It’s a mixed bag this time out, with a cold open featuring none other than Eric, the UrbanSurfer himself, interviewed out in the wild (i.e., a basement studio in North Jersey). I ask him about keytars that just popped into my head. Great interv

Shadercast Episode 17 Lush Life

Nov 29th, 2016 26m 22s

And we’re back. A good two months have passed, but Shadercast lives on. We have a fascist elected to be our next president, but stories still need to be told. Do they have to be my stories? Well, dear listeners, that’s all the stories I have. W

Shadercast Episode 16 Second Thoughts on Notes on The Good Bad Boy

Sep 26th, 2016 23m 42s

Good Bad Boys, what ya gonna do? This episode centers around Catholicism! Well, a book I read as a wee lad that was steeped in Catholicism called The Good Bad Boy. Featured is an essay written for the National Book Critics Circle’s website that

Shadercast Episode 15 Notes on a Prologue with Cameo from Billy Squier

Sep 13th, 2016 16m 48s

We start at the beginning, or almost the beginning, in this Shadercast, with a reading of Chapter 2 from Shader. Mentioned: my car stereo, Long Island rock festival incompetence, Billy Squier, Geoffrey Wolff’s The Duke of Deception, and how one

Shadercast Episode 14 Was It Really a Game?

Aug 25th, 2016 39m 58s

Sit down, grab a Therapist card, and show us you’re With It in this episode of the Shadercast. Our fearless podcast shares with his formidable longread, recently featured up on the literary website The Millions: “Group Therapy: Was It Really a

Shadercast Episode 13 You Came and You Gave Without Taking

Aug 18th, 2016

It’s a gendered episode of Shadercast as our podcaster hedges his way around gender and Guns N’ Roses and the story of making out inside Our Lady of Perpetual Help church, which we’re pretty sure is illegal if not sinful in the eyes of the Vati

Shadercast Episode 12 Intensely Relaxin’ While Others Panic

Aug 3rd, 2016

It’s all cold lamping all the time in this Episode 12 of Shadercast. We begin live from New York City, with a subway song recorded by your plucky podcaster, followed by an excerpt of a field recording of someone we’ll call “Missy,” regaling us

Shadercast Episode 11 Main Street Music and Clerk Nostalgia

Jul 26th, 2016

We return with “Notes on Main Street Music,” a cornerstone chapter from Shader, as well as some preliminary impressions from our podcaster’s outings to see Guns N’ Roses in concert in Philadelphia, as well as Jane’s Addiction with Dinosaur Jr.

Shadercast Episode 10 Garden Path Paragraphs

Jul 11th, 2016

Who’s your daddy? I am, for the next 50-odd minutes of your life in this Shadercast episode. We kick off with some field recordings of the Nester Sisters, Miriam and Beatrice, after a day of frolic and water hijinks. Then a reading of “Garden P

Shadercast Episode 9 Like a Hobo Born to Walk Alone

Jun 27th, 2016

Unlike hobos, you weren’t born to walk alone! We begin with some riffs from Derek from Shader, talking about such record nerd subjects as Zappa, rock critics, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Following this, we are treated to some observations on a W

Shadercast Episode 8 Goodbye to All Them

Jun 20th, 2016

We lead off with snippets from a 2001 interview with poet John Giorno, done by your podcaster in New York on the Bowery. A discussion of poetry and New York City ensues, as well as a side discussion on the rock band Whitesnake. Our reading is t

Shadercast Episode 7 WSLT and The Pistol

Jun 13th, 2016

Two chapters from Shader this week: one, “Notes on WSLT,” takes place in Ocean City, NJ, or at least most of it does. Included are two other chapterettes that were cut from the final version of Shader. Then we have “Notes on The Pistol,” in whi

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