast, where I, your host Brandon Ray, aim to shine light on any stories, music, bands, artists, venues, promoters, booking agencies, and more each week. I hope to build a closer community with the music scene with where it was and where it is now, in order to help bolster and strengthen it more. Much love and thank you for your support!
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Start a new family's tradition this year with The Cinnamon Bear! This old time radio classic was originally broadcast in 1937 across Portland's airwaves. Children gathered nightly beginning at Thanksgiving until Christmas. Now you can, too! Join Judy and Jimmy through the enchanted world of Maybeland to recover their missing Silver Star that belongs on their Christmas tree. Helping on the search is the Cinnamon Bear, a stuffed bear with shoe-button eyes and a green ribbon around his neck. Th ...
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An exhaustive deconstruction of the classic (?) '90s sitcom by Jonathon Pernisek, Brandon Shockney and their cavalcade of guests.
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This podcast, hosted by Matt Carter of Emery, paints the picture of the punk/emo/hardcore all ages scene through conversations with its most interesting characters, exploring and breaking down the values and principles that make aggressive music and DIY culture so special.
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Garrett Russell of Silent Planet joins us today to tell the story of their terrible Wyoming van accident, how it has impacted his thinking and and how his spiritual beliefs have continued to change and evolve. All leading to the development of their new album SUPERBLOOM which releases November 3. Several tracks are out already and becoming some of …
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Chris Conley is nothing if not original. His ability and willingness to listen to and follow an inner voice led him to an early arrival into the all-ages music scene with great influence. Saves The Day continued to evolve musically and did not get stuck in a certain sound even though commercial success would have wanted just that. After helping set…
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Silverstein is in the club of bands that are true workhorses - continuously active year after year while racking up new achievements. They seem to benefit greatly from being able to self-manage, adapt, engage in long range decision making, while always trying new things. They have played over 2500 shows and have over a million monthly listeners on …
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Today we have a convo with Chad Gardner of Kings Kaleidoscope. What's most intriguing about Chad is that he is an incredibly efficient, high-level, high-energy problem solver. He fits a pattern that we see over and over again in this world of kids who come from families with engineering and technical talent and use this to power high level creativi…
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Reese Roper is simply a legend. Five Iron Frenzy (FIF) was one of the first Christian bands truly existing in both the Christian and mainstream space. In the late 90s during the ska explosion, they achieved real commercial success, made a bold choice to stay on a small independent label, and were delivering absolutely scorching lyrics that were ful…
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JT Woodruff is one of the most intentional and efficient leaders and operators in the history of the scene. His band Hawthorne Heights has had absolutely huge ups and downs. Ups like their first 2 records going gold and creating one of the most iconic emo songs ever, Ohio Is For Lovers, which has almost 100 million Spotify plays. The downs include …
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Mayday Parade is an incredibly well-balanced group of guys. Balanced in a way that equates to functioning well as a healthy team in a high output, low drama, great to be around way. Mayday has been able to remain extremely hard-working and consistent for over 15 years in a landscape full of ups & downs and unhealthiness. They have achieved long-ter…
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Jason Dunn started Hawk Nelson in 2000 with his pals northeast of Ontario where they were like thousands of other aspiring garage bands who just loved to make noise until a connection with Trevor McNevan towed them in to ride the wave of pop punk right into the height of Tooth & Nail's dominance. In the decade that followed they enjoyed great succe…
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The mind of Brandon Ebel is quite a unique thing. He has an ability to rapidly shift his perspectives to analyze things at multiple levels, and has a strong bias toward action and a incredible eye for talent of all kinds. He seems to be all over the place but a better description might be that he has a laser focus and intensity that is consistent o…
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The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Beer Bongs & Jesus
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The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus hit the national stage right in the pocket of time where the mainstream was taking notice of what our scene was up to. This was partially due to the unique character of Ronnie Winter, who was able to break in and ride that wave and create opportunity for himself in a way that maybe only he could. Their debut album “Don’t …
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Invent Animate: The Path Of Trey Celaya
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Trey Celaya has traveled an interesting path to find himself in the unique position of being a member of 2 metal-core bands that are both in their stride. He is the drummer of Fit For A King and he is also one of the primary writers and guitarist/producer of Invent Animate, whose newest album Heavener is enjoying break-out success. This conversatio…
