The Guestlist With Sean Cannon

DOWNLOAD I wonder if Anthony Fantano’s title of the internet’s busiest music nerd qualifies him to give life coaching advice? Strange question, I know. But in addition to discussing the state of music blogging/vlogging in general, he offered what seemed to be primo tips on how not waste every minute of my day. So you [...]

DOWNLOAD During our conversation, Michael Shannon exuded a quiet intensity that I hadn’t yet encountered on After Dark. It gave the entire interview a subtle sense of urgency that most don’t possess. In fact, it made our discussion even more poignant when we dug into the topic of a mob hit man’s relative virtue in [...]

DOWNLOAD Eric Bachmann has stayed pretty busy the last 20 years. Whether we’re talking Archers of Loaf, Crooked Fingers or even his solo work, you can count on one thing — forward motion. So it’s no surprise that embracing the future was a theme in our conversation. What might be a surprise is that we [...]

DOWNLOAD When Dylan Baldi sidles up beside you, it’s hard to believe this soft-spoken kid is spearheading an invasion of aggressive music in the all-too-twee world of indie rock. But that is indeed what’s happening. And it’s even harder to believe that he’s doing it by tapping into pop punk and early emo vibs…

DOWNLOAD We’re in dad country now! Everything I’ve read about Jonny Corndawg painted the picture of an outlaw country throwback — and for good reason. His music stands shoulder to shoulder with Paycheck or Parsons stylistically. Plus he has a killer hand-crafted albino alligator skin belt. In the end, though, Corndawg isn’t an outlaw badass. [...]

DOWNLOAD In addition to the usual music industry pitfalls, small labels like Carpark face even more adversity. Todd Hyman gave me a little insight into exactly what that entails — like losing marquee acts to larger labels after laying the groundwork for years. But as Todd reasoned, it keeps him hungry and looking for something [...]

DOWNLOAD All these years, I thought helmets were used in football for safety reasons. Turns out, I was way off on that front. Thankfully, Future of the Left frontman Falco clued me in. The helmets and face masks are there to keep football players from kissing each other. I don’t know why that never occurred [...]

DOWNLOAD This was a tough conversation for me to have, because every person in the building was in attendance for one purpose: to hang out with Anders, Blake and Adam of the Comedy Central show Workaholics. And since I was trying to interview them, it made things a little tough. The boys were troopers, though. [...]

DOWNLOAD For a few hours after my chat with Andrew W.K., I just assumed he was going on and on about some ridiculous flapdoodle about some conspiracy theory stuff. Then, after a little digging, I realized that he was at least remotely serious about the aeon of the individual and the revolution of the crowned [...]

DOWNLOAD If you’ve ever wondered what a week at SXSW does to you, this is it. This interview was conducted around 1 a.m. on Friday, and everyone involved was…um…in rare form. Most After Dark conversations go off the rails at some point, but with this one, Doc Brown was screaming, “Rails? Where we’re going, we [...]

DOWNLOAD There are three big reasons to listen to R. Ring’s in-studio session: This is the only recorded music that’s currently available from the band. Secondly, Kelley Deal is what you might call a character. Lastly, the balloon animal impresario Dr. Silverfoot makes an appearance. This was easily the most hilarious and off-the-rails in-studio session [...]

DOWNLOAD I wanted to get a photo of Seth, Josh and me together in the studio to prove that the three of us finally ended up in the same room at the same time, but when there are only three people in said room…someone has to take a picture. So we’ll say Seth is like [...]

DOWNLOAD I’ve been a fan of Dan B. Harris ever since he beat Brian Williams to the music-blogging-network-news-personality game. So it was a pleasure to finally get him on the show. Dan went from hanging with 50 Cent in Africa a few days before our conversation to reminding me that you can’t be sentimental about [...]

DOWNLOAD Why yes, I did indeed utter the phrase “hillbilly places” during my conversation with Henry Rollins. What can I say? I’ve seen Joe Dirt too many times. Hank, on the other hand, was well-spoken and thoughtful. You know, the usual. He had some edifying and insightful words about parenting to boot, even though he [...]

DOWNLOAD I haven’t geeked out this much about Guided by Voices on the air since — oh wait, since two days ago. I might as well rename the show GBV After Dark at this pace. Then again, you’d find no complaints from me. But Steve Brooks and I did talk about other things here and [...]