Walls of Sound is an insider’s look at the hidden world of music venues—their history, inner workings, personalities, and cultural weight. Hosted by musician, writer, and entrepreneur Brian Teasley, who has played and recorded with Man or Astro-man?, The Polyphonic Spree, and St. Vincent—and who founded Birmingham’s Bottletree and now runs Saturn—and Ryan Murphy, who helped transform the St. Augustine Amphitheatre and now leads The Orion Amphitheater with venue group tvg, the podcast pulls f ...
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John Strohm: From Small Town Hardcore Punk to the Center of the Modern Music Industry
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51:43On this episode of Walls of Sound, we sit down with John Strohm, who went from being a teenage hardcore punk drummer to founding the Blake Babies and becoming the guitar player for the Lemonheads. He served as president of Rounder Records and has represented artists like Alabama Shakes, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Phoebe Bridgers, The Civil Wars, …
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Traci Thomas: Managing Jason Isbell, fostering the future of Muscle Shoals and more
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In this episode, Brian Teasley and Ryan Murphy talk with NYC music historian Jesse Rifkin, author of This Must Be the Place and creator of Walk on the Wild Side tours, about the vanished venues and shifting scenes of New York City. They explore how DIY culture, real estate, and memory collide in a city that keeps reinventing itself. It’s a love let…
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