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Ryan Leitru of For Today - Altar Calls and Pit Calls
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For Today is a particularly interesting band because they were one of the most outspoken Christian bands ever, but, instead of trying to carefully walk the line between Christian and secular, they just went hard musically AND lyrically. They were able to penetrate deeply into the secular market finding great success in many opportunities like Warpe…
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Sent By Ravens lived together in a trailer in South Carolina and built a reputation for a killer live show. They got signed to Tooth & Nail and headed straight to Seattle to record their debut album with Aaron Sprinkle. That record released in 2010 with a swan song follow-up album in 2012. Although their time in the scene was short, they left a rea…
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Capital Lights came along in the peak of Tooth & Nail’s power and influence. Oddly, in this period there there are many bands who seemed to have everything going for them and were musically outstanding, yet their full potential was never realized. Bryson Phillips is a a truly gifted singer and songwriter that has been praised by both Brandon Ebel &…
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Furnace Fest 2023 Lineup Reactions with Chad and Johnny of FF
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Special drop here!. Matt and Devin got the chance to preview the 2023 Furnace Fest lineup and have Chad Johnson and Johnny Grimes join the show so we could all react to it together. Emery is not playing this year, but we love the fest and we love Chad and Johnny and just like talking about all these bands, the history of the scene and fest and the …
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Matt Baird of Spoken has been walking the line between club shows and church shows since the late 90's. He’s seen it all and remained steady with both his interests and convictions since day one. I have a ton of respect for creators that can find a way to do what they love long-term, but it’s quite rare. Over the years. I’ve met so many Spoken fans…
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Everyone quickly piles into the sleigh and they take off after Crazy Quilt who is heading toward the North Pole. If Crazy Quilt makes it up the pole to the Misty Folk, he will escape with their star. As Paddy hangs onto the dragon he has an idea and yells "Boo!" and he falls down the pole. At the bottom of the pole they all scramble and the next th…
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The star is finally back with Judy and Jimmy and they are ready to get back home in time for Christmas. Crazy Quilt decides to stay in Snow Country while Paddy, Judy and Jimmy are going to head home in Santa's sleigh. As Jimmy climbs into the sleigh, he asks Crazy Quilt to hold the star which was a mistake. Crazy Quilt takes off with the star...aga…
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Queen Melissa tell's Santa that Wintergreen escaped from her confinement and is heading toward Snow Country. Santa quickly sends Captain Tintop reinforcements to help take on the witch. While the battle rages on elsewhere, Santa takes the group on a tour of his workshop. They finally get word that Captain Tintop has won the day and is returning wit…
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Jack quickly raises the window to see the Bad Dolls running away with the star. Santa wastes no time calling out the tin soldiers to chase down the dolls. Captain Tintop radios Santa to let him know that they are having problems because the Bad Dolls have an ally, a creature they have never seen before.…
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After welcoming everyone, he asks his flyng reindeer to take the friends to to see Jack Frost. In no time, Jack fixes the star so well you can't even tell it was broken. Jack places the star on his window sill to cool but when it's time to go, the star is gone...again!By Glanville Heisch
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They take off in the flying hat heading for the Snow Country. According to the queen's instructions they must find a person called Nicky Froodle. A snowman they meet along the way points them to a castle where an elf named Nicky resides. He takes them to the man himself, Santa Claus.By Glanville Heisch
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Wintergreen is still really mad at the group and is about to turn them all into frogs but Queen Melissa took away her powers. The Grand Wunky appears to arrest the witch but he forces her to return the star before taking her away. Tired from their adventures, the group falls asleep. After some time they awaken to find a giant flying hat.…
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The group meet Chief Cook'n Bottlewasher who really liked Crazy Quilt's colorful skin. The Chief wants to take Crazy Quilt's skin but Judy talks him into taking her mirror. When they reach the Golden Grove, Wintergreen Witch appears, demanding the broken star. Without the mirror, Jimmy is forced to give the witch the pieces.…
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Just before sinking into the mud, the Cockleburr Cowboys ride to the rescue. The quartet are happy to find out that the cowboys work for the queen and through them they can speak to the queen once again. The queen is very understanding and gives them new instructions sending them across the Purple Plain to the Golden Grove to find the Singing Tree.…
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