Essential Tremors Podcast

Had the opportunity to hear Lafayette Gilchrist talk about Andrew Hill last night at @essentialpod.bsky.social’s Selector Series. It was the type of event that proves that Baltimore is still the center of the universe.

Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo) (Big Ears Festival performer) Podcast Episode · Essential Tremors · 01/28/2025 · 26m

Matt talked to Ira Kaplan of @actualylt.bsky.social about the Dead, Half Japanese, and the Tremeloes for the latest episode. Check it out! Yo La Tengo will be at the Big Ears Festival and touring the US this spring.

Wednesday, Jan. 12, at Idle Hour in South Baltimore. Info and tix right here.

Our own @leegee.bsky.social will be manning the decks at our next Selector Series event, discussing and spinning Public Image Ltd.’s Metal Box. A portion of the proceeds go to benefit @transequality.bsky.social.

Laraaji (Big Ears Festival performer) Podcast Episode · Essential Tremors · 12/31/2024 · 22m

NEW EPISODE: Laraaji spoke to us about how songs by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Frank Sinatra, and Pharrell influenced him. Via WUOT-FM. Listen at the link in the bio or wherever you get your podcasts. Laraaji will perform at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville March 27-30.

Jules Reidy (Big Ears Festival performer) Podcast Episode · Essential Tremors · 11/29/2024 · 42m

NEW EPISODE: Guitarist/composer Jules Reidy spoke to us about how music by Catherine Lamb, Talk Talk, and Dean Roberts shaped their own course. Via WUOT-FM. Reidy performs at the Big Ears Festival March 27-30, 2025.

Susanna Podcast Episode · Essential Tremors · 11/18/2024 · 38m

NEW: We spoke to @susannamagical.bsky.social about how Nina Simone, Björk, and Ethiopian composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébro shaped her work.

Fred Frith (Live at Big Ears Festival) - Essential Tremors A household name for many decades amongst those with an interest in challenging, forward-thinking music, Fred Frith initially gained an audience through his work as the guitarist with 60’s group Henry...

We spoke to the legendary guitarist and composer Fred Frith at last spring’s Big Ears Festival, and he was a delight! Smart man, Fred. Click below or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Via WUOT-FM.

One of the best podcasts out there gets a great interview.

Jim O’Rourke (Gastr del Sol) Jim O’Rourke of Gastr del Sol talks about how songs by David Ackles, Genesis and Charles Ives informed his development as a musician.

We spoke to Jim O’Rourke about being a teenager, public libraries, prog, song structure, and writing horn charts of Rush songs for high-school basketball games.

Rhizome 061524, by Water Damage 1 track album

If you missed Water Damage’s set at Seventh Stanine Festival at Rhizome last weekend, this is what it sounded like.

We had a great night with Bill Nace at Design Distillery. Big thanks to everyone who made it out!

Essential Tremors Presents: Bill Nace Tickets | $18.70 | 21 Jun @ Design Distillery, Baltimore | DICE Bill Nace is an American experimental guitarist and visual artist, from New Jersey. Nace has collaborated with Joe McPhee, Steve Gunn, Thurston Moore, Yoko O...

Tix here:

Bill Nace, Attorneys General with special guest Susan Alcorn, Friday, June 21 at Design Distillery in South Baltimore. Get excited!

Hey, Baltimore, Tim Kinsella and Jenny Pulse are coming to Design Distillery at our behest on 4/12 at 7 pm with Attorneys General featuring Geologist of Animal Collective and other ringers. It will be fun, swear. essentialtremorsshow.tumblr.com/etpresents

Arnold Dreyblatt Composer Arnold Dreyblatt discusses how Mexican folk music, Tony Conrad and Robert Ashley shaped his work.

Composer Arnold Dreyblatt spoke to special guest host Tim Kinsella (Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz, past ET guest) about how Mexican folk music, Tony Conrad, and Robert Ashley shaped his work. Via WYPR-FM.

Was recording a new episode this afternoon and the guest and I agreed: Loveless is a perfect album but Isn’t Anything is our favorite.

Sleater-Kinney Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney discuss how music by Sinead O'Connor, the Pointer Sisters, Patsy Cline, Buddy Holly, Kate Bush and the Wipers influenced their work.

We spoke to Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney. It was awesome. Via WYPR-FM.

The show is five years old today! Thanks for listening.

Marc Ribot (Big Ears Festival Performer) Guitarist Marc Ribot discusses pieces by Frantz Casseus, Ornette Coleman and Chocolate Genius.

We spoke to the delightful Marc Ribot about learning guitar, the musical logic of Ornette Coleman, and the musical genius of Chocolate Genius. Via WYPR-FM. Ribot plays the Big Ears Festival March 21-24.

My kid was showing me a shot of Peggy posing with him on Insta. All of a sudden things are going very sideways.

Selector series February 21 in Baltimore, Idle Hour Chad Clark talks about Q-Tip’s “The Renaissance.”

Q-Tip “The Renaissance” album cover

This should be fun.

Join me and Essential Tremors on February 21st at Idle Hour in Baltimore.

As part of the Selector Series, we’ll listen to and discuss Q-Tip’s 2008 masterpiece “The Renaissance.” (This album is very important to me.)

Come say hello. I am nice.

Join us and guest Selector Geologist of @anmlcollective on 12/13 here in Baltimore for our next Selector Series event. Tix and more info: link.dice.fm/GaxHwY0s8Eb

John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats) John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats discusses how songs by Stockholm Monsters, Digital Underground and Ava Gabriel shaped his creative process.

We spoke to the estimable John Darnielle of @themountaingoats.bsky.social about creating a world within a track, balancing fiction and autobiography, the power of a voice, and how to avoid getting stuck in your twenties, musically.

Welp, here we are.